Birmingham JavaScript Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the Birmingham 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	47
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	18	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	9.783 %	8.187 %
Daily rates quoted	6	8
Average minimum daily rate	£259	£264
Average daily rate	£298	£269
% change on same period last year	+10.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£295
% change on same period last year	-0.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£19.20
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£21.60
% change on same period last year	+62.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.54	£30.30
% change on same period last year	-12.40 %
Programming Languages Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	184	342
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.261 %	0.345 %
Daily rates quoted	45	89
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£297
Average daily rate	£301	£331
% change on same period last year	-9.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.84	£22.12
Average hourly rate	£29.53	£23.82
% change on same period last year	+23.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.23	£25.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.32	£32.74
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
JavaScript West Midlands

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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 Birmingham region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 27 (57.45 %) HTML 2 26 (55.32 %) CSS 3 24 (51.06 %) .NET 4 23 (48.94 %) ASP.NET 5 21 (44.68 %) SQL Server 6 18 (38.30 %) C# 7 16 (34.04 %) XML 8 15 (31.91 %) SQL 9 14 (29.79 %) SQL Server 2005 10 12 (25.53 %) ASP 11 11 (23.40 %) XHTML 11 11 (23.40 %) Microsoft 12 10 (21.28 %) Java 12 10 (21.28 %) VB.NET 13 8 (17.02 %) VB

13 8 (17.02 %) SQL Server 2000 14 7 (14.89 %) Dreamweaver 14 7 (14.89 %) MS Excel 14 7 (14.89 %) Internet 14 7 (14.89 %) WebSphere 15 6 (12.77 %) Retail 15 6 (12.77 %) Flash 15 6 (12.77 %) N-Tier 15 6 (12.77 %) WebSphere MQ 15 6 (12.77 %) Intranet 15 6 (12.77 %) Transact-SQL 16 5 (10.64 %) Photoshop 16 5 (10.64 %) WebServices 16 5 (10.64 %) AJAX 17 4 (8.511 %) ASP.NET 2.0

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 27 (57.45 %) HTML 2 26 (55.32 %) CSS 3 24 (51.06 %) .NET 4 23 (48.94 %) ASP.NET 5 16 (34.04 %) XML 6 12 (25.53 %) ASP 7 11 (23.40 %) XHTML 8 7 (14.89 %) WebSphere 9 5 (10.64 %) WebServices 9 5 (10.64 %) AJAX 10 4 (8.511 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 4 (8.511 %) XSLT 11 3 (6.383 %) ADO.NET 12 2 (4.255 %) .NET Framework 13 1 (2.128 %) J2EE 13 1 (2.128 %) JDBC 13 1 (2.128 %) JSP 13 1 (2.128 %) DOM 13 1 (2.128 %) WCF 13 1 (2.128 %) NHibernate	Application Platforms 1 6 (12.77 %) WebSphere MQ 2 4 (8.511 %) IIS 3 1 (2.128 %) Apache 3 1 (2.128 %) SharePoint 3 1 (2.128 %) ESB
Applications 1 7 (14.89 %) MS Excel 2 5 (10.64 %) Photoshop 3 3 (6.383 %) Fireworks 4 1 (2.128 %) InfoPath 4 1 (2.128 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 7 (14.89 %) Internet 2 6 (12.77 %) Intranet 3 2 (4.255 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (44.68 %) SQL Server 2 14 (29.79 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (17.02 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.128 %) MySQL 4 1 (2.128 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (2.128 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (2.128 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (2.128 %) SQL Server 2008	Development Applications 1 7 (14.89 %) Dreamweaver 2 6 (12.77 %) Flash 3 4 (8.511 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (2.128 %) NUnit 4 1 (2.128 %) Subversion
General 1 6 (12.77 %) Retail 2 2 (4.255 %) Government 3 1 (2.128 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.128 %) Finance 3 1 (2.128 %) Education 3 1 (2.128 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (2.128 %) Multimedia 3 1 (2.128 %) Health	Job Titles 1 36 (76.60 %) Developer 2 14 (29.79 %) .NET Developer 3 9 (19.15 %) C# Developer 4 7 (14.89 %) Web Developer 4 7 (14.89 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 6 (12.77 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 6 (12.77 %) Team Leader 6 5 (10.64 %) Senior Developer 7 4 (8.511 %) Senior C# Developer 8 3 (6.383 %) VB.NET Developer 8 3 (6.383 %) Web Designer 9 2 (4.255 %) Development Team Leader 9 2 (4.255 %) Java Developer 9 2 (4.255 %) Senior .NET Developer 9 2 (4.255 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 2 (4.255 %) Web Manager 9 2 (4.255 %) Programmer 10 1 (2.128 %) Consultant 10 1 (2.128 %) Analyst 10 1 (2.128 %) Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 6 (12.77 %) N-Tier 2 4 (8.511 %) W3C 3 1 (2.128 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.128 %) UNIX 1 1 (2.128 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (6.383 %) OO 1 3 (6.383 %) E-Commerce 1 3 (6.383 %) Web Design 2 2 (4.255 %) TDD 2 2 (4.255 %) Web Development 2 2 (4.255 %) SSADM 2 2 (4.255 %) RUP 3 1 (2.128 %) OOP 3 1 (2.128 %) OOD 3 1 (2.128 %) SOA 3 1 (2.128 %) Workflow 3 1 (2.128 %) CAD 3 1 (2.128 %) Project Management 3 1 (2.128 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (2.128 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 18 (38.30 %) C# 2 15 (31.91 %) SQL 3 10 (21.28 %) Java 3 10 (21.28 %) VB.NET 4 8 (17.02 %) VB 5 6 (12.77 %) Transact-SQL 6 3 (6.383 %) VBA 7 2 (4.255 %) ActionScript 7 2 (4.255 %) PHP 8 1 (2.128 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (2.128 %) Perl 8 1 (2.128 %) C++ 8 1 (2.128 %) DHTML 8 1 (2.128 %) C
Qualifications 1 2 (4.255 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.128 %) SLA
Vendors 1 11 (23.40 %) Microsoft 2 3 (6.383 %) Oracle 3 2 (4.255 %) Adobe 4 1 (2.128 %) Macromedia 4 1 (2.128 %) GUPTA