The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 21 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 Canary Wharf 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 30 46 57
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +11
Contract jobs citing Ajax 25 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 6.219% 0.785% 0.803%
As % of the Application Development category 20.33% 2.381% 2.532%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 0 4
Average daily rate £600 - £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.96 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-7.81% -23.52%
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
123 126 158
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 30.60% 32.98% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 80 131
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
London

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 25 (96.15%) JavaScript
1 25 (96.15%) HTML5
2 24 (92.31%) CSS3
2 24 (92.31%) jQuery
2 24 (92.31%) CSS
3 22 (84.62%) Agile Software Development
4 21 (80.77%) Web Development
4 21 (80.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (80.77%) E-Commerce
4 21 (80.77%) RIA
5 14 (53.85%) Credit Risk
5 14 (53.85%) Finance
6 8 (30.77%) Banking
7 7 (26.92%) HTML
8 3 (11.54%) MVC
8 3 (11.54%) JSON
8 3 (11.54%) KnockoutJS
8 3 (11.54%) MVVM
8 3 (11.54%) REST
9 2 (7.692%) Internet
10 1 (3.846%) Configuration Management
10 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
10 1 (3.846%) Retail
10 1 (3.846%) Spring
10 1 (3.846%) JSF
10 1 (3.846%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (3.846%) Private Banking
10 1 (3.846%) Hibernate
10 1 (3.846%) Scrum
10 1 (3.846%) Java EE

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 25 (96.15%) HTML5
2 24 (92.31%) CSS3
2 24 (92.31%) jQuery
2 24 (92.31%) CSS
3 7 (26.92%) HTML
4 3 (11.54%) JSON
4 3 (11.54%) KnockoutJS
4 3 (11.54%) REST
5 1 (3.846%) Spring
5 1 (3.846%) JSF
5 1 (3.846%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.846%) Java EE
5 1 (3.846%) EJB
5 1 (3.846%) Struts
5 1 (3.846%) Web Services
5 1 (3.846%) XML
5 1 (3.846%) XSLT
5 1 (3.846%) XHTML
5 1 (3.846%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.846%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.692%) Internet
2 1 (3.846%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.846%) Oracle 10g
General
1 14 (53.85%) Finance
2 8 (30.77%) Banking
3 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.846%) Retail
3 1 (3.846%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (3.846%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (96.15%) Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (3.846%) Software Developer
3 1 (3.846%) Architect
3 1 (3.846%) Analyst
3 1 (3.846%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 21 (80.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 21 (80.77%) RIA
2 14 (53.85%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.846%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Agile Software Development
2 21 (80.77%) Web Development
2 21 (80.77%) E-Commerce
3 3 (11.54%) MVC
3 3 (11.54%) MVVM
4 1 (3.846%) Configuration Management
4 1 (3.846%) Scrum
4 1 (3.846%) OO
4 1 (3.846%) RUP
4 1 (3.846%) Software Architecture
4 1 (3.846%) Unit Testing
4 1 (3.846%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.846%) Java
2 1 (3.846%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.846%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (3.846%) Oracle