The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 23 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 Oxford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 32 37 22
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -15
Contract jobs citing Ajax 3 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 1.293% 0.298% 2.994%
As % of the Application Development category 8.333% 1.111% 7.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
Average daily rate £325 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £290
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.46 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-3.20% -23.52%
All Application Development
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 90 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 15.52% 26.79% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 53 49
Average daily rate £325 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £12.28
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +144.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
Oxfordshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ajax across the Oxford region.

Oxford Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 12 (92.31%) CSS
2 10 (76.92%) JavaScript
3 8 (61.54%) jQuery
4 7 (53.85%) HTML
5 4 (30.77%) .NET
5 4 (30.77%) XML
5 4 (30.77%) XSL
5 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 4 (30.77%) C#
6 3 (23.08%) CSS3
6 3 (23.08%) Alfresco
6 3 (23.08%) HTML5
6 3 (23.08%) Sencha
6 3 (23.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (23.08%) CMS
6 3 (23.08%) Content Management
6 3 (23.08%) Web Development
6 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Pharmacovigilance
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle
6 3 (23.08%) Photoshop
6 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
6 3 (23.08%) SQL
6 3 (23.08%) JSP
6 3 (23.08%) Interwoven
6 3 (23.08%) TeamSite
6 3 (23.08%) XHTML
7 2 (15.38%) N-Tier
7 2 (15.38%) IBM
7 2 (15.38%) ISEB

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 12 (92.31%) CSS
2 8 (61.54%) jQuery
3 7 (53.85%) HTML
4 4 (30.77%) .NET
4 4 (30.77%) XML
4 4 (30.77%) XSL
5 3 (23.08%) CSS3
5 3 (23.08%) HTML5
5 3 (23.08%) JSP
5 3 (23.08%) XHTML
6 2 (15.38%) Web Services
6 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
6 2 (15.38%) LINQ
6 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
6 2 (15.38%) JSON
6 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
6 2 (15.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (7.692%) Hibernate
7 1 (7.692%) Spring
7 1 (7.692%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Alfresco
1 3 (23.08%) CMS
1 3 (23.08%) TeamSite
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (15.38%) Selenium
1 2 (15.38%) FitNesse
1 2 (15.38%) Firebug
1 2 (15.38%) Fiddler
General
1 3 (23.08%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (7.692%) German Language
2 1 (7.692%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) .NET Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Front-End Developer
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Developer
3 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Web Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Agile .NET Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Agile C# Developer
5 1 (7.692%) SQL Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Software Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Pharmacovigilance
2 2 (15.38%) N-Tier
3 1 (7.692%) Digital Media
3 1 (7.692%) New Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Scrum
2 3 (23.08%) Content Management
2 3 (23.08%) Web Development
2 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
3 2 (15.38%) MVC
3 2 (15.38%) Workflow
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
3 2 (15.38%) UML
3 2 (15.38%) OO
3 2 (15.38%) RAD
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Compatibility Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Workflow Management
3 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (15.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Python
5 1 (7.692%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) ISEB
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Sencha
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
1 3 (23.08%) Interwoven
2 2 (15.38%) IBM