The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 60 55 49
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -6
Contract jobs citing Ajax 20 5 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 2.123% 0.648% 2.000%
As % of the Application Development category 4.640% 2.717% 5.303%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 11
Average daily rate £300 £275 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -4.34%
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
431 184 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 45.75% 23.83% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 84 157
Average daily rate £338 £283 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.46% -19.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +28.57%
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ajax across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 38 (92.68%) JavaScript
2 32 (78.05%) CSS
3 29 (70.73%) XML
4 26 (63.41%) jQuery
5 24 (58.54%) SQL
6 22 (53.66%) HTML
7 21 (51.22%) OO
8 20 (48.78%) XSLT
9 19 (46.34%) Java
10 18 (43.90%) C#
10 18 (43.90%) .NET
11 16 (39.02%) ASP.NET
11 16 (39.02%) Agile Software Development
11 16 (39.02%) Spring
12 15 (36.59%) Oracle
12 15 (36.59%) SQL Server
13 14 (34.15%) J2EE
14 13 (31.71%) PL/SQL
14 13 (31.71%) Shell Script
14 13 (31.71%) CruiseControl
14 13 (31.71%) Unit Testing
15 12 (29.27%) Selenium
15 12 (29.27%) Banking
15 12 (29.27%) UNIX
15 12 (29.27%) MVC
15 12 (29.27%) JMS
15 12 (29.27%) JDBC
15 12 (29.27%) JSP
15 12 (29.27%) Struts
16 11 (26.83%) Perl

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 32 (78.05%) CSS
2 29 (70.73%) XML
3 26 (63.41%) jQuery
4 22 (53.66%) HTML
5 20 (48.78%) XSLT
6 18 (43.90%) .NET
7 16 (39.02%) ASP.NET
7 16 (39.02%) Spring
8 14 (34.15%) J2EE
9 12 (29.27%) JDBC
9 12 (29.27%) JSP
9 12 (29.27%) Struts
9 12 (29.27%) JMS
10 11 (26.83%) WebSphere
10 11 (26.83%) iBATIS
10 11 (26.83%) Spring MVC
10 11 (26.83%) Spring Web Flow
10 11 (26.83%) GWT
11 8 (19.51%) .NET Framework
11 8 (19.51%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (14.63%) CMS
2 4 (9.756%) IIS
2 4 (9.756%) Umbraco
2 4 (9.756%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (9.756%) SharePoint 2013
2 4 (9.756%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.878%) Lightstreamer
4 1 (2.439%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.439%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.317%) MS Visio
2 3 (7.317%) Photoshop
2 3 (7.317%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.756%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.756%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.439%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) CruiseControl
2 12 (29.27%) Selenium
3 3 (7.317%) Visual Studio
3 3 (7.317%) Subversion
3 3 (7.317%) Dreamweaver
4 2 (4.878%) StyleCop
4 2 (4.878%) MbUnit
5 1 (2.439%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.439%) Maven
5 1 (2.439%) JIRA
General
1 12 (29.27%) Banking
2 5 (12.20%) Finance
3 3 (7.317%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.439%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.439%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (97.56%) Developer
2 16 (39.02%) Java Developer
3 10 (24.39%) .NET Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Web Developer
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.756%) SharePoint Developer
7 3 (7.317%) Senior SharePoint Developer
7 3 (7.317%) Front-End Developer
7 3 (7.317%) Senior Web Developer
8 2 (4.878%) ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (4.878%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (4.878%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.439%) Front-End Web Developer
9 1 (2.439%) Designer
9 1 (2.439%) Digital Designer
9 1 (2.439%) Senior .NET Web Developer
9 1 (2.439%) .NET Web Developer
9 1 (2.439%) Senior .NET Developer
9 1 (2.439%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Data Integration
2 3 (7.317%) W3C
2 3 (7.317%) Web 2.0
2 3 (7.317%) Social Network
3 2 (4.878%) NHS
3 2 (4.878%) Blackberry
3 2 (4.878%) iPad
4 1 (2.439%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.439%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.439%) Clustering
4 1 (2.439%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.439%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.439%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) OO
2 16 (39.02%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (31.71%) Unit Testing
4 12 (29.27%) MVC
5 11 (26.83%) Web Application Development
6 5 (12.20%) OOD
7 3 (7.317%) Scrum
7 3 (7.317%) Content Management
7 3 (7.317%) Web Analytics
7 3 (7.317%) Analytics
7 3 (7.317%) User Experience Design
8 2 (4.878%) Web Usability
8 2 (4.878%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (4.878%) Web Development
8 2 (4.878%) TDD
8 2 (4.878%) Pair Programming
8 2 (4.878%) Multithreading
9 1 (2.439%) Kanban
9 1 (2.439%) ERD
9 1 (2.439%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 38 (92.68%) JavaScript
2 24 (58.54%) SQL
3 19 (46.34%) Java
4 18 (43.90%) C#
5 13 (31.71%) Shell Script
5 13 (31.71%) PL/SQL
6 11 (26.83%) Perl
7 9 (21.95%) T-SQL
8 5 (12.20%) XPath
9 1 (2.439%) C++
9 1 (2.439%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (9.756%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.317%) MCP
3 2 (4.878%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.439%) Degree
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Oracle
2 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.317%) Adobe
3 3 (7.317%) Sybase
4 2 (4.878%) Sencha
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