West Yorkshire AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the West Yorkshire 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 16 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 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	71
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	23	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	4.762 %	4.515 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£350	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£281
% change on same period last year	+19.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.23	£30.11
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Application Development West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	483	443
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.620 %	0.498 %
Daily rates quoted	88	55
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£298
Average daily rate	£301	£309
% change on same period last year	-2.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.30	£24.42
Average hourly rate	£26.09	£26.40
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.87	£28.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
AJAX Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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	Leeds	+5	18	£350	-
2	Bradford	+4	1	-	-

AJAX Yorkshire

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 20 (62.50 %) JavaScript 2 18 (56.25 %) CSS 3 17 (53.13 %) .NET 4 15 (46.88 %) ASP.NET 5 14 (43.75 %) C# 6 13 (40.63 %) XHTML 7 12 (37.50 %) HTML 7 12 (37.50 %) SQL 8 11 (34.38 %) PHP 8 11 (34.38 %) SQL Server 9 9 (28.13 %) XML 10 7 (21.88 %) SQL Server 2005 10 7 (21.88 %) Web Development 11 6 (18.75 %) Finance 11 6 (18.75 %) MySQL

12 5 (15.63 %) OO 12 5 (15.63 %) E-Commerce 12 5 (15.63 %) CMS 13 4 (12.50 %) RSS 13 4 (12.50 %) Apache 13 4 (12.50 %) DOM 13 4 (12.50 %) Linux 13 4 (12.50 %) WebServices 13 4 (12.50 %) Web 2.0 13 4 (12.50 %) JSON 13 4 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 3 (9.375 %) jQuery 14 3 (9.375 %) YUI 14 3 (9.375 %) .NET Framework 14 3 (9.375 %) Transact-SQL

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 18 (56.25 %) CSS 2 17 (53.13 %) .NET 3 15 (46.88 %) ASP.NET 4 13 (40.63 %) XHTML 5 12 (37.50 %) HTML 6 9 (28.13 %) XML 7 4 (12.50 %) DOM 7 4 (12.50 %) WebServices 7 4 (12.50 %) RSS 7 4 (12.50 %) JSON 7 4 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 3 (9.375 %) .NET Framework 8 3 (9.375 %) YUI 8 3 (9.375 %) jQuery 9 2 (6.250 %) MonoRail 9 2 (6.250 %) MooTools 9 2 (6.250 %) Dojo 9 2 (6.250 %) NHibernate 10 1 (3.125 %) .NET Remoting 10 1 (3.125 %) KML	Application Platforms 1 5 (15.63 %) CMS 2 4 (12.50 %) Apache 3 3 (9.375 %) Lotus Notes 3 3 (9.375 %) Lotus Domino 4 2 (6.250 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (6.250 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.250 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (34.38 %) SQL Server 2 7 (21.88 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (18.75 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 2 (6.250 %) NUnit 1 2 (6.250 %) Subversion 2 1 (3.125 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (3.125 %) Flash
General 1 6 (18.75 %) Finance 2 3 (9.375 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (3.125 %) Front Office 3 1 (3.125 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.125 %) Health 3 1 (3.125 %) Banking 3 1 (3.125 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 23 (71.88 %) Developer 2 10 (31.25 %) PHP Developer 3 7 (21.88 %) Web Developer 3 7 (21.88 %) .NET Developer 4 5 (15.63 %) C# Developer 5 4 (12.50 %) Analyst 6 3 (9.375 %) Programmer 6 3 (9.375 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (9.375 %) SQL Developer 6 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server Developer 6 3 (9.375 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (6.250 %) Senior PHP Developer 7 2 (6.250 %) Support Analyst 7 2 (6.250 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (6.250 %) Analyst Programmer 8 1 (3.125 %) Applications Support Analyst 8 1 (3.125 %) Web Designer 8 1 (3.125 %) Applications Support 8 1 (3.125 %) Team Leader 8 1 (3.125 %) Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (12.50 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (6.250 %) RIA 3 1 (3.125 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 4 (12.50 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (21.88 %) Web Development 2 5 (15.63 %) OO 2 5 (15.63 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (6.250 %) MVC 3 2 (6.250 %) RAD 3 2 (6.250 %) CRM 3 2 (6.250 %) TDD 4 1 (3.125 %) UML 4 1 (3.125 %) SEO	Programming Languages 1 20 (62.50 %) JavaScript 2 14 (43.75 %) C# 3 12 (37.50 %) SQL 4 11 (34.38 %) PHP 5 3 (9.375 %) DHTML 5 3 (9.375 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (6.250 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (6.250 %) PHP5 7 1 (3.125 %) Java 7 1 (3.125 %) VB.NET 7 1 (3.125 %) XPath
Vendors 1 3 (9.375 %) Lotus 2 2 (6.250 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.125 %) Adobe 3 1 (3.125 %) Google