Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Web Design 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 Design 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the South West region.

 Web Design
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank109101132
Rank change year-on-year
Down-8Up+31
Matching contract IT job ads3622
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West0.118 %0.216 %0.438 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category0.204 %0.426 %0.868 %
Daily rates quoted231
Average daily rate£250£225£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-50.00 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£238£200£400
% change year-on-year
+18.75 %-50.00 %
Hourly rates quoted015
Average hourly rate-£16.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--36.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£12.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
+66.66 %-52.00 %
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
146914092535
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West57.97 %50.70 %50.50 %
Daily rates quoted691465828
Average daily rate£350£388£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.670 %-3.120 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£240£270
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£455£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£360£375
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted98165255
Average hourly rate£20.00£32.50£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.46 %+1.560 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£17.00£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.45£37.50£41.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-10.90 %-8.330 %
Web Design EnglandWeb Design
England

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 Design
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Web Design across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West Web Design Demand Trend

Web Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Web Design Daily Rate Trend

Web Design
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Web Design Hourly Rate Trend

Web Design
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Design within the South West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
BristolDown-112£200-
GloucestershireNew entry-1£300-
Web Design EnglandWeb Design
England

Web Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Web Design 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 Design.

114 (66.67 %)HTML
114 (66.67 %)CSS
29 (42.86 %)Photoshop
38 (38.10 %)W3C
47 (33.33 %)XHTML
56 (28.57 %)JavaScript
56 (28.57 %)Flash
65 (23.81 %)Marketing
65 (23.81 %)Web Development
74 (19.05 %)SQL
82 (9.524 %)AJAX
82 (9.524 %)Google
82 (9.524 %)Google Analytics
82 (9.524 %)Management Information System
82 (9.524 %)SEO
82 (9.524 %)OO
82 (9.524 %)Content Management
82 (9.524 %)LAMP
82 (9.524 %)Java
82 (9.524 %)C
82 (9.524 %).NET
82 (9.524 %)PHP
82 (9.524 %)SQL Server
82 (9.524 %)XML
82 (9.524 %)Security Cleared
91 (4.762 %)Windows
91 (4.762 %)Web Services
91 (4.762 %)Windows Server 2003
91 (4.762 %)OLE
91 (4.762 %)OLE DB

Web Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Web Design 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 Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

South West IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
114 (66.67 %)HTML
114 (66.67 %)CSS
27 (33.33 %)XHTML
36 (28.57 %)Flash
42 (9.524 %)AJAX
42 (9.524 %)LAMP
42 (9.524 %).NET
42 (9.524 %)XML
51 (4.762 %)Web Services
51 (4.762 %)OLE
51 (4.762 %)OLE DB
51 (4.762 %)RSS
51 (4.762 %)ADO
51 (4.762 %)ASP.NET
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (4.762 %)Apache
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
19 (42.86 %)Photoshop
21 (4.762 %)Adobe Illustrator
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (9.524 %)Google Analytics
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (4.762 %)HTTP
11 (4.762 %)IMAP
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (9.524 %)SQL Server
21 (4.762 %)DTS
21 (4.762 %)MySQL
21 (4.762 %)SQL Server 2005
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (4.762 %)Dreamweaver
11 (4.762 %)Visual Studio
11 (4.762 %)VSS/SourceSafe
South West IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (23.81 %)Marketing
21 (4.762 %)Insurance
21 (4.762 %)Retail
21 (4.762 %)Finance
21 (4.762 %)Pensions
21 (4.762 %)Graphic Design
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
111 (52.38 %)Designer
210 (47.62 %)Web Designer
38 (38.10 %)Developer
46 (28.57 %)UI Designer
55 (23.81 %)Web Developer
63 (14.29 %)Photoshop Designer
71 (4.762 %)Software Developer
71 (4.762 %).NET Developer
71 (4.762 %)C# Developer
71 (4.762 %)Analyst
71 (4.762 %)Analyst Programmer
71 (4.762 %)Programmer
71 (4.762 %)Interaction Designer
71 (4.762 %)Web Producer
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
18 (38.10 %)W3C
22 (9.524 %)Management Information System
31 (4.762 %)N-Tier
31 (4.762 %)Social Network
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (4.762 %)Windows
11 (4.762 %)Windows Server 2003
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (23.81 %)Web Development
22 (9.524 %)SEO
22 (9.524 %)OO
22 (9.524 %)Content Management
31 (4.762 %)E-Commerce
31 (4.762 %)System Testing
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16 (28.57 %)JavaScript
24 (19.05 %)SQL
32 (9.524 %)Java
32 (9.524 %)C
32 (9.524 %)PHP
41 (4.762 %)C#
41 (4.762 %)T-SQL
41 (4.762 %)VB.NET
41 (4.762 %)Perl
41 (4.762 %)PHP5
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (9.524 %)Security Cleared
21 (4.762 %)SC Cleared
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (9.524 %)Google
21 (4.762 %)Adobe
21 (4.762 %)Oracle