Blackpool AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the Blackpool region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited AJAX over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Aberdeen Andover Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cleckheaton Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	16
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	50.00 %	9.091 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£307	£303
% change on same period last year	+1.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£32.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.22	£37.12
% change on same period last year	-15.89 %
Application Development Blackpool
Matching contract IT job ads	4	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.011 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£32.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.72	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
AJAX Lancashire

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.

AJAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing AJAX across the Blackpool region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

AJAX
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool region citing AJAX 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 AJAX.

1 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005 1 2 (100.00 %) C# 2 1 (50.00 %) HTML 2 1 (50.00 %) CSS 2 1 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2000

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool region citing AJAX 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 AJAX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (50.00 %) HTML 2 1 (50.00 %) CSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2000
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Developer 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET Developer 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP.NET Developer	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) C#