The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 38 30 56
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +26
Contract jobs citing jQuery 25 44 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 3.888% 4.545% 1.152%
As % of the Application Development category 11.74% 15.94% 4.505%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 6
Average daily rate £375 £313 £273
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +14.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £85 £280 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £363 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £39.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -37.50%
All Application Development
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
213 276 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 33.13% 28.51% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 120 94
Average daily rate £400 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £275 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 25
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £20.00 £33.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £36.00 £37.00
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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hemel Hempstead +7 6 £85 -71.66%
Letchworth - 4 - -
St Albans 0 3 £375 +31.57%
Watford +5 1 - -
Welwyn Garden City +1 1 - -
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
jQuery
East of England

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 52 (91.23%) JavaScript
2 42 (73.68%) HTML
3 31 (54.39%) .NET
3 31 (54.39%) CSS
4 29 (50.88%) SQL
5 27 (47.37%) Ajax
6 25 (43.86%) ASP.NET
6 25 (43.86%) Web Services
7 23 (40.35%) Windows
7 23 (40.35%) SQL Server
8 22 (38.60%) T-SQL
8 22 (38.60%) DHTML
9 21 (36.84%) VBScript
9 21 (36.84%) .NET Framework
10 20 (35.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 20 (35.09%) VB.NET
10 20 (35.09%) ADO.NET
10 20 (35.09%) Microsoft
11 19 (33.33%) FTP
11 19 (33.33%) DTS
11 19 (33.33%) Telecoms
11 19 (33.33%) WinForms
12 18 (31.58%) Windows Server 2003
13 15 (26.32%) HTML5
14 14 (24.56%) CSS3
14 14 (24.56%) MS Office
15 12 (21.05%) C#
16 8 (14.04%) Photoshop
16 8 (14.04%) OO
16 8 (14.04%) Agile Software Development

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 42 (73.68%) HTML
2 31 (54.39%) .NET
2 31 (54.39%) CSS
3 27 (47.37%) Ajax
4 25 (43.86%) ASP.NET
4 25 (43.86%) Web Services
5 22 (38.60%) DHTML
6 21 (36.84%) .NET Framework
7 20 (35.09%) ADO.NET
8 19 (33.33%) WinForms
9 15 (26.32%) HTML5
10 14 (24.56%) CSS3
11 7 (12.28%) KnockoutJS
11 7 (12.28%) XHTML
12 6 (10.53%) WCF
12 6 (10.53%) JSON
13 5 (8.772%) SOAP
14 3 (5.263%) RESTful
14 3 (5.263%) CodeIgniter
14 3 (5.263%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.263%) Drupal
2 2 (3.509%) Apache
2 2 (3.509%) CMS
3 1 (1.754%) DotNetNuke
3 1 (1.754%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.754%) TeamSite
3 1 (1.754%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.754%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.754%) LiveSite
3 1 (1.754%) Kentico
3 1 (1.754%) Sitefinity
3 1 (1.754%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (24.56%) MS Office
2 8 (14.04%) Photoshop
3 4 (7.018%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (5.263%) Fireworks
5 1 (1.754%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (33.33%) FTP
2 6 (10.53%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.754%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (40.35%) SQL Server
2 20 (35.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 19 (33.33%) DTS
4 4 (7.018%) MySQL
5 2 (3.509%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (3.509%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.754%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.754%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Visual Studio
1 6 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (7.018%) Git (software)
3 2 (3.509%) Axure RP
4 1 (1.754%) JProfiler
4 1 (1.754%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.754%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.754%) Gradle
4 1 (1.754%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.754%) JUnit
4 1 (1.754%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.754%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.754%) Subversion
4 1 (1.754%) Maven
4 1 (1.754%) Checkstyle
4 1 (1.754%) FitNesse
General
1 19 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 7 (12.28%) Retail
3 2 (3.509%) Finance
3 2 (3.509%) Advertising
4 1 (1.754%) Publishing
4 1 (1.754%) Games
Job Titles
1 54 (94.74%) Developer
2 26 (45.61%) Web Developer
3 14 (24.56%) Front-End Developer
4 8 (14.04%) .NET Developer
5 5 (8.772%) C# Developer
5 5 (8.772%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.772%) UI Developer
5 5 (8.772%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (8.772%) UI Programmer
6 4 (7.018%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 4 (7.018%) PHP Developer
7 3 (5.263%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (5.263%) Web Designer
7 3 (5.263%) Front-End Web Developer
7 3 (5.263%) Designer
7 3 (5.263%) Drupal Developer
7 3 (5.263%) PHP Drupal Developer
8 2 (3.509%) ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (3.509%) Graphic Designer
9 1 (1.754%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.263%) Blackberry
1 3 (5.263%) iPhone
1 3 (5.263%) Video on Demand
1 3 (5.263%) iPad
2 1 (1.754%) E-Learning
2 1 (1.754%) Animation
2 1 (1.754%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 23 (40.35%) Windows
2 18 (31.58%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (7.018%) Android
3 4 (7.018%) Apple iOS
3 4 (7.018%) Linux
4 3 (5.263%) Windows Phone 8
4 3 (5.263%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (14.04%) OO
1 8 (14.04%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (14.04%) TDD
2 6 (10.53%) Web Development
2 6 (10.53%) MVC
2 6 (10.53%) Migration
2 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (7.018%) BDD
3 4 (7.018%) Scrum
3 4 (7.018%) Web Design
3 4 (7.018%) E-Commerce
4 3 (5.263%) Pair Programming
4 3 (5.263%) Build Automation
4 3 (5.263%) Web Application Development
5 2 (3.509%) OOP
5 2 (3.509%) Web Accessibility
6 1 (1.754%) Test Automation
6 1 (1.754%) Waterfall
6 1 (1.754%) Analytics
6 1 (1.754%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 52 (91.23%) JavaScript
2 29 (50.88%) SQL
3 22 (38.60%) T-SQL
4 21 (36.84%) VBScript
5 20 (35.09%) VB.NET
6 12 (21.05%) C#
7 4 (7.018%) Java
7 4 (7.018%) PHP
8 2 (3.509%) VB
8 2 (3.509%) XPath
9 1 (1.754%) PHP5
9 1 (1.754%) Groovy
9 1 (1.754%) CoffeeScript
9 1 (1.754%) VBA
9 1 (1.754%) Python
9 1 (1.754%) PowerHouse
Vendors
1 20 (35.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) Adobe
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle
3 3 (5.263%) ATG
4 2 (3.509%) Apple
5 1 (1.754%) Omniture
5 1 (1.754%) Google
5 1 (1.754%) EPiServer
5 1 (1.754%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.754%) Ektron
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