The first table below looks at the demand for Node.js skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Node.js over the 3 months to 23 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 Hertfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nodejs
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Node.js 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £375 £175
% change year-on-year
-26.66% +114.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
210 279 214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 32.97% 28.73% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 118 93
Average daily rate £400 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £275 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 24
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £20.00 £33.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £36.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Node.js
East of England

Node.js
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Node.js Jobs Demand Trend

Node.js
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Node.js Daily Rate Trend

Node.js
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Node.js 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 Node.js.

1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) Web Usability
2 2 (66.67%) Sass
2 2 (66.67%) XPath
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) YUI
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe
3 1 (33.33%) SEO
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Semantic Web
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) OOCSS

Node.js
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Node.js 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 Node.js. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) Sass
2 2 (66.67%) YUI
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
3 1 (33.33%) OOCSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (33.33%) UI Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (33.33%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Web Usability
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) SEO
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) XPath
2 2 (66.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe