The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 24 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 Liverpool 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 19 27 22
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -5
Contract jobs citing jQuery 3 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.190% 1.648% 1.852%
As % of the Application Development category 8.333% 5.660% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £188 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -26.47%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -37.50%
All Application Development
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 53 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 26.28% 29.12% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 15
Average daily rate £375 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £275 £271
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £375 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £14.79 £11.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.58% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
Merseyside

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool jQuery Hourly Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 (95.65%) CSS
2 21 (91.30%) JavaScript
3 16 (69.57%) MVC
4 15 (65.22%) .NET
4 15 (65.22%) SQL Server
5 14 (60.87%) C#
5 14 (60.87%) ASP.NET
5 14 (60.87%) HTML5
6 13 (56.52%) CSS3
7 11 (47.83%) HTML
7 11 (47.83%) PHP
8 9 (39.13%) MySQL
8 9 (39.13%) WCF
8 9 (39.13%) Mobile App
9 8 (34.78%) Zend
9 8 (34.78%) CodeIgniter
9 8 (34.78%) OO
10 7 (30.43%) SEO
10 7 (30.43%) CMS
10 7 (30.43%) Visual Studio
10 7 (30.43%) Web Development
10 7 (30.43%) Git (software)
11 6 (26.09%) Umbraco
11 6 (26.09%) XML
11 6 (26.09%) Facebook
11 6 (26.09%) Twitter
11 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (21.74%) Razor View Engine
12 5 (21.74%) XSD
12 5 (21.74%) XSLT

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 22 (95.65%) CSS
2 15 (65.22%) .NET
3 14 (60.87%) ASP.NET
3 14 (60.87%) HTML5
4 13 (56.52%) CSS3
5 11 (47.83%) HTML
6 9 (39.13%) WCF
7 8 (34.78%) CodeIgniter
8 6 (26.09%) XML
8 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (21.74%) Razor View Engine
9 5 (21.74%) XSD
9 5 (21.74%) XSLT
9 5 (21.74%) CakePHP
9 5 (21.74%) Google Maps API
10 4 (17.39%) JSON
10 4 (17.39%) Ajax
11 3 (13.04%) Backbone.js
12 2 (8.696%) Node.js
13 1 (4.348%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (30.43%) CMS
2 6 (26.09%) Umbraco
3 5 (21.74%) WordPress
4 1 (4.348%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (4.348%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.348%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (65.22%) SQL Server
2 9 (39.13%) MySQL
3 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (4.348%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Visual Studio
1 7 (30.43%) Git (software)
2 5 (21.74%) NetBeans
3 1 (4.348%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (4.348%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 2 (8.696%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Software Developer
3 6 (26.09%) .NET Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Web Developer
4 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Front-End Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Front-End Web Developer
7 2 (8.696%) PHP Developer
8 1 (4.348%) PHP Web Developer
8 1 (4.348%) PHP Programmer
8 1 (4.348%) Web Programmer
8 1 (4.348%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (4.348%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.696%) Mobile Games
3 1 (4.348%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) MVC
2 8 (34.78%) OO
3 7 (30.43%) SEO
3 7 (30.43%) Web Development
4 5 (21.74%) OOD
4 5 (21.74%) Business Development
5 3 (13.04%) OOP
5 3 (13.04%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (4.348%) Web Design
7 1 (4.348%) Scrum
7 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
7 1 (4.348%) Game Development
7 1 (4.348%) Responsive Web Design
7 1 (4.348%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) JavaScript
2 14 (60.87%) C#
3 11 (47.83%) PHP
4 5 (21.74%) XPath
5 2 (8.696%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 1 (4.348%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) Plesk
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Zend
2 6 (26.09%) Facebook
2 6 (26.09%) Twitter
3 5 (21.74%) Oracle
3 5 (21.74%) Google
4 2 (8.696%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.348%) Sitecore
5 1 (4.348%) Adobe