North West JavaScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 25 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 Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough 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 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 Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	28
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	176	164
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.235 %	0.166 %
As % of the category below	13.86 %	13.37 %
Daily rates quoted	17	25
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£235
Average daily rate	£317	£250
% change on same period last year	+26.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£266
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£288
% change on same period last year	+5.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.23	£23.21
Average hourly rate	£24.19	£26.87
% change on same period last year	-9.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.15	£30.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.36	£30.44
% change on same period last year	-3.55 %
Programming Languages North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1270	1227
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.693 %	1.241 %
Daily rates quoted	257	204
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£301
Average daily rate	£342	£318
% change on same period last year	+7.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	127	134
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.55	£24.35
Average hourly rate	£29.98	£27.18
% change on same period last year	+10.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.41	£30.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
JavaScript 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.

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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 North West 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 North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 25 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 jobs citing JavaScript within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 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
Manchester	-5	76	£283	+87.37 %
Cheshire	-2	37	£343	+24.70 %
Lancashire	+18	32	-	-
Merseyside	-2	22	£363	+20.76 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 189 (55.59 %) CSS 2 172 (50.59 %) HTML 3 160 (47.06 %) .NET 4 126 (37.06 %) ASP.NET 5 121 (35.59 %) XML 6 114 (33.53 %) SQL 7 109 (32.06 %) C# 8 92 (27.06 %) AJAX 9 91 (26.76 %) SQL Server 10 80 (23.53 %) ASP 11 79 (23.24 %) XHTML 12 73 (21.47 %) Java 13 59 (17.35 %) WebServices 14 53 (15.59 %) PHP 15 51 (15.00 %) Oracle

16 47 (13.82 %) JSP 17 43 (12.65 %) Photoshop 18 41 (12.06 %) Microsoft 19 37 (10.88 %) Flash 20 36 (10.59 %) E-Commerce 20 36 (10.59 %) Visual Studio 21 35 (10.29 %) VBScript 21 35 (10.29 %) SQL Server 2005 22 33 (9.706 %) XSLT 23 32 (9.412 %) Struts 23 32 (9.412 %) OO 24 31 (9.118 %) VB.NET 24 31 (9.118 %) DHTML 24 31 (9.118 %) J2EE 25 29 (8.529 %) ActionScript

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 189 (55.59 %) CSS 2 172 (50.59 %) HTML 3 160 (47.06 %) .NET 4 126 (37.06 %) ASP.NET 5 121 (35.59 %) XML 6 92 (27.06 %) AJAX 7 80 (23.53 %) ASP 8 79 (23.24 %) XHTML 9 59 (17.35 %) WebServices 10 47 (13.82 %) JSP 11 33 (9.706 %) XSLT 12 32 (9.412 %) Struts 13 31 (9.118 %) J2EE 14 17 (5.000 %) .NET Framework 14 17 (5.000 %) jQuery 15 16 (4.706 %) Spring 16 15 (4.412 %) SOAP 17 13 (3.824 %) ASP.NET 2.0 18 12 (3.529 %) Servlets 19 11 (3.235 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 17 (5.000 %) IIS 1 17 (5.000 %) SharePoint 2 14 (4.118 %) CMS 3 12 (3.529 %) Apache 4 8 (2.353 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 6 (1.765 %) Tomcat 5 6 (1.765 %) MS Exchange 6 3 (0.882 %) ColdFusion 6 3 (0.882 %) BizTalk Server 7 2 (0.588 %) ArcIMS 7 2 (0.588 %) JBoss 7 2 (0.588 %) Jetty 7 2 (0.588 %) WebLogic 7 2 (0.588 %) LiveLink 7 2 (0.588 %) Oracle Application Server 8 1 (0.294 %) Oracle BPEL 8 1 (0.294 %) Oracle 10gAS 8 1 (0.294 %) Lotus Domino 8 1 (0.294 %) Oracle 9iAS
Applications 1 43 (12.65 %) Photoshop 2 20 (5.882 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 14 (4.118 %) Fireworks 4 13 (3.824 %) MS Excel 5 7 (2.059 %) MS Office 6 3 (0.882 %) ImageReady 7 2 (0.588 %) InfoPath 7 2 (0.588 %) Maya 7 2 (0.588 %) 3ds Max 8 1 (0.294 %) Adobe Director 8 1 (0.294 %) MS Visio 8 1 (0.294 %) MS Project 8 1 (0.294 %) CA Clarity 8 1 (0.294 %) Adobe Premiere 8 1 (0.294 %) Adobe After Effects	Business Applications 1 3 (0.882 %) Dynamics CRM 2 2 (0.588 %) Summit 3 1 (0.294 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (0.294 %) Navision 3 1 (0.294 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 12 (3.529 %) Intranet 2 7 (2.059 %) LDAP 3 6 (1.765 %) Internet 4 3 (0.882 %) WEP 5 2 (0.588 %) FTP 6 1 (0.294 %) SSL 6 1 (0.294 %) CTI 6 1 (0.294 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 91 (26.76 %) SQL Server 2 35 (10.29 %) SQL Server 2005 3 26 (7.647 %) MySQL 4 18 (5.294 %) Oracle Reports 5 15 (4.412 %) Crystal Reports 6 14 (4.118 %) SQL Server 2000 7 13 (3.824 %) SQL Server 7 8 10 (2.941 %) Oracle 10g 9 9 (2.647 %) DTS 10 7 (2.059 %) Oracle 9i 11 5 (1.471 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 4 (1.176 %) RDBMS 13 3 (0.882 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 2 (0.588 %) GIS 15 1 (0.294 %) PostgreSQL 15 1 (0.294 %) ETL 15 1 (0.294 %) BusinessObjects 15 1 (0.294 %) MS Access 15 1 (0.294 %) DB2 15 1 (0.294 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 37 (10.88 %) Flash 2 36 (10.59 %) Visual Studio 3 24 (7.059 %) Dreamweaver 4 15 (4.412 %) Ant 4 15 (4.412 %) JUnit 5 13 (3.824 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 10 (2.941 %) InterDev 7 7 (2.059 %) Oracle Forms 8 5 (1.471 %) Subversion 8 5 (1.471 %) Eclipse 9 3 (0.882 %) FrontPage 10 2 (0.588 %) Oracle APEX 10 2 (0.588 %) JDeveloper 11 1 (0.294 %) ClearCase 11 1 (0.294 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 11 1 (0.294 %) NUnit	General 1 17 (5.000 %) Retail 2 11 (3.235 %) Finance 2 11 (3.235 %) Government 3 8 (2.353 %) Local Government 4 6 (1.765 %) Marketing 4 6 (1.765 %) Graphic Design 4 6 (1.765 %) Manufacturing 5 4 (1.176 %) Banking 5 4 (1.176 %) Health 5 4 (1.176 %) Construction 5 4 (1.176 %) Education 5 4 (1.176 %) Pharmaceutical 6 3 (0.882 %) Telecoms 6 3 (0.882 %) Advertising 7 2 (0.588 %) 3D Graphics 7 2 (0.588 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.294 %) Publishing 8 1 (0.294 %) Police 8 1 (0.294 %) Automotive 8 1 (0.294 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 283 (83.24 %) Developer 2 94 (27.65 %) Web Developer 3 78 (22.94 %) .NET Developer 4 51 (15.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 39 (11.47 %) Java Developer 6 38 (11.18 %) C# Developer 7 25 (7.353 %) Web Designer 8 24 (7.059 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 18 (5.294 %) PHP Developer 10 16 (4.706 %) Programmer 11 14 (4.118 %) VB.NET Developer 12 12 (3.529 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 13 10 (2.941 %) Junior 13 10 (2.941 %) Software Developer 13 10 (2.941 %) Junior Developer 13 10 (2.941 %) .NET Web Developer 14 9 (2.647 %) Java Programmer 14 9 (2.647 %) Senior Developer 15 8 (2.353 %) ActionScript Developer 15 8 (2.353 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 29 (8.529 %) W3C 2 5 (1.471 %) NHS 2 5 (1.471 %) SCORM 3 3 (0.882 %) Web 2.0 3 3 (0.882 %) PDA 3 3 (0.882 %) Management Information System 3 3 (0.882 %) E-Learning 4 2 (0.588 %) Social Network 4 2 (0.588 %) RIA 4 2 (0.588 %) N-Tier 4 2 (0.588 %) EPoS 5 1 (0.294 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.294 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 25 (7.353 %) Windows 2 14 (4.118 %) Linux 3 13 (3.824 %) UNIX 4 2 (0.588 %) Fedora 4 2 (0.588 %) Windows Mobile 5 1 (0.294 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 36 (10.59 %) E-Commerce 2 32 (9.412 %) OO 3 25 (7.353 %) Web Development 4 23 (6.765 %) UML 5 20 (5.882 %) Web Design 6 18 (5.294 %) Content Management 7 17 (5.000 %) SOA 8 14 (4.118 %) e-GIF 9 10 (2.941 %) OOD 9 10 (2.941 %) SEO 10 9 (2.647 %) Agile Software Development 11 8 (2.353 %) CRM 12 7 (2.059 %) OOP 12 7 (2.059 %) System Testing 13 5 (1.471 %) BC Cleared 13 5 (1.471 %) Security Cleared 13 5 (1.471 %) TDD 13 5 (1.471 %) Workflow 14 4 (1.176 %) Migration 14 4 (1.176 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 114 (33.53 %) SQL 2 109 (32.06 %) C# 3 73 (21.47 %) Java 4 53 (15.59 %) PHP 5 35 (10.29 %) VBScript 6 31 (9.118 %) VB.NET 6 31 (9.118 %) DHTML 7 29 (8.529 %) ActionScript 7 29 (8.529 %) VB 8 24 (7.059 %) PL/SQL 9 16 (4.706 %) VB6 10 12 (3.529 %) PHP5 11 11 (3.235 %) Transact-SQL 12 10 (2.941 %) Lingo 12 10 (2.941 %) Python 13 9 (2.647 %) Perl 14 4 (1.176 %) VBA 14 4 (1.176 %) PHP4 15 3 (0.882 %) C 16 2 (0.588 %) C++	Qualifications 1 8 (2.353 %) Degree 2 5 (1.471 %) HND 3 3 (0.882 %) Sun Certification 4 2 (0.588 %) MCSD 4 2 (0.588 %) MCSE 4 2 (0.588 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (0.588 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (0.882 %) WCAG 1 3 (0.882 %) WAI 1 3 (0.882 %) QA 2 1 (0.294 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.294 %) PAS 78	Vendors 1 51 (15.00 %) Oracle 2 41 (12.06 %) Microsoft 3 19 (5.588 %) Adobe 4 13 (3.824 %) Chordiant 5 3 (0.882 %) IBM 5 3 (0.882 %) Sun 6 2 (0.588 %) RedDot 7 1 (0.294 %) Endeca 7 1 (0.294 %) Lotus 7 1 (0.294 %) Infragistics 7 1 (0.294 %) Macromedia 7 1 (0.294 %) Business Objects 7 1 (0.294 %) SAP