Buckinghamshire AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the Buckinghamshire 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cobham Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Ringwood Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	76
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	14	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	4.281 %	2.406 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£389	-
Average daily rate	£393	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£397	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£279
% change on same period last year	+19.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.17
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.18	£30.42
% change on same period last year	-0.81 %
Application Development Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	327	374
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.419 %	0.420 %
Daily rates quoted	104	103
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£322
Average daily rate	£379	£347
% change on same period last year	+9.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.97	£30.75
Average hourly rate	£27.52	£32.05
% change on same period last year	-14.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.08	£33.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
AJAX 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.

AJAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

AJAX
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the Buckinghamshire region.

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Buckinghamshire region over the past 3 months.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

AJAX
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AJAX within the Buckinghamshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Milton Keynes	-9	9	£280	-
2	Marlow	-	4	£421	-

AJAX South East

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX.

1 24 (82.76 %) JavaScript 2 19 (65.52 %) .NET 2 19 (65.52 %) SQL Server 3 18 (62.07 %) C# 4 17 (58.62 %) SQL 5 15 (51.72 %) ASP.NET 6 14 (48.28 %) HTML 7 13 (44.83 %) XML 7 13 (44.83 %) Windows 8 12 (41.38 %) Transact-SQL 8 12 (41.38 %) Workflow 8 12 (41.38 %) OOD 9 7 (24.14 %) Java 10 6 (20.69 %) JSP 11 5 (17.24 %) SQL Server 2005

12 4 (13.79 %) JasperReports 12 4 (13.79 %) Spring 12 4 (13.79 %) JSF 12 4 (13.79 %) Eclipse 12 4 (13.79 %) FoxPro (VFP) 12 4 (13.79 %) JMS 12 4 (13.79 %) SQL Server 2000 12 4 (13.79 %) Servlets 12 4 (13.79 %) JBoss 12 4 (13.79 %) Apache 12 4 (13.79 %) Tomcat 12 4 (13.79 %) Delphi 12 4 (13.79 %) PHP 12 4 (13.79 %) Ant 12 4 (13.79 %) JUnit

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 19 (65.52 %) .NET 2 15 (51.72 %) ASP.NET 3 14 (48.28 %) HTML 4 13 (44.83 %) XML 5 6 (20.69 %) JSP 6 4 (13.79 %) Servlets 6 4 (13.79 %) JMS 6 4 (13.79 %) Spring 6 4 (13.79 %) JSF 7 3 (10.34 %) XHTML 8 2 (6.897 %) WebSphere 8 2 (6.897 %) .NET Framework 8 2 (6.897 %) Struts 8 2 (6.897 %) EJB 8 2 (6.897 %) JDBC 8 2 (6.897 %) J2EE 8 2 (6.897 %) DAO 9 1 (3.448 %) WebServices 9 1 (3.448 %) Dojo 9 1 (3.448 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 4 (13.79 %) JBoss 1 4 (13.79 %) Apache 1 4 (13.79 %) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (65.52 %) SQL Server 2 5 (17.24 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (13.79 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (13.79 %) MySQL 3 4 (13.79 %) JasperReports 4 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 4 (13.79 %) Ant 1 4 (13.79 %) JUnit 1 4 (13.79 %) Eclipse 2 2 (6.897 %) Visual Studio
General 1 1 (3.448 %) Government	Job Titles 1 25 (86.21 %) Developer 2 17 (58.62 %) .NET Developer 3 16 (55.17 %) C# Developer 4 15 (51.72 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 14 (48.28 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 12 (41.38 %) CSharp Software Developer 6 12 (41.38 %) Software Developer 7 5 (17.24 %) Java Developer 8 4 (13.79 %) .NET Web Developer 8 4 (13.79 %) C# Web Developer 8 4 (13.79 %) Web Developer 9 3 (10.34 %) Consultant 9 3 (10.34 %) Applications Developer 9 3 (10.34 %) Java Consultant 10 2 (6.897 %) Architect 10 2 (6.897 %) Solutions Architect 10 2 (6.897 %) SQL Developer 10 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Developer 11 1 (3.448 %) Java Analyst Programmer 11 1 (3.448 %) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.897 %) Mainframe 2 1 (3.448 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)	Operating Systems 1 13 (44.83 %) Windows 2 1 (3.448 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (41.38 %) OOD 1 12 (41.38 %) Workflow 2 3 (10.34 %) SSADM 3 2 (6.897 %) UML 4 1 (3.448 %) OO 4 1 (3.448 %) RAD 4 1 (3.448 %) DSDM 4 1 (3.448 %) Requirements Analysis 4 1 (3.448 %) Web Development 4 1 (3.448 %) Project Management 4 1 (3.448 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 24 (82.76 %) JavaScript 2 18 (62.07 %) C# 3 17 (58.62 %) SQL 4 12 (41.38 %) Transact-SQL 5 7 (24.14 %) Java 6 4 (13.79 %) FoxPro (VFP) 6 4 (13.79 %) Delphi 6 4 (13.79 %) PHP 7 1 (3.448 %) VB.NET
Vendors 1 4 (13.79 %) Oracle 2 2 (6.897 %) SAP 2 2 (6.897 %) IBM