The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Bradford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 17 26 19
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -7
Contract jobs citing jQuery 7 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 4.430% 0.662% 5.000%
As % of the Application Development category 19.44% 6.250% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
Average daily rate £325 £160 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+103.12% -25.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -37.50%
All Application Development
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 16 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 22.78% 10.60% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 12
Average daily rate £325 £160 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+103.12% -28.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £150 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £174 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
West Yorkshire

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing jQuery across the Bradford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Bradford jQuery Jobs Demand Trend

jQuery
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing jQuery across the Bradford region.

Bradford jQuery Daily Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing jQuery also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited jQuery.

1 6 (54.55%) C#
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
1 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
2 5 (45.45%) CSS
2 5 (45.45%) MVC
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) HTML
4 3 (27.27%) XHTML
4 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
4 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (18.18%) Groovy
5 2 (18.18%) Grails
5 2 (18.18%) NHS
5 2 (18.18%) WCF
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 2 (18.18%) PHP
5 2 (18.18%) CMS
5 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (9.091%) Content Management
6 1 (9.091%) Information Management
6 1 (9.091%) Ajax
6 1 (9.091%) Web Development
6 1 (9.091%) Plone
6 1 (9.091%) Scrum
6 1 (9.091%) Java
6 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
6 1 (9.091%) MySQL

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing jQuery also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited jQuery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
1 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
2 5 (45.45%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) XHTML
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
3 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (18.18%) Grails
4 2 (18.18%) WCF
5 1 (9.091%) Ajax
5 1 (9.091%) Web Services
5 1 (9.091%) Symfony
5 1 (9.091%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (9.091%) Django
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) CMS
2 1 (9.091%) Plone
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.091%) Drupal
2 1 (9.091%) WordPress
2 1 (9.091%) Joomla!
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (9.091%) PHP Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) Web Development Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Web Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) Web Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Development Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.091%) PHP Developer
3 1 (9.091%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) NHS
2 1 (9.091%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) MVC
2 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) Content Management
3 1 (9.091%) Information Management
3 1 (9.091%) Web Development
3 1 (9.091%) Scrum
3 1 (9.091%) OO
3 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Groovy
3 2 (18.18%) PHP
4 1 (9.091%) Java
4 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
4 1 (9.091%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) Zend
1 1 (9.091%) EPiServer