The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript 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 JavaScript 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 Programming Languages 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 18 20 18
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -2
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 7 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 4.930% 1.709% 3.106%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 13.33% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
Average daily rate £325 £350 £203
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +72.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £350 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £237
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £308
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £9.00 £50.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-82.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
35 15 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 24.65% 12.82% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 22
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £399 £375 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
Average hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +81.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £50.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £50.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
JavaScript
Cheshire

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester JavaScript Jobs Demand Trend

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JavaScript across the Chester region.

Chester JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing JavaScript 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 JavaScript.

1 22 (75.86%) CSS
2 21 (72.41%) HTML
3 13 (44.83%) C#
4 11 (37.93%) .NET
5 10 (34.48%) SQL
5 10 (34.48%) ASP.NET
6 9 (31.03%) XML
6 9 (31.03%) Windows
7 8 (27.59%) Web Services
7 8 (27.59%) SQL Server
7 8 (27.59%) jQuery
8 7 (24.14%) WCF
8 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
9 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2008
10 5 (17.24%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 5 (17.24%) LINQ to SQL
10 5 (17.24%) Digital Media
10 5 (17.24%) .NET Framework
10 5 (17.24%) LINQ
10 5 (17.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (17.24%) SQL Server 2005
10 5 (17.24%) WinForms
10 5 (17.24%) CMS
10 5 (17.24%) Intranet
10 5 (17.24%) IIS
10 5 (17.24%) MS Office
10 5 (17.24%) Java
10 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
10 5 (17.24%) SharePoint
11 4 (13.79%) J2EE

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing JavaScript 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 JavaScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (75.86%) CSS
2 21 (72.41%) HTML
3 11 (37.93%) .NET
4 10 (34.48%) ASP.NET
5 9 (31.03%) XML
6 8 (27.59%) Web Services
6 8 (27.59%) jQuery
7 7 (24.14%) WCF
8 5 (17.24%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 5 (17.24%) LINQ to SQL
8 5 (17.24%) .NET Framework
8 5 (17.24%) LINQ
8 5 (17.24%) WinForms
9 4 (13.79%) J2EE
9 4 (13.79%) XHTML
9 4 (13.79%) Hibernate
9 4 (13.79%) Spring
9 4 (13.79%) Ajax
9 4 (13.79%) HTML5
10 3 (10.34%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) CMS
1 5 (17.24%) IIS
1 5 (17.24%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.897%) Apache
3 1 (3.448%) ESB
3 1 (3.448%) Mule
3 1 (3.448%) WordPress
3 1 (3.448%) ArcSDE
3 1 (3.448%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) MS Office
1 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Intranet
2 2 (6.897%) SNMP
2 2 (6.897%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.897%) TELNET
3 1 (3.448%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (17.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (17.24%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.897%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.448%) GIS
5 1 (3.448%) MySQL
5 1 (3.448%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JUnit
2 3 (10.34%) Eclipse
3 2 (6.897%) JIRA
3 2 (6.897%) Selenium
3 2 (6.897%) TestNG
4 1 (3.448%) MyEclipse
4 1 (3.448%) Mercurial
4 1 (3.448%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.448%) Subversion
General
1 2 (6.897%) Finance
1 2 (6.897%) Local Government
2 1 (3.448%) Marketing
2 1 (3.448%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (75.86%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Front-End Developer
2 7 (24.14%) .NET Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Content Editor
3 5 (17.24%) Senior .NET Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Web Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Web Editor
5 3 (10.34%) Web Content Editor
5 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Front-End Web Developer
7 1 (3.448%) CRM Developer
7 1 (3.448%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (3.448%) C# Web Developer
7 1 (3.448%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Digital Media
2 2 (6.897%) Client/Server
2 2 (6.897%) Web 2.0
3 1 (3.448%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.448%) Data Conversion
3 1 (3.448%) RIA
3 1 (3.448%) LLPG
3 1 (3.448%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 2 (6.897%) Android
2 2 (6.897%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (13.79%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (10.34%) MVC
3 2 (6.897%) E-Commerce
3 2 (6.897%) Scrum
3 2 (6.897%) TDD
3 2 (6.897%) Unit Testing
3 2 (6.897%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (6.897%) Waterfall
4 1 (3.448%) Integration Testing
4 1 (3.448%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (3.448%) Software Engineering
4 1 (3.448%) Change Management
4 1 (3.448%) B2B
4 1 (3.448%) B2C
4 1 (3.448%) CRM
4 1 (3.448%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) C#
2 10 (34.48%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) Java
4 2 (6.897%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.897%) XPath
5 1 (3.448%) PHP
5 1 (3.448%) C++
5 1 (3.448%) Python
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 2 (6.897%) Adobe
4 1 (3.448%) Perforce
4 1 (3.448%) ESRI
4 1 (3.448%) IBM
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: 20 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