The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton 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 Southampton 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 32 30 22
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -8
Contract jobs citing Ajax 5 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 1.661% 0.424% 3.261%
As % of the Application Development category 7.463% 1.852% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £270 - -
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
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
67 54 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 22.26% 22.88% 22.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 26 12
Average daily rate £338 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 6
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
Hampshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) jQuery
3 4 (57.14%) .NET
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (57.14%) C#
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
3 4 (57.14%) CSS
4 3 (42.86%) HTML
4 3 (42.86%) PHP
4 3 (42.86%) Intranet
5 2 (28.57%) MVC
5 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 2 (28.57%) UML
6 1 (14.29%) OO
6 1 (14.29%) Apache
6 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
6 1 (14.29%) OOD
6 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
6 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET
6 1 (14.29%) MySQL
6 1 (14.29%) Internet
6 1 (14.29%) Extranet
6 1 (14.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
6 1 (14.29%) C
6 1 (14.29%) C++
6 1 (14.29%) DHTML
6 1 (14.29%) SOAP
6 1 (14.29%) Web Services

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 5 (71.43%) jQuery
2 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
2 4 (57.14%) CSS
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET
4 1 (14.29%) DHTML
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) XSL
4 1 (14.29%) XSLT
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5
4 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 1 (14.29%) WCF
4 1 (14.29%) WF
4 1 (14.29%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 1 (14.29%) Magento
1 1 (14.29%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Intranet
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) Extranet
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) C# Developer
3 2 (28.57%) PHP Developer
3 2 (28.57%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Social Media
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) MVC
1 2 (28.57%) Validation
1 2 (28.57%) UML
2 1 (14.29%) OO
2 1 (14.29%) OOD
2 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
2 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) PHP
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (14.29%) C
4 1 (14.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)