The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript 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 JavaScript 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 Programming Languages 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
JavaScript
Rank 26 14 20
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 5 21 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.475% 8.046% 4.435%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.042% 20.19% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 4
Average daily rate £225 £325 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.76% +13.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £305
% change year-on-year
- -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £17.51 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
71 104 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 35.15% 39.85% 26.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 51 33
Average daily rate £350 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £260 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 1
Average hourly rate £16.72 £17.51 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.51% +16.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
JavaScript
North West

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside 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 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 -5 4 - -
Wirral - 1 - -
JavaScript
North West

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 28 (93.33%) CSS
2 24 (80.00%) jQuery
3 20 (66.67%) HTML5
4 19 (63.33%) CSS3
4 19 (63.33%) MVC
5 16 (53.33%) PHP
5 16 (53.33%) .NET
6 15 (50.00%) SQL Server
6 15 (50.00%) ASP.NET
7 14 (46.67%) C#
7 14 (46.67%) HTML
8 12 (40.00%) MySQL
9 11 (36.67%) OO
9 11 (36.67%) Zend
9 11 (36.67%) CodeIgniter
10 10 (33.33%) Mobile App
11 9 (30.00%) WCF
11 9 (30.00%) Git (software)
12 7 (23.33%) SEO
12 7 (23.33%) CMS
12 7 (23.33%) Web Development
13 6 (20.00%) Umbraco
13 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (20.00%) Facebook
13 6 (20.00%) Twitter
13 6 (20.00%) Ajax
13 6 (20.00%) Visual Studio
13 6 (20.00%) XML
14 5 (16.67%) XSD
14 5 (16.67%) XSLT

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 28 (93.33%) CSS
2 24 (80.00%) jQuery
3 20 (66.67%) HTML5
4 19 (63.33%) CSS3
5 16 (53.33%) .NET
6 15 (50.00%) ASP.NET
7 14 (46.67%) HTML
8 11 (36.67%) CodeIgniter
9 9 (30.00%) WCF
10 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (20.00%) Ajax
10 6 (20.00%) XML
11 5 (16.67%) XSD
11 5 (16.67%) XSLT
11 5 (16.67%) CakePHP
11 5 (16.67%) Google Maps API
11 5 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
11 5 (16.67%) Backbone.js
12 4 (13.33%) JSON
13 2 (6.667%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) CMS
2 6 (20.00%) Umbraco
3 5 (16.67%) WordPress
4 1 (3.333%) IIS
4 1 (3.333%) Magento
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.333%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (40.00%) MySQL
3 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Git (software)
2 6 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 5 (16.67%) NetBeans
4 1 (3.333%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (3.333%) JUnit
General
1 2 (6.667%) Games
1 2 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (96.67%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Software Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Front-End Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Web Developer
4 5 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Mobile Developer
5 4 (13.33%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (10.00%) PHP Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Front-End Web Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Copywriter
7 1 (3.333%) PHP Web Developer
7 1 (3.333%) PHP Programmer
7 1 (3.333%) Web Programmer
7 1 (3.333%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Programmer
7 1 (3.333%) Author
7 1 (3.333%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 4 (13.33%) Social Media
3 2 (6.667%) Mobile Games
4 1 (3.333%) Social Network
4 1 (3.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
1 5 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) MVC
2 11 (36.67%) OO
3 7 (23.33%) SEO
3 7 (23.33%) Web Development
4 5 (16.67%) OOD
4 5 (16.67%) Business Development
5 3 (10.00%) OOP
5 3 (10.00%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (3.333%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (3.333%) TDD
7 1 (3.333%) Web Design
7 1 (3.333%) Responsive Web Design
7 1 (3.333%) Web Application Development
7 1 (3.333%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) PHP
2 14 (46.67%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) XPath
4 3 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) Plesk
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Zend
2 6 (20.00%) Facebook
2 6 (20.00%) Twitter
3 5 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (16.67%) Google
4 2 (6.667%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.333%) Endeca
5 1 (3.333%) Adobe
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