The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 17 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 Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 72 77 63
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -14
Contract jobs citing Ajax 19 17 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.497% 1.051% 0.981%
As % of the Application Development category 5.080% 4.658% 4.661%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 7
Average daily rate £260 £300 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +30.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £275 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £350 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.94 £32.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-7.16% -24.11%
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
374 365 236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 29.47% 22.56% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 215 122
Average daily rate £300 £310 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +12.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
Average hourly rate £33.00 £13.75 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+140.00% -67.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Ajax
Yorkshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Ajax Jobs Demand Trend

Ajax
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ajax across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Ajax Daily Rate Histogram

Ajax
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Ajax Hourly Rate Trend

Ajax
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ajax within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Leeds +2 18 £260 -7.96%
Bradford - 1 £325 -
Ajax
Yorkshire

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Ajax 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 Ajax.

1 25 (73.53%) CSS
2 23 (67.65%) JavaScript
3 20 (58.82%) jQuery
4 16 (47.06%) Web Services
5 14 (41.18%) HTML
6 13 (38.24%) .NET
7 12 (35.29%) Oracle
7 12 (35.29%) SQL
7 12 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (32.35%) JSON
8 11 (32.35%) XML
9 10 (29.41%) PHP
9 10 (29.41%) TDD
9 10 (29.41%) Scrum
9 10 (29.41%) HTML5
9 10 (29.41%) CSS3
10 9 (26.47%) Java
10 9 (26.47%) C#
10 9 (26.47%) MySQL
11 8 (23.53%) Visual Studio
11 8 (23.53%) MVC
12 7 (20.59%) Web Development
12 7 (20.59%) ASP.NET
12 7 (20.59%) J2EE
12 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
12 7 (20.59%) BDD
12 7 (20.59%) Git (software)
12 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
13 6 (17.65%) Amazon AWS
13 6 (17.65%) PL/SQL

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Ajax 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 Ajax. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (73.53%) CSS
2 20 (58.82%) jQuery
3 16 (47.06%) Web Services
4 14 (41.18%) HTML
5 13 (38.24%) .NET
6 11 (32.35%) XML
6 11 (32.35%) JSON
7 10 (29.41%) HTML5
7 10 (29.41%) CSS3
8 7 (20.59%) ASP.NET
8 7 (20.59%) J2EE
9 4 (11.76%) LAMP
9 4 (11.76%) Hibernate
9 4 (11.76%) Spring
9 4 (11.76%) Java EE
10 3 (8.824%) ASP.NET MVC 2
10 3 (8.824%) XHTML
10 3 (8.824%) .NET Framework
10 3 (8.824%) Struts2
10 3 (8.824%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 6 (17.65%) Amazon AWS
2 5 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
2 5 (14.71%) SharePoint
2 5 (14.71%) CMS
2 5 (14.71%) Route 53
3 3 (8.824%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (8.824%) WebLogic
4 2 (5.882%) Umbraco
4 2 (5.882%) Oracle Spatial
4 2 (5.882%) DotNetNuke
4 2 (5.882%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (5.882%) Apache
4 2 (5.882%) Apache Solr
5 1 (2.941%) Magento
5 1 (2.941%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (2.941%) Drupal
5 1 (2.941%) WordPress
5 1 (2.941%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (5.882%) MS Project
2 1 (2.941%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.941%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Internet
2 1 (2.941%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) MySQL
2 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
3 5 (14.71%) MongoDB
3 5 (14.71%) Redis
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (11.76%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (8.824%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (8.824%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (5.882%) TOAD
6 2 (5.882%) RDBMS
6 2 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (5.882%) GIS
6 2 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (5.882%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (5.882%) RavenDB
7 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Visual Studio
2 7 (20.59%) Git (software)
2 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
3 5 (14.71%) Selenium
4 3 (8.824%) Hudson
4 3 (8.824%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (8.824%) Subversion
4 3 (8.824%) Maven
4 3 (8.824%) JUnit
5 2 (5.882%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 3 (8.824%) Games
2 2 (5.882%) Finance
3 1 (2.941%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.941%) Marketing
3 1 (2.941%) German Language
3 1 (2.941%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 30 (88.24%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) PHP Developer
3 7 (20.59%) Web Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Java Developer
5 5 (14.71%) .NET Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Front-End Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Front-End Web Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) Agile .NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) PHP Web Developer
6 2 (5.882%) SharePoint Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) Consultant
6 2 (5.882%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.941%) Programmer
7 1 (2.941%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.941%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Open Source
2 2 (5.882%) N-Tier
2 2 (5.882%) NHS
2 2 (5.882%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.941%) Pharmacovigilance
3 1 (2.941%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.941%) Web 2.0
3 1 (2.941%) New Media
3 1 (2.941%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.882%) UNIX
2 1 (2.941%) Windows
2 1 (2.941%) Solaris
2 1 (2.941%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (29.41%) TDD
2 10 (29.41%) Scrum
3 8 (23.53%) MVC
4 7 (20.59%) Web Development
4 7 (20.59%) BDD
5 5 (14.71%) Automated Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Security Testing
5 5 (14.71%) OO
6 3 (8.824%) E-Commerce
7 2 (5.882%) ETL
7 2 (5.882%) ITIL
7 2 (5.882%) PRINCE2
7 2 (5.882%) EAM
7 2 (5.882%) Project Management
7 2 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.882%) System Testing
7 2 (5.882%) Change Control
7 2 (5.882%) Web Application Development
7 2 (5.882%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) JavaScript
2 12 (35.29%) SQL
3 10 (29.41%) PHP
4 9 (26.47%) C#
4 9 (26.47%) Java
5 6 (17.65%) PL/SQL
6 5 (14.71%) VB.NET
7 3 (8.824%) T-SQL
7 3 (8.824%) PHP5
8 2 (5.882%) Ruby
9 1 (2.941%) XAML
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 3 (8.824%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.882%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.941%) WAI
1 1 (2.941%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) Percona
3 3 (8.824%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.882%) EPiServer
4 2 (5.882%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.941%) Adobe
5 1 (2.941%) Omniture
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