The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 27 35 30
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -5
Contract jobs citing jQuery 19 13 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 4.786% 3.186% 5.211%
As % of the Application Development category 17.12% 16.46% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 10
Average daily rate £265 £225 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.77% -46.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £145 £411
10% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £400 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -37.50%
All Application Development
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
111 79 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 27.96% 19.36% 25.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 38 51
Average daily rate £240 £270 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.20% -32.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £175 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 10
Average hourly rate £27.50 £32.25 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.72% +21.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £26.28 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £35.22 £30.00
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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex jQuery Daily Rate Trend

jQuery
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex 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
Chelmsford +1 6 £240 -
Colchester +3 3 £270 +8.00%
Witham - 3 £220 -
Harlow - 2 - -
jQuery
East of England

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 24 (96.00%) CSS
2 22 (88.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (56.00%) HTML
3 14 (56.00%) .NET
4 12 (48.00%) Ajax
5 10 (40.00%) ASP.NET
6 9 (36.00%) SQL
6 9 (36.00%) HTML5
7 8 (32.00%) CSS3
7 8 (32.00%) XML
8 7 (28.00%) PHP
8 7 (28.00%) C#
8 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
8 7 (28.00%) Photoshop
8 7 (28.00%) MVC
9 6 (24.00%) XHTML
9 6 (24.00%) JSON
10 5 (20.00%) XSLT
10 5 (20.00%) Windows
10 5 (20.00%) OO
10 5 (20.00%) Web Design
10 5 (20.00%) Advertising
11 4 (16.00%) Marketing
11 4 (16.00%) Web Development
11 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
11 4 (16.00%) Agile Software Development
11 4 (16.00%) E-Commerce
11 4 (16.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 3 (12.00%) New Media
12 3 (12.00%) Analytics

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 24 (96.00%) CSS
2 14 (56.00%) HTML
2 14 (56.00%) .NET
3 12 (48.00%) Ajax
4 10 (40.00%) ASP.NET
5 9 (36.00%) HTML5
6 8 (32.00%) CSS3
6 8 (32.00%) XML
7 6 (24.00%) XHTML
7 6 (24.00%) JSON
8 5 (20.00%) XSLT
9 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
9 4 (16.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 3 (12.00%) ASP
10 3 (12.00%) Web Services
11 2 (8.000%) J2EE
11 2 (8.000%) JSP
11 2 (8.000%) MooTools
11 2 (8.000%) LINQ
11 2 (8.000%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) CMS
1 2 (8.000%) IIS
2 1 (4.000%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.000%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (12.00%) Fireworks
3 2 (8.000%) MS Project
4 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.000%) ReSharper
2 1 (4.000%) NUnit
2 1 (4.000%) CruiseControl
General
1 5 (20.00%) Advertising
2 4 (16.00%) Marketing
3 2 (8.000%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Web Developer
3 8 (32.00%) Front-End Developer
4 6 (24.00%) .NET Developer
5 5 (20.00%) UI Developer
5 5 (20.00%) Front-End Web Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Senior UI Developer
6 4 (16.00%) UI Programmer
7 3 (12.00%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (12.00%) C# Developer
8 2 (8.000%) Project Manager
8 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET Developer
9 1 (4.000%) .NET Software Developer
9 1 (4.000%) E-Commerce Web Developer
9 1 (4.000%) Software Programmer
9 1 (4.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 1 (4.000%) Designer
9 1 (4.000%) Senior Designer
9 1 (4.000%) Digital Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) New Media
2 1 (4.000%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) MVC
2 5 (20.00%) OO
2 5 (20.00%) Web Design
3 4 (16.00%) Web Development
3 4 (16.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (16.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (12.00%) Analytics
4 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (8.000%) Project Management
5 2 (8.000%) SEO
5 2 (8.000%) Content Management
5 2 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.000%) Image Processing
5 2 (8.000%) Responsive Web Design
6 1 (4.000%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.000%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (4.000%) Progressive Enhancement
6 1 (4.000%) SSADM
6 1 (4.000%) OOP
6 1 (4.000%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (88.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 7 (28.00%) PHP
3 7 (28.00%) C#
4 3 (12.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (12.00%) VB
5 2 (8.000%) XPath
5 2 (8.000%) Java
6 1 (4.000%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 1 (4.000%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Google
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.00%) Adobe
2 2 (8.000%) FatWire
2 2 (8.000%) Omniture
3 1 (4.000%) Telerik
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Posted: 21 May 2013
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Rate: £150 - £250 per day
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Rate: £230 - £250 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Connectus
Rate: £550 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
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design patterns Attention to detail, Logical, Analytical, Strong Problem solving skills, Entity Framework, Linq to objects (at least 12 months commercial experience)Visual Studio 2010/2012 - MVC 2...
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Rate: £000 - £001 per day
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