The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax 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 Cardiff 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
Ajax
Rank - 30 29
Contract jobs citing Ajax 0 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff - 1.951% 1.688%
As % of the Application Development category - 7.692% 8.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £308 £288
% change year-on-year
-2.27% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £23.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -29.41%
All Application Development
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
28 52 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 13.46% 25.37% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 29
Average daily rate £313 £315 £337
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.63% -6.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £36.25 £25.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Ajax
South Wales

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cardiff Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) Content Management
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Web 2.0
4 1 (25.00%) Middleware
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) CMS
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) N-Tier

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) Kentico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Web 2.0
1 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (25.00%) Social Media
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) Content Management
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) OO
1 1 (25.00%) OOD
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
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