The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Ajax skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ajax over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 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.

Ajax
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank464639
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Down-7
Matching permanent IT job ads585055254481
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.827 %4.528 %4.706 %
As % of the Application Development category11.54 %11.29 %12.34 %
Number of salaries quoted527350403988
Average salary£37,500£37,500£37,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£55,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
507084893836309
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.84 %40.11 %38.13 %
Number of salaries quoted450904320731294
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Ajax
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Ajax within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Ajax Demand Trend

Ajax
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ajax within the UK.

Ajax Salary Trend

Ajax
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ajax over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Ajax Salary Histogram

Ajax
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. 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
EnglandUp+15630£38,500+2.66 %
LondonUp+22564£45,000+5.88 %
South EastDown-181084£37,500+7.14 %
City of LondonUp+12495£45,000-
North WestUp+4485£32,000+1.58 %
East of EnglandUp+3451£37,500+7.14 %
YorkshireUp+19360£32,500+0.77 %
SurreyDown-7261£45,000+20.00 %
South WestUp+2238£31,500-3.81 %
East MidlandsUp+22223£32,500-
BerkshireDown-32215£40,000+14.28 %
West MidlandsUp+5214£35,000+7.69 %
HampshireDown-7206£35,000-
West YorkshireUp+17200£32,500+4.83 %
ManchesterDown-1198£32,000+6.66 %
CheshireNo change0166£32,500-1.51 %
LeedsUp+7155£32,500+4.83 %
EssexUp+31138£37,500+3.44 %
CambridgeshireDown-27106£37,500+7.14 %
HertfordshireUp+29104£40,000-
BuckinghamshireDown-9102£37,500+7.14 %
North YorkshireUp+2797£30,000-18.91 %
LeicestershireUp+995£32,500+8.33 %
OxfordshireDown-790£35,000+2.94 %
CambridgeDown-1986£37,500+7.14 %
ScotlandDown-3785£34,500-1.42 %
West SussexUp+1080£31,500-13.69 %
East SussexDown-1578£32,500-7.14 %
YorkUp+1877£30,000-20.52 %
ReadingDown-2675£42,500+21.42 %

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

18789 (77.72 %)JavaScript
27672 (67.84 %)CSS
36626 (58.59 %)HTML
45955 (52.66 %).NET
55003 (44.24 %)jQuery
64981 (44.04 %)C#
74936 (43.65 %)ASP.NET
84429 (39.16 %)XML
94262 (37.69 %)SQL Server
103912 (34.59 %)SQL
112898 (25.63 %)MVC
122893 (25.58 %)Web Services
132872 (25.40 %)Java
142470 (21.84 %)OO
152423 (21.43 %)PHP
162227 (19.69 %)XHTML
171963 (17.36 %)MySQL
181944 (17.19 %)Web Development
191836 (16.23 %)Agile Software Development
201833 (16.21 %)TDD
211813 (16.03 %)HTML5
221761 (15.57 %)Degree
231714 (15.16 %)Subversion
241652 (14.61 %)Finance
251596 (14.11 %)Microsoft
261507 (13.33 %)E-Commerce
271497 (13.24 %)VB.NET
281491 (13.18 %)SQL Server 2008
291454 (12.86 %)Linux
301426 (12.61 %)WCF

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
17672 (67.84 %)CSS
26626 (58.59 %)HTML
35955 (52.66 %).NET
45003 (44.24 %)jQuery
54936 (43.65 %)ASP.NET
64429 (39.16 %)XML
72893 (25.58 %)Web Services
82227 (19.69 %)XHTML
91813 (16.03 %)HTML5
101426 (12.61 %)WCF
111333 (11.79 %)XSLT
121324 (11.71 %)Spring
131173 (10.37 %)ASP.NET MVC
141163 (10.28 %)JSON
151126 (9.957 %)J2EE
161106 (9.780 %)Hibernate
171060 (9.373 %)JSP
18974 (8.613 %)CSS3
19935 (8.268 %).NET Framework
20868 (7.675 %)LINQ
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11074 (9.497 %)CMS
21071 (9.470 %)Apache
3741 (6.552 %)IIS
4696 (6.154 %)SharePoint
5638 (5.642 %)Tomcat
6267 (2.361 %)Drupal
7266 (2.352 %)WebLogic
8264 (2.334 %)WordPress
9259 (2.290 %)Umbraco
10226 (1.998 %)SharePoint Server
11204 (1.804 %)SharePoint 2010
12141 (1.247 %)ActiveMQ
13131 (1.158 %)WebSphere Application Server
14112 (0.990 %)Joomla!
15100 (0.884 %)Magento
1690 (0.796 %)BizTalk Server
1789 (0.787 %)Jetty
1886 (0.760 %)GlassFish
1974 (0.654 %)DotNetNuke
2068 (0.601 %)Amazon EC2
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1704 (6.225 %)Photoshop
2566 (5.005 %)MS Excel
3196 (1.733 %)MS Visio
4171 (1.512 %)Adobe Illustrator
5122 (1.079 %)Fireworks
6109 (0.964 %)MS Office
749 (0.433 %)InfoPath
835 (0.309 %)Google Apps
931 (0.274 %)Mingle
1018 (0.159 %)InDesign
1114 (0.124 %)OmniGraffle
1211 (0.097 %)MS PowerPoint
1310 (0.088 %)MS Project
149 (0.080 %)MATLAB
149 (0.080 %)SketchUp
158 (0.071 %)Adobe After Effects
167 (0.062 %)Adobe Premiere
167 (0.062 %)GIMP
176 (0.053 %)Paint Shop Pro
184 (0.035 %)Office 365
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
151 (0.451 %)Google Analytics
247 (0.416 %)Dynamics CRM
325 (0.221 %)Oracle BPM
421 (0.186 %)WebTrends
515 (0.133 %)Tridion
613 (0.115 %)Oracle CRM
78 (0.071 %)BusinessWorks
87 (0.062 %)Movex
95 (0.044 %)Oracle Financials
95 (0.044 %)SiteCatalyst
104 (0.035 %)Summit
113 (0.027 %)Dynamics AX
113 (0.027 %)Oracle EBS
113 (0.027 %)Apache OFBiz
122 (0.018 %)Oracle Applications
122 (0.018 %)Line 50
122 (0.018 %)Dynamics NAV
131 (0.009 %)Pivotal CRM
131 (0.009 %)GoldMine
131 (0.009 %)Oracle 11i
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1827 (7.313 %)Internet
2378 (3.342 %)HTTP
3254 (2.246 %)Intranet
4113 (0.999 %)DNS
592 (0.814 %)SSL
669 (0.610 %)TCP/IP
763 (0.557 %)Extranet
858 (0.513 %)Firewall
952 (0.460 %)FTP
1051 (0.451 %)AMQP
1136 (0.318 %)SMTP
1235 (0.309 %)Broadband
1329 (0.256 %)LDAP
1427 (0.239 %)SSH
1524 (0.212 %)HTTPS
1621 (0.186 %)RTP
1718 (0.159 %)ICMP
1718 (0.159 %)SMS
1817 (0.150 %)Kerberos
1912 (0.106 %)IMAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14262 (37.69 %)SQL Server
21963 (17.36 %)MySQL
31491 (13.18 %)SQL Server 2008
41035 (9.152 %)SQL Server 2005
5371 (3.281 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6298 (2.635 %)SQL Server Integration Services
7248 (2.193 %)RDBMS
8150 (1.326 %)PostgreSQL
9144 (1.273 %)SQL Server 2000
10113 (0.999 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1188 (0.778 %)DB2
1287 (0.769 %)Hadoop
1382 (0.725 %)MongoDB
1475 (0.663 %)GIS
1571 (0.628 %)ETL
1669 (0.610 %)Data Warehouse
1765 (0.575 %)Oracle 8/8i
1852 (0.460 %)Crystal Reports
1945 (0.398 %)Data Mining
1945 (0.398 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11714 (15.16 %)Subversion
21325 (11.72 %)Visual Studio
3560 (4.952 %)NUnit
4533 (4.713 %)JUnit
5468 (4.138 %)Git (software)
6464 (4.103 %)Ant
7444 (3.926 %)Team Foundation Server
8442 (3.908 %)Eclipse
9441 (3.900 %)Maven
10340 (3.006 %)Rhino Mocks
11278 (2.458 %)Selenium
12176 (1.556 %)VSS/SourceSafe
13163 (1.441 %)JIRA
14141 (1.247 %)Mercurial
15137 (1.211 %)TeamCity
16119 (1.052 %)MSBuild
17104 (0.920 %)Cucumber
1897 (0.858 %)Dreamweaver
1993 (0.822 %)Bugzilla
2090 (0.796 %)Hudson
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11652 (14.61 %)Finance
2552 (4.881 %)Marketing
3517 (4.572 %)Retail
4439 (3.882 %)Games
5280 (2.476 %)Banking
6189 (1.671 %)Advertising
7187 (1.654 %)Publishing
8169 (1.494 %)Telecoms
9124 (1.096 %)Music
10119 (1.052 %)Back Office
11103 (0.911 %)Investment Banking
1283 (0.734 %)Automotive
1373 (0.646 %)Multimedia
1469 (0.610 %)Law
1564 (0.566 %)Manufacturing
1657 (0.504 %)Front Office
1747 (0.416 %)Music Industry
1837 (0.327 %)Financial Institution
1929 (0.256 %)Electronics
2028 (0.248 %)Legal
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
19626 (85.12 %)Developer
22941 (26.01 %).NET Developer
32522 (22.30 %)Web Developer
41530 (13.53 %)C# Developer
51456 (12.87 %)Senior Developer
61427 (12.62 %)ASP.NET Developer
71310 (11.58 %)C# .NET Developer
81222 (10.81 %)PHP Developer
91207 (10.67 %)Java Developer
10995 (8.798 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
11739 (6.535 %)Front-End Developer
12654 (5.783 %)Software Developer
13520 (4.598 %).NET Web Developer
14403 (3.564 %)Senior .NET Developer
15402 (3.555 %)Applications Developer
16357 (3.157 %)Architect
17349 (3.086 %)Java/J2EE Developer
18330 (2.918 %)Programmer
19325 (2.874 %)Senior Web Developer
20322 (2.847 %)JavaScript Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1832 (7.357 %)Computer Science
2660 (5.836 %)Open Source
3534 (4.722 %)W3C
4408 (3.608 %)iPhone
5375 (3.316 %)Social Media
6319 (2.821 %)SaaS
7310 (2.741 %)Web 2.0
8288 (2.547 %)N-Tier
9235 (2.078 %)Digital Media
10226 (1.998 %)Blackberry
11190 (1.680 %)iPad
12188 (1.662 %)Social Network
13164 (1.450 %)RIA
14146 (1.291 %)Mathematics
15133 (1.176 %)Client/Server
16132 (1.167 %)Online Games
17121 (1.070 %)Inversion of Control
18108 (0.955 %)Visualisation
19104 (0.920 %)Graphic Design
2083 (0.734 %)Management Information System
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11454 (12.86 %)Linux
21250 (11.05 %)Windows
3584 (5.164 %)Android
4574 (5.076 %)UNIX
5330 (2.918 %)Apple iOS
6150 (1.326 %)Windows Mobile
7101 (0.893 %)Windows Server 2003
885 (0.752 %)Windows Server 2008
885 (0.752 %)Solaris
935 (0.309 %)Windows XP
1029 (0.256 %)Debian
1029 (0.256 %)Mac OS X
1128 (0.248 %)BlackBerry OS
1128 (0.248 %)Windows 7
1223 (0.203 %)CentOS
1223 (0.203 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1320 (0.177 %)Windows Phone 7
1419 (0.168 %)Ubuntu
1517 (0.150 %)Windows Vista
1615 (0.133 %)HPUX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12898 (25.63 %)MVC
22470 (21.84 %)OO
31944 (17.19 %)Web Development
41836 (16.23 %)Agile Software Development
51833 (16.21 %)TDD
61507 (13.33 %)E-Commerce
71426 (12.61 %)Scrum
8997 (8.816 %)OOP
9795 (7.030 %)Unit Testing
10785 (6.941 %)Web Application Development
11749 (6.623 %)UML
12577 (5.102 %)SEO
13522 (4.616 %)Content Management
14485 (4.289 %)Continuous Integration
15464 (4.103 %)SOA
16360 (3.183 %)Project Management
17321 (2.838 %)Software Engineering
18319 (2.821 %)Multithreading
19312 (2.759 %)CRM
20298 (2.635 %)BDD
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18789 (77.72 %)JavaScript
24981 (44.04 %)C#
33912 (34.59 %)SQL
42872 (25.40 %)Java
52423 (21.43 %)PHP
61497 (13.24 %)VB.NET
7851 (7.525 %)T-SQL
8634 (5.606 %)PHP5
9548 (4.846 %)VB
10510 (4.510 %)C++
11439 (3.882 %)Perl
12384 (3.396 %)Ruby
13355 (3.139 %)ActionScript
14335 (2.962 %)Python
15270 (2.387 %)C
16268 (2.370 %)XPath
17225 (1.990 %)PL/SQL
18171 (1.512 %)ActionScript 3.0
19131 (1.158 %)Objective-C
20130 (1.150 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11761 (15.57 %)Degree
2542 (4.793 %)Microsoft Certification
3408 (3.608 %)MCP
4406 (3.590 %)MCTS
5385 (3.404 %)MCSD
6381 (3.369 %)MCAD
784 (0.743 %)Security Cleared
855 (0.486 %)SC Cleared
934 (0.301 %)Postgraduate
1031 (0.274 %)ITIL Certification
1120 (0.177 %)HND
1120 (0.177 %)Sun Certification
1219 (0.168 %)MCPD
1219 (0.168 %)PhD
1312 (0.106 %)ISEB
1312 (0.106 %)CISSP
1312 (0.106 %)PMI Certification
1410 (0.088 %)MCITP
158 (0.071 %)NVQ Level 3
167 (0.062 %)SCJP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1515 (4.554 %)QA
281 (0.716 %)WCAG
359 (0.522 %)ISO 9001
454 (0.477 %)SLA
549 (0.433 %)WAI
620 (0.177 %)PCI DSS
77 (0.062 %)COBIT
84 (0.035 %)ISO/IEC 27001
91 (0.009 %)ISO 8583
91 (0.009 %)HL7
91 (0.009 %)Dublin Core
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
162 (0.548 %)Active Directory
232 (0.283 %)VMware Infrastructure
321 (0.186 %)Varnish
412 (0.106 %)UAG
55 (0.044 %)Terminal Server
64 (0.035 %)Dovecot
64 (0.035 %)Samba
64 (0.035 %)Xen
73 (0.027 %)NFS
73 (0.027 %)OpenSSO
82 (0.018 %)Hyper-V
82 (0.018 %)vCloud
91 (0.009 %)VMware ESX
91 (0.009 %)ISA Server
91 (0.009 %)Novell eDirectory
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
125 (0.221 %)Puppet
211 (0.097 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
39 (0.080 %)MOM
46 (0.053 %)Backup Exec
52 (0.018 %)Plesk
52 (0.018 %)SCCM
52 (0.018 %)SCOM
52 (0.018 %)Nagios
61 (0.009 %)BMC PATROL
61 (0.009 %)Oracle Identity Management
61 (0.009 %)Data Guard
61 (0.009 %)OSSEC
61 (0.009 %)HP Quality Center
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11596 (14.11 %)Microsoft
21208 (10.68 %)Oracle
3524 (4.633 %)Zend
4478 (4.227 %)JBoss
5344 (3.042 %)Google
6340 (3.006 %)Adobe
7261 (2.308 %)Facebook
8161 (1.424 %)IBM
9137 (1.211 %)Symbian
10133 (1.176 %)Twitter
11103 (0.911 %)ATG
1288 (0.778 %)Salesforce.com
1380 (0.707 %)Telerik
1469 (0.610 %)Sybase
1568 (0.601 %)BroadVision
1666 (0.584 %)Sitecore
1666 (0.584 %)Ektron
1764 (0.566 %)Red Hat
1863 (0.557 %)Demandware
1962 (0.548 %)SAP