Manchester JavaScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Altrincham Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	19
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	92	63
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.066 %
As % of the category below	16.00 %	20.59 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£257	£151
Average daily rate	£277	£181
% change on same period last year	+52.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£298	£211
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£290
% change on same period last year	+7.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.45	£25.78
Average hourly rate	£28.64	£28.83
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.82	£31.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.93	£30.55
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Programming Languages Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	575	306
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.758 %	0.320 %
Daily rates quoted	89	41
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£264
Average daily rate	£344	£291
% change on same period last year	+18.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£333
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.58	£24.58
Average hourly rate	£28.90	£26.05
% change on same period last year	+10.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.21	£27.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.21	£33.14
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
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 Manchester 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 Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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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 Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing JavaScript within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 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
Stockport	+4	3	-	-
Cheadle	-	3	£190	-
Altrincham	-	2	-	-
Bolton	-1	1	-	-
Wigan	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 76 (47.20 %) CSS 2 75 (46.58 %) .NET 3 71 (44.10 %) HTML 4 65 (40.37 %) ASP.NET 5 59 (36.65 %) C# 6 52 (32.30 %) XML 6 52 (32.30 %) AJAX 7 46 (28.57 %) SQL 8 43 (26.71 %) SQL Server 8 43 (26.71 %) XHTML 9 34 (21.12 %) ASP 10 28 (17.39 %) Java 11 26 (16.15 %) PHP 12 25 (15.53 %) WebServices 13 23 (14.29 %) Photoshop

14 19 (11.80 %) W3C 14 19 (11.80 %) Struts 14 19 (11.80 %) Flash 15 18 (11.18 %) ActionScript 16 17 (10.56 %) VB.NET 16 17 (10.56 %) UML 16 17 (10.56 %) Web Development 17 16 (9.938 %) Visual Studio 18 15 (9.317 %) JSP 18 15 (9.317 %) SQL Server 2005 19 14 (8.696 %) Windows 19 14 (8.696 %) VB 20 13 (8.075 %) OO 21 12 (7.453 %) XSLT 21 12 (7.453 %) Adobe

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 76 (47.20 %) CSS 2 75 (46.58 %) .NET 3 71 (44.10 %) HTML 4 65 (40.37 %) ASP.NET 5 52 (32.30 %) XML 5 52 (32.30 %) AJAX 6 43 (26.71 %) XHTML 7 34 (21.12 %) ASP 8 25 (15.53 %) WebServices 9 19 (11.80 %) Struts 10 15 (9.317 %) JSP 11 12 (7.453 %) XSLT 12 11 (6.832 %) jQuery 12 11 (6.832 %) WebSphere 13 9 (5.590 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 8 (4.969 %) .NET Framework 14 8 (4.969 %) J2EE 15 6 (3.727 %) Adobe Flex 16 5 (3.106 %) SOAP 17 3 (1.863 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 8 (4.969 %) IIS 1 8 (4.969 %) SharePoint 2 7 (4.348 %) CMS 3 4 (2.484 %) BizTalk Server 4 3 (1.863 %) Tomcat 5 2 (1.242 %) Jetty 5 2 (1.242 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 1 (0.621 %) Apache 6 1 (0.621 %) JBoss 6 1 (0.621 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (0.621 %) Oracle BPEL
Applications 1 23 (14.29 %) Photoshop 2 12 (7.453 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 5 (3.106 %) Fireworks 4 4 (2.484 %) MS Excel 5 2 (1.242 %) Maya 5 2 (1.242 %) 3ds Max 6 1 (0.621 %) MS Project 6 1 (0.621 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (1.863 %) Intranet 1 3 (1.863 %) Internet 2 1 (0.621 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 43 (26.71 %) SQL Server 2 15 (9.317 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (5.590 %) SQL Server 2000 3 9 (5.590 %) MySQL 4 7 (4.348 %) Oracle 10g 5 4 (2.484 %) SQL Server 7 6 3 (1.863 %) DTS 7 2 (1.242 %) Oracle 9i 7 2 (1.242 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (0.621 %) Oracle Reports 8 1 (0.621 %) MS Access 8 1 (0.621 %) ETL 8 1 (0.621 %) PostgreSQL 8 1 (0.621 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 19 (11.80 %) Flash 2 16 (9.938 %) Visual Studio 3 11 (6.832 %) JUnit 4 6 (3.727 %) Dreamweaver 4 6 (3.727 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 2 (1.242 %) NUnit 5 2 (1.242 %) FrontPage 5 2 (1.242 %) Oracle Forms 5 2 (1.242 %) Ant 6 1 (0.621 %) Eclipse 6 1 (0.621 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 5 (3.106 %) Finance 1 5 (3.106 %) Graphic Design 2 3 (1.863 %) Manufacturing 2 3 (1.863 %) Banking 2 3 (1.863 %) Retail 3 2 (1.242 %) 3D Graphics 3 2 (1.242 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (0.621 %) Education 4 1 (0.621 %) Legal 4 1 (0.621 %) Games 4 1 (0.621 %) Publishing 4 1 (0.621 %) Marketing 4 1 (0.621 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 134 (83.23 %) Developer 2 44 (27.33 %) .NET Developer 3 39 (24.22 %) Web Developer 4 31 (19.25 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 27 (16.77 %) C# Developer 6 21 (13.04 %) Java Developer 7 16 (9.938 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 12 (7.453 %) Web Designer 9 9 (5.590 %) VB.NET Developer 9 9 (5.590 %) Programmer 10 8 (4.969 %) Junior Developer 10 8 (4.969 %) Junior 11 7 (4.348 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 12 6 (3.727 %) ActionScript Developer 13 5 (3.106 %) Java/J2EE Developer 13 5 (3.106 %) PHP Developer 13 5 (3.106 %) Junior Java Developer 13 5 (3.106 %) .NET Web Developer 13 5 (3.106 %) HTML Developer 14 4 (2.484 %) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous 1 19 (11.80 %) W3C 2 5 (3.106 %) SCORM 3 3 (1.863 %) E-Learning 4 2 (1.242 %) Web 2.0 4 2 (1.242 %) Management Information System 4 2 (1.242 %) N-Tier 5 1 (0.621 %) Social Network 5 1 (0.621 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 14 (8.696 %) Windows 2 3 (1.863 %) Unix 2 3 (1.863 %) Linux 3 2 (1.242 %) Fedora 4 1 (0.621 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.621 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (10.56 %) UML 1 17 (10.56 %) Web Development 2 13 (8.075 %) OO 3 11 (6.832 %) E-Commerce 4 10 (6.211 %) Web Design 5 8 (4.969 %) SEO 6 7 (4.348 %) Content Management 7 3 (1.863 %) CRM 7 3 (1.863 %) OOP 7 3 (1.863 %) OOD 7 3 (1.863 %) Agile Software Development 8 2 (1.242 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (1.242 %) Workflow 8 2 (1.242 %) Migration 8 2 (1.242 %) SOA 9 1 (0.621 %) Project Management 9 1 (0.621 %) Validation 9 1 (0.621 %) Performance Testing 9 1 (0.621 %) BPEL 9 1 (0.621 %) Automated Testing	Programming Languages 1 59 (36.65 %) C# 2 46 (28.57 %) SQL 3 28 (17.39 %) Java 4 26 (16.15 %) PHP 5 18 (11.18 %) ActionScript 6 17 (10.56 %) VB.NET 7 14 (8.696 %) VB 8 10 (6.211 %) Python 9 9 (5.590 %) DHTML 9 9 (5.590 %) Transact-SQL 10 8 (4.969 %) VB6 10 8 (4.969 %) Lingo 11 6 (3.727 %) PL/SQL 12 5 (3.106 %) Perl 12 5 (3.106 %) PHP5 13 4 (2.484 %) VBScript 14 1 (0.621 %) C++ 14 1 (0.621 %) VBA 14 1 (0.621 %) ABAP 14 1 (0.621 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 2 (1.242 %) Degree 2 1 (0.621 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.621 %) ISO9001 1 1 (0.621 %) PAS 78
System Software 1 1 (0.621 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 12 (7.453 %) Adobe 2 11 (6.832 %) Microsoft 2 11 (6.832 %) Oracle 3 2 (1.242 %) RedDot 4 1 (0.621 %) SAP 4 1 (0.621 %) IBM 4 1 (0.621 %) Chordiant