The first table below looks at the demand for Dojo skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Dojo over the 3 months to 21 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.

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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dojo Toolkit
Rank 421 492 430
Rank change year-on-year
+71 -62
Contract jobs citing Dojo 120 89 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.254% 0.152% 0.253%
As % of the Application Development category 0.931% 0.595% 0.921%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 51 80
Average daily rate £343 £338 £378
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.48% -10.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £600 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £380
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -17.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.00 £55.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -36.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12893 14967 16509
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.60% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8051 8793 9618
Average daily rate £375 £350 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
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 384 385 569
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.15 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Dojo
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dojo Jobs Demand Trend

Dojo
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Dojo within the UK.

Dojo Daily Rate Trend

Dojo
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Dojo within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Dojo Daily Rate Histogram

Dojo
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Dojo Hourly Rate Trend

Dojo
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 Dojo within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 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
England +61 100 £350 +3.70%
London +30 48 £350 -30.00%
South East +23 28 £323 +7.50%
Northern Ireland +12 18 £325 -
County Antrim +10 17 £325 -
Belfast +8 17 £325 -
City of London +17 15 £345 -42.50%
South West +36 14 £325 -
Berkshire - 11 £276 -
Devon - 9 £350 -
West Sussex +22 8 £410 -
Exeter - 8 £350 -
Crawley - 8 £410 -
Reading - 8 £280 -
Kent -12 5 £286 -4.66%
Milton Keynes 0 4 - -
Maidstone -3 4 £286 -1.29%
Buckinghamshire -7 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 £290 -
West Yorkshire - 4 £290 -
West Midlands - 4 - -
Bristol - 4 £300 -
Leeds - 3 £290 -
Edinburgh - 2 £413 -
Scotland - 2 £413 -
Solihull - 2 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Docklands, London - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Swindon - 1 - -

Dojo
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Dojo 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 Dojo.

1 177 (88.50%) JavaScript
2 143 (71.50%) CSS
3 122 (61.00%) HTML
4 107 (53.50%) jQuery
5 81 (40.50%) Ajax
6 80 (40.00%) Java
7 73 (36.50%) HTML5
8 72 (36.00%) CSS3
9 62 (31.00%) XML
10 56 (28.00%) OO
11 50 (25.00%) REST
12 47 (23.50%) JSON
13 43 (21.50%) J2EE
14 40 (20.00%) Web Services
15 39 (19.50%) Agile Software Development
16 38 (19.00%) C#
17 31 (15.50%) Finance
18 29 (14.50%) JSP
18 29 (14.50%) Unit Testing
19 28 (14.00%) .NET
19 28 (14.00%) IBM
19 28 (14.00%) TDD
20 27 (13.50%) Servlets
21 25 (12.50%) Spring
21 25 (12.50%) Use Case
21 25 (12.50%) MVC
22 24 (12.00%) FileNet
23 22 (11.00%) Hibernate
23 22 (11.00%) E-Commerce
24 21 (10.50%) XHTML

Dojo
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Dojo 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 Dojo. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 143 (71.50%) CSS
2 122 (61.00%) HTML
3 107 (53.50%) jQuery
4 81 (40.50%) Ajax
5 73 (36.50%) HTML5
6 72 (36.00%) CSS3
7 62 (31.00%) XML
8 50 (25.00%) REST
9 47 (23.50%) JSON
10 43 (21.50%) J2EE
11 40 (20.00%) Web Services
12 29 (14.50%) JSP
13 28 (14.00%) .NET
14 27 (13.50%) Servlets
15 25 (12.50%) Spring
16 22 (11.00%) Hibernate
17 21 (10.50%) XHTML
18 20 (10.00%) XSLT
18 20 (10.00%) EJB
19 18 (9.000%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 24 (12.00%) FileNet
2 17 (8.500%) BizTalk Server
3 12 (6.000%) ArcGIS
4 7 (3.500%) Tomcat
5 6 (3.000%) IIS
5 6 (3.000%) Apache
5 6 (3.000%) ArcSDE
6 5 (2.500%) WebSphere Portal
6 5 (2.500%) ArcIMS
7 3 (1.500%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (1.000%) CMS
8 2 (1.000%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (1.000%) MQSeries
8 2 (1.000%) Liferay
9 1 (0.500%) ESB
9 1 (0.500%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.500%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (3.500%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.500%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.500%) Summit
2 2 (1.000%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.500%) HTTP
2 9 (4.500%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.500%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.500%) GIS
2 7 (3.500%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.500%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (2.500%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (2.000%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (2.000%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.500%) SQLite
6 2 (1.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (6.500%) Visual Studio
1 13 (6.500%) Subversion
2 11 (5.500%) Maven
3 10 (5.000%) Git (software)
4 8 (4.000%) Eclipse
4 8 (4.000%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.500%) Selenium
6 6 (3.000%) PhoneGap
7 5 (2.500%) QUnit
7 5 (2.500%) GitHub
7 5 (2.500%) Rational Application Developer
8 3 (1.500%) Appcelerator Titanium
8 3 (1.500%) RSpec
9 2 (1.000%) Log4j
9 2 (1.000%) Ant
9 2 (1.000%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.000%) Firebug
9 2 (1.000%) Jtest
9 2 (1.000%) Hudson
10 1 (0.500%) Capybara
General
1 31 (15.50%) Finance
2 7 (3.500%) Publishing
2 7 (3.500%) Banking
3 5 (2.500%) Telecoms
4 3 (1.500%) Games
4 3 (1.500%) Retail
5 1 (0.500%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.500%) Local Government
5 1 (0.500%) Automotive
5 1 (0.500%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.500%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 171 (85.50%) Developer
2 53 (26.50%) Front-End Developer
3 45 (22.50%) JavaScript Developer
4 26 (13.00%) UI Developer
5 22 (11.00%) UI Programmer
6 21 (10.50%) Java Developer
7 19 (9.500%) Web Developer
8 18 (9.000%) GIS Developer
9 9 (4.500%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.000%) Applications Developer
10 8 (4.000%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.000%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.000%) Architect
12 5 (2.500%) DBA
13 4 (2.000%) Web Applications Developer
13 4 (2.000%) ASP.NET Developer
13 4 (2.000%) Database Developer
13 4 (2.000%) Administrator
13 4 (2.000%) Java Applications Developer
13 4 (2.000%) Portal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.000%) Open Source
2 4 (2.000%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.000%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.500%) Digital Media
3 3 (1.500%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (1.500%) Graphic Design
3 3 (1.500%) Web 2.0
3 3 (1.500%) RIA
4 2 (1.000%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.000%) Wiki
4 2 (1.000%) Blog
4 2 (1.000%) Social Network
4 2 (1.000%) iPad
5 1 (0.500%) iPhone
5 1 (0.500%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.500%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.500%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.500%) Linux
2 8 (4.000%) Windows
3 7 (3.500%) Windows 7
3 7 (3.500%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (3.500%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.500%) Android
5 4 (2.000%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.500%) AIX
6 1 (0.500%) Solaris
6 1 (0.500%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (28.00%) OO
2 39 (19.50%) Agile Software Development
3 29 (14.50%) Unit Testing
4 28 (14.00%) TDD
5 25 (12.50%) Use Case
5 25 (12.50%) MVC
6 22 (11.00%) E-Commerce
7 19 (9.500%) Web Design
8 16 (8.000%) Responsive Web Design
9 14 (7.000%) Web Development
10 12 (6.000%) BDD
11 11 (5.500%) OOA/OOD
12 9 (4.500%) Data Modelling
13 8 (4.000%) Software Architecture
14 7 (3.500%) Data Management
14 7 (3.500%) Content Management
15 6 (3.000%) Information Management
15 6 (3.000%) Graceful Degradation
16 5 (2.500%) Integration Testing
16 5 (2.500%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 177 (88.50%) JavaScript
2 80 (40.00%) Java
3 38 (19.00%) C#
4 14 (7.000%) C++
5 13 (6.500%) PHP
6 12 (6.000%) Python
7 6 (3.000%) SQL
7 6 (3.000%) XPath
8 5 (2.500%) XQuery
9 4 (2.000%) Ruby
10 2 (1.000%) C
10 2 (1.000%) Groovy
11 1 (0.500%) PHP5
11 1 (0.500%) PHP4
11 1 (0.500%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.500%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (3.500%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.500%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.500%) IBM Certification
4 2 (1.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.500%) QA
1 3 (1.500%) ISO 9001
1 3 (1.500%) ISO 14001
2 1 (0.500%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (0.500%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 28 (14.00%) IBM
2 18 (9.000%) ESRI
3 7 (3.500%) Oracle
3 7 (3.500%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.000%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.500%) Adobe
6 2 (1.000%) FatWire
6 2 (1.000%) Omniture
6 2 (1.000%) Google
7 1 (0.500%) Sencha
7 1 (0.500%) Zend
7 1 (0.500%) JBoss
7 1 (0.500%) Apple
London
Technical Requirements" HTML" CSS" JavaScript, including frameworks (JQuery, Backbone, YUI, Dojo, etc)Additional Requirements" Must understand and be prepared to discuss semantic markup, advanced CSS concepts, accessibility, etc.".....
Premier Group
Rate: £200.00 - £300.00 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Midlands
For the role applicants should have an excellent knowledge and extensive commercial experience of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and flash... Additional desirable skills which could make you stand out...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
JSF 1.2... JSP... Experience of JavaScript frameworks such as DOJO and jQuery. Knowledge of WebSphere Portal Administration (preferably candidates will be IBM certified). Experience of IBM Web...
Sanderson
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013