Manchester AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the Manchester 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cobham Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Ringwood Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	57
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	49	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	12.10 %	3.103 %
Daily rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum daily rate	£301	-
Average daily rate	£322	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£344	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£281
% change on same period last year	+19.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.10	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£32.49	£14.00
% change on same period last year	+132.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.88	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.23	£30.11
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Application Development Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	405	290
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.520 %	0.326 %
Daily rates quoted	76	47
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£243
Average daily rate	£354	£264
% change on same period last year	+34.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.96	£32.16
Average hourly rate	£29.41	£34.32
% change on same period last year	-14.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.85	£36.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
AJAX 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.

AJAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the Manchester 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 contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the Manchester region.

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

AJAX
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

AJAX
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AJAX within the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Stockport	+10	6	-	-
2	Bury	-	2	£463	-

AJAX North West

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX.

1 43 (58.90 %) JavaScript 2 39 (53.42 %) .NET 3 37 (50.68 %) C# 4 36 (49.32 %) ASP.NET 5 25 (34.25 %) XML 6 21 (28.77 %) CSS 7 19 (26.03 %) SQL Server 7 19 (26.03 %) WebServices 8 18 (24.66 %) Java 9 17 (23.29 %) SQL 9 17 (23.29 %) E-Commerce 10 16 (21.92 %) XHTML 10 16 (21.92 %) PHP 11 15 (20.55 %) HTML 11 15 (20.55 %) MySQL

12 13 (17.81 %) WebSphere 12 13 (17.81 %) Oracle 12 13 (17.81 %) JUnit 13 11 (15.07 %) JSP 13 11 (15.07 %) Struts 13 11 (15.07 %) UML 14 9 (12.33 %) Oracle 10g 14 9 (12.33 %) Web Development 15 8 (10.96 %) PHP5 15 8 (10.96 %) SQL Server 2005 15 8 (10.96 %) OO 15 8 (10.96 %) jQuery 16 7 (9.589 %) Microsoft 16 7 (9.589 %) .NET Framework 17 6 (8.219 %) Flash

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 39 (53.42 %) .NET 2 36 (49.32 %) ASP.NET 3 25 (34.25 %) XML 4 21 (28.77 %) CSS 5 19 (26.03 %) WebServices 6 16 (21.92 %) XHTML 7 15 (20.55 %) HTML 8 13 (17.81 %) WebSphere 9 11 (15.07 %) Struts 9 11 (15.07 %) JSP 10 8 (10.96 %) jQuery 11 7 (9.589 %) .NET Framework 12 5 (6.849 %) J2EE 13 4 (5.479 %) XSLT 13 4 (5.479 %) Adobe Flex 13 4 (5.479 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 2 (2.740 %) LINQ 14 2 (2.740 %) LAMP 15 1 (1.370 %) Hibernate 15 1 (1.370 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 4 (5.479 %) SharePoint 2 2 (2.740 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (2.740 %) Apache 3 1 (1.370 %) Umbraco 3 1 (1.370 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (1.370 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.370 %) CMS
Applications 1 3 (4.110 %) Fireworks 2 1 (1.370 %) Photoshop 2 1 (1.370 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.740 %) CTI 1 2 (2.740 %) TETRA 2 1 (1.370 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (26.03 %) SQL Server 2 15 (20.55 %) MySQL 3 9 (12.33 %) Oracle 10g 4 8 (10.96 %) SQL Server 2005 5 4 (5.479 %) SQL Server 7 6 3 (4.110 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (1.370 %) PostgreSQL 7 1 (1.370 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (1.370 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (1.370 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 13 (17.81 %) JUnit 2 6 (8.219 %) Flash 3 4 (5.479 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (1.370 %) Oracle APEX 4 1 (1.370 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (1.370 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 3 (4.110 %) Retail 2 2 (2.740 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (2.740 %) Telecoms 2 2 (2.740 %) Finance 3 1 (1.370 %) Publishing 3 1 (1.370 %) Games 3 1 (1.370 %) Banking 3 1 (1.370 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.370 %) Marketing 3 1 (1.370 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 63 (86.30 %) Developer 2 20 (27.40 %) .NET Developer 3 17 (23.29 %) C# Developer 3 17 (23.29 %) Web Developer 4 15 (20.55 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 14 (19.18 %) Java Developer 6 9 (12.33 %) PHP Developer 6 9 (12.33 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 7 (9.589 %) .NET Web Developer 8 4 (5.479 %) Web Designer 8 4 (5.479 %) SQL Developer 8 4 (5.479 %) Senior Developer 9 3 (4.110 %) Programmer 9 3 (4.110 %) SQL Server Developer 9 3 (4.110 %) Java Programmer 9 3 (4.110 %) JavaScript Developer 9 3 (4.110 %) Java/J2EE Developer 10 2 (2.740 %) PHP Web Developer 10 2 (2.740 %) C# Web Developer 10 2 (2.740 %) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.479 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.370 %) W3C 2 1 (1.370 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (1.370 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 2 (2.740 %) Windows 2 1 (1.370 %) Linux 2 1 (1.370 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (1.370 %) Windows Mobile 2 1 (1.370 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (23.29 %) E-Commerce 2 11 (15.07 %) UML 3 9 (12.33 %) Web Development 4 8 (10.96 %) OO 5 5 (6.849 %) CRM 6 4 (5.479 %) Automated Testing 7 3 (4.110 %) OOD 8 2 (2.740 %) SOA 8 2 (2.740 %) Web Design 8 2 (2.740 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (1.370 %) QMS 9 1 (1.370 %) Software Engineering 9 1 (1.370 %) Use Case 9 1 (1.370 %) Digital Marketing 9 1 (1.370 %) Performance Testing 9 1 (1.370 %) RUP 9 1 (1.370 %) Configuration Management 9 1 (1.370 %) E-business 9 1 (1.370 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 43 (58.90 %) JavaScript 2 37 (50.68 %) C# 3 18 (24.66 %) Java 4 17 (23.29 %) SQL 5 16 (21.92 %) PHP 6 8 (10.96 %) PHP5 7 6 (8.219 %) C++ 8 5 (6.849 %) PL/SQL 8 5 (6.849 %) VB.NET 9 3 (4.110 %) Transact-SQL 10 2 (2.740 %) DHTML 11 1 (1.370 %) Perl 11 1 (1.370 %) ActionScript 11 1 (1.370 %) Shell Script 11 1 (1.370 %) PHP4
Qualifications 1 5 (6.849 %) Degree	Vendors 1 13 (17.81 %) Oracle 2 7 (9.589 %) Microsoft 3 2 (2.740 %) Zend