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

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 30 14 29
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +15
Permanent jobs citing Ajax 1 33 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 0.552% 17.10% 7.451%
As % of the Application Development category 1.852% 25.38% 13.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 31 19
Average salary £31,000 £37,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.33% -16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Application Development
Colchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
54 130 139
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 29.83% 67.36% 54.51%
Number of salaries quoted 49 109 130
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,800 £31,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
Ajax
Essex

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Colchester 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 Colchester region.

Colchester Ajax Salary Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester 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 11 (91.67%) HTML
1 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
1 11 (91.67%) .NET
1 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
1 11 (91.67%) CSS
2 8 (66.67%) jQuery
3 7 (58.33%) XML
3 7 (58.33%) VB.NET
3 7 (58.33%) Visual Studio
3 7 (58.33%) MySQL
4 5 (41.67%) SQL
5 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
6 3 (25.00%) WinForms
6 3 (25.00%) C#
6 3 (25.00%) Silverlight
6 3 (25.00%) Web Development
7 1 (8.333%) Degree
7 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
7 1 (8.333%) WPF
7 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (8.333%) Maven
7 1 (8.333%) Logistics
7 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
7 1 (8.333%) GlassFish
7 1 (8.333%) OpenUP
7 1 (8.333%) J2EE
7 1 (8.333%) PL/SQL
7 1 (8.333%) Java
7 1 (8.333%) OOP

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester 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 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
1 11 (91.67%) CSS
1 11 (91.67%) HTML
1 11 (91.67%) .NET
2 8 (66.67%) jQuery
3 7 (58.33%) XML
4 3 (25.00%) WinForms
4 3 (25.00%) Silverlight
5 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
5 1 (8.333%) WPF
5 1 (8.333%) J2EE
5 1 (8.333%) Swing
5 1 (8.333%) JMS
5 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) WebLogic
1 1 (8.333%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) MySQL
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (8.333%) Data Mining
3 1 (8.333%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.333%) Maven
2 1 (8.333%) Ant
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
1 1 (8.333%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Software Developer
3 3 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 3 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (8.333%) OpenUP
3 1 (8.333%) OOP
3 1 (8.333%) OO
3 1 (8.333%) Project Management
3 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (8.333%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 7 (58.33%) VB.NET
3 5 (41.67%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) C#
5 1 (8.333%) Java
5 1 (8.333%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle
1 1 (8.333%) JBoss