Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Web Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the North West region.

 Web Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank232239
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1Up+17
Matching permanent IT job ads408435569
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West7.535 %7.618 %4.521 %
As % of the Job Titles category8.030 %8.105 %4.795 %
Salaries quoted372372476
Average salary£29,000£27,500£27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.450 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,000£22,000£21,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£34,900£35,000£35,000
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£30,000£30,000
North West IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5081536711866
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West93.83 %93.99 %94.29 %
Salaries quoted4449461210195
Average salary£33,000£32,500£33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.530 %-2.980 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,500£21,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£57,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Web Developer EnglandWeb Developer
England

Web Developer
Demand Trend

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

North West Web Developer Demand Trend

Web Developer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Web Developer across the North West region.

North West Web Developer Salary Trend

Web Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Web Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

North West Web Developer Salary Histogram

Web Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
ManchesterUp+1234£30,000+5.26 %
CheshireUp+23107£30,000+20.00 %
LancashireDown-256£27,500-3.50 %
MerseysideDown-204£35,000+25.00 %
CumbriaUp+33£35,000+29.62 %
Web Developer EnglandWeb Developer
England

Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the North West 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 IT job ads sampled with Web Developer in their job title.

1584 (65.69 %).NET
2506 (56.92 %)ASP.NET
3497 (55.91 %)JavaScript
4477 (53.66 %)CSS
5430 (48.37 %)SQL Server
6420 (47.24 %)C#
7396 (44.54 %)HTML
8275 (30.93 %)SQL
9270 (30.37 %)PHP
10263 (29.58 %)XML
11253 (28.46 %)XHTML
12232 (26.10 %)Web Development
13225 (25.31 %)AJAX
14215 (24.18 %)MySQL
15193 (21.71 %)E-Commerce
16175 (19.69 %)VB.NET
17143 (16.09 %)ASP
18136 (15.30 %)Web Services
19118 (13.27 %)OO
20112 (12.60 %)jQuery
21100 (11.25 %)Microsoft
2297 (10.91 %)Linux
2297 (10.91 %)Degree
2395 (10.69 %)Marketing
2395 (10.69 %)MVC
2488 (9.899 %)Perl
2586 (9.674 %)XSLT
2681 (9.111 %)Photoshop
2777 (8.661 %)SQL Server 2005
2876 (8.549 %)WCF

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the North West 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 IT job ads sampled with Web Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

North West IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1584 (65.69 %).NET
2506 (56.92 %)ASP.NET
3477 (53.66 %)CSS
4396 (44.54 %)HTML
5263 (29.58 %)XML
6253 (28.46 %)XHTML
7225 (25.31 %)AJAX
8143 (16.09 %)ASP
9136 (15.30 %)Web Services
10112 (12.60 %)jQuery
1186 (9.674 %)XSLT
1276 (8.549 %)WCF
1368 (7.649 %)LINQ
1461 (6.862 %)NHibernate
1557 (6.412 %)Ruby on Rails
1654 (6.074 %)DHTML
1753 (5.962 %)Flash
1837 (4.162 %).NET Framework
1929 (3.262 %)LAMP
2028 (3.150 %)JSP
North West IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
171 (7.987 %)CMS
237 (4.162 %)IIS
330 (3.375 %)Apache
415 (1.687 %)ColdFusion
415 (1.687 %)Magento
514 (1.575 %)SharePoint
612 (1.350 %)Umbraco
77 (0.787 %)ColdFusion MX
84 (0.450 %)EPiServer
84 (0.450 %)WordPress
84 (0.450 %)SugarCRM
84 (0.450 %)SharePoint Server 2007
84 (0.450 %)Drupal
93 (0.337 %)ExpressionEngine
102 (0.225 %)SharePoint Portal Server
102 (0.225 %)GlassFish
102 (0.225 %)WebLogic
102 (0.225 %)Lotus Notes
102 (0.225 %)Lotus Domino
111 (0.112 %)BizTalk Server
North West IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
181 (9.111 %)Photoshop
258 (6.524 %)MS Excel
336 (4.049 %)Fireworks
417 (1.912 %)Adobe Illustrator
58 (0.900 %)MS Visio
62 (0.225 %)InDesign
62 (0.225 %)MS Office
62 (0.225 %)CA Clarity
71 (0.112 %)InfoPath
71 (0.112 %)Acrobat
71 (0.112 %)QuarkXPress
North West IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (1.125 %)Summit
23 (0.337 %)Navision
North West IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
163 (7.087 %)Internet
242 (4.724 %)Intranet
312 (1.350 %)Extranet
49 (1.012 %)CTI
53 (0.337 %)TCP/IP
53 (0.337 %)SAN
61 (0.112 %)FTP
North West IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1430 (48.37 %)SQL Server
2215 (24.18 %)MySQL
377 (8.661 %)SQL Server 2005
427 (3.037 %)SQL Server 2008
427 (3.037 %)SQL Server 2000
516 (1.800 %)PostgreSQL
614 (1.575 %)SQL Server Integration Services
711 (1.237 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
86 (0.675 %)RDBMS
93 (0.337 %)OLTP
93 (0.337 %)Datawarehouse
93 (0.337 %)Firebird
93 (0.337 %)InterBase
101 (0.112 %)ETL
101 (0.112 %)Crystal Reports
101 (0.112 %)Oracle 10g
North West IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
157 (6.412 %)Visual Studio
241 (4.612 %)Subversion
325 (2.812 %)Dreamweaver
45 (0.562 %)NUnit
45 (0.562 %)Zend Studio
54 (0.450 %)Eclipse
63 (0.337 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
72 (0.225 %)Git (software)
72 (0.225 %)Maven
81 (0.112 %)FrontPage
81 (0.112 %)VSS/SourceSafe
North West IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
195 (10.69 %)Marketing
252 (5.849 %)Retail
331 (3.487 %)Pensions
331 (3.487 %)Finance
421 (2.362 %)Social Media
520 (2.250 %)Health
618 (2.025 %)Graphic Design
716 (1.800 %)Telecoms
813 (1.462 %)Multimedia
911 (1.237 %)Insurance
911 (1.237 %)Animation
107 (0.787 %)Legal
107 (0.787 %)Advertising
116 (0.675 %)Banking
125 (0.562 %)Education
133 (0.337 %)Government
142 (0.225 %)Pharmaceutical
142 (0.225 %)Music
151 (0.112 %)Local Government
151 (0.112 %)Back Office
North West IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
136 (4.049 %)W3C
231 (3.487 %)N-Tier
317 (1.912 %)Web 2.0
414 (1.575 %)Computer Science
513 (1.462 %)Open Source
611 (1.237 %)iPhone
710 (1.125 %)E-Learning
88 (0.900 %)BBC
88 (0.900 %)Multithreading
96 (0.675 %)PDA
103 (0.337 %)Statistics
103 (0.337 %)Client/Server
112 (0.225 %)Blackberry
112 (0.225 %)Blog
112 (0.225 %)Social Network
112 (0.225 %)RIA
112 (0.225 %)Google App Engine
121 (0.112 %)Wiki
121 (0.112 %)Photography
121 (0.112 %)Data Protection Act
North West IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
197 (10.91 %)Linux
248 (5.399 %)Windows
333 (3.712 %)UNIX
410 (1.125 %)Windows Server 2008
59 (1.012 %)Windows Server 2003
62 (0.225 %)Windows Mobile
62 (0.225 %)Android
71 (0.112 %)Debian
71 (0.112 %)Ubuntu
North West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1232 (26.10 %)Web Development
2193 (21.71 %)E-Commerce
3118 (13.27 %)OO
495 (10.69 %)MVC
551 (5.737 %)SEO
646 (5.174 %)CRM
744 (4.949 %)Web Design
842 (4.724 %)Content Management
937 (4.162 %)Scrum
1034 (3.825 %)OOA/OOD
1034 (3.825 %)Unit Testing
1128 (3.150 %)Online Marketing
1227 (3.037 %)Project Management
1320 (2.250 %)OOP
1416 (1.800 %)Email Marketing
1514 (1.575 %)Agile Software Development
1611 (1.237 %)Migration
1611 (1.237 %)PRINCE2
179 (1.012 %)ERP
179 (1.012 %)SOA
North West IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1497 (55.91 %)JavaScript
2420 (47.24 %)C#
3275 (30.93 %)SQL
4270 (30.37 %)PHP
5175 (19.69 %)VB.NET
688 (9.899 %)Perl
775 (8.436 %)T-SQL
860 (6.749 %)Ruby
951 (5.737 %)PHP5
1044 (4.949 %)VB
1142 (4.724 %)Java
1231 (3.487 %)PHP4
1320 (2.250 %)VBScript
1417 (1.912 %)C
1511 (1.237 %)ActionScript
165 (0.562 %)Python
174 (0.450 %)ActionScript 3.0
174 (0.450 %)C++
174 (0.450 %)VB6
182 (0.225 %)ActionScript 2.0
North West IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
197 (10.91 %)Degree
211 (1.237 %)PRINCE2 Certification
32 (0.225 %)Sun Certification
North West IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
110 (1.125 %)QA
24 (0.450 %)WAI
33 (0.337 %)ISO9001
42 (0.225 %)PCI DSS
North West IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (0.337 %)Active Directory
21 (0.112 %)ISA Server
21 (0.112 %)Squid
21 (0.112 %)VMware Infrastructure
North West IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1100 (11.25 %)Microsoft
230 (3.375 %)Oracle
316 (1.800 %)Adobe
413 (1.462 %)Sybase
59 (1.012 %)Alcatel
68 (0.900 %)Zend
76 (0.675 %)Google
85 (0.562 %)Interwoven
94 (0.450 %)JBoss
102 (0.225 %)Tridion
102 (0.225 %)Lotus
102 (0.225 %)Quark
111 (0.112 %)Accenture
111 (0.112 %)VMware
111 (0.112 %)AppSense
111 (0.112 %)Yahoo!
111 (0.112 %)Cisco
111 (0.112 %)IBM
111 (0.112 %)SAP
111 (0.112 %)HP