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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Reading region.

 Web Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank483953
Rank change year-on-year
Down-9Up+14
Matching contract IT job ads41413
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading0.649 %2.154 %1.524 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.714 %2.377 %1.611 %
Daily rates quoted131
Average daily rate£351£330£225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.210 %+46.66 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£238£263£275
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %-4.540 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
--27.27 %
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
560589807
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading90.91 %90.62 %94.61 %
Daily rates quoted199153234
Average daily rate£351£375£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.530 %+7.140 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£513£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted514272
Average hourly rate£14.50£21.25£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.76 %-5.550 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£10.00£10.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£53.75£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
Web Developer BerkshireWeb Developer
Berkshire

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Web Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Web Developer across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Reading Web Developer Demand Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web Developer across the Reading region.

Reading Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web Developer across the Reading region.

Reading Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Web Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Web Developer in their job title.

19 (52.94 %)HTML
19 (52.94 %)JavaScript
19 (52.94 %)CSS
19 (52.94 %)XHTML
27 (41.18 %)Java
27 (41.18 %)CMS
27 (41.18 %)Drupal
36 (35.29 %)PHP5
36 (35.29 %)LAMP
36 (35.29 %)PHP
36 (35.29 %)MySQL
36 (35.29 %)XML
36 (35.29 %)Linux
45 (29.41 %)Red Hat
45 (29.41 %)Subversion
45 (29.41 %)Content Management
45 (29.41 %)AJAX
45 (29.41 %)Web Development
45 (29.41 %)jQuery
45 (29.41 %)Red Hat Linux
54 (23.53 %)Open Source
54 (23.53 %)Migration
54 (23.53 %)Scrum
54 (23.53 %)Apache
54 (23.53 %)Tomcat
54 (23.53 %)Python
63 (17.65 %)Informatica
63 (17.65 %)C#
63 (17.65 %).NET
63 (17.65 %)Web Services

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Web Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Web Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
19 (52.94 %)HTML
19 (52.94 %)CSS
19 (52.94 %)XHTML
26 (35.29 %)LAMP
26 (35.29 %)XML
35 (29.41 %)AJAX
35 (29.41 %)jQuery
43 (17.65 %).NET
43 (17.65 %)Web Services
43 (17.65 %)ASP.NET
43 (17.65 %)NHibernate
43 (17.65 %)script.aculo.us
43 (17.65 %)ASP.NET 2.0
52 (11.76 %)MooTools
52 (11.76 %)WCF
52 (11.76 %).NET Remoting
52 (11.76 %)COM+
52 (11.76 %)ASP
52 (11.76 %)RSS
52 (11.76 %)XSLT
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
17 (41.18 %)CMS
17 (41.18 %)Drupal
24 (23.53 %)Apache
24 (23.53 %)Tomcat
32 (11.76 %)Alfresco
32 (11.76 %)WordPress
41 (5.882 %)TYPO3
41 (5.882 %)Joomla!
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (5.882 %)Intranet
11 (5.882 %)Internet
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (35.29 %)MySQL
22 (11.76 %)GIS
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (29.41 %)Subversion
23 (17.65 %)Visual Studio
31 (5.882 %)Ant
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (11.76 %)Advertising
12 (11.76 %)Publishing
21 (5.882 %)Finance
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (23.53 %)Open Source
21 (5.882 %)W3C
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (35.29 %)Linux
25 (29.41 %)Red Hat Linux
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (29.41 %)Content Management
15 (29.41 %)Web Development
24 (23.53 %)Migration
24 (23.53 %)Scrum
32 (11.76 %)Business Analysis
32 (11.76 %)CMMI
32 (11.76 %)Project Management
32 (11.76 %)OO
41 (5.882 %)SOA
41 (5.882 %)SEO
41 (5.882 %)Service Management
41 (5.882 %)Statistical Analysis
41 (5.882 %)Capacity Planning
41 (5.882 %)Unit Testing
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
19 (52.94 %)JavaScript
27 (41.18 %)Java
36 (35.29 %)PHP5
36 (35.29 %)PHP
44 (23.53 %)Python
53 (17.65 %)C#
62 (11.76 %)VB
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (11.76 %)Degree
12 (11.76 %)Microsoft Certification
21 (5.882 %)SC Cleared
21 (5.882 %)Security Cleared
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (29.41 %)Red Hat
23 (17.65 %)Informatica
32 (11.76 %)Microsoft