Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for AJAX skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited AJAX over the 3 months to 11 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 North West region.

 Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
Location
3 months to
11 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank302173
Rank change year-on-year
Down-9Up+52
Matching permanent IT job ads289453314
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West5.468 %7.771 %2.532 %
As % of the Application Development category13.31 %17.73 %7.840 %
Salaries quoted263400264
Average salary£32,500£30,000£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£22,500£24,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£39,850£45,000£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,000£32,500£32,000
% change year-on-year
+1.530 %+1.560 %
North West IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
217125554005
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West41.08 %43.83 %32.30 %
Salaries quoted195622533416
Average salary£32,500£30,000£32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-6.250 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,000£22,500£23,368
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£43,500£50,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
AJAX EnglandAJAX
England

AJAX
Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West AJAX Salary Trend

AJAX
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing AJAX across the North West region over the 3 months to 11 March 2010.

North West AJAX Salary Histogram

AJAX
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AJAX within the North West region over the 3 months to 11 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
ManchesterDown-7155£34,000+13.33 %
CheshireDown-1086£32,500+18.18 %
LancashireDown-236£27,500-8.33 %
MerseysideDown-68£40,000+33.33 %
CumbriaUp+61£35,000+32.07 %
AJAX EnglandAJAX
England

AJAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 11 March 2010, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1401 (70.35 %)JavaScript
2331 (58.07 %).NET
3313 (54.91 %)CSS
4279 (48.95 %)ASP.NET
5271 (47.54 %)HTML
6249 (43.68 %)C#
7240 (42.11 %)SQL Server
8210 (36.84 %)XML
9178 (31.23 %)PHP
10165 (28.95 %)MySQL
11150 (26.32 %)SQL
11150 (26.32 %)XHTML
12131 (22.98 %)Web Services
13127 (22.28 %)OO
14110 (19.30 %)E-Commerce
1599 (17.37 %)Web Development
1696 (16.84 %)Linux
1696 (16.84 %)VB.NET
1793 (16.32 %)XSLT
1882 (14.39 %)jQuery
1981 (14.21 %)WCF
1981 (14.21 %)Java
2077 (13.51 %)LINQ
2173 (12.81 %)SQL Server 2005
2269 (12.11 %)Flash
2361 (10.70 %)CMS
2460 (10.53 %)PHP5
2559 (10.35 %)N-Tier
2657 (10.00 %)Degree
2755 (9.649 %)Microsoft

AJAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 11 March 2010, IT jobs across the North West 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.

North West IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1331 (58.07 %).NET
2313 (54.91 %)CSS
3279 (48.95 %)ASP.NET
4271 (47.54 %)HTML
5210 (36.84 %)XML
6150 (26.32 %)XHTML
7131 (22.98 %)Web Services
893 (16.32 %)XSLT
982 (14.39 %)jQuery
1081 (14.21 %)WCF
1177 (13.51 %)LINQ
1269 (12.11 %)Flash
1352 (9.123 %)DHTML
1352 (9.123 %)MVC
1451 (8.947 %)J2EE
1547 (8.246 %)ASP
1644 (7.719 %)JSP
1743 (7.544 %)LAMP
1841 (7.193 %).NET Framework
1929 (5.088 %)JMS
North West IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
161 (10.70 %)CMS
246 (8.070 %)Apache
326 (4.561 %)IIS
416 (2.807 %)ColdFusion
515 (2.632 %)SharePoint
69 (1.579 %)Magento
78 (1.404 %)ColdFusion MX
87 (1.228 %)Tomcat
96 (1.053 %)BizTalk Server
96 (1.053 %)JCAPS
96 (1.053 %)Drupal
96 (1.053 %)GlassFish
105 (0.877 %)SharePoint Server 2007
105 (0.877 %)MS Exchange
113 (0.526 %)Lotus Notes
113 (0.526 %)Lotus Domino
121 (0.175 %)EPiServer
121 (0.175 %)WordPress
121 (0.175 %)Jetty
121 (0.175 %)Umbraco
North West IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
136 (6.316 %)Photoshop
229 (5.088 %)Fireworks
314 (2.456 %)MS Excel
47 (1.228 %)Adobe Illustrator
54 (0.702 %)MS Visio
54 (0.702 %)CA Clarity
61 (0.175 %)InfoPath
61 (0.175 %)Adobe After Effects
North West IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (0.877 %)Dynamics CRM
21 (0.175 %)Oracle BPM
21 (0.175 %)GoldMine
North West IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
124 (4.211 %)Internet
213 (2.281 %)Intranet
32 (0.351 %)Extranet
32 (0.351 %)HTTPS
32 (0.351 %)HTTP
41 (0.175 %)SMPP
41 (0.175 %)Firewall
North West IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1240 (42.11 %)SQL Server
2165 (28.95 %)MySQL
373 (12.81 %)SQL Server 2005
426 (4.561 %)SQL Server 2008
520 (3.509 %)PostgreSQL
619 (3.333 %)SQL Server 2000
79 (1.579 %)SQL Server Integration Services
79 (1.579 %)RDBMS
87 (1.228 %)DB2
96 (1.053 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
96 (1.053 %)Crystal Reports
103 (0.526 %)MS Access
103 (0.526 %)Oracle 10g
103 (0.526 %)Firebird
103 (0.526 %)InterBase
111 (0.175 %)Oracle 11g
111 (0.175 %)Oracle Reports
111 (0.175 %)Datawarehouse
111 (0.175 %)GIS
North West IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
144 (7.719 %)Visual Studio
228 (4.912 %)JUnit
323 (4.035 %)Subversion
410 (1.754 %)NUnit
410 (1.754 %)Ant
59 (1.579 %)VSS/SourceSafe
59 (1.579 %)Dreamweaver
68 (1.404 %)Flex Builder
77 (1.228 %)Maven
83 (0.526 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
83 (0.526 %)CruiseControl
92 (0.351 %)InstallShield
92 (0.351 %)Eclipse
92 (0.351 %)FrontPage
92 (0.351 %)Selenium
92 (0.351 %)JIRA
92 (0.351 %)Team Foundation Server
101 (0.175 %)NCover
101 (0.175 %)NDepend
101 (0.175 %)WatiN
North West IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
149 (8.596 %)Marketing
236 (6.316 %)Finance
335 (6.140 %)Retail
432 (5.614 %)Pensions
531 (5.439 %)Graphic Design
617 (2.982 %)Health
711 (1.930 %)Education
88 (1.404 %)Government
95 (0.877 %)Legal
104 (0.702 %)Games
113 (0.526 %)Online Games
113 (0.526 %)Interactive Media
113 (0.526 %)Telecoms
113 (0.526 %)Publishing
122 (0.351 %)Banking
122 (0.351 %)Multimedia
122 (0.351 %)Local Government
122 (0.351 %)Insurance
122 (0.351 %)Manufacturing
122 (0.351 %)Advertising
North West IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1490 (85.96 %)Developer
2231 (40.53 %)Web Developer
3178 (31.23 %).NET Developer
4134 (23.51 %)PHP Developer
5123 (21.58 %)C# Developer
688 (15.44 %).NET Web Developer
786 (15.09 %)ASP.NET Developer
877 (13.51 %)C# Web Developer
967 (11.75 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1057 (10.00 %)Senior Developer
1146 (8.070 %)PHP Web Developer
1235 (6.140 %)Java Developer
1330 (5.263 %)VB.NET Developer
1423 (4.035 %)Senior Web Developer
1423 (4.035 %)Software Developer
1522 (3.860 %)Software Engineer
1621 (3.684 %)J2EE Software Engineer
1720 (3.509 %)VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
1720 (3.509 %)MySQL Developer
1720 (3.509 %)SQL Developer
North West IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
159 (10.35 %)N-Tier
222 (3.860 %)W3C
314 (2.456 %)Open Source
410 (1.754 %)E-Learning
59 (1.579 %)iPhone
59 (1.579 %)Computer Science
68 (1.404 %)RIA
68 (1.404 %)Multithreading
77 (1.228 %)Web 2.0
85 (0.877 %)Mainframe
85 (0.877 %)Client/Server
92 (0.351 %)AS400
92 (0.351 %)Google App Engine
101 (0.175 %)DataPower
101 (0.175 %)Mathematics
101 (0.175 %)Blackberry
101 (0.175 %)Interactive TV
North West IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
196 (16.84 %)Linux
244 (7.719 %)Windows
341 (7.193 %)UNIX
410 (1.754 %)Windows Server 2008
57 (1.228 %)Windows Server 2003
63 (0.526 %)Android
71 (0.175 %)Windows Mobile
71 (0.175 %)Ubuntu
71 (0.175 %)Debian
North West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1127 (22.28 %)OO
2110 (19.30 %)E-Commerce
399 (17.37 %)Web Development
452 (9.123 %)CRM
549 (8.596 %)UML
638 (6.667 %)OOA/OOD
735 (6.140 %)Unit Testing
830 (5.263 %)Project Management
923 (4.035 %)Systems Analysis
1020 (3.509 %)SEO
1119 (3.333 %)Agile Software Development
1217 (2.982 %)Continuous Integration
1217 (2.982 %)Web Design
1312 (2.105 %)Email Marketing
1411 (1.930 %)Content Management
1510 (1.754 %)Migration
167 (1.228 %)PRINCE2
167 (1.228 %)SOA
167 (1.228 %)Scrum
176 (1.053 %)TDD
North West IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1401 (70.35 %)JavaScript
2249 (43.68 %)C#
3178 (31.23 %)PHP
4150 (26.32 %)SQL
596 (16.84 %)VB.NET
681 (14.21 %)Java
760 (10.53 %)PHP5
845 (7.895 %)T-SQL
934 (5.965 %)PHP4
1032 (5.614 %)ActionScript
1125 (4.386 %)Perl
1221 (3.684 %)C
1320 (3.509 %)VB
1414 (2.456 %)Ruby
159 (1.579 %)ActionScript 3.0
166 (1.053 %)Python
174 (0.702 %)C++
174 (0.702 %)VBScript
183 (0.526 %)PL/SQL
183 (0.526 %)VBA
North West IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
157 (10.00 %)Degree
25 (0.877 %)PRINCE2 Certification
34 (0.702 %)Microsoft Certification
42 (0.351 %)MCAD
42 (0.351 %)MCSD
42 (0.351 %)MCTS
North West IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (1.053 %)WAI
24 (0.702 %)QA
North West IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.175 %)NFS
11 (0.175 %)Active Directory
North West IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.175 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
North West IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
155 (9.649 %)Microsoft
221 (3.684 %)Oracle
221 (3.684 %)Sybase
316 (2.807 %)Adobe
410 (1.754 %)Interwoven
58 (1.404 %)JBoss
65 (0.877 %)Intel
73 (0.526 %)Google
73 (0.526 %)Lotus
73 (0.526 %)ATG
82 (0.351 %)Sony
82 (0.351 %)Zend
91 (0.175 %)SAP
91 (0.175 %)IBM
91 (0.175 %)Avaya
91 (0.175 %)telerik