Derbyshire AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the Derbyshire 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 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Hertford Hertfordshire Hull Isle of Man 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 Newton-le-Willows 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 Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	41
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.000 %	0.781 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£350
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£288
% change on same period last year	+16.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.38	£36.52
% change on same period last year	-19.53 %
Application Development Derbyshire
Matching contract IT job ads	50	128
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.136 %
Daily rates quoted	4	26
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£319
Average daily rate	£328	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.07	£31.45
Average hourly rate	£37.37	£31.95
% change on same period last year	+16.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.67	£32.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
AJAX East Midlands

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 Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AJAX across the Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 4 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
Derby	+8	1	-	-

AJAX East Midlands

AJAX
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 3 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 3 (100.00 %) Java 1 3 (100.00 %) Spring 2 2 (66.67 %) GWT 2 2 (66.67 %) Google 2 2 (66.67 %) Tomcat 2 2 (66.67 %) JMS 3 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic Workshop 3 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) iBATIS 3 1 (33.33 %) Spring MVC 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) JUnit 3 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic

3 1 (33.33 %) EJB 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) JSP 3 1 (33.33 %) Servlets 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) MVC

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 3 (100.00 %) Spring 2 2 (66.67 %) JMS 2 2 (66.67 %) GWT 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) iBATIS 3 1 (33.33 %) Spring MVC 3 1 (33.33 %) EJB 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) JSP 3 1 (33.33 %) Servlets 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) Tomcat 2 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) JUnit 1 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic Workshop	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 1 3 (100.00 %) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) MVC	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Google 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle