The first table below looks at the demand for JSON skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSON over the 3 months to 20 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 for the Wales region.

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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JSON
Rank 42 48 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing JSON 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.243% 0.179% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.136% 0.725% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
-43.35% -
All Application Development
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
88 138 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 21.36% 24.69% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 59 63
Average daily rate £325 £325 £349
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £397 £440 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
Average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -35.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSON
UK

JSON
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JSON across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Wales JSON Jobs Demand Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JSON across the Wales region.

Wales JSON Daily Rate Trend

JSON
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JSON across the Wales region.

Wales JSON Hourly Rate Trend

JSON
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Wales region over the 3 months to 20 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
South Wales +5 1 - -
JSON
UK

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing JSON 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 JSON.

1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) WATIR
3 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Capybara
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (25.00%) Hudson
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) CSS3
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Scala
4 1 (25.00%) Social Media

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing JSON 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 JSON. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (25.00%) Django
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Kentico
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) WATIR
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) Capybara
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Hudson
2 1 (25.00%) CruiseControl
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) Firebug
2 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Junior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Junior Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Testing Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Junior
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Web 2.0
1 1 (25.00%) Social Media
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Perforce
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle