The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk 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 Suffolk 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 29 - 24
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Ajax 1 0 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 0.621% - 6.180%
As % of the Application Development category 1.754% - 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
Average daily rate £350 - £320
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
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
57 69 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 35.40% 27.60% 37.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 49 33
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £29.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
East of England

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk 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
Ipswich - 1 £350 -
Ajax
East of England

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) WF
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) N-Tier

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) WF
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft