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 16 May 2012 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.

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.

JavaScript
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank192626
Rank change year-on-year
Up+7No change0
Matching contract IT job ads352631542704
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK5.957 %5.140 %4.911 %
As % of the Programming Languages category17.28 %13.76 %13.09 %
Number of daily rates quoted211118231357
Average daily rate£325£350£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14 %+16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£230£220£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£500£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£310£260
% change year-on-year
-3.22 %+19.23 %
Number of hourly rates quoted87147102
Average hourly rate£27.50£35.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42 %+40.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£17.50£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.00£46.00£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£35.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-21.42 %+40.00 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
204102292520661
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK34.48 %37.36 %37.52 %
Number of daily rates quoted121261324810820
Average daily rate£375£413£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09 %-2.94 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£260£235
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£558£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted698916770
Average hourly rate£34.00£35.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85 %+16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.50£19.50£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£45.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.00£35.00£30.00
% change year-on-year
-2.85 %+16.66 %

JavaScript
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 16 May 2012.

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 16 May 2012.

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 16 May 2012. 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
EnglandUp+93390£325-7.14 %
LondonUp+111703£350-6.66 %
South EastDown-2529£300-3.22 %
City of LondonUp+18368£351-12.37 %
East of EnglandUp+9243£313+11.60 %
South WestUp+4240£335+9.38 %
North WestDown-1184£325-3.70 %
West MidlandsUp+8158£300-7.69 %
YorkshireUp+6153£305+10.90 %
BerkshireDown-15122£300-
HertfordshireUp+12110£325+18.18 %
ManchesterUp+4110£300+33.33 %
West YorkshireUp+11107£300+9.09 %
East MidlandsUp+13104£250-20.63 %
SurreyDown-192£300-7.69 %
HampshireDown-385£325-
LeedsUp+376£325+18.18 %
OxfordshireDown-171£250-13.04 %
CambridgeshireDown-269£278-7.50 %
ScotlandUp+767£263-8.69 %
BristolNo change057£300+20.00 %
North EastUp+1952£300-14.28 %
BirminghamUp+1452£300-
CambridgeUp+551£275-1.78 %
East SussexUp+744£300+12.14 %
NottinghamshireUp+842£288-11.53 %
SomersetUp+341£334+2.69 %
GloucestershireUp+640£693+207.77 %
BrightonUp+539£223-25.83 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1436£300-9.43 %

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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.

14378 (67.70 %)CSS
24196 (64.88 %)HTML
32660 (41.13 %)jQuery
42055 (31.78 %).NET
51788 (27.65 %)Ajax
61717 (26.55 %)XML
71693 (26.18 %)C#
81572 (24.31 %)SQL
91524 (23.57 %)Java
101500 (23.19 %)ASP.NET
111475 (22.81 %)SQL Server
121363 (21.08 %)HTML5
131251 (19.34 %)PHP
141053 (16.28 %)MVC
151028 (15.90 %)XHTML
161018 (15.74 %)OO
17958 (14.81 %)Web Services
18915 (14.15 %)MySQL
19806 (12.46 %)CSS3
20734 (11.35 %)Agile Software Development
21715 (11.06 %)TDD
22677 (10.47 %)Web Development
23667 (10.31 %)Oracle
24648 (10.02 %)Finance
25643 (9.943 %)Microsoft
26639 (9.881 %)E-Commerce
27611 (9.448 %)Spring
28608 (9.402 %)Linux
29558 (8.628 %)CMS
30543 (8.396 %)Subversion

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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
14378 (67.70 %)CSS
24196 (64.88 %)HTML
32660 (41.13 %)jQuery
42055 (31.78 %).NET
51788 (27.65 %)Ajax
61717 (26.55 %)XML
71500 (23.19 %)ASP.NET
81363 (21.08 %)HTML5
91028 (15.90 %)XHTML
10958 (14.81 %)Web Services
11806 (12.46 %)CSS3
12611 (9.448 %)Spring
13512 (7.917 %)XSLT
14487 (7.531 %).NET Framework
15479 (7.407 %)JSP
16430 (6.649 %)Hibernate
17428 (6.618 %)J2EE
18403 (6.232 %)JSON
19392 (6.062 %)ASP.NET MVC
20390 (6.031 %)Flash
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1558 (8.628 %)CMS
2375 (5.799 %)Apache
3369 (5.706 %)SharePoint
4316 (4.886 %)IIS
5267 (4.129 %)Tomcat
6213 (3.294 %)Drupal
7171 (2.644 %)SharePoint 2010
8170 (2.629 %)WordPress
9119 (1.840 %)WebLogic
10101 (1.562 %)Magento
1184 (1.299 %)Umbraco
1281 (1.253 %)Joomla!
1376 (1.175 %)ColdFusion
1470 (1.082 %)BizTalk Server
1565 (1.005 %)SharePoint Server
1639 (0.603 %)Apache Solr
1737 (0.572 %)Alfresco
1835 (0.541 %)Documentum
1932 (0.495 %)Sitecore CMS
2028 (0.433 %)ArcGIS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1440 (6.804 %)Photoshop
2246 (3.804 %)MS Excel
3142 (2.196 %)Adobe Illustrator
496 (1.484 %)MS Visio
569 (1.067 %)MS Office
665 (1.005 %)Fireworks
755 (0.850 %)InfoPath
823 (0.356 %)MS PowerPoint
920 (0.309 %)MS Project
1014 (0.216 %)Spreadsheet
1112 (0.186 %)OmniGraffle
1210 (0.155 %)GIMP
138 (0.124 %)InDesign
147 (0.108 %)Mingle
156 (0.093 %)Acrobat
156 (0.093 %)SPSS
165 (0.077 %)Adobe Captivate
174 (0.062 %)Adobe After Effects
174 (0.062 %)PowerPivot
183 (0.046 %)Adobe Premiere
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1152 (2.350 %)Dynamics CRM
260 (0.928 %)Google Analytics
327 (0.418 %)WebTrends
422 (0.340 %)Tridion
520 (0.309 %)BusinessWorks
616 (0.247 %)TIBCO iProcess
714 (0.216 %)Oracle BPM
810 (0.155 %)Oracle Applications
99 (0.139 %)Line 50
108 (0.124 %)Summit
108 (0.124 %)Remedy ITSM
114 (0.062 %)RMDS
114 (0.062 %)SiteCatalyst
123 (0.046 %)Oracle EBS
123 (0.046 %)Endur
123 (0.046 %)Dynamics AX
132 (0.031 %)SAP Business One
132 (0.031 %)Academy Housing
132 (0.031 %)SAP CRM
132 (0.031 %)Oracle EBS R12
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1229 (3.541 %)Internet
2188 (2.907 %)HTTP
3162 (2.505 %)Intranet
471 (1.098 %)TCP/IP
546 (0.711 %)FTP
546 (0.711 %)LDAP
642 (0.649 %)HTTPS
732 (0.495 %)DNS
830 (0.464 %)SSL
922 (0.340 %)Extranet
1021 (0.325 %)Firewall
1118 (0.278 %)SSH
1118 (0.278 %)DAB
1212 (0.186 %)DHCP
1311 (0.170 %)SAN
149 (0.139 %)NAS
149 (0.139 %)Ethernet
158 (0.124 %)3G
166 (0.093 %)SMTP
166 (0.093 %)DVB
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11475 (22.81 %)SQL Server
2915 (14.15 %)MySQL
3424 (6.556 %)SQL Server 2008
4340 (5.257 %)SQL Server 2005
5149 (2.304 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6138 (2.134 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
789 (1.376 %)Oracle 10g
880 (1.237 %)RDBMS
975 (1.160 %)Oracle 11g
1063 (0.974 %)SQL Server 2000
1155 (0.850 %)Crystal Reports
1242 (0.649 %)PostgreSQL
1242 (0.649 %)GIS
1341 (0.634 %)DTS
1341 (0.634 %)DB2
1440 (0.619 %)Oracle 8/8i
1537 (0.572 %)Data Warehouse
1537 (0.572 %)ETL
1636 (0.557 %)MongoDB
1733 (0.510 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1543 (8.396 %)Subversion
2451 (6.974 %)Visual Studio
3214 (3.309 %)Maven
4189 (2.923 %)Eclipse
5174 (2.691 %)Git (software)
6164 (2.536 %)Selenium
7162 (2.505 %)JUnit
8154 (2.381 %)Team Foundation Server
9131 (2.026 %)Ant
10101 (1.562 %)Dreamweaver
1191 (1.407 %)NUnit
1290 (1.392 %)Hudson
1384 (1.299 %)JIRA
1472 (1.113 %)Jasmine
1555 (0.850 %)Cucumber
1654 (0.835 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1747 (0.727 %)Balsamiq Mockups
1845 (0.696 %)Oracle APEX
1936 (0.557 %)QUnit
2030 (0.464 %)PhoneGap
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1648 (10.02 %)Finance
2274 (4.237 %)Banking
3239 (3.696 %)Marketing
4218 (3.371 %)Telecoms
5146 (2.258 %)Retail
6126 (1.948 %)Publishing
7116 (1.794 %)Investment Banking
8101 (1.562 %)Games
966 (1.021 %)Advertising
1039 (0.603 %)Billing
1136 (0.557 %)Multimedia
1234 (0.526 %)Music
1326 (0.402 %)Front Office
1423 (0.356 %)Back Office
1520 (0.309 %)Legal
1618 (0.278 %)Financial Institution
1711 (0.170 %)Pharmaceutical
1810 (0.155 %)Electronics
1810 (0.155 %)Automotive
199 (0.139 %)Manufacturing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15373 (83.08 %)Developer
21121 (17.33 %)Web Developer
3874 (13.51 %)Front-End Developer
4863 (13.34 %).NET Developer
5598 (9.247 %)Java Developer
6557 (8.613 %)PHP Developer
7465 (7.190 %)Senior Developer
8360 (5.567 %)C# Developer
9323 (4.995 %)JavaScript Developer
10322 (4.979 %)ASP.NET Developer
11319 (4.933 %)UI Developer
12286 (4.422 %)C# .NET Developer
13283 (4.376 %)Designer
14250 (3.866 %)UI Programmer
15215 (3.325 %)Analyst
16198 (3.062 %)Front-End Web Developer
17177 (2.737 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
18172 (2.660 %)Architect
19148 (2.289 %)Web Designer
20139 (2.149 %)SharePoint Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1225 (3.479 %)Open Source
2174 (2.691 %)Digital Media
3166 (2.567 %)Computer Science
4161 (2.490 %)W3C
590 (1.392 %)Social Media
688 (1.361 %)N-Tier
778 (1.206 %)Web 2.0
877 (1.191 %)Graphic Design
877 (1.191 %)iPhone
970 (1.082 %)iPad
1060 (0.928 %)RIA
1148 (0.742 %)Blackberry
1247 (0.727 %)E-Learning
1346 (0.711 %)New Media
1440 (0.619 %)Social Network
1539 (0.603 %)Smartphone
1539 (0.603 %)Client/Server
1539 (0.603 %)Management Information System
1635 (0.541 %)SaaS
1635 (0.541 %)IPTV
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1608 (9.402 %)Linux
2464 (7.175 %)Windows
3348 (5.381 %)UNIX
4217 (3.355 %)Android
5194 (3.000 %)Apple iOS
683 (1.283 %)Solaris
772 (1.113 %)Windows Server 2003
848 (0.742 %)Windows Server 2008
945 (0.696 %)Mac OS X
1040 (0.619 %)Windows Mobile
1120 (0.309 %)Windows CE
1216 (0.247 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1313 (0.201 %)BlackBerry OS
1412 (0.186 %)Ubuntu
1510 (0.155 %)HPUX
169 (0.139 %)CentOS
178 (0.124 %)Windows XP
186 (0.093 %)VMS
186 (0.093 %)OpenVMS
195 (0.077 %)Windows 7
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11053 (16.28 %)MVC
21018 (15.74 %)OO
3734 (11.35 %)Agile Software Development
4715 (11.06 %)TDD
5677 (10.47 %)Web Development
6639 (9.881 %)E-Commerce
7445 (6.881 %)Scrum
8333 (5.149 %)Content Management
9317 (4.902 %)Unit Testing
10302 (4.670 %)OOP
11247 (3.819 %)Continuous Integration
12238 (3.680 %)CRM
13203 (3.139 %)UML
14185 (2.861 %)Workflow
15184 (2.845 %)SEO
16150 (2.319 %)SOA
17143 (2.211 %)Project Management
18136 (2.103 %)BDD
19134 (2.072 %)OOD
20129 (1.995 %)Pair Programming
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11693 (26.18 %)C#
21572 (24.31 %)SQL
31524 (23.57 %)Java
41251 (19.34 %)PHP
5359 (5.551 %)VB.NET
6287 (4.438 %)T-SQL
7241 (3.727 %)PL/SQL
8233 (3.603 %)Python
9230 (3.557 %)PHP5
10218 (3.371 %)Ruby
11216 (3.340 %)C++
12185 (2.861 %)VB
13176 (2.722 %)ActionScript
14162 (2.505 %)Perl
15131 (2.026 %)C
16119 (1.840 %)VBScript
1781 (1.253 %)VBA
1873 (1.129 %)XPath
1972 (1.113 %)Shell Script
2061 (0.943 %)Objective-C
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1361 (5.582 %)Degree
2212 (3.278 %)Security Cleared
3133 (2.057 %)SC Cleared
455 (0.850 %)Microsoft Certification
536 (0.557 %)DV Cleared
632 (0.495 %)ISEB
729 (0.448 %)Sun Certification
816 (0.247 %)PMI Certification
914 (0.216 %)MCPD
1013 (0.201 %)MCP
1112 (0.186 %)BC Cleared
1210 (0.155 %)MCSD
139 (0.139 %)MCTS
146 (0.093 %)ITIL Certification
146 (0.093 %)MCAD
155 (0.077 %)ISTQB
164 (0.062 %)PMP
164 (0.062 %)Oracle Certification
173 (0.046 %)PhD
173 (0.046 %)MBCS
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1146 (2.258 %)QA
247 (0.727 %)WCAG
331 (0.479 %)WAI
422 (0.340 %)SLA
521 (0.325 %)PCI DSS
65 (0.077 %)Data Quality
73 (0.046 %)ISO 9001
73 (0.046 %)COBIT
82 (0.031 %)ISO 9000
82 (0.031 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
82 (0.031 %)TickIT
91 (0.015 %)HL7
91 (0.015 %)ISO 8583
91 (0.015 %)Basel II
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
151 (0.789 %)Active Directory
215 (0.232 %)ISA Server
313 (0.201 %)VMware Infrastructure
411 (0.170 %)Shibboleth
411 (0.170 %)XenDesktop
59 (0.139 %)Oracle RAC
59 (0.139 %)VMware ESX
64 (0.062 %)vSphere
64 (0.062 %)Varnish
73 (0.046 %)VirtualBox
73 (0.046 %)VMware Workstation
73 (0.046 %)Squid
82 (0.031 %)Snort
82 (0.031 %)NDS
91 (0.015 %)Hyper-V
91 (0.015 %)SAP ITS
91 (0.015 %)OpenSSO
91 (0.015 %)Xen
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
113 (0.201 %)HP Quality Center
212 (0.186 %)Tivoli
37 (0.108 %)Puppet
45 (0.077 %)Nagios
53 (0.046 %)SCOM
53 (0.046 %)Netcool
53 (0.046 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
53 (0.046 %)CiscoWorks
53 (0.046 %)OpenView
53 (0.046 %)Netcool/Webtop
53 (0.046 %)HP NNM
62 (0.031 %)WSUS
62 (0.031 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
62 (0.031 %)CA SiteMinder
62 (0.031 %)ServiceCenter
62 (0.031 %)Oracle Identity Management
71 (0.015 %)vCenter
71 (0.015 %)Plesk
71 (0.015 %)OpenView Configuration Management
71 (0.015 %)WMI
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1667 (10.31 %)Oracle
2643 (9.943 %)Microsoft
3269 (4.160 %)Zend
4191 (2.953 %)Adobe
5149 (2.304 %)Google
6131 (2.026 %)Facebook
7126 (1.948 %)JBoss
865 (1.005 %)IBM
961 (0.943 %)Apple
1048 (0.742 %)Sybase
1147 (0.727 %)Salesforce.com
1245 (0.696 %)Sitecore
1245 (0.696 %)Telerik
1340 (0.619 %)Sun
1436 (0.557 %)EPiServer
1534 (0.526 %)RedDot
1633 (0.510 %)ATG
1732 (0.495 %)Twitter
1831 (0.479 %)HP
1831 (0.479 %)SAP