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The table below looks at the demand for the Web Designer role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Web Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Web Designer
Location
3 months to
3 Dec 2008		Same period last year
Rank289314
Rank change on same period last yearUp+25
Matching contract IT job ads283401
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.457 %0.437 %
As % of the category below0.518 %0.480 %
Daily rates quoted93115
Average minimum daily rate£215£238
Average daily rate£231£258
% change on same period last year-10.76 %
Average maximum daily rate£246£278
UK excluding London average daily rate£207£268
% change on same period last year-22.57 %
Hourly rates quoted2747
Average minimum hourly rate£21.34£19.49
Average hourly rate£23.05£22.16
% change on same period last year+3.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate£24.75£24.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.95£20.37
% change on same period last year+17.56 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
UK
Matching contract IT job ads5462883525
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled88.21 %91.11 %
Daily rates quoted1709925002
Average minimum daily rate£363£386
Average daily rate£388£410
% change on same period last year-5.34 %
Average maximum daily rate£413£434
UK excluding London average daily rate£352£352
% change on same period last year+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted52837454
Average minimum hourly rate£22.05£23.18
Average hourly rate£23.49£24.72
% change on same period last year-4.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate£24.94£26.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.16£23.97
% change on same period last year-3.40 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Web Designer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Web Designer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Web Designer Demand Trend

Web Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Web Designer Daily Rate Trend

Web Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Designer within the UK over the 3 months to 3 December 2008.

Web Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Web Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Web Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Designer within the UK over the 3 months to 3 December 2008.

Web Designer Hourly Rate Histogram

Web Designer
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 Designer within the UK over the 3 months to 3 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last		Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+31270£229-11.33 %
LondonUp+35124£245-2.72 %
South EastUp+1536£204-26.97 %
North WestUp+3634£150-26.22 %
East of EnglandDown-1122£190-23.10 %
ManchesterUp+2019--
YorkshireUp+3819£195-35.00 %
West MidlandsUp+1118£246-24.35 %
CambridgeshireUp+615£250+14.28 %
City of LondonDown-111£284+26.19 %
SurreyUp+3310£213+12.10 %
CambridgeUp+510£250-
CheshireUp+49£175-30.00 %
South WestUp+149--
WalesUp+117£277-
HampshireUp+217£215-10.41 %
South YorkshireUp+257£225-
BirminghamUp+117--
West SussexUp+216£146-
West YorkshireUp+175£175-41.66 %
HertfordshireDown-15£180-30.90 %
BerkshireUp+125£230-42.50 %
WarringtonNew entry-5£175-
GatwickNew entry-5£138-
LiverpoolNew entry-5--
PeterboroughDown-45--
ScotlandUp+235£225-
North WalesNew entry-5£308-
MerseysideNew entry-5--
MidlandsUp+235--

Web Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Web Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1354 (59.70 %)HTML
2353 (59.53 %)CSS
3292 (49.24 %)Photoshop
4267 (45.03 %)Flash
5190 (32.04 %)JavaScript
6158 (26.64 %)XHTML
7129 (21.75 %)Web Design
8126 (21.25 %)Adobe Illustrator
9122 (20.57 %)Dreamweaver
1085 (14.33 %)Adobe
1176 (12.82 %).NET
1272 (12.14 %)PHP
1371 (11.97 %)Fireworks
1468 (11.47 %)ActionScript
1564 (10.79 %)Marketing
1657 (9.612 %)XML
1752 (8.769 %)W3C
1851 (8.600 %)AJAX
1946 (7.757 %)E-Commerce
2040 (6.745 %)Web Development
2040 (6.745 %)Graphic Design
2138 (6.408 %)ASP.NET
2234 (5.734 %)Content Management
2332 (5.396 %)CMS
2431 (5.228 %)Internet
2530 (5.059 %)SQL
2629 (4.890 %)ASP
2629 (4.890 %)Intranet
2728 (4.722 %)SQL Server
2827 (4.553 %)SEO

Web Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Web Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1354 (59.70 %)HTML
2353 (59.53 %)CSS
3158 (26.64 %)XHTML
476 (12.82 %).NET
557 (9.612 %)XML
651 (8.600 %)AJAX
738 (6.408 %)ASP.NET
829 (4.890 %)ASP
916 (2.698 %)JSP
1014 (2.361 %)WebServices
1111 (1.855 %)WebSphere
1111 (1.855 %)XSL
1111 (1.855 %)jQuery
1210 (1.686 %)Silverlight
139 (1.518 %)MooTools
148 (1.349 %)XSLT
156 (1.012 %)ODBC
165 (0.843 %)Ruby on Rails
174 (0.675 %)Windows SharePoint Services
174 (0.675 %)J2EE
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
132 (5.396 %)CMS
224 (4.047 %)SharePoint
323 (3.879 %)IIS
420 (3.373 %)Apache
58 (1.349 %)Tomcat
67 (1.180 %)SharePoint Server 2007
74 (0.675 %)DotNetNuke
74 (0.675 %)Content Management Server
83 (0.506 %)SharePoint Portal Server
91 (0.169 %)Oracle 10gAS
91 (0.169 %)Joomla!
91 (0.169 %)Morello
91 (0.169 %)Immediacy CMS
91 (0.169 %)WebLogic
91 (0.169 %)ColdFusion
91 (0.169 %)JBoss
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1292 (49.24 %)Photoshop
2126 (21.25 %)Adobe Illustrator
371 (11.97 %)Fireworks
416 (2.698 %)InDesign
513 (2.192 %)InfoPath
67 (1.180 %)MS Excel
67 (1.180 %)ImageReady
75 (0.843 %)3ds Max
75 (0.843 %)MS Office
84 (0.675 %)MS Visio
93 (0.506 %)Acrobat
93 (0.506 %)QuarkXPress
93 (0.506 %)FreeHand
93 (0.506 %)Maya
93 (0.506 %)LightWave 3D
93 (0.506 %)Adobe Premiere
102 (0.337 %)MS Project
111 (0.169 %)Paint Shop Pro
111 (0.169 %)CINEMA 4D
111 (0.169 %)Adobe Captivate
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
15 (0.843 %)Google Analytics
23 (0.506 %)TIBCO iProcess
31 (0.169 %)WebTrends
31 (0.169 %)SAP CRM
31 (0.169 %)Summit
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
131 (5.228 %)Internet
229 (4.890 %)Intranet
37 (1.180 %)DNS
46 (1.012 %)Extranet
55 (0.843 %)SMS
64 (0.675 %)FTP
64 (0.675 %)Firewall
73 (0.506 %)3G
73 (0.506 %)HTTP
73 (0.506 %)DMZ
81 (0.169 %)LDAP
81 (0.169 %)SAN
81 (0.169 %)TCP/IP
81 (0.169 %)SMTP
81 (0.169 %)TELNET
81 (0.169 %)Wireless
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
128 (4.722 %)SQL Server
226 (4.384 %)MySQL
37 (1.180 %)SQL Server 2000
37 (1.180 %)SQL Server 2005
44 (0.675 %)MS Access
52 (0.337 %)Oracle 10g
61 (0.169 %)Data Mining
61 (0.169 %)ETL
61 (0.169 %)Crystal Reports
61 (0.169 %)Oracle 8/8i
61 (0.169 %)Oracle 9i
61 (0.169 %)SQL Server Integration Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1267 (45.03 %)Flash
2122 (20.57 %)Dreamweaver
311 (1.855 %)FrontPage
46 (1.012 %)Expression Blend
46 (1.012 %)VSS/SourceSafe
54 (0.675 %)Visual Studio
54 (0.675 %)Firebug
62 (0.337 %)Ant
62 (0.337 %)JUnit
71 (0.169 %)RequisitePro
71 (0.169 %)WebLogic Workshop
71 (0.169 %)Subversion
71 (0.169 %)Paros
71 (0.169 %)Fiddler
71 (0.169 %)Rational Rose
71 (0.169 %)Eclipse
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
164 (10.79 %)Marketing
240 (6.745 %)Graphic Design
325 (4.216 %)Advertising
423 (3.879 %)Banking
519 (3.204 %)Telecoms
617 (2.867 %)Finance
716 (2.698 %)Government
815 (2.530 %)Retail
815 (2.530 %)Animation
912 (2.024 %)Investment Banking
912 (2.024 %)Publishing
109 (1.518 %)Multimedia
109 (1.518 %)Video Editing
117 (1.180 %)Front Office
126 (1.012 %)Games
134 (0.675 %)Financial Institution
143 (0.506 %)Insurance
143 (0.506 %)Health
152 (0.337 %)Law
152 (0.337 %)Military
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
152 (8.769 %)W3C
212 (2.024 %)Web 2.0
212 (2.024 %)Social Network
39 (1.518 %)N-Tier
46 (1.012 %)Blog
55 (0.843 %)NHS
55 (0.843 %)Mainframe
64 (0.675 %)Replication
64 (0.675 %)E-Learning
73 (0.506 %)Clustering
73 (0.506 %)IPTV
73 (0.506 %)RIA
73 (0.506 %)Copywriting
82 (0.337 %)Podcast
82 (0.337 %)iDTV
91 (0.169 %)Management Information System
91 (0.169 %)BBC
91 (0.169 %)Streaming Video
91 (0.169 %)SCORM
91 (0.169 %)Interactive TV
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
114 (2.361 %)Windows
26 (1.012 %)Linux
26 (1.012 %)Windows 2000
26 (1.012 %)UNIX
32 (0.337 %)Red Hat Linux
41 (0.169 %)Windows Server 2003
41 (0.169 %)Solaris
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1129 (21.75 %)Web Design
246 (7.757 %)E-Commerce
340 (6.745 %)Web Development
434 (5.734 %)Content Management
527 (4.553 %)SEO
620 (3.373 %)Security Cleared
717 (2.867 %)Workflow
816 (2.698 %)OO
910 (1.686 %)SC Cleared
107 (1.180 %)Asset Management
107 (1.180 %)Agile Software Development
116 (1.012 %)CRM
125 (0.843 %)Network Design
125 (0.843 %)Knowledge Management
134 (0.675 %)Load Balancing
134 (0.675 %)Disaster Recovery
134 (0.675 %)Internet Marketing
134 (0.675 %)Digital Marketing
143 (0.506 %)Time Management
143 (0.506 %)Migration
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1190 (32.04 %)JavaScript
272 (12.14 %)PHP
368 (11.47 %)ActionScript
430 (5.059 %)SQL
525 (4.216 %)Java
623 (3.879 %)DHTML
711 (1.855 %)C#
84 (0.675 %)VBScript
84 (0.675 %)VB.NET
93 (0.506 %)VB
93 (0.506 %)C
101 (0.169 %)PL/SQL
101 (0.169 %)Perl
101 (0.169 %)Transact-SQL
101 (0.169 %)Ruby
101 (0.169 %)PHP5
101 (0.169 %)PHP4
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
111 (1.855 %)Degree
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
112 (2.024 %)WAI
24 (0.675 %)QA
33 (0.506 %)WCAG
41 (0.169 %)SLA
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
15 (0.843 %)ISA Server
22 (0.337 %)AquaLogic
31 (0.169 %)NetBackup
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
185 (14.33 %)Adobe
219 (3.204 %)Microsoft
38 (1.349 %)IBM
38 (1.349 %)Quark
47 (1.180 %)TIBCO
56 (1.012 %)Macromedia
56 (1.012 %)Oracle
56 (1.012 %)Google
65 (0.843 %)Apple
65 (0.843 %)ICL
65 (0.843 %)SAP
73 (0.506 %)Siebel
82 (0.337 %)HP
82 (0.337 %)Plumtree
82 (0.337 %)Red Hat
91 (0.169 %)Yahoo!
91 (0.169 %)CODA
91 (0.169 %)Sage
91 (0.169 %)VERITAS
91 (0.169 %)BEA
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