The first table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised for the Taunton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 22 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 Taunton 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JavaScript
Rank 13 5 7
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +2
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 8 20 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 10.53% 33.90% 27.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.00% 86.96% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 9
Average daily rate £325 £358 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +9.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £320 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £365 £352
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
Taunton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
20 23 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 26.32% 38.98% 48.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 10
Average daily rate £325 £333 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.25% +1.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £320 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £365 £359
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 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
JavaScript
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JavaScript
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Taunton 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 Taunton region.

Taunton 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 Taunton region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Taunton 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 Taunton region.

Taunton JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 23 (100.00%) C#
1 23 (100.00%) HTML
1 23 (100.00%) SQL
1 23 (100.00%) .NET
1 23 (100.00%) ASP
2 20 (86.96%) XML
2 20 (86.96%) SharePoint
2 20 (86.96%) Java
3 18 (78.26%) VB
3 18 (78.26%) UML
4 17 (73.91%) ASP.NET
4 17 (73.91%) Oracle
4 17 (73.91%) SQL Server
5 16 (69.57%) IIS
6 15 (65.22%) Subversion
6 15 (65.22%) .NET Framework
6 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
6 15 (65.22%) ITIL
7 14 (60.87%) Ingres
7 14 (60.87%) VB.NET
7 14 (60.87%) C++
7 14 (60.87%) ISEB
7 14 (60.87%) UNIX
8 13 (56.52%) Service Management
8 13 (56.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (56.52%) ITSM
8 13 (56.52%) MSTest
8 13 (56.52%) NUnit
9 12 (52.17%) TeamCity
9 12 (52.17%) Team Foundation Server

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 23 (100.00%) HTML
1 23 (100.00%) .NET
1 23 (100.00%) ASP
2 20 (86.96%) XML
3 17 (73.91%) ASP.NET
4 15 (65.22%) .NET Framework
5 7 (30.43%) CSS
6 4 (17.39%) XSL
7 3 (13.04%) WCF
7 3 (13.04%) WPF
7 3 (13.04%) WF
7 3 (13.04%) Web Services
8 2 (8.696%) Spring MVC
8 2 (8.696%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 20 (86.96%) SharePoint
2 16 (69.57%) IIS
3 11 (47.83%) OpenROAD
4 4 (17.39%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (73.91%) SQL Server
2 14 (60.87%) Ingres
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.696%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) Subversion
2 13 (56.52%) MSTest
2 13 (56.52%) NUnit
3 12 (52.17%) TeamCity
3 12 (52.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
4 11 (47.83%) CruiseControl
4 11 (47.83%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
6 2 (8.696%) JUnit
General
1 3 (13.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (82.61%) Developer
2 16 (69.57%) .NET Developer
2 16 (69.57%) C# Developer
2 16 (69.57%) C# .NET Developer
3 7 (30.43%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 7 (30.43%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Analyst Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) Support Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Support Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Analyst Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior C# Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (8.696%) Java Developer
7 2 (8.696%) ASP Developer
7 2 (8.696%) Classic ASP Developer
8 1 (4.348%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) UML
2 15 (65.22%) ITIL
3 13 (56.52%) Service Management
3 13 (56.52%) ITSM
4 12 (52.17%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (52.17%) Unit Testing
5 10 (43.48%) Service Delivery
6 4 (17.39%) PRINCE2
6 4 (17.39%) RAD
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Management
6 4 (17.39%) Waterfall
7 3 (13.04%) TOGAF
7 3 (13.04%) SOA
7 3 (13.04%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (13.04%) TDD
7 3 (13.04%) Pair Programming
7 3 (13.04%) Change Management
8 2 (8.696%) MVC
8 2 (8.696%) Web Development
9 1 (4.348%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) C#
1 23 (100.00%) SQL
2 20 (86.96%) Java
3 18 (78.26%) VB
4 14 (60.87%) VB.NET
4 14 (60.87%) C++
5 4 (17.39%) C
5 4 (17.39%) VBScript
5 4 (17.39%) VB6
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) ISEB
2 13 (56.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (39.13%) MCP
3 9 (39.13%) MCPD
3 9 (39.13%) MCTS
4 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
5 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
6 4 (17.39%) MCSD
6 4 (17.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (17.39%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (4.348%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) TickIT
1 4 (17.39%) ISO 9000
1 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.04%) COBIT
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Oracle
2 15 (65.22%) Microsoft