Slough AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the Slough region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited AJAX over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hull Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	34
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	16	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	17.02 %	2.778 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£300
Average daily rate	£297	£300
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£303	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£297
% change on same period last year	+6.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.33	-
Average hourly rate	£42.17	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.60	£36.62
% change on same period last year	-13.72 %
Application Development Slough
Matching contract IT job ads	94	72
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.125 %	0.073 %
Daily rates quoted	21	14
Average minimum daily rate	£264	£300
Average daily rate	£279	£310
% change on same period last year	-10.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£293	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.98	£41.47
Average hourly rate	£39.12	£42.24
% change on same period last year	-7.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.26	£43.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
AJAX 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.

AJAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing AJAX across the Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

AJAX
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AJAX across the Slough region.

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Slough region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AJAX across the Slough region.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Slough region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 10 (55.56 %) JSP 1 10 (55.56 %) XHTML 2 8 (44.44 %) CSS 2 8 (44.44 %) HTML 2 8 (44.44 %) SQL 3 7 (38.89 %) J2EE 3 7 (38.89 %) SQL Server 3 7 (38.89 %) Struts 3 7 (38.89 %) Hibernate 3 7 (38.89 %) Spring 3 7 (38.89 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (38.89 %) WebSphere 4 6 (33.33 %) DB2 UDB 4 6 (33.33 %) CMS 4 6 (33.33 %) DB2

4 6 (33.33 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 6 (33.33 %) Java 5 5 (27.78 %) DHTML 5 5 (27.78 %) Content Management 5 5 (27.78 %) Web Design 6 4 (22.22 %) Dreamweaver 6 4 (22.22 %) NHS 6 4 (22.22 %) Internet 6 4 (22.22 %) XSLT 6 4 (22.22 %) Photoshop 7 3 (16.67 %) IIS 7 3 (16.67 %) Servlets 7 3 (16.67 %) Windows 7 3 (16.67 %) IBM 7 3 (16.67 %) Degree

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 10 (55.56 %) JSP 1 10 (55.56 %) XHTML 2 8 (44.44 %) CSS 2 8 (44.44 %) HTML 3 7 (38.89 %) J2EE 3 7 (38.89 %) Struts 3 7 (38.89 %) Hibernate 3 7 (38.89 %) Spring 3 7 (38.89 %) WebSphere 4 4 (22.22 %) XSLT 5 3 (16.67 %) Servlets 6 2 (11.11 %) JDBC 6 2 (11.11 %) XML 7 1 (5.556 %) LAMP 7 1 (5.556 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (5.556 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 6 (33.33 %) CMS 1 6 (33.33 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 3 (16.67 %) IIS 3 2 (11.11 %) Plone 3 2 (11.11 %) Joomla! 4 1 (5.556 %) Mambo 4 1 (5.556 %) Apache
Applications 1 4 (22.22 %) Photoshop 2 1 (5.556 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 4 (22.22 %) Internet 2 2 (11.11 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (38.89 %) SQL Server 1 7 (38.89 %) SQL Server 2005 2 6 (33.33 %) DB2 UDB 2 6 (33.33 %) DB2 3 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (5.556 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 4 (22.22 %) Dreamweaver 2 2 (11.11 %) Subversion 2 2 (11.11 %) Eclipse
General 1 1 (5.556 %) Telecoms 1 1 (5.556 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 12 (66.67 %) Developer 2 5 (27.78 %) Analyst 2 5 (27.78 %) Support Analyst 2 5 (27.78 %) Web Analyst 3 4 (22.22 %) J2EE Developer 4 3 (16.67 %) Project Leader 5 2 (11.11 %) Lead Developer 5 2 (11.11 %) Applications Developer 5 2 (11.11 %) J2EE Applications Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) VB.NET Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) Analyst Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) SQL Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) PHP Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) PHP Programmer 6 1 (5.556 %) Programmer 6 1 (5.556 %) Web Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) Java Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (22.22 %) NHS 2 1 (5.556 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (5.556 %) Social Network	Operating Systems 1 3 (16.67 %) Windows 2 1 (5.556 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (27.78 %) Web Design 1 5 (27.78 %) Content Management 2 2 (11.11 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (44.44 %) SQL 2 6 (33.33 %) Java 3 5 (27.78 %) DHTML 4 2 (11.11 %) JavaScript 5 1 (5.556 %) PHP 5 1 (5.556 %) VB.NET 5 1 (5.556 %) PHP5 5 1 (5.556 %) PHP4
Qualifications 1 3 (16.67 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (16.67 %) IBM 2 1 (5.556 %) ION Trading