The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 20 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 North West 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 37 43 60
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +17
Contract jobs citing jQuery 114 108 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 4.709% 3.617% 2.176%
As % of the Application Development category 17.48% 12.40% 8.442%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 72 45
Average daily rate £300 £285 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £203 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £374 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £295
% change year-on-year
- +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
Average hourly rate £22.00 £17.00 £25.93
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+29.41% -34.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.40 £22.67
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £19.00 £29.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+18.64% -26.25%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
652 871 770
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.93% 29.17% 25.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 471 438
Average daily rate £313 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 34
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -41.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £121.65 £33.30 £37.50
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Manchester +10 59 £293 +6.36% 88
Cheshire -3 33 £325 +6.55% 30
Lancashire +20 16 £275 -8.33% 17
Merseyside +11 4 - - 19
Cumbria - - - - 2
jQuery
England

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 197 (85.28%) JavaScript
2 164 (71.00%) CSS
3 125 (54.11%) HTML
4 106 (45.89%) .NET
5 98 (42.42%) C#
6 97 (41.99%) MVC
7 88 (38.10%) ASP.NET
8 80 (34.63%) Ajax
9 77 (33.33%) HTML5
10 76 (32.90%) SQL Server
11 64 (27.71%) SQL
11 64 (27.71%) CSS3
12 61 (26.41%) Web Services
13 59 (25.54%) Java
14 55 (23.81%) XML
15 50 (21.65%) Agile Software Development
16 48 (20.78%) PHP
17 40 (17.32%) WCF
18 39 (16.88%) ASP.NET MVC
19 37 (16.02%) TDD
20 36 (15.58%) JSON
21 31 (13.42%) Oracle
22 30 (12.99%) .NET Framework
23 29 (12.55%) CMS
24 28 (12.12%) MySQL
25 27 (11.69%) Servlets
25 27 (11.69%) XHTML
26 26 (11.26%) Spring
26 26 (11.26%) Web Development
26 26 (11.26%) JSP

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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
1 164 (71.00%) CSS
2 125 (54.11%) HTML
3 106 (45.89%) .NET
4 88 (38.10%) ASP.NET
5 80 (34.63%) Ajax
6 77 (33.33%) HTML5
7 64 (27.71%) CSS3
8 61 (26.41%) Web Services
9 55 (23.81%) XML
10 40 (17.32%) WCF
11 39 (16.88%) ASP.NET MVC
12 36 (15.58%) JSON
13 30 (12.99%) .NET Framework
14 27 (11.69%) Servlets
14 27 (11.69%) XHTML
15 26 (11.26%) Spring
15 26 (11.26%) JSP
16 25 (10.82%) J2EE
16 25 (10.82%) Hibernate
17 24 (10.39%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 29 (12.55%) CMS
2 26 (11.26%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.926%) Apache
4 12 (5.195%) WordPress
5 11 (4.762%) Umbraco
6 9 (3.896%) Drupal
7 7 (3.030%) SharePoint 2010
8 6 (2.597%) ESB
8 6 (2.597%) IIS
8 6 (2.597%) Magento
9 5 (2.165%) WebLogic
9 5 (2.165%) TeamSite
10 3 (1.299%) Tomcat
10 3 (1.299%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.866%) DotNetNuke
11 2 (0.866%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.866%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.433%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.433%) Mule
12 1 (0.433%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 17 (7.359%) Photoshop
2 8 (3.463%) Adobe Illustrator
2 8 (3.463%) Fireworks
3 4 (1.732%) MS Office
4 3 (1.299%) MS Excel
5 2 (0.866%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.433%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.433%) Office 365
6 1 (0.433%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.866%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.896%) Intranet
2 6 (2.597%) HTTP
3 3 (1.299%) Internet
4 2 (0.866%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (32.90%) SQL Server
2 28 (12.12%) MySQL
3 23 (9.957%) SQL Server 2008
4 16 (6.926%) SQL Server 2005
5 9 (3.896%) SQL Server 2012
6 7 (3.030%) DB2
7 6 (2.597%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.165%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.165%) SQL Server 2000
9 4 (1.732%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.299%) Oracle 8/8i
10 3 (1.299%) SQLite
10 3 (1.299%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.866%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.866%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.866%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.866%) PerformancePoint
12 1 (0.433%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.433%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.433%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 24 (10.39%) Subversion
2 22 (9.524%) Visual Studio
3 18 (7.792%) Git (software)
4 14 (6.061%) Eclipse
5 11 (4.762%) NetBeans
6 10 (4.329%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (3.896%) JIRA
8 8 (3.463%) Gradle
9 7 (3.030%) JUnit
10 5 (2.165%) ClearCase
11 3 (1.299%) QUnit
12 2 (0.866%) Ant
12 2 (0.866%) Jenkins
12 2 (0.866%) PhoneGap
12 2 (0.866%) Appcelerator Titanium
12 2 (0.866%) Hudson
12 2 (0.866%) PHPUnit
12 2 (0.866%) Mercurial
13 1 (0.433%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.433%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 17 (7.359%) Finance
2 13 (5.628%) Banking
3 7 (3.030%) Retail
4 5 (2.165%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.299%) Publishing
5 3 (1.299%) Marketing
6 2 (0.866%) Games
Job Titles
1 217 (93.94%) Developer
2 55 (23.81%) .NET Developer
3 51 (22.08%) Web Developer
4 37 (16.02%) Java Developer
5 27 (11.69%) C# Developer
6 20 (8.658%) ASP.NET Developer
7 17 (7.359%) Senior Developer
8 16 (6.926%) PHP Developer
9 15 (6.494%) C# .NET Developer
9 15 (6.494%) Designer
10 13 (5.628%) Software Developer
10 13 (5.628%) Front-End Developer
11 12 (5.195%) Web Designer
12 11 (4.762%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (4.329%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 10 (4.329%) Applications Developer
14 9 (3.896%) Web Applications Developer
15 8 (3.463%) JavaScript Developer
16 7 (3.030%) Agile C# Developer
17 6 (2.597%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.061%) Mobile App
2 9 (3.896%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.030%) N-Tier
4 6 (2.597%) Web 2.0
4 6 (2.597%) Client/Server
4 6 (2.597%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.165%) PMI
6 4 (1.732%) iPad
7 3 (1.299%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.866%) E-Learning
8 2 (0.866%) Computer Science
8 2 (0.866%) NHS
8 2 (0.866%) BBC
8 2 (0.866%) Linked Data
8 2 (0.866%) Kindle
8 2 (0.866%) Social Media
8 2 (0.866%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.433%) Open Source
9 1 (0.433%) Inversion of Control
9 1 (0.433%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.957%) Windows
2 17 (7.359%) Linux
3 13 (5.628%) Android
4 8 (3.463%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.299%) Windows 8
5 3 (1.299%) Windows CE
6 2 (0.866%) UNIX
7 1 (0.433%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.433%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (41.99%) MVC
2 50 (21.65%) Agile Software Development
3 37 (16.02%) TDD
4 26 (11.26%) Web Development
5 25 (10.82%) OO
6 23 (9.957%) E-Commerce
7 21 (9.091%) Web Design
8 18 (7.792%) Content Management
9 14 (6.061%) Web Application Development
9 14 (6.061%) Scrum
10 13 (5.628%) SEO
11 12 (5.195%) BDD
11 12 (5.195%) SOA
11 12 (5.195%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (3.896%) Waterfall
13 8 (3.463%) OOP
14 7 (3.030%) Analytics
14 7 (3.030%) ITIL
14 7 (3.030%) Web Analytics
14 7 (3.030%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 197 (85.28%) JavaScript
2 98 (42.42%) C#
3 64 (27.71%) SQL
4 59 (25.54%) Java
5 48 (20.78%) PHP
6 13 (5.628%) XPath
7 12 (5.195%) VB.NET
7 12 (5.195%) T-SQL
8 7 (3.030%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.597%) VB
10 5 (2.165%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.165%) Ruby
11 4 (1.732%) Objective-C
11 4 (1.732%) C++
12 3 (1.299%) Groovy
12 3 (1.299%) C
13 2 (0.866%) VB6
13 2 (0.866%) PHP5
13 2 (0.866%) VBScript
13 2 (0.866%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (6.494%) Degree
2 5 (2.165%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.732%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.299%) PhD
4 3 (1.299%) Sun Certification
5 2 (0.866%) MCSD
5 2 (0.866%) HNC
5 2 (0.866%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.433%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.597%) QA
2 2 (0.866%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.433%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (0.433%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.433%) Plesk
Vendors
1 31 (13.42%) Oracle
2 19 (8.225%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.061%) Zend
4 13 (5.628%) JBoss
5 9 (3.896%) Facebook
6 8 (3.463%) Telerik
7 7 (3.030%) Twitter
8 5 (2.165%) Chordiant
8 5 (2.165%) IBM
8 5 (2.165%) Interwoven
8 5 (2.165%) Google
9 4 (1.732%) Perforce
9 4 (1.732%) EPiServer
10 3 (1.299%) Apple
10 3 (1.299%) Orchard
11 2 (0.866%) Adobe
11 2 (0.866%) SAP
11 2 (0.866%) Razor Risk
11 2 (0.866%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.433%) Sybase
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