Merseyside JavaScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the Merseyside 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	22	15
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	20	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	13.70 %	18.18 %
Daily rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£268
Average daily rate	£275	£271
% change on same period last year	+1.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£273
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£290
% change on same period last year	+7.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.50	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£22.17	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-36.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.83	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.93	£30.55
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Programming Languages Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	146	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.192 %	0.104 %
Daily rates quoted	37	37
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£275
Average daily rate	£384	£283
% change on same period last year	+35.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£291
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£333
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£22.93
Average hourly rate	£23.96	£25.96
% change on same period last year	-7.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.91	£29.00
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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

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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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool	-10	11	£275	+1.61 %
Bootle	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 21 (56.76 %) HTML 2 20 (54.05 %) CSS 3 14 (37.84 %) Java 4 13 (35.14 %) JSP 4 13 (35.14 %) XML 5 10 (27.03 %) SQL 5 10 (27.03 %) Oracle 6 8 (21.62 %) AJAX 6 8 (21.62 %) .NET 6 8 (21.62 %) Photoshop 6 8 (21.62 %) Dreamweaver 7 7 (18.92 %) Struts 7 7 (18.92 %) WebServices 8 6 (16.22 %) Fireworks 8 6 (16.22 %) Intranet

8 6 (16.22 %) Retail 8 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 8 6 (16.22 %) C# 8 6 (16.22 %) ASP.NET 8 6 (16.22 %) OO 8 6 (16.22 %) Flash 9 5 (13.51 %) XHTML 9 5 (13.51 %) UML 9 5 (13.51 %) Linux 9 5 (13.51 %) Chordiant 9 5 (13.51 %) VBScript 9 5 (13.51 %) Spring 10 4 (10.81 %) JSF 10 4 (10.81 %) Web Development 10 4 (10.81 %) Oracle 10g

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 21 (56.76 %) HTML 2 20 (54.05 %) CSS 3 13 (35.14 %) JSP 3 13 (35.14 %) XML 4 8 (21.62 %) AJAX 4 8 (21.62 %) .NET 5 7 (18.92 %) Struts 5 7 (18.92 %) WebServices 6 6 (16.22 %) ASP.NET 7 5 (13.51 %) XHTML 7 5 (13.51 %) Spring 8 4 (10.81 %) JSF 8 4 (10.81 %) J2EE 8 4 (10.81 %) Servlets 9 3 (8.108 %) JSTL 9 3 (8.108 %) iBATIS 9 3 (8.108 %) LAMP 10 2 (5.405 %) ASP 10 2 (5.405 %) XSD 10 2 (5.405 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 4 (10.81 %) SharePoint 2 3 (8.108 %) Apache 3 2 (5.405 %) Oracle Application Server 3 2 (5.405 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 10gAS 4 1 (2.703 %) IIS 4 1 (2.703 %) CMS
Applications 1 8 (21.62 %) Photoshop 2 6 (16.22 %) Fireworks 3 3 (8.108 %) ImageReady 4 2 (5.405 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 2 (5.405 %) InfoPath 5 1 (2.703 %) CA Clarity 5 1 (2.703 %) MS Office 5 1 (2.703 %) Adobe Director 5 1 (2.703 %) Adobe After Effects 5 1 (2.703 %) Adobe Premiere	Business Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (2.703 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 6 (16.22 %) Intranet 2 2 (5.405 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (2.703 %) DNS 3 1 (2.703 %) LAN 3 1 (2.703 %) WAN 3 1 (2.703 %) POP3 3 1 (2.703 %) HTTP 3 1 (2.703 %) LDAP 3 1 (2.703 %) Internet 3 1 (2.703 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 2 4 (10.81 %) Oracle 10g 2 4 (10.81 %) MySQL 2 4 (10.81 %) RDBMS 3 2 (5.405 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.703 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (2.703 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 8 (21.62 %) Dreamweaver 2 6 (16.22 %) Flash 3 4 (10.81 %) JUnit 4 3 (8.108 %) Ant 5 1 (2.703 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (2.703 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (2.703 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (2.703 %) JDeveloper	General 1 6 (16.22 %) Retail 2 3 (8.108 %) Telecoms 3 2 (5.405 %) Government 4 1 (2.703 %) Graphic Design 4 1 (2.703 %) Publishing 4 1 (2.703 %) Marketing 4 1 (2.703 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 26 (70.27 %) Developer 2 9 (24.32 %) Java Developer 3 7 (18.92 %) Web Developer 4 5 (13.51 %) Web Designer 5 4 (10.81 %) PHP Developer 6 3 (8.108 %) Senior Developer 6 3 (8.108 %) PHP Web Developer 6 3 (8.108 %) Senior PHP Developer 6 3 (8.108 %) Senior PHP Web Developer 6 3 (8.108 %) Senior Web Developer 7 2 (5.405 %) C# Developer 8 1 (2.703 %) CSharp Software Developer 8 1 (2.703 %) Digital Producer 8 1 (2.703 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 1 (2.703 %) Software Developer 8 1 (2.703 %) Architect 8 1 (2.703 %) Junior 8 1 (2.703 %) Technical Architect 8 1 (2.703 %) Consultant 8 1 (2.703 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.405 %) W3C 2 1 (2.703 %) Client/Server 2 1 (2.703 %) NHS 2 1 (2.703 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 5 (13.51 %) Linux 2 3 (8.108 %) Windows 3 2 (5.405 %) Unix 4 1 (2.703 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (16.22 %) OO 2 5 (13.51 %) UML 3 4 (10.81 %) Web Development 3 4 (10.81 %) E-Commerce 3 4 (10.81 %) BC Cleared 3 4 (10.81 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (8.108 %) System Testing 5 2 (5.405 %) Use Case 6 1 (2.703 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (2.703 %) SOA 6 1 (2.703 %) CRM 6 1 (2.703 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (2.703 %) Service Management 6 1 (2.703 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (2.703 %) Content Management 6 1 (2.703 %) Web Design 6 1 (2.703 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 14 (37.84 %) Java 2 10 (27.03 %) SQL 3 6 (16.22 %) C# 4 5 (13.51 %) VBScript 5 4 (10.81 %) DHTML 5 4 (10.81 %) PHP 6 3 (8.108 %) PHP5 6 3 (8.108 %) ActionScript 7 2 (5.405 %) Lingo 7 2 (5.405 %) Perl 8 1 (2.703 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (2.703 %) C 8 1 (2.703 %) C++ 8 1 (2.703 %) VBA 8 1 (2.703 %) VB	Qualifications 1 3 (8.108 %) Sun Certification 2 2 (5.405 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (5.405 %) MCSE 2 2 (5.405 %) MCSD 2 2 (5.405 %) HND 2 2 (5.405 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.405 %) QA 2 1 (2.703 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (2.703 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (2.703 %) MOM	Vendors 1 10 (27.03 %) Oracle 2 5 (13.51 %) Chordiant 3 3 (8.108 %) Microsoft 3 3 (8.108 %) Sun 4 2 (5.405 %) Adobe 5 1 (2.703 %) Macromedia 5 1 (2.703 %) IBM 5 1 (2.703 %) Tridion 5 1 (2.703 %) HP