The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 45 59 59
Rank change year-on-year
+14 0
Contract jobs citing Ajax 11 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.358% 0.542% 0.747%
As % of the Application Development category 6.250% 4.688% 7.194%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 3
Average daily rate £321 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.08% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.94 £32.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-7.16% -24.11%
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
176 128 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 21.73% 11.57% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 59 61
Average daily rate £314 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.20% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
Scotland

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 23 (76.67%) jQuery
2 20 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 20 (66.67%) XML
3 19 (63.33%) CSS
4 17 (56.67%) Java
5 15 (50.00%) Web Services
6 14 (46.67%) C#
6 14 (46.67%) HTML
7 13 (43.33%) .NET
8 11 (36.67%) SQL
8 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
8 11 (36.67%) ASP.NET
8 11 (36.67%) HTML5
9 10 (33.33%) Visual Studio
10 8 (26.67%) SOAP
10 8 (26.67%) JSON
11 7 (23.33%) MVC
12 5 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
12 5 (16.67%) Data Analysis
12 5 (16.67%) JSF
12 5 (16.67%) OO
12 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
12 5 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
12 5 (16.67%) PL/SQL
12 5 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
12 5 (16.67%) WebSphere
12 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
12 5 (16.67%) JSR 286
12 5 (16.67%) WebSphere Portal

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 23 (76.67%) jQuery
2 20 (66.67%) XML
3 19 (63.33%) CSS
4 15 (50.00%) Web Services
5 14 (46.67%) HTML
6 13 (43.33%) .NET
7 11 (36.67%) ASP.NET
7 11 (36.67%) HTML5
8 8 (26.67%) SOAP
8 8 (26.67%) JSON
9 5 (16.67%) JSR 286
9 5 (16.67%) Highcharts JS
9 5 (16.67%) JSF
9 5 (16.67%) WebSphere
9 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
10 4 (13.33%) Flash
10 4 (13.33%) XHTML
11 2 (6.667%) XSLT
11 2 (6.667%) Visualforce
11 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 5 (16.67%) WebSphere Portal
2 2 (6.667%) Umbraco
2 2 (6.667%) CMS
3 1 (3.333%) WebSphere Process Server
3 1 (3.333%) DotNetNuke
3 1 (3.333%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.333%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Gephi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.333%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.333%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 4 (13.33%) Mercurial
General
1 2 (6.667%) Finance
1 2 (6.667%) Banking
1 2 (6.667%) Investment Banking
2 1 (3.333%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (83.33%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Lead Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (10.00%) WebSphere Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Front-End Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Portal Developer
5 2 (6.667%) WebSphere Portal Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.667%) Applications Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Web Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Consultant
6 1 (3.333%) Lead Designer
6 1 (3.333%) Web Applications Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Java Applications Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.333%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
2 4 (13.33%) NHS
3 2 (6.667%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) MVC
2 5 (16.67%) OO
2 5 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 5 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
2 5 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (13.33%) Web Application Development
4 3 (10.00%) TDD
4 3 (10.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (6.667%) Asset Management
5 2 (6.667%) CRM
6 1 (3.333%) Scrum
6 1 (3.333%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (3.333%) Web Development
6 1 (3.333%) Data Analytics
6 1 (3.333%) Analytics
6 1 (3.333%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 17 (56.67%) Java
3 14 (46.67%) C#
4 11 (36.67%) SQL
5 5 (16.67%) PL/SQL
6 4 (13.33%) Ruby
7 2 (6.667%) Apex Code
8 1 (3.333%) Scala
8 1 (3.333%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.333%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Telerik
3 2 (6.667%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (3.333%) EPiServer
4 1 (3.333%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.333%) Adobe
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle
4 1 (3.333%) IBM