Ajax Contracts in Staffordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 17 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 Staffordshire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 12 18 30
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +12
Contract jobs citing Ajax 7 16 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 8.046% 7.306% 4.018%
As % of the Application Development category 25.93% 21.92% 8.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 9
Average daily rate £330 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% +30.00%
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 £29.94 £32.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-7.16% -24.11%
All Application Development
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 27 73 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 31.03% 33.33% 49.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 67
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £397 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.31 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.31% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
West Midlands

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Stoke-on-Trent +5 6 £330 +1.53%
Burton-upon-Trent 0 1 £250 -
Ajax
West Midlands

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 25 (96.15%) JavaScript
1 25 (96.15%) CSS
2 24 (92.31%) XML
2 24 (92.31%) .NET
3 23 (88.46%) C#
3 23 (88.46%) SQL Server
3 23 (88.46%) ASP.NET
4 22 (84.62%) VB.NET
5 21 (80.77%) XSLT
5 21 (80.77%) SEO
5 21 (80.77%) N-Tier
5 21 (80.77%) SOA
5 21 (80.77%) jQuery
6 20 (76.92%) HTML5
6 20 (76.92%) SQL
7 19 (73.08%) XHTML
7 19 (73.08%) E-Commerce
7 19 (73.08%) Unit Testing
7 19 (73.08%) CSS3
8 17 (65.38%) Degree
8 17 (65.38%) Web Application Development
9 11 (42.31%) TDD
10 8 (30.77%) Document Management
11 6 (23.08%) JIRA
11 6 (23.08%) AccuRev
12 5 (19.23%) .NET Framework
12 5 (19.23%) HTML
13 4 (15.38%) Games
13 4 (15.38%) Windows
13 4 (15.38%) Windows Mobile

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 25 (96.15%) CSS
2 24 (92.31%) XML
2 24 (92.31%) .NET
3 23 (88.46%) ASP.NET
4 21 (80.77%) XSLT
4 21 (80.77%) jQuery
5 20 (76.92%) HTML5
6 19 (73.08%) XHTML
6 19 (73.08%) CSS3
7 5 (19.23%) HTML
7 5 (19.23%) .NET Framework
8 2 (7.692%) JSON
9 1 (3.846%) WCF
9 1 (3.846%) WF
9 1 (3.846%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 1 (3.846%) REST
9 1 (3.846%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (3.846%) ADO.NET
9 1 (3.846%) WinForms
9 1 (3.846%) XSD
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (88.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.692%) MySQL
3 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) JIRA
2 1 (3.846%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.846%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (15.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (100.00%) Developer
2 23 (88.46%) .NET Developer
3 19 (73.08%) ASP.NET Developer
4 18 (69.23%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 18 (69.23%) VB.NET Developer
5 17 (65.38%) .NET Web Developer
5 17 (65.38%) Web Developer
6 16 (61.54%) SQL Developer
7 4 (15.38%) C# Developer
7 4 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (15.38%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (7.692%) Website Developer
9 1 (3.846%) Windows Mobile Developer
9 1 (3.846%) Agile .NET Developer
9 1 (3.846%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 1 (3.846%) Mobile Developer
9 1 (3.846%) Applications Developer
9 1 (3.846%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (80.77%) N-Tier
2 3 (11.54%) Blackberry
2 3 (11.54%) WURFL
3 2 (7.692%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
1 4 (15.38%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (11.54%) Android
2 3 (11.54%) Apple iOS
2 3 (11.54%) BlackBerry OS
3 1 (3.846%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) SOA
1 21 (80.77%) SEO
2 19 (73.08%) E-Commerce
2 19 (73.08%) Unit Testing
3 17 (65.38%) Web Application Development
4 11 (42.31%) TDD
5 8 (30.77%) Document Management
6 3 (11.54%) Web Development
7 2 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (7.692%) OOP
7 2 (7.692%) OO
8 1 (3.846%) OOD
8 1 (3.846%) Workflow
8 1 (3.846%) Migration
8 1 (3.846%) MVC
8 1 (3.846%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) JavaScript
2 23 (88.46%) C#
3 22 (84.62%) VB.NET
4 20 (76.92%) SQL
5 2 (7.692%) PHP
6 1 (3.846%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) AccuRev
2 1 (3.846%) DevExpress
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