The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 17 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 East Midlands 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 37 46 48
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +2
Contract jobs citing Ajax 50 40 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 3.965% 2.930% 1.974%
As % of the Application Development category 14.97% 11.08% 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 9
Average daily rate £289 £250 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £240 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £306 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £34.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.94 £32.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-7.16% -24.11%
All Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
334 361 324
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 26.49% 26.45% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 192 111
Average daily rate £310 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -15.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £210 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 37
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
England

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ajax across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East Midlands Ajax Daily Rate Histogram

Ajax
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ajax within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Leicestershire +4 13 £280 +1.81%
Nottinghamshire 0 11 £275 -11.29%
Derbyshire +17 3 £263 -
Ajax
England

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 73 (89.02%) jQuery
2 70 (85.37%) JavaScript
3 66 (80.49%) .NET
3 66 (80.49%) ASP.NET
4 53 (64.63%) C#
5 43 (52.44%) SQL Server
6 38 (46.34%) Visual Studio
7 34 (41.46%) CSS
7 34 (41.46%) HTML
7 34 (41.46%) OO
8 25 (30.49%) MVC
9 24 (29.27%) .NET Framework
10 23 (28.05%) Microsoft
10 23 (28.05%) Web Services
11 22 (26.83%) XML
12 21 (25.61%) SQL Server 2008
13 19 (23.17%) ASP.NET MVC
13 19 (23.17%) N-Tier
14 17 (20.73%) Windows
15 16 (19.51%) HTML5
15 16 (19.51%) WCF
16 15 (18.29%) Telerik
17 14 (17.07%) OOP
17 14 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC 3
18 13 (15.85%) IIS
18 13 (15.85%) MySQL
18 13 (15.85%) PHP
18 13 (15.85%) E-Commerce
18 13 (15.85%) LINQ
19 12 (14.63%) WinForms

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 73 (89.02%) jQuery
2 66 (80.49%) .NET
2 66 (80.49%) ASP.NET
3 34 (41.46%) CSS
3 34 (41.46%) HTML
4 24 (29.27%) .NET Framework
5 23 (28.05%) Web Services
6 22 (26.83%) XML
7 19 (23.17%) ASP.NET MVC
8 16 (19.51%) HTML5
8 16 (19.51%) WCF
9 14 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 13 (15.85%) LINQ
11 12 (14.63%) WinForms
12 10 (12.20%) JSON
13 9 (10.98%) CSS3
14 7 (8.537%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 7 (8.537%) XHTML
15 5 (6.098%) .NET Remoting
15 5 (6.098%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 13 (15.85%) IIS
2 9 (10.98%) CMS
3 5 (6.098%) Umbraco
3 5 (6.098%) Kentico
4 4 (4.878%) WordPress
5 2 (2.439%) Sitefinity
6 1 (1.220%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.220%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.220%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (6.098%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.220%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.317%) Intranet
1 6 (7.317%) Internet
2 5 (6.098%) SNMP
2 5 (6.098%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.220%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (52.44%) SQL Server
2 21 (25.61%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (15.85%) MySQL
4 9 (10.98%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (9.756%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (8.537%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (7.317%) GIS
8 5 (6.098%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 38 (46.34%) Visual Studio
2 8 (9.756%) Subversion
3 6 (7.317%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 5 (6.098%) Expression Blend
5 4 (4.878%) PHPUnit
6 3 (3.659%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.220%) JUnit
7 1 (1.220%) Git (software)
7 1 (1.220%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.220%) JIRA
7 1 (1.220%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.220%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (3.659%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (90.24%) Developer
2 40 (48.78%) .NET Developer
3 26 (31.71%) ASP.NET Developer
4 13 (15.85%) C# Developer
4 13 (15.85%) Web Developer
5 8 (9.756%) PHP Developer
5 8 (9.756%) .NET Web Developer
5 8 (9.756%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (6.098%) WPF Developer
6 5 (6.098%) Senior .NET Developer
6 5 (6.098%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.659%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (3.659%) Front-End Developer
8 2 (2.439%) Designer
8 2 (2.439%) Software Developer
8 2 (2.439%) ASP Developer
8 2 (2.439%) PHP Web Developer
8 2 (2.439%) Senior C# Developer
9 1 (1.220%) SQL Developer
9 1 (1.220%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.17%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.73%) Windows
2 5 (6.098%) Windows Mobile
2 5 (6.098%) Windows 7
2 5 (6.098%) Windows 8
3 1 (1.220%) Android
3 1 (1.220%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) OO
2 25 (30.49%) MVC
3 14 (17.07%) OOP
4 13 (15.85%) E-Commerce
5 11 (13.41%) OOD
5 11 (13.41%) Web Development
6 6 (7.317%) Configuration Management
6 6 (7.317%) Business Analysis
7 5 (6.098%) Content Management
7 5 (6.098%) Multithreading
7 5 (6.098%) MVVM
7 5 (6.098%) E-business
7 5 (6.098%) SEO
7 5 (6.098%) SOA
8 4 (4.878%) TDD
9 3 (3.659%) Web Application Development
10 2 (2.439%) Agile Software Development
11 1 (1.220%) Mobile Commerce
11 1 (1.220%) Waterfall
11 1 (1.220%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 70 (85.37%) JavaScript
2 53 (64.63%) C#
3 13 (15.85%) PHP
4 10 (12.20%) SQL
5 6 (7.317%) VB
6 5 (6.098%) VB6
7 3 (3.659%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.439%) Java
9 1 (1.220%) C
9 1 (1.220%) C++
9 1 (1.220%) VBScript
9 1 (1.220%) PHP5
9 1 (1.220%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (4.878%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (6.098%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.098%) WMI
Vendors
1 23 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.29%) Telerik
3 11 (13.41%) DevExpress
4 2 (2.439%) Oracle
5 1 (1.220%) IBM
5 1 (1.220%) Zend
5 1 (1.220%) Adobe
5 1 (1.220%) Macromedia
5 1 (1.220%) Apple