The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 96 75 85
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +10
Contract jobs citing Ajax 947 1312 1286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 1.968% 2.261% 2.066%
As % of the Application Development category 7.084% 8.780% 7.457%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 817 770
Average daily rate £375 £335 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.94% -4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £250 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £308 £288
% change year-on-year
-2.27% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 73
Average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -29.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.48 £19.70 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £41.50 £52.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -29.41%
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ajax within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Ajax Daily Rate Histogram

Ajax
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Ajax within the UK.

Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ajax within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Ajax Hourly Rate Histogram

Ajax
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -22 878 £375 +11.11% 527
London -11 503 £400 +9.96% 219
South East -13 131 £350 +12.00% 76
City of London -24 105 £395 +5.33% 58
North West -2 64 £325 - 71
Berkshire +33 62 £425 +41.66% 16
East of England -25 53 £275 -15.38% 36
Scotland +3 37 £318 +5.83% 11
East Midlands -7 36 £290 +16.00% 23
West Midlands -11 32 £300 +20.00% 34
Manchester -1 31 £290 -10.76% 34
Essex +13 30 £225 +12.50% 6
Yorkshire -4 25 £260 -13.33% 33
South West -5 25 £300 -29.41% 22
Hampshire -17 21 £299 -14.64% 18
Glasgow -4 19 £300 -7.69% 3
Cheshire -10 18 £375 +20.48% 21
Surrey +16 16 £320 -1.53% 17
Buckinghamshire -12 16 £325 -1.88% 7
West Yorkshire -14 16 £260 -13.33% 17
Bracknell 0 15 £425 +38.21%
Reading +17 14 £400 +6.66% 6
Cambridgeshire -7 13 £325 +18.18% 13
Leeds -15 13 £234 -17.25% 14
Nottinghamshire -6 11 £265 -7.42% 6
Warwickshire - 11 £245 - 11
Wiltshire +11 10 £313 +11.60% 5
County Antrim +3 9 £350 -
Northern Ireland +1 9 £350 -
Belfast 0 9 £350 -

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 1534 (82.61%) JavaScript
2 1327 (71.46%) CSS
3 1129 (60.80%) jQuery
4 1109 (59.72%) HTML
5 794 (42.76%) .NET
6 726 (39.10%) XML
7 679 (36.56%) C#
8 639 (34.41%) ASP.NET
9 569 (30.64%) SQL Server
10 567 (30.53%) HTML5
11 548 (29.51%) SQL
12 546 (29.40%) MVC
13 494 (26.60%) Java
14 470 (25.31%) OO
15 461 (24.82%) Web Services
16 427 (22.99%) JSON
17 404 (21.76%) CSS3
18 402 (21.65%) Agile Software Development
19 389 (20.95%) TDD
20 302 (16.26%) E-Commerce
21 269 (14.49%) Visual Studio
22 268 (14.43%) J2EE
22 268 (14.43%) Oracle
23 267 (14.38%) Finance
23 267 (14.38%) .NET Framework
24 263 (14.16%) Microsoft
25 248 (13.35%) Scrum
26 242 (13.03%) XHTML
27 238 (12.82%) JSP
28 230 (12.39%) Web Development

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 1327 (71.46%) CSS
2 1129 (60.80%) jQuery
3 1109 (59.72%) HTML
4 794 (42.76%) .NET
5 726 (39.10%) XML
6 639 (34.41%) ASP.NET
7 567 (30.53%) HTML5
8 461 (24.82%) Web Services
9 427 (22.99%) JSON
10 404 (21.76%) CSS3
11 268 (14.43%) J2EE
12 267 (14.38%) .NET Framework
13 242 (13.03%) XHTML
14 238 (12.82%) JSP
15 222 (11.95%) ASP.NET MVC
16 213 (11.47%) SOAP
17 212 (11.42%) XSLT
18 194 (10.45%) Spring
19 173 (9.316%) WCF
20 151 (8.131%) REST
Application Platforms
1 168 (9.047%) CMS
2 130 (7.001%) SharePoint
3 126 (6.785%) Apache
4 107 (5.762%) IIS
5 53 (2.854%) Tomcat
6 51 (2.746%) SharePoint 2010
7 50 (2.693%) Umbraco
8 41 (2.208%) WebLogic
9 40 (2.154%) WordPress
10 31 (1.669%) Drupal
11 28 (1.508%) Sitecore CMS
12 25 (1.346%) Amazon AWS
13 22 (1.185%) Adobe CQ
14 21 (1.131%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (1.131%) Windows Azure
15 20 (1.077%) Oracle Workflow
16 19 (1.023%) WebSphere Application Server
17 18 (0.969%) DotNetNuke
18 16 (0.862%) Alfresco
19 15 (0.808%) nginx
Applications
1 94 (5.062%) Photoshop
2 92 (4.954%) MS Excel
3 32 (1.723%) Fireworks
4 30 (1.616%) MS Office
5 24 (1.292%) InfoPath
6 23 (1.239%) Adobe Illustrator
7 12 (0.646%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.377%) GIMP
9 5 (0.269%) Mingle
10 4 (0.215%) MS Project
11 1 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.054%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 11 (0.592%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.485%) Tridion
3 7 (0.377%) Google Analytics
4 5 (0.269%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.215%) WebTrends
5 4 (0.215%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (0.215%) Oracle BPM
6 3 (0.162%) ION MarketView
7 2 (0.108%) RMDS
7 2 (0.108%) Bond Adapt
8 1 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.054%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.054%) SiteCatalyst
8 1 (0.054%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 88 (4.739%) Internet
2 81 (4.362%) HTTP
3 38 (2.046%) Intranet
4 23 (1.239%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.131%) DNS
6 17 (0.915%) SSL
7 15 (0.808%) FTP
8 12 (0.646%) Firewall
9 11 (0.592%) Extranet
10 9 (0.485%) Network Security
10 9 (0.485%) NAS
10 9 (0.485%) SAN
11 8 (0.431%) RTP
11 8 (0.431%) HTTPS
11 8 (0.431%) RTSP
12 7 (0.377%) SMTP
13 6 (0.323%) Ethernet
14 5 (0.269%) SSH
14 5 (0.269%) SNMP
15 2 (0.108%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 569 (30.64%) SQL Server
2 202 (10.88%) MySQL
3 169 (9.101%) SQL Server 2008
4 118 (6.354%) SQL Server 2005
5 79 (4.254%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 76 (4.093%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 67 (3.608%) RDBMS
8 49 (2.639%) MongoDB
9 34 (1.831%) DB2
10 31 (1.669%) Redis
11 29 (1.562%) SQL Server 2000
12 28 (1.508%) NoSQL
13 26 (1.400%) GIS
14 24 (1.292%) Oracle 10g
15 21 (1.131%) DTS
16 20 (1.077%) Oracle 11g
17 18 (0.969%) PostgreSQL
18 17 (0.915%) SQL Server 2012
19 15 (0.808%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 12 (0.646%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 269 (14.49%) Visual Studio
2 205 (11.04%) Subversion
3 130 (7.001%) JUnit
4 115 (6.193%) Git (software)
5 107 (5.762%) Eclipse
6 101 (5.439%) Maven
7 82 (4.416%) Team Foundation Server
8 64 (3.446%) Selenium
9 44 (2.369%) JIRA
10 43 (2.316%) Ant
11 42 (2.262%) Jenkins
12 36 (1.939%) Hudson
13 31 (1.669%) Jasmine
14 28 (1.508%) NUnit
15 26 (1.400%) Cucumber
15 26 (1.400%) CruiseControl
16 25 (1.346%) VSS/SourceSafe
17 19 (1.023%) Rhino Mocks
18 14 (0.754%) Mercurial
19 13 (0.700%) Oracle APEX
General
1 267 (14.38%) Finance
2 144 (7.754%) Banking
3 86 (4.631%) Retail
4 64 (3.446%) Investment Banking
5 61 (3.285%) Games
6 44 (2.369%) Publishing
6 44 (2.369%) Marketing
7 41 (2.208%) Telecoms
8 21 (1.131%) Front Office
9 18 (0.969%) Back Office
10 12 (0.646%) Financial Institution
11 10 (0.539%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.485%) Online Betting
13 8 (0.431%) Multimedia
13 8 (0.431%) Automotive
14 7 (0.377%) Legal
15 6 (0.323%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.323%) Advertising
16 5 (0.269%) Electronics
17 3 (0.162%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1632 (87.88%) Developer
2 373 (20.09%) .NET Developer
3 305 (16.42%) Web Developer
4 196 (10.55%) Java Developer
5 195 (10.50%) Front-End Developer
6 183 (9.855%) C# Developer
7 137 (7.377%) ASP.NET Developer
8 135 (7.270%) Senior Developer
9 112 (6.031%) C# .NET Developer
10 99 (5.331%) UI Developer
11 97 (5.223%) PHP Developer
12 95 (5.116%) JavaScript Developer
13 81 (4.362%) UI Programmer
14 68 (3.662%) C# ASP.NET Developer
15 52 (2.800%) Senior .NET Developer
16 50 (2.693%) Architect
17 47 (2.531%) Java/J2EE Developer
17 47 (2.531%) Software Developer
18 44 (2.369%) Designer
19 42 (2.262%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 92 (4.954%) N-Tier
2 87 (4.685%) Open Source
3 70 (3.770%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 70 (3.770%) Mobile App
4 55 (2.962%) W3C
5 47 (2.531%) RIA
6 45 (2.423%) Computer Science
7 44 (2.369%) Web 2.0
8 39 (2.100%) Fixed Income
9 30 (1.616%) Blackberry
9 30 (1.616%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.508%) Social Media
11 27 (1.454%) iPhone
12 24 (1.292%) iPad
13 22 (1.185%) NHS
14 21 (1.131%) Client/Server
14 21 (1.131%) Streaming Video
15 19 (1.023%) Credit Risk
16 16 (0.862%) Video on Demand
17 14 (0.754%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 174 (9.370%) Linux
2 168 (9.047%) Windows
3 110 (5.924%) UNIX
4 61 (3.285%) Apple iOS
5 57 (3.069%) Android
6 34 (1.831%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (1.185%) Windows Server 2008
8 15 (0.808%) Windows 8
9 14 (0.754%) Solaris
10 13 (0.700%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.592%) HPUX
12 10 (0.539%) Windows Mobile
13 7 (0.377%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (0.323%) Oracle Linux
15 3 (0.162%) BlackBerry OS
16 2 (0.108%) Windows XP
16 2 (0.108%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.108%) CentOS
17 1 (0.054%) openSUSE
17 1 (0.054%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (29.40%) MVC
2 470 (25.31%) OO
3 402 (21.65%) Agile Software Development
4 389 (20.95%) TDD
5 302 (16.26%) E-Commerce
6 248 (13.35%) Scrum
7 230 (12.39%) Web Development
8 152 (8.185%) Unit Testing
9 137 (7.377%) Continuous Integration
10 133 (7.162%) BDD
11 97 (5.223%) Content Management
12 96 (5.170%) SOA
13 94 (5.062%) OOP
14 81 (4.362%) OOD
15 75 (4.039%) Kanban
16 69 (3.716%) Web Application Development
17 68 (3.662%) UML
18 60 (3.231%) RAD
19 57 (3.069%) SEO
20 51 (2.746%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1534 (82.61%) JavaScript
2 679 (36.56%) C#
3 548 (29.51%) SQL
4 494 (26.60%) Java
5 221 (11.90%) PHP
6 143 (7.701%) T-SQL
7 109 (5.870%) VB.NET
8 99 (5.331%) Ruby
9 63 (3.393%) Perl
10 56 (3.016%) PL/SQL
11 53 (2.854%) VB
12 47 (2.531%) XPath
13 43 (2.316%) PHP5
14 42 (2.262%) Python
15 33 (1.777%) C++
16 31 (1.669%) Shell Script
17 29 (1.562%) Groovy
18 27 (1.454%) C
18 27 (1.454%) VBScript
19 21 (1.131%) VB6
Qualifications
1 90 (4.847%) Degree
2 46 (2.477%) Security Cleared
3 32 (1.723%) SC Cleared
4 24 (1.292%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (0.377%) MCSD
5 7 (0.377%) PMI Certification
6 6 (0.323%) CTC Cleared
7 5 (0.269%) MCTS
7 5 (0.269%) MCP
7 5 (0.269%) ISEB
8 4 (0.215%) CISSP
9 3 (0.162%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.162%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.162%) MCSE
9 3 (0.162%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.108%) PMP
10 2 (0.108%) OCP
10 2 (0.108%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.108%) HNC
11 1 (0.054%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (0.915%) QA
2 11 (0.592%) SLA
3 9 (0.485%) ISO 9001
4 7 (0.377%) WCAG
5 3 (0.162%) Section 508
6 2 (0.108%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.108%) Basel III
7 1 (0.054%) WAI
System Software
1 23 (1.239%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.754%) Varnish
3 8 (0.431%) Samba
4 5 (0.269%) VMware ESX
5 3 (0.162%) Postfix
5 3 (0.162%) MetaFrame
6 2 (0.108%) vCloud
7 1 (0.054%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (0.269%) WMI
2 4 (0.215%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (0.162%) MOM
4 2 (0.108%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 2 (0.108%) SCOM
5 1 (0.054%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.054%) Puppet
5 1 (0.054%) CA Wily
5 1 (0.054%) OpenView
5 1 (0.054%) Nagios
5 1 (0.054%) Control-M
5 1 (0.054%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 268 (14.43%) Oracle
2 263 (14.16%) Microsoft
3 74 (3.985%) IBM
4 70 (3.770%) Adobe
5 46 (2.477%) JBoss
6 43 (2.316%) Telerik
7 41 (2.208%) Google
8 38 (2.046%) Sencha
9 35 (1.885%) Zend
10 31 (1.669%) Sitecore
10 31 (1.669%) Twitter
11 26 (1.400%) EPiServer
12 25 (1.346%) Facebook
13 18 (0.969%) FatWire
13 18 (0.969%) ATG
14 17 (0.915%) DevExpress
15 16 (0.862%) Apple
16 14 (0.754%) Sybase
16 14 (0.754%) ESRI
17 13 (0.700%) Omniture
Hampshire
Essential Skills and Experience: - HTML - CSS - Strong JavaScript (JQuery, Ajax, plus other frameworks) - Experience of Hand Coding and Bug fixing with JavaScript The opportunity is for a Front...
Stott & May
Rate: £275 - £305 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Witham, Essex
The ideal candidate will be a passionate front end web development with a track record of commercial experience- ideally with some exposure to ecommerce related projects Key skills...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £250 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
North West London
This role will focus on future development and enhancement of a large web application and will include working with PHP, MySQL, AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS and API.
Ashdown IT
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
North West London
This role will focus on future development and enhancement of a large web application and will include working with PHP, MySQL, AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS and API.
Ashdown IT
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
My client require an Umbraco Web Developer for a contract role in... The Developer will need to have strong commercial experience developing Umbraco and be able to hit...
Pertemps IT
Rate: £250 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Senitor Associates
Rate: £100 - £200 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Nottinghamshire
Computer People
Rate: £240 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Circle Recruitment
Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Computer Futures
Posted: 29 May 2013
London
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: £250 - £340 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
Computer Futures
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Computer Futures
Posted: 29 May 2013
Berkshire
Roc Search
Posted: 13 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per day + Market Rates
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cheshire
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Posted: 18 June 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
Circle Recruitment
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Orgtel
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Central London / West End
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Rate: 300 - 380 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Essex
ComputAppoint
Rate: Market rates
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
West London
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Salt
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 18 June 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
Experis IT
Rate: £300 - £375 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
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