The first 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 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Design
Rank 105 122 117
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -5
Contract jobs citing Web Design 6 19 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.299% 0.586% 0.348%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.450% 0.858% 0.534%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 3
Average daily rate £123 £659 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-81.40% +110.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £105 £216 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £182 £735 £503
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £363 £225
% change year-on-year
-17.24% +61.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £77.19 £8.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+808.05% -62.22%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1334 2214 1871
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.37% 68.23% 65.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 1369 966
Average daily rate £375 £390 £382
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +2.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 111 129
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £16.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £39.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Web Design
England

Web Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 Jobs Demand Trend

Web Design
Daily Rate Trend

This 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

This 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 23 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
Dorset - 3 £105 -
Devon +2 2 £200 -
Wiltshire +2 1 £140 -20.00%
Web Design
England

Web Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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.

1 10 (71.43%) HTML
1 10 (71.43%) Photoshop
1 10 (71.43%) CSS
1 10 (71.43%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (35.71%) SEO
2 5 (35.71%) Adobe
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) Web Analytics
2 5 (35.71%) New Media
2 5 (35.71%) Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Content Management
3 4 (28.57%) jQuery
4 3 (21.43%) PHP
4 3 (21.43%) .NET
4 3 (21.43%) MySQL
4 3 (21.43%) Web Development
5 2 (14.29%) Marketing
5 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) Open Source
5 2 (14.29%) HTML5
5 2 (14.29%) Social Media
5 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
5 2 (14.29%) CSS3
5 2 (14.29%) Digital Media
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 2 (14.29%) Fireworks
5 2 (14.29%) Subversion
5 2 (14.29%) InDesign
5 2 (14.29%) Advertising

Web Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 10 (71.43%) HTML
1 10 (71.43%) CSS
2 4 (28.57%) jQuery
3 3 (21.43%) .NET
4 2 (14.29%) HTML5
4 2 (14.29%) CSS3
5 1 (7.143%) SOAP
5 1 (7.143%) Web Services
5 1 (7.143%) XML
5 1 (7.143%) Flash
5 1 (7.143%) XHTML
5 1 (7.143%) ASP
5 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.143%) REST
5 1 (7.143%) Google Maps API
5 1 (7.143%) WCF
5 1 (7.143%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) CMS
2 1 (7.143%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Photoshop
1 10 (71.43%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (14.29%) Fireworks
2 2 (14.29%) InDesign
3 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) Internet
1 1 (7.143%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (7.143%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (7.143%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (14.29%) Marketing
1 2 (14.29%) Advertising
2 1 (7.143%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Web Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Production Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Designer
2 4 (28.57%) Web Production Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Web Designer
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Web Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Semantic Web Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Photoshop Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) New Media
2 2 (14.29%) Open Source
2 2 (14.29%) Social Media
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 2 (14.29%) Digital Media
3 1 (7.143%) Semantic Web
3 1 (7.143%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) SEO
1 5 (35.71%) Web Analytics
1 5 (35.71%) Analytics
2 4 (28.57%) Content Management
3 3 (21.43%) Web Development
4 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (7.143%) RDF
5 1 (7.143%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (7.143%) User Experience Design
5 1 (7.143%) Information Architecture
5 1 (7.143%) Usability Testing
5 1 (7.143%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) PHP
3 1 (7.143%) SQL
3 1 (7.143%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Adobe
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) Sitecore
2 1 (7.143%) Google