The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 23 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 Leicestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 14 22 28
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +6
Contract jobs citing jQuery 16 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 7.583% 1.860% 2.553%
As % of the Application Development category 21.33% 6.780% 5.505%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
Average daily rate £295 - £90
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -37.50%
All Application Development
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
75 59 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 35.55% 27.44% 46.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 22 26
Average daily rate £300 £275 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -6.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £406 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 20
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
East Midlands

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Leicester +1 7 £290 -
Loughborough - 1 £265 -
jQuery
East Midlands

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 28 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 20 (71.43%) CSS
3 18 (64.29%) .NET
4 17 (60.71%) Ajax
5 16 (57.14%) HTML
5 16 (57.14%) ASP.NET
6 13 (46.43%) C#
7 12 (42.86%) CSS3
8 10 (35.71%) HTML5
8 10 (35.71%) Web Services
8 10 (35.71%) MVC
9 9 (32.14%) OO
10 8 (28.57%) N-Tier
10 8 (28.57%) PHP
10 8 (28.57%) MySQL
10 8 (28.57%) SQL Server
10 8 (28.57%) Visual Studio
11 7 (25.00%) XHTML
11 7 (25.00%) E-Commerce
11 7 (25.00%) OOP
11 7 (25.00%) Telerik
11 7 (25.00%) TDD
11 7 (25.00%) DevExpress
12 6 (21.43%) Web Development
12 6 (21.43%) Subversion
13 5 (17.86%) XML
13 5 (17.86%) SQL
14 4 (14.29%) SOAP
14 4 (14.29%) LAMP
14 4 (14.29%) REST

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 20 (71.43%) CSS
2 18 (64.29%) .NET
3 17 (60.71%) Ajax
4 16 (57.14%) HTML
4 16 (57.14%) ASP.NET
5 12 (42.86%) CSS3
6 10 (35.71%) HTML5
6 10 (35.71%) Web Services
7 7 (25.00%) XHTML
8 5 (17.86%) XML
9 4 (14.29%) SOAP
9 4 (14.29%) LAMP
9 4 (14.29%) REST
9 4 (14.29%) JSON
9 4 (14.29%) WCF
10 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (10.71%) CodeIgniter
10 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET 2.0
11 2 (7.143%) .NET Framework
11 2 (7.143%) TAPI
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) IIS
1 2 (7.143%) CMS
2 1 (3.571%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.571%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) MySQL
1 8 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (7.143%) GIS
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Visual Studio
2 6 (21.43%) Subversion
3 4 (14.29%) PHPUnit
3 4 (14.29%) Git (software)
4 1 (3.571%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.571%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.571%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.571%) JIRA
4 1 (3.571%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (3.571%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (7.143%) Finance
1 2 (7.143%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Developer
2 10 (35.71%) .NET Developer
3 9 (32.14%) ASP.NET Developer
4 6 (21.43%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 6 (21.43%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (21.43%) C# Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Web Developer
6 4 (14.29%) PHP Developer
7 3 (10.71%) Mobile Developer
8 2 (7.143%) Analyst
8 2 (7.143%) Senior Developer
8 2 (7.143%) Analyst Programmer
8 2 (7.143%) Programmer
8 2 (7.143%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (7.143%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (7.143%) Senior Analyst Programmer
8 2 (7.143%) .NET Web Developer
8 2 (7.143%) Senior Analyst Developer
8 2 (7.143%) PHP Web Developer
8 2 (7.143%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.571%) Social Media
2 1 (3.571%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 1 (3.571%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) MVC
2 9 (32.14%) OO
3 7 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 7 (25.00%) OOP
3 7 (25.00%) TDD
4 6 (21.43%) Web Development
5 3 (10.71%) SEO
6 2 (7.143%) PRINCE2
6 2 (7.143%) PRINCE
6 2 (7.143%) Scrum
6 2 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (7.143%) Kanban
6 2 (7.143%) Web Application Development
7 1 (3.571%) Market Research
7 1 (3.571%) Waterfall
7 1 (3.571%) Refactoring
7 1 (3.571%) Data Analysis
7 1 (3.571%) Software Engineering
7 1 (3.571%) Mobile Commerce
7 1 (3.571%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (46.43%) C#
3 8 (28.57%) PHP
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) T-SQL
6 2 (7.143%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.571%) CoffeeScript
7 1 (3.571%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Telerik
1 7 (25.00%) DevExpress
2 1 (3.571%) Zend
2 1 (3.571%) Adobe
2 1 (3.571%) Apple