The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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 30 28 30
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +2
Contract jobs citing Ajax 1 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.495% 2.682% 0.403%
As % of the Application Development category 1.724% 9.333% 2.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
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
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
58 75 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 28.71% 28.74% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 37 17
Average daily rate £300 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 2
Average hourly rate £14.79 £21.86 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.35% +61.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
North West

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ajax across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ajax within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 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
Liverpool +2 1 - -
Ajax
North West

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) PHP
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
3 4 (66.67%) HTML5
3 4 (66.67%) CSS3
3 4 (66.67%) MySQL
3 4 (66.67%) MVC
3 4 (66.67%) Mobile App
4 3 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (50.00%) OOP
4 3 (50.00%) OO
4 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 3 (50.00%) Zend
4 3 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
4 3 (50.00%) JSON
5 2 (33.33%) Backbone.js
5 2 (33.33%) Node.js
6 1 (16.67%) Mobile Games
6 1 (16.67%) Games
6 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
6 1 (16.67%) Java
6 1 (16.67%) J2EE
6 1 (16.67%) JUnit
6 1 (16.67%) Servlets
6 1 (16.67%) Web Application Development
6 1 (16.67%) Magento
6 1 (16.67%) Open Source
6 1 (16.67%) TDD
6 1 (16.67%) Endeca

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 4 (66.67%) HTML5
2 4 (66.67%) CSS3
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
3 3 (50.00%) JSON
4 2 (33.33%) Backbone.js
4 2 (33.33%) Node.js
5 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (16.67%) J2EE
5 1 (16.67%) Servlets
5 1 (16.67%) JPA
5 1 (16.67%) Guice
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
3 2 (33.33%) PHP Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Front-End Web Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Games
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (50.00%) OOP
2 3 (50.00%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Web Application Development
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (16.67%) Endeca
Liverpool, North West
This is an exciting project using the latest technologies. An understanding of Magento is desirable but not essential... No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 11 May 2013