East Midlands AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited AJAX over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cobham Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Ringwood Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	45
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	42	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.048 %
As % of the category below	7.925 %	9.471 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£255
Average daily rate	£325	£273
% change on same period last year	+18.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£281
% change on same period last year	+19.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£27.67
Average hourly rate	-	£29.67
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£31.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.23	£30.11
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Application Development East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	530	454
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.680 %	0.510 %
Daily rates quoted	88	79
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£285
Average daily rate	£326	£296
% change on same period last year	+9.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.08	£24.22
Average hourly rate	£32.59	£25.77
% change on same period last year	+26.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.10	£27.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
AJAX England

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the East Midlands region over the past 3 months.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the East Midlands region.

AJAX
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AJAX within the East Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Nottinghamshire	-6	4	-	-
2	Derbyshire	-3	3	£350	+3.96 %
2	Northamptonshire	-13	3	-	-
3	Lincolnshire	-	1	-	-
3	Leicestershire	-5	1	-	-

AJAX England

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX.

1 49 (68.06 %) JavaScript 2 35 (48.61 %) CSS 3 34 (47.22 %) Java 4 32 (44.44 %) HTML 5 31 (43.06 %) .NET 6 28 (38.89 %) C# 7 26 (36.11 %) SQL Server 8 24 (33.33 %) XML 9 23 (31.94 %) ASP.NET 10 21 (29.17 %) WebServices 11 19 (26.39 %) MySQL 11 19 (26.39 %) PHP 11 19 (26.39 %) SQL 12 17 (23.61 %) Web Development 13 15 (20.83 %) JSF

13 15 (20.83 %) Oracle 13 15 (20.83 %) VSS/SourceSafe 14 11 (15.28 %) CMS 14 11 (15.28 %) VB.NET 15 10 (13.89 %) J2EE 15 10 (13.89 %) OOD 15 10 (13.89 %) Content Management 16 9 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 16 9 (12.50 %) Spring 16 9 (12.50 %) ASP 17 8 (11.11 %) Dreamweaver 17 8 (11.11 %) E-Commerce 18 7 (9.722 %) LAMP 18 7 (9.722 %) Agile Software Development 18 7 (9.722 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 35 (48.61 %) CSS 2 32 (44.44 %) HTML 3 31 (43.06 %) .NET 4 24 (33.33 %) XML 5 23 (31.94 %) ASP.NET 6 21 (29.17 %) WebServices 7 15 (20.83 %) JSF 8 10 (13.89 %) J2EE 9 9 (12.50 %) ASP 9 9 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 9 9 (12.50 %) Spring 10 7 (9.722 %) LAMP 11 6 (8.333 %) Hibernate 11 6 (8.333 %) JSP 11 6 (8.333 %) Servlets 11 6 (8.333 %) iBATIS 12 5 (6.944 %) XHTML 13 4 (5.556 %) JSR 168 14 3 (4.167 %) GWT 14 3 (4.167 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 11 (15.28 %) CMS 2 7 (9.722 %) ColdFusion 3 6 (8.333 %) WebLogic 4 4 (5.556 %) ColdFusion MX 4 4 (5.556 %) WebLogic Portal 5 2 (2.778 %) Apache 5 2 (2.778 %) Tomcat 6 1 (1.389 %) CICS 6 1 (1.389 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 7 (9.722 %) MS Excel 2 4 (5.556 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.167 %) LDAP 1 3 (4.167 %) Kerberos 1 3 (4.167 %) Internet 2 2 (2.778 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.389 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (36.11 %) SQL Server 2 19 (26.39 %) MySQL 3 5 (6.944 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 3 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (1.389 %) PostgreSQL 6 1 (1.389 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (1.389 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (1.389 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (1.389 %) RDBMS 6 1 (1.389 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 15 (20.83 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 8 (11.11 %) Dreamweaver 3 6 (8.333 %) WebLogic Workshop 3 6 (8.333 %) JUnit 4 2 (2.778 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (1.389 %) Flash
General 1 4 (5.556 %) Marketing 2 3 (4.167 %) Banking 2 3 (4.167 %) Finance 3 1 (1.389 %) Aerospace 3 1 (1.389 %) Automotive 3 1 (1.389 %) Government	Job Titles 1 65 (90.28 %) Developer 2 22 (30.56 %) Java Developer 3 13 (18.06 %) .NET Developer 4 11 (15.28 %) Web Developer 5 10 (13.89 %) C# Developer 6 8 (11.11 %) Senior Developer 7 7 (9.722 %) PHP Developer 8 6 (8.333 %) ColdFusion Developer 8 6 (8.333 %) Software Developer 9 5 (6.944 %) Senior Software Developer 10 4 (5.556 %) ASP.NET Developer 10 4 (5.556 %) J2EE Developer 10 4 (5.556 %) PHP Web Developer 10 4 (5.556 %) Java/J2EE Developer 10 4 (5.556 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 3 (4.167 %) Senior .NET Developer 12 2 (2.778 %) ASP Developer 12 2 (2.778 %) VB.NET Developer 12 2 (2.778 %) SQL Developer 12 2 (2.778 %) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.556 %) Client/Server 2 2 (2.778 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (1.389 %) W3C 3 1 (1.389 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 5 (6.944 %) Linux 2 1 (1.389 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (1.389 %) Unix 2 1 (1.389 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (23.61 %) Web Development 2 10 (13.89 %) Content Management 2 10 (13.89 %) OOD 3 8 (11.11 %) E-Commerce 4 7 (9.722 %) Agile Software Development 4 7 (9.722 %) UML 5 6 (8.333 %) SEO 6 5 (6.944 %) OO 6 5 (6.944 %) SOA 7 4 (5.556 %) QMS 7 4 (5.556 %) Information Management 8 2 (2.778 %) Logistics 8 2 (2.778 %) Software Engineering 8 2 (2.778 %) Validation 9 1 (1.389 %) Web Design 9 1 (1.389 %) Quality Management 9 1 (1.389 %) Change Management 9 1 (1.389 %) MVC	Programming Languages 1 49 (68.06 %) JavaScript 2 34 (47.22 %) Java 3 28 (38.89 %) C# 4 19 (26.39 %) PHP 4 19 (26.39 %) SQL 5 11 (15.28 %) VB.NET 6 7 (9.722 %) C++ 7 3 (4.167 %) Python 8 2 (2.778 %) VBScript 9 1 (1.389 %) Perl 9 1 (1.389 %) COBOL 9 1 (1.389 %) DHTML 9 1 (1.389 %) Shell Script 9 1 (1.389 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 1 (1.389 %) Degree	System Software 1 5 (6.944 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 15 (20.83 %) Oracle 2 2 (2.778 %) Microsoft 2 2 (2.778 %) Google