West Midlands Web Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Hastings Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Ruislip Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Tring Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	44
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	73	106
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.103 %	0.107 %
As % of the category below	2.599 %	3.024 %
Daily rates quoted	23	19
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£273
Average daily rate	£314	£299
% change on same period last year	+4.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£275	£275
% change on same period last year	-0.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£24.43
Average hourly rate	£29.25	£26.84
% change on same period last year	+8.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£29.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.11	£28.59
% change on same period last year	-12.18 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	2809	3505
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.955 %	3.542 %
Daily rates quoted	739	797
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£322
Average daily rate	£343	£345
% change on same period last year	-0.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	335	521
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.39	£20.70
Average hourly rate	£21.72	£22.40
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.04	£24.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Web Developer England

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 Developer
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 10 October 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.

Location	Rank 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
Staffordshire	+5	18	£393	-
Coventry	+6	12	£221	-32.05 %
Birmingham	+4	9	£225	-27.41 %
Worcestershire	+5	5	£275	-
Shropshire	0	5	-	-
Herefordshire	-8	4	-	-
Warwickshire	+2	4	-	-
Dudley	0	2	£240	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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.

1 117 (65.00 %) .NET 2 87 (48.33 %) SQL Server 3 68 (37.78 %) ASP.NET 3 68 (37.78 %) CSS 4 57 (31.67 %) C# 5 51 (28.33 %) JavaScript 6 48 (26.67 %) XHTML 7 47 (26.11 %) VB.NET 7 47 (26.11 %) Web Development 8 46 (25.56 %) XML 9 42 (23.33 %) HTML 10 40 (22.22 %) SQL 11 38 (21.11 %) SQL Server 2005 12 32 (17.78 %) XSL 13 31 (17.22 %) WebServices

14 30 (16.67 %) OO 15 27 (15.00 %) MySQL 15 27 (15.00 %) PHP 15 27 (15.00 %) Agile Software Development 16 24 (13.33 %) W3C 17 23 (12.78 %) SQL Server 2000 17 23 (12.78 %) Microsoft 17 23 (12.78 %) AJAX 17 23 (12.78 %) ASP.NET 2.0 18 22 (12.22 %) OOP 18 22 (12.22 %) SOAP 19 20 (11.11 %) Web Design 19 20 (11.11 %) ASP 19 20 (11.11 %) Flash 20 18 (10.00 %) Content Management

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 1 117 (65.00 %) .NET 2 68 (37.78 %) ASP.NET 2 68 (37.78 %) CSS 3 48 (26.67 %) XHTML 4 46 (25.56 %) XML 5 42 (23.33 %) HTML 6 32 (17.78 %) XSL 7 31 (17.22 %) WebServices 8 23 (12.78 %) AJAX 8 23 (12.78 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 22 (12.22 %) SOAP 10 20 (11.11 %) ASP 11 11 (6.111 %) .NET Framework 12 4 (2.222 %) XSLT 13 3 (1.667 %) LAMP 13 3 (1.667 %) Adobe Flex 14 2 (1.111 %) Silverlight 14 2 (1.111 %) Velocity 14 2 (1.111 %) Ruby on Rails 14 2 (1.111 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library	Application Platforms 1 12 (6.667 %) CMS 2 10 (5.556 %) SharePoint 3 8 (4.444 %) Apache 4 6 (3.333 %) ColdFusion 5 5 (2.778 %) IIS 6 4 (2.222 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 2 (1.111 %) WebLogic 8 1 (0.556 %) ArcIMS 8 1 (0.556 %) LiveLink 8 1 (0.556 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 16 (8.889 %) MS Excel 2 13 (7.222 %) Photoshop 3 4 (2.222 %) Fireworks 4 1 (0.556 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 1 (0.556 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.556 %) InfoPath 4 1 (0.556 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 13 (7.222 %) Internet 2 7 (3.889 %) HTTP 3 5 (2.778 %) Intranet 4 4 (2.222 %) FTP 5 1 (0.556 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (0.556 %) SSL 5 1 (0.556 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 87 (48.33 %) SQL Server 2 38 (21.11 %) SQL Server 2005 3 27 (15.00 %) MySQL 4 23 (12.78 %) SQL Server 2000 5 8 (4.444 %) OLTP 6 3 (1.667 %) GIS 7 1 (0.556 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (0.556 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (0.556 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 20 (11.11 %) Flash 2 15 (8.333 %) Dreamweaver 3 7 (3.889 %) Subversion 3 7 (3.889 %) Paros 3 7 (3.889 %) Fiddler 4 5 (2.778 %) Visual Studio 5 2 (1.111 %) Zend Studio 5 2 (1.111 %) Ant 5 2 (1.111 %) JUnit 6 1 (0.556 %) IntelliJ
General 1 12 (6.667 %) Health 2 7 (3.889 %) Auditing 3 4 (2.222 %) Government 4 3 (1.667 %) Graphic Design 4 3 (1.667 %) Pharmaceutical 4 3 (1.667 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (1.667 %) Finance 5 1 (0.556 %) Automotive 5 1 (0.556 %) Construction 5 1 (0.556 %) Education 5 1 (0.556 %) Banking 5 1 (0.556 %) Retail 5 1 (0.556 %) Multimedia 5 1 (0.556 %) Insurance 5 1 (0.556 %) Music 5 1 (0.556 %) Back Office	Miscellaneous 1 24 (13.33 %) W3C 2 14 (7.778 %) NHS 3 13 (7.222 %) Web 2.0 4 6 (3.333 %) E-Learning 5 3 (1.667 %) N-Tier 6 2 (1.111 %) AS400 7 1 (0.556 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 4 (2.222 %) Linux 2 3 (1.667 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 47 (26.11 %) Web Development 2 30 (16.67 %) OO 3 27 (15.00 %) Agile Software Development 4 22 (12.22 %) OOP 5 20 (11.11 %) Web Design 6 18 (10.00 %) Content Management 7 16 (8.889 %) UML 8 11 (6.111 %) E-Commerce 9 9 (5.000 %) Migration 9 9 (5.000 %) Scrum 10 7 (3.889 %) Information Security 10 7 (3.889 %) RAD 11 6 (3.333 %) TDD 12 3 (1.667 %) Information Management 12 3 (1.667 %) OOD 12 3 (1.667 %) Enterprise Architecture 13 2 (1.111 %) PRINCE2 14 1 (0.556 %) E-business 14 1 (0.556 %) Validation 14 1 (0.556 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 57 (31.67 %) C# 2 51 (28.33 %) JavaScript 3 47 (26.11 %) VB.NET 4 40 (22.22 %) SQL 5 27 (15.00 %) PHP 6 15 (8.333 %) VB 7 13 (7.222 %) Transact-SQL 8 10 (5.556 %) ActionScript 9 7 (3.889 %) VB6 10 5 (2.778 %) PHP5 11 2 (1.111 %) Ruby 11 2 (1.111 %) VBA 11 2 (1.111 %) DHTML 11 2 (1.111 %) Java 12 1 (0.556 %) C++ 12 1 (0.556 %) VBScript 12 1 (0.556 %) Perl 12 1 (0.556 %) XQuery 12 1 (0.556 %) XPath 12 1 (0.556 %) PHP4	Qualifications 1 1 (0.556 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.778 %) WAI 2 1 (0.556 %) QA 2 1 (0.556 %) WCAG	Vendors 1 23 (12.78 %) Microsoft 2 9 (5.000 %) Adobe 3 3 (1.667 %) Oracle 4 2 (1.111 %) Zend 5 1 (0.556 %) SAP 5 1 (0.556 %) Macromedia 5 1 (0.556 %) RedDot