Worcestershire AJAX Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the Worcestershire 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 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Romford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Street Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	15.79 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£292
% change on same period last year	+1.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.39	£33.37
% change on same period last year	-14.92 %
Application Development Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	19	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.015 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£225
Average daily rate	£344	£262
% change on same period last year	+31.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.00	£34.23
Average hourly rate	£34.30	£34.62
% change on same period last year	-0.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.60	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.63	£31.54
% change on same period last year	-9.21 %
AJAX West Midlands

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing AJAX across the Worcestershire 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 IT contract jobs citing AJAX across the Worcestershire region.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 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
Redditch	-	2	-	-

AJAX West Midlands

AJAX
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 3 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 3 (100.00 %) PHP 1 3 (100.00 %) MySQL 2 2 (66.67 %) Web Design 3 1 (33.33 %) PHP5 3 1 (33.33 %) PHP4 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) MVC

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 1 (33.33 %) CSS 1 1 (33.33 %) XML 1 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 1 1 (33.33 %) MVC	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) MySQL
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Web Design
Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 3 (100.00 %) PHP 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP5 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP4