The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 17 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 Milton Keynes 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 48 58 54
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -4
Contract jobs citing jQuery 4 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.780% 0.688% 0.670%
As % of the Application Development category 3.333% 3.846% 3.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £350 £200 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -38.46%
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
120 130 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 23.39% 17.88% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 60 52
Average daily rate £375 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £259 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
Buckinghamshire

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes jQuery Hourly Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 18 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 16 (80.00%) CSS
3 13 (65.00%) .NET
3 13 (65.00%) ASP.NET
4 12 (60.00%) C#
4 12 (60.00%) HTML
4 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
5 11 (55.00%) MVC
6 10 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 10 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 8 (40.00%) HTML5
7 8 (40.00%) Unit Testing
7 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (35.00%) NUnit
8 7 (35.00%) Moq
8 7 (35.00%) Mercurial
8 7 (35.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 7 (35.00%) FogBugz
9 5 (25.00%) XHTML
9 5 (25.00%) Web Services
9 5 (25.00%) XML
9 5 (25.00%) PHP
9 5 (25.00%) MySQL
9 5 (25.00%) Ajax
10 4 (20.00%) Web Development
10 4 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (20.00%) SQL
10 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
10 4 (20.00%) OO

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 16 (80.00%) CSS
2 13 (65.00%) .NET
2 13 (65.00%) ASP.NET
3 12 (60.00%) HTML
4 10 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 8 (40.00%) HTML5
6 7 (35.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 5 (25.00%) Web Services
7 5 (25.00%) XML
7 5 (25.00%) XHTML
7 5 (25.00%) Ajax
8 3 (15.00%) JSON
8 3 (15.00%) LINQ
9 1 (5.000%) RESTful
9 1 (5.000%) WCF
9 1 (5.000%) WPF
9 1 (5.000%) NHibernate
9 1 (5.000%) .NET Framework
9 1 (5.000%) LAMP
9 1 (5.000%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) CMS
2 2 (10.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (5.000%) Apache Solr
3 1 (5.000%) SilverStripe
3 1 (5.000%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) NUnit
1 7 (35.00%) Mercurial
1 7 (35.00%) Moq
1 7 (35.00%) FogBugz
2 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (5.000%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (5.000%) Games
Job Titles
1 19 (95.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) .NET Developer
3 6 (30.00%) C# Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Web Developer
3 6 (30.00%) C# Web Developer
4 4 (20.00%) PHP Developer
5 2 (10.00%) UI Programmer
5 2 (10.00%) .NET Programmer
5 2 (10.00%) UI Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Programmer
5 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (5.000%) VB.NET Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Architect
6 1 (5.000%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET Programmer
6 1 (5.000%) Agile .NET Developer
6 1 (5.000%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.000%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (5.000%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.000%) Online Games
2 1 (5.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) UNIX
1 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) MVC
2 8 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (20.00%) Web Development
4 4 (20.00%) OO
5 2 (10.00%) Web Design
6 1 (5.000%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.000%) B2C
6 1 (5.000%) Scrum
6 1 (5.000%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (60.00%) C#
3 5 (25.00%) PHP
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.000%) VB.NET
5 1 (5.000%) PHP5
5 1 (5.000%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 1 (5.000%) Varnish
Vendors
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle
1 1 (5.000%) Omniture
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