South West JavaScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Altrincham Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	63
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	113	122
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.151 %	0.123 %
As % of the category below	9.425 %	6.503 %
Daily rates quoted	35	20
Average minimum daily rate	£277	£226
Average daily rate	£299	£242
% change on same period last year	+23.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£257
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£288
% change on same period last year	+5.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.00	£25.17
Average hourly rate	£28.56	£28.19
% change on same period last year	+1.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.11	£31.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.36	£30.44
% change on same period last year	-3.55 %
Programming Languages South West
Matching contract IT job ads	1199	1876
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.598 %	1.898 %
Daily rates quoted	267	320
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£315
Average daily rate	£319	£343
% change on same period last year	-7.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	229	311
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.66	£30.19
Average hourly rate	£33.76	£32.76
% change on same period last year	+3.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.87	£35.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Somerset	+10	27	£270	+3.71 %
Bristol	+9	22	£369	+28.26 %
Dorset	+12	14	£238	-43.11 %
Devon	+21	14	£250	-15.25 %
Gloucestershire	-1	12	£311	+42.17 %
Wiltshire	-4	10	£350	+7.69 %
Avon	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

1 191 (73.46 %) HTML 2 146 (56.15 %) CSS 3 98 (37.69 %) XML 4 95 (36.54 %) SQL 5 94 (36.15 %) .NET 6 77 (29.62 %) SQL Server 7 72 (27.69 %) XHTML 8 64 (24.62 %) ASP.NET 8 64 (24.62 %) AJAX 9 58 (22.31 %) C# 10 45 (17.31 %) Oracle 11 43 (16.54 %) Java 12 38 (14.62 %) XSLT 13 37 (14.23 %) Windows 14 35 (13.46 %) WebServices

15 32 (12.31 %) Internet 16 31 (11.92 %) ASP 16 31 (11.92 %) J2EE 17 28 (10.77 %) Microsoft 18 26 (10.00 %) VBScript 19 24 (9.231 %) Lotus 20 23 (8.846 %) Flash 21 22 (8.462 %) Lotus Domino 21 22 (8.462 %) PHP 22 21 (8.077 %) Web 2.0 23 20 (7.692 %) Web Development 23 20 (7.692 %) Web Design 23 20 (7.692 %) DHTML 23 20 (7.692 %) W3C 24 19 (7.308 %) Oracle 10g

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 1 191 (73.46 %) HTML 2 146 (56.15 %) CSS 3 98 (37.69 %) XML 4 94 (36.15 %) .NET 5 72 (27.69 %) XHTML 6 64 (24.62 %) AJAX 6 64 (24.62 %) ASP.NET 7 38 (14.62 %) XSLT 8 35 (13.46 %) WebServices 9 31 (11.92 %) ASP 9 31 (11.92 %) J2EE 10 15 (5.769 %) ADO.NET 11 14 (5.385 %) JSP 11 14 (5.385 %) Spring 12 13 (5.000 %) Struts 12 13 (5.000 %) .NET Framework 13 12 (4.615 %) Hibernate 14 10 (3.846 %) Servlets 14 10 (3.846 %) EJB 15 7 (2.692 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 22 (8.462 %) Lotus Domino 2 18 (6.923 %) Apache 3 13 (5.000 %) SharePoint 3 13 (5.000 %) IIS 3 13 (5.000 %) Oracle Application Server 4 11 (4.231 %) Tomcat 4 11 (4.231 %) ColdFusion 5 10 (3.846 %) CMS 5 10 (3.846 %) Lotus Notes 6 8 (3.077 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 7 (2.692 %) WebLogic 8 5 (1.923 %) Content Management Server 9 3 (1.154 %) BizTalk Server 10 2 (0.769 %) ArcGIS 10 2 (0.769 %) ArcIMS 10 2 (0.769 %) LiveLink 10 2 (0.769 %) QuickPlace 10 2 (0.769 %) ArcSDE 10 2 (0.769 %) JBoss 11 1 (0.385 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 12 (4.615 %) Photoshop 2 7 (2.692 %) MS Excel 2 7 (2.692 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 6 (2.308 %) ImageReady 4 1 (0.385 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 3 (1.154 %) Summit 2 1 (0.385 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 32 (12.31 %) Internet 2 11 (4.231 %) Intranet 3 10 (3.846 %) LDAP 4 4 (1.538 %) Extranet 5 3 (1.154 %) HTTP 6 2 (0.769 %) DNS 6 2 (0.769 %) LAN 6 2 (0.769 %) WAN 6 2 (0.769 %) SMTP 7 1 (0.385 %) TCP/IP 7 1 (0.385 %) IMAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 77 (29.62 %) SQL Server 2 19 (7.308 %) Oracle 10g 3 17 (6.538 %) MySQL 4 16 (6.154 %) Oracle 9i 5 15 (5.769 %) RDBMS 5 15 (5.769 %) SQL Server 2005 6 13 (5.000 %) Oracle Reports 6 13 (5.000 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 12 (4.615 %) SQL Server 2000 8 9 (3.462 %) DTS 9 4 (1.538 %) GIS 10 3 (1.154 %) SQL Server 7 10 3 (1.154 %) MS Access 11 1 (0.385 %) OLTP 11 1 (0.385 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 1 (0.385 %) Crystal Reports 11 1 (0.385 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 1 (0.385 %) SQLPlus
Development Applications 1 23 (8.846 %) Flash 2 16 (6.154 %) Dreamweaver 3 13 (5.000 %) Oracle Forms 4 12 (4.615 %) Visual Studio 5 8 (3.077 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 4 (1.538 %) JUnit 6 4 (1.538 %) Eclipse 7 3 (1.154 %) Selenium 7 3 (1.154 %) Ant 8 2 (0.769 %) TestDirector 8 2 (0.769 %) FrontPage 8 2 (0.769 %) Oracle APEX 9 1 (0.385 %) Visual Studio Team System 9 1 (0.385 %) QuickTest Pro 9 1 (0.385 %) CruiseControl 9 1 (0.385 %) Subversion	General 1 17 (6.538 %) Finance 2 5 (1.923 %) Government 2 5 (1.923 %) Retail 2 5 (1.923 %) Pensions 2 5 (1.923 %) Music 3 4 (1.538 %) Marketing 4 3 (1.154 %) Banking 4 3 (1.154 %) Education 4 3 (1.154 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (0.769 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (0.769 %) Publishing 5 2 (0.769 %) Investment Banking 5 2 (0.769 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.385 %) Multimedia 6 1 (0.385 %) Games 6 1 (0.385 %) Health 6 1 (0.385 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 222 (85.38 %) Developer 2 74 (28.46 %) Web Developer 3 37 (14.23 %) .NET Developer 4 19 (7.308 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 18 (6.923 %) PHP Developer 6 17 (6.538 %) Java Developer 7 16 (6.154 %) C# Developer 8 13 (5.000 %) Oracle Developer 9 12 (4.615 %) Applications Developer 10 11 (4.231 %) Analyst 11 10 (3.846 %) Senior Developer 11 10 (3.846 %) Web Applications Developer 11 10 (3.846 %) .NET Web Developer 11 10 (3.846 %) HTML Developer 11 10 (3.846 %) Java/J2EE Developer 11 10 (3.846 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 9 (3.462 %) Consultant 12 9 (3.462 %) Interface Designer 13 8 (3.077 %) Software Developer 14 7 (2.692 %) Lotus Notes Developer	Miscellaneous 1 21 (8.077 %) Web 2.0 2 20 (7.692 %) W3C 3 2 (0.769 %) AS400 3 2 (0.769 %) Replication 3 2 (0.769 %) NHS 4 1 (0.385 %) E-Learning 4 1 (0.385 %) PDA 4 1 (0.385 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.385 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 37 (14.23 %) Windows 2 12 (4.615 %) Linux 3 9 (3.462 %) Solaris 4 6 (2.308 %) UNIX 5 4 (1.538 %) Windows NT 6 3 (1.154 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (0.769 %) Windows XP 8 1 (0.385 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (7.692 %) Web Design 1 20 (7.692 %) Web Development 2 18 (6.923 %) SEO 3 17 (6.538 %) E-Commerce 4 11 (4.231 %) Agile Software Development 5 10 (3.846 %) OOP 6 8 (3.077 %) Content Management 7 7 (2.692 %) OO 8 6 (2.308 %) UML 9 5 (1.923 %) Service Management 10 4 (1.538 %) Scrum 10 4 (1.538 %) TDD 10 4 (1.538 %) Validation 11 3 (1.154 %) Workflow 11 3 (1.154 %) PRINCE2 12 2 (0.769 %) ERP 12 2 (0.769 %) Data Modelling 12 2 (0.769 %) Migration 12 2 (0.769 %) Data Management 12 2 (0.769 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 95 (36.54 %) SQL 2 58 (22.31 %) C# 3 43 (16.54 %) Java 4 26 (10.00 %) VBScript 5 22 (8.462 %) PHP 6 20 (7.692 %) DHTML 7 19 (7.308 %) VB.NET 8 15 (5.769 %) VB 8 15 (5.769 %) PL/SQL 9 9 (3.462 %) Transact-SQL 9 9 (3.462 %) PHP5 10 8 (3.077 %) LotusScript 11 7 (2.692 %) PHP4 11 7 (2.692 %) ActionScript 12 6 (2.308 %) XQuery 12 6 (2.308 %) Shell Script 12 6 (2.308 %) XPath 13 5 (1.923 %) VBA 14 4 (1.538 %) C++ 14 4 (1.538 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 3 (1.154 %) Degree 2 2 (0.769 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (0.769 %) MCP 3 1 (0.385 %) MCAD 3 1 (0.385 %) MCSD 3 1 (0.385 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.385 %) MCTS 3 1 (0.385 %) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (1.923 %) WAI 2 3 (1.154 %) QA 3 1 (0.385 %) SLA	System Software 1 5 (1.923 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.385 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 45 (17.31 %) Oracle 2 28 (10.77 %) Microsoft 3 24 (9.231 %) Lotus 4 9 (3.462 %) Adobe 5 7 (2.692 %) Sun 6 3 (1.154 %) BEA 6 3 (1.154 %) Macromedia 6 3 (1.154 %) SAP 7 2 (0.769 %) Ericsson 7 2 (0.769 %) HP 7 2 (0.769 %) Red Hat 7 2 (0.769 %) Zend 7 2 (0.769 %) ESRI 7 2 (0.769 %) BT 8 1 (0.385 %) Infragistics 8 1 (0.385 %) telerik 8 1 (0.385 %) TIBCO 8 1 (0.385 %) Nokia 8 1 (0.385 %) IBM