The first table below looks at the demand for Highcharts JS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Highcharts JS 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
Highcharts JS
Rank 525 559 599
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +40
Contract jobs citing Highcharts JS 16 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.033% 0.019% 0.003%
As % of the Application Development category 0.120% 0.074% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 2
Average daily rate - £355 £273
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +30.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £355 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%

Highcharts JS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Highcharts JS Jobs Demand Trend

Highcharts JS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Highcharts JS Daily Rate Trend

Highcharts JS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Highcharts JS 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 Highcharts JS.

1 24 (100.00%) HTML
1 24 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 24 (100.00%) CSS
2 18 (75.00%) Java
2 18 (75.00%) JSON
2 18 (75.00%) Ext JS
2 18 (75.00%) Sencha
2 18 (75.00%) REST
3 6 (25.00%) Ajax
3 6 (25.00%) Aquila
3 6 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (25.00%) NUnit
3 6 (25.00%) Telerik
3 6 (25.00%) UML
3 6 (25.00%) OO
3 6 (25.00%) Client/Server
3 6 (25.00%) N-Tier
3 6 (25.00%) OOD
3 6 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (25.00%) VB
3 6 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 6 (25.00%) .NET
3 6 (25.00%) Oracle
3 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (25.00%) IIS
3 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 6 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (25.00%) JSUnit

Highcharts JS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Highcharts JS 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 Highcharts JS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (100.00%) HTML
1 24 (100.00%) CSS
2 18 (75.00%) JSON
2 18 (75.00%) Ext JS
2 18 (75.00%) REST
3 6 (25.00%) Ajax
3 6 (25.00%) .NET
3 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (25.00%) jQuery
4 2 (8.333%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) NUnit
1 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 6 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 6 (25.00%) JSUnit
Job Titles
1 23 (95.83%) Developer
2 8 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
3 6 (25.00%) UI Programmer
3 6 (25.00%) UI Developer
4 5 (20.83%) .NET Developer
5 4 (16.67%) VB.NET Developer
6 2 (8.333%) WinForms Developer
6 2 (8.333%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (8.333%) Agile .NET Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) Analyst Programmer
7 1 (4.167%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 6 (25.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (25.00%) UML
1 6 (25.00%) OO
1 6 (25.00%) OOD
1 6 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 5 (20.83%) Data Security
3 3 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (75.00%) Java
3 6 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (25.00%) VB
3 6 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (8.333%) C#
5 1 (4.167%) SQL
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Sencha
2 6 (25.00%) Aquila
2 6 (25.00%) Telerik
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle