Web Developer Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. 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 20 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 advertised for the West Midlands region.

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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Developer
Rank 48 41 56
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 49 70 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 2.948% 3.110% 1.984%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.186% 3.351% 2.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 36 21
Average daily rate £260 £295 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.86% -15.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
Average hourly rate £24.75 £17.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+41.42% +34.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.93 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+67.22% -27.82%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1538 2089 1727
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.54% 92.80% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 956 785
Average daily rate £325 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 172 146
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.49 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.30% -8.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.00 £37.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Web Developer
England

Web Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Web Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web Developer across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web Developer across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Developer
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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
Worcestershire -8 9 £290 -
Warwickshire -5 7 £225 -30.76%
Staffordshire +4 6 £330 +1.53%
Birmingham -3 6 £250 -
Wolverhampton +4 5 £275 +100.00%
Coventry +5 4 £275 -
Herefordshire 0 3 £255 +13.33%
Solihull - 1 £275 -
Walsall - 1 - -
Web Developer
England

Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

1 86 (75.44%) CSS
2 78 (68.42%) JavaScript
3 60 (52.63%) .NET
4 59 (51.75%) jQuery
5 57 (50.00%) HTML
6 54 (47.37%) ASP.NET
7 43 (37.72%) SQL
8 41 (35.96%) C#
9 38 (33.33%) SQL Server
10 37 (32.46%) HTML5
11 36 (31.58%) CSS3
12 31 (27.19%) CMS
13 30 (26.32%) VB.NET
14 28 (24.56%) XML
14 28 (24.56%) XHTML
15 26 (22.81%) SEO
16 25 (21.93%) Ajax
17 24 (21.05%) XSLT
18 23 (20.18%) E-Commerce
18 23 (20.18%) N-Tier
19 20 (17.54%) Web Development
20 19 (16.67%) Java
21 18 (15.79%) Unit Testing
22 17 (14.91%) Web Application Development
22 17 (14.91%) SOA
22 17 (14.91%) TDD
23 16 (14.04%) Degree
24 15 (13.16%) OO
25 13 (11.40%) J2EE
26 12 (10.53%) MVC

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

Application Development
1 86 (75.44%) CSS
2 60 (52.63%) .NET
3 59 (51.75%) jQuery
4 57 (50.00%) HTML
5 54 (47.37%) ASP.NET
6 37 (32.46%) HTML5
7 36 (31.58%) CSS3
8 28 (24.56%) XML
8 28 (24.56%) XHTML
9 25 (21.93%) Ajax
10 24 (21.05%) XSLT
11 13 (11.40%) J2EE
12 11 (9.649%) .NET Framework
12 11 (9.649%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (8.772%) Spring
13 10 (8.772%) JSP
14 9 (7.895%) ASP
14 9 (7.895%) Web Services
15 6 (5.263%) DHTML
15 6 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 31 (27.19%) CMS
2 6 (5.263%) Apache
2 6 (5.263%) Tomcat
3 5 (4.386%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.386%) WordPress
3 5 (4.386%) Joomla!
3 5 (4.386%) Adobe CQ
4 4 (3.509%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (2.632%) IIS
6 1 (0.877%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.877%) SAP Portal
6 1 (0.877%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.877%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.877%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.877%) MQSeries
Applications
1 11 (9.649%) Photoshop
2 5 (4.386%) MS Excel
3 3 (2.632%) MS Office
4 1 (0.877%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.877%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.772%) Internet
2 3 (2.632%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (4.386%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (3.509%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (2.632%) MySQL
5 3 (2.632%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.754%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.754%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.754%) DTS
6 2 (1.754%) OLTP
7 1 (0.877%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (7.018%) Subversion
1 8 (7.018%) Visual Studio
2 5 (4.386%) Eclipse
2 5 (4.386%) Ant
2 5 (4.386%) Maven
3 4 (3.509%) JIRA
4 2 (1.754%) Mercurial
General
1 7 (6.140%) Marketing
2 5 (4.386%) Games
3 3 (2.632%) Automotive
4 1 (0.877%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.877%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.18%) N-Tier
2 5 (4.386%) W3C
2 5 (4.386%) Open Source
3 4 (3.509%) NHS
4 3 (2.632%) WURFL
4 3 (2.632%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.877%) VLE
5 1 (0.877%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.877%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (0.877%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.877%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.877%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.895%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.509%) Windows
3 3 (2.632%) Linux
3 3 (2.632%) Windows Mobile
3 3 (2.632%) Android
3 3 (2.632%) BlackBerry OS
3 3 (2.632%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (22.81%) SEO
2 23 (20.18%) E-Commerce
3 20 (17.54%) Web Development
4 18 (15.79%) Unit Testing
5 17 (14.91%) SOA
5 17 (14.91%) TDD
5 17 (14.91%) Web Application Development
6 15 (13.16%) OO
7 12 (10.53%) MVC
8 10 (8.772%) Content Management
9 7 (6.140%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (4.386%) Web Accessibility
11 4 (3.509%) Document Management
11 4 (3.509%) UML
12 3 (2.632%) PRINCE2
12 3 (2.632%) OOD
12 3 (2.632%) Release Management
12 3 (2.632%) Time Management
12 3 (2.632%) Waterfall
13 2 (1.754%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 78 (68.42%) JavaScript
2 43 (37.72%) SQL
3 41 (35.96%) C#
4 30 (26.32%) VB.NET
5 19 (16.67%) Java
6 9 (7.895%) PHP
7 7 (6.140%) T-SQL
8 6 (5.263%) VB
9 5 (4.386%) VBScript
10 4 (3.509%) PHP5
11 1 (0.877%) ABAP
11 1 (0.877%) J#
11 1 (0.877%) VB6
11 1 (0.877%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (14.04%) Degree
2 1 (0.877%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.018%) QA
2 2 (1.754%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.877%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (7.895%) Adobe
1 9 (7.895%) Facebook
2 7 (6.140%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.509%) Alterian
3 4 (3.509%) Sitecore
3 4 (3.509%) AccuRev
4 3 (2.632%) Oracle
4 3 (2.632%) Informatica
4 3 (2.632%) webMethods
5 1 (0.877%) FatWire
5 1 (0.877%) VMware
5 1 (0.877%) Apple
5 1 (0.877%) Sybase
5 1 (0.877%) SAP
5 1 (0.877%) Macromedia
5 1 (0.877%) Google
5 1 (0.877%) Zend
Web Developer - MVC - West Midlands
West Midlands
These will all be web based - some standard ASP.NET Web forms and some will be written in MVC so MVC is a desirable skill but not essential.
Real Staffing
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Front End Web Developer - HTML5/CCS3
West Midlands
For the role applicants should have an excellent knowledge and extensive commercial experience of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and flash... Additional desirable skills which could make you stand out...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 15 May 2013
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