The first table below looks at the demand for JSON skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSON over the 3 months to 17 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 Application Development category for the Cambridge 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JSON
Rank 37 45 30
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -15
Contract jobs citing JSON 4 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.170% 0.957% 0.800%
As % of the Application Development category 5.128% 2.439% 2.151%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
Average daily rate £350 £225 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+55.55% -40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
-43.35% -
All Application Development
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
78 164 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.81% 39.23% 37.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 84 45
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £213 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £375 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 10
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +55.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSON
Cambridgeshire

JSON
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JSON across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Cambridge JSON Jobs Demand Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JSON across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge JSON Daily Rate Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSON across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridge JSON Daily Rate Histogram

JSON
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JSON across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge JSON Hourly Rate Trend

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing JSON 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 JSON.

1 12 (75.00%) MySQL
2 11 (68.75%) Linux
2 11 (68.75%) Apache
3 9 (56.25%) CSS
3 9 (56.25%) SQL
3 9 (56.25%) Java
3 9 (56.25%) TDD
4 8 (50.00%) Subversion
4 8 (50.00%) Git (software)
4 8 (50.00%) RESTful
4 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (50.00%) HTML
4 8 (50.00%) PHP
4 8 (50.00%) MVC
5 6 (37.50%) Oracle
5 6 (37.50%) jQuery
5 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing
5 6 (37.50%) Symfony
5 6 (37.50%) Ajax
6 5 (31.25%) Spring
6 5 (31.25%) XML
6 5 (31.25%) SOAP
6 5 (31.25%) Hibernate
6 5 (31.25%) OO
6 5 (31.25%) Memcached
6 5 (31.25%) Node.js
7 4 (25.00%) PHP5
7 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
7 4 (25.00%) RabbitMQ

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing JSON 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 JSON. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (56.25%) CSS
2 8 (50.00%) HTML
2 8 (50.00%) RESTful
3 6 (37.50%) Ajax
3 6 (37.50%) Symfony
3 6 (37.50%) jQuery
4 5 (31.25%) Hibernate
4 5 (31.25%) Spring
4 5 (31.25%) SOAP
4 5 (31.25%) XML
4 5 (31.25%) Memcached
4 5 (31.25%) Node.js
5 4 (25.00%) Swing
5 4 (25.00%) Web Services
5 4 (25.00%) J2EE
5 4 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (25.00%) Java EE
6 3 (18.75%) CodeIgniter
6 3 (18.75%) REST
6 3 (18.75%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 11 (68.75%) Apache
2 4 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 4 (25.00%) CMS
2 4 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (25.00%) concrete5
3 3 (18.75%) Drupal
3 3 (18.75%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) MySQL
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (25.00%) Redis
3 1 (6.250%) GIS
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Subversion
1 8 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 4 (25.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
2 5 (31.25%) PHP Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (6.250%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Informatics
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (12.50%) Biology
2 2 (12.50%) LIMS
3 1 (6.250%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) TDD
2 8 (50.00%) MVC
3 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing
4 5 (31.25%) OO
5 4 (25.00%) SEO
5 4 (25.00%) OOP
5 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (25.00%) Information Management
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
7 1 (6.250%) SOA
7 1 (6.250%) Pair Programming
7 1 (6.250%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (50.00%) PHP
3 4 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) Perl
3 4 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) Lisp
3 4 (25.00%) Ruby
3 4 (25.00%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) PhD
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.250%) Varnish
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Zend
4 1 (6.250%) Google
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Required Technical Skills HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript / jQuery, jQuery UI, XML / JSON / AJAX, etc... ASP.NET / C# UI design skills / good at functional design, usability, etc. Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator...
Psonar Ltd
Rate: From £200 to £250 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013