The first table below looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Scotland region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Developer
Rank 98 85 90
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 22 20 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.902% 0.755% 0.856%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.973% 0.804% 0.908%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 13
Average daily rate £269 £276 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.45% -4.17%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -28.57%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2260 2488 2644
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.66% 93.92% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1098 1220 1303
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £216 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 110 97
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% +47.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Web Developer
UK

Web Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Web Developer across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Scotland Web Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Developer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Web Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Developer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +12 11 £260 -1.88%
Glasgow -18 8 £335 +35.21%
Aberdeen - 1 £250 -
Web Developer
UK

Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 47 (81.03%) CSS
2 45 (77.59%) JavaScript
3 40 (68.97%) jQuery
4 32 (55.17%) HTML
5 28 (48.28%) HTML5
6 25 (43.10%) .NET
7 19 (32.76%) ASP.NET
8 18 (31.03%) XML
8 18 (31.03%) C#
8 18 (31.03%) CSS3
9 14 (24.14%) SQL Server
9 14 (24.14%) CMS
10 11 (18.97%) Ajax
11 10 (17.24%) Web Development
11 10 (17.24%) PHP
11 10 (17.24%) SQL
11 10 (17.24%) XHTML
12 9 (15.52%) XSLT
12 9 (15.52%) ASP
13 8 (13.79%) Web Application Development
14 7 (12.07%) Web Services
14 7 (12.07%) OO
14 7 (12.07%) MVC
14 7 (12.07%) Content Management
15 6 (10.34%) .NET Framework
16 5 (8.621%) Git (software)
16 5 (8.621%) Sencha
16 5 (8.621%) Internet
16 5 (8.621%) Linux
16 5 (8.621%) MySQL

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

Application Development
1 47 (81.03%) CSS
2 40 (68.97%) jQuery
3 32 (55.17%) HTML
4 28 (48.28%) HTML5
5 25 (43.10%) .NET
6 19 (32.76%) ASP.NET
7 18 (31.03%) XML
7 18 (31.03%) CSS3
8 11 (18.97%) Ajax
9 10 (17.24%) XHTML
10 9 (15.52%) XSLT
10 9 (15.52%) ASP
11 7 (12.07%) Web Services
12 6 (10.34%) .NET Framework
13 5 (8.621%) Ruby on Rails
14 4 (6.897%) JSON
14 4 (6.897%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 4 (6.897%) Sencha Touch
15 3 (5.172%) WebSockets
15 3 (5.172%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 14 (24.14%) CMS
2 4 (6.897%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.172%) Drupal
3 3 (5.172%) Umbraco
4 2 (3.448%) Lightstreamer
4 2 (3.448%) Jadu
4 2 (3.448%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (3.448%) Apache
4 2 (3.448%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (1.724%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.724%) MTS
5 1 (1.724%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.724%) IIS
5 1 (1.724%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (1.724%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.724%) InDesign
1 1 (1.724%) Gephi
Business Applications
1 3 (5.172%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.621%) Internet
2 4 (6.897%) Broadband
2 4 (6.897%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (6.897%) Wireless
2 4 (6.897%) Intranet
3 1 (1.724%) HTTP
3 1 (1.724%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.621%) MySQL
3 4 (6.897%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.172%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.724%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.621%) Git (software)
2 2 (3.448%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.724%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (1.724%) JMeter
3 1 (1.724%) Subversion
3 1 (1.724%) HttpUnit
3 1 (1.724%) RSpec
3 1 (1.724%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.724%) JUnit
General
1 5 (8.621%) Retail
2 4 (6.897%) Finance
3 3 (5.172%) Banking
4 1 (1.724%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.724%) Advertising
4 1 (1.724%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.897%) NHS
1 4 (6.897%) Interactive TV
1 4 (6.897%) IPTV
1 4 (6.897%) Smartphone
1 4 (6.897%) Video on Demand
2 3 (5.172%) Data Integration
3 2 (3.448%) Open Source
3 2 (3.448%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (3.448%) iPad
3 2 (3.448%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.724%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.724%) Social Media
4 1 (1.724%) Visualisation
4 1 (1.724%) Social Network
4 1 (1.724%) Web 2.0
4 1 (1.724%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.621%) Linux
2 3 (5.172%) Windows
3 1 (1.724%) Android
3 1 (1.724%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.24%) Web Development
2 8 (13.79%) Web Application Development
3 7 (12.07%) Content Management
3 7 (12.07%) OO
3 7 (12.07%) MVC
4 4 (6.897%) Scrum
5 3 (5.172%) OOD
6 2 (3.448%) Configuration Management
6 2 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (3.448%) TDD
6 2 (3.448%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (3.448%) Unit Testing
6 2 (3.448%) Web Usability
6 2 (3.448%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (1.724%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (1.724%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (1.724%) Time Management
7 1 (1.724%) Pair Programming
7 1 (1.724%) Data Analysis
7 1 (1.724%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 45 (77.59%) JavaScript
2 18 (31.03%) C#
3 10 (17.24%) PHP
3 10 (17.24%) SQL
4 5 (8.621%) Ruby
4 5 (8.621%) Java
5 3 (5.172%) XPath
5 3 (5.172%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.172%) VB.NET
5 3 (5.172%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.448%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.724%) VB6
7 1 (1.724%) CoffeeScript
7 1 (1.724%) C++
7 1 (1.724%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.724%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (8.621%) Degree
2 3 (5.172%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.724%) MCP
3 1 (1.724%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.724%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (8.621%) Sencha
2 4 (6.897%) Oracle
2 4 (6.897%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.172%) Sybase
4 2 (3.448%) Adobe
5 1 (1.724%) Citrix
5 1 (1.724%) Telerik
5 1 (1.724%) Zend
5 1 (1.724%) Twitter
Scotland
Essential Skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL Server .NET SQL Server SharePoint 2007 or 2010 or 2013 Desirable Skills: C# ASP XML XSLT WCF AJAX This is a significant...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300 - £320 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 14 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
My client has recently embarked on a greenfield SharePoint intranet project, and is now looking for someone to assist and lead the extranet project... This is truly one...
Cathcart Associates
Rate: £320 - £350 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
We are looking for an experienced Software Developer to join an ongoing project with our client in Edinburgh.
Search Consultancy
Posted: 13 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Knowledge of Visual Basic, C#, jQuery and source code control utilities, e.g. Git/Subversion/Tortoise, would be beneficial as would an understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP)...
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Rate: From £21,176 to £27,625 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
They are looking to rebuild their ecommerce website. They are therefore looking for an experienced Developer who has had previous experience building ecommerce websites from scratch. You will...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013