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The table looks at the demand for the Web 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 3 July 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

LinkWeb Developer
Location
3 months to
3 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank10170
Rank change on the same period last yearDown-31
Matching contract IT job ads5401605
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.572 %2.085 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.770 %2.301 %
Daily rates quoted206488
Average daily rate£240£300
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£160£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£425
UK excluding London average daily rate£214£300
% change on same period last year-28.75 %
Hourly rates quoted58132
Average hourly rate£24.40£26.50
Average hourly rate % change on the same period last year-7.920 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.70£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.70£25.00
% change on same period last year-5.200 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3051169739
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK88.82 %90.58 %
Daily rates quoted1179222223
Average daily rate£375£400
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£205£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350
% change on same period last year-7.140 %
Hourly rates quoted23755970
Average hourly rate£19.50£20.00
Average hourly rate % change on the same period last year-2.500 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.25£11.25
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.50£20.00
% change on same period last year-2.500 %

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.

Web Developer
Demand Trend

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

Web Developer Demand Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

Web Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

Web Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

Web Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-31500£238-20.83 %
LondonDown-68164£323+7.50 %
South EastUp+1998£225-25.00 %
North WestUp+1759£151-44.25 %
East of EnglandUp+2053£216-27.91 %
South WestUp+1342£205-34.92 %
City of LondonDown-3542£413+17.85 %
ManchesterUp+2139£125-34.21 %
West MidlandsUp+538£183-42.29 %
BerkshireUp+2236£250-16.66 %
CambridgeshireUp+3028£220-26.66 %
ScotlandUp+2922£208-33.60 %
HampshireUp+3820£250-23.07 %
CambridgeUp+2719£220-26.66 %
SurreyUp+3018£220-20.00 %
ReadingUp+1618£318+6.00 %
YorkshireDown-218£200-16.66 %
StaffordshireUp+317£175-56.25 %
EssexUp+2115£210-21.86 %
North EastUp+215£250+17.64 %
East MidlandsUp+2512£218-10.76 %
OxfordshireUp+1011£175-38.59 %
Stoke-on-TrentUp+511--
WalesUp+2010£250-
BristolDown-1610£205-48.75 %
WiltshireUp+369£300-
South WalesUp+159£250-
BirminghamUp+69--
EdinburghUp+19£208-33.60 %
Tyne and WearDown-39£250+17.64 %

Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1728 (57.10 %)CSS
2661 (51.84 %)JavaScript
3613 (48.08 %)HTML
4518 (40.63 %).NET
5370 (29.02 %)PHP
5370 (29.02 %)XHTML
6349 (27.37 %)ASP.NET
7341 (26.75 %)AJAX
8321 (25.18 %)C#
9308 (24.16 %)XML
10283 (22.20 %)SQL Server
11253 (19.84 %)Web Development
12242 (18.98 %)MySQL
13237 (18.59 %)SQL
14152 (11.92 %)Flash
15144 (11.29 %)Java
16142 (11.14 %)ASP
16142 (11.14 %)CMS
17121 (9.490 %)VB.NET
18118 (9.255 %)Photoshop
18118 (9.255 %)Content Management
19117 (9.176 %)WebServices
20114 (8.941 %)E-Commerce
21113 (8.863 %)SQL Server 2005
22106 (8.314 %)W3C
23100 (7.843 %)OO
2494 (7.373 %)Linux
2591 (7.137 %)jQuery
2681 (6.353 %)XSLT
2778 (6.118 %)Visual Studio

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1728 (57.10 %)CSS
2613 (48.08 %)HTML
3518 (40.63 %).NET
4370 (29.02 %)XHTML
5349 (27.37 %)ASP.NET
6341 (26.75 %)AJAX
7308 (24.16 %)XML
8152 (11.92 %)Flash
9142 (11.14 %)ASP
10117 (9.176 %)WebServices
1191 (7.137 %)jQuery
1281 (6.353 %)XSLT
1374 (5.804 %)JSP
1462 (4.863 %)LAMP
1554 (4.235 %)DHTML
1647 (3.686 %)J2EE
1743 (3.373 %).NET Framework
1840 (3.137 %)SOAP
1934 (2.667 %)Spring
2029 (2.275 %)MVC
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1142 (11.14 %)CMS
272 (5.647 %)Apache
367 (5.255 %)IIS
451 (4.000 %)Drupal
545 (3.529 %)Joomla!
637 (2.902 %)SharePoint
727 (2.118 %)WordPress
820 (1.569 %)Tomcat
919 (1.490 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1012 (0.941 %)WebLogic
1111 (0.863 %)ColdFusion
1111 (0.863 %)BizTalk Server
128 (0.627 %)Sitecore CMS
137 (0.549 %)Immediacy CMS
146 (0.471 %)Commerce Server
155 (0.392 %)Zope
155 (0.392 %)EPiServer
164 (0.314 %)Morello
164 (0.314 %)Community Server
164 (0.314 %)SAP Portal
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1118 (9.255 %)Photoshop
220 (1.569 %)Adobe Illustrator
317 (1.333 %)MS Excel
416 (1.255 %)Fireworks
510 (0.784 %)MS Office
66 (0.471 %)MS Visio
75 (0.392 %)FreeHand
83 (0.235 %)MS PowerPoint
92 (0.157 %)InfoPath
92 (0.157 %)Paint Shop Pro
101 (0.078 %)3ds Max
101 (0.078 %)ImageReady
101 (0.078 %)MS Project
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
15 (0.392 %)SAP Oil and Gas
23 (0.235 %)WebTrends
32 (0.157 %)Oracle EBS
41 (0.078 %)Summit
41 (0.078 %)Pivotal CRM
41 (0.078 %)Dynamics CRM
41 (0.078 %)Google Analytics
41 (0.078 %)SAP HR
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
177 (6.039 %)Internet
257 (4.471 %)Intranet
36 (0.471 %)Extranet
36 (0.471 %)FTP
36 (0.471 %)TCP/IP
36 (0.471 %)SSL
44 (0.314 %)HTTP
44 (0.314 %)Broadband
53 (0.235 %)SSH
53 (0.235 %)LDAP
61 (0.078 %)BIG-IP
61 (0.078 %)SMS
61 (0.078 %)VoIP
61 (0.078 %)CTI
61 (0.078 %)DNS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1283 (22.20 %)SQL Server
2242 (18.98 %)MySQL
3113 (8.863 %)SQL Server 2005
464 (5.020 %)SQL Server 2000
512 (0.941 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
610 (0.784 %)Firebird
610 (0.784 %)Crystal Reports
78 (0.627 %)SQL Server 2008
87 (0.549 %)InterBase
87 (0.549 %)Oracle 10g
95 (0.392 %)RDBMS
95 (0.392 %)PostgreSQL
104 (0.314 %)Oracle Reports
104 (0.314 %)Datawarehouse
113 (0.235 %)SQL Server Integration Services
122 (0.157 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
122 (0.157 %)DTS
122 (0.157 %)Data Mining
122 (0.157 %)ETL
122 (0.157 %)Oracle 8/8i
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
178 (6.118 %)Visual Studio
276 (5.961 %)Dreamweaver
330 (2.353 %)Subversion
414 (1.098 %)Selenium
513 (1.020 %)Eclipse
612 (0.941 %)Ant
79 (0.706 %)VSS/SourceSafe
85 (0.392 %)JUnit
85 (0.392 %)Team Foundation Server
94 (0.314 %)Visual Studio Team System
103 (0.235 %)JSUnit
103 (0.235 %)Git (software)
103 (0.235 %)FrontPage
103 (0.235 %)ClearQuest
103 (0.235 %)InterDev
103 (0.235 %)NUnit
112 (0.157 %)RequisitePro
112 (0.157 %)ClearCase
112 (0.157 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
112 (0.157 %)Rational Rose
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
174 (5.804 %)Finance
246 (3.608 %)Marketing
344 (3.451 %)Banking
439 (3.059 %)Government
534 (2.667 %)Publishing
627 (2.118 %)Graphic Design
723 (1.804 %)Investment Banking
821 (1.647 %)Retail
919 (1.490 %)Games
1018 (1.412 %)Education
1116 (1.255 %)Telecoms
1213 (1.020 %)Financial Institution
1312 (0.941 %)Animation
1410 (0.784 %)Health
1410 (0.784 %)Law
158 (0.627 %)Local Government
166 (0.471 %)Insurance
175 (0.392 %)Multimedia
175 (0.392 %)Construction
175 (0.392 %)Online Games
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1106 (8.314 %)W3C
234 (2.667 %)Web 2.0
325 (1.961 %)NHS
420 (1.569 %)Derivative
516 (1.255 %)Computer Science
615 (1.176 %)Fixed Income
714 (1.098 %)Interest Rate Derivative
813 (1.020 %)E-Learning
911 (0.863 %)Blog
1010 (0.784 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
117 (0.549 %)N-Tier
117 (0.549 %)RIA
125 (0.392 %)Social Network
125 (0.392 %)Spread Betting
134 (0.314 %)BBC
143 (0.235 %)Streaming Video
143 (0.235 %)IPTV
143 (0.235 %)Wiki
143 (0.235 %)iPhone
143 (0.235 %)Learning Management System
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
194 (7.373 %)Linux
239 (3.059 %)Windows
338 (2.980 %)UNIX
421 (1.647 %)Red Hat Linux
57 (0.549 %)Windows Server 2003
64 (0.314 %)Solaris
73 (0.235 %)SUSE
73 (0.235 %)Fedora
73 (0.235 %)Windows XP
82 (0.157 %)Mac OS X
82 (0.157 %)Windows Mobile
82 (0.157 %)Windows 2000
91 (0.078 %)Ubuntu
91 (0.078 %)Windows 2000 Server
91 (0.078 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1253 (19.84 %)Web Development
2118 (9.255 %)Content Management
3114 (8.941 %)E-Commerce
4100 (7.843 %)OO
559 (4.627 %)Agile Software Development
657 (4.471 %)Web Design
740 (3.137 %)TDD
740 (3.137 %)Unit Testing
836 (2.824 %)SEO
929 (2.275 %)UML
1024 (1.882 %)SOA
1024 (1.882 %)Scrum
1122 (1.725 %)OOP
1122 (1.725 %)Web Accessibility
1219 (1.490 %)Project Management
1316 (1.255 %)Migration
1411 (0.863 %)Workflow
1411 (0.863 %)e-GIF
1411 (0.863 %)Scalability Testing
1510 (0.784 %)CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1661 (51.84 %)JavaScript
2370 (29.02 %)PHP
3321 (25.18 %)C#
4237 (18.59 %)SQL
5144 (11.29 %)Java
6121 (9.490 %)VB.NET
762 (4.863 %)PHP5
854 (4.235 %)Perl
950 (3.922 %)VB
1044 (3.451 %)ActionScript
1131 (2.431 %)T-SQL
1131 (2.431 %)Python
1229 (2.275 %)VBScript
1320 (1.569 %)Ruby
1417 (1.333 %)C
1512 (0.941 %)VB6
1610 (0.784 %)PL/SQL
179 (0.706 %)C++
187 (0.549 %)ABAP
196 (0.471 %)PHP4
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
153 (4.157 %)Degree
227 (2.118 %)Security Cleared
312 (0.941 %)SC Cleared
44 (0.314 %)CTC Cleared
53 (0.235 %)Microsoft Certification
62 (0.157 %)Sun Certification
62 (0.157 %)HND
62 (0.157 %)PhD
62 (0.157 %)BC Cleared
71 (0.078 %)MCP
71 (0.078 %)Postgraduate
71 (0.078 %)SCJP
71 (0.078 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
18 (0.627 %)WCAG
18 (0.627 %)WAI
23 (0.235 %)QA
23 (0.235 %)SLA
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
12 (0.157 %)AquaLogic
21 (0.078 %)Squid
21 (0.078 %)VMware Infrastructure
21 (0.078 %)Active Directory
21 (0.078 %)MetaFrame
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
171 (5.569 %)Microsoft
270 (5.490 %)Oracle
347 (3.686 %)Adobe
421 (1.647 %)Red Hat
511 (0.863 %)Zend
69 (0.706 %)SAP
69 (0.706 %)RedDot
78 (0.627 %)Sitecore
87 (0.549 %)Omniture
96 (0.471 %)JBoss
105 (0.392 %)Google
114 (0.314 %)Macromedia
114 (0.314 %)Interwoven
114 (0.314 %)Stellent
114 (0.314 %)telerik
114 (0.314 %)Alterian
114 (0.314 %)Caplin
114 (0.314 %)Vignette
123 (0.235 %)Tridion
123 (0.235 %)Lotus