North West AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the North West 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cobham Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Ringwood Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	105
Rank change on same period last year	+49
Matching contract IT job ads	101	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.130 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	9.034 %	3.044 %
Daily rates quoted	16	1
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£299
Average daily rate	£335	£300
% change on same period last year	+11.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£279
% change on same period last year	+19.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.73	£20.67
Average hourly rate	£32.13	£22.17
% change on same period last year	+44.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.52	£23.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.18	£30.42
% change on same period last year	-0.81 %
Application Development North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1118	887
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.434 %	0.996 %
Daily rates quoted	243	137
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£256
Average daily rate	£363	£272
% change on same period last year	+33.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	126	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.78	£29.38
Average hourly rate	£31.18	£31.37
% change on same period last year	-0.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.58	£33.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the North West 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 contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the North West region.

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the North West region over the past 3 months.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the North West region.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the North West region over the past 3 months.

AJAX
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AJAX within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Manchester	+22	48	£322	-
2	Cheshire	-12	17	£333	+11.01 %
3	Merseyside	-	12	-	-
4	Lancashire	-	10	£400	-

AJAX England

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX.

1 96 (58.54 %) .NET 2 87 (53.05 %) C# 3 83 (50.61 %) ASP.NET 4 81 (49.39 %) JavaScript 5 62 (37.80 %) XML 6 57 (34.76 %) CSS 7 56 (34.15 %) SQL Server 8 48 (29.27 %) SQL 9 42 (25.61 %) Java 10 39 (23.78 %) E-Commerce 11 38 (23.17 %) WebServices 11 38 (23.17 %) HTML 12 31 (18.90 %) Oracle 13 29 (17.68 %) XHTML 14 28 (17.07 %) JSP

14 28 (17.07 %) SQL Server 2005 15 27 (16.46 %) PHP 16 24 (14.63 %) MySQL 17 21 (12.80 %) Microsoft 17 21 (12.80 %) WebSphere 18 18 (10.98 %) ASP.NET 2.0 19 17 (10.37 %) Hibernate 19 17 (10.37 %) J2EE 19 17 (10.37 %) Struts 20 16 (9.756 %) OO 20 16 (9.756 %) Oracle 10g 20 16 (9.756 %) Spring 21 15 (9.146 %) SQL Server 7 22 14 (8.537 %) UML 23 13 (7.927 %) Web Development

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 96 (58.54 %) .NET 2 83 (50.61 %) ASP.NET 3 62 (37.80 %) XML 4 57 (34.76 %) CSS 5 38 (23.17 %) HTML 5 38 (23.17 %) WebServices 6 29 (17.68 %) XHTML 7 28 (17.07 %) JSP 8 21 (12.80 %) WebSphere 9 18 (10.98 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 17 (10.37 %) Hibernate 10 17 (10.37 %) J2EE 10 17 (10.37 %) Struts 11 16 (9.756 %) Spring 12 13 (7.927 %) XSLT 13 12 (7.317 %) .NET Framework 13 12 (7.317 %) jQuery 14 11 (6.707 %) ASP 15 7 (4.268 %) SOAP 16 6 (3.659 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 7 (4.268 %) Apache 1 7 (4.268 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 5 (3.049 %) SharePoint 3 3 (1.829 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (1.220 %) IIS 4 2 (1.220 %) Tuxedo 4 2 (1.220 %) CMS 5 1 (0.610 %) WebLogic 5 1 (0.610 %) Umbraco 5 1 (0.610 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (0.610 %) Tomcat 5 1 (0.610 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (0.610 %) iPlanet 5 1 (0.610 %) WebLogic Portal
Applications 1 5 (3.049 %) Fireworks 2 3 (1.829 %) Photoshop 2 3 (1.829 %) MS Office 3 2 (1.220 %) ImageReady 3 2 (1.220 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 1 (0.610 %) Adobe Premiere 4 1 (0.610 %) Adobe After Effects 4 1 (0.610 %) Adobe Director	Communications & Networking 1 5 (3.049 %) Intranet 2 2 (1.220 %) Internet 2 2 (1.220 %) TETRA 2 2 (1.220 %) CTI 3 1 (0.610 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 56 (34.15 %) SQL Server 2 28 (17.07 %) SQL Server 2005 3 24 (14.63 %) MySQL 4 16 (9.756 %) Oracle 10g 5 15 (9.146 %) SQL Server 7 6 7 (4.268 %) SQL Server 2000 7 6 (3.659 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 3 (1.829 %) Data Mining 9 2 (1.220 %) Oracle 9i 9 2 (1.220 %) Crystal Reports 10 1 (0.610 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 1 (0.610 %) PostgreSQL	Development Applications 1 13 (7.927 %) JUnit 2 9 (5.488 %) Flash 3 6 (3.659 %) Dreamweaver 4 5 (3.049 %) Ant 5 3 (1.829 %) Visual Studio 6 2 (1.220 %) Oracle Forms 6 2 (1.220 %) Subversion 6 2 (1.220 %) JIRA 6 2 (1.220 %) Oracle APEX 7 1 (0.610 %) Eclipse
General 1 10 (6.098 %) Finance 2 9 (5.488 %) Retail 3 5 (3.049 %) Banking 4 3 (1.829 %) Online Banking 4 3 (1.829 %) Insurance 5 2 (1.220 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (1.220 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.610 %) International Banking 6 1 (0.610 %) Education 6 1 (0.610 %) Publishing 6 1 (0.610 %) Games 6 1 (0.610 %) Marketing 6 1 (0.610 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 143 (87.20 %) Developer 2 55 (33.54 %) .NET Developer 3 48 (29.27 %) Web Developer 4 39 (23.78 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 37 (22.56 %) C# Developer 6 26 (15.85 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 22 (13.41 %) Java Developer 8 14 (8.537 %) PHP Developer 9 12 (7.317 %) Web Designer 10 11 (6.707 %) SQL Developer 10 11 (6.707 %) .NET Web Developer 11 10 (6.098 %) SQL Server Developer 11 10 (6.098 %) Senior Developer 12 7 (4.268 %) Software Developer 12 7 (4.268 %) Programmer 13 5 (3.049 %) Architect 13 5 (3.049 %) Java Programmer 13 5 (3.049 %) PHP Web Developer 14 4 (2.439 %) CSharp Software Developer 14 4 (2.439 %) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (3.049 %) Client/Server 1 5 (3.049 %) N-Tier 2 2 (1.220 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (1.220 %) RIA 3 1 (0.610 %) EPoS 3 1 (0.610 %) NHS 3 1 (0.610 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 6 (3.659 %) Linux 2 4 (2.439 %) Unix 3 3 (1.829 %) Windows 4 2 (1.220 %) Windows Mobile 5 1 (0.610 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 39 (23.78 %) E-Commerce 2 16 (9.756 %) OO 3 14 (8.537 %) UML 4 13 (7.927 %) Web Development 5 9 (5.488 %) SOA 6 8 (4.878 %) Web Design 7 6 (3.659 %) CRM 8 5 (3.049 %) OOD 9 4 (2.439 %) MVC 9 4 (2.439 %) Automated Testing 10 3 (1.829 %) Agile Software Development 11 2 (1.220 %) Validation 11 2 (1.220 %) Content Management 11 2 (1.220 %) Test Scripting 12 1 (0.610 %) QMS 12 1 (0.610 %) Logistics 12 1 (0.610 %) Software Engineering 12 1 (0.610 %) Business Analysis 12 1 (0.610 %) Use Case 12 1 (0.610 %) Digital Marketing	Programming Languages 1 87 (53.05 %) C# 2 81 (49.39 %) JavaScript 3 48 (29.27 %) SQL 4 42 (25.61 %) Java 5 27 (16.46 %) PHP 6 12 (7.317 %) PHP5 7 10 (6.098 %) Transact-SQL 8 9 (5.488 %) VB.NET 8 9 (5.488 %) DHTML 9 8 (4.878 %) C++ 10 5 (3.049 %) PL/SQL 10 5 (3.049 %) VB 11 3 (1.829 %) ActionScript 11 3 (1.829 %) VB6 11 3 (1.829 %) COBOL 12 2 (1.220 %) Lingo 12 2 (1.220 %) XPath 13 1 (0.610 %) PHP4 13 1 (0.610 %) C 13 1 (0.610 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 6 (3.659 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.610 %) QA
Vendors 1 31 (18.90 %) Oracle 2 21 (12.80 %) Microsoft 3 3 (1.829 %) Adobe 3 3 (1.829 %) Google 4 2 (1.220 %) Zend 5 1 (0.610 %) IBM 5 1 (0.610 %) Lotus 5 1 (0.610 %) Endeca