The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax 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 Application Development category for the Swindon 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
Ajax
Rank 31 41 31
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -10
Contract jobs citing Ajax 9 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 3.000% 0.275% 1.893%
As % of the Application Development category 15.52% 1.587% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £325 £275 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% +10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £290
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.46 £32.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-2.44% -24.11%
All Application Development
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
58 63 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 19.33% 17.36% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 46 30
Average daily rate £325 £335 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98% -10.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £242 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
Wiltshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (90.00%) jQuery
2 8 (80.00%) C#
2 8 (80.00%) CSS
3 7 (70.00%) HTML
3 7 (70.00%) .NET
3 7 (70.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (60.00%) .NET Framework
4 6 (60.00%) WCF
4 6 (60.00%) Web Services
4 6 (60.00%) XML
4 6 (60.00%) XSLT
4 6 (60.00%) Scrum
5 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
5 5 (50.00%) SQL
5 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (50.00%) JSON
5 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
6 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (30.00%) ISO 9001
7 3 (30.00%) MVC
7 3 (30.00%) Finance
7 3 (30.00%) Retail
8 2 (20.00%) PHP
8 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
8 2 (20.00%) TDD
8 2 (20.00%) Silverlight
8 2 (20.00%) LINQ

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 9 (90.00%) jQuery
2 8 (80.00%) CSS
3 7 (70.00%) HTML
3 7 (70.00%) .NET
3 7 (70.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 6 (60.00%) .NET Framework
4 6 (60.00%) WCF
4 6 (60.00%) Web Services
4 6 (60.00%) XML
4 6 (60.00%) XSLT
5 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
5 5 (50.00%) JSON
6 2 (20.00%) Silverlight
6 2 (20.00%) LINQ
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (10.00%) HTML5
7 1 (10.00%) Dojo
7 1 (10.00%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (30.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) XML Developer
5 1 (10.00%) CSS Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (10.00%) MySQL Developer
5 1 (10.00%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (10.00%) PHP Programmer
5 1 (10.00%) Web Programmer
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
5 1 (10.00%) HTML Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) E-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) MVC
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (80.00%) C#
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft