Essex JavaScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the Essex 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 25 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 Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough 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 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 Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	32
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	28	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	14.21 %	9.929 %
Daily rates quoted	6	9
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£357
Average daily rate	£356	£377
% change on same period last year	-5.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£288
% change on same period last year	+5.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£27.75
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£29.00
% change on same period last year	+12.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£30.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.36	£30.44
% change on same period last year	-3.55 %
Programming Languages Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	197	282
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.263 %	0.285 %
Daily rates quoted	71	86
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£400
Average daily rate	£356	£421
% change on same period last year	-15.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£441
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	62
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.87	£32.61
Average hourly rate	£34.01	£33.16
% change on same period last year	+2.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.16	£33.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
JavaScript East of 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.

JavaScript
Demand Trend

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

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JavaScript across the Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 25 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 Essex region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 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
Colchester	-	7	-	-
Southend-on-Sea	-	4	-	-
Basildon	+13	4	£285	-
Harlow	+7	2	-	-
Chelmsford	+1	2	£350	-5.08 %

JavaScript East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 43 (84.31 %) CSS 2 41 (80.39 %) HTML 3 30 (58.82 %) .NET 4 29 (56.86 %) XML 5 19 (37.25 %) ASP 6 18 (35.29 %) ASP.NET 7 15 (29.41 %) C# 8 13 (25.49 %) SQL 8 13 (25.49 %) Photoshop 8 13 (25.49 %) SQL Server 9 12 (23.53 %) AJAX 10 11 (21.57 %) PHP 10 11 (21.57 %) ActionScript 10 11 (21.57 %) Linux 11 10 (19.61 %) Flash

11 10 (19.61 %) VB.NET 11 10 (19.61 %) Java 12 8 (15.69 %) Web Development 12 8 (15.69 %) IIS 12 8 (15.69 %) XHTML 13 7 (13.73 %) Microsoft 13 7 (13.73 %) UNIX 13 7 (13.73 %) Windows 13 7 (13.73 %) JSP 13 7 (13.73 %) Publishing 14 6 (11.76 %) FatWire 14 6 (11.76 %) Marketing 14 6 (11.76 %) WebSphere 14 6 (11.76 %) Content Management 14 6 (11.76 %) Ant

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 43 (84.31 %) CSS 2 41 (80.39 %) HTML 3 30 (58.82 %) .NET 4 29 (56.86 %) XML 5 19 (37.25 %) ASP 6 18 (35.29 %) ASP.NET 7 12 (23.53 %) AJAX 8 8 (15.69 %) XHTML 9 7 (13.73 %) JSP 10 6 (11.76 %) Struts 10 6 (11.76 %) J2EE 10 6 (11.76 %) WebSphere 11 5 (9.804 %) LAMP 12 4 (7.843 %) WebServices 13 2 (3.922 %) SOAP 13 2 (3.922 %) XSLT 14 1 (1.961 %) XSL 14 1 (1.961 %) Servlets 14 1 (1.961 %) ADO.NET 14 1 (1.961 %) ATL	Application Platforms 1 8 (15.69 %) IIS 2 5 (9.804 %) ColdFusion 3 3 (5.882 %) CMS 4 1 (1.961 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 13 (25.49 %) Photoshop 2 3 (5.882 %) Fireworks 3 2 (3.922 %) ImageReady 4 1 (1.961 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 1 (1.961 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.843 %) Intranet 1 4 (7.843 %) Internet 1 4 (7.843 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (25.49 %) SQL Server 2 6 (11.76 %) MySQL 3 3 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (3.922 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (1.961 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 1 (1.961 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (1.961 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 10 (19.61 %) Flash 2 6 (11.76 %) Dreamweaver 2 6 (11.76 %) Ant 3 3 (5.882 %) WinRunner 3 3 (5.882 %) TestDirector 3 3 (5.882 %) QuickTest Pro 3 3 (5.882 %) LoadRunner 3 3 (5.882 %) JMeter 3 3 (5.882 %) Selenium 3 3 (5.882 %) FitNesse 4 1 (1.961 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 7 (13.73 %) Publishing 2 6 (11.76 %) Marketing 3 4 (7.843 %) Finance 4 3 (5.882 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (3.922 %) Games 6 1 (1.961 %) Advertising 6 1 (1.961 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 41 (80.39 %) Developer 2 19 (37.25 %) Web Developer 3 10 (19.61 %) .NET Developer 4 7 (13.73 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 5 (9.804 %) VB.NET Developer 5 5 (9.804 %) .NET Web Developer 5 5 (9.804 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 5 5 (9.804 %) ASP Developer 6 4 (7.843 %) PHP Web Developer 6 4 (7.843 %) PHP Developer 6 4 (7.843 %) Flash Developer 6 4 (7.843 %) Trainer 7 3 (5.882 %) Tester 7 3 (5.882 %) Senior Developer 8 2 (3.922 %) Administrator 8 2 (3.922 %) C# Developer 8 2 (3.922 %) Systems Tester 8 2 (3.922 %) Systems Administrator 8 2 (3.922 %) Senior Flash Developer 9 1 (1.961 %) ActionScript Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.922 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.961 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 11 (21.57 %) Linux 2 7 (13.73 %) UNIX 2 7 (13.73 %) Windows 3 1 (1.961 %) HPUX 3 1 (1.961 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (15.69 %) Web Development 2 6 (11.76 %) OO 2 6 (11.76 %) Content Management 3 4 (7.843 %) Web Design 4 3 (5.882 %) Agile Software Development 4 3 (5.882 %) Automated Testing 4 3 (5.882 %) Scrum 4 3 (5.882 %) Extreme Programming 4 3 (5.882 %) Web Testing 5 1 (1.961 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.961 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (1.961 %) UML 5 1 (1.961 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.961 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 15 (29.41 %) C# 2 13 (25.49 %) SQL 3 11 (21.57 %) PHP 3 11 (21.57 %) ActionScript 4 10 (19.61 %) VB.NET 4 10 (19.61 %) Java 5 6 (11.76 %) Perl 6 5 (9.804 %) DHTML 6 5 (9.804 %) VB 7 4 (7.843 %) VBScript 8 2 (3.922 %) PHP5 9 1 (1.961 %) VB6 9 1 (1.961 %) PL/SQL 9 1 (1.961 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (5.882 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.882 %) QA
Vendors 1 7 (13.73 %) Microsoft 2 6 (11.76 %) FatWire 3 4 (7.843 %) Adobe 4 2 (3.922 %) Oracle 5 1 (1.961 %) Quark