The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 21 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 Programming Languages category for the Leicestershire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 14 16 13
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -3
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 20 9 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 9.434% 4.265% 10.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.62% 13.43% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 3
Average daily rate £290 £215 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.88% +13.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £184 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £325 £230
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £308
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
97 67 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 45.75% 31.75% 49.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 27 29
Average daily rate £325 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £150 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £431 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 24
Average hourly rate £35.00 £13.25 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+164.15% -60.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
JavaScript
East Midlands

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Leicester -2 9 £268 +7.00%
Loughborough - 2 £265 -
JavaScript
East Midlands

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 29 (70.73%) CSS
2 28 (68.29%) jQuery
3 25 (60.98%) HTML
4 21 (51.22%) .NET
5 19 (46.34%) ASP.NET
6 18 (43.90%) MySQL
6 18 (43.90%) PHP
6 18 (43.90%) Ajax
7 16 (39.02%) OO
8 15 (36.59%) C#
9 14 (34.15%) OOP
10 13 (31.71%) TDD
10 13 (31.71%) CSS3
11 12 (29.27%) HTML5
11 12 (29.27%) Linux
12 11 (26.83%) MVC
13 10 (24.39%) Web Services
13 10 (24.39%) SQL Server
14 9 (21.95%) Apache
14 9 (21.95%) PHPUnit
15 8 (19.51%) XHTML
15 8 (19.51%) N-Tier
15 8 (19.51%) Visual Studio
16 7 (17.07%) E-Commerce
16 7 (17.07%) Telerik
16 7 (17.07%) LAMP
16 7 (17.07%) DevExpress
16 7 (17.07%) Web Development
16 7 (17.07%) CodeIgniter
16 7 (17.07%) Twitter

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 29 (70.73%) CSS
2 28 (68.29%) jQuery
3 25 (60.98%) HTML
4 21 (51.22%) .NET
5 19 (46.34%) ASP.NET
6 18 (43.90%) Ajax
7 13 (31.71%) CSS3
8 12 (29.27%) HTML5
9 10 (24.39%) Web Services
10 8 (19.51%) XHTML
11 7 (17.07%) LAMP
11 7 (17.07%) CodeIgniter
11 7 (17.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 6 (14.63%) XML
13 4 (9.756%) WCF
13 4 (9.756%) JSON
13 4 (9.756%) ASP.NET MVC
13 4 (9.756%) REST
13 4 (9.756%) SOAP
14 3 (7.317%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 9 (21.95%) Apache
2 2 (4.878%) CMS
2 2 (4.878%) IIS
3 1 (2.439%) WordPress
3 1 (2.439%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.439%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (43.90%) MySQL
2 10 (24.39%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (4.878%) GIS
5 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) PHPUnit
2 8 (19.51%) Visual Studio
3 6 (14.63%) Subversion
4 4 (9.756%) Git (software)
5 1 (2.439%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (2.439%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.439%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.439%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.439%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.439%) JIRA
General
1 2 (4.878%) Finance
1 2 (4.878%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (92.68%) Developer
2 12 (29.27%) .NET Developer
3 10 (24.39%) ASP.NET Developer
4 7 (17.07%) PHP Developer
5 6 (14.63%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (14.63%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 6 (14.63%) C# Developer
6 5 (12.20%) Web Developer
7 3 (7.317%) Software Developer
7 3 (7.317%) Mobile Developer
8 2 (4.878%) User Experience Developer
8 2 (4.878%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.878%) Analyst
8 2 (4.878%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.878%) Analyst Programmer
8 2 (4.878%) Programmer
8 2 (4.878%) Senior Programmer
8 2 (4.878%) PHP Web Developer
8 2 (4.878%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (4.878%) Senior Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.439%) Social Media
2 1 (2.439%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Linux
2 1 (2.439%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) OO
2 14 (34.15%) OOP
3 13 (31.71%) TDD
4 11 (26.83%) MVC
5 7 (17.07%) E-Commerce
5 7 (17.07%) Web Development
6 6 (14.63%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (7.317%) SEO
8 2 (4.878%) Kanban
8 2 (4.878%) Web Application Development
8 2 (4.878%) Scrum
8 2 (4.878%) PRINCE
8 2 (4.878%) PRINCE2
9 1 (2.439%) Mobile Commerce
9 1 (2.439%) Project Management
9 1 (2.439%) Data Analysis
9 1 (2.439%) Software Engineering
9 1 (2.439%) Waterfall
9 1 (2.439%) Market Research
9 1 (2.439%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) PHP
2 15 (36.59%) C#
3 6 (14.63%) SQL
4 3 (7.317%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.878%) C++
5 2 (4.878%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.439%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.439%) Python
6 1 (2.439%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (7.317%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Telerik
1 7 (17.07%) DevExpress
1 7 (17.07%) Twitter
2 5 (12.20%) Zend
3 1 (2.439%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.439%) Adobe
3 1 (2.439%) Apple