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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ajax
Rank 36 41 50
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Ajax 11 22 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 3.819% 6.162% 3.972%
As % of the Application Development category 8.730% 11.34% 7.727%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 5
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Application Development
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
126 194 220
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 43.75% 54.34% 51.40%
Number of salaries quoted 93 121 162
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £61,500 £52,500
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 Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Ajax Salary Trend

Ajax
Salary Histogram

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

Watford Ajax Salary Histogram

Ajax
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 34 (97.14%) JavaScript
2 27 (77.14%) HTML
3 23 (65.71%) CSS
4 21 (60.00%) XML
5 20 (57.14%) Java
6 18 (51.43%) .NET
6 18 (51.43%) SQL Server
7 17 (48.57%) C#
7 17 (48.57%) jQuery
8 15 (42.86%) DHTML
9 14 (40.00%) SQL
10 12 (34.29%) MVC
10 12 (34.29%) ASP.NET
11 11 (31.43%) JSP
11 11 (31.43%) E-Commerce
11 11 (31.43%) Web Development
12 10 (28.57%) B2B
13 8 (22.86%) Content Management
13 8 (22.86%) Visual Studio
14 7 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
14 7 (20.00%) TDD
14 7 (20.00%) Unit Testing
15 6 (17.14%) Retail
15 6 (17.14%) Servlets
15 6 (17.14%) Windows
16 5 (14.29%) EJB
16 5 (14.29%) T-SQL
16 5 (14.29%) J2EE
16 5 (14.29%) C++
16 5 (14.29%) Subversion

Ajax
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 27 (77.14%) HTML
2 23 (65.71%) CSS
3 21 (60.00%) XML
4 18 (51.43%) .NET
5 17 (48.57%) jQuery
6 15 (42.86%) DHTML
7 12 (34.29%) ASP.NET
8 11 (31.43%) JSP
9 6 (17.14%) Servlets
10 5 (14.29%) EJB
10 5 (14.29%) J2EE
11 4 (11.43%) WebSphere
11 4 (11.43%) XSL
11 4 (11.43%) REST
12 3 (8.571%) Web Services
12 3 (8.571%) WPF
12 3 (8.571%) WF
12 3 (8.571%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (8.571%) .NET Framework
12 3 (8.571%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.857%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.571%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (51.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) DB2
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (11.43%) MySQL
3 1 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Visual Studio
2 5 (14.29%) Subversion
3 1 (2.857%) PhoneGap
General
1 6 (17.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (97.14%) Developer
2 14 (40.00%) Web Developer
3 6 (17.14%) C# Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 5 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Graduate
5 3 (8.571%) Graduate Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (8.571%) C# Software Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Graduate C# Developer
5 3 (8.571%) J2EE Developer
5 3 (8.571%) Graduate Software Developer
6 2 (5.714%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Applications Support
7 1 (2.857%) .NET Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 1 (2.857%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Web 2.0
1 4 (11.43%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.571%) Computer Science
2 3 (8.571%) RIA
3 1 (2.857%) iPhone
3 1 (2.857%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
2 1 (2.857%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (2.857%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) MVC
2 11 (31.43%) E-Commerce
2 11 (31.43%) Web Development
3 10 (28.57%) B2B
4 8 (22.86%) Content Management
5 7 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (20.00%) TDD
5 7 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 5 (14.29%) Load Testing
6 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.43%) Time Management
7 4 (11.43%) Web Application Development
8 3 (8.571%) Scrum
9 2 (5.714%) Mobile Application Development
10 1 (2.857%) OO
10 1 (2.857%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 34 (97.14%) JavaScript
2 20 (57.14%) Java
3 17 (48.57%) C#
4 14 (40.00%) SQL
5 5 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 5 (14.29%) C++
6 3 (8.571%) C
6 3 (8.571%) VBScript
6 3 (8.571%) VB.NET
6 3 (8.571%) PHP
7 2 (5.714%) Delphi
8 1 (2.857%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (8.571%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (8.571%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.857%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle
1 4 (11.43%) IBM
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.714%) Demandware
3 1 (2.857%) Sencha