The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 27 16 -
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -
Contract jobs citing Ajax 5 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 2.294% 2.609% -
As % of the Application Development category 6.757% 12.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £320 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
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
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 24 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 33.94% 20.87% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 10 13
Average daily rate £320 £375 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% +33.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £335 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 2
Average hourly rate £43.50 £31.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+38.09% -16.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
Surrey

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 5 (71.43%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle 9i
4 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
4 2 (28.57%) B2C
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) VB
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Photoshop
4 2 (28.57%) IIS
4 2 (28.57%) ASP
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 2 (28.57%) CSS
4 2 (28.57%) XML
4 2 (28.57%) InterDev
4 2 (28.57%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (28.57%) VB6
4 2 (28.57%) Fireworks
4 2 (28.57%) Intranet
4 2 (28.57%) Internet
4 2 (28.57%) jQuery
4 2 (28.57%) Information Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) CSS3

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 5 (71.43%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) jQuery
2 2 (28.57%) ASP
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) XSLT
3 1 (14.29%) Lucene
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Photoshop
1 2 (28.57%) Fireworks
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Intranet
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) FTP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) InterDev
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Web Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
2 2 (28.57%) VB Developer
2 2 (28.57%) ASP Developer
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) UI Designer
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience Designer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) VB6 Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) B2C
2 2 (28.57%) Information Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) OOP
3 1 (14.29%) SEO
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) VB
3 2 (28.57%) VB6
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft