The first 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 23 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 43 53 34
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -19
Permanent jobs citing Ajax 95 86 151
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 5.263% 4.257% 6.927%
As % of the Application Development category 11.09% 8.341% 13.98%
Number of salaries quoted 87 84 142
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Application Development
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
857 1031 1080
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 47.48% 51.04% 49.54%
Number of salaries quoted 797 919 967
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £48,650
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ajax
Cambridgeshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Ajax Salary Trend

Ajax
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ajax across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridge Ajax Salary Histogram

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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.

1 153 (87.43%) HTML
2 148 (84.57%) JavaScript
3 141 (80.57%) CSS
4 100 (57.14%) .NET
5 91 (52.00%) C#
6 81 (46.29%) ASP.NET
6 81 (46.29%) jQuery
7 75 (42.86%) SQL
8 68 (38.86%) XML
9 60 (34.29%) SQL Server
10 59 (33.71%) PHP
11 48 (27.43%) MySQL
12 47 (26.86%) Java
13 45 (25.71%) Agile Software Development
14 41 (23.43%) Oracle
14 41 (23.43%) Linux
15 39 (22.29%) MVC
16 36 (20.57%) TDD
16 36 (20.57%) Adobe
17 35 (20.00%) Web Application Development
18 34 (19.43%) Web Services
19 32 (18.29%) Apple iOS
19 32 (18.29%) Android
20 31 (17.71%) Web Development
21 29 (16.57%) Degree
21 29 (16.57%) Photoshop
22 28 (16.00%) SQL Server 2008
22 28 (16.00%) Git (software)
23 27 (15.43%) SQL Server 2005
23 27 (15.43%) Apache

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 153 (87.43%) HTML
2 141 (80.57%) CSS
3 100 (57.14%) .NET
4 81 (46.29%) ASP.NET
4 81 (46.29%) jQuery
5 68 (38.86%) XML
6 34 (19.43%) Web Services
7 23 (13.14%) WPF
7 23 (13.14%) HTML5
8 22 (12.57%) Silverlight
8 22 (12.57%) ADO.NET
9 19 (10.86%) XHTML
9 19 (10.86%) CSS3
10 18 (10.29%) WCF
11 16 (9.143%) XSLT
11 16 (9.143%) RESTful
12 15 (8.571%) .NET Framework
13 14 (8.000%) Symfony
13 14 (8.000%) LINQ
13 14 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 27 (15.43%) Apache
2 13 (7.429%) Windows Azure
3 8 (4.571%) concrete5
4 4 (2.286%) CMS
5 3 (1.714%) WordPress
5 3 (1.714%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.571%) Drupal
6 1 (0.571%) IIS
6 1 (0.571%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (16.57%) Photoshop
2 5 (2.857%) Fireworks
3 2 (1.143%) GIMP
4 1 (0.571%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.143%) HTTP
2 2 (1.143%) FTP
2 2 (1.143%) SNMP
3 1 (0.571%) SSL
3 1 (0.571%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.571%) STUN
3 1 (0.571%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (34.29%) SQL Server
2 48 (27.43%) MySQL
3 28 (16.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 27 (15.43%) SQL Server 2005
5 10 (5.714%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.857%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.714%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (1.143%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.571%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.571%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 28 (16.00%) Git (software)
2 25 (14.29%) Subversion
3 8 (4.571%) Dreamweaver
4 2 (1.143%) CppUnit
5 1 (0.571%) PhoneGap
5 1 (0.571%) Appcelerator Titanium
5 1 (0.571%) JIRA
5 1 (0.571%) WATIR
5 1 (0.571%) Selenium
5 1 (0.571%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.571%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (0.571%) NUnit
General
1 9 (5.143%) Retail
2 8 (4.571%) Finance
2 8 (4.571%) Manufacturing
3 4 (2.286%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 158 (90.29%) Developer
2 61 (34.86%) Web Developer
3 43 (24.57%) C# Developer
3 43 (24.57%) C# .NET Developer
4 42 (24.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 33 (18.86%) .NET Developer
6 26 (14.86%) PHP Developer
7 25 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
8 20 (11.43%) Software Developer
9 19 (10.86%) Front-End Developer
10 18 (10.29%) UI Developer
10 18 (10.29%) UI Programmer
11 15 (8.571%) Senior Developer
11 15 (8.571%) .NET Web Developer
12 14 (8.000%) Senior PHP Developer
12 14 (8.000%) Applications Developer
13 13 (7.429%) JavaScript Developer
14 11 (6.286%) Web Applications Developer
14 11 (6.286%) Front-End Web Developer
15 10 (5.714%) LAMP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.00%) Mobile App
2 18 (10.29%) Computer Science
3 13 (7.429%) Blackberry
4 10 (5.714%) Handset
5 5 (2.857%) Open Source
5 5 (2.857%) Replication
6 3 (1.714%) Mathematics
6 3 (1.714%) Device Driver
7 2 (1.143%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.571%) Mobile Payment
8 1 (0.571%) Social Network
8 1 (0.571%) Physics
8 1 (0.571%) iPad
8 1 (0.571%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 41 (23.43%) Linux
2 32 (18.29%) Apple iOS
2 32 (18.29%) Android
3 10 (5.714%) UNIX
4 4 (2.286%) Windows
5 3 (1.714%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.143%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.571%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.71%) Agile Software Development
2 39 (22.29%) MVC
3 36 (20.57%) TDD
4 35 (20.00%) Web Application Development
5 31 (17.71%) Web Development
6 22 (12.57%) Requirements Analysis
7 17 (9.714%) OO
8 15 (8.571%) Unit Testing
8 15 (8.571%) Scrum
9 14 (8.000%) OOP
10 11 (6.286%) Mobile Application Development
11 10 (5.714%) OOD
12 7 (4.000%) Project Management
12 7 (4.000%) Web Design
13 5 (2.857%) SEO
14 4 (2.286%) Software Engineering
14 4 (2.286%) Performance Testing
15 3 (1.714%) Security Testing
15 3 (1.714%) SOA
15 3 (1.714%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (84.57%) JavaScript
2 91 (52.00%) C#
3 75 (42.86%) SQL
4 59 (33.71%) PHP
5 47 (26.86%) Java
6 26 (14.86%) VB.NET
7 22 (12.57%) C++
7 22 (12.57%) Objective-C
8 16 (9.143%) T-SQL
9 15 (8.571%) Ruby
10 9 (5.143%) Python
10 9 (5.143%) VB
10 9 (5.143%) C
11 6 (3.429%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.429%) Perl
12 3 (1.714%) PHP5
12 3 (1.714%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.714%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.714%) Tcl
13 2 (1.143%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 29 (16.57%) Degree
2 4 (2.286%) HND
3 1 (0.571%) MCTS
3 1 (0.571%) MCP
3 1 (0.571%) MCAD
3 1 (0.571%) MCSD
3 1 (0.571%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (1.714%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 41 (23.43%) Oracle
2 36 (20.57%) Adobe
3 23 (13.14%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.714%) Macromedia
5 9 (5.143%) Zend
6 7 (4.000%) QNX
7 4 (2.286%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.571%) Sencha
8 1 (0.571%) Perforce
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