The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 18 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 Oxfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 24 26 27
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +1
Contract jobs citing jQuery 26 31 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 5.520% 5.326% 5.061%
As % of the Application Development category 25.00% 17.92% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 14
Average daily rate £325 £294 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.63% +3.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £214 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £375 £304
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £299
% change year-on-year
- +0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £25.25 £38.25
% change year-on-year
+38.61% -33.98%
All Application Development
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
104 173 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 22.08% 29.73% 41.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 92 131
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £488 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
jQuery
South East

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Oxford +1 7 £325 +23.80% 10
Henley-on-Thames - 3 £165 -
Abingdon - 1 - - 1
Banbury - - - -
Bicester - - - -
Thame - - - - 1
Witney - - - - 2
jQuery
South East

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 36 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 36 (80.00%) CSS
2 34 (75.56%) HTML
3 18 (40.00%) MVC
4 17 (37.78%) PHP
4 17 (37.78%) SQL
5 14 (31.11%) MySQL
5 14 (31.11%) SQL Server
6 13 (28.89%) Java
7 12 (26.67%) C#
7 12 (26.67%) CMS
8 10 (22.22%) .NET
9 9 (20.00%) XHTML
9 9 (20.00%) HTML5
10 8 (17.78%) Content Management
10 8 (17.78%) Ajax
10 8 (17.78%) Marketing
10 8 (17.78%) Interwoven
10 8 (17.78%) Photoshop
11 7 (15.56%) Oracle
11 7 (15.56%) JSP
11 7 (15.56%) TDD
12 6 (13.33%) SEO
12 6 (13.33%) Adobe Illustrator
12 6 (13.33%) Web Analytics
12 6 (13.33%) Google
12 6 (13.33%) French Language
12 6 (13.33%) German Language
12 6 (13.33%) Google Analytics
12 6 (13.33%) ASP.NET

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 36 (80.00%) CSS
2 34 (75.56%) HTML
3 10 (22.22%) .NET
4 9 (20.00%) XHTML
4 9 (20.00%) HTML5
5 8 (17.78%) Ajax
6 7 (15.56%) JSP
7 6 (13.33%) ASP.NET
7 6 (13.33%) Web Services
7 6 (13.33%) CSS3
8 5 (11.11%) Hibernate
8 5 (11.11%) J2EE
8 5 (11.11%) Struts
8 5 (11.11%) Spring
8 5 (11.11%) CodeIgniter
9 4 (8.889%) XML
10 3 (6.667%) Servlets
10 3 (6.667%) Spring MVC
10 3 (6.667%) WCF
11 2 (4.444%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 12 (26.67%) CMS
2 4 (8.889%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.889%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (6.667%) Apache
3 3 (6.667%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.444%) TeamSite
4 2 (4.444%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (4.444%) Drupal
4 2 (4.444%) Alfresco
4 2 (4.444%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Photoshop
2 6 (13.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.222%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.444%) Intranet
2 1 (2.222%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) MySQL
1 14 (31.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (8.889%) JasperReports
4 3 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.444%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (4.444%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (4.444%) OLAP
5 2 (4.444%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (4.444%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.444%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.444%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (6.667%) Subversion
1 3 (6.667%) Maven
1 3 (6.667%) JUnit
1 3 (6.667%) Eclipse
1 3 (6.667%) Git (software)
2 2 (4.444%) SpecFlow
2 2 (4.444%) JIRA
3 1 (2.222%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.222%) MSI
General
1 8 (17.78%) Marketing
2 6 (13.33%) French Language
2 6 (13.33%) German Language
3 4 (8.889%) Finance
4 2 (4.444%) Banking
4 2 (4.444%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.222%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.222%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 38 (84.44%) Developer
2 9 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Web Manager
3 6 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Programmer
5 4 (8.889%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.667%) Business Developer
6 3 (6.667%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.667%) SQL Developer
6 3 (6.667%) Report Developer
6 3 (6.667%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (6.667%) Senior Programmer
6 3 (6.667%) Java Programmer
7 2 (4.444%) Senior Analyst Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Web Content Manager
7 2 (4.444%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Drupal Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Front-End Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Content Manager
7 2 (4.444%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.444%) W3C
2 1 (2.222%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Windows
2 5 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (4.444%) Solaris
3 2 (4.444%) UNIX
4 1 (2.222%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) MVC
2 8 (17.78%) Content Management
3 7 (15.56%) TDD
4 6 (13.33%) Online Marketing
4 6 (13.33%) Information Architecture
4 6 (13.33%) Analytics
4 6 (13.33%) Web Analytics
4 6 (13.33%) SEO
4 6 (13.33%) Project Management
4 6 (13.33%) B2B
5 5 (11.11%) Scrum
6 4 (8.889%) Web Development
7 3 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (6.667%) BDD
8 2 (4.444%) Change Control
8 2 (4.444%) Web Application Development
8 2 (4.444%) Data Protection
8 2 (4.444%) Automation Testing
8 2 (4.444%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 36 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (37.78%) PHP
2 17 (37.78%) SQL
3 13 (28.89%) Java
4 12 (26.67%) C#
5 5 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 4 (8.889%) T-SQL
6 4 (8.889%) PHP4
7 3 (6.667%) PHP5
8 2 (4.444%) Ruby
8 2 (4.444%) C
9 1 (2.222%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (4.444%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.444%) SLA
1 2 (4.444%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Interwoven
2 7 (15.56%) Oracle
3 6 (13.33%) Google
4 5 (11.11%) Business Objects
4 5 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (6.667%) JBoss
6 2 (4.444%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.444%) Sage
6 2 (4.444%) Sencha
7 1 (2.222%) Zend