Web Designer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Web Designer 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 Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Designer
Rank 434 406 416
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Web Designer 95 181 169
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.205% 0.310% 0.277%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.222% 0.336% 0.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 94 81
Average daily rate £250 £250 £250
90% offered a daily rate of more than £104 £153 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £228 £275
% change year-on-year
+9.76% -17.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 10
Average hourly rate £14.98 £33.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.62% +53.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £14.90 £14.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £83.25 £35.00 £44.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.98 £26.26 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-42.96% +16.68%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2112 2572 2930
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 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Web Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Web Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Web Designer
Daily Rate Trend

This 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

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Designer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Web Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Web Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

This 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

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Designer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 24 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 -46 81 £250 -
South East +8 31 £255 +22.89%
London -15 21 £238 -5.00%
Berkshire +18 17 £275 +37.50%
Surrey +20 9 £215 +48.27%
North West +17 9 £263 +87.50%
Scotland -1 9 £238 -5.00%
Slough -2 9 £275 +10.00%
South West +34 8 £170 -77.33%
Manchester +11 7 - -
Yorkshire +1 7 £250 +11.11%
Devon - 6 £200 -
Reading +13 5 £200 -34.42%
City of London +11 5 £213 -29.28%
Stirling - 5 £238 -
Exeter - 5 £200 -
East of England +4 4 £85 -71.66%
West Yorkshire +1 4 £250 +8.69%
Hertfordshire 0 4 £85 -76.55%
Leeds -4 4 £250 +81.81%
Hemel Hempstead - 4 £85 -
Guildford - 4 £213 -
East Sussex +11 3 - -
Wales +10 2 £315 -10.70%
South Yorkshire +4 2 £260 -
Staines +3 2 - -
South Wales +2 2 £315 -10.70%
Lancashire - 2 £263 -
Newton-le-Willows - 2 £263 -
Glasgow - 2 - -

Web Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 113 (63.48%) Photoshop
1 113 (63.48%) CSS
2 106 (59.55%) HTML
3 73 (41.01%) Adobe Illustrator
4 63 (35.39%) JavaScript
5 53 (29.78%) Web Design
6 42 (23.60%) HTML5
7 41 (23.03%) Adobe
8 39 (21.91%) jQuery
9 32 (17.98%) Dreamweaver
10 26 (14.61%) Marketing
11 25 (14.04%) Fireworks
12 24 (13.48%) E-Commerce
12 24 (13.48%) Flash
12 24 (13.48%) CSS3
13 15 (8.427%) Graphic Design
14 13 (7.303%) Web Development
15 12 (6.742%) XHTML
15 12 (6.742%) W3C
15 12 (6.742%) Mobile App
16 11 (6.180%) Intranet
16 11 (6.180%) .NET
16 11 (6.180%) SEO
16 11 (6.180%) CMS
16 11 (6.180%) Scrum
17 10 (5.618%) Retail
17 10 (5.618%) MS Office
17 10 (5.618%) Visualisation
18 9 (5.056%) Drupal
18 9 (5.056%) PHP

Web Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 113 (63.48%) CSS
2 106 (59.55%) HTML
3 42 (23.60%) HTML5
4 39 (21.91%) jQuery
5 24 (13.48%) Flash
5 24 (13.48%) CSS3
6 12 (6.742%) XHTML
7 11 (6.180%) .NET
8 8 (4.494%) Ajax
9 6 (3.371%) XML
10 4 (2.247%) Apache Flex
11 3 (1.685%) ASP.NET
11 3 (1.685%) LAMP
12 2 (1.124%) Sass
12 2 (1.124%) LESS
12 2 (1.124%) YUI
13 1 (0.562%) MooTools
13 1 (0.562%) WPF
13 1 (0.562%) Semantic HTML
13 1 (0.562%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 11 (6.180%) CMS
2 9 (5.056%) Drupal
3 4 (2.247%) Liferay
4 3 (1.685%) WordPress
5 2 (1.124%) LiveLink
5 2 (1.124%) Adobe CQ
5 2 (1.124%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.562%) Moodle
6 1 (0.562%) Elgg
6 1 (0.562%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.562%) Magento
6 1 (0.562%) concrete5
6 1 (0.562%) Apache
6 1 (0.562%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.562%) Joomla!
Applications
1 113 (63.48%) Photoshop
2 73 (41.01%) Adobe Illustrator
3 25 (14.04%) Fireworks
4 10 (5.618%) MS Office
5 8 (4.494%) MS PowerPoint
6 4 (2.247%) InDesign
7 1 (0.562%) Office 365
7 1 (0.562%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.562%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.685%) Google Analytics
1 3 (1.685%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.180%) Intranet
2 9 (5.056%) Internet
3 4 (2.247%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.124%) HTTP
5 1 (0.562%) 3G
5 1 (0.562%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.809%) MySQL
2 1 (0.562%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (0.562%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (0.562%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.562%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.562%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (17.98%) Dreamweaver
2 4 (2.247%) Subversion
3 2 (1.124%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.562%) Flash Builder
4 1 (0.562%) Selenium
4 1 (0.562%) Eclipse
General
1 26 (14.61%) Marketing
2 10 (5.618%) Retail
3 9 (5.056%) Finance
4 8 (4.494%) Advertising
4 8 (4.494%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.247%) Banking
6 3 (1.685%) Interactive Media
6 3 (1.685%) Publishing
6 3 (1.685%) Games
6 3 (1.685%) Automotive
7 2 (1.124%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.124%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.124%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.562%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.562%) Local Government
8 1 (0.562%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.427%) Graphic Design
2 12 (6.742%) W3C
2 12 (6.742%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.618%) Visualisation
4 5 (2.809%) Animation
4 5 (2.809%) Digital Media
5 3 (1.685%) Social Media
5 3 (1.685%) Social Network
5 3 (1.685%) VLE
6 2 (1.124%) Interactive TV
6 2 (1.124%) Online Games
6 2 (1.124%) iPhone
6 2 (1.124%) iPad
6 2 (1.124%) SaaS
7 1 (0.562%) Open Source
7 1 (0.562%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.562%) Video Editing
7 1 (0.562%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.562%) PDA
7 1 (0.562%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.371%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.809%) Windows
3 2 (1.124%) Windows 8
4 1 (0.562%) Android
4 1 (0.562%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.78%) Web Design
2 24 (13.48%) E-Commerce
3 13 (7.303%) Web Development
4 11 (6.180%) SEO
4 11 (6.180%) Scrum
5 9 (5.056%) Content Management
5 9 (5.056%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (4.494%) User Experience Design
6 8 (4.494%) Brand Management
7 7 (3.933%) Web Accessibility
8 6 (3.371%) Information Architecture
8 6 (3.371%) Usability Testing
9 5 (2.809%) Analytics
9 5 (2.809%) Migration
10 4 (2.247%) Kanban
10 4 (2.247%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (1.685%) Time Management
11 3 (1.685%) Digital Marketing
11 3 (1.685%) Enterprise Content Management
11 3 (1.685%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 63 (35.39%) JavaScript
2 9 (5.056%) PHP
3 6 (3.371%) ActionScript
4 5 (2.809%) VB.NET
4 5 (2.809%) SQL
4 5 (2.809%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.247%) ActionScript 3.0
6 3 (1.685%) Java
7 1 (0.562%) PHP5
7 1 (0.562%) C#
7 1 (0.562%) C++
7 1 (0.562%) VBScript
7 1 (0.562%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (2.247%) Degree
1 4 (2.247%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.124%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.685%) ISO 9001
1 3 (1.685%) WCAG
1 3 (1.685%) ISO 14001
Vendors
1 41 (23.03%) Adobe
2 7 (3.933%) Orchard
3 6 (3.371%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.809%) Apple
5 3 (1.685%) Google
6 2 (1.124%) webMethods
7 1 (0.562%) Business Objects
7 1 (0.562%) Oracle
7 1 (0.562%) Telerik
7 1 (0.562%) Omniture
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