East of England AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the East of England 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	42	121
Rank change on same period last year	+79
Matching contract IT job ads	152	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.195 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	11.12 %	2.775 %
Daily rates quoted	96	5
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£288
Average daily rate	£378	£319
% change on same period last year	+18.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£412	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£281
% change on same period last year	+19.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£35.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.23	£30.11
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Application Development East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1367	1009
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.754 %	1.134 %
Daily rates quoted	451	281
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£321
Average daily rate	£363	£347
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	122	100
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.15	£27.98
Average hourly rate	£34.18	£29.61
% change on same period last year	+15.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.22	£31.25
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 of England 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 contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the East of England region.

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the East of England 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 of England 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 of England 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	Hertfordshire	+44	87	£398	+13.59 %
2	Suffolk	-	24	£387	-
3	Essex	+7	22	£290	-
4	Cambridgeshire	0	16	£300	+55.84 %
5	Norfolk	+18	3	£150	-

AJAX England

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England 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.

1 141 (56.40 %) CSS 2 134 (53.60 %) XML 3 121 (48.40 %) .NET 4 109 (43.60 %) HTML 5 103 (41.20 %) ASP.NET 6 92 (36.80 %) JavaScript 7 91 (36.40 %) C# 7 91 (36.40 %) XHTML 8 89 (35.60 %) Internet 9 62 (24.80 %) SQL 10 61 (24.40 %) DHTML 11 52 (20.80 %) Retail 12 50 (20.00 %) W3C 13 49 (19.60 %) OO 14 46 (18.40 %) SQL Server

15 43 (17.20 %) XSLT 16 42 (16.80 %) E-Commerce 16 42 (16.80 %) iDTV 17 37 (14.80 %) WebServices 18 36 (14.40 %) HTTP 19 33 (13.20 %) WPF 20 32 (12.80 %) Java 20 32 (12.80 %) VB.NET 21 31 (12.40 %) BizTalk Server 22 29 (11.60 %) SMTP 23 28 (11.20 %) WCAG 24 27 (10.80 %) FTP 24 27 (10.80 %) TCP/IP 25 26 (10.40 %) RAD 26 25 (10.00 %) PHP

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England 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 1 141 (56.40 %) CSS 2 134 (53.60 %) XML 3 121 (48.40 %) .NET 4 109 (43.60 %) HTML 5 103 (41.20 %) ASP.NET 6 91 (36.40 %) XHTML 7 43 (17.20 %) XSLT 8 37 (14.80 %) WebServices 9 33 (13.20 %) WPF 10 25 (10.00 %) ADO.NET 11 20 (8.000 %) XSL 12 19 (7.600 %) JSP 13 18 (7.200 %) .NET Framework 14 12 (4.800 %) J2EE 14 12 (4.800 %) Spring 15 10 (4.000 %) ASP 15 10 (4.000 %) Servlets 15 10 (4.000 %) Silverlight 15 10 (4.000 %) WCF 16 9 (3.600 %) DOM	Application Platforms 1 31 (12.40 %) BizTalk Server 2 16 (6.400 %) IIS 3 10 (4.000 %) Apache 4 4 (1.600 %) SharePoint 4 4 (1.600 %) Joomla! 4 4 (1.600 %) Mambo 5 3 (1.200 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 3 (1.200 %) CMS 6 2 (0.800 %) TeamSite 6 2 (0.800 %) Tomcat 6 2 (0.800 %) JBoss 6 2 (0.800 %) WebLogic 7 1 (0.400 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 13 (5.200 %) Photoshop 2 3 (1.200 %) MS Excel 2 3 (1.200 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 2 (0.800 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 89 (35.60 %) Internet 2 36 (14.40 %) HTTP 3 29 (11.60 %) SMTP 4 27 (10.80 %) FTP 4 27 (10.80 %) TCP/IP 5 13 (5.200 %) CTI 6 12 (4.800 %) TETRA 7 8 (3.200 %) VoIP 8 4 (1.600 %) SSH 9 2 (0.800 %) SMPP 10 1 (0.400 %) Intranet 10 1 (0.400 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (18.40 %) SQL Server 2 16 (6.400 %) SQL Server 2005 2 16 (6.400 %) MySQL 3 7 (2.800 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (2.000 %) RDBMS 5 4 (1.600 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 2 (0.800 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 2 (0.800 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (0.400 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.400 %) DB2 7 1 (0.400 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 15 (6.000 %) Visual Studio 2 12 (4.800 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 6 (2.400 %) Flash 4 4 (1.600 %) Eclipse 5 3 (1.200 %) Dreamweaver 5 3 (1.200 %) JDeveloper 5 3 (1.200 %) JBuilder 5 3 (1.200 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 6 1 (0.400 %) NUnit 6 1 (0.400 %) StarTeam 6 1 (0.400 %) Firebug
General 1 52 (20.80 %) Retail 2 14 (5.600 %) Games 3 11 (4.400 %) Telecoms 4 8 (3.200 %) Finance 5 7 (2.800 %) Marketing 6 5 (2.000 %) Insurance 7 4 (1.600 %) Graphic Design 8 3 (1.200 %) Multimedia 9 2 (0.800 %) Banking 9 2 (0.800 %) Education 9 2 (0.800 %) Health 9 2 (0.800 %) Pharmaceutical 10 1 (0.400 %) Animation 10 1 (0.400 %) Online Games 10 1 (0.400 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 204 (81.60 %) Developer 2 57 (22.80 %) .NET Developer 3 54 (21.60 %) Web Developer 4 48 (19.20 %) C# Developer 5 30 (12.00 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 29 (11.60 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 15 (6.000 %) Architect 8 12 (4.800 %) Java Developer 9 10 (4.000 %) Development Manager 10 9 (3.600 %) SQL Developer 11 8 (3.200 %) Web Designer 11 8 (3.200 %) .NET Web Developer 12 7 (2.800 %) Software Developer 12 7 (2.800 %) Solutions Architect 12 7 (2.800 %) JavaScript Developer 13 6 (2.400 %) PHP Developer 13 6 (2.400 %) Team Leader 14 5 (2.000 %) VB.NET Developer 14 5 (2.000 %) Java/J2EE Developer 14 5 (2.000 %) CSharp Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 50 (20.00 %) W3C 2 42 (16.80 %) iDTV 3 21 (8.400 %) Web 2.0 4 8 (3.200 %) Client/Server 5 5 (2.000 %) Handset 6 2 (0.800 %) Streaming Media 7 1 (0.400 %) Mandarin Language 7 1 (0.400 %) Cantonese Language 7 1 (0.400 %) Asset Management 7 1 (0.400 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 9 (3.600 %) Windows 2 5 (2.000 %) Linux 3 3 (1.200 %) Unix 4 1 (0.400 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.400 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 49 (19.60 %) OO 2 42 (16.80 %) E-Commerce 3 26 (10.40 %) RAD 4 24 (9.600 %) Web Development 5 22 (8.800 %) Scrum 6 19 (7.600 %) Web Design 7 9 (3.600 %) Change Management 7 9 (3.600 %) UML 8 5 (2.000 %) SEO 8 5 (2.000 %) Agile Software Development 9 4 (1.600 %) Workflow 9 4 (1.600 %) B2B 9 4 (1.600 %) Information Management 9 4 (1.600 %) Statistical Analysis 9 4 (1.600 %) Use Case 10 3 (1.200 %) Internet Marketing 10 3 (1.200 %) Content Management 10 3 (1.200 %) OOD 10 3 (1.200 %) MVC 11 2 (0.800 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 92 (36.80 %) JavaScript 2 91 (36.40 %) C# 3 62 (24.80 %) SQL 4 61 (24.40 %) DHTML 5 32 (12.80 %) Java 5 32 (12.80 %) VB.NET 6 25 (10.00 %) PHP 7 13 (5.200 %) Transact-SQL 8 8 (3.200 %) C++ 9 4 (1.600 %) VB 9 4 (1.600 %) XPath 10 3 (1.200 %) PHP5 10 3 (1.200 %) VB6 10 3 (1.200 %) VBScript 11 2 (0.800 %) Perl 11 2 (0.800 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 3 (1.200 %) Sun Certification 2 2 (0.800 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 28 (11.20 %) WCAG 2 11 (4.400 %) WAI
Vendors 1 15 (6.000 %) Microsoft 2 11 (4.400 %) Serena 3 9 (3.600 %) Oracle 4 5 (2.000 %) Adobe 5 3 (1.200 %) Sun 5 3 (1.200 %) IBM 6 2 (0.800 %) BEA