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The first part of the 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 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Bristol region.

 JavaScript
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank251836
Rank change year-on-year
Down-7Up+18
Matching contract IT job ads283021
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol4.179 %5.525 %2.201 %
As % of the Programming Languages category13.79 %16.30 %7.473 %
Daily rates quoted1684
Average daily rate£231£210£309
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.11 %-31.98 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£160£155£232
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£247£409
UK excluding London average daily rate£250£250£300
% change year-on-year
--16.66 %
Hourly rates quoted318
Average hourly rate£14.50£50.00£23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-71.00 %+117.39 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£20.00£30.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00 %-33.33 %
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
203184281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol30.30 %33.89 %29.45 %
Daily rates quoted824277
Average daily rate£250£275£320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.090 %-14.06 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£160£175£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£400£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted305373
Average hourly rate£28.75£35.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.85 %+7.690 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.50£32.00£20.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£37.50£36.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.000 %-14.28 %
JavaScript South WestJavaScript
South West

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.

JavaScript
Demand Trend

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

Bristol JavaScript Demand Trend

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

Bristol JavaScript Daily Rate Histogram

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 18 March 2010, 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.

147 (72.31 %)CSS
241 (63.08 %).NET
337 (56.92 %)C#
337 (56.92 %)HTML
431 (47.69 %)ASP.NET
530 (46.15 %)XML
625 (38.46 %)SQL Server
724 (36.92 %)AJAX
821 (32.31 %)Web Services
920 (30.77 %)XHTML
1017 (26.15 %)Security Cleared
1114 (21.54 %)SC Cleared
1213 (20.00 %)Visual Studio
1312 (18.46 %)ASP
1312 (18.46 %)Singularity
1410 (15.38 %)Agile Software Development
1410 (15.38 %)IIS
159 (13.85 %)PHP
159 (13.85 %)SQL
159 (13.85 %)jQuery
168 (12.31 %)VB.NET
168 (12.31 %)SOA
168 (12.31 %)E-Commerce
177 (10.77 %)Workflow
177 (10.77 %)ISEB
177 (10.77 %)Document Management
177 (10.77 %)UML
177 (10.77 %)OO
177 (10.77 %)MySQL
177 (10.77 %)Java

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, 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.

Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
147 (72.31 %)CSS
241 (63.08 %).NET
337 (56.92 %)HTML
431 (47.69 %)ASP.NET
530 (46.15 %)XML
624 (36.92 %)AJAX
721 (32.31 %)Web Services
820 (30.77 %)XHTML
912 (18.46 %)ASP
109 (13.85 %)jQuery
117 (10.77 %)XSLT
125 (7.692 %)Flash
133 (4.615 %)ActiveX
133 (4.615 %)LAMP
133 (4.615 %)Django
133 (4.615 %)Dojo
142 (3.077 %)MonoTouch
142 (3.077 %)JSON
142 (3.077 %)WCF
142 (3.077 %)LINQ
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
110 (15.38 %)IIS
23 (4.615 %)Lotus Notes
32 (3.077 %)Lotus Domino
41 (1.538 %)BizTalk Server
41 (1.538 %)SharePoint
41 (1.538 %)ArcGIS
41 (1.538 %)CMS
41 (1.538 %)Drupal
41 (1.538 %)Joomla!
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (9.231 %)Photoshop
21 (1.538 %)Fireworks
21 (1.538 %)MS Excel
21 (1.538 %)MS Office
21 (1.538 %)Adobe Illustrator
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (3.077 %)Internet
21 (1.538 %)HTTP
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
125 (38.46 %)SQL Server
27 (10.77 %)MySQL
35 (7.692 %)SQL Server 2005
43 (4.615 %)GIS
51 (1.538 %)ETL
51 (1.538 %)RDBMS
51 (1.538 %)Oracle Reports
51 (1.538 %)Oracle 8/8i
51 (1.538 %)Datawarehouse
51 (1.538 %)DTS
51 (1.538 %)Crystal Reports
51 (1.538 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
51 (1.538 %)SQL Server 2008
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
113 (20.00 %)Visual Studio
24 (6.154 %)QuickTest Pro
33 (4.615 %)VSS/SourceSafe
33 (4.615 %)CruiseControl
33 (4.615 %)NUnit
41 (1.538 %)InstallShield
41 (1.538 %)Dreamweaver
41 (1.538 %)Subversion
41 (1.538 %)Git (software)
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (4.615 %)Animation
22 (3.077 %)Games
22 (3.077 %)Multimedia
31 (1.538 %)Back Office
31 (1.538 %)Education
31 (1.538 %)Government
31 (1.538 %)Marketing
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
148 (73.85 %)Developer
217 (26.15 %)Web Developer
316 (24.62 %).NET Developer
48 (12.31 %)C# Developer
55 (7.692 %)ASP.NET Developer
55 (7.692 %)Analyst
55 (7.692 %)Applications Developer
64 (6.154 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
64 (6.154 %)Test Analyst
64 (6.154 %)Tester
64 (6.154 %)PHP Developer
73 (4.615 %)Lotus Notes Developer
73 (4.615 %).NET Web Developer
73 (4.615 %)Manual Tester
73 (4.615 %)Programmer
73 (4.615 %)iPhone Developer
73 (4.615 %)Front-End Developer
73 (4.615 %)iPhone Applications Developer
82 (3.077 %)Designer
82 (3.077 %)Front-End Web Developer
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (4.615 %)iPhone
21 (1.538 %)W3C
21 (1.538 %)N-Tier
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (9.231 %)Linux
23 (4.615 %)Debian
23 (4.615 %)Android
32 (3.077 %)Windows
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
110 (15.38 %)Agile Software Development
28 (12.31 %)SOA
28 (12.31 %)E-Commerce
37 (10.77 %)Workflow
37 (10.77 %)Document Management
37 (10.77 %)UML
37 (10.77 %)OO
37 (10.77 %)Use Case
37 (10.77 %)Web Development
46 (9.231 %)Unit Testing
55 (7.692 %)CRM
55 (7.692 %)Scrum
64 (6.154 %)Web Testing
64 (6.154 %)RUP
73 (4.615 %)Test Scripting
82 (3.077 %)Stress Testing
82 (3.077 %)Content Management
82 (3.077 %)Software Testing
82 (3.077 %)Web Design
91 (1.538 %)CAD
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
137 (56.92 %)C#
29 (13.85 %)PHP
29 (13.85 %)SQL
38 (12.31 %)VB.NET
47 (10.77 %)Java
56 (9.231 %)VB
65 (7.692 %)Perl
73 (4.615 %)Python
73 (4.615 %)C
73 (4.615 %)Objective-C
73 (4.615 %)LotusScript
82 (3.077 %)VB6
82 (3.077 %)ActionScript
91 (1.538 %)FoxPro (VFP)
91 (1.538 %)C++
91 (1.538 %)T-SQL
91 (1.538 %)VBScript
91 (1.538 %)PHP5
91 (1.538 %)ActionScript 3.0
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
117 (26.15 %)Security Cleared
214 (21.54 %)SC Cleared
37 (10.77 %)ISEB
43 (4.615 %)Degree
51 (1.538 %)HNC
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (1.538 %)QA
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
112 (18.46 %)Singularity
26 (9.231 %)Microsoft
35 (7.692 %)Oracle
43 (4.615 %)Lotus
52 (3.077 %)Zend
52 (3.077 %)Google
61 (1.538 %)Adobe
61 (1.538 %)Alterian
61 (1.538 %)Informatica
61 (1.538 %)ESRI