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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 367 404
Rank change year-on-year +17 +37 +62
Contract jobs citing Ajax 24 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.049% 0.082%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 0.29% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 1 11
10th Percentile - - £248
25th Percentile £204 £481 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +21.88% -13.51%
75th Percentile £491 £494 £519
90th Percentile £505 - £550
UK median daily rate £400 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -17.95% -2.50% -9.09%

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 2,812 3,079 3,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.20% 16.91% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,871 1,993 2,781
10th Percentile £313 £325 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 208 104
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.78 £37.61
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.25 £58.91 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% +0.54% -2.35%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.13 £75.85
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +9.75% -16.67% -

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

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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 16 August 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

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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 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +31 12 £208 - 11
North of England -10 9 £464 -4.77% 12
North West +1 8 £464 -4.77% 5
Scotland - 3 £475 - 4
Midlands -7 2 - - 4
West Midlands -3 1 - - 4
Yorkshire -14 1 - - 7
East Midlands - 1 - -
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 3 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 2 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (4.17%) IIS
3 1 (4.17%) JBoss
3 1 (4.17%) nginx
3 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) SaaS
2 6 (25.00%) Sauce Labs
3 3 (12.50%) npm
4 2 (8.33%) Figma
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Wireless
2 5 (20.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) MySQL
2 6 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Browser DevTools
1 8 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 6 (25.00%) Android Studio
2 6 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (25.00%) Xcode
3 3 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 3 (12.50%) Gradle
3 3 (12.50%) Grunt
3 3 (12.50%) gulp
3 3 (12.50%) IntelliJ
3 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.50%) JUnit
3 3 (12.50%) Maven
3 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.33%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (8.33%) HP UFT
4 2 (8.33%) JIRA
4 2 (8.33%) NetBeans
4 2 (8.33%) Selenium
4 2 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Billing
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 6 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 6 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) UX Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.67%) UI Developer
4 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (8.33%) UI/UX Developer
5 2 (8.33%) UX Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Architect
6 1 (4.17%) HTML Developer
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (95.83%) CSS
2 18 (75.00%) HTML
3 15 (62.50%) AngularJS
4 12 (50.00%) React
5 8 (33.33%) REST
6 7 (29.17%) HTML5
6 7 (29.17%) Web Services
7 6 (25.00%) GraphQL
7 6 (25.00%) jQuery
7 6 (25.00%) JSON
7 6 (25.00%) Node.js
7 6 (25.00%) XML
8 5 (20.83%) CSS3
8 5 (20.83%) JMS
9 4 (16.67%) .NET
9 4 (16.67%) .NET Core
9 4 (16.67%) Hibernate
9 4 (16.67%) Middleware
9 4 (16.67%) SOAP
9 4 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (12.50%) CMDB
3 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Windows
3 6 (25.00%) Android
3 6 (25.00%) Unix
4 3 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 8 (33.33%) OO
2 8 (33.33%) User Experience
3 6 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 5 (20.83%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) API Development
5 4 (16.67%) Open Source
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.67%) Web Development
6 3 (12.50%) Case Management
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
6 3 (12.50%) Microservices
6 3 (12.50%) OWASP
6 3 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (12.50%) Problem Management
6 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 13 (54.17%) Java
3 7 (29.17%) Python
4 6 (25.00%) Perl
5 5 (20.83%) SQL
6 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
7 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.17%) C#
8 1 (4.17%) VB
8 1 (4.17%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.50%) NCSC
3 2 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
1 2 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Oracle
2 9 (37.50%) ServiceNow
3 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
4 6 (25.00%) Splunk
5 3 (12.50%) Perforce
5 3 (12.50%) VMware
6 2 (8.33%) Adobe
6 2 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (4.17%) IBM