The first table below looks at the demand for JSON skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSON over the 3 months to 21 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 West Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JSON
Rank 81 97 90
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -7
Contract jobs citing JSON 15 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.892% 0.534% 0.215%
As % of the Application Development category 3.650% 2.206% 0.853%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 3
Average daily rate £275 £315 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.69% +14.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £28.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
-43.35% -
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
411 544 469
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 24.45% 24.21% 25.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 298 254
Average daily rate £300 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 21
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.72% -9.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £37.50 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JSON
England

JSON
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands JSON Daily Rate Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSON across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Midlands JSON Daily Rate Histogram

JSON
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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
Coventry - 5 £275 -
Solihull - 2 - -
Birmingham - 2 £425 -
Worcestershire - 2 - -
Staffordshire - 1 £250 -
JSON
England

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 18 (64.29%) JavaScript
1 18 (64.29%) jQuery
2 17 (60.71%) CSS
3 14 (50.00%) HTML
4 13 (46.43%) .NET
4 13 (46.43%) XML
4 13 (46.43%) C#
4 13 (46.43%) ASP.NET
4 13 (46.43%) HTML5
5 12 (42.86%) E-Commerce
6 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
6 10 (35.71%) Ajax
7 9 (32.14%) Web Services
7 9 (32.14%) Apple iOS
7 9 (32.14%) Mobile App
8 8 (28.57%) Java
8 8 (28.57%) Objective-C
8 8 (28.57%) Android
9 7 (25.00%) iPhone
9 7 (25.00%) Eclipse
9 7 (25.00%) XHTML
9 7 (25.00%) iOS SDK
9 7 (25.00%) CSS3
10 5 (17.86%) MVC
10 5 (17.86%) PHP
11 4 (14.29%) Dojo
11 4 (14.29%) MySQL
11 4 (14.29%) SOAP
11 4 (14.29%) CMS
11 4 (14.29%) OOP

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 18 (64.29%) jQuery
2 17 (60.71%) CSS
3 14 (50.00%) HTML
4 13 (46.43%) .NET
4 13 (46.43%) XML
4 13 (46.43%) ASP.NET
4 13 (46.43%) HTML5
5 10 (35.71%) Ajax
6 9 (32.14%) Web Services
7 7 (25.00%) XHTML
7 7 (25.00%) iOS SDK
7 7 (25.00%) CSS3
8 4 (14.29%) Dojo
8 4 (14.29%) SOAP
9 3 (10.71%) RESTful
9 3 (10.71%) YUI
9 3 (10.71%) WCF
9 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
10 2 (7.143%) XSLT
10 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) CMS
2 1 (3.571%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.571%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (7.143%) Subversion
3 1 (3.571%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 1 (3.571%) Xcode
General
1 3 (10.71%) Games
2 2 (7.143%) Marketing
3 1 (3.571%) Automotive
3 1 (3.571%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
4 5 (17.86%) JavaScript Developer
4 5 (17.86%) ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (14.29%) C# Developer
5 4 (14.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Web Developer
7 2 (7.143%) Programmer
8 1 (3.571%) UI Programmer
8 1 (3.571%) iOS Developer
8 1 (3.571%) Android Developer
8 1 (3.571%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 1 (3.571%) UI Developer
8 1 (3.571%) CSS Developer
8 1 (3.571%) MySQL Developer
8 1 (3.571%) SQL Developer
8 1 (3.571%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Mobile App
2 7 (25.00%) iPhone
3 1 (3.571%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (3.571%) W3C
3 1 (3.571%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Apple iOS
2 8 (28.57%) Android
3 2 (7.143%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) E-Commerce
2 5 (17.86%) MVC
3 4 (14.29%) OOP
3 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 3 (10.71%) Graceful Degradation
4 3 (10.71%) OO
5 2 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (7.143%) TDD
6 1 (3.571%) Information Architecture
6 1 (3.571%) Memory Management
6 1 (3.571%) Time Management
6 1 (3.571%) SEO
6 1 (3.571%) ITIL
6 1 (3.571%) Data Management
6 1 (3.571%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 13 (46.43%) C#
3 8 (28.57%) Java
3 8 (28.57%) Objective-C
4 5 (17.86%) PHP
5 3 (10.71%) SQL
6 2 (7.143%) J#
6 2 (7.143%) VB
6 2 (7.143%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (7.143%) Adobe
1 2 (7.143%) Macromedia
1 2 (7.143%) Apple
2 1 (3.571%) Appcelerator
2 1 (3.571%) Zend
2 1 (3.571%) Sitecore