The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 18 June 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 South East 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 104 95 83
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -12
Contract jobs citing Ajax 132 169 228
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.633% 1.682% 2.161%
As % of the Application Development category 6.663% 7.717% 8.318%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 87 82
Average daily rate £350 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £242
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £308 £288
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 29
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -25.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -29.41%
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1981 2190 2741
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.51% 21.80% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1048 1096 1297
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 107 184
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £19.00 £26.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
Ajax
England

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ajax across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East Ajax Daily Rate Histogram

Ajax
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ajax within the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +40 63 £425 +41.66% 17
Hampshire -19 22 £299 -14.64% 19
Surrey +9 16 £320 -1.53% 16
Buckinghamshire -10 15 £325 -4.41% 6
East Sussex -2 5 £318 +39.56%
Oxfordshire -10 3 £325 +1.96% 8
Middlesex - 3 £260 - 1
West Sussex +12 2 - - 1
Kent -8 1 - - 7
Ajax
England

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 225 (85.55%) JavaScript
2 215 (81.75%) CSS
3 179 (68.06%) HTML
4 138 (52.47%) jQuery
5 121 (46.01%) XML
6 94 (35.74%) SQL
7 80 (30.42%) .NET
8 76 (28.90%) SQL Server
9 74 (28.14%) JSP
9 74 (28.14%) Java
10 72 (27.38%) C#
11 65 (24.71%) ASP.NET
12 61 (23.19%) MVC
13 60 (22.81%) OO
14 53 (20.15%) J2EE
15 49 (18.63%) E-Commerce
15 49 (18.63%) HTML5
16 44 (16.73%) JSON
17 43 (16.35%) Agile Software Development
18 40 (15.21%) Microsoft
18 40 (15.21%) JUnit
19 39 (14.83%) JMS
20 38 (14.45%) Scrum
21 37 (14.07%) WebSphere
22 36 (13.69%) EJB
22 36 (13.69%) JSTL
23 33 (12.55%) CSS3
23 33 (12.55%) Oracle
23 33 (12.55%) Web Services
24 32 (12.17%) XSLT

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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
1 215 (81.75%) CSS
2 179 (68.06%) HTML
3 138 (52.47%) jQuery
4 121 (46.01%) XML
5 80 (30.42%) .NET
6 74 (28.14%) JSP
7 65 (24.71%) ASP.NET
8 53 (20.15%) J2EE
9 49 (18.63%) HTML5
10 44 (16.73%) JSON
11 39 (14.83%) JMS
12 37 (14.07%) WebSphere
13 36 (13.69%) EJB
13 36 (13.69%) JSTL
14 33 (12.55%) CSS3
14 33 (12.55%) Web Services
15 32 (12.17%) XSLT
16 31 (11.79%) ASP.NET MVC
17 30 (11.41%) .NET Framework
18 29 (11.03%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 23 (8.745%) CMS
2 19 (7.224%) IIS
3 16 (6.084%) Adobe CQ
4 15 (5.703%) Apache
5 9 (3.422%) SharePoint
6 8 (3.042%) Oracle Application Server
6 8 (3.042%) Windows Azure
7 7 (2.662%) ESB
8 6 (2.281%) Tomcat
8 6 (2.281%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (1.901%) WebLogic
9 5 (1.901%) Drupal
10 2 (0.760%) TeamSite
10 2 (0.760%) Commerce Server
10 2 (0.760%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.760%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.760%) Mule
11 1 (0.380%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.380%) Magento
11 1 (0.380%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 25 (9.506%) MS Excel
2 8 (3.042%) Photoshop
3 5 (1.901%) Fireworks
3 5 (1.901%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (1.521%) MS Office
5 1 (0.380%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.380%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 3 (1.141%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.760%) Google Analytics
2 2 (0.760%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.042%) HTTP
2 7 (2.662%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.281%) Internet
4 3 (1.141%) SSL
4 3 (1.141%) Intranet
5 2 (0.760%) DNS
5 2 (0.760%) FTP
5 2 (0.760%) Firewall
6 1 (0.380%) Network Security
6 1 (0.380%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.380%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (28.90%) SQL Server
2 25 (9.506%) SQL Server 2005
3 21 (7.985%) MySQL
4 20 (7.605%) SQL Server 2008
5 14 (5.323%) DB2
6 13 (4.943%) Oracle 10g
7 12 (4.563%) Oracle 11g
8 7 (2.662%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (2.662%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.281%) Oracle OWB
9 6 (2.281%) Oracle BI EE
10 5 (1.901%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.521%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (1.521%) Oracle Discoverer
11 4 (1.521%) SQL Server 2000
11 4 (1.521%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (1.141%) SQLPlus
12 3 (1.141%) TOAD
13 2 (0.760%) Oracle 9i
14 1 (0.380%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 40 (15.21%) JUnit
2 32 (12.17%) Visual Studio
3 16 (6.084%) Eclipse
3 16 (6.084%) Subversion
4 13 (4.943%) Maven
5 10 (3.802%) Oracle APEX
6 9 (3.422%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (3.042%) NUnit
7 8 (3.042%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 7 (2.662%) Ant
8 7 (2.662%) Jenkins
9 6 (2.281%) JSUnit
9 6 (2.281%) Selenium
10 4 (1.521%) Git (software)
11 3 (1.141%) Rhino Mocks
11 3 (1.141%) PhoneGap
12 2 (0.760%) FitNesse
12 2 (0.760%) XMLSpy
12 2 (0.760%) Xcode
12 2 (0.760%) InterDev
General
1 26 (9.886%) Retail
2 20 (7.605%) Finance
3 9 (3.422%) Games
4 7 (2.662%) Marketing
5 3 (1.141%) Publishing
6 2 (0.760%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.760%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.380%) Back Office
7 1 (0.380%) Electronics
7 1 (0.380%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.380%) Military
7 1 (0.380%) Banking
7 1 (0.380%) Arabic Language
7 1 (0.380%) German Language
7 1 (0.380%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 234 (88.97%) Developer
2 48 (18.25%) .NET Developer
3 43 (16.35%) Web Developer
4 28 (10.65%) Front-End Developer
5 24 (9.125%) Java Developer
5 24 (9.125%) WebSphere Developer
6 20 (7.605%) C# Developer
7 19 (7.224%) JavaScript Developer
8 17 (6.464%) PHP Developer
8 17 (6.464%) C# .NET Developer
9 16 (6.084%) Senior Developer
10 15 (5.703%) Programmer
10 15 (5.703%) UI Developer
10 15 (5.703%) UI Programmer
11 11 (4.183%) .NET Web Developer
12 10 (3.802%) Senior .NET Developer
12 10 (3.802%) Java/J2EE Developer
12 10 (3.802%) ASP.NET Developer
13 9 (3.422%) Analyst
14 8 (3.042%) CMS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.084%) N-Tier
2 12 (4.563%) Client/Server
3 9 (3.422%) Open Source
4 7 (2.662%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.901%) Blackberry
5 5 (1.901%) Web 2.0
6 3 (1.141%) Smartphone
6 3 (1.141%) W3C
6 3 (1.141%) iPhone
6 3 (1.141%) Video on Demand
7 2 (0.760%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.760%) iPad
7 2 (0.760%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.380%) New Media
8 1 (0.380%) Health Informatics
8 1 (0.380%) NHS
8 1 (0.380%) Informatics
8 1 (0.380%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.380%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.380%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.65%) Windows
2 25 (9.506%) Linux
3 18 (6.844%) UNIX
4 10 (3.802%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (3.422%) Android
5 9 (3.422%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.281%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (1.901%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (1.141%) Solaris
9 2 (0.760%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.380%) AIX
10 1 (0.380%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.380%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (23.19%) MVC
2 60 (22.81%) OO
3 49 (18.63%) E-Commerce
4 43 (16.35%) Agile Software Development
5 38 (14.45%) Scrum
6 29 (11.03%) TDD
6 29 (11.03%) Web Development
7 22 (8.365%) Software Testing
8 19 (7.224%) Unit Testing
9 16 (6.084%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (5.703%) OOD
10 15 (5.703%) RAD
10 15 (5.703%) UML
10 15 (5.703%) Content Management
11 14 (5.323%) ETL
12 11 (4.183%) Performance Testing
12 11 (4.183%) Automated Testing
13 10 (3.802%) Workflow
14 9 (3.422%) OOP
14 9 (3.422%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 225 (85.55%) JavaScript
2 94 (35.74%) SQL
3 74 (28.14%) Java
4 72 (27.38%) C#
5 29 (11.03%) PHP
6 19 (7.224%) VB.NET
7 18 (6.844%) T-SQL
8 14 (5.323%) PL/SQL
9 11 (4.183%) VB
10 7 (2.662%) PHP5
10 7 (2.662%) Ruby
11 6 (2.281%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.281%) Perl
11 6 (2.281%) C
12 4 (1.521%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.521%) Python
13 3 (1.141%) XPath
14 2 (0.760%) VB6
14 2 (0.760%) C++
15 1 (0.380%) NATURAL
Qualifications
1 13 (4.943%) Security Cleared
2 10 (3.802%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.760%) DV Cleared
3 2 (0.760%) ISEB
3 2 (0.760%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.760%) OCP
3 2 (0.760%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (0.760%) Degree
4 1 (0.380%) Sun Certification
4 1 (0.380%) MCTS
4 1 (0.380%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.380%) MCP
4 1 (0.380%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.901%) SLA
2 2 (0.760%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.380%) QA
System Software
1 5 (1.901%) VMware ESX
2 2 (0.760%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.760%) vCloud
3 1 (0.380%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (0.760%) SCOM
2 1 (0.380%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 40 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.55%) Oracle
3 24 (9.125%) IBM
4 13 (4.943%) Adobe
5 8 (3.042%) Omniture
6 7 (2.662%) Serena
7 6 (2.281%) Telerik
7 6 (2.281%) Aquila
7 6 (2.281%) Google
7 6 (2.281%) Zend
7 6 (2.281%) VMware
7 6 (2.281%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (1.901%) Sencha
9 4 (1.521%) JBoss
10 3 (1.141%) Business Objects
10 3 (1.141%) Dundas
11 2 (0.760%) Coremetrics
11 2 (0.760%) Interwoven
11 2 (0.760%) Tealeaf
11 2 (0.760%) DevExpress
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Stott & May
Rate: £275 - £305 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Berkshire
Successful candidates will have a strong knowledge of JavaScript, AJAX, JavaScript libraries and standards compliant with HTML and CSS... Essential skills: Excellent knowledge of coding pure OO JavaScript.....
Roc Search
Posted: 13 June 2013
Havant, South East
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AJAX & JQuery mastery... UI development across, HTML5, CSS3 and associated technology... Experience with PHP, Apache, SQL, Node.js & various CMSs (eg... HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AJAX,...
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Rate: £250 - £300 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hampshire, South East
The chosen Developer will be the key development lead providing front end technology steers to the team and assisting and mentoring other developers.The ideal Candidate will be...
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Rate: £250.00 - £320 per day + Please quote
Posted: 24 May 2013
Surrey
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Rate: £300 - £320 per day + Bens
Posted: 13 June 2013
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