The first table below looks at the demand for Web Usability 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 Usability over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Usability
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Web Usability 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £250 £400
% change year-on-year
- -37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.61 £19.00 -
% change year-on-year
-28.36% -
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1360 2239 1773
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.18% 68.10% 64.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 1384 912
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 £499 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 111 125
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.25 £16.85 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.75 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Web Usability
England

Web Usability
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Web Usability Jobs Demand Trend

Web Usability
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Web Usability Daily Rate Trend

Web Usability
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Web Usability Hourly Rate Trend

Web Usability
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Web Usability 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 Usability.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management Server
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Multimedia
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Blog
1 1 (100.00%) Social Network
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) iPad

Web Usability
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Web Usability 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 Usability. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management Server
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) Blog
1 1 (100.00%) Social Network
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft