The first table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stevenage region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 20 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 Stevenage region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 32 40 30
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -10
Permanent jobs citing Ajax 3 7 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 2.055% 3.415% 2.186%
As % of the Application Development category 12.00% 6.250% 8.511%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 4
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -23.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £25,000 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £37,500 £44,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Application Development
Stevenage
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
25 112 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 17.12% 54.63% 25.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9 110 45
Average salary £35,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.22% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ajax
Hertfordshire

Ajax
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage Ajax Salary Trend

Ajax
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ajax across the Stevenage region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Stevenage Ajax Salary Histogram

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) HTML5
3 5 (71.43%) Mac OS X
3 5 (71.43%) Ruby
3 5 (71.43%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (42.86%) TDD
5 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (42.86%) Scrum
5 3 (42.86%) Selenium
5 3 (42.86%) Internet
5 3 (42.86%) Linux
5 3 (42.86%) UML
5 3 (42.86%) SQL
5 3 (42.86%) HTML
5 3 (42.86%) Web Services
5 3 (42.86%) MySQL
5 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
5 3 (42.86%) CSS3
5 3 (42.86%) jQuery
5 3 (42.86%) Git (software)
6 2 (28.57%) Time Management
6 2 (28.57%) C#
6 2 (28.57%) Information Architecture
6 2 (28.57%) Photoshop
6 2 (28.57%) XML
6 2 (28.57%) Java
6 2 (28.57%) OO
6 2 (28.57%) XHTML

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) HTML5
3 5 (71.43%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (42.86%) HTML
4 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 3 (42.86%) CSS3
4 3 (42.86%) jQuery
5 2 (28.57%) XML
5 2 (28.57%) XHTML
5 2 (28.57%) WCF
6 1 (14.29%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Photoshop
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
1 3 (42.86%) Git (software)
1 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (14.29%) RSpec
General
1 2 (28.57%) Multimedia
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Web Designer
1 3 (42.86%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Team Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Software Development Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Software Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Mac OS X
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (42.86%) TDD
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) UML
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) SEO
3 2 (28.57%) Web Design
3 2 (28.57%) Time Management
3 2 (28.57%) Information Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) Ruby
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA