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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for AJAX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited AJAX over the 3 months to 19 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 Cambridge region.

 Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank213650
Rank change year-on-year
Up+15Up+14
Matching permanent IT job ads1278597
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge7.367 %5.625 %3.356 %
As % of the Application Development category21.60 %13.32 %9.798 %
Salaries quoted1247791
Average salary£35,000£33,000£34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.060 %-2.940 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£24,250
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£40,562£45,500
UK excluding London average salary£33,000£32,500£32,000
% change year-on-year
+1.530 %+1.560 %
Cambridge IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
588638990
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge34.11 %42.22 %34.26 %
Salaries quoted547562885
Average salary£33,000£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.710 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£42,500£45,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
AJAX CambridgeshireAJAX
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AJAX
Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge AJAX Salary Trend

AJAX
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing AJAX across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Cambridge AJAX Salary Histogram

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

1161 (64.66 %)HTML
2140 (56.22 %)JavaScript
2140 (56.22 %).NET
3113 (45.38 %)SQL
3113 (45.38 %)XML
4108 (43.37 %)PHP
5105 (42.17 %)SQL Server
696 (38.55 %)CSS
794 (37.75 %)VB.NET
893 (37.35 %)Web Development
991 (36.55 %)MySQL
1090 (36.14 %)Web Services
1187 (34.94 %)C++
1285 (34.14 %)C#
1378 (31.33 %)Degree
1467 (26.91 %)Microsoft
1559 (23.69 %)Windows
1657 (22.89 %)Java
1754 (21.69 %)IIS
1850 (20.08 %)Middleware
1944 (17.67 %)LAMP
1944 (17.67 %)OO
2043 (17.27 %)Linux
2139 (15.66 %)Intranet
2235 (14.06 %)Apache
2332 (12.85 %)JSON
2431 (12.45 %)jQuery
2431 (12.45 %)XHTML
2530 (12.05 %)ASP.NET
2627 (10.84 %)OOP

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Cambridge IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1161 (64.66 %)HTML
2140 (56.22 %).NET
3113 (45.38 %)XML
496 (38.55 %)CSS
590 (36.14 %)Web Services
650 (20.08 %)Middleware
744 (17.67 %)LAMP
832 (12.85 %)JSON
931 (12.45 %)XHTML
931 (12.45 %)jQuery
1030 (12.05 %)ASP.NET
1121 (8.434 %)Flash
1219 (7.631 %)SOAP
1317 (6.827 %)JSP
1317 (6.827 %)Spring
1415 (6.024 %)Adobe Flex
1513 (5.221 %)ASP
1612 (4.819 %)J2EE
1711 (4.418 %)Servlets
1711 (4.418 %)Hibernate
Cambridge IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
154 (21.69 %)IIS
235 (14.06 %)Apache
316 (6.426 %)Tomcat
411 (4.418 %)CMS
56 (2.410 %)SharePoint
65 (2.008 %)SharePoint Portal Server
74 (1.606 %)ColdFusion
83 (1.205 %)Joomla!
92 (0.803 %)Drupal
101 (0.402 %)WordPress
101 (0.402 %)Magento
101 (0.402 %)ExpressionEngine
101 (0.402 %)Lotus Notes
101 (0.402 %)Lotus Domino
Cambridge IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
19 (3.614 %)MS Excel
24 (1.606 %)Photoshop
31 (0.402 %)MS Visio
Cambridge IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.402 %)GoldMine
Cambridge IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
139 (15.66 %)Intranet
27 (2.811 %)HTTP
32 (0.803 %)Internet
41 (0.402 %)Broadband
Cambridge IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1105 (42.17 %)SQL Server
291 (36.55 %)MySQL
313 (5.221 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
46 (2.410 %)SQL Server 2005
46 (2.410 %)SQL Server 2008
46 (2.410 %)PostgreSQL
54 (1.606 %)DB2
63 (1.205 %)Crystal Reports
63 (1.205 %)RDBMS
Cambridge IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
19 (3.614 %)Maven
25 (2.008 %)VSS/SourceSafe
34 (1.606 %)NUnit
43 (1.205 %)Subversion
43 (1.205 %)WatiN
43 (1.205 %)Visual Studio
43 (1.205 %)WATIR
43 (1.205 %)Selenium
52 (0.803 %)JUnit
61 (0.402 %)Xcode
61 (0.402 %)Firebug
61 (0.402 %)Team Foundation Server
Cambridge IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
110 (4.016 %)Education
27 (2.811 %)Graphic Design
34 (1.606 %)Marketing
34 (1.606 %)Advertising
43 (1.205 %)Health
43 (1.205 %)Telecoms
43 (1.205 %)Billing
52 (0.803 %)Automotive
52 (0.803 %)Electric
61 (0.402 %)Government
61 (0.402 %)Electronics
61 (0.402 %)Games
61 (0.402 %)Local Government
61 (0.402 %)Pensions
61 (0.402 %)Music
61 (0.402 %)Music Industry
61 (0.402 %)Interactive Media
Cambridge IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1204 (81.93 %)Developer
2119 (47.79 %)Web Developer
341 (16.47 %).NET Developer
438 (15.26 %)Applications Developer
536 (14.46 %)PHP Developer
628 (11.24 %)C# Developer
727 (10.84 %)Tester
825 (10.04 %)Web Applications Developer
924 (9.639 %)Analyst
1023 (9.237 %)Programmer
1121 (8.434 %)Java Developer
1218 (7.229 %).NET Web Developer
1317 (6.827 %)VB.NET Developer
1416 (6.426 %)Test Analyst
1416 (6.426 %)Web Programmer
1515 (6.024 %)PHP Web Developer
1612 (4.819 %)Software Tester
1612 (4.819 %)Web Tester
1711 (4.418 %)Software Test Analyst
1711 (4.418 %)C# Web Developer
Cambridge IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
120 (8.032 %)Computer Science
217 (6.827 %)Client/Server
314 (5.622 %)Mathematics
314 (5.622 %)Open Source
48 (3.213 %)Data Protection Act
48 (3.213 %)W3C
55 (2.008 %)Physics
55 (2.008 %)iPhone
64 (1.606 %)Tandem
73 (1.205 %)Blackberry
82 (0.803 %)Management Information System
82 (0.803 %)Chemistry
82 (0.803 %)Biology
91 (0.402 %)E-Learning
91 (0.402 %)SCORM
91 (0.402 %)VLE
Cambridge IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
159 (23.69 %)Windows
243 (17.27 %)Linux
32 (0.803 %)Windows XP
32 (0.803 %)UNIX
41 (0.402 %)Android
Cambridge IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
193 (37.35 %)Web Development
244 (17.67 %)OO
327 (10.84 %)OOP
415 (6.024 %)MVC
512 (4.819 %)Software Engineering
610 (4.016 %)Test Scripting
79 (3.614 %)Agile Software Development
79 (3.614 %)Project Management
88 (3.213 %)Web Design
88 (3.213 %)Data Protection
88 (3.213 %)Web Testing
97 (2.811 %)Content Management
97 (2.811 %)E-Commerce
105 (2.008 %)TDD
114 (1.606 %)B2B
114 (1.606 %)Scrum
123 (1.205 %)OOD
123 (1.205 %)OOA/OOD
123 (1.205 %)Unit Testing
132 (0.803 %)HOOD
Cambridge IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1140 (56.22 %)JavaScript
2113 (45.38 %)SQL
3108 (43.37 %)PHP
494 (37.75 %)VB.NET
587 (34.94 %)C++
685 (34.14 %)C#
757 (22.89 %)Java
822 (8.835 %)PHP5
913 (5.221 %)C
109 (3.614 %)VB
115 (2.008 %)T-SQL
115 (2.008 %)VBScript
124 (1.606 %)Perl
124 (1.606 %)Shell Script
132 (0.803 %)PowerHouse
132 (0.803 %)ActionScript
141 (0.402 %)Objective-C
141 (0.402 %)LotusScript
141 (0.402 %)Ruby
141 (0.402 %)PHP4
Cambridge IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
178 (31.33 %)Degree
22 (0.803 %)A+ Certification
31 (0.402 %)ISEB
Cambridge IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (2.008 %)WAI
15 (2.008 %)QA
Cambridge IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
167 (26.91 %)Microsoft
211 (4.418 %)Zend
37 (2.811 %)Oracle
43 (1.205 %)Capita
51 (0.402 %)SAP
51 (0.402 %)Adobe
51 (0.402 %)Siemens
51 (0.402 %)Lotus
51 (0.402 %)Sage
51 (0.402 %)Perforce