Ajax Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ajax
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 395 446
Rank change year-on-year +85 +51 +24
Contract jobs citing Ajax 26 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.019% 0.066%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 0.12% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 9
10th Percentile £358 £302 £410
25th Percentile £385 £323 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £369 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -26.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £525 £411 £575
90th Percentile £656 £431 £580
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -20.00% -2.44% -10.87%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Ajax
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ajax as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ajax in the UK excluding London

Ajax
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ajax in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ajax in the UK excluding London

Ajax
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ajax in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ajax in the UK excluding London

Ajax
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ajax in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ajax in the UK excluding London

Ajax
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ajax within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +55 10 £500 +14.29% 5
Midlands +25 5 £347 +15.50% 1
North of England +23 5 £380 - 8
South West - 4 - - 5
East Midlands +12 3 £347 +15.50% 1
North West - 3 £380 - 3
West Midlands +15 2 - -
Yorkshire +9 2 - - 5
Scotland - 2 £513 - 3
Ajax
UK

Ajax
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (26.92%) Confluence
2 6 (23.08%) Apache
3 5 (19.23%) CMS
4 4 (15.38%) Drupal
4 4 (15.38%) WordPress
5 2 (7.69%) Apache Solr
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
5 2 (7.69%) WebLogic
6 1 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (3.85%) IIS
6 1 (3.85%) JBoss
6 1 (3.85%) nginx
6 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) SaaS
2 1 (3.85%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) HTTP
1 4 (15.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) MySQL
1 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
1 7 (26.92%) JIRA
2 5 (19.23%) Maven
2 5 (19.23%) Selenium
3 4 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (11.54%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (11.54%) Gradle
4 3 (11.54%) HP UFT
4 3 (11.54%) IntelliJ
4 3 (11.54%) JUnit
4 3 (11.54%) NetBeans
4 3 (11.54%) Subversion
5 2 (7.69%) GitLab
5 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.85%) Grunt
6 1 (3.85%) gulp
6 1 (3.85%) Hudson
6 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Billing
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) PHP Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Development Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.85%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (84.62%) CSS
1 22 (84.62%) HTML
2 20 (76.92%) Web Services
3 16 (61.54%) AngularJS
4 13 (50.00%) SOAP
5 11 (42.31%) REST
6 9 (34.62%) jQuery
7 7 (26.92%) HTML5
8 6 (23.08%) Node.js
8 6 (23.08%) XML
9 4 (15.38%) CodeIgniter
9 4 (15.38%) CSS3
9 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
9 4 (15.38%) LAMP
9 4 (15.38%) LDAP
9 4 (15.38%) Spring
9 4 (15.38%) Spring MVC
10 3 (11.54%) JAX-WS
10 3 (11.54%) JSON
10 3 (11.54%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) CMDB
1 4 (15.38%) Legacy Code
2 3 (11.54%) Data Structures
2 3 (11.54%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Agile
2 16 (61.54%) Scrum
3 8 (30.77%) ITIL
3 8 (30.77%) ITSM
3 8 (30.77%) MVC
3 8 (30.77%) Service Management
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 5 (19.23%) Front End Development
5 5 (19.23%) OO
5 5 (19.23%) OOP
5 5 (19.23%) TDD
6 4 (15.38%) Change Management
6 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 4 (15.38%) Incident Management
6 4 (15.38%) Kanban
6 4 (15.38%) Operations Management
6 4 (15.38%) Problem Management
6 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) JavaScript
2 11 (42.31%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) PHP
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.69%) XPath
6 1 (3.85%) Python
6 1 (3.85%) VB
6 1 (3.85%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (11.54%) Progress Chef
2 3 (11.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) ServiceNow
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Zend
3 3 (11.54%) Adobe
3 3 (11.54%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (7.69%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) Perforce
5 1 (3.85%) Snow