The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 21 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 Slough 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 31 26 19
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -7
Contract jobs citing Ajax 10 3 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 4.016% 1.478% 7.143%
As % of the Application Development category 12.20% 6.667% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
Average daily rate £350 £338 £273
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +23.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.96 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-7.81% -23.52%
All Application Development
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
82 45 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 32.93% 22.17% 31.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 45
Average daily rate £325 £350 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +14.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £288 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 34
Average hourly rate £35.00 £14.40 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+143.05% -66.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
Berkshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 10 (83.33%) MVC
3 9 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (66.67%) CSS
5 7 (58.33%) HTML
5 7 (58.33%) .NET
5 7 (58.33%) .NET Framework
5 7 (58.33%) jQuery
5 7 (58.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 6 (50.00%) LINQ
6 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (50.00%) C#
7 5 (41.67%) SQL
7 5 (41.67%) XML
7 5 (41.67%) XSLT
7 5 (41.67%) PRINCE2
7 5 (41.67%) Linux
7 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
7 5 (41.67%) Visual Studio
7 5 (41.67%) XHTML
7 5 (41.67%) MS Excel
7 5 (41.67%) Web Development
7 5 (41.67%) Scrum
8 4 (33.33%) Ruby
8 4 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
8 4 (33.33%) VB.NET
9 3 (25.00%) PHP
9 3 (25.00%) OOP

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 8 (66.67%) CSS
2 7 (58.33%) HTML
2 7 (58.33%) .NET
2 7 (58.33%) .NET Framework
2 7 (58.33%) jQuery
2 7 (58.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 6 (50.00%) LINQ
4 5 (41.67%) XML
4 5 (41.67%) XSLT
4 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
4 5 (41.67%) XHTML
5 4 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (25.00%) Zend Framework
7 2 (16.67%) CSS3
7 2 (16.67%) LAMP
8 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
8 1 (8.333%) ASP
8 1 (8.333%) Spring
8 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 1 (8.333%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (8.333%) IIS
2 1 (8.333%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.333%) Ant
2 1 (8.333%) Eclipse
2 1 (8.333%) Maven
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (58.33%) .NET Developer
3 6 (50.00%) Web Developer
4 5 (41.67%) .NET Web Developer
5 4 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (33.33%) Senior .NET Web Developer
5 4 (33.33%) Senior Web Developer
5 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (25.00%) PHP Developer
7 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
8 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (8.333%) Java Web Developer
8 1 (8.333%) PHP MySQL Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) MVC
2 9 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (41.67%) PRINCE2
3 5 (41.67%) Web Development
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum
4 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 3 (25.00%) OOP
5 3 (25.00%) OO
5 3 (25.00%) OOD
5 3 (25.00%) Change Control
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
6 1 (8.333%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (50.00%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) Ruby
4 4 (33.33%) VB.NET
5 3 (25.00%) PHP
5 3 (25.00%) PHP5
6 2 (16.67%) Java
7 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Zend
3 1 (8.333%) Telerik