The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 19 June 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 London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 39 50 97
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +47
Contract jobs citing jQuery 991 909 657
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 4.346% 3.419% 2.088%
As % of the Application Development category 14.21% 11.84% 6.854%
Number of daily rates quoted 724 623 448
Average daily rate £366 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £509 £498 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 11
Average hourly rate £41.50 £40.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.75% +60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+18.64% -26.25%
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6974 7680 9585
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 30.58% 28.89% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5047 5216 6511
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 104 116
Average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +46.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £19.52 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £67.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
jQuery
England

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London 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 London region.

London jQuery Hourly Rate Trend

jQuery
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing jQuery across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London jQuery Hourly Rate Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +11 248 £350 - 98
Canary Wharf +24 22 £600 +84.61%
Docklands, London +11 9 £240 -52.00%
Hounslow -2 3 £375 -
Uxbridge 0 2 £338 - 2
Surbiton - 2 £275 -
Chiswick - 2 - -
Hammersmith +2 1 - - 1
Harrow -1 1 £250 -
Ealing - 1 £363 -
Westminster - 1 £500 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £275 - 1
Sidcup - - - -
Southall - - - -
Beckenham - - - -
Chessington - - - -
Croydon - - - - 4
Edgware - - - - 1
Feltham - - - -
Osterley - - - -
Twickenham - - - - 2
Wembley - - - -
Wimbledon - - - - 1
Hackney - - - -
jQuery
England

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 1391 (80.97%) JavaScript
2 1326 (77.18%) CSS
3 1031 (60.01%) HTML
4 782 (45.52%) HTML5
5 601 (34.98%) CSS3
6 556 (32.36%) Ajax
7 548 (31.90%) .NET
8 476 (27.71%) MVC
9 469 (27.30%) C#
10 429 (24.97%) ASP.NET
11 409 (23.81%) OO
12 407 (23.69%) SQL Server
13 399 (23.22%) TDD
14 383 (22.29%) Agile Software Development
15 347 (20.20%) XML
16 341 (19.85%) SQL
17 306 (17.81%) Java
18 301 (17.52%) JSON
19 268 (15.60%) PHP
20 267 (15.54%) Web Services
21 260 (15.13%) E-Commerce
22 249 (14.49%) Web Development
23 243 (14.14%) MySQL
24 239 (13.91%) Finance
25 232 (13.50%) Scrum
26 218 (12.69%) ASP.NET MVC
27 198 (11.53%) CMS
28 177 (10.30%) BDD
29 171 (9.953%) Git (software)
30 169 (9.837%) XHTML

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 1326 (77.18%) CSS
2 1031 (60.01%) HTML
3 782 (45.52%) HTML5
4 601 (34.98%) CSS3
5 556 (32.36%) Ajax
6 548 (31.90%) .NET
7 429 (24.97%) ASP.NET
8 347 (20.20%) XML
9 301 (17.52%) JSON
10 267 (15.54%) Web Services
11 218 (12.69%) ASP.NET MVC
12 169 (9.837%) XHTML
13 152 (8.847%) Spring
14 148 (8.615%) REST
15 143 (8.324%) .NET Framework
16 133 (7.742%) XSLT
17 132 (7.683%) SOAP
18 131 (7.625%) WCF
18 131 (7.625%) Backbone.js
19 114 (6.636%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 198 (11.53%) CMS
2 126 (7.334%) Apache
3 111 (6.461%) SharePoint
4 68 (3.958%) SharePoint 2010
5 54 (3.143%) Tomcat
6 49 (2.852%) Drupal
7 43 (2.503%) WordPress
7 43 (2.503%) Umbraco
7 43 (2.503%) IIS
8 38 (2.212%) WebLogic
9 30 (1.746%) Amazon AWS
10 29 (1.688%) Sitecore CMS
11 24 (1.397%) Kentico
11 24 (1.397%) Magento
12 23 (1.339%) Windows Azure
13 20 (1.164%) Sitefinity
14 18 (1.048%) nginx
14 18 (1.048%) Oracle Workflow
15 17 (0.990%) SharePoint Server
16 14 (0.815%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 147 (8.556%) Photoshop
2 58 (3.376%) MS Excel
3 35 (2.037%) Adobe Illustrator
4 30 (1.746%) InfoPath
5 20 (1.164%) Fireworks
6 13 (0.757%) MS Office
7 3 (0.175%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.175%) OmniGraffle
7 3 (0.175%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.116%) Google Apps
8 2 (0.116%) Office 365
8 2 (0.116%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.058%) InDesign
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.058%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 27 (1.572%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.640%) Oracle BPM
3 9 (0.524%) AquaLogic BPM
4 7 (0.407%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.349%) Google Analytics
5 6 (0.349%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 4 (0.233%) SiteCatalyst
7 2 (0.116%) JDE OneWorld
7 2 (0.116%) Bond Adapt
8 1 (0.058%) WebTrends
8 1 (0.058%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.889%) Internet
2 72 (4.191%) HTTP
3 30 (1.746%) Intranet
4 14 (0.815%) Extranet
5 12 (0.698%) DNS
6 8 (0.466%) SSL
7 5 (0.291%) FTP
7 5 (0.291%) Network Security
8 4 (0.233%) LDAP
9 3 (0.175%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.175%) SAN
10 2 (0.116%) NFC
10 2 (0.116%) LAN
11 1 (0.058%) SSH
11 1 (0.058%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.058%) SMS
11 1 (0.058%) ATM
11 1 (0.058%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (23.69%) SQL Server
2 243 (14.14%) MySQL
3 127 (7.392%) SQL Server 2008
4 59 (3.434%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 52 (3.027%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 51 (2.969%) SQL Server 2005
7 42 (2.445%) MongoDB
8 37 (2.154%) RDBMS
9 33 (1.921%) NoSQL
10 27 (1.572%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (1.572%) SQL Server 2000
11 16 (0.931%) SQL Server 2012
12 14 (0.815%) Big Data
13 11 (0.640%) MarkLogic
13 11 (0.640%) Redis
13 11 (0.640%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.640%) Oracle 11g
13 11 (0.640%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 10 (0.582%) Oracle 10g
15 9 (0.524%) DTS
Development Applications
1 171 (9.953%) Git (software)
2 163 (9.488%) Visual Studio
3 150 (8.731%) Subversion
4 90 (5.239%) Jasmine
5 88 (5.122%) JUnit
6 55 (3.201%) Maven
7 50 (2.910%) Team Foundation Server
8 47 (2.736%) Jenkins
9 45 (2.619%) Eclipse
10 44 (2.561%) Selenium
11 38 (2.212%) Cucumber
12 34 (1.979%) JIRA
13 31 (1.804%) Hudson
13 31 (1.804%) NUnit
14 24 (1.397%) GitHub
15 19 (1.106%) PhoneGap
15 19 (1.106%) QUnit
16 18 (1.048%) RSpec
16 18 (1.048%) Appcelerator Titanium
17 17 (0.990%) Dreamweaver
General
1 239 (13.91%) Finance
2 128 (7.451%) Banking
3 84 (4.889%) Publishing
4 77 (4.482%) Marketing
5 71 (4.133%) Retail
6 60 (3.492%) Investment Banking
7 43 (2.503%) Games
8 36 (2.095%) Telecoms
9 16 (0.931%) Back Office
10 14 (0.815%) Financial Institution
11 13 (0.757%) Front Office
12 9 (0.524%) Automotive
12 9 (0.524%) Advertising
13 8 (0.466%) Online Betting
13 8 (0.466%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.466%) Multimedia
14 6 (0.349%) Electronics
15 4 (0.233%) Legal
15 4 (0.233%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.233%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 1528 (88.94%) Developer
2 369 (21.48%) Front-End Developer
3 302 (17.58%) Web Developer
4 235 (13.68%) .NET Developer
5 182 (10.59%) Senior Developer
6 134 (7.800%) PHP Developer
7 122 (7.101%) Java Developer
8 108 (6.286%) JavaScript Developer
9 105 (6.112%) UI Developer
10 97 (5.646%) C# Developer
11 86 (5.006%) UI Programmer
12 78 (4.540%) ASP.NET Developer
13 62 (3.609%) C# .NET Developer
14 54 (3.143%) Ruby on Rails Developer
15 51 (2.969%) SharePoint Developer
15 51 (2.969%) Front-End Web Developer
16 50 (2.910%) Mobile Developer
17 48 (2.794%) Designer
18 43 (2.503%) Architect
19 35 (2.037%) Senior Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.540%) Open Source
2 63 (3.667%) W3C
3 55 (3.201%) Mobile App
4 51 (2.969%) RIA
4 51 (2.969%) Digital Media
5 49 (2.852%) Social Media
6 48 (2.794%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 45 (2.619%) iPhone
8 43 (2.503%) N-Tier
9 31 (1.804%) Computer Science
10 28 (1.630%) iPad
11 26 (1.513%) Streaming Video
12 25 (1.455%) Blackberry
13 19 (1.106%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.106%) Credit Risk
14 18 (1.048%) Social Network
15 15 (0.873%) Graphic Design
16 14 (0.815%) Inversion of Control
16 14 (0.815%) Video on Demand
17 13 (0.757%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 129 (7.509%) Linux
2 98 (5.704%) Windows
3 95 (5.530%) Apple iOS
4 85 (4.948%) Android
5 55 (3.201%) UNIX
6 18 (1.048%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (0.757%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (0.407%) Windows Mobile
9 6 (0.349%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.291%) CentOS
11 4 (0.233%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.233%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.233%) Windows XP
12 3 (0.175%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.175%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.116%) Windows 2000 Server
13 2 (0.116%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.116%) Windows Phone 8
13 2 (0.116%) Windows Phone
13 2 (0.116%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (27.71%) MVC
2 409 (23.81%) OO
3 399 (23.22%) TDD
4 383 (22.29%) Agile Software Development
5 260 (15.13%) E-Commerce
6 249 (14.49%) Web Development
7 232 (13.50%) Scrum
8 177 (10.30%) BDD
9 113 (6.577%) Continuous Integration
10 110 (6.403%) Unit Testing
11 86 (5.006%) OOP
12 77 (4.482%) Content Management
13 68 (3.958%) Web Design
14 61 (3.551%) Workflow
14 61 (3.551%) SOA
15 58 (3.376%) Kanban
16 54 (3.143%) OOD
17 51 (2.969%) CRM
18 44 (2.561%) SEO
19 43 (2.503%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1391 (80.97%) JavaScript
2 469 (27.30%) C#
3 341 (19.85%) SQL
4 306 (17.81%) Java
5 268 (15.60%) PHP
6 110 (6.403%) Ruby
7 80 (4.657%) T-SQL
8 67 (3.900%) PHP5
9 50 (2.910%) Groovy
10 39 (2.270%) Python
11 37 (2.154%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.339%) Objective-C
13 20 (1.164%) PL/SQL
13 20 (1.164%) Perl
14 19 (1.106%) Shell Script
15 18 (1.048%) XQuery
15 18 (1.048%) XPath
16 17 (0.990%) C
16 17 (0.990%) VBA
17 16 (0.931%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 90 (5.239%) Degree
2 18 (1.048%) Security Cleared
3 6 (0.349%) SC Cleared
3 6 (0.349%) CTC Cleared
3 6 (0.349%) CIPD
4 2 (0.116%) ISEB
4 2 (0.116%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.058%) MCTS
5 1 (0.058%) MCP
5 1 (0.058%) MCAD
5 1 (0.058%) MCSD
5 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.058%) IBM Certification
5 1 (0.058%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.164%) QA
2 9 (0.524%) WCAG
3 4 (0.233%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.175%) WAI
5 2 (0.116%) Basel III
5 2 (0.116%) Dublin Core
5 2 (0.116%) SLA
6 1 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (1.281%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.048%) Varnish
3 7 (0.407%) Squid
4 2 (0.116%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.058%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 1 (0.058%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (0.466%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.058%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 150 (8.731%) Oracle
2 149 (8.673%) Microsoft
3 82 (4.773%) Zend
4 64 (3.725%) Adobe
5 57 (3.318%) Google
6 43 (2.503%) Facebook
7 41 (2.386%) Twitter
8 38 (2.212%) Sitecore
9 35 (2.037%) Sencha
10 34 (1.979%) EPiServer
11 18 (1.048%) IBM
11 18 (1.048%) FatWire
12 16 (0.931%) JBoss
13 15 (0.873%) Sybase
14 13 (0.757%) Salesforce.com
15 12 (0.698%) Perforce
16 11 (0.640%) Telerik
17 9 (0.524%) SAP
18 8 (0.466%) Atlassian
18 8 (0.466%) Apple
City, London
PHP Developer - contract - Zend - MVC Framework - JavaScript - JQuery - HTML - CSS Immediate start - £225-250 per day. My client requires a PHP developer to join their team on a...
Mortimer Spinks
Rate: £225 - £250 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
HTMl5/ CSS3/ Jquery My client is looking for an experienced Web Developer with excellent front-end development skills, for an initial 1 month period... - 3+ years of solid...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
UK Central London
Web Developer Contract - £200-£250 Per day - London - 1 month HTMl5/ CSS3/ JqueryMy client is looking for an experienced Web Developer with excellent front-end development skills, for...
Premier Group
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
They are on the look out for an innovative and passionate Front End Developer with a proven track record within HTML5 and CSS3... Strong Experience with HTML5 and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £100.00 - £150.00 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
On a technical level your skills will be built from: - HTML, XHTML and CSS - JQuery - Developing cross browser and cross device compatible solutions - JavaScript - HTML5 - Experience of working...
Rate: £300 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
North West London
Ashdown IT
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
North West London
Ashdown IT
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
OPUS
Rate: GBP300 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Mortimer Spinks
Rate: £275 - £350 per day
Posted: 16 June 2013
London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £100.00 - £150.00 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013
City Of London
OPUS
Rate: GBP150 to GBP220 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Engage PSG
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per day + Market Rates
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Circle Recruitment
Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £200.00 - £280.00 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £125.00 - £150.00 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £150 to £220 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £400 - £425 per day + BONUS 26 DAYS HOLIDAY!
Posted: 8 June 2013
London
Orgtel
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Central London / West End
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Rate: 300 - 380 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
West London
Searchability.co.uk
Rate: £300 - £320 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013