Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 9 February 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 Programming Languages category.

LinkJavaScript
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank333134
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Up+3
Matching contract IT job ads184219313120
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK4.208 %4.198 %3.812 %
As % of the Programming Languages category11.11 %13.48 %10.94 %
Daily rates quoted8927231093
Average daily rate£300£300£300
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£200£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£429£462
UK excluding London average daily rate£261£275£300
% change year-on-year
-5.000 %-8.330 %
Hourly rates quoted83117183
Average hourly rate£30.00£21.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.53 %-28.33 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.00£11.43£19.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.25£40.00£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.28£21.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
+22.20 %-28.33 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
165781433028524
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK37.87 %31.16 %34.85 %
Daily rates quoted807247888851
Average daily rate£401£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.57 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£305£325
% change year-on-year
-1.630 %-6.150 %
Hourly rates quoted83212302017
Average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.690 %-1.510 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.88£16.00£19.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.50£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£32.50£33.50
% change year-on-year
-13.84 %-2.980 %

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.

JavaScript
Demand Trend

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

JavaScript Demand Trend

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend

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

JavaScript Daily Rate Trend

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

JavaScript Daily Rate Histogram

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend

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

JavaScript Hourly Rate Trend

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

JavaScript Hourly Rate Histogram

JavaScript
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 JavaScript within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 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-41712£300-
LondonDown-11929£350+7.69 %
City of LondonDown-14241£400+23.07 %
South EastDown-1237£280+10.89 %
South WestUp+2117£238-13.63 %
North WestDown-4115£275-21.42 %
West MidlandsUp+2399£220-29.60 %
ScotlandUp+1896£250+8.40 %
YorkshireDown-582£270-10.00 %
BerkshireUp+1568£273-17.42 %
East of EnglandUp+363£265-3.63 %
ManchesterUp+462£275-30.15 %
EdinburghUp+2160£235+2.17 %
HampshireUp+1047£275-1.78 %
West YorkshireDown-1145£270-6.08 %
East MidlandsUp+840£263+29.62 %
LeedsDown-138£270-1.81 %
BristolUp+237£231+2.77 %
SurreyDown-2230£275+18.27 %
CambridgeshireUp+125£275-
BirminghamUp+924£200-38.46 %
ReadingDown-123£263-20.45 %
WarwickshireNew entry-21£288-
South YorkshireUp+1620£190-41.53 %
HertfordshireUp+1220£255-15.00 %
GlasgowDown-520£286-16.72 %
ShropshireUp+2019£220-
OxfordshireUp+1719£313+34.40 %
WiltshireUp+1419£225-18.18 %
Northern IrelandUp+1518£200-9.09 %

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

12213 (62.85 %)CSS
22074 (58.90 %)HTML
31201 (34.11 %).NET
41199 (34.05 %)AJAX
51184 (33.63 %)XML
6974 (27.66 %)XHTML
7928 (26.36 %)ASP.NET
8921 (26.16 %)Java
9813 (23.09 %)C#
10751 (21.33 %)SQL
11728 (20.68 %)SQL Server
12694 (19.71 %)PHP
13613 (17.41 %)jQuery
14532 (15.11 %)OO
15517 (14.68 %)Web Services
16488 (13.86 %)MySQL
17448 (12.72 %)Web Development
18416 (11.81 %)Flash
19392 (11.13 %)Agile Software Development
20374 (10.62 %)XSLT
21360 (10.22 %)Spring
22330 (9.372 %)SQL Server 2005
23328 (9.316 %)JSP
24311 (8.833 %)Oracle
25298 (8.464 %)Linux
26295 (8.378 %)CMS
27293 (8.321 %)E-Commerce
28280 (7.952 %)J2EE
29279 (7.924 %)Hibernate
30270 (7.668 %)Photoshop

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12213 (62.85 %)CSS
22074 (58.90 %)HTML
31201 (34.11 %).NET
41199 (34.05 %)AJAX
51184 (33.63 %)XML
6974 (27.66 %)XHTML
7928 (26.36 %)ASP.NET
8613 (17.41 %)jQuery
9517 (14.68 %)Web Services
10416 (11.81 %)Flash
11374 (10.62 %)XSLT
12360 (10.22 %)Spring
13328 (9.316 %)JSP
14280 (7.952 %)J2EE
15279 (7.924 %)Hibernate
16231 (6.561 %)MVC
17213 (6.049 %)ASP
18201 (5.709 %)DHTML
19165 (4.686 %)Struts
20162 (4.601 %).NET Framework
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1295 (8.378 %)CMS
2241 (6.845 %)Apache
3197 (5.595 %)Tomcat
4179 (5.084 %)SharePoint
5139 (3.948 %)IIS
696 (2.726 %)Drupal
784 (2.386 %)SharePoint Server 2007
848 (1.363 %)WebLogic
945 (1.278 %)WebSphere Portal
1035 (0.994 %)WebSphere Application Server
1130 (0.852 %)Joomla!
1227 (0.767 %)ColdFusion
1319 (0.540 %)WordPress
1418 (0.511 %)LiveCycle
1517 (0.483 %)Apache Solr
1517 (0.483 %)Umbraco
1616 (0.454 %)BizTalk Server
1616 (0.454 %)MQSeries
1616 (0.454 %)ArcGIS
1616 (0.454 %)EPiServer
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1270 (7.668 %)Photoshop
285 (2.414 %)MS Excel
376 (2.158 %)MS Office
467 (1.903 %)Adobe Illustrator
561 (1.732 %)Fireworks
630 (0.852 %)MS Visio
718 (0.511 %)InfoPath
815 (0.426 %)MS PowerPoint
911 (0.312 %)Acrobat
109 (0.256 %)MS Project
116 (0.170 %)InDesign
123 (0.085 %)ImageReady
132 (0.057 %)RoboHelp
132 (0.057 %)Spreadsheet
141 (0.028 %)Shockwave
141 (0.028 %)FreeHand
141 (0.028 %)QuarkXPress
141 (0.028 %)ArcInfo
141 (0.028 %)MATLAB
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
128 (0.795 %)Dynamics CRM
214 (0.398 %)Microsoft CRM
310 (0.284 %)TIBCO iProcess
49 (0.256 %)Google Analytics
57 (0.199 %)BusinessWorks
65 (0.142 %)Oracle EBS R12
74 (0.114 %)PeopleSoft Financials
74 (0.114 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
83 (0.085 %)SAP CRM
92 (0.057 %)WebTrends
92 (0.057 %)SAP Oil and Gas
92 (0.057 %)SAP PM
92 (0.057 %)SAP BPC
101 (0.028 %)SAP IS-U
101 (0.028 %)Unica Affinium
101 (0.028 %)SAP ERP
101 (0.028 %)Remedy ITSM
101 (0.028 %)Summit
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1235 (6.674 %)Internet
2121 (3.437 %)Intranet
3103 (2.925 %)HTTP
456 (1.590 %)LDAP
530 (0.852 %)Extranet
623 (0.653 %)DNS
720 (0.568 %)FTP
812 (0.341 %)Firewall
812 (0.341 %)HTTPS
812 (0.341 %)SSL
911 (0.312 %)TCP/IP
107 (0.199 %)VoIP
116 (0.170 %)X.400
125 (0.142 %)SMTP
134 (0.114 %)VPN
134 (0.114 %)IMAP
134 (0.114 %)SSH
143 (0.085 %)SNMP
143 (0.085 %)SMS
143 (0.085 %)LAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1728 (20.68 %)SQL Server
2488 (13.86 %)MySQL
3330 (9.372 %)SQL Server 2005
497 (2.755 %)SQL Server 2008
590 (2.556 %)SQL Server 2000
669 (1.960 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
741 (1.164 %)Oracle 10g
741 (1.164 %)RDBMS
839 (1.108 %)SQL Server Integration Services
931 (0.880 %)GIS
1028 (0.795 %)PostgreSQL
1125 (0.710 %)Datawarehouse
1224 (0.682 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1322 (0.625 %)ETL
1421 (0.596 %)OLAP
1520 (0.568 %)Oracle 9i
1618 (0.511 %)BusinessObjects
1618 (0.511 %)DB2
1717 (0.483 %)Crystal Reports
1717 (0.483 %)MS Access
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1255 (7.242 %)Subversion
2247 (7.015 %)Visual Studio
3147 (4.175 %)Dreamweaver
4137 (3.891 %)Eclipse
5136 (3.863 %)Ant
6126 (3.579 %)JUnit
799 (2.812 %)Maven
879 (2.244 %)Selenium
959 (1.676 %)Team Foundation Server
1055 (1.562 %)ClearCase
1149 (1.392 %)NUnit
1247 (1.335 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1341 (1.164 %)FitNesse
1428 (0.795 %)JIRA
1527 (0.767 %)CruiseControl
1626 (0.738 %)JMeter
1724 (0.682 %)Flex Builder
1820 (0.568 %)ReSharper
1917 (0.483 %)IntelliJ
2016 (0.454 %)Oracle Forms
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1258 (7.327 %)Finance
2246 (6.987 %)Banking
3134 (3.806 %)Investment Banking
4111 (3.153 %)Marketing
5105 (2.982 %)Government
665 (1.846 %)Telecoms
761 (1.732 %)Front Office
858 (1.647 %)Games
955 (1.562 %)Graphic Design
1049 (1.392 %)Multimedia
1148 (1.363 %)Retail
1239 (1.108 %)Health
1332 (0.909 %)Publishing
1430 (0.852 %)Insurance
1527 (0.767 %)Education
1624 (0.682 %)Animation
1719 (0.540 %)Advertising
1812 (0.341 %)Back Office
1910 (0.284 %)Music
209 (0.256 %)Local Government
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12813 (79.89 %)Developer
2743 (21.10 %)Web Developer
3393 (11.16 %).NET Developer
4374 (10.62 %)Java Developer
5290 (8.236 %)PHP Developer
6249 (7.072 %)Designer
7245 (6.958 %)Front-End Developer
8241 (6.845 %)C# Developer
9193 (5.481 %)Senior Developer
10189 (5.368 %)ASP.NET Developer
11162 (4.601 %)Web Designer
12145 (4.118 %)JavaScript Developer
13110 (3.124 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
14109 (3.096 %)Analyst
1584 (2.386 %)Front-End Web Developer
1678 (2.215 %)Consultant
1775 (2.130 %)J2EE Developer
1872 (2.045 %)Applications Developer
1971 (2.016 %)Software Developer
2070 (1.988 %)Java/J2EE Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1244 (6.930 %)W3C
2116 (3.295 %)Open Source
364 (1.818 %)Web 2.0
456 (1.590 %)NHS
551 (1.448 %)Computer Science
645 (1.278 %)E-Learning
743 (1.221 %)Social Network
838 (1.079 %)N-Tier
937 (1.051 %)Derivative
1036 (1.022 %)RIA
1131 (0.880 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1131 (0.880 %)Fixed Income
1228 (0.795 %)iPhone
1323 (0.653 %)Mathematics
1418 (0.511 %)Equities
1418 (0.511 %)Blackberry
1517 (0.483 %)Management Information System
1615 (0.426 %)Credit Risk
1615 (0.426 %)Client/Server
1712 (0.341 %)BBC
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1298 (8.464 %)Linux
2221 (6.277 %)Windows
3205 (5.822 %)UNIX
435 (0.994 %)Windows Server 2003
530 (0.852 %)Solaris
623 (0.653 %)Android
717 (0.483 %)Red Hat Linux
816 (0.454 %)Windows Server 2008
910 (0.284 %)Windows XP
107 (0.199 %)Windows Mobile
116 (0.170 %)Debian
116 (0.170 %)Windows Vista
125 (0.142 %)Embedded Linux
134 (0.114 %)Ubuntu
143 (0.085 %)CentOS
143 (0.085 %)VMS
143 (0.085 %)Windows 2000
152 (0.057 %)HPUX
152 (0.057 %)Windows 7
152 (0.057 %)openSUSE
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1532 (15.11 %)OO
2448 (12.72 %)Web Development
3392 (11.13 %)Agile Software Development
4293 (8.321 %)E-Commerce
5240 (6.816 %)Content Management
6222 (6.305 %)TDD
7199 (5.652 %)Scrum
8162 (4.601 %)Unit Testing
9134 (3.806 %)Web Design
10110 (3.124 %)UML
11105 (2.982 %)SEO
1296 (2.726 %)CRM
1388 (2.499 %)Continuous Integration
1479 (2.244 %)SOA
1578 (2.215 %)Project Management
1667 (1.903 %)OOP
1760 (1.704 %)OOD
1858 (1.647 %)Information Architecture
1955 (1.562 %)RAD
2054 (1.534 %)Migration
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1921 (26.16 %)Java
2813 (23.09 %)C#
3751 (21.33 %)SQL
4694 (19.71 %)PHP
5217 (6.163 %)ActionScript
6191 (5.425 %)VB.NET
7160 (4.544 %)T-SQL
8155 (4.402 %)C
9148 (4.203 %)Perl
10129 (3.664 %)Python
11125 (3.550 %)PHP5
12122 (3.465 %)VB
1388 (2.499 %)PL/SQL
1480 (2.272 %)C++
1576 (2.158 %)VBScript
1665 (1.846 %)Ruby
1748 (1.363 %)ActionScript 3.0
1839 (1.108 %)Shell Script
1937 (1.051 %)Groovy
2036 (1.022 %)VB6
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1120 (3.408 %)Security Cleared
2113 (3.209 %)Degree
371 (2.016 %)SC Cleared
425 (0.710 %)ISEB
425 (0.710 %)Microsoft Certification
515 (0.426 %)MCTS
515 (0.426 %)MCP
614 (0.398 %)MCAD
713 (0.369 %)DV Cleared
811 (0.312 %)MCSD
97 (0.199 %)Sun Certification
106 (0.170 %)CTC Cleared
114 (0.114 %)BC Cleared
114 (0.114 %)ISTQB
123 (0.085 %)PRINCE2 Certification
132 (0.057 %)HND
132 (0.057 %)ITIL Certification
141 (0.028 %)Brainbench
141 (0.028 %)MOS
141 (0.028 %)MCPD
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
144 (1.250 %)QA
240 (1.136 %)WCAG
332 (0.909 %)WAI
46 (0.170 %)SLA
51 (0.028 %)PCI DSS
51 (0.028 %)HL7
51 (0.028 %)DICOM
51 (0.028 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
115 (0.426 %)AquaLogic
210 (0.284 %)Active Directory
36 (0.170 %)VMware Infrastructure
42 (0.057 %)MSMQ
42 (0.057 %)Terminal Server
42 (0.057 %)Citrix Presentation Server
51 (0.028 %)Postfix
51 (0.028 %)Sendmail
51 (0.028 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
120 (0.568 %)Tivoli
27 (0.199 %)SCCM
34 (0.114 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
43 (0.085 %)SCOM
43 (0.085 %)MSI
52 (0.057 %)MIIS
52 (0.057 %)Zenoss
61 (0.028 %)OpenView Configuration Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1311 (8.833 %)Oracle
2255 (7.242 %)Microsoft
3172 (4.885 %)Adobe
489 (2.528 %)Zend
580 (2.272 %)Sybase
659 (1.676 %)IBM
758 (1.647 %)JBoss
834 (0.966 %)ESRI
928 (0.795 %)Perforce
928 (0.795 %)Google
1024 (0.682 %)Mercator
1122 (0.625 %)Salesforce.com
1221 (0.596 %)Sun
1320 (0.568 %)BEA
1419 (0.540 %)Singularity
1518 (0.511 %)TIBCO
1518 (0.511 %)Business Objects
1518 (0.511 %)Infragistics
1617 (0.483 %)SAP
1617 (0.483 %)Red Hat