Ajax Contracts in the North West

Ajax
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Ajax skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ajax over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 122 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Ajax 9 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.082% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.97% 0.51% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £402 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% - -
75th Percentile £475 £494 -
90th Percentile £490 - -
England median daily rate £361 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -27.20% -0.75% -8.68%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

Ajax falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 458 391 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.74% 16.04% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 269 452
10th Percentile £313 £350 £363
25th Percentile £371 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £495 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% -4.90% -0.95%
75th Percentile £527 £610 £619
90th Percentile £621 £825 £673
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 22
10th Percentile £27.20 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £29.00 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £56.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -9.88% +22.54% -34.03%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.81 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £73.00 £64.88
England median hourly rate £54.70 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.48% - +4.17%

Ajax
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Ajax as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Ajax in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Ajax.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Ajax

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ajax in the North West over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ajax in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Ajax.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Ajax

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ajax within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire -13 6 £410 -
Merseyside - 2 £475 -
Manchester -2 1 £550 +12.82%
Ajax
England

Ajax
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) JBoss
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) npm
2 2 (22.22%) Figma
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Cypress.io
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) Grunt
1 4 (44.44%) gulp
1 4 (44.44%) SonarQube
2 2 (22.22%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (22.22%) IntelliJ
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) JUnit
2 2 (22.22%) UI Automator
3 1 (11.11%) Ant
3 1 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
3 1 (11.11%) HP UFT
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) NetBeans
3 1 (11.11%) NUnit
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) UI Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Developer
3 2 (22.22%) UI/UX Developer
3 2 (22.22%) UX Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) HTML
2 8 (88.89%) CSS
3 6 (66.67%) HTML5
3 6 (66.67%) JSON
3 6 (66.67%) React
4 5 (55.56%) CSS3
4 5 (55.56%) jQuery
4 5 (55.56%) Node.js
4 5 (55.56%) REST
5 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
5 4 (44.44%) Enzyme
5 4 (44.44%) Jest
5 4 (44.44%) LESS
5 4 (44.44%) Nightwatchjs
5 4 (44.44%) Redux
5 4 (44.44%) Sass
6 3 (33.33%) Hibernate
6 3 (33.33%) Web Services
6 3 (33.33%) XHR
6 3 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Front End Development
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) MVC
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
5 1 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
5 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
5 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (22.22%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Perforce
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft