The first table below looks at the demand for the Web Applications Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Applications Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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 Developer
Rank 508 560 496
Rank change year-on-year
+52 -64
Contract jobs requiring a Web Applications Developer 26 26 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.055% 0.044% 0.150%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.047% 0.161%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 47
Average daily rate £280 £290 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -17.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £212 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £350 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £255 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.12% -27.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £31.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -29.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year
- -19.64%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Web Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Web Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Web Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web Applications Developer within the UK.

Web Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Web Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Web Applications Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Web Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web Applications Developer within the UK.

Web Applications Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Applications Developer
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Applications Developer 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 +59 26 £280 +8.10%
North West +13 9 £280 +40.00%
London +31 6 £325 -1.51%
Manchester +17 5 £291 +45.62%
Cheshire +4 4 £250 -
South East +17 3 £313 +20.65%
West Midlands +13 3 £240 -26.15%
City of London +11 3 £325 -18.75%
South West +26 2 £260 +13.04%
Bath +1 2 £260 +13.04%
Somerset -2 2 £260 +13.04%
East of England - 2 £360 -
Canary Wharf - 2 £515 -
Staffordshire - 2 £240 -
Hampshire - 2 £313 -
Stoke-on-Trent - 2 £240 -
Cambridge - 2 £360 -
Cambridgeshire - 2 £360 -
Berkshire +14 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -
Warrington - 1 £300 -
Basingstoke - 1 - -

Web Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Web Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 39 (57.35%) .NET
2 35 (51.47%) JavaScript
3 32 (47.06%) SQL
3 32 (47.06%) ASP.NET
3 32 (47.06%) MVC
4 31 (45.59%) C#
5 30 (44.12%) CSS
6 27 (39.71%) SQL Server
7 24 (35.29%) jQuery
8 20 (29.41%) Java
9 19 (27.94%) HTML5
10 16 (23.53%) HTML
10 16 (23.53%) .NET Framework
11 15 (22.06%) Web Application Development
12 14 (20.59%) Ajax
12 14 (20.59%) Visual Studio
13 13 (19.12%) CSS3
14 12 (17.65%) Web Services
15 11 (16.18%) TDD
15 11 (16.18%) Spring
15 11 (16.18%) CRM
16 10 (14.71%) XML
16 10 (14.71%) T-SQL
16 10 (14.71%) WCF
16 10 (14.71%) JSON
17 9 (13.24%) Agile Software Development
17 9 (13.24%) Hibernate
18 8 (11.76%) Scrum
18 8 (11.76%) Finance
18 8 (11.76%) Windows

Web Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Web Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (57.35%) .NET
2 32 (47.06%) ASP.NET
3 30 (44.12%) CSS
4 24 (35.29%) jQuery
5 19 (27.94%) HTML5
6 16 (23.53%) HTML
6 16 (23.53%) .NET Framework
7 14 (20.59%) Ajax
8 13 (19.12%) CSS3
9 12 (17.65%) Web Services
10 11 (16.18%) Spring
11 10 (14.71%) XML
11 10 (14.71%) WCF
11 10 (14.71%) JSON
12 9 (13.24%) Hibernate
13 7 (10.29%) Servlets
14 6 (8.824%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 5 (7.353%) ASP.NET MVC
15 5 (7.353%) REST
15 5 (7.353%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.824%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.882%) CMS
3 3 (4.412%) WebLogic
3 3 (4.412%) IIS
4 2 (2.941%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (2.941%) MQSeries
4 2 (2.941%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.471%) Drupal
5 1 (1.471%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.471%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.471%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (2.941%) MS Excel
1 2 (2.941%) Photoshop
1 2 (2.941%) GIMP
2 1 (1.471%) Gephi
Business Applications
1 1 (1.471%) Apache OFBiz
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.882%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (5.882%) Wireless
1 4 (5.882%) Internet
1 4 (5.882%) Broadband
2 2 (2.941%) NFC
3 1 (1.471%) FTP
3 1 (1.471%) DNS
3 1 (1.471%) SSL
3 1 (1.471%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.29%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (7.353%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (5.882%) MySQL
4 4 (5.882%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.412%) SQLite
6 2 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.941%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.471%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.471%) GIS
Development Applications
1 14 (20.59%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.824%) Eclipse
3 5 (7.353%) Subversion
4 4 (5.882%) NetBeans
4 4 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (5.882%) Git (software)
5 3 (4.412%) GitHub
6 2 (2.941%) Maven
6 2 (2.941%) Xcode
6 2 (2.941%) Ant
6 2 (2.941%) JIRA
7 1 (1.471%) Selenium
7 1 (1.471%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.471%) Hudson
7 1 (1.471%) JSUnit
7 1 (1.471%) QUnit
7 1 (1.471%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.471%) JUnit
7 1 (1.471%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 8 (11.76%) Finance
2 5 (7.353%) Retail
3 4 (5.882%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.471%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.471%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.353%) Smartphone
2 4 (5.882%) Interactive TV
2 4 (5.882%) IPTV
2 4 (5.882%) Video on Demand
3 1 (1.471%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.471%) Social Network
3 1 (1.471%) Visualisation
3 1 (1.471%) Open Source
3 1 (1.471%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.471%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.76%) Windows
2 5 (7.353%) Android
2 5 (7.353%) Linux
3 3 (4.412%) Windows CE
4 1 (1.471%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.471%) Windows 8
4 1 (1.471%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) MVC
2 15 (22.06%) Web Application Development
3 11 (16.18%) TDD
3 11 (16.18%) CRM
4 9 (13.24%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (11.76%) Scrum
5 8 (11.76%) OO
6 7 (10.29%) E-Commerce
6 7 (10.29%) Web Development
7 6 (8.824%) Web Design
8 4 (5.882%) Data Analysis
8 4 (5.882%) OOP
9 3 (4.412%) Release Management
9 3 (4.412%) Refactoring
9 3 (4.412%) Dependency Injection
9 3 (4.412%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (4.412%) Data Modelling
9 3 (4.412%) Project Management
9 3 (4.412%) ITIL
9 3 (4.412%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 35 (51.47%) JavaScript
2 32 (47.06%) SQL
3 31 (45.59%) C#
4 20 (29.41%) Java
5 10 (14.71%) T-SQL
6 7 (10.29%) PHP
7 6 (8.824%) Ruby
8 4 (5.882%) C++
8 4 (5.882%) VB.NET
9 3 (4.412%) XPath
9 3 (4.412%) C
10 2 (2.941%) Objective-C
10 2 (2.941%) VB
10 2 (2.941%) Python
11 1 (1.471%) PHP5
11 1 (1.471%) VBA
11 1 (1.471%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.471%) VBScript
11 1 (1.471%) XAML
11 1 (1.471%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (4.412%) PhD
2 1 (1.471%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.941%) QA
2 1 (1.471%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.471%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (7.353%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.882%) Oracle
3 2 (2.941%) JBoss
3 2 (2.941%) Zend
4 1 (1.471%) Elastic Path
4 1 (1.471%) hybris
4 1 (1.471%) Sencha
4 1 (1.471%) Facebook
4 1 (1.471%) Twitter
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