East Midlands JavaScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Altrincham Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	25
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	110	77
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.145 %	0.082 %
As % of the category below	18.80 %	13.87 %
Daily rates quoted	24	3
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£257
Average daily rate	£305	£257
% change on same period last year	+18.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£257
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£295
% change on same period last year	+6.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£23.86
Average hourly rate	£36.50	£26.86
% change on same period last year	+35.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.00	£29.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.57	£30.40
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
Programming Languages East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	585	555
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.771 %	0.589 %
Daily rates quoted	128	63
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£291
Average daily rate	£319	£305
% change on same period last year	+4.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	57
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.84	£28.62
Average hourly rate	£31.82	£30.19
% change on same period last year	+5.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.80	£31.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
JavaScript 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing JavaScript within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire	+7	24	£320	-
Nottinghamshire	-12	18	£273	-22.14 %
Leicestershire	+5	17	£425	-
Derbyshire	+24	15	-	-
Lincolnshire	-	3	£225	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 113 (54.07 %) Java 2 103 (49.28 %) HTML 3 76 (36.36 %) SQL 4 75 (35.89 %) CSS 5 60 (28.71 %) .NET 6 47 (22.49 %) XML 7 46 (22.01 %) ASP.NET 8 43 (20.57 %) Oracle 9 40 (19.14 %) AJAX 10 37 (17.70 %) C# 11 35 (16.75 %) J2EE 11 35 (16.75 %) WebServices 12 32 (15.31 %) SQL Server 13 30 (14.35 %) VB 14 29 (13.88 %) SOAP

15 28 (13.40 %) VB.NET 15 28 (13.40 %) COBOL 15 28 (13.40 %) Visual Studio 15 28 (13.40 %) Test Scripting 16 26 (12.44 %) DB2 16 26 (12.44 %) Rational Performance Tester 17 24 (11.48 %) Mainframe 18 23 (11.00 %) IIS 19 22 (10.53 %) Web Development 20 21 (10.05 %) Content Management 20 21 (10.05 %) VSS/SourceSafe 20 21 (10.05 %) JSP 21 20 (9.569 %) VB6 21 20 (9.569 %) Spring 21 20 (9.569 %) Performance Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 1 103 (49.28 %) HTML 2 75 (35.89 %) CSS 3 60 (28.71 %) .NET 4 47 (22.49 %) XML 5 46 (22.01 %) ASP.NET 6 40 (19.14 %) AJAX 7 35 (16.75 %) WebServices 7 35 (16.75 %) J2EE 8 29 (13.88 %) SOAP 9 21 (10.05 %) JSP 10 20 (9.569 %) Spring 11 18 (8.612 %) ASP 12 17 (8.134 %) Hibernate 13 15 (7.177 %) JSF 14 14 (6.699 %) WebSphere 15 13 (6.220 %) Servlets 16 12 (5.742 %) XML Schema 16 12 (5.742 %) Spring MVC 17 11 (5.263 %) XSL 18 9 (4.306 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 23 (11.00 %) IIS 2 18 (8.612 %) CMS 3 17 (8.134 %) WebLogic 3 17 (8.134 %) Apache 4 13 (6.220 %) SharePoint 5 12 (5.742 %) WebLogic Portal 6 9 (4.306 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 9 (4.306 %) WebSphere MQ 6 9 (4.306 %) Lotus Notes 6 9 (4.306 %) Lotus Domino 6 9 (4.306 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 7 (3.349 %) Oracle Workflow 8 6 (2.871 %) Tomcat 9 5 (2.392 %) ArcSDE 9 5 (2.392 %) ArcGIS 9 5 (2.392 %) ArcIMS 10 4 (1.914 %) ESB 11 3 (1.435 %) BizTalk Server 12 2 (0.957 %) ColdFusion 12 2 (0.957 %) CICS
Applications 1 6 (2.871 %) Photoshop 2 4 (1.914 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.478 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 14 (6.699 %) Internet 2 9 (4.306 %) Intranet 3 6 (2.871 %) HTTP 3 6 (2.871 %) HTTPS 4 2 (0.957 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (15.31 %) SQL Server 2 26 (12.44 %) DB2 3 14 (6.699 %) Oracle 10g 4 9 (4.306 %) MySQL 4 9 (4.306 %) SQL Server 2005 5 6 (2.871 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 5 (2.392 %) Crystal Reports 6 5 (2.392 %) GIS 7 4 (1.914 %) SQL Server 2000 8 3 (1.435 %) Oracle Reports 8 3 (1.435 %) Oracle 9i 9 2 (0.957 %) SQL Server 7 10 1 (0.478 %) RDBMS 10 1 (0.478 %) PostgreSQL	Development Applications 1 28 (13.40 %) Visual Studio 2 26 (12.44 %) Rational Performance Tester 3 21 (10.05 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 16 (7.656 %) Dreamweaver 5 13 (6.220 %) JUnit 6 8 (3.828 %) Flash 7 7 (3.349 %) Subversion 8 6 (2.871 %) WebLogic Workshop 9 3 (1.435 %) WinRunner 9 3 (1.435 %) QuickTest Pro 10 2 (0.957 %) Eclipse 11 1 (0.478 %) NUnit
General 1 17 (8.134 %) Banking 2 10 (4.785 %) Finance 3 5 (2.392 %) Marketing 4 3 (1.435 %) Graphic Design 4 3 (1.435 %) Government 5 2 (0.957 %) Health 5 2 (0.957 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.478 %) Aerospace 6 1 (0.478 %) Billing 6 1 (0.478 %) Local Government 6 1 (0.478 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 155 (74.16 %) Developer 2 40 (19.14 %) Java Developer 3 32 (15.31 %) .NET Developer 4 27 (12.92 %) Web Developer 5 26 (12.44 %) Tester 6 24 (11.48 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 22 (10.53 %) Analyst 8 21 (10.05 %) Performance Tester 9 19 (9.091 %) J2EE Developer 10 18 (8.612 %) VB.NET Developer 10 18 (8.612 %) Java/J2EE Developer 11 17 (8.134 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 12 10 (4.785 %) C# Developer 12 10 (4.785 %) PHP Developer 13 9 (4.306 %) Oracle Developer 14 8 (3.828 %) Domino Developer 14 8 (3.828 %) WebSphere Developer 15 7 (3.349 %) Lotus Notes Developer 15 7 (3.349 %) Programmer 16 6 (2.871 %) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 24 (11.48 %) Mainframe 2 9 (4.306 %) N-Tier 3 3 (1.435 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.478 %) W3C 4 1 (0.478 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (0.478 %) CCTV 4 1 (0.478 %) Social Network	Operating Systems 1 13 (6.220 %) Unix 2 9 (4.306 %) Solaris 3 5 (2.392 %) Windows 4 3 (1.435 %) AIX 4 3 (1.435 %) Linux 5 2 (0.957 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (13.40 %) Test Scripting 2 22 (10.53 %) Web Development 3 21 (10.05 %) Content Management 4 20 (9.569 %) Performance Testing 5 8 (3.828 %) Workflow 6 7 (3.349 %) UML 6 7 (3.349 %) Unit Testing 7 5 (2.392 %) MVC 7 5 (2.392 %) OO 8 3 (1.435 %) CRM 8 3 (1.435 %) OOD 8 3 (1.435 %) Validation 8 3 (1.435 %) Web Design 8 3 (1.435 %) Software Engineering 8 3 (1.435 %) Incident Management 9 2 (0.957 %) Business Analysis 9 2 (0.957 %) Information Management 9 2 (0.957 %) Logistics 9 2 (0.957 %) Agile Software Development 9 2 (0.957 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 113 (54.07 %) Java 2 76 (36.36 %) SQL 3 37 (17.70 %) C# 4 30 (14.35 %) VB 5 28 (13.40 %) VB.NET 5 28 (13.40 %) COBOL 6 20 (9.569 %) VB6 7 16 (7.656 %) PL/SQL 8 14 (6.699 %) DHTML 9 13 (6.220 %) PHP 9 13 (6.220 %) VBScript 10 12 (5.742 %) C 11 8 (3.828 %) C++ 11 8 (3.828 %) LotusScript 12 4 (1.914 %) Perl 12 4 (1.914 %) Shell Script 13 3 (1.435 %) VBA 13 3 (1.435 %) Transact-SQL 14 2 (0.957 %) ActionScript 15 1 (0.478 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 9 (4.306 %) Degree 2 3 (1.435 %) ISEB 2 3 (1.435 %) ISTQB 3 2 (0.957 %) HNC 4 1 (0.478 %) MCPD 4 1 (0.478 %) MCP 4 1 (0.478 %) MCAD 4 1 (0.478 %) MCSD 4 1 (0.478 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (0.478 %) Sun Certification 4 1 (0.478 %) SCJD 4 1 (0.478 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 1 (0.478 %) MCTS	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.435 %) WAI 2 2 (0.957 %) QA 2 2 (0.957 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 4 (1.914 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 43 (20.57 %) Oracle 2 9 (4.306 %) Lotus 3 7 (3.349 %) Microsoft 4 4 (1.914 %) BEA 4 4 (1.914 %) IONA 5 3 (1.435 %) Hyperion 6 2 (0.957 %) Macromedia 6 2 (0.957 %) VMware 6 2 (0.957 %) Sage 7 1 (0.478 %) Sun 7 1 (0.478 %) Adobe 7 1 (0.478 %) IBM