Halifax JavaScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the Halifax 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	14	8
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	8	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	27.59 %	8.333 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£298	-
Average daily rate	£298	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£298	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£288
% change on same period last year	+5.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.36	£30.44
% change on same period last year	-3.55 %
Programming Languages Halifax
Matching contract IT job ads	29	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	12	4
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£258
Average daily rate	£303	£283
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£304	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
JavaScript West Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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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 Halifax region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 16 (100.00 %) .NET 2 15 (93.75 %) C# 2 15 (93.75 %) XML 3 14 (87.50 %) HTML 4 12 (75.00 %) ASP 5 11 (68.75 %) XSL 6 10 (62.50 %) Finance 7 9 (56.25 %) ASP.NET 7 9 (56.25 %) IIS 8 8 (50.00 %) VBScript 9 7 (43.75 %) VB 10 6 (37.50 %) SQL 10 6 (37.50 %) CSS 10 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server 10 6 (37.50 %) CMS

11 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 11 5 (31.25 %) VB6 11 5 (31.25 %) XSLT 11 5 (31.25 %) Oracle 11 5 (31.25 %) Perl 12 4 (25.00 %) Visual Studio 12 4 (25.00 %) WebServices 12 4 (25.00 %) TeamSite 13 3 (18.75 %) Banking 13 3 (18.75 %) .NET Framework 13 3 (18.75 %) OOD 13 3 (18.75 %) OO 14 2 (12.50 %) XHTML 14 2 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 14 2 (12.50 %) XSD

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 16 (100.00 %) .NET 2 15 (93.75 %) XML 3 14 (87.50 %) HTML 4 12 (75.00 %) ASP 5 11 (68.75 %) XSL 6 9 (56.25 %) ASP.NET 7 6 (37.50 %) CSS 8 5 (31.25 %) XSLT 9 4 (25.00 %) WebServices 10 3 (18.75 %) .NET Framework 11 2 (12.50 %) XHTML 11 2 (12.50 %) XML Schema 11 2 (12.50 %) XML Messaging 11 2 (12.50 %) XSD 12 1 (6.250 %) COM+ 12 1 (6.250 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 9 (56.25 %) IIS 2 6 (37.50 %) CMS 3 4 (25.00 %) TeamSite 4 1 (6.250 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (6.250 %) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (6.250 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 4 (25.00 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (6.250 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (6.250 %) InstallShield	General 1 10 (62.50 %) Finance 2 3 (18.75 %) Banking 3 1 (6.250 %) Insurance 3 1 (6.250 %) International Banking 3 1 (6.250 %) Education 3 1 (6.250 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 16 (100.00 %) Developer 2 6 (37.50 %) .NET Developer 3 4 (25.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) Senior Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) Systems Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) Web Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Applications Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) C# Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) VB Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Web Applications Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Client/Server 1 1 (6.250 %) Thin Client 1 1 (6.250 %) Web 2.0 1 1 (6.250 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 1 (6.250 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) OO 1 3 (18.75 %) OOD 2 2 (12.50 %) Configuration Management 2 2 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (12.50 %) DNA 2 2 (12.50 %) Web Development 2 2 (12.50 %) Use Case 3 1 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (6.250 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 15 (93.75 %) C# 2 8 (50.00 %) VBScript 3 7 (43.75 %) VB 4 6 (37.50 %) SQL 5 5 (31.25 %) VB6 5 5 (31.25 %) Perl 6 1 (6.250 %) PHP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (12.50 %) WAI
System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 5 (31.25 %) Oracle 1 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 2 1 (6.250 %) Lotus