The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 17 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 Programming Languages category for the Preston 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 10 24 5
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -19
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 3 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston 6.122% 2.273% 6.250%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.27% 5.970% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
Average daily rate £285 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.39% -1.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £311
% change year-on-year
- -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £135.37 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Preston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
11 67 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston 22.45% 38.07% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 58 3
Average daily rate £285 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £290 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £486 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £135.37 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
JavaScript
Lancashire

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript across the Preston region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Preston JavaScript Jobs Demand Trend

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JavaScript across the Preston region.

Preston JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Preston JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (33.33%) Web Design
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Social Network
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) WordPress
3 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
3 1 (33.33%) Plesk
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) Facebook
3 1 (33.33%) Twitter
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) SEO
3 1 (33.33%) LAMP
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) LAMP
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) SEO
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Web Design
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Plesk
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Facebook
1 1 (33.33%) Twitter
Preston, North West
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Posted: 25 April 2013