The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridgeshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 41 27 41
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +14
Contract jobs citing Ajax 9 37 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.645% 5.394% 1.890%
As % of the Application Development category 7.031% 14.80% 5.587%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 4
Average daily rate £275 £225 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.22% -21.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £325 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £290
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £60.00 £15.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +296.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.46 £32.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.44% -24.11%
All Application Development
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
128 250 179
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 23.40% 36.44% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 125 81
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 15
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% +40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £15.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.80 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
East of England

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Ajax Jobs Demand Trend

Ajax
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ajax across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Ajax Daily Rate Histogram

Ajax
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ajax within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge -13 3 £340 +51.11%
Peterborough +4 1 £225 -18.18%
Ajax
East of England

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 16 (94.12%) CSS
2 15 (88.24%) JavaScript
2 15 (88.24%) jQuery
3 13 (76.47%) XML
3 13 (76.47%) PHP
4 12 (70.59%) HTML
5 9 (52.94%) Java
5 9 (52.94%) JSON
6 8 (47.06%) MySQL
7 6 (35.29%) C#
7 6 (35.29%) SQL
7 6 (35.29%) .NET
7 6 (35.29%) OO
7 6 (35.29%) WordPress
8 5 (29.41%) Git (software)
8 5 (29.41%) Compatibility Testing
8 5 (29.41%) Ruby
8 5 (29.41%) XSLT
8 5 (29.41%) Photoshop
8 5 (29.41%) GIMP
8 5 (29.41%) Node.js
9 4 (23.53%) HTML5
9 4 (23.53%) Memcached
9 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
9 4 (23.53%) Redis
9 4 (23.53%) concrete5
9 4 (23.53%) SOAP
9 4 (23.53%) Linux
9 4 (23.53%) OOP
9 4 (23.53%) Apache

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 16 (94.12%) CSS
2 15 (88.24%) jQuery
3 13 (76.47%) XML
4 12 (70.59%) HTML
5 9 (52.94%) JSON
6 6 (35.29%) .NET
7 5 (29.41%) XSLT
7 5 (29.41%) Node.js
8 4 (23.53%) HTML5
8 4 (23.53%) Memcached
8 4 (23.53%) SOAP
8 4 (23.53%) Java EE
8 4 (23.53%) RESTful
9 3 (17.65%) WCF
9 3 (17.65%) WPF
9 3 (17.65%) Symfony
9 3 (17.65%) CodeIgniter
9 3 (17.65%) DHTML
9 3 (17.65%) CSS3
9 3 (17.65%) Sencha Touch
Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) WordPress
2 4 (23.53%) concrete5
2 4 (23.53%) Apache
2 4 (23.53%) CMS
3 3 (17.65%) Drupal
4 1 (5.882%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Photoshop
1 5 (29.41%) GIMP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) MySQL
2 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
2 4 (23.53%) Redis
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git (software)
2 4 (23.53%) Subversion
3 3 (17.65%) PhoneGap
3 3 (17.65%) Appcelerator Titanium
4 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (5.882%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Web Developer
3 4 (23.53%) UI Programmer
3 4 (23.53%) PHP Developer
3 4 (23.53%) UI Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Web Applications Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Front-End Web Developer
5 1 (5.882%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.882%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) N-Tier
1 1 (5.882%) Social Media
1 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) OO
2 5 (29.41%) Compatibility Testing
3 4 (23.53%) OOP
3 4 (23.53%) MVC
3 4 (23.53%) SEO
4 1 (5.882%) Performance Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Load Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Security Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Multithreading
4 1 (5.882%) TDD
4 1 (5.882%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (5.882%) SOA
4 1 (5.882%) Network Architecture
4 1 (5.882%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) JavaScript
2 13 (76.47%) PHP
3 9 (52.94%) Java
4 6 (35.29%) C#
4 6 (35.29%) SQL
5 5 (29.41%) Ruby
6 4 (23.53%) PHP5
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Zend
1 3 (17.65%) Sencha
2 2 (11.76%) Telerik
3 1 (5.882%) DevExpress
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