The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 19 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 Hounslow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 7 5 7
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +2
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 11 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 19.64% 11.24% 8.000%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.48% 35.71% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
Average daily rate £475 £325 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.15% -1.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £305 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £345 £488
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
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
31 28 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 55.36% 31.46% 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 11
Average daily rate £400 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £118
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
JavaScript
London

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the Hounslow region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Hounslow JavaScript Daily Rate Histogram

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hounslow JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 23 (82.14%) TDD
2 21 (75.00%) HTML
2 21 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 19 (67.86%) BDD
4 16 (57.14%) CSS
5 14 (50.00%) Scrum
6 12 (42.86%) Ruby
7 10 (35.71%) Java
7 10 (35.71%) XML
8 9 (32.14%) Pair Programming
8 9 (32.14%) HTML5
8 9 (32.14%) jQuery
9 8 (28.57%) CSS3
9 8 (28.57%) Selenium
9 8 (28.57%) Web Services
10 7 (25.00%) OO
10 7 (25.00%) SQL
10 7 (25.00%) Cucumber
10 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
10 7 (25.00%) Video on Demand
11 6 (21.43%) Open Source
11 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
11 6 (21.43%) RESTful
11 6 (21.43%) Grails
11 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (21.43%) XSLT
11 6 (21.43%) Python
11 6 (21.43%) JSON
11 6 (21.43%) Web Development
11 6 (21.43%) Games

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 21 (75.00%) HTML
2 16 (57.14%) CSS
3 10 (35.71%) XML
4 9 (32.14%) HTML5
4 9 (32.14%) jQuery
5 8 (28.57%) CSS3
5 8 (28.57%) Web Services
6 6 (21.43%) RESTful
6 6 (21.43%) Grails
6 6 (21.43%) XSLT
6 6 (21.43%) JSON
7 4 (14.29%) REST
8 3 (10.71%) Ajax
8 3 (10.71%) Cocoa
8 3 (10.71%) DOM
8 3 (10.71%) Node.js
8 3 (10.71%) Backbone.js
8 3 (10.71%) Cocoa Touch
9 2 (7.143%) SOAP
9 2 (7.143%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) HTTP
2 3 (10.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.571%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Selenium
2 7 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (17.86%) WebDriver
4 4 (14.29%) TeamCity
4 4 (14.29%) CruiseControl
4 4 (14.29%) JIRA
4 4 (14.29%) WATIR
5 3 (10.71%) JUnit
6 2 (7.143%) Hudson
7 1 (3.571%) Subversion
7 1 (3.571%) JMeter
7 1 (3.571%) LoadRunner
7 1 (3.571%) QUnit
7 1 (3.571%) Jasmine
7 1 (3.571%) Git (software)
7 1 (3.571%) TestNG
7 1 (3.571%) TortoiseSVN
7 1 (3.571%) JBehave
7 1 (3.571%) Mockito
General
1 6 (21.43%) Games
2 2 (7.143%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (75.00%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Tester
3 6 (21.43%) Software Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Agile Tester
5 4 (14.29%) Automation Tester
5 4 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Tester
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (7.143%) Web Developer
7 2 (7.143%) PHP Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Performance Tester
8 1 (3.571%) Applications Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Applications Support
8 1 (3.571%) Django Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Ruby Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Front-End Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Senior Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Video on Demand
2 6 (21.43%) Open Source
3 5 (17.86%) STB
4 4 (14.29%) Mobile App
4 4 (14.29%) IPTV
5 2 (7.143%) Blackberry
6 1 (3.571%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Android
1 4 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 2 (7.143%) UNIX
2 2 (7.143%) Windows
3 1 (3.571%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) TDD
2 21 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 19 (67.86%) BDD
4 14 (50.00%) Scrum
5 9 (32.14%) Pair Programming
6 7 (25.00%) OO
7 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (21.43%) Web Development
8 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (14.29%) OOP
8 4 (14.29%) Content Management
9 3 (10.71%) Regression Testing
9 3 (10.71%) DRM
9 3 (10.71%) Automation Testing
9 3 (10.71%) User Stories
9 3 (10.71%) Functional Testing
9 3 (10.71%) Manual Testing
9 3 (10.71%) Kanban
9 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Ruby
2 10 (35.71%) Java
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (21.43%) Python
5 4 (14.29%) Groovy
5 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 3 (10.71%) Objective-C
6 3 (10.71%) Perl
6 3 (10.71%) PHP
7 2 (7.143%) PHP5
8 1 (3.571%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) ISEB
1 4 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.571%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.571%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.571%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 1 (3.571%) VMware
1 1 (3.571%) HP