The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Aberdeen 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 18 25 25
Rank change year-on-year
+7 0
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 7 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 5.000% 1.026% 1.630%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.88% 8.000% 7.317%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £305
% change year-on-year
- -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
32 25 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 22.86% 12.82% 22.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 16
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £173 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £371 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
Average hourly rate £36.00 - £22.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.14 - £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.20 - £32.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
JavaScript
Scotland

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Aberdeen JavaScript Jobs Demand Trend

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JavaScript across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing JavaScript also 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 that cited JavaScript.

1 19 (90.48%) CSS
2 15 (71.43%) HTML
3 14 (66.67%) SharePoint
3 14 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
4 13 (61.90%) Document Management
4 13 (61.90%) C#
4 13 (61.90%) Intranet
5 12 (57.14%) XML
6 11 (52.38%) Web Services
6 11 (52.38%) .NET
6 11 (52.38%) jQuery
7 9 (42.86%) OOP
8 8 (38.10%) OO
8 8 (38.10%) Lotus Notes
8 8 (38.10%) XSLT
8 8 (38.10%) Lotus
8 8 (38.10%) CAML
9 7 (33.33%) Kindle
9 7 (33.33%) Finance
9 7 (33.33%) ISO 9001
10 5 (23.81%) Windows
11 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
11 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
11 4 (19.05%) Oracle 10g
11 4 (19.05%) Citrix
11 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (19.05%) Internet
11 4 (19.05%) Apache
11 4 (19.05%) Tomcat
11 4 (19.05%) Oracle 8/8i

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing JavaScript also 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 that cited JavaScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (90.48%) CSS
2 15 (71.43%) HTML
3 12 (57.14%) XML
4 11 (52.38%) Web Services
4 11 (52.38%) .NET
4 11 (52.38%) jQuery
5 8 (38.10%) XSLT
5 8 (38.10%) CAML
6 2 (9.524%) HTML5
7 1 (4.762%) Raphaël
7 1 (4.762%) Django
7 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 14 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 14 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 8 (38.10%) Lotus Notes
3 4 (19.05%) Apache
3 4 (19.05%) Tomcat
3 4 (19.05%) IIS
3 4 (19.05%) LiveLink
4 1 (4.762%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) Intranet
2 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
2 4 (19.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle 8/8i
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (4.762%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) QUnit
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (4.762%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Developer
2 11 (52.38%) SharePoint Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Systems Support
3 4 (19.05%) Team Leader
3 4 (19.05%) Support Team Leader
4 2 (9.524%) Tester
5 1 (4.762%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (4.762%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Kindle
2 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.762%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (19.05%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.762%) Android
3 1 (4.762%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Document Management
2 9 (42.86%) OOP
3 8 (38.10%) OO
4 4 (19.05%) Content Management
4 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (14.29%) Workflow
6 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) C#
2 4 (19.05%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 2 (9.524%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Lotus
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Citrix
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) Open Text
2 4 (19.05%) Kofax