The first table below looks at the demand for JSON skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSON over the 3 months to 24 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 Reading 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JSON
Rank 61 82 -
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -
Contract jobs citing JSON 9 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.078% 0.179% -
As % of the Application Development category 4.500% 1.250% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
-43.35% -
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
200 160 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.95% 14.35% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 59 115
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £426 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSON
Berkshire

JSON
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading JSON Jobs Demand Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading JSON Daily Rate Trend

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing JSON 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 JSON.

1 10 (83.33%) XML
1 10 (83.33%) CSS
1 10 (83.33%) Ajax
2 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (58.33%) HTML
3 7 (58.33%) jQuery
4 6 (50.00%) Web Services
5 5 (41.67%) Java
5 5 (41.67%) XSLT
5 5 (41.67%) Windows
5 5 (41.67%) Blackberry
5 5 (41.67%) Android
5 5 (41.67%) HTML5
5 5 (41.67%) Apple iOS
6 4 (33.33%) Dojo
6 4 (33.33%) XHTML
6 4 (33.33%) Eclipse
6 4 (33.33%) MVC
6 4 (33.33%) JSP
7 3 (25.00%) CMS
7 3 (25.00%) Spring
7 3 (25.00%) REST
7 3 (25.00%) PhoneGap
7 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
7 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
8 2 (16.67%) Time Management
8 2 (16.67%) Struts2
8 2 (16.67%) Sencha Touch
8 2 (16.67%) Web Application Development
8 2 (16.67%) Windows 8

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing JSON 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 JSON. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (83.33%) XML
1 10 (83.33%) CSS
1 10 (83.33%) Ajax
2 7 (58.33%) HTML
2 7 (58.33%) jQuery
3 6 (50.00%) Web Services
4 5 (41.67%) XSLT
4 5 (41.67%) HTML5
5 4 (33.33%) Dojo
5 4 (33.33%) XHTML
5 4 (33.33%) JSP
6 3 (25.00%) Spring
6 3 (25.00%) REST
7 2 (16.67%) Struts2
7 2 (16.67%) Sencha Touch
7 2 (16.67%) CSS3
7 2 (16.67%) iOS SDK
7 2 (16.67%) SOAP
7 2 (16.67%) Struts
7 2 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
2 1 (8.333%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) MySQL
2 1 (8.333%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.333%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 3 (25.00%) PhoneGap
3 2 (16.67%) Subversion
3 2 (16.67%) Xcode
4 1 (8.333%) Ant
4 1 (8.333%) JUnit
General
1 2 (16.67%) Publishing
2 1 (8.333%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Banking
2 1 (8.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Web Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
3 2 (16.67%) UI Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 2 (16.67%) UI Programmer
3 2 (16.67%) iOS Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Android Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Applications Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Web Applications Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Blackberry
2 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (16.67%) Smartphone
4 1 (8.333%) iPad
4 1 (8.333%) Open Source
4 1 (8.333%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (8.333%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) Android
1 5 (41.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 8
3 1 (8.333%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) MVC
2 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (16.67%) Time Management
3 2 (16.67%) Web Application Development
3 2 (16.67%) Web Development
3 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 2 (16.67%) Content Management
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (8.333%) Scrum
4 1 (8.333%) TDD
4 1 (8.333%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (8.333%) Performance Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Integration Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Analytics
4 1 (8.333%) Kanban
4 1 (8.333%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Objective-C
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.333%) Ruby
4 1 (8.333%) Bash shell
4 1 (8.333%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Sencha
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) Google