The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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 23 33 29
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -4
Contract jobs citing jQuery 4 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.116% 1.220% 2.518%
As % of the Application Development category 7.273% 3.659% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 6
Average daily rate - £161 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -43.91%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+18.64% -26.25%
All Application Development
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
55 82 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 29.10% 33.33% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 42 20
Average daily rate £300 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £205 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £372 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
Average hourly rate - £17.51 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +16.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
jQuery
North West

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool +8 3 - - 9
St Helens - - - - 1
jQuery
North West

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 14 (82.35%) CSS
2 13 (76.47%) JavaScript
3 11 (64.71%) C#
3 11 (64.71%) .NET
3 11 (64.71%) SQL Server
3 11 (64.71%) ASP.NET
3 11 (64.71%) MVC
4 10 (58.82%) PHP
4 10 (58.82%) HTML5
5 9 (52.94%) CSS3
6 8 (47.06%) Git (software)
7 7 (41.18%) HTML
7 7 (41.18%) Zend
7 7 (41.18%) CodeIgniter
8 6 (35.29%) WCF
8 6 (35.29%) Web Development
8 6 (35.29%) Visual Studio
8 6 (35.29%) XML
8 6 (35.29%) SEO
8 6 (35.29%) CMS
8 6 (35.29%) Linux
8 6 (35.29%) OO
8 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (35.29%) Mobile App
8 6 (35.29%) Facebook
9 5 (29.41%) Twitter
9 5 (29.41%) Razor View Engine
9 5 (29.41%) OOD
9 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (29.41%) XSD

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 14 (82.35%) CSS
2 11 (64.71%) .NET
2 11 (64.71%) ASP.NET
3 10 (58.82%) HTML5
4 9 (52.94%) CSS3
5 7 (41.18%) HTML
5 7 (41.18%) CodeIgniter
6 6 (35.29%) WCF
6 6 (35.29%) XML
6 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (29.41%) Razor View Engine
7 5 (29.41%) XSD
7 5 (29.41%) XSLT
7 5 (29.41%) Google Maps API
7 5 (29.41%) CakePHP
8 2 (11.76%) Backbone.js
9 1 (5.882%) JSON
9 1 (5.882%) LINQ
9 1 (5.882%) Django
9 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) CMS
2 5 (29.41%) Umbraco
2 5 (29.41%) WordPress
3 2 (11.76%) Magento
4 1 (5.882%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (5.882%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (29.41%) MySQL
3 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git (software)
2 6 (35.29%) Visual Studio
3 5 (29.41%) NetBeans
4 1 (5.882%) Selenium
4 1 (5.882%) Jasmine
4 1 (5.882%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (5.882%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (5.882%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Software Developer
3 6 (35.29%) .NET Developer
4 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (17.65%) PHP Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Web Developer
6 2 (11.76%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (5.882%) PHP Web Developer
7 1 (5.882%) PHP Programmer
7 1 (5.882%) Web Programmer
7 1 (5.882%) Programmer
7 1 (5.882%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.882%) Social Network
2 1 (5.882%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) MVC
2 6 (35.29%) Web Development
2 6 (35.29%) SEO
2 6 (35.29%) OO
3 5 (29.41%) OOD
3 5 (29.41%) Business Development
4 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
5 1 (5.882%) TDD
5 1 (5.882%) Scrum
5 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.882%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) JavaScript
2 11 (64.71%) C#
3 10 (58.82%) PHP
4 5 (29.41%) XPath
5 3 (17.65%) Java
6 1 (5.882%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Plesk
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Zend
2 6 (35.29%) Facebook
3 5 (29.41%) Twitter
3 5 (29.41%) Oracle
3 5 (29.41%) Google
4 1 (5.882%) Sitecore
4 1 (5.882%) Microsoft