The first table below looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire 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 13 19 20
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 6 15 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 6.897% 6.849% 9.821%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.317% 7.075% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 17
Average daily rate £330 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -28.57%
All Job Titles
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
82 212 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 94.25% 96.80% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 90 88
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 20 19
Average hourly rate £15.21 £17.50 £12.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.11% +41.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £13.50 £7.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.29 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Web Developer
West Midlands

Web Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire 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
Stoke-on-Trent +6 6 £330 +1.53%
Web Developer
West Midlands

Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 23 (92.00%) .NET
2 20 (80.00%) SQL
2 20 (80.00%) VB.NET
2 20 (80.00%) CSS
3 19 (76.00%) ASP.NET
3 19 (76.00%) C#
4 18 (72.00%) JavaScript
5 17 (68.00%) SEO
5 17 (68.00%) E-Commerce
5 17 (68.00%) N-Tier
5 17 (68.00%) SOA
5 17 (68.00%) Ajax
6 16 (64.00%) Degree
6 16 (64.00%) jQuery
6 16 (64.00%) Unit Testing
6 16 (64.00%) HTML5
6 16 (64.00%) CSS3
6 16 (64.00%) XHTML
6 16 (64.00%) SQL Server
6 16 (64.00%) XML
6 16 (64.00%) XSLT
6 16 (64.00%) Web Application Development
7 9 (36.00%) TDD
8 4 (16.00%) Document Management
8 4 (16.00%) JIRA
8 4 (16.00%) AccuRev
8 4 (16.00%) Games
9 3 (12.00%) Blackberry
9 3 (12.00%) Windows
9 3 (12.00%) HTML

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 23 (92.00%) .NET
2 20 (80.00%) CSS
3 19 (76.00%) ASP.NET
4 17 (68.00%) Ajax
5 16 (64.00%) XML
5 16 (64.00%) XSLT
5 16 (64.00%) XHTML
5 16 (64.00%) jQuery
5 16 (64.00%) HTML5
5 16 (64.00%) CSS3
6 3 (12.00%) HTML
7 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 2 (8.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (8.000%) .NET Framework
7 2 (8.000%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.000%) Apache
1 1 (4.000%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (64.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.000%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.000%) Subversion
General
1 4 (16.00%) Games
2 1 (4.000%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 17 (68.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (12.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (12.00%) WURFL
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (12.00%) Android
1 3 (12.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (12.00%) BlackBerry OS
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) SEO
1 17 (68.00%) E-Commerce
1 17 (68.00%) SOA
2 16 (64.00%) Unit Testing
2 16 (64.00%) Web Application Development
3 9 (36.00%) TDD
4 4 (16.00%) Document Management
5 3 (12.00%) Web Development
6 2 (8.000%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) SQL
1 20 (80.00%) VB.NET
2 19 (76.00%) C#
3 18 (72.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) AccuRev