The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 24 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 6 14 11
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 9 10 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 29.03% 14.71% 21.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 30.30% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 11
Average daily rate £328 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.76% +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £305
% change year-on-year
- -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
All Programming Languages
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
18 33 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 58.06% 48.53% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 12
Average daily rate £330 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
JavaScript
Staffordshire

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 27 (96.43%) CSS
2 24 (85.71%) C#
2 24 (85.71%) .NET
2 24 (85.71%) ASP.NET
3 23 (82.14%) SQL Server
3 23 (82.14%) VB.NET
3 23 (82.14%) XML
3 23 (82.14%) XSLT
4 21 (75.00%) jQuery
5 20 (71.43%) HTML5
6 18 (64.29%) Ajax
6 18 (64.29%) E-Commerce
7 17 (60.71%) N-Tier
7 17 (60.71%) SOA
7 17 (60.71%) SEO
7 17 (60.71%) XHTML
7 17 (60.71%) Unit Testing
7 17 (60.71%) CSS3
8 15 (53.57%) SQL
8 15 (53.57%) Degree
8 15 (53.57%) Web Application Development
9 12 (42.86%) Document Management
10 10 (35.71%) HTML
11 9 (32.14%) TDD
12 7 (25.00%) .NET Framework
13 6 (21.43%) JIRA
13 6 (21.43%) AccuRev
14 5 (17.86%) Web Services
15 4 (14.29%) Flash
15 4 (14.29%) ActionScript

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 27 (96.43%) CSS
2 24 (85.71%) .NET
2 24 (85.71%) ASP.NET
3 23 (82.14%) XML
3 23 (82.14%) XSLT
4 21 (75.00%) jQuery
5 20 (71.43%) HTML5
6 18 (64.29%) Ajax
7 17 (60.71%) XHTML
7 17 (60.71%) CSS3
8 10 (35.71%) HTML
9 7 (25.00%) .NET Framework
10 5 (17.86%) Web Services
11 4 (14.29%) Flash
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (82.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) JIRA
2 4 (14.29%) Flash Builder
General
1 4 (14.29%) Games
2 1 (3.571%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Developer
2 24 (85.71%) .NET Developer
3 17 (60.71%) ASP.NET Developer
4 16 (57.14%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 16 (57.14%) VB.NET Developer
5 14 (50.00%) .NET Web Developer
5 14 (50.00%) SQL Developer
5 14 (50.00%) Web Developer
6 4 (14.29%) C# Developer
6 4 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (14.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (10.71%) Flash Designer
7 3 (10.71%) Flash Programmer
7 3 (10.71%) Designer
7 3 (10.71%) Programmer
8 2 (7.143%) Website Developer
9 1 (3.571%) C# Web Developer
9 1 (3.571%) Flash ActionScript Developer
9 1 (3.571%) Flash Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (60.71%) N-Tier
2 3 (10.71%) Graphic Design
2 3 (10.71%) WURFL
2 3 (10.71%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.571%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (10.71%) Android
1 3 (10.71%) BlackBerry OS
1 3 (10.71%) Apple iOS
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) E-Commerce
2 17 (60.71%) SOA
2 17 (60.71%) SEO
2 17 (60.71%) Unit Testing
3 15 (53.57%) Web Application Development
4 12 (42.86%) Document Management
5 9 (32.14%) TDD
6 3 (10.71%) Web Development
6 3 (10.71%) OOD
6 3 (10.71%) OO
7 2 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (3.571%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 24 (85.71%) C#
2 23 (82.14%) VB.NET
3 15 (53.57%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) ActionScript
4 4 (14.29%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) AccuRev
2 4 (14.29%) Adobe