Midlands AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited AJAX over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hull Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	76
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	18	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	6.020 %	2.426 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£300
Average daily rate	£398	£300
% change on same period last year	+32.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£297
% change on same period last year	+6.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£32.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.60	£36.62
% change on same period last year	-13.72 %
Application Development Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	299	371
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.399 %	0.375 %
Daily rates quoted	61	33
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£340
Average daily rate	£380	£365
% change on same period last year	+4.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.14	£36.96
Average hourly rate	£27.36	£37.78
% change on same period last year	-27.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.57	£38.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
AJAX England

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.

AJAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing AJAX across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

AJAX
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AJAX across the Midlands region.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AJAX across the Midlands region.

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 25 (78.13 %) .NET 2 24 (75.00 %) JavaScript 3 22 (68.75 %) CSS 4 21 (65.63 %) ASP.NET 5 20 (62.50 %) C# 6 17 (53.13 %) XML 7 13 (40.63 %) HTML 7 13 (40.63 %) SQL Server 8 12 (37.50 %) WebServices 9 10 (31.25 %) Web Development 10 9 (28.13 %) XHTML 10 9 (28.13 %) Visual Studio 11 8 (25.00 %) SOAP 11 8 (25.00 %) UML 11 8 (25.00 %) Microsoft

11 8 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development 12 7 (21.88 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 6 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2005 13 6 (18.75 %) Oracle 10g 13 6 (18.75 %) NHS 13 6 (18.75 %) Windows 13 6 (18.75 %) Oracle 14 5 (15.63 %) OO 14 5 (15.63 %) IIS 14 5 (15.63 %) MS Excel 14 5 (15.63 %) RAD 15 4 (12.50 %) Oracle Forms 15 4 (12.50 %) SharePoint 15 4 (12.50 %) W3C 15 4 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 25 (78.13 %) .NET 2 22 (68.75 %) CSS 3 21 (65.63 %) ASP.NET 4 17 (53.13 %) XML 5 13 (40.63 %) HTML 6 12 (37.50 %) WebServices 7 9 (28.13 %) XHTML 8 8 (25.00 %) SOAP 9 7 (21.88 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 4 (12.50 %) WinForms 10 4 (12.50 %) WCF 11 3 (9.375 %) Silverlight 11 3 (9.375 %) XSL 12 2 (6.250 %) J2EE 12 2 (6.250 %) YUI 12 2 (6.250 %) jQuery 12 2 (6.250 %) MooTools 12 2 (6.250 %) Dojo 13 1 (3.125 %) Spring 13 1 (3.125 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 5 (15.63 %) IIS 2 4 (12.50 %) SharePoint 2 4 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (6.250 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (6.250 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (3.125 %) Apache 4 1 (3.125 %) CMS 4 1 (3.125 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 5 (15.63 %) MS Excel 2 2 (6.250 %) MS Visio 3 1 (3.125 %) Fireworks 3 1 (3.125 %) Photoshop	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (40.63 %) SQL Server 2 6 (18.75 %) Oracle 10g 2 6 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 4 2 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports 4 2 (6.250 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (3.125 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 9 (28.13 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (12.50 %) Oracle Forms 2 4 (12.50 %) NUnit 3 3 (9.375 %) Flash 4 1 (3.125 %) Eclipse 4 1 (3.125 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (3.125 %) Subversion	General 1 2 (6.250 %) Financial Institution 1 2 (6.250 %) Finance 1 2 (6.250 %) Retail 2 1 (3.125 %) Graphic Design 2 1 (3.125 %) Health
Job Titles 1 25 (78.13 %) Developer 2 12 (37.50 %) .NET Developer 3 7 (21.88 %) Web Developer 4 4 (12.50 %) SharePoint Developer 5 3 (9.375 %) C# Developer 6 2 (6.250 %) Web Designer 7 1 (3.125 %) ASP Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Flash Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Web Applications Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) .NET Web Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) HTML Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Graphic Designer 7 1 (3.125 %) VB.NET Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Applications Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Java Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Technical Architect 7 1 (3.125 %) Architect 7 1 (3.125 %) Software Engineer 7 1 (3.125 %) JavaScript Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (18.75 %) NHS 2 4 (12.50 %) W3C 3 1 (3.125 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 6 (18.75 %) Windows 2 2 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.125 %) UNIX 3 1 (3.125 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (31.25 %) Web Development 2 8 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development 2 8 (25.00 %) UML 3 5 (15.63 %) OO 3 5 (15.63 %) RAD 4 3 (9.375 %) OOP 4 3 (9.375 %) OOD 5 2 (6.250 %) Scrum 5 2 (6.250 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (6.250 %) TDD 5 2 (6.250 %) Content Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Software Engineering 6 1 (3.125 %) Usability Testing 6 1 (3.125 %) Web Design 6 1 (3.125 %) Project Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 24 (75.00 %) JavaScript 2 20 (62.50 %) C# 3 4 (12.50 %) VB 4 3 (9.375 %) C++ 4 3 (9.375 %) DHTML 4 3 (9.375 %) SQL 5 2 (6.250 %) C 5 2 (6.250 %) Java 5 2 (6.250 %) VB.NET 6 1 (3.125 %) Shell Script 6 1 (3.125 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 3 (9.375 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.250 %) QA	Vendors 1 8 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 6 (18.75 %) Oracle 3 2 (6.250 %) Lotus 4 1 (3.125 %) Stellent 4 1 (3.125 %) Sun