The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 23 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 Bedfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 14 28 17
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -11
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 14 8 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 7.487% 2.888% 8.844%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.93% 12.90% 27.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 16
Average daily rate £325 £263 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.80% +34.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £390 £233
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £305
% change year-on-year
- -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £34.93
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.25%
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
54 62 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 28.88% 22.38% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 40
Average daily rate £338 £325 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% +52.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £401 £450 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
Average hourly rate £24.38 £38.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.85% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
JavaScript
East of England

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Bedfordshire JavaScript Daily Rate Histogram

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Luton +3 9 £325 +44.44%
Bedford -3 1 £413 -
JavaScript
East of England

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 11 (57.89%) HTML
2 10 (52.63%) .NET
3 9 (47.37%) C#
4 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET
4 8 (42.11%) CSS
4 8 (42.11%) E-Commerce
4 8 (42.11%) MVC
5 7 (36.84%) Scrum
5 7 (36.84%) TDD
5 7 (36.84%) SOA
5 7 (36.84%) BDD
6 6 (31.58%) Git (software)
7 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
7 5 (26.32%) PHP
7 5 (26.32%) CSS3
8 4 (21.05%) KnockoutJS
8 4 (21.05%) MySQL
8 4 (21.05%) Web Services
8 4 (21.05%) OO
8 4 (21.05%) XHTML
8 4 (21.05%) NHibernate
9 3 (15.79%) Subversion
9 3 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (15.79%) Ajax
9 3 (15.79%) Apache
9 3 (15.79%) XML
9 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
9 3 (15.79%) SQL
9 3 (15.79%) SpecFlow
9 3 (15.79%) NServiceBus

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 11 (57.89%) HTML
2 10 (52.63%) .NET
3 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET
3 8 (42.11%) CSS
4 5 (26.32%) CSS3
5 4 (21.05%) KnockoutJS
5 4 (21.05%) Web Services
5 4 (21.05%) XHTML
5 4 (21.05%) NHibernate
6 3 (15.79%) Ajax
6 3 (15.79%) XML
6 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (15.79%) HTML5
6 3 (15.79%) jQuery
7 2 (10.53%) RESTful
7 2 (10.53%) XSLT
7 2 (10.53%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (5.263%) LAMP
8 1 (5.263%) JSON
8 1 (5.263%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) NServiceBus
1 3 (15.79%) Drupal
2 2 (10.53%) nginx
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Azure
2 2 (10.53%) CMS
3 1 (5.263%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.263%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) MySQL
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (5.263%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git (software)
2 3 (15.79%) Subversion
2 3 (15.79%) SpecFlow
3 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.263%) Xcode
4 1 (5.263%) Eclipse
4 1 (5.263%) PhoneGap
4 1 (5.263%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 2 (10.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Web Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Drupal Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 2 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) PHP Developer
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.263%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) SharePoint Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (5.263%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.263%) Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Agile .NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Agile C# Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Online Games
1 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
1 2 (10.53%) W3C
2 1 (5.263%) PACS
2 1 (5.263%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.263%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.263%) Digital Media
2 1 (5.263%) Social Media
2 1 (5.263%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.263%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.263%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) E-Commerce
1 8 (42.11%) MVC
2 7 (36.84%) Scrum
2 7 (36.84%) TDD
2 7 (36.84%) SOA
2 7 (36.84%) BDD
3 4 (21.05%) OO
4 3 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.263%) SEO
6 1 (5.263%) Migration
6 1 (5.263%) Load Balancing
6 1 (5.263%) Project Planning
6 1 (5.263%) Web Development
6 1 (5.263%) Progressive Enhancement
6 1 (5.263%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (5.263%) Unit Testing
6 1 (5.263%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) C#
2 5 (26.32%) PHP
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Ruby
5 1 (5.263%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.263%) Java
5 1 (5.263%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) DICOM
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Varnish
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.263%) Google
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle
2 1 (5.263%) Sitecore
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