The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 21 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 City of London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 46 66 148
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +82
Contract jobs citing jQuery 236 192 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 3.673% 2.442% 0.919%
As % of the Application Development category 12.82% 9.624% 3.315%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 147 70
Average daily rate £350 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £239 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
Average hourly rate £41.50 £28.75 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.34% +15.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £21.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+66.66% -47.50%
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1841 1995 2685
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.65% 25.38% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1452 1472 2083
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 21
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £44.75 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
London

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London jQuery Hourly Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 308 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 291 (73.48%) CSS
3 231 (58.33%) HTML
4 157 (39.65%) HTML5
5 143 (36.11%) .NET
5 143 (36.11%) MVC
6 121 (30.56%) C#
7 119 (30.05%) ASP.NET
7 119 (30.05%) Ajax
8 111 (28.03%) CSS3
9 90 (22.73%) SQL Server
10 83 (20.96%) Java
10 83 (20.96%) OO
10 83 (20.96%) Agile Software Development
11 82 (20.71%) TDD
12 80 (20.20%) SQL
13 76 (19.19%) XML
13 76 (19.19%) Finance
14 67 (16.92%) Web Services
15 66 (16.67%) JSON
16 64 (16.16%) ASP.NET MVC
17 60 (15.15%) PHP
18 58 (14.65%) Scrum
19 53 (13.38%) E-Commerce
20 51 (12.88%) Web Development
21 50 (12.63%) MySQL
22 44 (11.11%) Visual Studio
23 43 (10.86%) Spring
24 42 (10.61%) .NET Framework
25 39 (9.848%) CMS

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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
1 291 (73.48%) CSS
2 231 (58.33%) HTML
3 157 (39.65%) HTML5
4 143 (36.11%) .NET
5 119 (30.05%) ASP.NET
5 119 (30.05%) Ajax
6 111 (28.03%) CSS3
7 76 (19.19%) XML
8 67 (16.92%) Web Services
9 66 (16.67%) JSON
10 64 (16.16%) ASP.NET MVC
11 43 (10.86%) Spring
12 42 (10.61%) .NET Framework
13 37 (9.343%) WCF
14 32 (8.081%) JSP
15 31 (7.828%) XHTML
16 29 (7.323%) REST
16 29 (7.323%) XSLT
17 25 (6.313%) J2EE
18 23 (5.808%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 39 (9.848%) CMS
2 31 (7.828%) SharePoint
3 30 (7.576%) Apache
4 14 (3.535%) SharePoint 2010
5 13 (3.283%) Umbraco
6 11 (2.778%) Drupal
6 11 (2.778%) BizTalk Server
7 10 (2.525%) Tomcat
8 9 (2.273%) DotNetNuke
8 9 (2.273%) WordPress
8 9 (2.273%) WebLogic
9 8 (2.020%) Amazon AWS
10 7 (1.768%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (1.515%) IIS
11 6 (1.515%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.515%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.515%) Liferay
11 6 (1.515%) Kentico
11 6 (1.515%) Route 53
12 5 (1.263%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 32 (8.081%) Photoshop
2 8 (2.020%) InfoPath
3 6 (1.515%) Fireworks
4 5 (1.263%) MS Excel
5 4 (1.010%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.505%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.253%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.768%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.515%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.505%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.505%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.253%) AquaLogic BPM
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.586%) Internet
2 27 (6.818%) HTTP
3 6 (1.515%) Intranet
4 5 (1.263%) Extranet
5 2 (0.505%) SAN
5 2 (0.505%) LAN
5 2 (0.505%) DNS
5 2 (0.505%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.505%) LDAP
5 2 (0.505%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 50 (12.63%) MySQL
3 34 (8.586%) SQL Server 2008
4 16 (4.040%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (3.535%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (3.283%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.778%) SQL Server 2005
8 10 (2.525%) Redis
9 9 (2.273%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.020%) SQL Server 2000
11 7 (1.768%) MarkLogic
12 6 (1.515%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.010%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (0.758%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.758%) SQL Server 2012
14 3 (0.758%) SSDT
14 3 (0.758%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (0.758%) Oracle 11g
14 3 (0.758%) Azure SQL Database
15 2 (0.505%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 44 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 35 (8.838%) Subversion
3 30 (7.576%) Git (software)
4 22 (5.556%) JUnit
5 20 (5.051%) Selenium
6 12 (3.030%) Eclipse
6 12 (3.030%) Cucumber
6 12 (3.030%) Jenkins
7 10 (2.525%) Maven
7 10 (2.525%) GitHub
8 9 (2.273%) Jasmine
9 8 (2.020%) NUnit
10 7 (1.768%) JIRA
11 6 (1.515%) Hudson
11 6 (1.515%) QUnit
12 5 (1.263%) Rhino Mocks
12 5 (1.263%) RSpec
12 5 (1.263%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (1.010%) CruiseControl
13 4 (1.010%) PhoneGap
General
1 76 (19.19%) Finance
2 37 (9.343%) Banking
3 24 (6.061%) Investment Banking
4 19 (4.798%) Retail
5 18 (4.545%) Publishing
6 14 (3.535%) Games
7 11 (2.778%) Marketing
8 7 (1.768%) Online Betting
8 7 (1.768%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.515%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.263%) Front Office
10 5 (1.263%) Back Office
10 5 (1.263%) Advertising
11 2 (0.505%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.505%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.253%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.253%) Automotive
12 1 (0.253%) Legal
Job Titles
1 348 (87.88%) Developer
2 74 (18.69%) Front-End Developer
3 64 (16.16%) .NET Developer
4 56 (14.14%) Web Developer
5 42 (10.61%) Senior Developer
6 36 (9.091%) Java Developer
7 32 (8.081%) JavaScript Developer
7 32 (8.081%) C# Developer
8 25 (6.313%) UI Developer
8 25 (6.313%) UI Programmer
9 23 (5.808%) PHP Developer
10 21 (5.303%) ASP.NET Developer
10 21 (5.303%) Mobile Developer
11 19 (4.798%) C# .NET Developer
12 13 (3.283%) SharePoint Developer
13 12 (3.030%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 12 (3.030%) Designer
14 11 (2.778%) Front-End Web Developer
14 11 (2.778%) Architect
14 11 (2.778%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.303%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (3.030%) N-Tier
2 12 (3.030%) Open Source
3 11 (2.778%) RIA
4 9 (2.273%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.768%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.768%) Spread Betting
6 6 (1.515%) Semantic Web
6 6 (1.515%) Digital Media
7 5 (1.263%) Social Media
7 5 (1.263%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.263%) Inversion of Control
7 5 (1.263%) W3C
8 4 (1.010%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.758%) Graphic Design
9 3 (0.758%) iPhone
9 3 (0.758%) FMCG
9 3 (0.758%) New Media
9 3 (0.758%) E-Learning
10 2 (0.505%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.576%) Linux
2 28 (7.071%) Windows
3 14 (3.535%) UNIX
3 14 (3.535%) Apple iOS
4 12 (3.030%) Android
5 6 (1.515%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.758%) Windows 8
6 3 (0.758%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.505%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.505%) Solaris
7 2 (0.505%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (0.253%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (36.11%) MVC
2 83 (20.96%) OO
2 83 (20.96%) Agile Software Development
3 82 (20.71%) TDD
4 58 (14.65%) Scrum
5 53 (13.38%) E-Commerce
6 51 (12.88%) Web Development
7 34 (8.586%) BDD
8 29 (7.323%) Unit Testing
9 28 (7.071%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (4.545%) Web Design
11 17 (4.293%) Content Management
12 15 (3.788%) Migration
13 14 (3.535%) MVVM
14 13 (3.283%) Workflow
15 11 (2.778%) Kanban
16 10 (2.525%) CRM
16 10 (2.525%) RAD
17 9 (2.273%) Web Application Development
17 9 (2.273%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 308 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 121 (30.56%) C#
3 83 (20.96%) Java
4 80 (20.20%) SQL
5 60 (15.15%) PHP
6 22 (5.556%) Ruby
7 16 (4.040%) T-SQL
8 13 (3.283%) VB.NET
9 9 (2.273%) Groovy
9 9 (2.273%) VBA
9 9 (2.273%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.020%) Objective-C
10 8 (2.020%) C
10 8 (2.020%) PHP5
11 7 (1.768%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.768%) Perl
12 6 (1.515%) XQuery
12 6 (1.515%) VB
12 6 (1.515%) ActionScript
12 6 (1.515%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 15 (3.788%) Degree
2 6 (1.515%) Security Cleared
2 6 (1.515%) CIPD
3 1 (0.253%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (0.253%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.515%) QA
2 4 (1.010%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.758%) Dublin Core
4 2 (0.505%) WAI
5 1 (0.253%) WCAG
5 1 (0.253%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.253%) Basel III
System Software
1 6 (1.515%) Squid
2 5 (1.263%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.505%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.253%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.253%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 2 (0.505%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 31 (7.828%) Oracle
2 26 (6.566%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.273%) EPiServer
3 9 (2.273%) Sencha
3 9 (2.273%) Adobe
4 8 (2.020%) Sitecore
5 7 (1.768%) Facebook
5 7 (1.768%) Zend
5 7 (1.768%) JBoss
5 7 (1.768%) Google
6 6 (1.515%) Twitter
6 6 (1.515%) Percona
7 5 (1.263%) Sybase
7 5 (1.263%) Lotus
7 5 (1.263%) Telerik
8 4 (1.010%) Ektron
9 3 (0.758%) IBM
9 3 (0.758%) Perforce
9 3 (0.758%) FatWire
10 2 (0.505%) VMware
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