Ajax
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Ajax skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ajax over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 649 649
Rank change year-on-year +90 0 -127
Contract jobs citing Ajax 32 69 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.36% 0.50% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 48 149
10th Percentile £279 £363 £369
25th Percentile £427 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -10.87% +21.05%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile £586 £633 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £469
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £65.00
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £76.00
90th Percentile - - £76.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Ajax is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

Ajax
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ajax as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ajax in the UK

Ajax
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ajax.

Daily rate trend for Ajax in the UK

Ajax
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ajax over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ajax in the UK

Ajax
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ajax.

Hourly rate trend for Ajax in the UK

Ajax
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
England +76 25 £494 -8.14% 32
Work from Home +122 21 £450 -9.55% 7
London +78 20 £500 -9.09% 15
UK excluding London +55 5 £438 -12.50% 16
North of England +26 2 £488 -1.76% 3
Midlands +26 2 £300 -41.46% 5
South East +21 1 £438 -20.45% 2
West Midlands +21 1 - - 4
North West +18 1 £488 -1.76% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £300 - 1

Ajax
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub
3 2 (6.25%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.13%) Figma
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) HTTP
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 6 (18.75%) Relational Database
3 4 (12.50%) MySQL
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.13%) Adabas
5 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 1 (3.13%) NUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Retail Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (78.13%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) JavaScript Developer
3 5 (15.63%) .NET Developer
3 5 (15.63%) E-Commerce Developer
3 5 (15.63%) React Developer
3 5 (15.63%) ServiceNow Developer
4 4 (12.50%) PHP Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.25%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Optimisation Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.13%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Designer
7 1 (3.13%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (81.25%) HTML
2 25 (78.13%) CSS
3 14 (43.75%) Web Services
4 10 (31.25%) AngularJS
5 9 (28.13%) React
5 9 (28.13%) XML
6 8 (25.00%) Node.js
6 8 (25.00%) REST
7 7 (21.88%) CSS3
7 7 (21.88%) HTML5
7 7 (21.88%) jQuery
7 7 (21.88%) JSON
8 6 (18.75%) .NET
8 6 (18.75%) RESTful
9 5 (15.63%) .NET Framework
9 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET
9 5 (15.63%) GraphQL
9 5 (15.63%) React Native
10 4 (12.50%) SOAP
10 4 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) CMDB
2 5 (15.63%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.25%) Derivative
3 2 (6.25%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Android
1 5 (15.63%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Web Development
2 10 (31.25%) Agile
3 7 (21.88%) ITSM
3 7 (21.88%) User Experience
3 7 (21.88%) UX Design
4 5 (15.63%) Android Development
4 5 (15.63%) DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) E-Commerce
4 5 (15.63%) Front End Development
4 5 (15.63%) iOS Development
5 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.50%) Scrum
6 3 (9.38%) Clean Code
6 3 (9.38%) Code Quality
6 3 (9.38%) Design Patterns
6 3 (9.38%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (9.38%) Incident Response
6 3 (9.38%) Security Operations
6 3 (9.38%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 27 (84.38%) JavaScript
2 8 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) PHP
4 3 (9.38%) C#
5 2 (6.25%) Perl
6 1 (3.13%) Natural
6 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle
3 3 (9.38%) Google
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) Adobe
4 2 (6.25%) Maxymiser
4 2 (6.25%) Optimizely
5 1 (3.13%) BMC
5 1 (3.13%) HP
5 1 (3.13%) Ivanti
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.13%) Software AG