West Yorkshire JavaScript Contracts

This section looks at the demand for JavaScript skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Altrincham Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tonbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	33
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	61	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.067 %
As % of the category below	9.050 %	10.41 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£231	£291
Average daily rate	£251	£301
% change on same period last year	-16.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£271	£312
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£289
% change on same period last year	+5.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.83	£19.11
Average hourly rate	£23.92	£19.83
% change on same period last year	+20.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	£20.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.53	£30.40
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
Programming Languages West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	674	634
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.897 %	0.643 %
Daily rates quoted	139	78
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£296
Average daily rate	£301	£315
% change on same period last year	-4.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.84	£25.78
Average hourly rate	£27.59	£27.69
% change on same period last year	-0.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.35	£29.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.36	£33.06
% change on same period last year	+0.90 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JavaScript across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Leeds	-17	33	£212	-29.77 %
Halifax	-5	8	£298	-
Bradford	0	4	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing JavaScript 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 JavaScript.

1 97 (71.85 %) HTML 2 84 (62.22 %) .NET 3 83 (61.48 %) CSS 4 72 (53.33 %) C# 5 71 (52.59 %) XML 6 52 (38.52 %) SQL Server 7 50 (37.04 %) ASP.NET 8 31 (22.96 %) SQL 8 31 (22.96 %) XHTML 9 30 (22.22 %) XSLT 9 30 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2005 10 29 (21.48 %) WebServices 11 26 (19.26 %) CMS 11 26 (19.26 %) Visual Studio 11 26 (19.26 %) AJAX

12 25 (18.52 %) Finance 13 23 (17.04 %) ASP 14 22 (16.30 %) Microsoft 15 20 (14.81 %) E-Commerce 16 19 (14.07 %) Flash 16 19 (14.07 %) Web Development 17 18 (13.33 %) IIS 18 16 (11.85 %) Windows 19 15 (11.11 %) VBScript 20 14 (10.37 %) DHTML 21 13 (9.630 %) PHP 21 13 (9.630 %) VB 21 13 (9.630 %) OO 22 12 (8.889 %) Lotus Notes 22 12 (8.889 %) XSL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing JavaScript 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 JavaScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 97 (71.85 %) HTML 2 84 (62.22 %) .NET 3 83 (61.48 %) CSS 4 71 (52.59 %) XML 5 50 (37.04 %) ASP.NET 6 31 (22.96 %) XHTML 7 30 (22.22 %) XSLT 8 29 (21.48 %) WebServices 9 26 (19.26 %) AJAX 10 23 (17.04 %) ASP 11 12 (8.889 %) XSL 11 12 (8.889 %) .NET Framework 12 9 (6.667 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 13 7 (5.185 %) JSP 14 6 (4.444 %) XSD 15 5 (3.704 %) RSS 15 5 (3.704 %) J2EE 15 5 (3.704 %) ADO.NET 16 4 (2.963 %) COM+ 16 4 (2.963 %) DOM	Application Platforms 1 26 (19.26 %) CMS 2 18 (13.33 %) IIS 3 12 (8.889 %) Lotus Notes 4 11 (8.148 %) Lotus Domino 5 9 (6.667 %) SharePoint 6 5 (3.704 %) TeamSite 6 5 (3.704 %) Content Management Server 7 4 (2.963 %) Apache 8 3 (2.222 %) TIBCO EMS 9 2 (1.481 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 2 (1.481 %) ColdFusion 10 1 (0.741 %) BizTalk Server 10 1 (0.741 %) Commerce Server 10 1 (0.741 %) WebLogic 10 1 (0.741 %) ATG Dynamo
Applications 1 11 (8.148 %) Photoshop 2 7 (5.185 %) Fireworks 2 7 (5.185 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 3 (2.222 %) FreeHand 4 2 (1.481 %) MS Excel 4 2 (1.481 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.741 %) ImageReady 5 1 (0.741 %) Acrobat 5 1 (0.741 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 1 (0.741 %) BusinessWorks 1 1 (0.741 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 9 (6.667 %) Internet 2 5 (3.704 %) Extranet 3 2 (1.481 %) Intranet 4 1 (0.741 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 52 (38.52 %) SQL Server 2 30 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (4.444 %) SQL Server 2000 3 6 (4.444 %) MySQL 4 4 (2.963 %) SQL Server 7 5 2 (1.481 %) RDBMS 5 2 (1.481 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (0.741 %) WebFOCUS 6 1 (0.741 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (0.741 %) DB2 6 1 (0.741 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (0.741 %) MS Access 6 1 (0.741 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 26 (19.26 %) Visual Studio 2 19 (14.07 %) Flash 3 9 (6.667 %) Visual Studio Team System 4 6 (4.444 %) Dreamweaver 5 3 (2.222 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 3 (2.222 %) NUnit 6 2 (1.481 %) Subversion 6 2 (1.481 %) JUnit 6 2 (1.481 %) InstallShield 6 2 (1.481 %) ClearCase 7 1 (0.741 %) Ant 7 1 (0.741 %) FrontPage	General 1 25 (18.52 %) Finance 2 12 (8.889 %) Health 3 7 (5.185 %) Banking 4 5 (3.704 %) Retail 5 4 (2.963 %) Telecoms 5 4 (2.963 %) Financial Institution 6 2 (1.481 %) Government 6 2 (1.481 %) Billing 6 2 (1.481 %) Insurance 6 2 (1.481 %) Marketing 7 1 (0.741 %) Graphic Design 7 1 (0.741 %) International Banking 7 1 (0.741 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (0.741 %) Publishing 7 1 (0.741 %) Electronics 7 1 (0.741 %) Education
Job Titles 1 115 (85.19 %) Developer 2 46 (34.07 %) .NET Developer 3 28 (20.74 %) Web Developer 4 14 (10.37 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 12 (8.889 %) C# Developer 6 11 (8.148 %) Senior Developer 7 9 (6.667 %) Web Designer 7 9 (6.667 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 8 (5.926 %) Java Developer 9 6 (4.444 %) PHP Developer 9 6 (4.444 %) Lotus Notes Developer 9 6 (4.444 %) Programmer 9 6 (4.444 %) HTML Developer 10 5 (3.704 %) Applications Support 10 5 (3.704 %) .NET Web Developer 11 4 (2.963 %) J2EE Developer 11 4 (2.963 %) Applications Developer 11 4 (2.963 %) Senior .NET Developer 11 4 (2.963 %) Java/J2EE Developer 12 3 (2.222 %) JavaScript Developer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (6.667 %) W3C 2 5 (3.704 %) Web 2.0 3 2 (1.481 %) Fat Client 3 2 (1.481 %) RIA 3 2 (1.481 %) Thin Client 3 2 (1.481 %) Client/Server 3 2 (1.481 %) NHS 3 2 (1.481 %) E-Learning 4 1 (0.741 %) AS400 4 1 (0.741 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 16 (11.85 %) Windows 2 7 (5.185 %) Linux 3 5 (3.704 %) UNIX 4 3 (2.222 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (14.81 %) E-Commerce 2 19 (14.07 %) Web Development 3 13 (9.630 %) OO 4 8 (5.926 %) Configuration Management 5 7 (5.185 %) Content Management 6 6 (4.444 %) SEO 6 6 (4.444 %) Software Testing 6 6 (4.444 %) Unit Testing 6 6 (4.444 %) Time Management 7 5 (3.704 %) Regression Testing 7 5 (3.704 %) OOD 8 4 (2.963 %) OOP 9 2 (1.481 %) UML 9 2 (1.481 %) RAD 9 2 (1.481 %) DNA 9 2 (1.481 %) Systems Analysis 9 2 (1.481 %) Web Design 9 2 (1.481 %) TDD 9 2 (1.481 %) Use Case 10 1 (0.741 %) Internet Marketing
Programming Languages 1 72 (53.33 %) C# 2 31 (22.96 %) SQL 3 15 (11.11 %) VBScript 4 14 (10.37 %) DHTML 5 13 (9.630 %) PHP 5 13 (9.630 %) VB 6 12 (8.889 %) Java 7 11 (8.148 %) ActionScript 8 8 (5.926 %) VB.NET 8 8 (5.926 %) VB6 9 6 (4.444 %) LotusScript 9 6 (4.444 %) Perl 10 4 (2.963 %) PL/SQL 10 4 (2.963 %) Transact-SQL 11 3 (2.222 %) C++ 11 3 (2.222 %) C 11 3 (2.222 %) Shell Script 12 2 (1.481 %) Ruby 13 1 (0.741 %) XPath 13 1 (0.741 %) Formula Language	Qualifications 1 2 (1.481 %) IBM Certification 1 2 (1.481 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (4.444 %) QA 2 2 (1.481 %) WAI	System Software 1 2 (1.481 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 22 (16.30 %) Microsoft 2 12 (8.889 %) Lotus 3 10 (7.407 %) Adobe 4 9 (6.667 %) Oracle 5 4 (2.963 %) RedDot 6 3 (2.222 %) TIBCO 7 2 (1.481 %) ATG 7 2 (1.481 %) IBM 8 1 (0.741 %) Google 8 1 (0.741 %) JD Edwards 8 1 (0.741 %) Business Objects