The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 23 20 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing Ajax 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 1.439% 0.855% -
As % of the Application Development category 14.29% 6.250% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £375 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £290
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.46 £32.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.44% -24.11%
All Application Development
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
14 16 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 10.07% 13.68% 25.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 22
Average daily rate £375 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
Cheshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) JAX-RPC
3 2 (50.00%) DOM
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) WSDL
3 2 (50.00%) JUnit
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) JSP
3 2 (50.00%) Servlets
3 2 (50.00%) SOAP
3 2 (50.00%) J2EE
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Web 2.0
3 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (50.00%) XPath
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Axis
3 2 (50.00%) Waterfall

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) JAX-RPC
2 2 (50.00%) DOM
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) XHTML
2 2 (50.00%) WSDL
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) JSP
2 2 (50.00%) Servlets
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Axis
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) ICEfaces
3 1 (25.00%) RichFaces
3 1 (25.00%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Mule
2 1 (25.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Web 2.0
2 1 (25.00%) RIA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) B2B
2 1 (25.00%) B2C
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Perforce
Chester, North West
Required: * Extensive (minimum 5yrs + commercial) experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets * Minimum 2yrs + JSF experience * Minimum 5yrs...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013