The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 17 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 Guildford 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 19 12 17
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +5
Contract jobs citing jQuery 13 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 5.963% 6.087% 1.587%
As % of the Application Development category 17.57% 29.17% 6.897%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 2
Average daily rate £310 £413 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.84% +28.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £288 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £425 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £43.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -37.50%
All Application Development
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 24 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 33.94% 20.87% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 10 13
Average daily rate £320 £375 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% +33.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £335 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 2
Average hourly rate £43.50 £31.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+38.09% -16.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
Surrey

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Guildford jQuery Daily Rate Histogram

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 15 (93.75%) JavaScript
2 13 (81.25%) CSS
3 11 (68.75%) HTML
4 8 (50.00%) HTML5
5 7 (43.75%) CSS3
6 5 (31.25%) PHP
6 5 (31.25%) CMS
7 4 (25.00%) MVC
7 4 (25.00%) Java
7 4 (25.00%) .NET
7 4 (25.00%) MySQL
7 4 (25.00%) Photoshop
7 4 (25.00%) OOP
8 3 (18.75%) BDD
8 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
8 3 (18.75%) SQL
8 3 (18.75%) Finance
9 2 (12.50%) Scrum
9 2 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (12.50%) TDD
9 2 (12.50%) Subversion
9 2 (12.50%) Ruby
9 2 (12.50%) Ajax
9 2 (12.50%) XML
9 2 (12.50%) Windows
9 2 (12.50%) Adobe
9 2 (12.50%) J2EE
9 2 (12.50%) C#
9 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
9 2 (12.50%) OO

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 13 (81.25%) CSS
2 11 (68.75%) HTML
3 8 (50.00%) HTML5
4 7 (43.75%) CSS3
5 4 (25.00%) .NET
6 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
7 2 (12.50%) REST
7 2 (12.50%) Java EE
7 2 (12.50%) CodeIgniter
7 2 (12.50%) J2EE
7 2 (12.50%) XML
7 2 (12.50%) Flash
7 2 (12.50%) Ajax
7 2 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (6.250%) NHibernate
8 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
8 1 (6.250%) XHTML
8 1 (6.250%) LAMP
8 1 (6.250%) Lucene
8 1 (6.250%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) CMS
2 2 (12.50%) Drupal
2 2 (12.50%) WordPress
3 1 (6.250%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (6.250%) ESB
3 1 (6.250%) Joomla!
3 1 (6.250%) WebLogic
3 1 (6.250%) IIS
3 1 (6.250%) Apache
3 1 (6.250%) Tomcat
3 1 (6.250%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) FTP
1 1 (6.250%) HTTP
1 1 (6.250%) DNS
1 1 (6.250%) SSL
1 1 (6.250%) Intranet
1 1 (6.250%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dreamweaver
1 2 (12.50%) Subversion
1 2 (12.50%) Git (software)
2 1 (6.250%) RSpec
2 1 (6.250%) Moq
2 1 (6.250%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.250%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.250%) ReSharper
2 1 (6.250%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.250%) MSI
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (6.250%) Publishing
3 1 (6.250%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) PHP Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Designer
3 3 (18.75%) Web Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Web Designer
5 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Architect
5 1 (6.250%) Junior
5 1 (6.250%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Junior Designer
5 1 (6.250%) Lead Web Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Digital Designer
5 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) W3C
1 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.250%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (6.250%) Social Media
1 1 (6.250%) Heroku
1 1 (6.250%) Digital Media
1 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) OOP
1 4 (25.00%) MVC
2 3 (18.75%) BDD
3 2 (12.50%) Scrum
3 2 (12.50%) OO
3 2 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (6.250%) Content Management
4 1 (6.250%) Web Analytics
4 1 (6.250%) Web Development
4 1 (6.250%) SEO
4 1 (6.250%) Workflow
4 1 (6.250%) Web Design
4 1 (6.250%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (6.250%) Web Application Development
4 1 (6.250%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) PHP
3 4 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) Ruby
6 1 (6.250%) Bash shell
6 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
6 1 (6.250%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) WAI
System Software
1 1 (6.250%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (6.250%) FatWire
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
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