The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Buckinghamshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 44 64 69
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +5
Contract jobs citing jQuery 32 8 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 3.505% 0.837% 1.192%
As % of the Application Development category 14.04% 3.960% 6.404%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 2 4
Average daily rate £299 £286 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.36% +4.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £269 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £391 £303 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+18.64% -26.25%
All Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
228 202 203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 24.97% 21.13% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 100 91
Average daily rate £350 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.71% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +137.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
jQuery
South East

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire jQuery Daily Rate Trend

jQuery
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing jQuery across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Buckinghamshire jQuery Daily Rate Histogram

jQuery
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing jQuery across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire jQuery Hourly Rate Trend

jQuery
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing jQuery within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
High Wycombe +8 15 £260 - 2
Milton Keynes +10 9 £375 +41.50% 5
Marlow - 1 - -
Aylesbury - 1 - -
Beaconsfield - 1 - -
Buckingham - - - -
Gerrards Cross - - - - 4
Amersham - - - -
jQuery
South East

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 41 (71.93%) JavaScript
2 39 (68.42%) HTML
3 38 (66.67%) .NET
4 37 (64.91%) CSS
5 35 (61.40%) C#
6 33 (57.89%) ASP.NET
7 28 (49.12%) MVC
8 24 (42.11%) SQL Server
9 15 (26.32%) Web Services
9 15 (26.32%) ASP.NET MVC
10 13 (22.81%) SQL Server 2008
11 12 (21.05%) JSON
12 11 (19.30%) PHP
12 11 (19.30%) .NET Framework
12 11 (19.30%) LINQ
13 10 (17.54%) XML
14 9 (15.79%) Unit Testing
14 9 (15.79%) REST
14 9 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 8 (14.04%) NHibernate
15 8 (14.04%) Agile Software Development
15 8 (14.04%) SQL Server 2005
15 8 (14.04%) XHTML
15 8 (14.04%) SQL
16 7 (12.28%) OO
16 7 (12.28%) NUnit
16 7 (12.28%) Moq
16 7 (12.28%) HTML5
16 7 (12.28%) Mercurial
16 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 39 (68.42%) HTML
2 38 (66.67%) .NET
3 37 (64.91%) CSS
4 33 (57.89%) ASP.NET
5 15 (26.32%) Web Services
5 15 (26.32%) ASP.NET MVC
6 12 (21.05%) JSON
7 11 (19.30%) .NET Framework
7 11 (19.30%) LINQ
8 10 (17.54%) XML
9 9 (15.79%) REST
9 9 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 8 (14.04%) NHibernate
10 8 (14.04%) XHTML
11 7 (12.28%) HTML5
12 6 (10.53%) Ajax
12 6 (10.53%) WCF
13 4 (7.018%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 3 (5.263%) Mustache
14 3 (5.263%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.018%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.263%) CMS
2 3 (5.263%) SilverStripe
3 1 (1.754%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (1.754%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (1.754%) Apache
3 1 (1.754%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.754%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.754%) WordPress
3 1 (1.754%) Drupal
3 1 (1.754%) TYPO3
Applications
1 3 (5.263%) Photoshop
1 3 (5.263%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.754%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.263%) Internet
2 1 (1.754%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 13 (22.81%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (14.04%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (10.53%) MySQL
5 3 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (5.263%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.509%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (1.754%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) NUnit
1 7 (12.28%) Moq
1 7 (12.28%) Mercurial
1 7 (12.28%) FogBugz
2 5 (8.772%) Visual Studio
3 4 (7.018%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (5.263%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.754%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (1.754%) Subversion
General
1 5 (8.772%) Marketing
2 1 (1.754%) Financial Institution
2 1 (1.754%) Finance
2 1 (1.754%) Automotive
2 1 (1.754%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (94.74%) Developer
2 24 (42.11%) .NET Developer
3 19 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 14 (24.56%) C# .NET Developer
5 13 (22.81%) UI Developer
5 13 (22.81%) UI Programmer
6 12 (21.05%) ASP.NET Developer
6 12 (21.05%) Web Developer
7 11 (19.30%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 7 (12.28%) PHP Developer
9 6 (10.53%) Front-End Developer
9 6 (10.53%) C# Web Developer
9 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
10 5 (8.772%) Programmer
10 5 (8.772%) Senior C# Developer
10 5 (8.772%) Senior .NET Developer
10 5 (8.772%) .NET Programmer
11 4 (7.018%) Agile .NET Developer
12 2 (3.509%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
12 2 (3.509%) ASP.NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.772%) N-Tier
2 3 (5.263%) SaaS
2 3 (5.263%) Web 2.0
3 2 (3.509%) Open Source
4 1 (1.754%) Social Media
4 1 (1.754%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.263%) Linux
2 2 (3.509%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) MVC
2 9 (15.79%) Unit Testing
3 8 (14.04%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (12.28%) OO
4 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (8.772%) Web Development
6 4 (7.018%) E-Commerce
7 3 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (3.509%) TDD
8 2 (3.509%) Web Design
8 2 (3.509%) Scrum
8 2 (3.509%) B2C
8 2 (3.509%) SOA
9 1 (1.754%) UML
9 1 (1.754%) OOP
9 1 (1.754%) Service Delivery
9 1 (1.754%) Integration Testing
9 1 (1.754%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (71.93%) JavaScript
2 35 (61.40%) C#
3 11 (19.30%) PHP
4 8 (14.04%) SQL
5 4 (7.018%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.509%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.754%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.754%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.754%) Java
7 1 (1.754%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (1.754%) Security Cleared
1 1 (1.754%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.754%) Varnish
Vendors
1 3 (5.263%) Jaspersoft
1 3 (5.263%) Business Objects
1 3 (5.263%) Dundas
2 2 (3.509%) Zend
2 2 (3.509%) Twitter
3 1 (1.754%) Oracle
3 1 (1.754%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.754%) Adobe
3 1 (1.754%) Omniture
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