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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the East of England region.

 JavaScript
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank123034
Rank change year-on-year
Up+18Up+4
Matching contract IT job ads11395177
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England6.857 %4.354 %4.033 %
As % of the Programming Languages category17.38 %13.48 %11.40 %
Daily rates quoted394466
Average daily rate£275£275£320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--14.06 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£146£175£205
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£305£350£375
UK excluding London average daily rate£250£250£300
% change year-on-year
--16.66 %
Hourly rates quoted111211
Average hourly rate£30.00£35.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.49 %+18.33 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.00£30.15£25.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.50£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£20.00£30.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00 %-33.33 %
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6507051553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England39.44 %32.31 %35.38 %
Daily rates quoted245222427
Average daily rate£280£290£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.440 %-17.14 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£185£217£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£450£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted13894214
Average hourly rate£29.00£32.50£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.76 %-7.140 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.25£21.00£22.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.30£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.000 %-14.28 %
JavaScript EnglandJavaScript
England

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.

JavaScript
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.

East of England JavaScript Demand Trend

JavaScript
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.

East of England JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
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 18 March 2010.

East of England JavaScript Daily Rate Histogram

JavaScript
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.

East of England JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
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 18 March 2010.

East of England JavaScript Hourly Rate Histogram

JavaScript
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 18 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
CambridgeshireUp+444£250-9.09 %
HertfordshireUp+626£288-11.53 %
EssexUp+912£250+42.85 %
NorfolkUp+1411£165-5.71 %
SuffolkDown-411£231-15.90 %
East AngliaUp+86£300+4.34 %
BedfordshireNew entry-2--
JavaScript EnglandJavaScript
England

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, 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.

1117 (66.10 %)HTML
2107 (60.45 %)CSS
360 (33.90 %)Java
360 (33.90 %)XML
456 (31.64 %)XHTML
555 (31.07 %)AJAX
653 (29.94 %).NET
743 (24.29 %)MySQL
743 (24.29 %)C#
842 (23.73 %)SQL
941 (23.16 %)ASP.NET
1039 (22.03 %)PHP
1132 (18.08 %)MVC
1230 (16.95 %)SQL Server
1328 (15.82 %)J2EE
1426 (14.69 %)OO
1525 (14.12 %)Linux
1623 (12.99 %)jQuery
1722 (12.43 %)Spring
1821 (11.86 %)Tomcat
1821 (11.86 %)Internet
1920 (11.30 %)E-Commerce
1920 (11.30 %)Web Services
1920 (11.30 %)Servlets
1920 (11.30 %)Web Development
2018 (10.17 %)Apache
2018 (10.17 %)Flash
2018 (10.17 %)Hibernate
2117 (9.605 %)Eclipse
2216 (9.040 %)Visual Studio

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, 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.

East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1117 (66.10 %)HTML
2107 (60.45 %)CSS
360 (33.90 %)XML
456 (31.64 %)XHTML
555 (31.07 %)AJAX
653 (29.94 %).NET
741 (23.16 %)ASP.NET
828 (15.82 %)J2EE
923 (12.99 %)jQuery
1022 (12.43 %)Spring
1120 (11.30 %)Web Services
1120 (11.30 %)Servlets
1218 (10.17 %)Flash
1218 (10.17 %)Hibernate
1315 (8.475 %)DHTML
1315 (8.475 %)XSLT
1413 (7.345 %)JSP
1511 (6.215 %)SOAP
1610 (5.650 %)ASP
179 (5.085 %)WebSphere
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
121 (11.86 %)Tomcat
218 (10.17 %)Apache
310 (5.650 %)IIS
47 (3.955 %)CMS
56 (3.390 %)WebSphere Application Server
56 (3.390 %)Drupal
65 (2.825 %)WebLogic
72 (1.130 %)TeamSite
81 (0.565 %)EPiServer
81 (0.565 %)BizTalk Server
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
114 (7.910 %)Photoshop
26 (3.390 %)Fireworks
34 (2.260 %)MS Excel
42 (1.130 %)Adobe Illustrator
51 (0.565 %)CorelDRAW
51 (0.565 %)MS Office
51 (0.565 %)MS Visio
51 (0.565 %)PageMaker
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.565 %)Dynamics CRM
11 (0.565 %)Summit
11 (0.565 %)Microsoft CRM
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
121 (11.86 %)Internet
212 (6.780 %)HTTP
37 (3.955 %)Extranet
37 (3.955 %)Intranet
46 (3.390 %)VoIP
46 (3.390 %)X.400
54 (2.260 %)LDAP
62 (1.130 %)SSL
71 (0.565 %)VPN
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
143 (24.29 %)MySQL
230 (16.95 %)SQL Server
314 (7.910 %)SQL Server 2005
412 (6.780 %)RDBMS
58 (4.520 %)PostgreSQL
67 (3.955 %)SQL Server 2000
76 (3.390 %)DB2
83 (1.695 %)SQL Server Integration Services
83 (1.695 %)DTS
92 (1.130 %)MS Access
101 (0.565 %)SQL Server 2008
101 (0.565 %)InterSystems Cache
101 (0.565 %)Datawarehouse
101 (0.565 %)Oracle 8/8i
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
117 (9.605 %)Eclipse
216 (9.040 %)Visual Studio
312 (6.780 %)Maven
49 (5.085 %)Dreamweaver
49 (5.085 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
58 (4.520 %)Ant
67 (3.955 %)IntelliJ
73 (1.695 %)JBuilder
73 (1.695 %)JDeveloper
82 (1.130 %)VSS/SourceSafe
82 (1.130 %)Subversion
91 (0.565 %)JUnit
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
19 (5.085 %)Finance
25 (2.825 %)Insurance
33 (1.695 %)Marketing
33 (1.695 %)Pharmaceutical
33 (1.695 %)Education
33 (1.695 %)Government
42 (1.130 %)Publishing
42 (1.130 %)Electric
42 (1.130 %)Music
51 (0.565 %)Local Government
51 (0.565 %)Graphic Design
51 (0.565 %)Animation
51 (0.565 %)Banking
51 (0.565 %)Legal
51 (0.565 %)Telecoms
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1147 (83.05 %)Developer
248 (27.12 %)Web Developer
326 (14.69 %).NET Developer
422 (12.43 %)Java Developer
519 (10.73 %)PHP Developer
618 (10.17 %)Designer
717 (9.605 %)J2EE Developer
816 (9.040 %)Web Designer
913 (7.345 %)Front-End Developer
1011 (6.215 %)C# Developer
1011 (6.215 %)ASP.NET Developer
1110 (5.650 %)Java/J2EE Developer
128 (4.520 %)Programmer
128 (4.520 %)PHP Web Developer
137 (3.955 %)Web Programmer
137 (3.955 %)JavaScript Developer
146 (3.390 %)Software Developer
146 (3.390 %)Salesforce.com Developer
146 (3.390 %)CSS Developer
155 (2.825 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
18 (4.520 %)W3C
24 (2.260 %)Biology
33 (1.695 %)Social Network
33 (1.695 %)Open Source
42 (1.130 %)Web 2.0
42 (1.130 %)Mathematics
42 (1.130 %)Chemistry
42 (1.130 %)Computer Science
51 (0.565 %)Blog
51 (0.565 %)Dependency Injection
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
125 (14.12 %)Linux
213 (7.345 %)Windows
310 (5.650 %)Solaris
49 (5.085 %)UNIX
52 (1.130 %)CentOS
61 (0.565 %)Debian
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
132 (18.08 %)MVC
226 (14.69 %)OO
320 (11.30 %)E-Commerce
320 (11.30 %)Web Development
414 (7.910 %)Agile Software Development
59 (5.085 %)RAD
67 (3.955 %)CRM
67 (3.955 %)SOA
67 (3.955 %)Migration
76 (3.390 %)Web Design
85 (2.825 %)TDD
85 (2.825 %)Content Management
85 (2.825 %)OOP
94 (2.260 %)Identity Management
94 (2.260 %)SEO
103 (1.695 %)Web Accessibility
103 (1.695 %)Software Engineering
103 (1.695 %)Scrum
112 (1.130 %)Validation
112 (1.130 %)Quality Management
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
160 (33.90 %)Java
243 (24.29 %)C#
342 (23.73 %)SQL
439 (22.03 %)PHP
515 (8.475 %)C++
611 (6.215 %)PHP5
611 (6.215 %)VB.NET
79 (5.085 %)Python
79 (5.085 %)ActionScript
79 (5.085 %)C
79 (5.085 %)Perl
87 (3.955 %)Groovy
96 (3.390 %)Apex Code
105 (2.825 %)ActionScript 3.0
114 (2.260 %)T-SQL
123 (1.695 %)Delphi
132 (1.130 %)VB
132 (1.130 %)PHP4
141 (0.565 %)VBA
141 (0.565 %)PL/SQL
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
19 (5.085 %)Degree
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (1.130 %)GAMP
12 (1.130 %)ISO9001
12 (1.130 %)GxP
12 (1.130 %)WCAG
21 (0.565 %)PCI DSS
21 (0.565 %)WAI
21 (0.565 %)SLA
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
19 (5.085 %)IBM
28 (4.520 %)Adobe
36 (3.390 %)Salesforce.com
36 (3.390 %)Oracle
45 (2.825 %)JBoss
45 (2.825 %)BEA
54 (2.260 %)Microsoft
54 (2.260 %)Google
63 (1.695 %)Zend
71 (0.565 %)Endeca
71 (0.565 %)Cisco
71 (0.565 %)InterSystems