Reading JavaScript Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the Reading 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Avon Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Thames Valley Tiverton Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	27
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	66	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.092 %	0.048 %
As % of the category below	24.63 %	12.83 %
Daily rates quoted	21	20
Average minimum daily rate	£241	£309
Average daily rate	£266	£316
% change on same period last year	-15.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£291	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£291	£294
% change on same period last year	-0.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.00	£35.83
Average hourly rate	£34.50	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-7.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.00	£39.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.08	£30.70
% change on same period last year	-11.80 %
Programming Languages Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	268	374
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.374 %	0.376 %
Daily rates quoted	70	146
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£342
Average daily rate	£335	£369
% change on same period last year	-9.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£335
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.48	£33.17
Average hourly rate	£40.25	£34.51
% change on same period last year	+16.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.03	£35.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.48	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
JavaScript Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 93 (82.30 %) HTML 2 76 (67.26 %) CSS 3 52 (46.02 %) XHTML 4 51 (45.13 %) XML 5 37 (32.74 %) Web Development 6 36 (31.86 %) Java 7 31 (27.43 %) SQL 8 28 (24.78 %) AJAX 9 25 (22.12 %) PHP 10 22 (19.47 %) MySQL 11 21 (18.58 %) .NET 11 21 (18.58 %) XSL 12 20 (17.70 %) Linux 12 20 (17.70 %) CMS 12 20 (17.70 %) LAMP

12 20 (17.70 %) PHP5 13 19 (16.81 %) Content Management 13 19 (16.81 %) ASP.NET 14 18 (15.93 %) ASP 14 18 (15.93 %) XSLT 14 18 (15.93 %) Subversion 15 17 (15.04 %) Drupal 15 17 (15.04 %) JSP 15 17 (15.04 %) Proxima 15 17 (15.04 %) Red Hat 16 15 (13.27 %) Red Hat Linux 16 15 (13.27 %) XPath 17 14 (12.39 %) C# 18 13 (11.50 %) Migration 19 12 (10.62 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 93 (82.30 %) HTML 2 76 (67.26 %) CSS 3 52 (46.02 %) XHTML 4 51 (45.13 %) XML 5 28 (24.78 %) AJAX 6 21 (18.58 %) XSL 6 21 (18.58 %) .NET 7 20 (17.70 %) LAMP 8 19 (16.81 %) ASP.NET 9 18 (15.93 %) XSLT 9 18 (15.93 %) ASP 10 17 (15.04 %) Drupal 10 17 (15.04 %) JSP 11 9 (7.965 %) JSTL 12 8 (7.080 %) DOM 13 7 (6.195 %) Struts 13 7 (6.195 %) WebServices 13 7 (6.195 %) Hibernate 14 6 (5.310 %) Spring 14 6 (5.310 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 20 (17.70 %) CMS 2 12 (10.62 %) Apache 3 10 (8.850 %) Tomcat 4 6 (5.310 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 2 (1.770 %) JBoss 5 2 (1.770 %) SharePoint 6 1 (0.885 %) TeamSite 6 1 (0.885 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (0.885 %) Content Management Server 6 1 (0.885 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 11 (9.735 %) Photoshop 2 8 (7.080 %) MS Office 2 8 (7.080 %) MS Visio 3 7 (6.195 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 1 (0.885 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (2.655 %) Applix TM1 2 1 (0.885 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 9 (7.965 %) Internet 2 3 (2.655 %) GPRS 3 1 (0.885 %) ISDN 3 1 (0.885 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.885 %) Firewall 3 1 (0.885 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (19.47 %) MySQL 2 12 (10.62 %) SQL Server 3 3 (2.655 %) Informix 3 3 (2.655 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (2.655 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (0.885 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (0.885 %) GIS 4 1 (0.885 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 18 (15.93 %) Subversion 2 10 (8.850 %) Flash 3 8 (7.080 %) Eclipse 4 5 (4.425 %) Ant 5 2 (1.770 %) Dreamweaver 6 1 (0.885 %) Bugzilla 6 1 (0.885 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (0.885 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 12 (10.62 %) Finance 2 5 (4.425 %) Education 3 3 (2.655 %) Government 3 3 (2.655 %) Marketing 4 2 (1.770 %) Retail 4 2 (1.770 %) Construction 5 1 (0.885 %) Back Office 5 1 (0.885 %) Telecoms 5 1 (0.885 %) Health 5 1 (0.885 %) Banking 5 1 (0.885 %) Insurance 5 1 (0.885 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 66 (58.41 %) Developer 2 36 (31.86 %) Web Developer 3 12 (10.62 %) Web Designer 4 11 (9.735 %) PHP Developer 4 11 (9.735 %) Java Developer 5 8 (7.080 %) .NET Developer 5 8 (7.080 %) Infrastructure Engineer 6 7 (6.195 %) Senior Web Developer 6 7 (6.195 %) Support Engineer 6 7 (6.195 %) Web Manager 6 7 (6.195 %) Senior Developer 7 6 (5.310 %) C# Developer 7 6 (5.310 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (5.310 %) Web Support Engineer 7 6 (5.310 %) Web Engineer 8 5 (4.425 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 5 (4.425 %) Applications Support Engineer 8 5 (4.425 %) Applications Support 8 5 (4.425 %) PHP Web Developer 9 4 (3.540 %) Web Development Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.770 %) W3C 2 1 (0.885 %) N-Tier 2 1 (0.885 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 20 (17.70 %) Linux 2 15 (13.27 %) Red Hat Linux 3 11 (9.735 %) Windows 4 10 (8.850 %) Windows Server 2003 5 9 (7.965 %) Windows 2000 6 8 (7.080 %) Windows XP 6 8 (7.080 %) Windows Vista 6 8 (7.080 %) Windows Server 2008 7 2 (1.770 %) UNIX 8 1 (0.885 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 37 (32.74 %) Web Development 2 19 (16.81 %) Content Management 3 13 (11.50 %) Migration 4 12 (10.62 %) Security Cleared 5 10 (8.850 %) SC Cleared 6 6 (5.310 %) Time Management 7 5 (4.425 %) Data Migration 8 4 (3.540 %) Web Design 8 4 (3.540 %) CRM 9 3 (2.655 %) E-Commerce 10 2 (1.770 %) Software Testing 10 2 (1.770 %) Direct Marketing 10 2 (1.770 %) OO 11 1 (0.885 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 1 (0.885 %) Test Management 11 1 (0.885 %) Requirements Analysis 11 1 (0.885 %) Business Intelligence 11 1 (0.885 %) Project Management 11 1 (0.885 %) Service Management 11 1 (0.885 %) Process Management
Programming Languages 1 36 (31.86 %) Java 2 31 (27.43 %) SQL 3 25 (22.12 %) PHP 4 20 (17.70 %) PHP5 5 15 (13.27 %) XPath 6 14 (12.39 %) C# 7 12 (10.62 %) Python 8 11 (9.735 %) VBScript 9 6 (5.310 %) Transact-SQL 10 4 (3.540 %) DHTML 10 4 (3.540 %) C 11 3 (2.655 %) VB 11 3 (2.655 %) VB.NET 11 3 (2.655 %) ActionScript 12 2 (1.770 %) VBA 12 2 (1.770 %) Perl 12 2 (1.770 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (2.655 %) MCAD 1 3 (2.655 %) MCSD 1 3 (2.655 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (2.655 %) Sun Certification 1 3 (2.655 %) Degree 2 2 (1.770 %) MCP 3 1 (0.885 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (6.195 %) WCAG	Vendors 1 17 (15.04 %) Red Hat 1 17 (15.04 %) Proxima 2 11 (9.735 %) Microsoft 3 8 (7.080 %) Oracle 3 8 (7.080 %) CA 4 3 (2.655 %) Adobe 4 3 (2.655 %) Macromedia 4 3 (2.655 %) Sun 4 3 (2.655 %) Applix 5 1 (0.885 %) Zend 5 1 (0.885 %) Nokia 5 1 (0.885 %) VERITAS 5 1 (0.885 %) Cisco