The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kingston Upon Thames region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 24 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 Kingston Upon Thames 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 7 - 12
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Ajax 1 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 3.846% - 7.895%
As % of the Application Development category 50.00% - 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £275 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £290
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.46 £32.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.44% -24.11%
All Application Development
Kingston Upon Thames
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2 5 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 7.692% 31.25% 71.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 17
Average daily rate £275 £350 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -9.67%
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 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
London

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Ajax across the Kingston Upon Thames region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Kingston Upon Thames Ajax Jobs Demand Trend

Ajax
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Ajax across the Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) XPath
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Syncfusion
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) DHTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) DHTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) XPath
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Syncfusion
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe