The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Solihull region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax 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 Solihull 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
Ajax
Rank 13 - 13
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Ajax 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull 3.448% - 1.408%
As % of the Application Development category 15.38% - 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £290
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.46 £32.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.44% -24.11%
All Application Development
Solihull
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13 7 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull 22.41% 8.861% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
Average daily rate £269 £200 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.37% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £200 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £200 £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
West Midlands

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Dojo
2 2 (66.67%) YUI
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) Graceful Degradation
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) Games
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) DTS
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) NHS
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Dojo
2 2 (66.67%) YUI
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
3 1 (33.33%) ASP
3 1 (33.33%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) DTS
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Front-End Developer
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Graceful Degradation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Web Usability
2 1 (33.33%) Data Entry
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL