The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 18 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 Gloucestershire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 31 29 38
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +9
Contract jobs citing jQuery 4 30 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.606% 5.803% 2.697%
As % of the Application Development category 8.163% 24.00% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 24 7
Average daily rate £230 £700 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-67.14% +250.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £450 £146
10% offered a daily rate of more than £287 £735 £278
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £299
% change year-on-year
- +0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +29.23%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.25 £38.25
% change year-on-year
+38.61% -33.98%
All Application Development
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
49 125 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 19.68% 24.18% 25.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 83 52
Average daily rate £365 £513 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.78% +65.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £328 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £725 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
jQuery
South West

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Gloucester +12 1 £301 -58.48% 2
Stroud - - - - 1
Tewkesbury - - - -
Cheltenham - - - - 1
Cirencester - - - - 3
jQuery
South West

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 22 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 16 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 14 (58.33%) C
4 12 (50.00%) HTML
4 12 (50.00%) CSS
5 11 (45.83%) Linux
5 11 (45.83%) Internet
5 11 (45.83%) MVC
5 11 (45.83%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (41.67%) Maven
6 10 (41.67%) Configuration Management
6 10 (41.67%) UML
6 10 (41.67%) OOA/OOD
6 10 (41.67%) OO
6 10 (41.67%) JBoss
6 10 (41.67%) JMS
6 10 (41.67%) RDBMS
6 10 (41.67%) ASP.NET
6 10 (41.67%) EJB
6 10 (41.67%) Oracle
6 10 (41.67%) Java
6 10 (41.67%) C#
6 10 (41.67%) .NET
6 10 (41.67%) JPA
6 10 (41.67%) EJB 3.0
6 10 (41.67%) RIA
6 10 (41.67%) GWT
6 10 (41.67%) Customer Engagement
6 10 (41.67%) HornetQ

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 12 (50.00%) HTML
1 12 (50.00%) CSS
2 10 (41.67%) .NET
2 10 (41.67%) ASP.NET
2 10 (41.67%) EJB
2 10 (41.67%) JMS
2 10 (41.67%) GWT
2 10 (41.67%) JPA
2 10 (41.67%) EJB 3.0
2 10 (41.67%) HornetQ
3 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (16.67%) Ajax
4 3 (12.50%) Swing
5 2 (8.333%) WCF
5 2 (8.333%) Web Services
6 1 (4.167%) XML
6 1 (4.167%) SOAP
6 1 (4.167%) ASP
6 1 (4.167%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (4.167%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 8 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 6 (25.00%) MS Project Server
3 3 (12.50%) CMS
4 1 (4.167%) Joomla!
4 1 (4.167%) Drupal
4 1 (4.167%) WordPress
4 1 (4.167%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (4.167%) IIS
4 1 (4.167%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) MS Project
1 6 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.167%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (45.83%) Internet
2 1 (4.167%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) RDBMS
2 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 8 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (8.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Maven
2 8 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 6 (25.00%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.167%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 23 (95.83%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 7 (29.17%) Web Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) PHP Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Developer Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Web Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) SharePoint Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Programmer
6 1 (4.167%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.167%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.167%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.167%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (4.167%) MySQL Developer
6 1 (4.167%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (4.167%) PHP Programmer
6 1 (4.167%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (4.167%) Web Programmer
6 1 (4.167%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) RIA
2 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.167%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Linux
2 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (4.167%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) MVC
1 11 (45.83%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (41.67%) Customer Engagement
2 10 (41.67%) Configuration Management
2 10 (41.67%) UML
2 10 (41.67%) OOA/OOD
2 10 (41.67%) OO
3 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (8.333%) Website Architecture
4 2 (8.333%) CRM
5 1 (4.167%) Scrum
5 1 (4.167%) TDD
5 1 (4.167%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 14 (58.33%) C
3 10 (41.67%) C#
3 10 (41.67%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Oracle
1 10 (41.67%) JBoss
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.167%) Zend