Berkshire JavaScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough 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 Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	77
Rank change on same period last year	+47
Matching contract IT job ads	153	96
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.202 %	0.096 %
As % of the category below	15.66 %	5.704 %
Daily rates quoted	46	30
Average minimum daily rate	£248	£296
Average daily rate	£272	£306
% change on same period last year	-10.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£296	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£295
% change on same period last year	+2.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.53	£37.50
Average hourly rate	£39.74	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.94	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£31.12
% change on same period last year	-8.07 %
Programming Languages Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	977	1683
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.289 %	1.676 %
Daily rates quoted	247	506
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£341
Average daily rate	£329	£360
% change on same period last year	-8.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	81	167
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.41	£34.11
Average hourly rate	£38.00	£35.67
% change on same period last year	+6.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.59	£37.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.47	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
JavaScript South East

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages 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 JavaScript across the Berkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Reading	+16	59	£271	-11.64 %
Slough	+26	35	£258	-
Maidenhead	+25	9	-	-
Windsor	+2	5	£263	+31.25 %
Wokingham	-	2	-	-
Bracknell	+9	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1 192 (71.11 %) HTML 2 147 (54.44 %) CSS 3 123 (45.56 %) XML 4 104 (38.52 %) .NET 5 94 (34.81 %) ASP.NET 6 87 (32.22 %) SQL 7 79 (29.26 %) SQL Server 7 79 (29.26 %) XHTML 8 69 (25.56 %) Java 9 65 (24.07 %) XSL 10 63 (23.33 %) ASP 11 54 (20.00 %) VB.NET 12 53 (19.63 %) DHTML 12 53 (19.63 %) AJAX 12 53 (19.63 %) Web Development

13 50 (18.52 %) Transact-SQL 14 41 (15.19 %) MySQL 14 41 (15.19 %) PHP 14 41 (15.19 %) JSP 15 39 (14.44 %) C# 16 37 (13.70 %) Flash 16 37 (13.70 %) Microsoft 16 37 (13.70 %) InterDev 17 32 (11.85 %) Photoshop 18 30 (11.11 %) N-Tier 19 28 (10.37 %) Windows 19 28 (10.37 %) Linux 19 28 (10.37 %) COM+ 20 27 (10.00 %) VB 21 26 (9.630 %) SQL Server 2005

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 1 192 (71.11 %) HTML 2 147 (54.44 %) CSS 3 123 (45.56 %) XML 4 104 (38.52 %) .NET 5 94 (34.81 %) ASP.NET 6 79 (29.26 %) XHTML 7 65 (24.07 %) XSL 8 63 (23.33 %) ASP 9 53 (19.63 %) AJAX 10 41 (15.19 %) JSP 11 28 (10.37 %) COM+ 12 25 (9.259 %) XSLT 13 20 (7.407 %) WebServices 14 19 (7.037 %) LAMP 15 16 (5.926 %) JSTL 16 15 (5.556 %) Drupal 17 14 (5.185 %) Hibernate 18 13 (4.815 %) J2EE 19 10 (3.704 %) DOM 19 10 (3.704 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 18 (6.667 %) Apache 2 17 (6.296 %) CMS 3 12 (4.444 %) Tomcat 4 11 (4.074 %) SharePoint 4 11 (4.074 %) IIS 5 5 (1.852 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 5 (1.852 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 4 (1.481 %) BizTalk Server 6 4 (1.481 %) ArcIMS 6 4 (1.481 %) ArcSDE 7 3 (1.111 %) Content Management Server 7 3 (1.111 %) ColdFusion 8 2 (0.741 %) WebLogic 9 1 (0.370 %) Mambo 9 1 (0.370 %) Joomla! 9 1 (0.370 %) JBoss 9 1 (0.370 %) Lotus Notes 9 1 (0.370 %) TeamSite
Applications 1 32 (11.85 %) Photoshop 2 13 (4.815 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 11 (4.074 %) MS Visio 4 6 (2.222 %) MS Office 5 4 (1.481 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 4 (1.481 %) Applix TM1 2 1 (0.370 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.370 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 16 (5.926 %) Internet 2 8 (2.963 %) Extranet 3 4 (1.481 %) Wireless 4 3 (1.111 %) Intranet 4 3 (1.111 %) GPRS 5 1 (0.370 %) Firewall 5 1 (0.370 %) Wi-Fi 5 1 (0.370 %) 3G 5 1 (0.370 %) LDAP 5 1 (0.370 %) ISDN 5 1 (0.370 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 79 (29.26 %) SQL Server 2 41 (15.19 %) MySQL 3 26 (9.630 %) SQL Server 2005 4 25 (9.259 %) SQL Server 2000 5 11 (4.074 %) DB2 6 10 (3.704 %) DB2 UDB 7 3 (1.111 %) GIS 7 3 (1.111 %) Informix 8 2 (0.741 %) PostgreSQL 9 1 (0.370 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 1 (0.370 %) Crystal Reports 9 1 (0.370 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 1 (0.370 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 37 (13.70 %) Flash 1 37 (13.70 %) InterDev 2 18 (6.667 %) Subversion 3 17 (6.296 %) Dreamweaver 4 15 (5.556 %) Eclipse 5 11 (4.074 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 7 (2.593 %) Visual Studio 7 5 (1.852 %) Ant 8 3 (1.111 %) FrontPage 9 1 (0.370 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 15 (5.556 %) Finance 2 8 (2.963 %) Multimedia 2 8 (2.963 %) Telecoms 3 6 (2.222 %) Retail 4 5 (1.852 %) Marketing 5 4 (1.481 %) Government 6 3 (1.111 %) Automotive 6 3 (1.111 %) Animation 7 2 (0.741 %) Construction 7 2 (0.741 %) Banking 8 1 (0.370 %) Health 8 1 (0.370 %) Local Government 8 1 (0.370 %) Retail Banking 8 1 (0.370 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 192 (71.11 %) Developer 2 63 (23.33 %) Web Developer 3 61 (22.59 %) .NET Developer 4 50 (18.52 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 30 (11.11 %) Applications Developer 6 29 (10.74 %) VB.NET Developer 7 25 (9.259 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 24 (8.889 %) PHP Developer 9 23 (8.519 %) Web Designer 10 19 (7.037 %) Java Developer 11 18 (6.667 %) C# Developer 12 15 (5.556 %) .NET Applications Developer 12 15 (5.556 %) Web Manager 13 14 (5.185 %) SQL Developer 13 14 (5.185 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 14 13 (4.815 %) SQL Server Developer 14 13 (4.815 %) Development Manager 15 12 (4.444 %) Web Development Manager 16 10 (3.704 %) Java/J2EE Developer 16 10 (3.704 %) Photoshop Designer	Miscellaneous 1 30 (11.11 %) N-Tier 2 3 (1.111 %) Taxonomies 3 2 (0.741 %) NHS 3 2 (0.741 %) Web 2.0 3 2 (0.741 %) Handset 4 1 (0.370 %) STB 4 1 (0.370 %) Fixed Income 4 1 (0.370 %) Clustering 4 1 (0.370 %) Derivative 4 1 (0.370 %) MediaHighway 4 1 (0.370 %) Social Network 4 1 (0.370 %) W3C 4 1 (0.370 %) DTV
Operating Systems 1 28 (10.37 %) Windows 1 28 (10.37 %) Linux 2 17 (6.296 %) Windows Server 2003 3 12 (4.444 %) Red Hat Linux 4 7 (2.593 %) UNIX 5 5 (1.852 %) Windows Server 2008 5 5 (1.852 %) Windows Vista 5 5 (1.852 %) Windows 2000 5 5 (1.852 %) Windows XP 6 1 (0.370 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 53 (19.63 %) Web Development 2 18 (6.667 %) Content Management 3 15 (5.556 %) E-Commerce 4 13 (4.815 %) Security Cleared 5 12 (4.444 %) Migration 6 11 (4.074 %) SC Cleared 6 11 (4.074 %) System Testing 6 11 (4.074 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 9 (3.333 %) OO 7 9 (3.333 %) CRM 7 9 (3.333 %) Time Management 8 8 (2.963 %) Web Design 9 6 (2.222 %) Release Management 9 6 (2.222 %) Data Migration 10 5 (1.852 %) Unit Testing 10 5 (1.852 %) OOP 10 5 (1.852 %) B2B 11 3 (1.111 %) Validation 11 3 (1.111 %) Requirements Analysis 11 3 (1.111 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 87 (32.22 %) SQL 2 69 (25.56 %) Java 3 54 (20.00 %) VB.NET 4 53 (19.63 %) DHTML 5 50 (18.52 %) Transact-SQL 6 41 (15.19 %) PHP 7 39 (14.44 %) C# 8 27 (10.00 %) VB 9 25 (9.259 %) PHP5 10 22 (8.148 %) ActionScript 11 19 (7.037 %) VBScript 12 18 (6.667 %) Python 13 16 (5.926 %) XPath 14 9 (3.333 %) VB6 14 9 (3.333 %) C 15 5 (1.852 %) Perl 16 4 (1.481 %) C++ 16 4 (1.481 %) Ruby 17 3 (1.111 %) AWK 17 3 (1.111 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 5 (1.852 %) MCSD 1 5 (1.852 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (1.481 %) MCAD 3 2 (0.741 %) Sun Certification 3 2 (0.741 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (2.593 %) WCAG 2 5 (1.852 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (0.370 %) NDS
Vendors 1 37 (13.70 %) Microsoft 2 18 (6.667 %) Oracle 3 15 (5.556 %) Proxima 4 12 (4.444 %) Red Hat 5 10 (3.704 %) IBM 6 9 (3.333 %) CA 7 5 (1.852 %) Perforce 7 5 (1.852 %) Adobe 8 4 (1.481 %) Quark 8 4 (1.481 %) Applix 9 3 (1.111 %) Sun 10 2 (0.741 %) Zend 11 1 (0.370 %) Onyx 11 1 (0.370 %) OpenTV 11 1 (0.370 %) Informatica 11 1 (0.370 %) Nokia 11 1 (0.370 %) VERITAS 11 1 (0.370 %) Lotus 11 1 (0.370 %) BEA 11 1 (0.370 %) Cisco