The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 34 18 41
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +23
Contract jobs citing jQuery 18 57 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 3.333% 8.297% 2.045%
As % of the Application Development category 14.17% 22.89% 6.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 4
Average daily rate £325 £278 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.11% -2.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £16.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -37.50%
All Application Development
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
127 249 183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 23.52% 36.24% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 124 82
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 15
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% +40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £15.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.80 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
East of England

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Cambridge -17 7 £350 +33.33%
Peterborough +8 5 £325 +18.18%
jQuery
East of England

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 43 (87.76%) CSS
2 38 (77.55%) JavaScript
3 36 (73.47%) HTML
4 28 (57.14%) PHP
5 21 (42.86%) MySQL
6 20 (40.82%) .NET
6 20 (40.82%) C#
6 20 (40.82%) MVC
7 19 (38.78%) XML
8 16 (32.65%) ASP.NET
9 15 (30.61%) Ajax
9 15 (30.61%) OO
10 14 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
10 14 (28.57%) HTML5
11 13 (26.53%) CSS3
12 12 (24.49%) WCF
12 12 (24.49%) Drupal
12 12 (24.49%) SQL Server
13 11 (22.45%) Web Development
14 10 (20.41%) Zend
14 10 (20.41%) Visual Studio
14 10 (20.41%) Linux
15 9 (18.37%) Java
15 9 (18.37%) SQL
15 9 (18.37%) Apache
15 9 (18.37%) JSON
16 8 (16.33%) WordPress
17 6 (12.24%) Scrum
17 6 (12.24%) CMS
17 6 (12.24%) F#

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 43 (87.76%) CSS
2 36 (73.47%) HTML
3 20 (40.82%) .NET
4 19 (38.78%) XML
5 16 (32.65%) ASP.NET
6 15 (30.61%) Ajax
7 14 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
7 14 (28.57%) HTML5
8 13 (26.53%) CSS3
9 12 (24.49%) WCF
10 9 (18.37%) JSON
11 5 (10.20%) CodeIgniter
11 5 (10.20%) Symfony
11 5 (10.20%) LAMP
11 5 (10.20%) Web Services
11 5 (10.20%) XSLT
12 4 (8.163%) SOAP
12 4 (8.163%) ADO.NET
12 4 (8.163%) RESTful
12 4 (8.163%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 12 (24.49%) Drupal
2 9 (18.37%) Apache
3 8 (16.33%) WordPress
4 6 (12.24%) CMS
5 4 (8.163%) concrete5
6 1 (2.041%) Joomla!
6 1 (2.041%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) GIMP
1 5 (10.20%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.041%) SMTP
1 1 (2.041%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (42.86%) MySQL
2 12 (24.49%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.163%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.163%) Redis
4 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.041%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.041%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Visual Studio
2 5 (10.20%) Git (software)
3 4 (8.163%) Subversion
4 3 (6.122%) JSUnit
4 3 (6.122%) PhoneGap
4 3 (6.122%) Appcelerator Titanium
5 1 (2.041%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.041%) QUnit
General
1 1 (2.041%) Multimedia
1 1 (2.041%) Finance
Job Titles
1 44 (89.80%) Developer
2 17 (34.69%) PHP Developer
3 11 (22.45%) Web Developer
4 8 (16.33%) UI Developer
4 8 (16.33%) UI Programmer
5 7 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
5 7 (14.29%) .NET Developer
6 5 (10.20%) User Experience Developer
7 4 (8.163%) PHP Web Developer
8 3 (6.122%) Drupal Developer
8 3 (6.122%) PHP Drupal Developer
8 3 (6.122%) UI Designer
8 3 (6.122%) Designer
9 2 (4.082%) C# Developer
9 2 (4.082%) Applications Developer
9 2 (4.082%) Web Applications Developer
9 2 (4.082%) ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (4.082%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (4.082%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (4.082%) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Human Factors
2 1 (2.041%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.041%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.041%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Linux
2 4 (8.163%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) MVC
2 15 (30.61%) OO
3 11 (22.45%) Web Development
4 6 (12.24%) Scrum
5 5 (10.20%) Compatibility Testing
5 5 (10.20%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (10.20%) OOP
6 4 (8.163%) OOA/OOD
6 4 (8.163%) OOD
6 4 (8.163%) SEO
6 4 (8.163%) Unit Testing
7 2 (4.082%) Logistics
7 2 (4.082%) TDD
8 1 (2.041%) Load Testing
8 1 (2.041%) Security Testing
8 1 (2.041%) Performance Testing
8 1 (2.041%) Multithreading
8 1 (2.041%) BDD
8 1 (2.041%) Network Architecture
8 1 (2.041%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 38 (77.55%) JavaScript
2 28 (57.14%) PHP
3 20 (40.82%) C#
4 9 (18.37%) Java
4 9 (18.37%) SQL
5 6 (12.24%) F#
5 6 (12.24%) PHP5
6 5 (10.20%) Ruby
7 1 (2.041%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.163%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.041%) WCAG
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Zend
2 3 (6.122%) Sencha
3 1 (2.041%) DevExpress
3 1 (2.041%) Telerik
3 1 (2.041%) Oracle
3 1 (2.041%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.041%) Adobe
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