The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 19 June 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 St Albans 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 8 10 6
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 3.704% 8.108% 12.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% 13.04% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
Average daily rate £225 £463 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-51.35% +120.23%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+18.64% -9.23%
All Programming Languages
St Albans
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
8 23 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 29.63% 62.16% 38.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 10
Average daily rate £400 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
JavaScript
Hertfordshire

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript across the St Albans region.

St Albans JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (75.00%) Web Development
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) Video on Demand
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
2 3 (75.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) iOS SDK
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) iPad
3 1 (25.00%) iPhone
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Xcode
3 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) XML

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) iOS SDK
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) XML
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Xcode
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (25.00%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Video on Demand
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (25.00%) iPad
2 1 (25.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (75.00%) Web Development
1 3 (75.00%) BDD
1 3 (75.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Objective-C