Cheshire AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited AJAX over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hull Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	54
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	14	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	4.217 %	3.077 %
Daily rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£299
Average daily rate	£308	£300
% change on same period last year	+2.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£296
% change on same period last year	+8.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£33.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.91	£36.26
% change on same period last year	-17.50 %
Application Development Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	332	195
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.441 %	0.200 %
Daily rates quoted	98	36
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£334
Average daily rate	£382	£360
% change on same period last year	+6.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.22	£26.86
Average hourly rate	£36.74	£28.25
% change on same period last year	+30.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.25	£29.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.60	£33.11
% change on same period last year	-1.56 %
AJAX North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

AJAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing AJAX across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

AJAX
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AJAX across the Cheshire region.

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AJAX across the Cheshire region.

AJAX
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing AJAX within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Alderley Edge	-	2	£325	-
Warrington	-	2	£260	-
Wilmslow	-	2	-	-
Chester	-5	1	£364	-

AJAX North West

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 18 (54.55 %) XML 2 17 (51.52 %) CSS 3 15 (45.45 %) .NET 4 14 (42.42 %) C# 4 14 (42.42 %) Java 4 14 (42.42 %) JavaScript 4 14 (42.42 %) SQL 5 12 (36.36 %) Oracle 6 11 (33.33 %) HTML 6 11 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 7 10 (30.30 %) WebServices 7 10 (30.30 %) J2EE 7 10 (30.30 %) SQL Server 8 9 (27.27 %) E-Commerce 9 8 (24.24 %) JSP

9 8 (24.24 %) Spring 10 7 (21.21 %) PHP 10 7 (21.21 %) Hibernate 11 5 (15.15 %) Finance 11 5 (15.15 %) OO 11 5 (15.15 %) SQL Server 2005 12 4 (12.12 %) PHP5 12 4 (12.12 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 4 (12.12 %) XHTML 12 4 (12.12 %) Agile Software Development 12 4 (12.12 %) Banking 12 4 (12.12 %) Retail 12 4 (12.12 %) MySQL 12 4 (12.12 %) ASP 13 3 (9.091 %) Linux

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 18 (54.55 %) XML 2 17 (51.52 %) CSS 3 15 (45.45 %) .NET 4 11 (33.33 %) HTML 4 11 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 5 10 (30.30 %) J2EE 5 10 (30.30 %) WebServices 6 8 (24.24 %) JSP 6 8 (24.24 %) Spring 7 7 (21.21 %) Hibernate 8 4 (12.12 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 4 (12.12 %) ASP 8 4 (12.12 %) XHTML 9 3 (9.091 %) WSDL 9 3 (9.091 %) JAX-RPC 9 3 (9.091 %) Middleware 9 3 (9.091 %) Swing 9 3 (9.091 %) Servlets 9 3 (9.091 %) SOAP 9 3 (9.091 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 3 (9.091 %) Apache 1 3 (9.091 %) Tuxedo 2 2 (6.061 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (6.061 %) CMS 3 1 (3.030 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (3.030 %) SharePoint 3 1 (3.030 %) WebLogic 3 1 (3.030 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (6.061 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (9.091 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (30.30 %) SQL Server 2 5 (15.15 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (12.12 %) MySQL 4 3 (9.091 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (6.061 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (6.061 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 3 (9.091 %) JIRA 2 2 (6.061 %) Ant 3 1 (3.030 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (3.030 %) Flash 3 1 (3.030 %) Eclipse 3 1 (3.030 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 5 (15.15 %) Finance 2 4 (12.12 %) Banking 2 4 (12.12 %) Retail 3 2 (6.061 %) International Banking 3 2 (6.061 %) Online Banking	Job Titles 1 25 (75.76 %) Developer 2 10 (30.30 %) Web Developer 3 6 (18.18 %) Java Developer 3 6 (18.18 %) C# Developer 4 4 (12.12 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (12.12 %) Analyst 4 4 (12.12 %) PHP Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) PHP Web Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) Senior PHP Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) Senior PHP Web Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) Programmer 5 3 (9.091 %) Test Analyst 5 3 (9.091 %) Senior Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) Senior Web Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Technical Analyst 6 2 (6.061 %) Technical Test Analyst 6 2 (6.061 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Java Programmer 7 1 (3.030 %) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) Replication 2 1 (3.030 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 3 (9.091 %) Linux 2 2 (6.061 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (27.27 %) E-Commerce 2 5 (15.15 %) OO 3 4 (12.12 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (6.061 %) Software Testing 4 2 (6.061 %) OOD 4 2 (6.061 %) SOA 5 1 (3.030 %) B2B 5 1 (3.030 %) Validation 5 1 (3.030 %) Web Design 5 1 (3.030 %) CRM 5 1 (3.030 %) UML 5 1 (3.030 %) OOP 5 1 (3.030 %) Web Development 5 1 (3.030 %) Content Management 5 1 (3.030 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 14 (42.42 %) C# 1 14 (42.42 %) Java 1 14 (42.42 %) JavaScript 1 14 (42.42 %) SQL 2 7 (21.21 %) PHP 3 4 (12.12 %) PHP5 4 3 (9.091 %) XPath 4 3 (9.091 %) VB 4 3 (9.091 %) PL/SQL 4 3 (9.091 %) C++ 5 2 (6.061 %) COBOL 5 2 (6.061 %) VB.NET 5 2 (6.061 %) VB6 6 1 (3.030 %) Ruby 6 1 (3.030 %) VBScript 6 1 (3.030 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 3 (9.091 %) ISEB 2 2 (6.061 %) ISTQB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.061 %) QA
Vendors 1 12 (36.36 %) Oracle 2 3 (9.091 %) Microsoft 3 1 (3.030 %) Perforce 3 1 (3.030 %) Endeca