The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 17 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 Exeter 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 14 12 7
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -5
Contract jobs citing jQuery 10 6 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 10.31% 9.375% 31.25%
As % of the Application Development category 20.83% 18.18% 46.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 15
Average daily rate £350 £419 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.46% -0.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £414 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £484 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+38.61% -36.87%
All Application Development
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
48 33 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 49.48% 51.56% 67.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 30
Average daily rate £350 £419 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.46% +5.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £200 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -67.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
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jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter 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 Exeter region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter jQuery Hourly Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 18 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (94.44%) CSS
3 16 (88.89%) Dojo
4 15 (83.33%) Web Services
4 15 (83.33%) XML
5 12 (66.67%) HTML
6 9 (50.00%) Hibernate
6 9 (50.00%) JAXB
6 9 (50.00%) XQuery
6 9 (50.00%) XPath
6 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
6 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 9 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (50.00%) RESTful
6 9 (50.00%) HTML5
6 9 (50.00%) CSS3
7 7 (38.89%) Data Analysis
7 7 (38.89%) Ajax
7 7 (38.89%) GIS
7 7 (38.89%) ESRI
7 7 (38.89%) C#
7 7 (38.89%) Java
7 7 (38.89%) .NET
7 7 (38.89%) J2EE
7 7 (38.89%) Data Modelling
8 6 (33.33%) Servlets
8 6 (33.33%) XSD
8 6 (33.33%) Windows
8 6 (33.33%) Linux
8 6 (33.33%) Python

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 17 (94.44%) CSS
2 16 (88.89%) Dojo
3 15 (83.33%) Web Services
3 15 (83.33%) XML
4 12 (66.67%) HTML
5 9 (50.00%) RESTful
5 9 (50.00%) HTML5
5 9 (50.00%) JAXB
5 9 (50.00%) Hibernate
5 9 (50.00%) CSS3
6 7 (38.89%) Ajax
6 7 (38.89%) .NET
6 7 (38.89%) J2EE
7 6 (33.33%) XSD
7 6 (33.33%) Servlets
7 6 (33.33%) ArcObjects
7 6 (33.33%) REST
7 6 (33.33%) Apache Flex
7 6 (33.33%) Silverlight
8 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) ArcGIS
1 6 (33.33%) ArcSDE
Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Summit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) GIS
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) GIS Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Web Developer
4 5 (27.78%) HTML Developer
5 4 (22.22%) Software Developer
6 3 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Front-End Web Developer
7 1 (5.556%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (5.556%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (38.89%) Data Analysis
2 7 (38.89%) Data Modelling
3 6 (33.33%) Data Management
3 6 (33.33%) Information Management
4 2 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) XQuery
2 9 (50.00%) XPath
3 7 (38.89%) C#
3 7 (38.89%) Java
4 6 (33.33%) Python
5 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) ISO 9001
1 5 (27.78%) ISO 14001
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) ESRI
2 6 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft