The first table below looks at the demand for Web Application Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Application Development over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the South West 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Development
Rank 113 134 112
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -22
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 4 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.192% 0.245% 0.291%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.290% 0.361% 0.449%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
Average daily rate £301 £275 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.27% +37.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
- -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £46.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +43.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.50 £39.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year
-24.35% +22.83%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1381 2218 1782
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.27% 67.93% 64.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 861 1375 919
Average daily rate £375 £390 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +0.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 110 126
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.30 £16.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.50 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Web Application Development
England

Web Application Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Web Application Development across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West Web Application Development Jobs Demand Trend

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web Application Development across the South West region.

South West Web Application Development Daily Rate Trend

Web Application Development
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web Application Development across the South West region.

South West Web Application Development Hourly Rate Trend

Web Application Development
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Application Development within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Somerset - 2 £301 -
Bristol +9 1 - -
Wiltshire +3 1 £300 -
Web Application Development
England

Web Application Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Web Application Development also 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 that cited Web Application Development.

1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Ant
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JSP
2 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (50.00%) Java EE
2 3 (50.00%) System Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (33.33%) J2EE
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) MCP
4 1 (16.67%) MCAD

Web Application Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Web Application Development also 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 that cited Web Application Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) JSP
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (50.00%) Java EE
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Ant
1 3 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) COOL:Gen
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Development Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Development Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (16.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
1 1 (16.67%) MCAD
1 1 (16.67%) MCSD
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCTS
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft