The first table below looks at the demand for Web Application Development skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Application Development over the 3 months to 22 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.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Development
Rank 400 424 415
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -9
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 134 162 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.284% 0.273% 0.287%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.401% 0.403% 0.425%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 86 102
Average daily rate £322 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.91% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £273 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £420 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £310 £331
% change year-on-year
- -6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 9
Average hourly rate £29.50 £39.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.35% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.10 £28.00 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.90 £46.00 £53.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.50 £39.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-24.35% +23.80%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
33412 40209 40724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.90% 67.83% 67.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 19968 23081 23144
Average daily rate £413 £401 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.99% -8.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 1304 1455
Average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.78 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Web Application Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Web Application Development Daily Rate Trend

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Application Development within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Web Application Development Daily Rate Histogram

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 within the UK.

Web Application Development Hourly Rate Trend

Web Application Development
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +15 107 £330 +1.53%
London -4 47 £400 +14.28%
Scotland 0 24 £275 +5.76%
North West +14 19 £270 -16.92%
South East +9 16 £320 +3.22%
Manchester +17 9 £270 -20.00%
Edinburgh +9 9 £250 -3.84%
Glasgow -11 8 £283 +8.65%
City of London +5 7 £300 -22.58%
Stirling - 7 £475 -
Surrey +18 6 £400 +12.28%
East of England +18 5 £425 +51.78%
Berkshire +16 5 - -
East Midlands +3 5 £215 -13.13%
Nottinghamshire +2 5 £215 -4.44%
Cheshire +1 5 £250 -20.00%
West Midlands +1 5 £330 -1.49%
Stirlingshire - 5 £475 -
South West +24 4 £301 +9.27%
Staffordshire +15 4 £330 +1.53%
Milton Keynes +7 4 £313 +2.88%
Stoke-on-Trent +6 4 £330 +1.53%
Buckinghamshire -2 4 £313 +4.16%
Hertfordshire - 4 £425 -
Yorkshire +1 3 £293 -
Nottingham - 3 £215 -
Slough - 3 - -
Liverpool - 3 - -
Durham - 3 - -
Merseyside - 3 - -

Web Application Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 142 (49.82%) CSS
2 140 (49.12%) JavaScript
3 133 (46.67%) .NET
4 122 (42.81%) C#
5 111 (38.95%) jQuery
6 103 (36.14%) Java
7 98 (34.39%) SQL Server
8 95 (33.33%) HTML
9 92 (32.28%) ASP.NET
10 90 (31.58%) MVC
11 87 (30.53%) SQL
12 82 (28.77%) XML
12 82 (28.77%) Ajax
13 76 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
14 69 (24.21%) HTML5
15 63 (22.11%) OO
16 59 (20.70%) Spring
17 57 (20.00%) CSS3
18 50 (17.54%) TDD
19 49 (17.19%) Web Services
20 48 (16.84%) Unit Testing
21 44 (15.44%) Scrum
22 41 (14.39%) Oracle
22 41 (14.39%) Degree
23 40 (14.04%) E-Commerce
24 38 (13.33%) XSLT
25 36 (12.63%) Windows
25 36 (12.63%) Web Development
26 34 (11.93%) ASP.NET MVC
27 32 (11.23%) JSON

Web Application Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 142 (49.82%) CSS
2 133 (46.67%) .NET
3 111 (38.95%) jQuery
4 95 (33.33%) HTML
5 92 (32.28%) ASP.NET
6 82 (28.77%) XML
6 82 (28.77%) Ajax
7 69 (24.21%) HTML5
8 59 (20.70%) Spring
9 57 (20.00%) CSS3
10 49 (17.19%) Web Services
11 38 (13.33%) XSLT
12 34 (11.93%) ASP.NET MVC
13 32 (11.23%) JSON
13 32 (11.23%) J2EE
14 30 (10.53%) XHTML
14 30 (10.53%) JSP
15 27 (9.474%) SOAP
15 27 (9.474%) WCF
16 23 (8.070%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 25 (8.772%) CMS
1 25 (8.772%) SharePoint
2 21 (7.368%) Apache
3 20 (7.018%) Tomcat
4 10 (3.509%) Sitecore CMS
5 8 (2.807%) IIS
6 6 (2.105%) WebLogic
7 5 (1.754%) Amazon AWS
7 5 (1.754%) Drupal
7 5 (1.754%) ESB
8 4 (1.404%) Mule
9 3 (1.053%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (1.053%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.053%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.053%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.053%) Windows Azure
9 3 (1.053%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.702%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.702%) WordPress
10 2 (0.702%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (4.912%) MS Excel
2 7 (2.456%) Photoshop
3 5 (1.754%) Gephi
4 4 (1.404%) MS Office
5 3 (1.053%) MS Project
6 1 (0.351%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.053%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.702%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.667%) Intranet
2 17 (5.965%) Internet
3 5 (1.754%) LDAP
3 5 (1.754%) HTTP
4 4 (1.404%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.404%) Wireless
4 4 (1.404%) Broadband
5 3 (1.053%) Extranet
6 2 (0.702%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.702%) WAN
7 1 (0.351%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.351%) DNS
7 1 (0.351%) SSL
7 1 (0.351%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (34.39%) SQL Server
2 27 (9.474%) MySQL
3 26 (9.123%) SQL Server 2008
4 16 (5.614%) SQL Server 2005
5 11 (3.860%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.158%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.456%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.754%) SQL Server 2000
9 4 (1.404%) Oracle 11g
9 4 (1.404%) Oracle 10g
9 4 (1.404%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.053%) DB2
10 3 (1.053%) DataStage
10 3 (1.053%) MS Access
10 3 (1.053%) TOAD
10 3 (1.053%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.053%) SQL Server 2012
10 3 (1.053%) CouchDB
10 3 (1.053%) SQLite
10 3 (1.053%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.368%) Git (software)
2 19 (6.667%) Visual Studio
3 17 (5.965%) Selenium
4 13 (4.561%) CruiseControl
5 12 (4.211%) Subversion
6 11 (3.860%) NUnit
7 10 (3.509%) JIRA
7 10 (3.509%) JUnit
8 8 (2.807%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (2.807%) Eclipse
9 7 (2.456%) Maven
10 6 (2.105%) Rhino Mocks
11 5 (1.754%) Hudson
11 5 (1.754%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.404%) WATIR
12 4 (1.404%) JSUnit
13 3 (1.053%) Ant
13 3 (1.053%) ERwin
13 3 (1.053%) ClearCase
13 3 (1.053%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (9.123%) Finance
2 23 (8.070%) Games
3 22 (7.719%) Banking
4 10 (3.509%) Publishing
5 8 (2.807%) Retail
6 7 (2.456%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.456%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.754%) Interactive Media
8 2 (0.702%) Music
8 2 (0.702%) Marketing
8 2 (0.702%) German Language
8 2 (0.702%) Multimedia
8 2 (0.702%) Automotive
9 1 (0.351%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 237 (83.16%) Developer
2 72 (25.26%) .NET Developer
3 57 (20.00%) Web Developer
4 44 (15.44%) Java Developer
5 35 (12.28%) Senior Developer
6 26 (9.123%) ASP.NET Developer
6 26 (9.123%) .NET Web Developer
7 21 (7.368%) C# Developer
8 20 (7.018%) Applications Developer
9 18 (6.316%) Software Developer
9 18 (6.316%) SQL Developer
10 16 (5.614%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
10 16 (5.614%) VB.NET Developer
11 15 (5.263%) Web Applications Developer
12 14 (4.912%) Front-End Developer
13 13 (4.561%) Programmer
14 12 (4.211%) Ruby on Rails Developer
14 12 (4.211%) PHP Developer
14 12 (4.211%) Project Manager
15 11 (3.860%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.474%) N-Tier
2 12 (4.211%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (3.860%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.509%) Blackberry
5 9 (3.158%) Interactive TV
5 9 (3.158%) IPTV
6 7 (2.456%) Smartphone
7 6 (2.105%) Computer Science
7 6 (2.105%) iPhone
7 6 (2.105%) iPad
7 6 (2.105%) NHS
7 6 (2.105%) W3C
8 5 (1.754%) Visualisation
8 5 (1.754%) Mathematics
9 4 (1.404%) Video on Demand
10 3 (1.053%) Equities
10 3 (1.053%) 3D Graphics
10 3 (1.053%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.053%) Cryptography
10 3 (1.053%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.63%) Windows
2 31 (10.88%) Linux
3 23 (8.070%) UNIX
4 15 (5.263%) Android
5 14 (4.912%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.754%) Windows Phone 8
6 5 (1.754%) Windows Phone
7 3 (1.053%) Windows CE
7 3 (1.053%) BlackBerry OS
7 3 (1.053%) Windows Mobile
8 2 (0.702%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.702%) MVS
9 1 (0.351%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.351%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.58%) MVC
2 76 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
3 63 (22.11%) OO
4 50 (17.54%) TDD
5 48 (16.84%) Unit Testing
6 44 (15.44%) Scrum
7 40 (14.04%) E-Commerce
8 36 (12.63%) Web Development
9 25 (8.772%) Project Management
10 24 (8.421%) SOA
11 20 (7.018%) SEO
12 19 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (6.316%) OOP
13 18 (6.316%) Content Management
14 14 (4.912%) PRINCE2
15 12 (4.211%) ITIL
16 9 (3.158%) Data Analysis
16 9 (3.158%) Automated Testing
17 8 (2.807%) Kanban
17 8 (2.807%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (49.12%) JavaScript
2 122 (42.81%) C#
3 103 (36.14%) Java
4 87 (30.53%) SQL
5 31 (10.88%) PHP
6 24 (8.421%) Ruby
7 21 (7.368%) PL/SQL
8 20 (7.018%) VB.NET
9 17 (5.965%) C++
10 16 (5.614%) T-SQL
11 14 (4.912%) Perl
12 11 (3.860%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.807%) C
14 7 (2.456%) ActionScript
15 5 (1.754%) Groovy
15 5 (1.754%) XPath
16 3 (1.053%) RPG
16 3 (1.053%) Python
16 3 (1.053%) RPG IV
17 2 (0.702%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 41 (14.39%) Degree
2 10 (3.509%) MCTS
2 10 (3.509%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (3.509%) MCP
2 10 (3.509%) MCAD
2 10 (3.509%) MCSD
3 6 (2.105%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.404%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 4 (1.404%) PhD
5 3 (1.053%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (0.702%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.404%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.053%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (0.702%) Varnish
3 1 (0.351%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 2 (0.702%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 41 (14.39%) Oracle
2 32 (11.23%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.860%) Sitecore
4 9 (3.158%) Adobe
5 7 (2.456%) IBM
6 6 (2.105%) Zend
7 4 (1.404%) EPiServer
7 4 (1.404%) AccuRev
8 3 (1.053%) Open Text
8 3 (1.053%) RedDot
8 3 (1.053%) Facebook
9 2 (0.702%) Capita
9 2 (0.702%) Google
9 2 (0.702%) Sencha
9 2 (0.702%) JBoss
9 2 (0.702%) SAP
10 1 (0.351%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.351%) Sybase
10 1 (0.351%) Salesforce.com
10 1 (0.351%) Perforce
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Rate: £0.00 per annum
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Rate: £230.00 - £290.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Rate: £550 per day
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Rate: £340 - £360 per day
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Rate: £300 - £400 per day
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