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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 67 24 31
Rank change year-on-year
-43 +7
Permanent jobs citing Ajax 14 48 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 1.381% 7.477% 6.008%
As % of the Application Development category 3.406% 17.20% 10.98%
Number of salaries quoted 13 38 48
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £27,050
10% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £40,150 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Application Development
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
411 279 437
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 40.53% 43.46% 54.69%
Number of salaries quoted 355 245 423
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ajax
Oxfordshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Ajax Salary Trend

Ajax
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ajax across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxford Ajax Salary Histogram

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 36 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 34 (62.96%) HTML
3 33 (61.11%) CSS
4 31 (57.41%) SQL
5 28 (51.85%) .NET
6 24 (44.44%) PHP
7 23 (42.59%) jQuery
8 21 (38.89%) C#
8 21 (38.89%) SQL Server
8 21 (38.89%) ASP.NET
8 21 (38.89%) OO
9 20 (37.04%) Linux
9 20 (37.04%) Subversion
10 19 (35.19%) LAMP
11 18 (33.33%) Web Development
12 17 (31.48%) MySQL
13 15 (27.78%) Apache
13 15 (27.78%) TDD
14 14 (25.93%) Web Services
14 14 (25.93%) XML
14 14 (25.93%) MVC
15 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
15 12 (22.22%) Windows
15 12 (22.22%) Java
16 11 (20.37%) Python
16 11 (20.37%) SMTP
16 11 (20.37%) DNS
16 11 (20.37%) Nagios
16 11 (20.37%) Spring
16 11 (20.37%) Games

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 34 (62.96%) HTML
2 33 (61.11%) CSS
3 28 (51.85%) .NET
4 23 (42.59%) jQuery
5 21 (38.89%) ASP.NET
6 19 (35.19%) LAMP
7 14 (25.93%) Web Services
7 14 (25.93%) XML
8 11 (20.37%) Spring
8 11 (20.37%) Hibernate
8 11 (20.37%) Java EE
9 9 (16.67%) JSON
10 8 (14.81%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (14.81%) HTML5
11 5 (9.259%) WCF
11 5 (9.259%) .NET Framework
11 5 (9.259%) CSS3
12 4 (7.407%) Smarty
12 4 (7.407%) J2EE
13 3 (5.556%) ADO
Application Platforms
1 15 (27.78%) Apache
2 7 (12.96%) IIS
3 3 (5.556%) MSMQ
4 2 (3.704%) Windows Azure
4 2 (3.704%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.704%) CMS
5 1 (1.852%) SugarCRM
5 1 (1.852%) Drupal
5 1 (1.852%) WordPress
5 1 (1.852%) SilverStripe
Applications
1 5 (9.259%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.556%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (5.556%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.37%) SMTP
1 11 (20.37%) DNS
2 1 (1.852%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 17 (31.48%) MySQL
3 6 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (7.407%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.556%) OLAP
5 3 (5.556%) OLTP
5 3 (5.556%) Pentaho
5 3 (5.556%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.704%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.852%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.852%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 20 (37.04%) Subversion
2 4 (7.407%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.556%) NUnit
4 1 (1.852%) JUnit
General
1 11 (20.37%) Games
2 6 (11.11%) Retail
3 3 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 51 (94.44%) Developer
2 20 (37.04%) Web Developer
3 14 (25.93%) Senior Developer
4 11 (20.37%) Java Developer
4 11 (20.37%) .NET Developer
5 10 (18.52%) PHP Developer
6 9 (16.67%) C# Developer
6 9 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (11.11%) PHP Web Developer
8 5 (9.259%) Software Developer
8 5 (9.259%) .NET Web Developer
8 5 (9.259%) LAMP Developer
9 4 (7.407%) ASP.NET Developer
10 3 (5.556%) Senior Web Developer
10 3 (5.556%) Senior C# Developer
10 3 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (5.556%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 2 (3.704%) Agile C# Developer
11 2 (3.704%) Technical Leader
11 2 (3.704%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Open Source
2 8 (14.81%) Mobile Games
3 3 (5.556%) Web 2.0
3 3 (5.556%) Social Gaming
4 2 (3.704%) Social Media
4 2 (3.704%) Inversion of Control
4 2 (3.704%) Mashup
4 2 (3.704%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.852%) Economics
5 1 (1.852%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.852%) Social Network
5 1 (1.852%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.04%) Linux
2 12 (22.22%) Windows
3 3 (5.556%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.556%) Android
3 3 (5.556%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.89%) OO
2 18 (33.33%) Web Development
3 15 (27.78%) TDD
4 14 (25.93%) MVC
5 11 (20.37%) Capacity Planning
6 10 (18.52%) E-Commerce
7 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (12.96%) Agile Software Development
8 7 (12.96%) Pair Programming
8 7 (12.96%) Supply Chain Management
8 7 (12.96%) BDD
9 6 (11.11%) OOP
10 5 (9.259%) OOD
10 5 (9.259%) Scrum
11 4 (7.407%) Unit Testing
12 3 (5.556%) SEO
12 3 (5.556%) Configuration Management
12 3 (5.556%) Systems Analysis
13 2 (3.704%) Software Architecture
13 2 (3.704%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 36 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 31 (57.41%) SQL
3 24 (44.44%) PHP
4 21 (38.89%) C#
5 12 (22.22%) Java
6 11 (20.37%) Python
7 7 (12.96%) VB.NET
8 6 (11.11%) T-SQL
9 5 (9.259%) VB
10 3 (5.556%) Groovy
11 2 (3.704%) PHP5
11 2 (3.704%) VB6
12 1 (1.852%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (3.704%) Degree
1 2 (3.704%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.556%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.37%) Perforce
3 4 (7.407%) Telerik
4 2 (3.704%) Zend
5 1 (1.852%) Oracle
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Required skills: Expert familiarity with MySQL and PHP. Backend web development experience. Database design and SQL programming. Desirable Skills: Comfortable with asynchronous network programming, server frameworks, fault tolerance...
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Salary: £40,000 per annum , Negotiable
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