The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 41 24 27
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +3
Contract jobs citing jQuery 35 47 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 4.698% 5.281% 4.792%
As % of the Application Development category 13.26% 19.75% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 36 14
Average daily rate £250 £325 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +16.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £270 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £378 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -37.50%
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
264 238 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 35.44% 26.74% 22.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 158 79
Average daily rate £290 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £264 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
Average hourly rate £33.00 £22.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+46.66% -47.05%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
West Yorkshire

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds jQuery Hourly Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 55 (77.46%) JavaScript
2 51 (71.83%) CSS
3 38 (53.52%) .NET
4 37 (52.11%) HTML
5 36 (50.70%) C#
5 36 (50.70%) ASP.NET
6 29 (40.85%) HTML5
7 28 (39.44%) SQL Server
7 28 (39.44%) Web Services
8 24 (33.80%) Scrum
9 23 (32.39%) Oracle
10 21 (29.58%) SQL
10 21 (29.58%) MySQL
10 21 (29.58%) TDD
11 20 (28.17%) BDD
12 19 (26.76%) Jenkins
13 18 (25.35%) Java
13 18 (25.35%) Visual Studio
13 18 (25.35%) SQL Server 2008
13 18 (25.35%) Git (software)
13 18 (25.35%) Amazon AWS
13 18 (25.35%) MongoDB
14 17 (23.94%) J2EE
14 17 (23.94%) Internet
14 17 (23.94%) Oracle EBS
14 17 (23.94%) Ajax
14 17 (23.94%) Security Testing
14 17 (23.94%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (23.94%) Amazon S3
14 17 (23.94%) Redis

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 51 (71.83%) CSS
2 38 (53.52%) .NET
3 37 (52.11%) HTML
4 36 (50.70%) ASP.NET
5 29 (40.85%) HTML5
6 28 (39.44%) Web Services
7 17 (23.94%) J2EE
7 17 (23.94%) Ajax
8 15 (21.13%) Hibernate
8 15 (21.13%) Spring
8 15 (21.13%) CSS3
9 14 (19.72%) SOAP
10 13 (18.31%) REST
11 12 (16.90%) .NET Framework
12 11 (15.49%) XML
13 9 (12.68%) Java EE
14 7 (9.859%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 7 (9.859%) Node.js
15 6 (8.451%) JSON
16 5 (7.042%) CAML
Application Platforms
1 18 (25.35%) Amazon AWS
2 17 (23.94%) Route 53
2 17 (23.94%) Amazon EC2
2 17 (23.94%) Amazon S3
3 14 (19.72%) CMS
4 13 (18.31%) SharePoint
4 13 (18.31%) Adobe CQ
5 8 (11.27%) EPiServer CMS
5 8 (11.27%) Apache
6 7 (9.859%) Tomcat
6 7 (9.859%) nginx
6 7 (9.859%) Apache Solr
7 5 (7.042%) SharePoint 2010
8 4 (5.634%) Drupal
9 3 (4.225%) Umbraco
9 3 (4.225%) WebLogic
9 3 (4.225%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (2.817%) DotNetNuke
10 2 (2.817%) IIS
10 2 (2.817%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.408%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (23.94%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.408%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.94%) Internet
2 7 (9.859%) HTTP
2 7 (9.859%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (39.44%) SQL Server
2 21 (29.58%) MySQL
3 18 (25.35%) SQL Server 2008
3 18 (25.35%) MongoDB
4 17 (23.94%) Redis
4 17 (23.94%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (12.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (11.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (8.451%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (4.225%) SQL Server 2005
8 3 (4.225%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (2.817%) SQL Server 2000
9 2 (2.817%) Oracle 11g
10 1 (1.408%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.408%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.408%) CouchDB
10 1 (1.408%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 19 (26.76%) Jenkins
2 18 (25.35%) Visual Studio
2 18 (25.35%) Git (software)
3 15 (21.13%) Maven
4 5 (7.042%) Selenium
5 3 (4.225%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (4.225%) NUnit
5 3 (4.225%) Subversion
5 3 (4.225%) JUnit
5 3 (4.225%) Hudson
6 1 (1.408%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.408%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.408%) Capistrano
General
1 8 (11.27%) Telecoms
2 2 (2.817%) Finance
3 1 (1.408%) Marketing
3 1 (1.408%) German Language
3 1 (1.408%) Japanese Language
3 1 (1.408%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (95.77%) Developer
2 23 (32.39%) .NET Developer
3 17 (23.94%) Java Developer
4 11 (15.49%) SharePoint Developer
5 8 (11.27%) Web Developer
6 7 (9.859%) Front-End Developer
7 5 (7.042%) Front-End Web Developer
7 5 (7.042%) CMS Developer
7 5 (7.042%) PHP Developer
7 5 (7.042%) Mobile Developer
8 3 (4.225%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (4.225%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.225%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.225%) Programmer
9 2 (2.817%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.817%) ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (2.817%) Drupal Developer
9 2 (2.817%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 2 (2.817%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (2.817%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Client/Server
2 4 (5.634%) W3C
3 2 (2.817%) Open Source
4 1 (1.408%) Heroku
4 1 (1.408%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.408%) NHS
4 1 (1.408%) Web 2.0
4 1 (1.408%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.408%) Pharmacovigilance
4 1 (1.408%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Linux
2 3 (4.225%) Windows
3 2 (2.817%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (1.408%) Solaris
4 1 (1.408%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) Scrum
2 21 (29.58%) TDD
3 20 (28.17%) BDD
4 17 (23.94%) Security Testing
5 14 (19.72%) MVC
6 13 (18.31%) Web Development
7 12 (16.90%) SOA
8 10 (14.08%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (9.859%) Software Engineering
9 7 (9.859%) Kanban
9 7 (9.859%) Test Automation
10 6 (8.451%) Supplier Management
11 5 (7.042%) Automated Testing
11 5 (7.042%) Unit Testing
12 4 (5.634%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (5.634%) Stakeholder Management
13 3 (4.225%) Migration
13 3 (4.225%) Business Intelligence
13 3 (4.225%) OO
13 3 (4.225%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 55 (77.46%) JavaScript
2 36 (50.70%) C#
3 21 (29.58%) SQL
4 18 (25.35%) Java
5 13 (18.31%) PHP
6 8 (11.27%) Perl
6 8 (11.27%) Ruby
7 7 (9.859%) Bash shell
7 7 (9.859%) Python
7 7 (9.859%) C++
8 4 (5.634%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.634%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.225%) VB.NET
9 3 (4.225%) PHP5
10 2 (2.817%) OCaml
11 1 (1.408%) Groovy
11 1 (1.408%) XAML
11 1 (1.408%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (7.042%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.817%) Degree
2 2 (2.817%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.408%) WAI
Vendors
1 23 (32.39%) Oracle
2 17 (23.94%) Percona
3 13 (18.31%) Adobe
4 12 (16.90%) hybris
5 10 (14.08%) EPiServer
6 4 (5.634%) RedDot
7 3 (4.225%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.408%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.408%) Omniture
8 1 (1.408%) Zend
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