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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 635 627
Rank change year-on-year +82 -8 -103
Contract jobs citing Ajax 34 71 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.38% 0.53% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 49 145
10th Percentile £281 £341 £373
25th Percentile £428 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -13.79% +19.59%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile £584 £630 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £499 £463
% change year-on-year -12.28% +7.84% +15.63%
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 8,899 13,396 23,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.86% 23.24% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,168 9,771 17,471
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +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 - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 157 240
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.45 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.60
90th Percentile £74.90 £81.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.36% +29.00% +11.11%

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 14 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 14 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 +79 27 £498 -5.24% 28
Work from Home +108 22 £450 -9.55% 35
London +62 21 £500 -9.09% 14
UK excluding London +54 6 £438 -12.28% 13
North of England +26 3 £488 -1.76% 3
Midlands +22 2 £300 -41.46% 6
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
North West +27 1 £488 -1.76% 1
South East +18 1 £438 -7.89% 1
West Midlands +18 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £300 - 2

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 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.88%) Figma
3 2 (5.88%) GitHub
3 2 (5.88%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) HTTP
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.76%) MySQL
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.94%) Adabas
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 1 (2.94%) NUnit
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Retail
4 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (79.41%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) JavaScript Developer
2 6 (17.65%) ServiceNow Developer
3 5 (14.71%) .NET Developer
3 5 (14.71%) E-Commerce Developer
3 5 (14.71%) React Developer
4 4 (11.76%) PHP Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Consultant
5 3 (8.82%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Designer
6 2 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.88%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Optimisation Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Web Designer
6 2 (5.88%) Web Developer
7 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (2.94%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (82.35%) HTML
2 27 (79.41%) CSS
3 15 (44.12%) Web Services
4 11 (32.35%) AngularJS
5 10 (29.41%) XML
6 9 (26.47%) React
7 8 (23.53%) CSS3
7 8 (23.53%) HTML5
7 8 (23.53%) JSON
7 8 (23.53%) Node.js
7 8 (23.53%) REST
8 7 (20.59%) jQuery
9 6 (17.65%) .NET
9 6 (17.65%) RESTful
10 5 (14.71%) .NET Framework
10 5 (14.71%) ASP.NET
10 5 (14.71%) GraphQL
10 5 (14.71%) React Native
10 5 (14.71%) SOAP
11 4 (11.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) CMDB
2 5 (14.71%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.88%) Derivative
3 2 (5.88%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Android
1 5 (14.71%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Web Development
2 11 (32.35%) Agile
3 8 (23.53%) ITSM
4 7 (20.59%) User Experience
4 7 (20.59%) UX Design
5 6 (17.65%) Front End Development
6 5 (14.71%) Android Development
6 5 (14.71%) DevOps
6 5 (14.71%) E-Commerce
6 5 (14.71%) iOS Development
7 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 4 (11.76%) Incident Response
7 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.76%) Scrum
7 4 (11.76%) Security Operations
7 4 (11.76%) SIEM
7 4 (11.76%) Task Automation
7 4 (11.76%) Threat Intelligence
8 3 (8.82%) Code Quality
8 3 (8.82%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 29 (85.29%) JavaScript
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) PHP
4 3 (8.82%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) Perl
6 1 (2.94%) Natural
6 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) ServiceNow
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) Adobe
4 2 (5.88%) Maxymiser
4 2 (5.88%) Optimizely
5 1 (2.94%) BMC
5 1 (2.94%) HP
5 1 (2.94%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) Software AG