The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norwich region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 20 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 Norwich 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 13 22 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing jQuery 10 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 7.813% 2.381% -
As % of the Application Development category 31.25% 9.091% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
Average daily rate £288 £195 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.43% -
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 £23.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+52.17% -42.50%
All Application Development
Norwich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
32 44 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 25.00% 26.19% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 19
Average daily rate £300 £288 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £227 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £388 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £16.50 - £26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
Norfolk

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich 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 Norwich region.

Norwich jQuery Daily Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 39 (90.70%) CSS
2 35 (81.40%) PHP
2 35 (81.40%) Drupal
3 34 (79.07%) JavaScript
4 26 (60.47%) HTML
5 22 (51.16%) Unit Testing
6 19 (44.19%) XHTML
7 18 (41.86%) Publishing
7 18 (41.86%) Photoshop
8 15 (34.88%) Code Coverage
9 14 (32.56%) TDD
9 14 (32.56%) HTML5
9 14 (32.56%) CSS3
10 9 (20.93%) Content Management
11 7 (16.28%) SharePoint
12 5 (11.63%) Web Development
12 5 (11.63%) Selenium
13 3 (6.977%) Workflow
13 3 (6.977%) Mercator
13 3 (6.977%) Microsoft
13 3 (6.977%) RDF
13 3 (6.977%) Sage
13 3 (6.977%) SOAP
13 3 (6.977%) OO
13 3 (6.977%) Apache
13 3 (6.977%) SQL Server
13 3 (6.977%) Visual Studio
13 3 (6.977%) ASP
13 3 (6.977%) C#
13 3 (6.977%) SQL

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 39 (90.70%) CSS
2 26 (60.47%) HTML
3 19 (44.19%) XHTML
4 14 (32.56%) HTML5
4 14 (32.56%) CSS3
5 3 (6.977%) REST
5 3 (6.977%) ASP
5 3 (6.977%) SOAP
6 2 (4.651%) Struts
6 2 (4.651%) Web Services
6 2 (4.651%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.651%) .NET
6 2 (4.651%) J2EE
6 2 (4.651%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.651%) Spring
6 2 (4.651%) .NET Framework
6 2 (4.651%) JDBC
6 2 (4.651%) Servlets
7 1 (2.326%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (2.326%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 35 (81.40%) Drupal
2 7 (16.28%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.977%) Apache
4 2 (4.651%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.651%) CMS
4 2 (4.651%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.326%) Apache Solr
5 1 (2.326%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 18 (41.86%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.326%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.977%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.326%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.977%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.326%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Selenium
2 3 (6.977%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.651%) Git (software)
3 2 (4.651%) SpecFlow
3 2 (4.651%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.651%) JUnit
4 1 (2.326%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.326%) WatiN
4 1 (2.326%) NUnit
4 1 (2.326%) CruiseControl
4 1 (2.326%) Subversion
General
1 18 (41.86%) Publishing
2 2 (4.651%) Finance
3 1 (2.326%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (90.70%) Developer
2 19 (44.19%) PHP Developer
3 16 (37.21%) Drupal Developer
4 15 (34.88%) Front-End Developer
5 12 (27.91%) PHP Drupal Developer
6 7 (16.28%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.977%) ASP Developer
7 3 (6.977%) Classic ASP Developer
8 2 (4.651%) Java Programmer
8 2 (4.651%) Programmer
9 1 (2.326%) Test Engineer
9 1 (2.326%) JavaScript Developer
9 1 (2.326%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.326%) Web Developer
9 1 (2.326%) Automation Engineer
9 1 (2.326%) Test Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.977%) Semantic Web
2 1 (2.326%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) Unit Testing
2 15 (34.88%) Code Coverage
3 14 (32.56%) TDD
4 9 (20.93%) Content Management
5 5 (11.63%) Web Development
6 3 (6.977%) RDF
6 3 (6.977%) Workflow
6 3 (6.977%) OO
6 3 (6.977%) Waterfall
7 2 (4.651%) BDD
7 2 (4.651%) OOD
7 2 (4.651%) UML
7 2 (4.651%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (4.651%) Business Analysis
7 2 (4.651%) Requirements Analysis
8 1 (2.326%) OOP
8 1 (2.326%) Configuration Management
8 1 (2.326%) Regression Testing
8 1 (2.326%) MVC
8 1 (2.326%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 35 (81.40%) PHP
2 34 (79.07%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.977%) SPARQL
3 3 (6.977%) C#
3 3 (6.977%) SQL
4 2 (4.651%) Java
5 1 (2.326%) PHP5
5 1 (2.326%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.651%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.326%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.326%) Varnish
Vendors
1 3 (6.977%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.977%) Sage
1 3 (6.977%) Mercator