Southampton JavaScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the Southampton 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington 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 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	11
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	5	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	7.576 %	24.56 %
Daily rates quoted	1	14
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£250
Average daily rate	£375	£273
% change on same period last year	+37.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£296
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£295
% change on same period last year	+2.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.67	£14.20
Average hourly rate	£39.67	£15.91
% change on same period last year	+149.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.67	£17.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.55	£31.12
% change on same period last year	-8.25 %
Programming Languages Southampton
Matching contract IT job ads	66	114
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.114 %
Daily rates quoted	25	47
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£274
Average daily rate	£344	£294
% change on same period last year	+17.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.35	£25.09
Average hourly rate	£39.00	£26.95
% change on same period last year	+44.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.65	£28.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
JavaScript Hampshire

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 Southampton 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 Southampton region.

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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 Southampton 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 Southampton region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 14 (87.50 %) XML 2 12 (75.00 %) CSS 3 9 (56.25 %) HTML 4 8 (50.00 %) C# 4 8 (50.00 %) .NET 4 8 (50.00 %) SQL Server 4 8 (50.00 %) XHTML 5 7 (43.75 %) Visual Studio 5 7 (43.75 %) ASP.NET 6 6 (37.50 %) Linux 6 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 7 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 5 (31.25 %) AJAX 7 5 (31.25 %) XSLT 8 4 (25.00 %) ASP

8 4 (25.00 %) C++ 8 4 (25.00 %) C 9 3 (18.75 %) Java 9 3 (18.75 %) ActionScript 9 3 (18.75 %) Flash 9 3 (18.75 %) HTTP 9 3 (18.75 %) XMPP 9 3 (18.75 %) RTSP 9 3 (18.75 %) Embedded Linux 9 3 (18.75 %) Marketing 10 2 (12.50 %) STB 10 2 (12.50 %) ColdFusion 10 2 (12.50 %) Middleware 10 2 (12.50 %) DOM 10 2 (12.50 %) JSP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 14 (87.50 %) XML 2 12 (75.00 %) CSS 3 9 (56.25 %) HTML 4 8 (50.00 %) .NET 4 8 (50.00 %) XHTML 5 7 (43.75 %) ASP.NET 6 5 (31.25 %) AJAX 6 5 (31.25 %) XSLT 7 4 (25.00 %) ASP 8 3 (18.75 %) XMPP 9 2 (12.50 %) Middleware 9 2 (12.50 %) DOM 9 2 (12.50 %) JSP 10 1 (6.250 %) J2EE 10 1 (6.250 %) SOAP 10 1 (6.250 %) Struts 10 1 (6.250 %) Swing 10 1 (6.250 %) Hibernate 10 1 (6.250 %) JAXP 10 1 (6.250 %) JAXB	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) ColdFusion 2 1 (6.250 %) WebLogic 2 1 (6.250 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Photoshop 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Office 1 1 (6.250 %) FreeHand 1 1 (6.250 %) Fireworks 1 1 (6.250 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 3 (18.75 %) HTTP 1 3 (18.75 %) RTSP 2 1 (6.250 %) DVB 2 1 (6.250 %) Internet 2 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 6 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (6.250 %) MySQL 4 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (6.250 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 7 (43.75 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (18.75 %) Flash 3 1 (6.250 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 3 (18.75 %) Marketing 2 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms 2 1 (6.250 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 12 (75.00 %) Developer 2 6 (37.50 %) C# Developer 3 3 (18.75 %) Java Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) .NET Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) ColdFusion Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) Web Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Programmer 5 1 (6.250 %) .NET Web Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Junior Web Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) J2EE Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Junior 5 1 (6.250 %) Software Engineer 5 1 (6.250 %) Junior Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) C# Web Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Java Swing Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) STB 2 1 (6.250 %) DTV 2 1 (6.250 %) iDTV	Operating Systems 1 6 (37.50 %) Linux 2 3 (18.75 %) Embedded Linux 3 1 (6.250 %) UNIX 3 1 (6.250 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (6.250 %) OO 1 1 (6.250 %) Agile Software Development 1 1 (6.250 %) Test-First Development	Programming Languages 1 8 (50.00 %) C# 2 4 (25.00 %) C++ 2 4 (25.00 %) C 3 3 (18.75 %) Java 3 3 (18.75 %) ActionScript 4 2 (12.50 %) VB.NET 5 1 (6.250 %) Perl 5 1 (6.250 %) PHP 5 1 (6.250 %) SQL 5 1 (6.250 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (6.250 %) VB 5 1 (6.250 %) VBA 5 1 (6.250 %) Embedded C 5 1 (6.250 %) Embedded C++
System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 1 1 (6.250 %) MKS