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The first part of the 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 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Birmingham region.

 Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank333390
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Up+57
Matching permanent IT job ads467245
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham4.303 %4.901 %1.398 %
As % of the Application Development category13.03 %12.97 %4.777 %
Salaries quoted456643
Average salary£32,500£31,750£32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.360 %-0.780 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,100£21,000£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£39,000£35,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,000£32,500£32,000
% change year-on-year
+1.530 %+1.560 %
Birmingham IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
353555942
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham33.02 %37.78 %29.27 %
Salaries quoted320510861
Average salary£35,000£32,500£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.690 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£45,000£52,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
AJAX West MidlandsAJAX
West Midlands

AJAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing AJAX across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Birmingham AJAX Demand Trend

AJAX
Salary Trend

The 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

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing AJAX across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

Birmingham AJAX Salary Histogram

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

1110 (91.67 %).NET
2109 (90.83 %)ASP.NET
397 (80.83 %)CSS
496 (80.00 %)SQL Server
595 (79.17 %)JavaScript
670 (58.33 %)HTML
764 (53.33 %)VB.NET
860 (50.00 %)C#
959 (49.17 %)XML
1058 (48.33 %)Web Services
1133 (27.50 %)XSLT
1133 (27.50 %)Windows
1231 (25.83 %)SQL
1231 (25.83 %)IIS
1231 (25.83 %)Visual Studio
1231 (25.83 %)ASP
1329 (24.17 %)Microsoft
1423 (19.17 %)XHTML
1522 (18.33 %)SQL Server 2005
1620 (16.67 %)T-SQL
1620 (16.67 %)E-Commerce
1620 (16.67 %)Web Development
1718 (15.00 %)Degree
1816 (13.33 %)Lotus Notes
1816 (13.33 %)Lotus
1816 (13.33 %)Windows Server 2003
1915 (12.50 %)MySQL
2013 (10.83 %)VB
2013 (10.83 %)SharePoint
2013 (10.83 %)SQL Server 2000

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

Birmingham IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1110 (91.67 %).NET
2109 (90.83 %)ASP.NET
397 (80.83 %)CSS
470 (58.33 %)HTML
559 (49.17 %)XML
658 (48.33 %)Web Services
733 (27.50 %)XSLT
831 (25.83 %)ASP
923 (19.17 %)XHTML
1012 (10.00 %).NET Framework
1012 (10.00 %)WCF
1111 (9.167 %)Flash
129 (7.500 %)LINQ
138 (6.667 %)Silverlight
138 (6.667 %)jQuery
144 (3.333 %)WinForms
153 (2.500 %)DHTML
153 (2.500 %)WF
162 (1.667 %)MonoRail
162 (1.667 %)NHibernate
Birmingham IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
131 (25.83 %)IIS
216 (13.33 %)Lotus Notes
313 (10.83 %)SharePoint
410 (8.333 %)MS Exchange
58 (6.667 %)CMS
66 (5.000 %)SharePoint Server 2007
75 (4.167 %)Drupal
84 (3.333 %)WordPress
91 (0.833 %)Apache
91 (0.833 %)DotNetNuke
Birmingham IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
111 (9.167 %)Photoshop
28 (6.667 %)MS Excel
34 (3.333 %)InfoPath
41 (0.833 %)Fireworks
Birmingham IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (0.833 %)Intranet
11 (0.833 %)Internet
11 (0.833 %)Extranet
Birmingham IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
196 (80.00 %)SQL Server
222 (18.33 %)SQL Server 2005
315 (12.50 %)MySQL
413 (10.83 %)SQL Server 2000
510 (8.333 %)Crystal Reports
65 (4.167 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
65 (4.167 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
74 (3.333 %)SQL Server Integration Services
74 (3.333 %)RDBMS
83 (2.500 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
91 (0.833 %)Oracle 10g
91 (0.833 %)Oracle 9i
Birmingham IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
131 (25.83 %)Visual Studio
25 (4.167 %)Subversion
25 (4.167 %)Team Foundation Server
32 (1.667 %)Rhino Mocks
32 (1.667 %)NUnit
Birmingham IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
17 (5.833 %)Marketing
25 (4.167 %)Finance
33 (2.500 %)Law
33 (2.500 %)Pensions
42 (1.667 %)Health
51 (0.833 %)Auditing
51 (0.833 %)Advertising
51 (0.833 %)Retail
51 (0.833 %)Education
Birmingham IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1120 (100.00 %)Developer
2100 (83.33 %).NET Developer
385 (70.83 %)ASP.NET Developer
452 (43.33 %)VB.NET Developer
549 (40.83 %)VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
637 (30.83 %)C# Developer
734 (28.33 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
827 (22.50 %)Senior Developer
925 (20.83 %)Senior .NET Developer
1024 (20.00 %)Senior ASP.NET Developer
1122 (18.33 %)Web Developer
1216 (13.33 %)Senior C# Developer
1315 (12.50 %).NET Web Developer
149 (7.500 %)Senior VB.NET Developer
149 (7.500 %)Junior VB.NET Developer
157 (5.833 %).NET Applications Developer
157 (5.833 %)C# Web Developer
157 (5.833 %)Web Applications Developer
157 (5.833 %)Applications Developer
166 (5.000 %)SQL Developer
Birmingham IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
110 (8.333 %)Computer Science
23 (2.500 %)Open Source
32 (1.667 %)iPhone
41 (0.833 %)Management Information System
Birmingham IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
133 (27.50 %)Windows
216 (13.33 %)Windows Server 2003
31 (0.833 %)UNIX
31 (0.833 %)Linux
Birmingham IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
120 (16.67 %)E-Commerce
120 (16.67 %)Web Development
213 (10.83 %)Project Management
312 (10.00 %)SEO
312 (10.00 %)Document Management
411 (9.167 %)Time Management
59 (7.500 %)Content Management
67 (5.833 %)Unit Testing
75 (4.167 %)TDD
75 (4.167 %)Business Intelligence
83 (2.500 %)OO
83 (2.500 %)Web Design
83 (2.500 %)Logistics
83 (2.500 %)Business Development
83 (2.500 %)Digital Marketing
83 (2.500 %)Online Marketing
92 (1.667 %)OOP
92 (1.667 %)Workflow
101 (0.833 %)Service Management
101 (0.833 %)Web Marketing
Birmingham IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
195 (79.17 %)JavaScript
264 (53.33 %)VB.NET
360 (50.00 %)C#
431 (25.83 %)SQL
520 (16.67 %)T-SQL
613 (10.83 %)VB
711 (9.167 %)C++
88 (6.667 %)PHP
88 (6.667 %)ActionScript
88 (6.667 %)ActionScript 3.0
96 (5.000 %)XPath
104 (3.333 %)Java
113 (2.500 %)C
121 (0.833 %)PL/SQL
Birmingham IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
118 (15.00 %)Degree
26 (5.000 %)Microsoft Certification
35 (4.167 %)MCSD
44 (3.333 %)MCTS
44 (3.333 %)MCAD
53 (2.500 %)MCP
Birmingham IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (1.667 %)QA
Birmingham IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.833 %)MSMQ
Birmingham IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
129 (24.17 %)Microsoft
216 (13.33 %)Lotus
38 (6.667 %)Adobe
41 (0.833 %)Apple
41 (0.833 %)Zend
41 (0.833 %)Oracle