The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 22 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 East Midlands 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 23 43 72
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +29
Contract jobs citing jQuery 84 44 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 6.656% 3.147% 0.881%
As % of the Application Development category 25.61% 12.09% 3.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 16 6
Average daily rate £300 £288 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £275 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £321 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -37.50%
All Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
328 364 319
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 25.99% 26.04% 23.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 191 112
Average daily rate £310 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 38
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
England

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Nottinghamshire -7 22 £275 -4.34%
Leicestershire +4 18 £290 -
Northamptonshire +21 9 £325 -
Lincolnshire - 8 £300 -
Derbyshire +13 4 £263 -
jQuery
England

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 117 (82.39%) JavaScript
2 97 (68.31%) .NET
3 92 (64.79%) ASP.NET
4 86 (60.56%) HTML
5 85 (59.86%) C#
6 82 (57.75%) CSS
7 73 (51.41%) Ajax
8 57 (40.14%) Visual Studio
9 53 (37.32%) SQL Server
10 43 (30.28%) MVC
11 42 (29.58%) HTML5
12 37 (26.06%) OO
13 36 (25.35%) .NET Framework
14 33 (23.24%) ASP.NET MVC
14 33 (23.24%) CSS3
15 29 (20.42%) E-Commerce
15 29 (20.42%) Web Services
16 27 (19.01%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 25 (17.61%) SQL Server 2008
18 24 (16.90%) Microsoft
19 21 (14.79%) PHP
19 21 (14.79%) SQL
20 20 (14.08%) XML
21 19 (13.38%) Windows
21 19 (13.38%) MySQL
22 18 (12.68%) N-Tier
23 17 (11.97%) Web Development
23 17 (11.97%) WCF
24 16 (11.27%) CMS
24 16 (11.27%) ASP

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 97 (68.31%) .NET
2 92 (64.79%) ASP.NET
3 86 (60.56%) HTML
4 82 (57.75%) CSS
5 73 (51.41%) Ajax
6 42 (29.58%) HTML5
7 36 (25.35%) .NET Framework
8 33 (23.24%) ASP.NET MVC
8 33 (23.24%) CSS3
9 29 (20.42%) Web Services
10 27 (19.01%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 20 (14.08%) XML
12 17 (11.97%) WCF
13 16 (11.27%) ASP
14 15 (10.56%) XHTML
15 12 (8.451%) WinForms
16 11 (7.746%) LINQ
17 10 (7.042%) JSON
18 7 (4.930%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
19 5 (3.521%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 16 (11.27%) CMS
2 11 (7.746%) IIS
3 6 (4.225%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.225%) Umbraco
3 6 (4.225%) Kentico
4 5 (3.521%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (3.521%) WordPress
5 2 (1.408%) DotNetNuke
5 2 (1.408%) Drupal
5 2 (1.408%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.408%) Magento
5 2 (1.408%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.704%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.704%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.704%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.704%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 5 (3.521%) Photoshop
1 5 (3.521%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.113%) InfoPath
3 2 (1.408%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.225%) Intranet
1 6 (4.225%) Internet
2 5 (3.521%) SNMP
2 5 (3.521%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.704%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (37.32%) SQL Server
2 25 (17.61%) SQL Server 2008
3 19 (13.38%) MySQL
4 7 (4.930%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (4.930%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (4.930%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.225%) GIS
6 5 (3.521%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 57 (40.14%) Visual Studio
2 12 (8.451%) Subversion
3 8 (5.634%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (4.930%) Git (software)
5 6 (4.225%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 5 (3.521%) Expression Blend
7 4 (2.817%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.408%) ClearCase
8 2 (1.408%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.704%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.704%) MbUnit
9 1 (0.704%) StyleCop
9 1 (0.704%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.704%) CruiseControl
9 1 (0.704%) JIRA
9 1 (0.704%) Dreamweaver
General
1 5 (3.521%) Retail
2 2 (1.408%) Finance
2 2 (1.408%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 131 (92.25%) Developer
2 54 (38.03%) .NET Developer
3 33 (23.24%) ASP.NET Developer
4 24 (16.90%) Web Developer
5 22 (15.49%) Front-End Developer
6 20 (14.08%) C# Developer
7 16 (11.27%) C# .NET Developer
8 10 (7.042%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 10 (7.042%) .NET Web Developer
8 10 (7.042%) PHP Developer
9 7 (4.930%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
9 7 (4.930%) VB.NET Developer
10 6 (4.225%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.521%) WPF Developer
11 5 (3.521%) SharePoint Developer
11 5 (3.521%) Programmer
12 3 (2.113%) Designer
12 3 (2.113%) Mobile Developer
12 3 (2.113%) CSS Developer
12 3 (2.113%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.68%) N-Tier
2 13 (9.155%) Graphic Design
3 2 (1.408%) W3C
4 1 (0.704%) Social Media
4 1 (0.704%) iPad
4 1 (0.704%) iPhone
4 1 (0.704%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.704%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.38%) Windows
2 16 (11.27%) Android
3 14 (9.859%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.521%) Windows 7
4 5 (3.521%) Windows 8
4 5 (3.521%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (2.113%) Linux
6 1 (0.704%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (30.28%) MVC
2 37 (26.06%) OO
3 29 (20.42%) E-Commerce
4 17 (11.97%) Web Development
5 13 (9.155%) OOP
6 12 (8.451%) OOD
6 12 (8.451%) Scrum
7 11 (7.746%) Agile Software Development
8 9 (6.338%) TDD
9 7 (4.930%) Unit Testing
9 7 (4.930%) Web Application Development
9 7 (4.930%) Content Management
9 7 (4.930%) Web Design
9 7 (4.930%) SEO
10 6 (4.225%) Configuration Management
10 6 (4.225%) Business Analysis
10 6 (4.225%) E-business
10 6 (4.225%) Dependency Injection
11 5 (3.521%) MVVM
11 5 (3.521%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 117 (82.39%) JavaScript
2 85 (59.86%) C#
3 21 (14.79%) PHP
3 21 (14.79%) SQL
4 7 (4.930%) VB.NET
4 7 (4.930%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.225%) VB
6 5 (3.521%) VB6
7 4 (2.817%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.408%) Java
8 2 (1.408%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.704%) PHP5
9 1 (0.704%) CoffeeScript
9 1 (0.704%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (4.225%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (2.817%) Degree
3 1 (0.704%) BC Cleared
3 1 (0.704%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (3.521%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.521%) WMI
Vendors
1 24 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.56%) Telerik
3 13 (9.155%) Adobe
4 11 (7.746%) DevExpress
5 4 (2.817%) Oracle
5 4 (2.817%) Google
6 3 (2.113%) Zend
7 2 (1.408%) Interwoven
7 2 (1.408%) Facebook
7 2 (1.408%) Twitter
8 1 (0.704%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.704%) Lotus
8 1 (0.704%) Apple
8 1 (0.704%) IBM