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The first part of the 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 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkAsynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank756378
Rank change year-on-year
Down-12Up+15
Matching contract IT job ads10258981570
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.122 %2.276 %1.910 %
As % of the Application Development category7.950 %10.30 %7.901 %
Daily rates quoted499337623
Average daily rate£325£315£335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.170 %-5.970 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£190£216£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£475£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£263£255£300
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-15.00 %
Hourly rates quoted496148
Average hourly rate£27.50£31.75£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.38 %-2.300 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.10£15.00£22.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.30£40.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-8.330 %-7.690 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12893871819870
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.69 %22.10 %24.17 %
Daily rates quoted657530396466
Average daily rate£375£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4254911255
Average hourly rate£30.00£29.70£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.010 %-7.180 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.30£14.50£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£41.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %

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.

AJAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing AJAX within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

AJAX Demand Trend

AJAX
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

AJAX Daily Rate Histogram

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

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 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-9999£325-
LondonDown-25587£350-6.66 %
City of LondonDown-51145£400-8.57 %
South EastUp+12136£260-5.45 %
North WestUp+785£253-2.88 %
South WestUp+161£300+33.33 %
ManchesterUp+1453£200-23.07 %
East of EnglandUp+1949£265-3.63 %
BerkshireUp+2539£260-13.33 %
West MidlandsUp+1734£300+11.62 %
YorkshireUp+1334£293+6.36 %
SurreyDown-831£243+4.30 %
DevonDown-217£400-
EssexUp+1116£270-1.81 %
BristolDown-1816£300+36.36 %
CambridgeshireUp+115£238-17.39 %
West YorkshireDown-715£310+55.00 %
ScotlandDown-2115£300+13.20 %
ExeterNew entry-15£400-
KentUp+813£270+80.00 %
OxfordshireUp+813£323-
StaffordshireUp+1911£375+50.00 %
LeedsUp+1111£325+62.50 %
ReadingUp+111£263-12.50 %
CheshireDown-1211£288-4.16 %
HampshireDown-2211£238-17.74 %
CambridgeDown-610£213-24.44 %
SloughUp+109£260-
North YorkshireUp+48£425+21.42 %
Docklands, LondonDown-48£375+50.00 %

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

11269 (68.41 %)JavaScript
21021 (55.04 %)CSS
3816 (43.99 %)HTML
4793 (42.75 %).NET
5648 (34.93 %)ASP.NET
6634 (34.18 %)XML
7599 (32.29 %)C#
8521 (28.09 %)SQL Server
9514 (27.71 %)Java
10510 (27.49 %)XHTML
11400 (21.56 %)jQuery
12397 (21.40 %)Web Services
13381 (20.54 %)SQL
14339 (18.27 %)OO
15305 (16.44 %)PHP
16273 (14.72 %)SQL Server 2005
17261 (14.07 %)Spring
18232 (12.51 %)Agile Software Development
19225 (12.13 %)Web Development
20224 (12.08 %)MySQL
21220 (11.86 %)MVC
22200 (10.78 %)J2EE
23195 (10.51 %)XSLT
23195 (10.51 %)JSP
24191 (10.30 %)Hibernate
25181 (9.757 %)TDD
26177 (9.542 %)Flash
27172 (9.272 %)Visual Studio
27172 (9.272 %)Subversion
28162 (8.733 %)Banking

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11021 (55.04 %)CSS
2816 (43.99 %)HTML
3793 (42.75 %).NET
4648 (34.93 %)ASP.NET
5634 (34.18 %)XML
6510 (27.49 %)XHTML
7400 (21.56 %)jQuery
8397 (21.40 %)Web Services
9261 (14.07 %)Spring
10200 (10.78 %)J2EE
11195 (10.51 %)XSLT
11195 (10.51 %)JSP
12191 (10.30 %)Hibernate
13177 (9.542 %)Flash
14130 (7.008 %)DHTML
15118 (6.361 %)JSON
15118 (6.361 %)WCF
16115 (6.199 %)Struts
17111 (5.984 %).NET Framework
1890 (4.852 %)ASP.NET 2.0
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1148 (7.978 %)Tomcat
2111 (5.984 %)CMS
3104 (5.606 %)Apache
4101 (5.445 %)SharePoint
569 (3.720 %)IIS
654 (2.911 %)SharePoint Server 2007
742 (2.264 %)Drupal
832 (1.725 %)ColdFusion
931 (1.671 %)WebLogic
1021 (1.132 %)WordPress
1114 (0.755 %)WebSphere Portal
1211 (0.593 %)MQSeries
1211 (0.593 %)Liferay
1310 (0.539 %)Movable Type
148 (0.431 %)SharePoint Portal Server
148 (0.431 %)EPiServer
148 (0.431 %)WebSphere Application Server
148 (0.431 %)Oracle Application Server
157 (0.377 %)SAS
157 (0.377 %)Jetty
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1101 (5.445 %)Photoshop
240 (2.156 %)MS Excel
326 (1.402 %)MS Visio
326 (1.402 %)Fireworks
420 (1.078 %)Adobe Illustrator
420 (1.078 %)InfoPath
515 (0.809 %)MS Office
610 (0.539 %)MS PowerPoint
74 (0.216 %)Spreadsheet
83 (0.162 %)MS Project
92 (0.108 %)GIMP
92 (0.108 %)Inkscape
101 (0.054 %)ArcInfo
101 (0.054 %)Adobe After Effects
101 (0.054 %)MATLAB
101 (0.054 %)ImageReady
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
115 (0.809 %)Oracle BPM
27 (0.377 %)Google Analytics
35 (0.270 %)TIBCO iProcess
43 (0.162 %)Summit
43 (0.162 %)BusinessWorks
51 (0.054 %)Dynamics NAV
51 (0.054 %)Dynamics CRM
51 (0.054 %)Adaptiv
51 (0.054 %)Microsoft CRM
51 (0.054 %)Navision
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1128 (6.900 %)Internet
265 (3.504 %)HTTP
337 (1.995 %)Intranet
415 (0.809 %)Extranet
511 (0.593 %)TCP/IP
69 (0.485 %)Firewall
78 (0.431 %)LDAP
85 (0.270 %)WAN
85 (0.270 %)LAN
94 (0.216 %)SMTP
94 (0.216 %)DHCP
103 (0.162 %)PSTN
103 (0.162 %)Broadband
103 (0.162 %)ISDN
103 (0.162 %)DAB
103 (0.162 %)FTP
103 (0.162 %)SNMP
103 (0.162 %)DNS
103 (0.162 %)SSL
112 (0.108 %)Network Security
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1521 (28.09 %)SQL Server
2273 (14.72 %)SQL Server 2005
3224 (12.08 %)MySQL
4101 (5.445 %)SQL Server 2008
583 (4.474 %)SQL Server 2000
650 (2.695 %)SQL Server Integration Services
744 (2.372 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
829 (1.563 %)Oracle 10g
924 (1.294 %)ETL
1019 (1.024 %)PostgreSQL
1019 (1.024 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1116 (0.863 %)Crystal Reports
1214 (0.755 %)RDBMS
1214 (0.755 %)GIS
1313 (0.701 %)OLAP
1410 (0.539 %)PerformancePoint
1410 (0.539 %)DB2
159 (0.485 %)Oracle 8/8i
168 (0.431 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
176 (0.323 %)BusinessObjects XI
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1172 (9.272 %)Visual Studio
1172 (9.272 %)Subversion
286 (4.636 %)Eclipse
382 (4.420 %)Ant
472 (3.881 %)Maven
566 (3.558 %)JUnit
657 (3.073 %)Selenium
751 (2.749 %)NUnit
846 (2.480 %)Dreamweaver
941 (2.210 %)ClearCase
1026 (1.402 %)TeamCity
1125 (1.348 %)Team Foundation Server
1125 (1.348 %)Flex Builder
1125 (1.348 %)CruiseControl
1223 (1.240 %)FitNesse
1321 (1.132 %)IntelliJ
1321 (1.132 %)JIRA
1418 (0.970 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1513 (0.701 %)TestNG
1610 (0.539 %)Visual Studio Team System
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1162 (8.733 %)Banking
2149 (8.032 %)Finance
3100 (5.391 %)Investment Banking
447 (2.534 %)Government
532 (1.725 %)Marketing
628 (1.509 %)Telecoms
727 (1.456 %)Insurance
821 (1.132 %)Retail
821 (1.132 %)Publishing
920 (1.078 %)Games
920 (1.078 %)Front Office
1016 (0.863 %)Education
1112 (0.647 %)Health
1112 (0.647 %)Manufacturing
1211 (0.593 %)Back Office
1310 (0.539 %)Animation
1310 (0.539 %)Online Games
149 (0.485 %)Graphic Design
158 (0.431 %)Multimedia
166 (0.323 %)Music
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11540 (83.02 %)Developer
2428 (23.07 %)Web Developer
3336 (18.11 %).NET Developer
4264 (14.23 %)Java Developer
5206 (11.11 %)C# Developer
6158 (8.518 %)ASP.NET Developer
7132 (7.116 %)PHP Developer
8126 (6.792 %)Senior Developer
9110 (5.930 %)Front-End Developer
1093 (5.013 %)Designer
1189 (4.798 %)JavaScript Developer
1288 (4.744 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1362 (3.342 %).NET Web Developer
1362 (3.342 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1461 (3.288 %)J2EE Developer
1559 (3.181 %)Architect
1644 (2.372 %)Analyst
1644 (2.372 %)Java Web Developer
1738 (2.049 %)Front-End Web Developer
1835 (1.887 %)Senior .NET Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1101 (5.445 %)W3C
274 (3.989 %)Web 2.0
337 (1.995 %)Open Source
432 (1.725 %)N-Tier
528 (1.509 %)NHS
626 (1.402 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
626 (1.402 %)Social Network
626 (1.402 %)RIA
723 (1.240 %)Fixed Income
822 (1.186 %)Computer Science
920 (1.078 %)iPhone
1019 (1.024 %)Credit Risk
1118 (0.970 %)Equities
1217 (0.916 %)Dependency Injection
1311 (0.593 %)Derivative
1311 (0.593 %)Mathematics
149 (0.485 %)Multithreading
156 (0.323 %)Interest Rate Derivative
156 (0.323 %)Client/Server
156 (0.323 %)Interactive TV
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1133 (7.170 %)Windows
2126 (6.792 %)Linux
379 (4.259 %)UNIX
424 (1.294 %)Windows Server 2003
515 (0.809 %)Windows Server 2008
611 (0.593 %)Solaris
79 (0.485 %)Red Hat Linux
87 (0.377 %)Android
94 (0.216 %)Windows Vista
94 (0.216 %)Windows XP
94 (0.216 %)Debian
103 (0.162 %)CentOS
112 (0.108 %)Mac OS
112 (0.108 %)Symbian OS
112 (0.108 %)AIX
112 (0.108 %)Windows Mobile
121 (0.054 %)Windows 2000
121 (0.054 %)VMS
121 (0.054 %)OpenVMS
121 (0.054 %)Windows 2000 Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1339 (18.27 %)OO
2232 (12.51 %)Agile Software Development
3225 (12.13 %)Web Development
4220 (11.86 %)MVC
5181 (9.757 %)TDD
6139 (7.493 %)Scrum
7119 (6.415 %)E-Commerce
8107 (5.768 %)Unit Testing
982 (4.420 %)UML
1072 (3.881 %)Web Design
1171 (3.827 %)Content Management
1262 (3.342 %)SEO
1359 (3.181 %)Continuous Integration
1456 (3.019 %)SOA
1550 (2.695 %)OOD
1550 (2.695 %)OOP
1634 (1.833 %)Pair Programming
1732 (1.725 %)Automated Testing
1829 (1.563 %)Workflow
1928 (1.509 %)Extreme Programming
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11269 (68.41 %)JavaScript
2599 (32.29 %)C#
3514 (27.71 %)Java
4381 (20.54 %)SQL
5305 (16.44 %)PHP
6110 (5.930 %)VB.NET
779 (4.259 %)T-SQL
869 (3.720 %)ActionScript
960 (3.235 %)VB
960 (3.235 %)Perl
1059 (3.181 %)PHP5
1150 (2.695 %)PL/SQL
1246 (2.480 %)Python
1345 (2.426 %)C
1431 (1.671 %)Groovy
1530 (1.617 %)C++
1530 (1.617 %)XPath
1530 (1.617 %)ActionScript 3.0
1626 (1.402 %)Ruby
1717 (0.916 %)VB6
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
171 (3.827 %)Degree
269 (3.720 %)Security Cleared
334 (1.833 %)SC Cleared
417 (0.916 %)Microsoft Certification
516 (0.863 %)ISEB
611 (0.593 %)MCSD
710 (0.539 %)CTC Cleared
88 (0.431 %)MCTS
96 (0.323 %)MCPD
105 (0.270 %)MCAD
114 (0.216 %)DV Cleared
114 (0.216 %)MCP
123 (0.162 %)Sun Certification
132 (0.108 %)HND
141 (0.054 %)HNC
141 (0.054 %)Postgraduate
141 (0.054 %)A+ Certification
141 (0.054 %)BC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
123 (1.240 %)QA
217 (0.916 %)WAI
315 (0.809 %)WCAG
45 (0.270 %)PCI DSS
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
19 (0.485 %)Active Directory
26 (0.323 %)VMware Infrastructure
34 (0.216 %)MSMQ
41 (0.054 %)Hadoop
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (0.270 %)OVSD
15 (0.270 %)OpenView
23 (0.162 %)Plesk
32 (0.108 %)Zenoss
32 (0.108 %)MSI
41 (0.054 %)Netcool
41 (0.054 %)ServiceCenter
41 (0.054 %)SCOM
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1162 (8.733 %)Microsoft
2147 (7.925 %)Oracle
392 (4.960 %)Adobe
447 (2.534 %)Zend
539 (2.102 %)Sybase
629 (1.563 %)Google
726 (1.402 %)Perforce
823 (1.240 %)Infragistics
922 (1.186 %)ILOG
1021 (1.132 %)JBoss
1117 (0.916 %)Mercator
1117 (0.916 %)IBM
1216 (0.863 %)ATG
1315 (0.809 %)telerik
1315 (0.809 %)Caplin
1315 (0.809 %)Singularity
1315 (0.809 %)TIBCO
1414 (0.755 %)ESRI
1512 (0.647 %)Sun
1611 (0.593 %)SAP