The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript 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 JavaScript 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 Programming Languages 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 3 14 5
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 52 16 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 21.31% 7.843% 13.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.49% 24.24% 38.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 14
Average daily rate £350 £315 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% +1.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £290 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £305
% change year-on-year
- -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 0 22
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
101 66 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 41.39% 32.35% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 44
Average daily rate £375 £343 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.48% +7.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £270 £187
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 0 35
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
JavaScript
Berkshire

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the Slough region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Slough JavaScript Daily Rate Histogram

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Slough JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 68 (88.31%) HTML
2 65 (84.42%) CSS
3 53 (68.83%) jQuery
4 48 (62.34%) XML
5 36 (46.75%) XSLT
5 36 (46.75%) CSS3
6 35 (45.45%) HTML5
7 32 (41.56%) Photoshop
8 19 (24.68%) .NET
9 17 (22.08%) C#
10 16 (20.78%) ASP.NET
11 15 (19.48%) SQL Server
11 15 (19.48%) SQL
12 13 (16.88%) XHTML
12 13 (16.88%) MVC
13 11 (14.29%) Ajax
13 11 (14.29%) Web Development
13 11 (14.29%) VB.NET
14 10 (12.99%) Agile Software Development
14 10 (12.99%) Time Management
15 9 (11.69%) Java
15 9 (11.69%) Project Management
15 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
16 8 (10.39%) PHP
16 8 (10.39%) T-SQL
17 7 (9.091%) MySQL
18 6 (7.792%) .NET Framework
18 6 (7.792%) LINQ
18 6 (7.792%) Scrum
18 6 (7.792%) ASP

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 68 (88.31%) HTML
2 65 (84.42%) CSS
3 53 (68.83%) jQuery
4 48 (62.34%) XML
5 36 (46.75%) XSLT
5 36 (46.75%) CSS3
6 35 (45.45%) HTML5
7 19 (24.68%) .NET
8 16 (20.78%) ASP.NET
9 13 (16.88%) XHTML
10 11 (14.29%) Ajax
11 6 (7.792%) .NET Framework
11 6 (7.792%) LINQ
11 6 (7.792%) ASP
11 6 (7.792%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 5 (6.494%) COM+
12 5 (6.494%) XSL
13 4 (5.195%) Ruby on Rails
14 3 (3.896%) Zend Framework
14 3 (3.896%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.494%) Apache
2 3 (3.896%) CMS
3 2 (2.597%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.299%) IIS
4 1 (1.299%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.299%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.299%) LiveCycle
4 1 (1.299%) Liferay
4 1 (1.299%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 32 (41.56%) Photoshop
2 5 (6.494%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.299%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.299%) Intranet
1 1 (1.299%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.091%) MySQL
3 5 (6.494%) DTS
4 4 (5.195%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (3.896%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.299%) TOAD
6 1 (1.299%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.299%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (6.494%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.896%) Subversion
3 2 (2.597%) Maven
3 2 (2.597%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.299%) Ant
4 1 (1.299%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.299%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.299%) GitHub
General
1 4 (5.195%) Finance
2 3 (3.896%) Automotive
3 2 (2.597%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 65 (84.42%) Developer
2 37 (48.05%) Web Developer
3 18 (23.38%) Front-End Developer
4 16 (20.78%) HTML Developer
4 16 (20.78%) CSS Developer
5 11 (14.29%) Coordinator
6 10 (12.99%) Front-End Web Developer
7 9 (11.69%) .NET Developer
8 7 (9.091%) .NET Web Developer
9 6 (7.792%) PHP Developer
10 5 (6.494%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.494%) SQL Developer
11 4 (5.195%) SQL Server Developer
11 4 (5.195%) Java Developer
11 4 (5.195%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (5.195%) Project Coordinator
11 4 (5.195%) Senior Web Developer
11 4 (5.195%) Analyst
11 4 (5.195%) Senior .NET Web Developer
12 3 (3.896%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.299%) Computer Science
1 1 (1.299%) Open Source
1 1 (1.299%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.494%) Linux
2 1 (1.299%) Windows
2 1 (1.299%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.88%) MVC
2 11 (14.29%) Web Development
3 10 (12.99%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (12.99%) Time Management
4 9 (11.69%) Project Management
5 6 (7.792%) Scrum
5 6 (7.792%) PRINCE2
5 6 (7.792%) OOP
5 6 (7.792%) OO
6 4 (5.195%) E-Commerce
6 4 (5.195%) OOD
7 3 (3.896%) TDD
7 3 (3.896%) Change Control
7 3 (3.896%) Data Protection
8 2 (2.597%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (2.597%) Workflow
8 2 (2.597%) Business Analysis
8 2 (2.597%) ITIL
9 1 (1.299%) UML
9 1 (1.299%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.08%) C#
2 15 (19.48%) SQL
3 11 (14.29%) VB.NET
4 9 (11.69%) Java
5 8 (10.39%) PHP
5 8 (10.39%) T-SQL
6 5 (6.494%) VBScript
6 5 (6.494%) VB
6 5 (6.494%) VB6
7 4 (5.195%) Ruby
7 4 (5.195%) PHP5
8 1 (1.299%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.299%) XPath
8 1 (1.299%) Groovy
8 1 (1.299%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (2.597%) Degree
2 1 (1.299%) MCSD
2 1 (1.299%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.299%) PMP
2 1 (1.299%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.299%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.896%) Zend
3 1 (1.299%) Adobe
3 1 (1.299%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (1.299%) GigaSpaces
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