The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript 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 JavaScript over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 13 17 18
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +1
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 23 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 7.692% 6.466% 4.972%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.27% 25.00% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 2
Average daily rate £275 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £273 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £371 £360 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £308
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
91 60 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 30.43% 25.86% 35.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 29 20
Average daily rate £308 £300 £291
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% +3.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £265 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £400 £526
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 10
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £42.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% -11.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
JavaScript
Hampshire

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 21 (61.76%) CSS
2 17 (50.00%) HTML
3 13 (38.24%) Java
3 13 (38.24%) PHP
4 11 (32.35%) jQuery
5 9 (26.47%) UNIX
5 9 (26.47%) Tomcat
6 8 (23.53%) .NET
6 8 (23.53%) FitNesse
6 8 (23.53%) HTML5
6 8 (23.53%) Java EE
7 7 (20.59%) Ajax
7 7 (20.59%) Apache
7 7 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (20.59%) MySQL
7 7 (20.59%) ASP.NET
7 7 (20.59%) XML
7 7 (20.59%) CMS
8 6 (17.65%) XHTML
8 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
8 6 (17.65%) C#
8 6 (17.65%) Drupal
8 6 (17.65%) WordPress
8 6 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (17.65%) TDD
8 6 (17.65%) Selenium
9 5 (14.71%) Web Development
9 5 (14.71%) Spring
9 5 (14.71%) Automated Testing
9 5 (14.71%) SOAP

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 21 (61.76%) CSS
2 17 (50.00%) HTML
3 11 (32.35%) jQuery
4 8 (23.53%) .NET
4 8 (23.53%) HTML5
4 8 (23.53%) Java EE
5 7 (20.59%) Ajax
5 7 (20.59%) ASP.NET
5 7 (20.59%) XML
6 6 (17.65%) XHTML
7 5 (14.71%) Spring
7 5 (14.71%) SOAP
7 5 (14.71%) Web Services
8 4 (11.76%) CSS3
8 4 (11.76%) JSP
8 4 (11.76%) Hibernate
9 3 (8.824%) JPA
9 3 (8.824%) Servlets
9 3 (8.824%) JDBC
9 3 (8.824%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 9 (26.47%) Tomcat
2 7 (20.59%) Apache
2 7 (20.59%) CMS
3 6 (17.65%) Drupal
3 6 (17.65%) WordPress
4 3 (8.824%) WebLogic
5 2 (5.882%) TeamSite
5 2 (5.882%) Windows Azure
5 2 (5.882%) Magento
6 1 (2.941%) ESB
6 1 (2.941%) Joomla!
6 1 (2.941%) EPiServer CMS
6 1 (2.941%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Fireworks
1 1 (2.941%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Intranet
2 2 (5.882%) Internet
3 1 (2.941%) Network Security
3 1 (2.941%) Extranet
3 1 (2.941%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) MySQL
2 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.941%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) FitNesse
2 6 (17.65%) Selenium
3 5 (14.71%) Jasmine
4 3 (8.824%) Log4j
4 3 (8.824%) JUnit
5 2 (5.882%) Git (software)
5 2 (5.882%) Xcode
6 1 (2.941%) Subversion
6 1 (2.941%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.941%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (2.941%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (2.941%) Aerospace
1 1 (2.941%) Manufacturing
1 1 (2.941%) Games
Job Titles
1 30 (88.24%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) PHP Developer
3 5 (14.71%) JavaScript Developer
3 5 (14.71%) C# Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 3 (8.824%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.824%) C# Software Developer
5 3 (8.824%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Architect
6 2 (5.882%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.882%) CMS Developer
6 2 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) iOS Developer
7 1 (2.941%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (2.941%) .NET Developer
7 1 (2.941%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.941%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (2.941%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (2.941%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (2.941%) Senior Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.941%) Mobile App
1 1 (2.941%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (2.941%) Digital Media
1 1 (2.941%) Social Media
1 1 (2.941%) iPad
1 1 (2.941%) iPhone
1 1 (2.941%) Mobile Games
1 1 (2.941%) W3C
1 1 (2.941%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) UNIX
2 3 (8.824%) Linux
3 2 (5.882%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.941%) Android
4 1 (2.941%) CentOS
4 1 (2.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.941%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (17.65%) TDD
3 5 (14.71%) Web Development
3 5 (14.71%) Automated Testing
4 3 (8.824%) MVC
4 3 (8.824%) OO
5 2 (5.882%) UML
5 2 (5.882%) OOD
5 2 (5.882%) E-Commerce
5 2 (5.882%) Validation
5 2 (5.882%) Scrum
5 2 (5.882%) Unit Testing
6 1 (2.941%) ATDD
6 1 (2.941%) Pair Programming
6 1 (2.941%) Zachman Framework
6 1 (2.941%) TOGAF
6 1 (2.941%) Refactoring
6 1 (2.941%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (2.941%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) Java
1 13 (38.24%) PHP
2 6 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (8.824%) SQL
4 2 (5.882%) Python
4 2 (5.882%) C++
4 2 (5.882%) C
5 1 (2.941%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.941%) PHP5
5 1 (2.941%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.941%) Perl
5 1 (2.941%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.941%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.941%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.941%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (2.941%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (2.941%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle
2 3 (8.824%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.882%) Zend
3 2 (5.882%) Twitter
4 1 (2.941%) EPiServer
4 1 (2.941%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.941%) Interwoven