The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 17 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 Somerset 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 9 8 12
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 24 42 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 13.11% 24.56% 13.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.78% 47.73% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 17
Average daily rate £310 £334 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.11% +1.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £239 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £442 £399 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £311
% change year-on-year
- -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
69 88 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 37.70% 51.46% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 36
Average daily rate £310 £333 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.76% +14.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £248 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £450 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £32.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.05 - £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
JavaScript
South West

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Taunton -7 7 £389 +8.81%
Bath +1 3 £260 +8.90%
Bridgwater - 2 £310 -
Weston-super-Mare - 1 - -
JavaScript
South West

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 63 (90.00%) HTML
2 60 (85.71%) C#
2 60 (85.71%) .NET
3 53 (75.71%) ASP.NET
4 50 (71.43%) SQL
5 45 (64.29%) ASP
6 43 (61.43%) SQL Server
7 41 (58.57%) Java
7 41 (58.57%) SharePoint
8 38 (54.29%) .NET Framework
9 36 (51.43%) XML
10 35 (50.00%) VB
11 33 (47.14%) UML
11 33 (47.14%) Microsoft
12 32 (45.71%) Oracle
12 32 (45.71%) IIS
13 31 (44.29%) VB.NET
14 29 (41.43%) CSS
14 29 (41.43%) ITIL
15 28 (40.00%) C++
16 27 (38.57%) UNIX
16 27 (38.57%) Ingres
17 23 (32.86%) Unit Testing
17 23 (32.86%) ISEB
17 23 (32.86%) OpenROAD
18 21 (30.00%) Security Cleared
19 20 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
20 17 (24.29%) MSTest
20 17 (24.29%) MVC
20 17 (24.29%) Visual Studio

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 63 (90.00%) HTML
2 60 (85.71%) .NET
3 53 (75.71%) ASP.NET
4 45 (64.29%) ASP
5 38 (54.29%) .NET Framework
6 36 (51.43%) XML
7 29 (41.43%) CSS
8 11 (15.71%) Web Services
9 9 (12.86%) HTML5
10 8 (11.43%) jQuery
11 5 (7.143%) Ext JS
11 5 (7.143%) XSL
11 5 (7.143%) Spring
11 5 (7.143%) Ajax
11 5 (7.143%) Spring MVC
12 4 (5.714%) J2EE
12 4 (5.714%) LINQ
13 3 (4.286%) CodeIgniter
13 3 (4.286%) WCF
13 3 (4.286%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 41 (58.57%) SharePoint
2 32 (45.71%) IIS
3 23 (32.86%) OpenROAD
4 9 (12.86%) SharePoint 2010
5 5 (7.143%) WordPress
6 2 (2.857%) Drupal
7 1 (1.429%) Apache
7 1 (1.429%) CMS
7 1 (1.429%) Joomla!
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.429%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (61.43%) SQL Server
2 27 (38.57%) Ingres
3 13 (18.57%) SQLPlus
4 6 (8.571%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (5.714%) MySQL
6 3 (4.286%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.286%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.429%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 17 (24.29%) Visual Studio
1 17 (24.29%) NUnit
1 17 (24.29%) MSTest
2 16 (22.86%) Subversion
3 13 (18.57%) TeamCity
3 13 (18.57%) Team Foundation Server
3 13 (18.57%) Jenkins
4 12 (17.14%) CruiseControl
4 12 (17.14%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (1.429%) Xcode
5 1 (1.429%) JUnit
General
1 7 (10.00%) Retail
2 5 (7.143%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (87.14%) Developer
2 27 (38.57%) .NET Developer
3 19 (27.14%) C# Developer
3 19 (27.14%) Analyst
3 19 (27.14%) C# .NET Developer
4 17 (24.29%) Analyst Developer
5 13 (18.57%) Senior Analyst
5 13 (18.57%) Senior Developer
6 11 (15.71%) Senior Analyst Developer
7 9 (12.86%) ASP.NET Developer
7 9 (12.86%) Support Analyst
7 9 (12.86%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 8 (11.43%) Web Developer
9 7 (10.00%) Senior Support Analyst
9 7 (10.00%) PHP Developer
10 5 (7.143%) SharePoint Developer
10 5 (7.143%) Programmer
11 3 (4.286%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.286%) Applications Developer
11 3 (4.286%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.143%) Animation
3 1 (1.429%) iPhone
3 1 (1.429%) Open Source
3 1 (1.429%) iPad
3 1 (1.429%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (38.57%) UNIX
2 2 (2.857%) Android
2 2 (2.857%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.429%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) UML
2 29 (41.43%) ITIL
3 23 (32.86%) Unit Testing
4 20 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (24.29%) MVC
6 15 (21.43%) Service Delivery
7 13 (18.57%) ITSM
7 13 (18.57%) Service Management
8 11 (15.71%) TDD
9 7 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (7.143%) Waterfall
10 5 (7.143%) User Experience Design
10 5 (7.143%) Web Development
10 5 (7.143%) Data Management
10 5 (7.143%) Regression Testing
10 5 (7.143%) Project Management
10 5 (7.143%) RAD
11 4 (5.714%) PRINCE2
11 4 (5.714%) Performance Management
11 4 (5.714%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (85.71%) C#
2 50 (71.43%) SQL
3 41 (58.57%) Java
4 35 (50.00%) VB
5 31 (44.29%) VB.NET
6 28 (40.00%) C++
7 13 (18.57%) PHP
8 6 (8.571%) C
9 5 (7.143%) VBScript
9 5 (7.143%) VB6
10 1 (1.429%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.429%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (32.86%) ISEB
2 21 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (21.43%) MCTS
4 14 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (15.71%) SC Cleared
6 10 (14.29%) MCPD
6 10 (14.29%) MCP
7 4 (5.714%) MCSD
7 4 (5.714%) ISEB Practitioner
7 4 (5.714%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (2.857%) Degree
9 1 (1.429%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.143%) ISO 9000
2 4 (5.714%) TickIT
2 4 (5.714%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.286%) COBIT
Vendors
1 33 (47.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (45.71%) Oracle
3 3 (4.286%) Zend
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