The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 46 53 42
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -11
Permanent jobs citing Ajax 74 41 53
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 4.415% 2.822% 3.985%
As % of the Application Development category 12.15% 8.039% 12.56%
Number of salaries quoted 72 40 48
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,050 £25,500 £26,750
10% offered a salary of more than £49,750 £42,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Application Development
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
609 510 422
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 36.34% 35.10% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 546 478 386
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +17.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ajax
West Midlands

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Ajax Salary Trend

Ajax
Salary Histogram

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

Birmingham Ajax Salary Histogram

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

1 133 (79.64%) JavaScript
2 103 (61.68%) CSS
3 102 (61.08%) jQuery
4 96 (57.49%) SQL Server
5 80 (47.90%) .NET
6 79 (47.31%) ASP.NET
7 74 (44.31%) HTML
8 70 (41.92%) C#
9 68 (40.72%) MVC
10 50 (29.94%) SQL
11 49 (29.34%) PHP
11 49 (29.34%) OO
12 47 (28.14%) SQL Server 2008
13 45 (26.95%) Agile Software Development
14 44 (26.35%) HTML5
15 41 (24.55%) MySQL
16 40 (23.95%) Subversion
17 36 (21.56%) TDD
18 34 (20.36%) T-SQL
19 33 (19.76%) Microsoft
20 32 (19.16%) VB.NET
21 31 (18.56%) Web Services
21 31 (18.56%) SQL Server 2005
22 28 (16.77%) WCF
23 27 (16.17%) Java
24 26 (15.57%) SOAP
24 26 (15.57%) CSS3
25 25 (14.97%) XHTML
25 25 (14.97%) SharePoint
26 24 (14.37%) Tomcat

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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
1 103 (61.68%) CSS
2 102 (61.08%) jQuery
3 80 (47.90%) .NET
4 79 (47.31%) ASP.NET
5 74 (44.31%) HTML
6 44 (26.35%) HTML5
7 31 (18.56%) Web Services
8 28 (16.77%) WCF
9 26 (15.57%) SOAP
9 26 (15.57%) CSS3
10 25 (14.97%) XHTML
11 24 (14.37%) Hibernate
11 24 (14.37%) Spring
12 23 (13.77%) Spring MVC
12 23 (13.77%) JMS
12 23 (13.77%) JMX
13 20 (11.98%) .NET Framework
14 19 (11.38%) WPF
15 18 (10.78%) XML
16 17 (10.18%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 25 (14.97%) SharePoint
2 24 (14.37%) Tomcat
3 23 (13.77%) ActiveMQ
4 16 (9.581%) IIS
5 15 (8.982%) Apache
6 14 (8.383%) SharePoint 2010
7 13 (7.784%) SharePoint Server
7 13 (7.784%) BizTalk Server
8 12 (7.186%) SharePoint Foundation
9 6 (3.593%) WordPress
10 3 (1.796%) Magento
10 3 (1.796%) CMS
10 3 (1.796%) Drupal
11 1 (0.599%) Windows Azure
11 1 (0.599%) Google App Engine
Applications
1 16 (9.581%) MS Excel
2 12 (7.186%) InfoPath
2 12 (7.186%) MS Office
3 9 (5.389%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.395%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.599%) HTTP
1 1 (0.599%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (57.49%) SQL Server
2 47 (28.14%) SQL Server 2008
3 41 (24.55%) MySQL
4 31 (18.56%) SQL Server 2005
5 23 (13.77%) JasperReports
6 18 (10.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (8.982%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (5.389%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.593%) Redis
10 5 (2.994%) Oracle 8/8i
11 3 (1.796%) SQL Server 2000
12 2 (1.198%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.599%) MS Access
13 1 (0.599%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (23.95%) Subversion
2 24 (14.37%) Maven
2 24 (14.37%) Eclipse
3 23 (13.77%) Selenium
3 23 (13.77%) FitNesse
3 23 (13.77%) TeamCity
3 23 (13.77%) Apache Continuum
4 16 (9.581%) Visual Studio
5 14 (8.383%) CruiseControl
6 12 (7.186%) MSBuild
6 12 (7.186%) Git (software)
6 12 (7.186%) NUnit
6 12 (7.186%) Visual Studio Team System
7 6 (3.593%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.198%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.599%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 1 (0.599%) Hudson
General
1 10 (5.988%) Music
1 10 (5.988%) Music Industry
2 7 (4.192%) Marketing
2 7 (4.192%) Games
3 6 (3.593%) Finance
4 3 (1.796%) Automotive
5 1 (0.599%) Law
5 1 (0.599%) Legal
5 1 (0.599%) Advertising
5 1 (0.599%) Retail
Job Titles
1 151 (90.42%) Developer
2 37 (22.16%) .NET Developer
3 36 (21.56%) PHP Developer
4 26 (15.57%) Senior Developer
5 22 (13.17%) ASP.NET Developer
6 20 (11.98%) C# Developer
7 18 (10.78%) Web Developer
8 13 (7.784%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 12 (7.186%) Java Developer
9 12 (7.186%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (6.587%) JavaScript Developer
11 10 (5.988%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 10 (5.988%) Front-End Developer
11 10 (5.988%) SharePoint Developer
11 10 (5.988%) C# .NET Developer
11 10 (5.988%) Junior Developer
11 10 (5.988%) Junior
12 9 (5.389%) Junior C# Developer
12 9 (5.389%) Java/J2EE Developer
13 8 (4.790%) QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.18%) Firmware
2 10 (5.988%) Digital Media
3 9 (5.389%) Open Source
4 8 (4.790%) Social Media
4 8 (4.790%) New Media
5 5 (2.994%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.395%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.395%) Heroku
7 2 (1.198%) W3C
7 2 (1.198%) Social Network
8 1 (0.599%) iPhone
8 1 (0.599%) iPad
8 1 (0.599%) Statistics
8 1 (0.599%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.98%) Windows
2 18 (10.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.599%) Android
3 1 (0.599%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (40.72%) MVC
2 49 (29.34%) OO
3 45 (26.95%) Agile Software Development
4 36 (21.56%) TDD
5 20 (11.98%) OOP
6 18 (10.78%) Content Management
6 18 (10.78%) Unit Testing
7 17 (10.18%) Web Development
7 17 (10.18%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (10.18%) E-Commerce
7 17 (10.18%) BDD
8 16 (9.581%) Scrum
9 15 (8.982%) Multithreading
10 13 (7.784%) Automated Testing
10 13 (7.784%) OOA/OOD
10 13 (7.784%) UML
11 12 (7.186%) RUP
11 12 (7.186%) Unified Process
11 12 (7.186%) MSF
12 9 (5.389%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 133 (79.64%) JavaScript
2 70 (41.92%) C#
3 50 (29.94%) SQL
4 49 (29.34%) PHP
5 34 (20.36%) T-SQL
6 32 (19.16%) VB.NET
7 27 (16.17%) Java
8 8 (4.790%) C++
9 6 (3.593%) PHP5
10 3 (1.796%) Scala
11 2 (1.198%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.599%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.599%) VBA
12 1 (0.599%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.599%) CoffeeScript
12 1 (0.599%) PHP4
Qualifications
1 13 (7.784%) SC Cleared
1 13 (7.784%) DV Cleared
1 13 (7.784%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.994%) Degree
3 4 (2.395%) MCSD
3 4 (2.395%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.796%) MCTS
4 3 (1.796%) MCP
4 3 (1.796%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.186%) QA
Vendors
1 33 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.37%) Zend
3 23 (13.77%) JBoss
4 21 (12.57%) Oracle
5 16 (9.581%) Adobe
6 12 (7.186%) Facebook
7 7 (4.192%) Google
8 6 (3.593%) Apple
9 3 (1.796%) BT
9 3 (1.796%) ATG
9 3 (1.796%) IBM
9 3 (1.796%) EPiServer
9 3 (1.796%) hybris
10 2 (1.198%) Sencha
10 2 (1.198%) Twitter
11 1 (0.599%) Rackspace
Birmingham, West Midlands
The ideal Junior C# Developer will have 1-2 years commercial .Net development experience with good skills in C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server, AJAX, JavaScript, MVC and CSS.
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £26000 per annum + Benefits * Training budget
Posted: 5 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Your skills and experience: - Must have strong knowledge of PHP 5 / OOP and MySQL- Some experience of the Bootstrap CSS Framework and Codeigniter / MVC would be preferred but...
Salary: £22000 - £26000 per annum
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Salary: £65000 - £72000 per annum
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