The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 17 May 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 Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 27 30 28
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Ajax 18 9 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 7.317% 4.348% 4.469%
As % of the Application Development category 16.98% 9.890% 14.04%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 2
Average salary £30,000 £50,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% +5.26%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Application Development
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
106 91 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 43.09% 43.96% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 76 41 41
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ajax
County Antrim

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast Ajax Jobs Demand Trend

Ajax
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ajax across the Belfast region.

Belfast Ajax Salary Trend

Ajax
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ajax across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Belfast Ajax Salary Histogram

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Ajax.

1 15 (83.33%) jQuery
2 14 (77.78%) XML
3 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
4 8 (44.44%) PHP
4 8 (44.44%) CSS
4 8 (44.44%) Windows
4 8 (44.44%) Linux
4 8 (44.44%) HTML5
4 8 (44.44%) NoSQL
4 8 (44.44%) CSS3
5 7 (38.89%) Web Application Development
5 7 (38.89%) CakePHP
5 7 (38.89%) MySQL
6 6 (33.33%) HTML
6 6 (33.33%) OO
7 5 (27.78%) Degree
8 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
9 3 (16.67%) STB
9 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (16.67%) Finance
9 3 (16.67%) Broadband
9 3 (16.67%) Postgraduate
9 3 (16.67%) Java
9 3 (16.67%) C#
9 3 (16.67%) IPTV
10 2 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
10 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (11.11%) Web Services
10 2 (11.11%) SQL
10 2 (11.11%) UNIX

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Ajax. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (83.33%) jQuery
2 14 (77.78%) XML
3 8 (44.44%) CSS
3 8 (44.44%) HTML5
3 8 (44.44%) CSS3
4 7 (38.89%) CakePHP
5 6 (33.33%) HTML
6 2 (11.11%) JSON
6 2 (11.11%) Web Services
6 2 (11.11%) Visualforce
7 1 (5.556%) Memcached
7 1 (5.556%) WebSockets
7 1 (5.556%) Backbone.js
7 1 (5.556%) Spine.js
7 1 (5.556%) WCF
7 1 (5.556%) WPF
7 1 (5.556%) JSP
7 1 (5.556%) GWT
7 1 (5.556%) RESTful
7 1 (5.556%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Force.com
2 1 (5.556%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Broadband
2 1 (5.556%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) NoSQL
2 7 (38.89%) MySQL
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.556%) CouchDB
3 1 (5.556%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) PHP Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Senior Developer
4 4 (22.22%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Salesforce.com Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Junior
5 2 (11.11%) Junior Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.556%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Web Developer
6 1 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) STB
1 3 (16.67%) IPTV
2 2 (11.11%) Wiki
3 1 (5.556%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Web Application Development
2 6 (33.33%) OO
3 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (11.11%) TDD
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.11%) MVC
5 2 (11.11%) Web Design
6 1 (5.556%) SOA
6 1 (5.556%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.556%) MVVM
6 1 (5.556%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 8 (44.44%) PHP
3 3 (16.67%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Apex Code
5 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
5 1 (5.556%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle
2 1 (5.556%) Sybase
2 1 (5.556%) Microsoft