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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 47 30 35
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +5
Permanent jobs citing Ajax 1 16 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 0.272% 4.255% 1.544%
As % of the Application Development category 1.250% 10.39% 4.301%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 4
Average salary £52,500 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.04% +9.33%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Application Development
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
80 154 93
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 21.80% 40.96% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 60 114 87
Average salary £37,500 £41,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.53% +22.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £28,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £52,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ajax
Bedfordshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton Ajax Salary Trend

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 (100.00%) jQuery
2 10 (90.91%) JavaScript
3 8 (72.73%) CSS
3 8 (72.73%) MVC
4 7 (63.64%) HTML
4 7 (63.64%) Web Services
4 7 (63.64%) RESTful
5 6 (54.55%) C#
6 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
6 5 (45.45%) .NET
6 5 (45.45%) J2EE
6 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
6 5 (45.45%) Java
6 5 (45.45%) JSON
6 5 (45.45%) B2B
6 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (27.27%) HTML5
8 2 (18.18%) SaaS
8 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
8 2 (18.18%) French Language
8 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
8 2 (18.18%) JSP
8 2 (18.18%) Servlets
8 2 (18.18%) SOAP
8 2 (18.18%) N-Tier
9 1 (9.091%) OO
9 1 (9.091%) SQL

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 (100.00%) jQuery
2 8 (72.73%) CSS
3 7 (63.64%) HTML
3 7 (63.64%) Web Services
3 7 (63.64%) RESTful
4 5 (45.45%) .NET
4 5 (45.45%) J2EE
4 5 (45.45%) JSON
5 3 (27.27%) HTML5
6 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
6 2 (18.18%) JSP
6 2 (18.18%) Servlets
6 2 (18.18%) SOAP
7 1 (9.091%) WCF
7 1 (9.091%) CSS3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (18.18%) French Language
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Software Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Software Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (18.18%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) MVC
2 5 (45.45%) B2B
3 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
5 1 (9.091%) OO
5 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) C#
3 5 (45.45%) Java
4 1 (9.091%) SQL