Hampshire AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited AJAX over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cobham Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Ringwood Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	114
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	18	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	3.237 %	0.397 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£238	-
Average daily rate	£285	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£333	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£281
% change on same period last year	+19.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£32.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.23	£30.11
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Application Development Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	556	755
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.713 %	0.848 %
Daily rates quoted	109	199
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£333
Average daily rate	£361	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	94	139
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.44	£34.24
Average hourly rate	£36.88	£35.52
% change on same period last year	+3.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.31	£36.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
AJAX South East

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.

AJAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

AJAX
Daily Rate Trend

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

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Hampshire region over the past 3 months.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the Hampshire region.

AJAX
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AJAX within the Hampshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Southampton	-	4	-	-
2	Portsmouth	-	3	£375	-
3	Ringwood	-	2	£245	-
4	Basingstoke	+17	1	£275	-
4	Fareham	-	1	-	-

AJAX South East

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Hampshire region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX.

1 31 (79.49 %) JavaScript 2 24 (61.54 %) XML 3 19 (48.72 %) Java 4 17 (43.59 %) .NET 5 15 (38.46 %) C# 5 15 (38.46 %) SQL Server 6 14 (35.90 %) JSP 7 12 (30.77 %) ASP.NET 7 12 (30.77 %) CSS 8 11 (28.21 %) HTML 8 11 (28.21 %) XHTML 9 10 (25.64 %) Servlets 10 9 (23.08 %) J2EE 10 9 (23.08 %) Oracle 10 9 (23.08 %) DHTML

10 9 (23.08 %) Windows 11 8 (20.51 %) XSLT 11 8 (20.51 %) Linux 11 8 (20.51 %) C++ 12 7 (17.95 %) PHP 12 7 (17.95 %) WebLogic 12 7 (17.95 %) SOAP 12 7 (17.95 %) Unix 13 6 (15.38 %) Insurance 13 6 (15.38 %) Finance 13 6 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2005 13 6 (15.38 %) Struts 13 6 (15.38 %) Visual Studio 13 6 (15.38 %) SQL 14 5 (12.82 %) DB2

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Hampshire region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 24 (61.54 %) XML 2 17 (43.59 %) .NET 3 14 (35.90 %) JSP 4 12 (30.77 %) ASP.NET 4 12 (30.77 %) CSS 5 11 (28.21 %) XHTML 5 11 (28.21 %) HTML 6 10 (25.64 %) Servlets 7 9 (23.08 %) J2EE 8 8 (20.51 %) XSLT 9 7 (17.95 %) SOAP 10 6 (15.38 %) Struts 11 4 (10.26 %) EJB 11 4 (10.26 %) WSDL 11 4 (10.26 %) JSTL 11 4 (10.26 %) Hibernate 11 4 (10.26 %) WebSphere 12 3 (7.692 %) JSF 12 3 (7.692 %) JNDI 12 3 (7.692 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 7 (17.95 %) WebLogic 2 5 (12.82 %) Apache 2 5 (12.82 %) Tomcat 3 4 (10.26 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 2 (5.128 %) IIS 5 1 (2.564 %) Oracle Application Server 5 1 (2.564 %) Oracle Spatial
Applications 1 2 (5.128 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.564 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (2.564 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 5 (12.82 %) Internet 2 4 (10.26 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (7.692 %) LDAP 4 1 (2.564 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (38.46 %) SQL Server 2 6 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (12.82 %) DB2 4 4 (10.26 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 3 (7.692 %) MySQL 6 2 (5.128 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 6 (15.38 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (7.692 %) Ant 2 3 (7.692 %) Log4j 3 2 (5.128 %) Eclipse 3 2 (5.128 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (2.564 %) JDeveloper 4 1 (2.564 %) Flash 4 1 (2.564 %) ClearCase
General 1 6 (15.38 %) Finance 1 6 (15.38 %) Insurance 2 4 (10.26 %) Government 3 1 (2.564 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 31 (79.49 %) Developer 2 9 (23.08 %) Java Developer 3 8 (20.51 %) .NET Developer 4 7 (17.95 %) C# Developer 5 6 (15.38 %) Web Developer 6 4 (10.26 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 4 (10.26 %) Software Engineer 6 4 (10.26 %) JSP Developer 7 3 (7.692 %) .NET Web Developer 7 3 (7.692 %) J2EE Developer 8 2 (5.128 %) Software Developer 8 2 (5.128 %) PHP Developer 8 2 (5.128 %) Programmer 8 2 (5.128 %) Lead Developer 8 2 (5.128 %) PHP Programmer 8 2 (5.128 %) GUI Developer 9 1 (2.564 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 1 (2.564 %) SQL Developer 9 1 (2.564 %) SQL Server Developer 9 1 (2.564 %) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.564 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 9 (23.08 %) Windows 2 8 (20.51 %) Linux 3 7 (17.95 %) Unix 4 4 (10.26 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (12.82 %) OO 2 4 (10.26 %) Load Balancing 3 3 (7.692 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (7.692 %) MVC 4 1 (2.564 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (2.564 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (2.564 %) Integration Testing	Programming Languages 1 31 (79.49 %) JavaScript 2 19 (48.72 %) Java 3 15 (38.46 %) C# 4 9 (23.08 %) DHTML 5 8 (20.51 %) C++ 6 7 (17.95 %) PHP 7 6 (15.38 %) SQL 8 5 (12.82 %) Perl 8 5 (12.82 %) C 9 4 (10.26 %) Python 10 3 (7.692 %) VB 11 2 (5.128 %) VB.NET 11 2 (5.128 %) Transact-SQL 12 1 (2.564 %) Shell Script 12 1 (2.564 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 1 (2.564 %) MCP 1 1 (2.564 %) MCAD 1 1 (2.564 %) MCSD 1 1 (2.564 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (2.564 %) MCPD 1 1 (2.564 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (7.692 %) HL7 1 3 (7.692 %) DICOM
System Software 1 3 (7.692 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 9 (23.08 %) Oracle 2 4 (10.26 %) IBM 2 4 (10.26 %) Intel 2 4 (10.26 %) BEA 3 3 (7.692 %) Citrix 3 3 (7.692 %) Microsoft 4 1 (2.564 %) Accenture