West Midlands AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited AJAX over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cobham Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Ringwood Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	102
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	42	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	6.344 %	3.219 %
Daily rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£300
Average daily rate	£221	£300
% change on same period last year	-26.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£242	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£279
% change on same period last year	+19.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£32.50
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£33.75
% change on same period last year	-18.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.18	£30.42
% change on same period last year	-0.81 %
Application Development West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	662	497
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.849 %	0.558 %
Daily rates quoted	122	84
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£306
Average daily rate	£315	£327
% change on same period last year	-3.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.05	£26.97
Average hourly rate	£27.95	£29.72
% change on same period last year	-5.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.86	£32.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
AJAX England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

AJAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

AJAX
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the West Midlands region.

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing AJAX across the West Midlands region.

AJAX
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AJAX within the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Birmingham	+15	15	£241	-
2	Coventry	-	8	-	-
3	Herefordshire	+6	4	-	-
3	Worcestershire	-	4	£171	-
3	Warwickshire	-	4	£300	-

AJAX England

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX.

1 37 (63.79 %) CSS 2 33 (56.90 %) JavaScript 3 29 (50.00 %) HTML 4 26 (44.83 %) .NET 4 26 (44.83 %) XHTML 5 21 (36.21 %) XML 6 20 (34.48 %) ASP.NET 7 15 (25.86 %) C# 7 15 (25.86 %) Flash 8 14 (24.14 %) W3C 9 13 (22.41 %) SQL 9 13 (22.41 %) SQL Server 9 13 (22.41 %) XSLT 10 12 (20.69 %) Java 11 11 (18.97 %) JSP

12 10 (17.24 %) Struts 12 10 (17.24 %) Dreamweaver 13 9 (15.52 %) Web Design 14 8 (13.79 %) Agile Software Development 14 8 (13.79 %) Content Management 14 8 (13.79 %) Spring 14 8 (13.79 %) SOAP 14 8 (13.79 %) Oracle 14 8 (13.79 %) J2EE 14 8 (13.79 %) PL/SQL 15 7 (12.07 %) ActionScript 15 7 (12.07 %) WebServices 15 7 (12.07 %) E-Commerce 16 6 (10.34 %) NHS 16 6 (10.34 %) JDeveloper

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing AJAX also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing AJAX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 37 (63.79 %) CSS 2 29 (50.00 %) HTML 3 26 (44.83 %) .NET 3 26 (44.83 %) XHTML 4 21 (36.21 %) XML 5 20 (34.48 %) ASP.NET 6 13 (22.41 %) XSLT 7 11 (18.97 %) JSP 8 10 (17.24 %) Struts 9 8 (13.79 %) SOAP 9 8 (13.79 %) J2EE 9 8 (13.79 %) Spring 10 7 (12.07 %) WebServices 11 6 (10.34 %) DOM 11 6 (10.34 %) JSF 11 6 (10.34 %) Hibernate 11 6 (10.34 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 4 (6.897 %) Oracle ADF 13 3 (5.172 %) JSR 168 13 3 (5.172 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.621 %) IIS 2 4 (6.897 %) SharePoint 3 2 (3.448 %) JBoss 3 2 (3.448 %) CMS 3 2 (3.448 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (1.724 %) Apache 4 1 (1.724 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 2 (3.448 %) Photoshop 2 1 (1.724 %) MS Project 2 1 (1.724 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.724 %) Adobe Illustrator	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (22.41 %) SQL Server 2 6 (10.34 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (3.448 %) MySQL 3 2 (3.448 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (1.724 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 15 (25.86 %) Flash 2 10 (17.24 %) Dreamweaver 3 6 (10.34 %) JDeveloper 4 3 (5.172 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (1.724 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (1.724 %) NetAdvantage 5 1 (1.724 %) NUnit 5 1 (1.724 %) Subversion	General 1 4 (6.897 %) Graphic Design 2 3 (5.172 %) Government 3 2 (3.448 %) Health 3 2 (3.448 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.724 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.724 %) Law 4 1 (1.724 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 46 (79.31 %) Developer 2 16 (27.59 %) Web Developer 3 8 (13.79 %) .NET Developer 3 8 (13.79 %) C# Developer 4 6 (10.34 %) Analyst 4 6 (10.34 %) Analyst Programmer 4 6 (10.34 %) Programmer 4 6 (10.34 %) Senior Analyst 4 6 (10.34 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 4 6 (10.34 %) Senior Programmer 5 5 (8.621 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 4 (6.897 %) Graphic Designer 6 4 (6.897 %) J2EE Analyst Programmer 6 4 (6.897 %) Senior Java Analyst Programmer 6 4 (6.897 %) Senior Java Programmer 6 4 (6.897 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 4 (6.897 %) Java Developer 6 4 (6.897 %) Java Analyst Programmer 6 4 (6.897 %) Java Programmer 7 3 (5.172 %) VB.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 14 (24.14 %) W3C 2 6 (10.34 %) Web 2.0 2 6 (10.34 %) NHS 3 3 (5.172 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 3 (5.172 %) Linux 2 2 (3.448 %) Windows 3 1 (1.724 %) AIX 3 1 (1.724 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (15.52 %) Web Design 2 8 (13.79 %) Agile Software Development 2 8 (13.79 %) Content Management 3 7 (12.07 %) E-Commerce 4 5 (8.621 %) UML 4 5 (8.621 %) Web Development 5 4 (6.897 %) Usability Testing 5 4 (6.897 %) Unit Testing 5 4 (6.897 %) OO 5 4 (6.897 %) Project Management 6 3 (5.172 %) RAD 7 2 (3.448 %) Change Management 7 2 (3.448 %) Identity Management 7 2 (3.448 %) MVC 7 2 (3.448 %) Data Management 8 1 (1.724 %) Internet Marketing 8 1 (1.724 %) Migration 8 1 (1.724 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 33 (56.90 %) JavaScript 2 15 (25.86 %) C# 3 13 (22.41 %) SQL 4 12 (20.69 %) Java 5 8 (13.79 %) PL/SQL 6 7 (12.07 %) ActionScript 7 6 (10.34 %) VB.NET 8 3 (5.172 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (3.448 %) DHTML 9 2 (3.448 %) PHP 10 1 (1.724 %) VBScript 10 1 (1.724 %) PHP5 10 1 (1.724 %) PHP4	Qualifications 1 3 (5.172 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.448 %) WAI	System Software 1 1 (1.724 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 8 (13.79 %) Oracle 2 4 (6.897 %) Stellent 3 3 (5.172 %) Microsoft 4 2 (3.448 %) Red Hat 5 1 (1.724 %) Infragistics 5 1 (1.724 %) Interwoven 5 1 (1.724 %) telerik