The first table below looks at the demand for the JavaScript Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
JavaScript Developer
Rank - - 30
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - 0.403%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.435%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £290 £375
% change year-on-year
+20.68% -22.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £15.13
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
195 247 230
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 96.53% 94.64% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 113 111
Average daily rate £330 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £188 £134
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £430 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 44 35
Average hourly rate £11.50 £17.76 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.22% +18.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.16 £11.71 £11.07
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £83.70 £25.00 £22.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
JavaScript Developer
North West

JavaScript Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript Developer across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Merseyside JavaScript Developer Jobs Demand Trend

JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside JavaScript Developer Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript Developer
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited JavaScript Developer in their job title 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 with JavaScript Developer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
1 4 (100.00%) CSS3
2 3 (75.00%) Social Media
2 3 (75.00%) Zend
2 3 (75.00%) CodeIgniter
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Games
3 1 (25.00%) Games
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Game Development
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) Java

JavaScript Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited JavaScript Developer in their job title 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 with JavaScript Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
1 4 (100.00%) CSS3
2 3 (75.00%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Social Media
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Games
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Zend