The first table below looks at the demand for JSON 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 JSON over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JSON
Rank 45 59 57
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -2
Contract jobs citing JSON 9 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.573% 0.690% 0.319%
As % of the Application Development category 6.040% 2.066% 0.826%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
Average daily rate £350 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £300 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £300 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £314
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £32.00 -
% change year-on-year
-29.18% -
All Application Development
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
149 242 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 26.05% 33.38% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 119 119
Average daily rate £350 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 25
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £32.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £45.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
JSON
East of England

JSON
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire JSON Hourly Rate Trend

JSON
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridge +16 5 £350 +16.66% 2
Peterborough - 1 £225 -
JSON
East of England

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 19 (76.00%) MySQL
2 17 (68.00%) CSS
3 14 (56.00%) PHP
3 14 (56.00%) HTML
3 14 (56.00%) Linux
3 14 (56.00%) Apache
4 13 (52.00%) JavaScript
5 12 (48.00%) TDD
5 12 (48.00%) Subversion
5 12 (48.00%) Git (software)
6 11 (44.00%) Ajax
7 10 (40.00%) Java
7 10 (40.00%) XML
7 10 (40.00%) jQuery
8 9 (36.00%) Unit Testing
8 9 (36.00%) Symfony
8 9 (36.00%) SQL
8 9 (36.00%) Oracle
8 9 (36.00%) MVC
9 8 (32.00%) Agile Software Development
9 8 (32.00%) Memcached
9 8 (32.00%) RESTful
10 7 (28.00%) Redis
10 7 (28.00%) Web Services
10 7 (28.00%) OO
11 6 (24.00%) WordPress
12 5 (20.00%) Node.js
12 5 (20.00%) HTML5
12 5 (20.00%) Python
12 5 (20.00%) SOAP

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 17 (68.00%) CSS
2 14 (56.00%) HTML
3 11 (44.00%) Ajax
4 10 (40.00%) XML
4 10 (40.00%) jQuery
5 9 (36.00%) Symfony
6 8 (32.00%) Memcached
6 8 (32.00%) RESTful
7 7 (28.00%) Web Services
8 5 (20.00%) Node.js
8 5 (20.00%) HTML5
8 5 (20.00%) SOAP
8 5 (20.00%) Hibernate
8 5 (20.00%) Spring
9 4 (16.00%) Java EE
9 4 (16.00%) J2EE
9 4 (16.00%) Swing
9 4 (16.00%) CSS3
9 4 (16.00%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (16.00%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 14 (56.00%) Apache
2 6 (24.00%) WordPress
3 4 (16.00%) CMS
3 4 (16.00%) Tomcat
3 4 (16.00%) concrete5
4 3 (12.00%) Drupal
4 3 (12.00%) nginx
5 1 (4.000%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) GIMP
1 1 (4.000%) Photoshop
1 1 (4.000%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (76.00%) MySQL
2 7 (28.00%) Redis
3 4 (16.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.000%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (48.00%) Subversion
1 12 (48.00%) Git (software)
2 4 (16.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (4.000%) Games
1 1 (4.000%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 20 (80.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) PHP Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Senior PHP Developer
5 2 (8.000%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Python/Django Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Django Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Informatics
1 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (8.000%) Biology
2 2 (8.000%) LIMS
3 1 (4.000%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) TDD
2 9 (36.00%) Unit Testing
2 9 (36.00%) MVC
3 8 (32.00%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (28.00%) OO
5 4 (16.00%) Information Management
5 4 (16.00%) SEO
5 4 (16.00%) OOP
6 2 (8.000%) Scrum
7 1 (4.000%) Web Application Development
7 1 (4.000%) Software Architecture
7 1 (4.000%) SOA
7 1 (4.000%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) PHP
2 13 (52.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (40.00%) Java
4 9 (36.00%) SQL
5 5 (20.00%) Python
5 5 (20.00%) C#
6 4 (16.00%) Perl
6 4 (16.00%) Lisp
6 4 (16.00%) PHP5
6 4 (16.00%) Ruby
7 1 (4.000%) C
7 1 (4.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
1 4 (16.00%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.000%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (4.000%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) Zend
4 1 (4.000%) Google