East of England JavaScript Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Romford Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Sutton-in-Ashfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tiverton Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	26
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	115	231
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.181 %	0.248 %
As % of the category below	10.67 %	13.50 %
Daily rates quoted	31	84
Average minimum daily rate	£214	£255
Average daily rate	£234	£271
% change on same period last year	-13.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£253	£286
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£293
% change on same period last year	-2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.56	£33.64
Average hourly rate	£28.50	£35.29
% change on same period last year	-19.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.44	£36.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.33	£29.11
% change on same period last year	-12.96 %
Programming Languages East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1078	1711
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.698 %	1.833 %
Daily rates quoted	288	435
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£304
Average daily rate	£313	£325
% change on same period last year	-3.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	150	301
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.58	£32.37
Average hourly rate	£35.16	£34.25
% change on same period last year	+2.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.73	£36.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.21	£32.89
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
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 of England 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 of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Hertfordshire	-4	39	£250	-2.48 %
Cambridgeshire	-5	34	£222	-14.43 %
Essex	-10	17	£198	-40.79 %
Suffolk	+16	9	£265	-6.19 %
Norfolk	-10	8	£213	-22.72 %
Bedfordshire	+9	6	-	-
East Anglia	+3	4	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 154 (62.35 %) HTML 2 152 (61.54 %) CSS 3 111 (44.94 %) .NET 4 99 (40.08 %) XML 5 88 (35.63 %) SQL Server 6 82 (33.20 %) ASP.NET 7 67 (27.13 %) C# 8 64 (25.91 %) SQL 9 63 (25.51 %) XHTML 10 62 (25.10 %) ASP 11 60 (24.29 %) AJAX 12 55 (22.27 %) Java 13 48 (19.43 %) WebServices 13 48 (19.43 %) Web Development 14 39 (15.79 %) PHP

15 38 (15.38 %) VB 16 37 (14.98 %) JSP 17 36 (14.57 %) OO 18 34 (13.77 %) J2EE 18 34 (13.77 %) Flash 18 34 (13.77 %) Agile Software Development 19 33 (13.36 %) UML 19 33 (13.36 %) XSLT 20 32 (12.96 %) VB.NET 21 28 (11.34 %) Struts 22 25 (10.12 %) Windows 22 25 (10.12 %) Oracle 22 25 (10.12 %) SQL Server 2005 23 24 (9.717 %) Finance 23 24 (9.717 %) MySQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 1 154 (62.35 %) HTML 2 152 (61.54 %) CSS 3 111 (44.94 %) .NET 4 99 (40.08 %) XML 5 82 (33.20 %) ASP.NET 6 63 (25.51 %) XHTML 7 62 (25.10 %) ASP 8 60 (24.29 %) AJAX 9 48 (19.43 %) WebServices 10 37 (14.98 %) JSP 11 34 (13.77 %) J2EE 12 33 (13.36 %) XSLT 13 28 (11.34 %) Struts 14 20 (8.097 %) XSL 15 19 (7.692 %) Hibernate 16 15 (6.073 %) WebSphere 17 14 (5.668 %) JSF 17 14 (5.668 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 14 (5.668 %) Servlets 18 12 (4.858 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 16 (6.478 %) CMS 2 13 (5.263 %) Apache 3 12 (4.858 %) IIS 4 10 (4.049 %) WebLogic 5 7 (2.834 %) Tomcat 5 7 (2.834 %) WebLogic Portal 6 6 (2.429 %) SharePoint 7 5 (2.024 %) ColdFusion 8 4 (1.619 %) TeamSite 9 3 (1.215 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 3 (1.215 %) JBoss 9 3 (1.215 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 2 (0.810 %) MQSeries 10 2 (0.810 %) BizTalk Server 11 1 (0.405 %) Content Management Server 11 1 (0.405 %) SharePoint Portal Server 11 1 (0.405 %) CICS 11 1 (0.405 %) MS Exchange 11 1 (0.405 %) MTS 11 1 (0.405 %) Resin
Applications 1 15 (6.073 %) Photoshop 2 11 (4.453 %) MS Excel 3 7 (2.834 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 6 (2.429 %) Fireworks 5 5 (2.024 %) FreeHand 6 3 (1.215 %) MS Office 6 3 (1.215 %) ImageReady 7 2 (0.810 %) InDesign 8 1 (0.405 %) Spreadsheet 8 1 (0.405 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (0.810 %) Teamcenter 2 1 (0.405 %) Google Analytics 2 1 (0.405 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 11 (4.453 %) Internet 2 7 (2.834 %) HTTP 3 1 (0.405 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (0.405 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.405 %) SMPP 3 1 (0.405 %) SMS 3 1 (0.405 %) SMTP 3 1 (0.405 %) DHCP 3 1 (0.405 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 88 (35.63 %) SQL Server 2 25 (10.12 %) SQL Server 2005 3 24 (9.717 %) MySQL 4 21 (8.502 %) SQL Server 2000 5 5 (2.024 %) MS Access 6 4 (1.619 %) DTS 7 3 (1.215 %) DB2 7 3 (1.215 %) JasperReports 8 2 (0.810 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 2 (0.810 %) GIS 8 2 (0.810 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 2 (0.810 %) RDBMS 8 2 (0.810 %) Oracle Reports 8 2 (0.810 %) Oracle 9i 9 1 (0.405 %) Crystal Reports 9 1 (0.405 %) Ingres 9 1 (0.405 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 34 (13.77 %) Flash 2 16 (6.478 %) Dreamweaver 3 14 (5.668 %) Visual Studio 4 9 (3.644 %) JUnit 5 8 (3.239 %) Ant 6 6 (2.429 %) Subversion 7 5 (2.024 %) Eclipse 7 5 (2.024 %) NUnit 8 4 (1.619 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 4 (1.619 %) TestDirector 9 3 (1.215 %) QuickTest Pro 9 3 (1.215 %) LoadRunner 9 3 (1.215 %) JMeter 9 3 (1.215 %) WinRunner 9 3 (1.215 %) Selenium 9 3 (1.215 %) FitNesse 10 1 (0.405 %) XDoclet 10 1 (0.405 %) IntelliJ 10 1 (0.405 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 24 (9.717 %) Finance 2 15 (6.073 %) Retail 3 13 (5.263 %) Marketing 4 9 (3.644 %) Back Office 5 8 (3.239 %) Telecoms 5 8 (3.239 %) Insurance 6 5 (2.024 %) Publishing 7 4 (1.619 %) Front Office 7 4 (1.619 %) Multimedia 7 4 (1.619 %) Pensions 8 3 (1.215 %) Banking 8 3 (1.215 %) Electronics 9 2 (0.810 %) Pharmaceutical 9 2 (0.810 %) Financial Institution 9 2 (0.810 %) Education 9 2 (0.810 %) Billing 9 2 (0.810 %) Graphic Design 10 1 (0.405 %) Animation 10 1 (0.405 %) Video Editing 10 1 (0.405 %) Interactive Media
Job Titles 1 198 (80.16 %) Developer 2 64 (25.91 %) Web Developer 3 54 (21.86 %) .NET Developer 4 32 (12.96 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 25 (10.12 %) C# Developer 6 23 (9.312 %) Java Developer 7 18 (7.287 %) VB.NET Developer 7 18 (7.287 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 17 (6.883 %) .NET Web Developer 9 16 (6.478 %) PHP Developer 10 14 (5.668 %) Senior Developer 11 12 (4.858 %) Architect 12 11 (4.453 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 13 10 (4.049 %) Java/J2EE Developer 13 10 (4.049 %) Applications Developer 13 10 (4.049 %) ASP Developer 14 8 (3.239 %) Web Applications Developer 14 8 (3.239 %) SQL Developer 14 8 (3.239 %) Software Developer 14 8 (3.239 %) J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 12 (4.858 %) W3C 2 6 (2.429 %) Web 2.0 3 5 (2.024 %) N-Tier 4 2 (0.810 %) Computer Science 4 2 (0.810 %) RIA 4 2 (0.810 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.405 %) Clustering 5 1 (0.405 %) IPTV 5 1 (0.405 %) MPEG 5 1 (0.405 %) NHS 5 1 (0.405 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 25 (10.12 %) Windows 2 22 (8.907 %) Linux 3 16 (6.478 %) UNIX 4 10 (4.049 %) Windows Server 2003 5 5 (2.024 %) Windows 2000 5 5 (2.024 %) Solaris 6 3 (1.215 %) Windows XP 6 3 (1.215 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (0.405 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (0.405 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 48 (19.43 %) Web Development 2 36 (14.57 %) OO 3 34 (13.77 %) Agile Software Development 4 33 (13.36 %) UML 5 22 (8.907 %) E-Commerce 6 12 (4.858 %) Content Management 7 9 (3.644 %) Scrum 7 9 (3.644 %) OOD 8 8 (3.239 %) SOA 9 7 (2.834 %) Project Management 10 6 (2.429 %) RAD 10 6 (2.429 %) CRM 10 6 (2.429 %) GAP Analysis 10 6 (2.429 %) Unit Testing 11 5 (2.024 %) Web Design 12 4 (1.619 %) TDD 12 4 (1.619 %) Business Analysis 12 4 (1.619 %) Security Cleared 13 3 (1.215 %) SC Cleared 13 3 (1.215 %) Web Testing
Programming Languages 1 67 (27.13 %) C# 2 64 (25.91 %) SQL 3 55 (22.27 %) Java 4 39 (15.79 %) PHP 5 38 (15.38 %) VB 6 32 (12.96 %) VB.NET 7 22 (8.907 %) VB6 8 17 (6.883 %) ActionScript 9 16 (6.478 %) DHTML 10 13 (5.263 %) Perl 11 10 (4.049 %) C++ 11 10 (4.049 %) VBScript 12 9 (3.644 %) Transact-SQL 13 8 (3.239 %) PHP5 14 6 (2.429 %) PHP4 15 5 (2.024 %) Shell Script 16 4 (1.619 %) XPath 16 4 (1.619 %) Python 16 4 (1.619 %) C 16 4 (1.619 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 10 (4.049 %) Degree 2 5 (2.024 %) HND 3 3 (1.215 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (1.215 %) MCP 4 2 (0.810 %) MCAD 4 2 (0.810 %) MCSD 5 1 (0.405 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.024 %) QA 2 1 (0.405 %) WCAG	System Software 1 1 (0.405 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 25 (10.12 %) Oracle 2 22 (8.907 %) Microsoft 3 9 (3.644 %) Adobe 4 6 (2.429 %) FatWire 5 4 (1.619 %) Northgate 6 3 (1.215 %) InterSystems 6 3 (1.215 %) IBM 6 3 (1.215 %) Interwoven 7 2 (0.810 %) Quark 7 2 (0.810 %) Symbian 7 2 (0.810 %) Google 8 1 (0.405 %) Sitecore 8 1 (0.405 %) Hummingbird 8 1 (0.405 %) Sun 8 1 (0.405 %) Mercator 8 1 (0.405 %) BEA 8 1 (0.405 %) Tridion