The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 21 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 Bristol 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 15 18 24
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 38 56 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 7.143% 6.699% 4.348%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.31% 22.67% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 10
Average daily rate £275 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £382 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £308
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £42.50 £45.50 £26.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.59% +73.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
163 247 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 30.64% 29.55% 23.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 157 73
Average daily rate £313 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £415 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 21 11
Average hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £37.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.07% -12.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.73 £21.90 £16.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
JavaScript
South West

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 54 (75.00%) CSS
2 48 (66.67%) HTML
3 30 (41.67%) jQuery
4 28 (38.89%) PHP
5 26 (36.11%) MySQL
6 22 (30.56%) MVC
7 20 (27.78%) .NET
8 17 (23.61%) ASP.NET
9 16 (22.22%) C#
9 16 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
9 16 (22.22%) HTML5
10 12 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
10 12 (16.67%) CSS3
10 12 (16.67%) XML
11 11 (15.28%) Java
11 11 (15.28%) Ajax
11 11 (15.28%) Drupal
12 10 (13.89%) Android
12 10 (13.89%) XHTML
13 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
13 9 (12.50%) SQL
13 9 (12.50%) SQL Server
14 8 (11.11%) Web Services
14 8 (11.11%) Web Development
15 7 (9.722%) CMS
15 7 (9.722%) Windows
15 7 (9.722%) Oracle
15 7 (9.722%) REST
16 6 (8.333%) Apple iOS
16 6 (8.333%) Unit Testing

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 54 (75.00%) CSS
2 48 (66.67%) HTML
3 30 (41.67%) jQuery
4 20 (27.78%) .NET
5 17 (23.61%) ASP.NET
6 16 (22.22%) HTML5
7 12 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 12 (16.67%) CSS3
7 12 (16.67%) XML
8 11 (15.28%) Ajax
9 10 (13.89%) XHTML
10 8 (11.11%) Web Services
11 7 (9.722%) REST
12 5 (6.944%) RESTful
13 4 (5.556%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 4 (5.556%) SOAP
13 4 (5.556%) .NET Framework
13 4 (5.556%) WCF
13 4 (5.556%) LINQ
14 3 (4.167%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 11 (15.28%) Drupal
2 7 (9.722%) CMS
3 5 (6.944%) WordPress
3 5 (6.944%) Magento
4 3 (4.167%) IIS
5 2 (2.778%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (2.778%) Apache
5 2 (2.778%) TeamSite
5 2 (2.778%) ESB
6 1 (1.389%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.389%) ExpressionEngine
6 1 (1.389%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (1.389%) Kentico
6 1 (1.389%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.389%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (4.167%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.778%) Google Apps
3 1 (1.389%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 3 (4.167%) Google Analytics
2 2 (2.778%) WebTrends
3 1 (1.389%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.389%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.389%) Internet
1 1 (1.389%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (36.11%) MySQL
2 9 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (5.556%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.389%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.389%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (8.333%) Eclipse
2 5 (6.944%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.556%) Git (software)
3 4 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (5.556%) Subversion
4 2 (2.778%) JDeveloper
4 2 (2.778%) ReSharper
4 2 (2.778%) NetBeans
5 1 (1.389%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.389%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.389%) JUnit
General
1 5 (6.944%) Finance
2 4 (5.556%) Marketing
3 2 (2.778%) Electronics
3 2 (2.778%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.778%) Retail
4 1 (1.389%) Banking
4 1 (1.389%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 66 (91.67%) Developer
2 21 (29.17%) PHP Developer
3 11 (15.28%) .NET Developer
4 10 (13.89%) Front-End Developer
5 6 (8.333%) Drupal Developer
5 6 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (6.944%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.944%) Android Developer
7 4 (5.556%) UI Developer
7 4 (5.556%) UI Programmer
7 4 (5.556%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.167%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.167%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (4.167%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.167%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (2.778%) PHP Drupal Developer
9 2 (2.778%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.778%) Web Manager
9 2 (2.778%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (2.778%) .NET Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.944%) iPhone
2 4 (5.556%) Social Media
2 4 (5.556%) iPad
3 3 (4.167%) Social Network
3 3 (4.167%) DTV
3 3 (4.167%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.778%) Inversion of Control
4 2 (2.778%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (2.778%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.778%) New Media
4 2 (2.778%) Blog
4 2 (2.778%) Streaming Video
5 1 (1.389%) STB
5 1 (1.389%) Animation
5 1 (1.389%) IPTV
5 1 (1.389%) NHS
5 1 (1.389%) MPEG
5 1 (1.389%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.389%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.89%) Android
2 7 (9.722%) Windows
3 6 (8.333%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.778%) Linux
4 2 (2.778%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.389%) Debian
5 1 (1.389%) Windows Phone
5 1 (1.389%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.56%) MVC
2 16 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (11.11%) Web Development
4 6 (8.333%) Unit Testing
4 6 (8.333%) OO
5 5 (6.944%) OOP
6 3 (4.167%) Scrum
6 3 (4.167%) TDD
6 3 (4.167%) Analytics
7 2 (2.778%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (2.778%) Multithreading
7 2 (2.778%) Change Control
7 2 (2.778%) Online Marketing
7 2 (2.778%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (2.778%) Workflow
7 2 (2.778%) ETL
7 2 (2.778%) E-Commerce
7 2 (2.778%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (2.778%) Web Analytics
7 2 (2.778%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.89%) PHP
2 16 (22.22%) C#
3 11 (15.28%) Java
4 9 (12.50%) SQL
5 3 (4.167%) Python
6 2 (2.778%) VB
6 2 (2.778%) VB6
6 2 (2.778%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.389%) Ruby
7 1 (1.389%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.389%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.389%) C++
7 1 (1.389%) Clojure
7 1 (1.389%) Groovy
7 1 (1.389%) PHP5
7 1 (1.389%) PHP4
Qualifications
1 4 (5.556%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.556%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.167%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.778%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.722%) Oracle
3 5 (6.944%) Google
4 2 (2.778%) Sitecore
4 2 (2.778%) Ektron
4 2 (2.778%) Facebook
4 2 (2.778%) Twitter
4 2 (2.778%) Infragistics
4 2 (2.778%) Adobe
4 2 (2.778%) Omniture
4 2 (2.778%) Zend
4 2 (2.778%) Telerik
5 1 (1.389%) Mercator
5 1 (1.389%) SAP
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