The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript 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 JavaScript over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 27 34 17
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -17
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 4 6 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 2.500% 2.372% 8.989%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.250% 6.000% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 8
Average daily rate £263 £325 £353
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.23% -7.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £171 £225 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £357 £498
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £308
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
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
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
64 100 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 40.00% 39.53% 54.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 73 52
Average daily rate £275 £325 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +6.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £288 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £367 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
Average hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +36.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
JavaScript
East of England

JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Suffolk JavaScript Daily Rate Histogram

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 21 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 +6 3 £275 -15.38%
JavaScript
East of England

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) XHTML
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (40.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Twitter
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) WF
3 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (20.00%) LINQ
3 1 (20.00%) Drupal
3 1 (20.00%) SEO
3 1 (20.00%) Content Management
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) SQL

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) XHTML
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) WF
3 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (20.00%) LINQ
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Drupal Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) SEO
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Twitter
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft