Yorkshire AJAX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) skills within the 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	82	94
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	43	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.037 %
As % of the category below	5.695 %	4.430 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£283	-
Average daily rate	£308	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£333	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£281
% change on same period last year	+19.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.17	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£20.17	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+0.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.17	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.23	£30.11
% change on same period last year	+0.38 %
Application Development Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	755	745
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.969 %	0.837 %
Daily rates quoted	133	89
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£298
Average daily rate	£309	£308
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	73	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.65	£23.06
Average hourly rate	£26.88	£24.70
% change on same period last year	+8.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.12	£26.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
AJAX England

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 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 Yorkshire region.

AJAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

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 Yorkshire region.

AJAX
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AJAX across the Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

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 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	West Yorkshire	+2	23	£350	-
2	South Yorkshire	-7	10	£288	-
3	North Yorkshire	+10	6	-	-
4	East Yorkshire	-	1	-	-

AJAX England

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the 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 51 (65.38 %) JavaScript 1 51 (65.38 %) CSS 2 50 (64.10 %) .NET 3 45 (57.69 %) ASP.NET 4 39 (50.00 %) SQL Server 5 38 (48.72 %) C# 5 38 (48.72 %) XHTML 6 26 (33.33 %) HTML 7 23 (29.49 %) XML 7 23 (29.49 %) SQL Server 2005 8 19 (24.36 %) SQL 9 16 (20.51 %) SQL Server 2000 9 16 (20.51 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 14 (17.95 %) PHP 11 12 (15.38 %) ASP

11 12 (15.38 %) Web Development 11 12 (15.38 %) NUnit 12 11 (14.10 %) VB 13 10 (12.82 %) WebServices 14 9 (11.54 %) MySQL 14 9 (11.54 %) Finance 15 7 (8.974 %) VB6 16 6 (7.692 %) CMS 16 6 (7.692 %) jQuery 16 6 (7.692 %) Java 16 6 (7.692 %) DHTML 16 6 (7.692 %) Lotus 16 6 (7.692 %) OO 16 6 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes 16 6 (7.692 %) Lotus Domino

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the 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 51 (65.38 %) CSS 2 50 (64.10 %) .NET 3 45 (57.69 %) ASP.NET 4 38 (48.72 %) XHTML 5 26 (33.33 %) HTML 6 23 (29.49 %) XML 7 16 (20.51 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 12 (15.38 %) ASP 9 10 (12.82 %) WebServices 10 6 (7.692 %) jQuery 11 5 (6.410 %) YUI 11 5 (6.410 %) DOM 11 5 (6.410 %) JSON 11 5 (6.410 %) COM+ 12 4 (5.128 %) RSS 12 4 (5.128 %) XSLT 12 4 (5.128 %) Hibernate 12 4 (5.128 %) Dojo 13 3 (3.846 %) Adobe Flex 13 3 (3.846 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 6 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes 1 6 (7.692 %) Lotus Domino 1 6 (7.692 %) CMS 2 5 (6.410 %) Apache 3 3 (3.846 %) ColdFusion 3 3 (3.846 %) ColdFusion MX 3 3 (3.846 %) IIS 4 2 (2.564 %) JBoss 4 2 (2.564 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 3 (3.846 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.128 %) Internet 2 1 (1.282 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 39 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 23 (29.49 %) SQL Server 2005 3 16 (20.51 %) SQL Server 2000 4 9 (11.54 %) MySQL 5 1 (1.282 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 12 (15.38 %) NUnit 2 4 (5.128 %) Flash 3 2 (2.564 %) Subversion 3 2 (2.564 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (1.282 %) CheckStyle 4 1 (1.282 %) HttpUnit 4 1 (1.282 %) JIRA 4 1 (1.282 %) Eclipse 4 1 (1.282 %) TestDirector 4 1 (1.282 %) Ant 4 1 (1.282 %) JUnit 4 1 (1.282 %) Visual Studio
General 1 9 (11.54 %) Finance 2 4 (5.128 %) Financial Institution 3 3 (3.846 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.282 %) Front Office 4 1 (1.282 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.282 %) Health 4 1 (1.282 %) Police 4 1 (1.282 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 62 (79.49 %) Developer 2 28 (35.90 %) .NET Developer 3 19 (24.36 %) Web Developer 4 16 (20.51 %) C# Developer 5 14 (17.95 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 11 (14.10 %) PHP Developer 6 11 (14.10 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 5 (6.410 %) SQL Server Developer 7 5 (6.410 %) .NET Web Developer 7 5 (6.410 %) SQL Developer 7 5 (6.410 %) Analyst 8 4 (5.128 %) Senior Developer 8 4 (5.128 %) Programmer 8 4 (5.128 %) C# Web Developer 9 2 (2.564 %) Senior PHP Developer 9 2 (2.564 %) Domino Developer 9 2 (2.564 %) Support Analyst 9 2 (2.564 %) Java Developer 9 2 (2.564 %) Analyst Programmer 9 2 (2.564 %) Lotus Notes Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.128 %) Web 2.0 1 4 (5.128 %) RIA 2 2 (2.564 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 5 (6.410 %) Linux 2 2 (2.564 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (15.38 %) Web Development 2 6 (7.692 %) OO 3 5 (6.410 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (5.128 %) Web Design 5 3 (3.846 %) UML 5 3 (3.846 %) RAD 6 2 (2.564 %) RUP 6 2 (2.564 %) CRM 6 2 (2.564 %) MVC 6 2 (2.564 %) TDD 7 1 (1.282 %) Information Management 7 1 (1.282 %) Use Case 7 1 (1.282 %) Internet Marketing 7 1 (1.282 %) Unit Testing 7 1 (1.282 %) SEO 7 1 (1.282 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 51 (65.38 %) JavaScript 2 38 (48.72 %) C# 3 19 (24.36 %) SQL 4 14 (17.95 %) PHP 5 11 (14.10 %) VB 6 7 (8.974 %) VB6 7 6 (7.692 %) DHTML 7 6 (7.692 %) Java 8 5 (6.410 %) Transact-SQL 9 3 (3.846 %) VB.NET 9 3 (3.846 %) PL/SQL 10 2 (2.564 %) PHP5 11 1 (1.282 %) XPath 11 1 (1.282 %) XAML
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.564 %) WAI	Vendors 1 6 (7.692 %) Lotus 2 5 (6.410 %) Microsoft 3 3 (3.846 %) Oracle 4 2 (2.564 %) Google 5 1 (1.282 %) Adobe