Surrey AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited AJAX over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cobham Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Ringwood Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	87
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	43	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	6.698 %	4.276 %
Daily rates quoted	17	7
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£251
Average daily rate	£298	£266
% change on same period last year	+12.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£281
% change on same period last year	+19.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£33.17
Average hourly rate	-	£34.08
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.23	£30.11
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Application Development Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	642	725
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.824 %	0.815 %
Daily rates quoted	206	159
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£318
Average daily rate	£346	£339
% change on same period last year	+1.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	79
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.07	£33.07
Average hourly rate	£37.55	£33.83
% change on same period last year	+10.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.03	£34.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
AJAX South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

AJAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

AJAX
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the Surrey region.

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Surrey region over the past 3 months.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the Surrey region.

AJAX
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AJAX within the Surrey region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Weybridge	-	6	£255	-
2	Woking	-	5	£350	-
3	Cobham	-	4	-	-
3	Staines	+1	4	£375	-
4	Camberley	+2	2	-	-
5	Dorking	-	1	£325	-
5	Egham	-	1	-	-

AJAX South East

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Surrey region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX.

1 46 (49.46 %) .NET 2 40 (43.01 %) JavaScript 2 40 (43.01 %) XML 3 36 (38.71 %) C# 3 36 (38.71 %) SQL Server 4 35 (37.63 %) HTML 5 33 (35.48 %) ASP.NET 6 30 (32.26 %) CSS 7 26 (27.96 %) MySQL 8 23 (24.73 %) WebServices 9 22 (23.66 %) SQL 10 20 (21.51 %) PHP 11 19 (20.43 %) Flash 11 19 (20.43 %) Web Development 12 18 (19.35 %) ActionScript

13 16 (17.20 %) Windows 14 14 (15.05 %) Java 15 13 (13.98 %) DHTML 15 13 (13.98 %) JSP 16 12 (12.90 %) ASP 16 12 (12.90 %) Oracle 16 12 (12.90 %) OO 17 11 (11.83 %) XSLT 17 11 (11.83 %) Visual Studio 17 11 (11.83 %) VB.NET 17 11 (11.83 %) WinForms 18 9 (9.677 %) Photoshop 19 8 (8.602 %) C++ 19 8 (8.602 %) Linux 19 8 (8.602 %) OOP

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Surrey region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 46 (49.46 %) .NET 2 40 (43.01 %) XML 3 35 (37.63 %) HTML 4 33 (35.48 %) ASP.NET 5 30 (32.26 %) CSS 6 23 (24.73 %) WebServices 7 13 (13.98 %) JSP 8 12 (12.90 %) ASP 9 11 (11.83 %) XSLT 9 11 (11.83 %) WinForms 10 8 (8.602 %) XHTML 11 7 (7.527 %) J2EE 11 7 (7.527 %) ADO.NET 11 7 (7.527 %) Adobe Flex 12 6 (6.452 %) WCF 12 6 (6.452 %) DOM 12 6 (6.452 %) LAMP 12 6 (6.452 %) COM+ 12 6 (6.452 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 5 (5.376 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 8 (8.602 %) Apache 1 8 (8.602 %) CMS 2 6 (6.452 %) ColdFusion 3 5 (5.376 %) ColdFusion MX 3 5 (5.376 %) IIS 4 3 (3.226 %) SharePoint 4 3 (3.226 %) Community Server 5 1 (1.075 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 9 (9.677 %) Photoshop 2 4 (4.301 %) MS Excel 3 3 (3.226 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 2 (2.151 %) MS Office 5 1 (1.075 %) MS Visio 5 1 (1.075 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 2 (2.151 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 4 (4.301 %) Internet 2 2 (2.151 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.075 %) Wireless 3 1 (1.075 %) SSH 3 1 (1.075 %) SMTP 3 1 (1.075 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (38.71 %) SQL Server 2 26 (27.96 %) MySQL 3 8 (8.602 %) SQL Server 2005 4 6 (6.452 %) SQL Server 2000 5 4 (4.301 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (1.075 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (1.075 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 19 (20.43 %) Flash 2 11 (11.83 %) Visual Studio 3 7 (7.527 %) Dreamweaver 4 4 (4.301 %) Subversion 4 4 (4.301 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 2 (2.151 %) Eclipse	General 1 8 (8.602 %) Marketing 2 7 (7.527 %) Publishing 3 4 (4.301 %) Back Office 4 3 (3.226 %) Finance 4 3 (3.226 %) Retail 5 2 (2.151 %) Games 5 2 (2.151 %) Advertising 5 2 (2.151 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.075 %) Music 6 1 (1.075 %) Online Games 6 1 (1.075 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.075 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 77 (82.80 %) Developer 2 26 (27.96 %) Web Developer 3 20 (21.51 %) C# Developer 4 17 (18.28 %) .NET Developer 5 11 (11.83 %) PHP Developer 6 8 (8.602 %) Java Developer 7 5 (5.376 %) VB.NET Developer 7 5 (5.376 %) SQL Developer 7 5 (5.376 %) .NET Web Developer 7 5 (5.376 %) MySQL Developer 7 5 (5.376 %) SQL Server Developer 7 5 (5.376 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 4 (4.301 %) PHP Web Developer 8 4 (4.301 %) C# Web Developer 8 4 (4.301 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 4 (4.301 %) Web Designer 8 4 (4.301 %) Senior Developer 9 3 (3.226 %) Analyst Programmer 9 3 (3.226 %) Programmer 9 3 (3.226 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.452 %) Web 2.0 2 4 (4.301 %) W3C 3 2 (2.151 %) N-Tier 4 1 (1.075 %) Streaming Media 4 1 (1.075 %) Mashup
Operating Systems 1 16 (17.20 %) Windows 2 8 (8.602 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (20.43 %) Web Development 2 12 (12.90 %) OO 3 8 (8.602 %) OOP 3 8 (8.602 %) Content Management 4 5 (5.376 %) Knowledge Management 5 4 (4.301 %) E-Commerce 6 3 (3.226 %) Web Design 6 3 (3.226 %) OOD 7 2 (2.151 %) SOA 7 2 (2.151 %) UML 7 2 (2.151 %) RAD 7 2 (2.151 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (2.151 %) EAI 7 2 (2.151 %) Workflow 8 1 (1.075 %) Pay per click 8 1 (1.075 %) Usability Testing 8 1 (1.075 %) Time Management 8 1 (1.075 %) MVC 8 1 (1.075 %) SEO
Programming Languages 1 40 (43.01 %) JavaScript 2 36 (38.71 %) C# 3 22 (23.66 %) SQL 4 20 (21.51 %) PHP 5 18 (19.35 %) ActionScript 6 14 (15.05 %) Java 7 13 (13.98 %) DHTML 8 11 (11.83 %) VB.NET 9 8 (8.602 %) C++ 10 5 (5.376 %) VB 10 5 (5.376 %) PHP5 11 4 (4.301 %) Transact-SQL 12 3 (3.226 %) Perl 13 2 (2.151 %) PL/SQL 14 1 (1.075 %) PHP4 14 1 (1.075 %) VC++ 14 1 (1.075 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 1 (1.075 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.151 %) QA	Vendors 1 12 (12.90 %) Oracle 2 7 (7.527 %) Adobe 2 7 (7.527 %) Interwoven 3 6 (6.452 %) IXOS 3 6 (6.452 %) Vignette 3 6 (6.452 %) Microsoft 4 3 (3.226 %) Google 4 3 (3.226 %) VMware 5 2 (2.151 %) ION Trading