The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 30 39
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +9
Contract jobs citing jQuery 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.508% 0.692% 0.263%
As % of the Application Development category 10.00% 4.878% 1.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £19.52 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+18.64% -26.25%
All Application Development
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
30 41 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 15.08% 14.19% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 36
Average daily rate £325 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -22.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 £19.52 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+92.11% -32.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
jQuery
South East

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

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

Middlesex jQuery Daily Rate Histogram

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (71.43%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) Ajax
2 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (57.14%) Product Management
3 4 (57.14%) Games
3 4 (57.14%) DOM
4 3 (42.86%) Video on Demand
5 2 (28.57%) JSON
5 2 (28.57%) HTML
5 2 (28.57%) XML
6 1 (14.29%) VBScript
6 1 (14.29%) .NET
6 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
6 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
6 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
6 1 (14.29%) XHTML
6 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
6 1 (14.29%) SSL
6 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 1 (14.29%) Adobe
6 1 (14.29%) Internet
6 1 (14.29%) DRM
6 1 (14.29%) Project Management
6 1 (14.29%) French Language
6 1 (14.29%) German Language
6 1 (14.29%) Italian Language
6 1 (14.29%) Spanish Language

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (71.43%) Ajax
3 4 (57.14%) DOM
4 2 (28.57%) JSON
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) .NET
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 1 (14.29%) XHTML
5 1 (14.29%) HTML5
5 1 (14.29%) Node.js
5 1 (14.29%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 1 (14.29%) PaintShop Pro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (57.14%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) French Language
2 1 (14.29%) German Language
2 1 (14.29%) Italian Language
2 1 (14.29%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Video on Demand
2 1 (14.29%) Graphic Design
2 1 (14.29%) STB
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) OO
1 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) Product Management
3 1 (14.29%) DRM
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) VBScript
2 1 (14.29%) Lua
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe