The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 22 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 South Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 27 31 15
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -16
Contract jobs citing Ajax 5 1 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 1.916% 0.375% 7.986%
As % of the Application Development category 6.410% 1.190% 19.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 10
Average daily rate £275 - £288
90% offered a daily rate of more than £257 - £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 - £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -23.52%
All Application Development
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
78 84 121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 29.89% 31.46% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 44 77
Average daily rate £280 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £190 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
Yorkshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Sheffield +3 2 £253 -
Doncaster - 1 £410 -
Ajax
Yorkshire

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 7 (77.78%) CSS
1 7 (77.78%) C#
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
1 7 (77.78%) .NET
2 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 5 (55.56%) HTML
4 4 (44.44%) PHP
4 4 (44.44%) XHTML
4 4 (44.44%) CRM
4 4 (44.44%) VB.NET
5 3 (33.33%) Lagan
5 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (33.33%) Web Services
5 3 (33.33%) XML
5 3 (33.33%) XSL
6 2 (22.22%) XSLT
6 2 (22.22%) DHTML
6 2 (22.22%) SSL
6 2 (22.22%) Back Office
6 2 (22.22%) SOAP
6 2 (22.22%) Windows
6 2 (22.22%) XPath
6 2 (22.22%) WCF
6 2 (22.22%) DotNetNuke
6 2 (22.22%) jQuery
6 2 (22.22%) WinForms
6 2 (22.22%) HTML5
7 1 (11.11%) Local Government

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 7 (77.78%) CSS
1 7 (77.78%) .NET
2 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 5 (55.56%) HTML
4 4 (44.44%) XHTML
5 3 (33.33%) Web Services
5 3 (33.33%) XML
5 3 (33.33%) XSL
6 2 (22.22%) XSLT
6 2 (22.22%) DHTML
6 2 (22.22%) SOAP
6 2 (22.22%) WCF
6 2 (22.22%) jQuery
6 2 (22.22%) WinForms
6 2 (22.22%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) DotNetNuke
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (22.22%) Back Office
2 1 (11.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Web Developer
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Systems Developer
5 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 1 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Systems Integrator
5 1 (11.11%) Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CRM
2 1 (11.11%) SEO
2 1 (11.11%) BPR
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) PHP
2 4 (44.44%) VB.NET
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) XPath
5 1 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Lagan
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle