Lancashire JavaScript Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeenshire Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Romford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shefford Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	12	30
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	22	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	21.78 %	8.485 %
Daily rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£258
Average daily rate	£345	£267
% change on same period last year	+29.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£273	£302
% change on same period last year	-9.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.86	£24.00
Average hourly rate	£17.71	£26.57
% change on same period last year	-33.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.57	£29.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.17	£28.47
% change on same period last year	-11.58 %
Programming Languages Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	101	165
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.202 %	0.206 %
Daily rates quoted	21	30
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£274
Average daily rate	£301	£292
% change on same period last year	+3.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£316	£309
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£335
% change on same period last year	-5.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.05	£24.84
Average hourly rate	£25.64	£27.02
% change on same period last year	-5.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.24	£29.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.94	£32.49
% change on same period last year	-4.75 %
JavaScript North West

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Preston	+7	10	£318	+34.10 %
Darwen	-	5	-	-
Lancaster	-	1	£425	-
Morecambe	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 37 (67.27 %) CSS 2 31 (56.36 %) ASP 3 29 (52.73 %) .NET 4 28 (50.91 %) VBScript 5 25 (45.45 %) Oracle 6 23 (41.82 %) SQL 7 22 (40.00 %) HTML 7 22 (40.00 %) Crystal Reports 8 15 (27.27 %) Visual Studio 8 15 (27.27 %) PL/SQL 9 14 (25.45 %) Oracle Reports 10 13 (23.64 %) ASP.NET 11 12 (21.82 %) C# 11 12 (21.82 %) Dreamweaver 12 11 (20.00 %) InterDev

12 11 (20.00 %) XHTML 13 10 (18.18 %) VB.NET 13 10 (18.18 %) Government 13 10 (18.18 %) Microsoft 13 10 (18.18 %) Local Government 14 9 (16.36 %) e-GIF 15 7 (12.73 %) Flash 15 7 (12.73 %) FTP 15 7 (12.73 %) SQL Server 15 7 (12.73 %) Construction 16 6 (10.91 %) Photoshop 16 6 (10.91 %) Transact-SQL 17 5 (9.091 %) DTS 17 5 (9.091 %) XML 17 5 (9.091 %) Web Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 37 (67.27 %) CSS 2 31 (56.36 %) ASP 3 29 (52.73 %) .NET 4 22 (40.00 %) HTML 5 13 (23.64 %) ASP.NET 6 11 (20.00 %) XHTML 7 7 (12.73 %) Flash 8 5 (9.091 %) XML 9 4 (7.273 %) XSLT 10 3 (5.455 %) AJAX 10 3 (5.455 %) ADO 11 2 (3.636 %) DHTML 12 1 (1.818 %) J2EE 12 1 (1.818 %) ADO.NET 12 1 (1.818 %) COM 12 1 (1.818 %) .NET Framework 12 1 (1.818 %) Java RMI 12 1 (1.818 %) XSD	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.818 %) Apache 1 1 (1.818 %) CMS
Applications 1 6 (10.91 %) Photoshop 2 4 (7.273 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 3 (5.455 %) Adobe Premiere 3 3 (5.455 %) 3ds Max 4 1 (1.818 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 4 (7.273 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 7 (12.73 %) FTP 2 1 (1.818 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (40.00 %) Crystal Reports 2 14 (25.45 %) Oracle Reports 3 7 (12.73 %) SQL Server 4 5 (9.091 %) DTS 5 3 (5.455 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (1.818 %) MySQL 6 1 (1.818 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 15 (27.27 %) Visual Studio 2 12 (21.82 %) Dreamweaver 3 11 (20.00 %) InterDev 4 1 (1.818 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 10 (18.18 %) Government 1 10 (18.18 %) Local Government 2 7 (12.73 %) Construction 3 3 (5.455 %) Multimedia 3 3 (5.455 %) Video Editing 4 2 (3.636 %) Aerospace 5 1 (1.818 %) Electronics 5 1 (1.818 %) Military 5 1 (1.818 %) Marketing 5 1 (1.818 %) Graphic Design 5 1 (1.818 %) Animation
Job Titles 1 46 (83.64 %) Developer 2 35 (63.64 %) Web Developer 3 7 (12.73 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (7.273 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 3 (5.455 %) Programmer 5 3 (5.455 %) Lead Developer 5 3 (5.455 %) C# Developer 5 3 (5.455 %) VB.NET Developer 5 3 (5.455 %) VB Developer 5 3 (5.455 %) VB6 Developer 5 3 (5.455 %) Web Programmer 5 3 (5.455 %) C# ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (3.636 %) Web Designer 6 2 (3.636 %) .NET Web Developer 7 1 (1.818 %) Coordinator 7 1 (1.818 %) Oracle Developer 7 1 (1.818 %) SQL Developer 7 1 (1.818 %) SQL Server Developer 7 1 (1.818 %) Web Applications Developer 7 1 (1.818 %) ASP Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.636 %) W3C 1 2 (3.636 %) SCORM 2 1 (1.818 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 1 (1.818 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (16.36 %) e-GIF 2 5 (9.091 %) Web Development 3 3 (5.455 %) SEO 3 3 (5.455 %) RAD 4 2 (3.636 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.818 %) Web Design 5 1 (1.818 %) Internet Marketing
Programming Languages 1 28 (50.91 %) VBScript 2 23 (41.82 %) SQL 3 15 (27.27 %) PL/SQL 4 12 (21.82 %) C# 5 10 (18.18 %) VB.NET 6 6 (10.91 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (5.455 %) VB 7 3 (5.455 %) VB6 8 2 (3.636 %) PHP 9 1 (1.818 %) Java	Qualifications 1 5 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (3.636 %) Degree 2 2 (3.636 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (1.818 %) MBA
Vendors 1 25 (45.45 %) Oracle 2 10 (18.18 %) Microsoft 3 3 (5.455 %) Adobe 3 3 (5.455 %) Autodesk 4 1 (1.818 %) Infragistics 4 1 (1.818 %) Macromedia