The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 18 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 Luton 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 18 - 8
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing jQuery 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 1.235% - 4.348%
As % of the Application Development category 4.167% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £350 - £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £299
% change year-on-year
- +0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.25 £38.25
% change year-on-year
+38.61% -33.98%
All Application Development
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
24 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 29.63% 15.07% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 10
Average daily rate £338 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £393 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
jQuery
Bedfordshire

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton jQuery Daily Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) NHibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) WF
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) SQLite
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Social Media
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) iOS SDK
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) PhoneGap
2 1 (33.33%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) J2ME
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) NHibernate
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) WF
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) iOS SDK
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) SQLite
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) Xcode
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (33.33%) PhoneGap
1 1 (33.33%) Appcelerator Titanium
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
1 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
2 1 (33.33%) VB6
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Google