The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 22 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 Milton Keynes 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 46 42 45
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +3
Contract jobs citing Ajax 8 19 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.524% 2.657% 1.675%
As % of the Application Development category 6.780% 15.20% 8.929%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 4
Average daily rate £288 £325 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.53% +16.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -23.52%
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
118 125 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 22.48% 17.48% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 53 51
Average daily rate £375 £300 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £259 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £365 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 7
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
Buckinghamshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 18 (81.82%) JavaScript
1 18 (81.82%) CSS
2 15 (68.18%) OO
3 10 (45.45%) J2EE
3 10 (45.45%) Finance
4 9 (40.91%) JSON
4 9 (40.91%) Dojo
4 9 (40.91%) HTML5
4 9 (40.91%) OOA/OOD
4 9 (40.91%) XML
5 7 (31.82%) Java
5 7 (31.82%) Use Case
5 7 (31.82%) Software Architecture
6 6 (27.27%) Spring
6 6 (27.27%) Open Source
6 6 (27.27%) DHTML
6 6 (27.27%) HTML
6 6 (27.27%) JDBC
6 6 (27.27%) JSP
6 6 (27.27%) Servlets
6 6 (27.27%) Struts
6 6 (27.27%) JMS
6 6 (27.27%) HTTP
6 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
6 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (22.73%) Hibernate
7 5 (22.73%) UML
7 5 (22.73%) Web Services
7 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
7 5 (22.73%) jQuery

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 18 (81.82%) CSS
2 10 (45.45%) J2EE
3 9 (40.91%) JSON
3 9 (40.91%) Dojo
3 9 (40.91%) HTML5
3 9 (40.91%) XML
4 6 (27.27%) Spring
4 6 (27.27%) DHTML
4 6 (27.27%) HTML
4 6 (27.27%) JDBC
4 6 (27.27%) JSP
4 6 (27.27%) Servlets
4 6 (27.27%) Struts
4 6 (27.27%) JMS
5 5 (22.73%) Hibernate
5 5 (22.73%) Web Services
5 5 (22.73%) jQuery
5 5 (22.73%) CSS3
6 4 (18.18%) WebSphere
6 4 (18.18%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.091%) Umbraco
1 2 (9.091%) Commerce Server
1 2 (9.091%) CMS
2 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.545%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.545%) Apache Solr
2 1 (4.545%) Moodle
2 1 (4.545%) Drupal
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) HTTP
1 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) MySQL
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Maven
1 2 (9.091%) Git (software)
1 2 (9.091%) Ant
2 1 (4.545%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.545%) JUnit
2 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.545%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Marketing
3 1 (4.545%) Retail
3 1 (4.545%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Developer
2 10 (45.45%) JavaScript Developer
3 4 (18.18%) .NET Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Architect
5 2 (9.091%) Consultant
5 2 (9.091%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.091%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.091%) WebSphere Consultant
5 2 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (4.545%) PHP Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior J2EE Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.545%) J2EE Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Moodle Developer
6 1 (4.545%) WebSphere Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Open Source
2 1 (4.545%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.545%) Online Games
2 1 (4.545%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.545%) UNIX
1 1 (4.545%) AIX
1 1 (4.545%) Solaris
1 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) OO
2 9 (40.91%) OOA/OOD
3 7 (31.82%) Use Case
3 7 (31.82%) Software Architecture
4 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (22.73%) UML
6 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce
6 3 (13.64%) SEO
6 3 (13.64%) Web Analytics
6 3 (13.64%) Analytics
7 2 (9.091%) Unit Testing
8 1 (4.545%) MVC
8 1 (4.545%) OOP
8 1 (4.545%) B2C
8 1 (4.545%) Performance Testing
8 1 (4.545%) Web Development
8 1 (4.545%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 7 (31.82%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) C#
3 4 (18.18%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
4 3 (13.64%) PHP
5 1 (4.545%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.545%) C
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) Varnish
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) IBM
2 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.545%) JBoss
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle
3 1 (4.545%) Omniture
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