The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Programming Languages category for the Halifax 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank - 25 -
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 0 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax - 2.242% -
As % of the Programming Languages category - 12.82% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £475 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+18.64% -9.23%
All Programming Languages
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
23 39 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 14.02% 17.49% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 34 24
Average daily rate £350 £428 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.12% +6.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £255 £204
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
JavaScript
West Yorkshire

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript across the Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Halifax JavaScript Jobs Demand Trend

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JavaScript across the Halifax region.

Halifax JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Halifax JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) MS Office
1 3 (75.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Grails
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Grails
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Office
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy