The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Wiltshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 40 51 47
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -4
Contract jobs citing Ajax 10 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 1.965% 0.517% 1.140%
As % of the Application Development category 8.130% 3.226% 6.604%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £313 £280 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.60% +12.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £308 £288
% change year-on-year
-2.27% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -29.41%
All Application Development
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
123 93 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 24.17% 16.03% 17.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 51 56
Average daily rate £320 £308 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.06% -6.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £213 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £464 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 8
Average hourly rate £35.00 £23.88 £35.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+46.59% -32.74%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.20 £23.88 £22.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £185.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Ajax
South West

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Ajax Daily Rate Trend

Ajax
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Swindon +1 7 - - 5
Marlborough - - - -
Ajax
South West

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 15 (93.75%) JavaScript
2 14 (87.50%) jQuery
3 13 (81.25%) C#
3 13 (81.25%) CSS
4 12 (75.00%) HTML
4 12 (75.00%) .NET
5 11 (68.75%) XML
6 10 (62.50%) ASP.NET
6 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
6 10 (62.50%) Web Services
6 10 (62.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 9 (56.25%) .NET Framework
7 9 (56.25%) WCF
7 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
7 9 (56.25%) XSLT
8 8 (50.00%) SQL
8 8 (50.00%) Scrum
8 8 (50.00%) Finance
8 8 (50.00%) JSON
8 8 (50.00%) Unit Testing
9 7 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (43.75%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (31.25%) Retail
11 4 (25.00%) Silverlight
11 4 (25.00%) MVC
11 4 (25.00%) ISO 9001
12 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio
12 3 (18.75%) HTML5
13 2 (12.50%) TDD
13 2 (12.50%) LINQ

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 14 (87.50%) jQuery
2 13 (81.25%) CSS
3 12 (75.00%) HTML
3 12 (75.00%) .NET
4 11 (68.75%) XML
5 10 (62.50%) ASP.NET
5 10 (62.50%) Web Services
5 10 (62.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 9 (56.25%) .NET Framework
6 9 (56.25%) WCF
6 9 (56.25%) XSLT
7 8 (50.00%) JSON
8 4 (25.00%) Silverlight
9 3 (18.75%) HTML5
10 2 (12.50%) LINQ
10 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 2 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (12.50%) XHTML
11 1 (6.250%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (6.250%) IIS
2 1 (6.250%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (6.250%) MySQL
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.250%) Subversion
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (56.25%) .NET Developer
3 6 (37.50%) C# Developer
4 4 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (18.75%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (18.75%) SQL Developer
6 2 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Web Developer
7 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Programmer
7 1 (6.250%) PHP MySQL Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Front-End Web Developer
7 1 (6.250%) XML Developer
7 1 (6.250%) CSS Developer
7 1 (6.250%) PHP Developer
7 1 (6.250%) HTML Developer
7 1 (6.250%) MySQL Developer
7 1 (6.250%) PHP Web Developer
7 1 (6.250%) PHP Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) E-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Scrum
1 8 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 7 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (25.00%) MVC
4 2 (12.50%) TDD
5 1 (6.250%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) JavaScript
2 13 (81.25%) C#
3 8 (50.00%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft