Kent AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the Kent 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hull Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	45
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	33	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	32.04 %	7.237 %
Daily rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£191
Average daily rate	£241	£194
% change on same period last year	+24.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£248	£196
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£297
% change on same period last year	+6.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.07	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£30.90	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-4.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.73	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.60	£36.62
% change on same period last year	-13.72 %
Application Development Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	103	152
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.154 %
Daily rates quoted	20	33
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£236
Average daily rate	£310	£245
% change on same period last year	+26.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£254
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.60	£41.50
Average hourly rate	£30.50	£48.40
% change on same period last year	-36.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.39	£55.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing AJAX across the Kent 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 IT contract jobs citing AJAX across the Kent region.

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

AJAX
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

AJAX
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AJAX within the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Maidstone	-3	8	£300	+20.00 %
Tunbridge Wells	-	4	-	-
Sevenoaks	-	1	-	-

AJAX South East

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing AJAX 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 AJAX.

1 32 (86.49 %) .NET 2 31 (83.78 %) ASP 3 30 (81.08 %) HTML 4 26 (70.27 %) XML 5 20 (54.05 %) C# 6 19 (51.35 %) JavaScript 7 18 (48.65 %) ASP.NET 8 16 (43.24 %) GIS 8 16 (43.24 %) ESRI 9 15 (40.54 %) ArcIMS 10 14 (37.84 %) UNIX 11 13 (35.14 %) Windows 11 13 (35.14 %) VB 11 13 (35.14 %) ArcObjects 12 12 (32.43 %) CSS

13 11 (29.73 %) XHTML 14 10 (27.03 %) WebServices 14 10 (27.03 %) Oracle 14 10 (27.03 %) Internet 15 8 (21.62 %) Microsoft 16 7 (18.92 %) Intranet 16 7 (18.92 %) ArcSDE 16 7 (18.92 %) Publishing 16 7 (18.92 %) MS Excel 16 7 (18.92 %) MS PowerPoint 16 7 (18.92 %) Degree 17 5 (13.51 %) PHP 17 5 (13.51 %) MySQL 18 4 (10.81 %) SQL 18 4 (10.81 %) SQL Server

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing AJAX 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 AJAX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 32 (86.49 %) .NET 2 31 (83.78 %) ASP 3 30 (81.08 %) HTML 4 26 (70.27 %) XML 5 18 (48.65 %) ASP.NET 6 13 (35.14 %) ArcObjects 7 12 (32.43 %) CSS 8 11 (29.73 %) XHTML 9 10 (27.03 %) WebServices 10 3 (8.108 %) ADSI 11 2 (5.405 %) ADO 11 2 (5.405 %) jQuery 12 1 (2.703 %) XSL 12 1 (2.703 %) XSLT 12 1 (2.703 %) JSP 12 1 (2.703 %) MVC 12 1 (2.703 %) .NET Framework 12 1 (2.703 %) Dojo 12 1 (2.703 %) Silverlight 12 1 (2.703 %) LINQ	Application Platforms 1 15 (40.54 %) ArcIMS 2 7 (18.92 %) ArcSDE 3 4 (10.81 %) IIS 4 1 (2.703 %) Apache 4 1 (2.703 %) CMS 4 1 (2.703 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (2.703 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 7 (18.92 %) MS Excel 1 7 (18.92 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (2.703 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 3 (8.108 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 10 (27.03 %) Internet 2 7 (18.92 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (43.24 %) GIS 2 5 (13.51 %) MySQL 3 4 (10.81 %) SQL Server 4 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 7 (18.92 %) Publishing 2 4 (10.81 %) Government 3 3 (8.108 %) Local Government 3 3 (8.108 %) Marketing 4 2 (5.405 %) Finance 5 1 (2.703 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 33 (89.19 %) Developer 2 17 (45.95 %) Web Developer 3 12 (32.43 %) GIS Developer 4 7 (18.92 %) Junior Web Developer 4 7 (18.92 %) Junior 4 7 (18.92 %) Junior Developer 5 6 (16.22 %) Applications Developer 6 4 (10.81 %) PHP Developer 7 2 (5.405 %) Web Applications Developer 7 2 (5.405 %) C# Developer 7 2 (5.405 %) PHP Web Developer 8 1 (2.703 %) C# Web Developer 8 1 (2.703 %) Systems Programmer 8 1 (2.703 %) Web Programmer 8 1 (2.703 %) Website Developer 8 1 (2.703 %) MySQL Developer 8 1 (2.703 %) Web Designer 8 1 (2.703 %) ASP Developer 8 1 (2.703 %) Programmer 8 1 (2.703 %) .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.405 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 14 (37.84 %) UNIX 2 13 (35.14 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.81 %) Web Development 2 2 (5.405 %) OOP 2 2 (5.405 %) OO 2 2 (5.405 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (2.703 %) OOD 3 1 (2.703 %) E-business 3 1 (2.703 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 20 (54.05 %) C# 2 19 (51.35 %) JavaScript 3 13 (35.14 %) VB 4 5 (13.51 %) PHP 5 4 (10.81 %) SQL 6 2 (5.405 %) DHTML 6 2 (5.405 %) Java 7 1 (2.703 %) PHP5	Qualifications 1 7 (18.92 %) Degree
Vendors 1 16 (43.24 %) ESRI 2 10 (27.03 %) Oracle 3 8 (21.62 %) Microsoft