The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 21 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 South 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 40 49 55
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +6
Contract jobs citing jQuery 91 113 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 4.367% 3.461% 2.617%
As % of the Application Development category 18.69% 14.47% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 86 33
Average daily rate £300 £363 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.24% +11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £241 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £700 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% +17.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £21.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+66.66% -47.50%
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
487 781 623
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.37% 23.92% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 472 275
Average daily rate £325 £339 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.12% +9.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £240 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 37
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £10.00 £15.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
England

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South 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 South West region.

South 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 South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Wiltshire +16 28 £300 +7.14%
Bristol +8 24 £283 -3.82%
Devon +4 15 £290 -30.24%
Dorset +7 11 £200 -49.36%
Gloucestershire +6 5 £266 -57.52%
Somerset -5 3 £311 -12.22%
jQuery
England

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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.

1 152 (78.35%) JavaScript
2 111 (57.22%) CSS
3 110 (56.70%) .NET
4 103 (53.09%) C#
5 97 (50.00%) HTML
6 74 (38.14%) ASP.NET
6 74 (38.14%) MVC
7 67 (34.54%) SQL Server
8 62 (31.96%) Agile Software Development
9 57 (29.38%) Ajax
10 50 (25.77%) XML
11 44 (22.68%) Java
11 44 (22.68%) PHP
12 43 (22.16%) Microsoft
13 39 (20.10%) Web Services
14 38 (19.59%) Linux
15 37 (19.07%) HTML5
16 36 (18.56%) Visual Studio
17 34 (17.53%) WCF
18 33 (17.01%) MySQL
19 32 (16.49%) OO
19 32 (16.49%) Security Cleared
19 32 (16.49%) ASP.NET MVC
20 31 (15.98%) SQL Server 2008
20 31 (15.98%) Scrum
21 29 (14.95%) SQL
22 28 (14.43%) Oracle
22 28 (14.43%) Finance
23 26 (13.40%) .NET Framework
24 23 (11.86%) Unit Testing

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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
1 111 (57.22%) CSS
2 110 (56.70%) .NET
3 97 (50.00%) HTML
4 74 (38.14%) ASP.NET
5 57 (29.38%) Ajax
6 50 (25.77%) XML
7 39 (20.10%) Web Services
8 37 (19.07%) HTML5
9 34 (17.53%) WCF
10 32 (16.49%) ASP.NET MVC
11 26 (13.40%) .NET Framework
12 23 (11.86%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 20 (10.31%) CSS3
14 17 (8.763%) Dojo
14 17 (8.763%) Silverlight
14 17 (8.763%) LINQ
15 16 (8.247%) JPA
15 16 (8.247%) J2EE
16 15 (7.732%) JMS
16 15 (7.732%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 16 (8.247%) SharePoint
2 15 (7.732%) SharePoint 2010
3 10 (5.155%) ArcGIS
4 9 (4.639%) CMS
5 8 (4.124%) IIS
6 7 (3.608%) WordPress
7 6 (3.093%) ArcSDE
7 6 (3.093%) Drupal
7 6 (3.093%) MS Project Server
8 5 (2.577%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (2.577%) Apache
9 4 (2.062%) Tomcat
10 3 (1.546%) Magento
11 2 (1.031%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (1.031%) GlassFish
11 2 (1.031%) ESB
12 1 (0.515%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.515%) Mule
12 1 (0.515%) ActiveMQ
12 1 (0.515%) Content Management Server
Applications
1 20 (10.31%) MS Excel
2 6 (3.093%) MS Project
2 6 (3.093%) Photoshop
3 5 (2.577%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (2.062%) MS Office
5 2 (1.031%) Google Apps
5 2 (1.031%) InDesign
6 1 (0.515%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.546%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.546%) Summit
2 2 (1.031%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.515%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.34%) Internet
2 5 (2.577%) Intranet
3 1 (0.515%) IMAP
3 1 (0.515%) POP3
3 1 (0.515%) SMTP
3 1 (0.515%) HTTP
3 1 (0.515%) Extranet
3 1 (0.515%) DNS
3 1 (0.515%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (34.54%) SQL Server
2 33 (17.01%) MySQL
3 31 (15.98%) SQL Server 2008
4 17 (8.763%) GIS
5 16 (8.247%) RDBMS
6 7 (3.608%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (3.608%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (3.093%) SQL Server 2005
8 5 (2.577%) Oracle 10g
9 2 (1.031%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.031%) Oracle 11g
10 1 (0.515%) SQLite
10 1 (0.515%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.515%) DTS
10 1 (0.515%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.515%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 36 (18.56%) Visual Studio
2 21 (10.82%) Subversion
2 21 (10.82%) Team Foundation Server
3 16 (8.247%) Maven
4 7 (3.608%) Git (software)
5 6 (3.093%) Dreamweaver
6 5 (2.577%) Selenium
7 3 (1.546%) JUnit
7 3 (1.546%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.031%) Mockito
8 2 (1.031%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.031%) Ant
8 2 (1.031%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 2 (1.031%) JIRA
8 2 (1.031%) ReSharper
8 2 (1.031%) jMock
9 1 (0.515%) WiX
9 1 (0.515%) Appcelerator Titanium
9 1 (0.515%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (14.43%) Finance
2 6 (3.093%) Publishing
2 6 (3.093%) Marketing
3 5 (2.577%) Retail
3 5 (2.577%) Telecoms
4 3 (1.546%) Banking
4 3 (1.546%) Advertising
4 3 (1.546%) Law
5 1 (0.515%) Multimedia
5 1 (0.515%) Electronics
5 1 (0.515%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.515%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 179 (92.27%) Developer
2 56 (28.87%) .NET Developer
3 34 (17.53%) PHP Developer
4 24 (12.37%) C# Developer
5 23 (11.86%) Web Developer
6 20 (10.31%) C# .NET Developer
7 19 (9.794%) Java Developer
8 16 (8.247%) ASP.NET Developer
9 14 (7.216%) GIS Developer
10 12 (6.186%) Front-End Developer
11 11 (5.670%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 9 (4.639%) SharePoint Developer
12 9 (4.639%) Senior Developer
13 8 (4.124%) PHP MySQL Developer
13 8 (4.124%) MySQL Developer
14 6 (3.093%) Programmer
14 6 (3.093%) Software Engineer
14 6 (3.093%) Software Developer
14 6 (3.093%) Analyst
15 5 (2.577%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.732%) RIA
2 11 (5.670%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.124%) Open Source
4 5 (2.577%) Social Media
4 5 (2.577%) iPad
5 4 (2.062%) iPhone
5 4 (2.062%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.546%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.031%) Inversion of Control
7 2 (1.031%) New Media
7 2 (1.031%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.031%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.031%) Cryptography
7 2 (1.031%) Social Network
8 1 (0.515%) Blog
8 1 (0.515%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.515%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.515%) Streaming Media
8 1 (0.515%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.515%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 38 (19.59%) Linux
2 18 (9.278%) Windows
3 9 (4.639%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (3.608%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.093%) Windows 7
5 6 (3.093%) Android
5 6 (3.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.031%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (38.14%) MVC
2 62 (31.96%) Agile Software Development
3 32 (16.49%) OO
4 31 (15.98%) Scrum
5 23 (11.86%) Unit Testing
6 17 (8.763%) UML
6 17 (8.763%) TDD
7 15 (7.732%) Data Modelling
7 15 (7.732%) OOA/OOD
7 15 (7.732%) Configuration Management
7 15 (7.732%) Customer Engagement
8 11 (5.670%) Web Development
9 9 (4.639%) E-Commerce
10 6 (3.093%) BDD
10 6 (3.093%) Website Architecture
10 6 (3.093%) Web Design
10 6 (3.093%) SOA
10 6 (3.093%) Information Management
10 6 (3.093%) Data Management
10 6 (3.093%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 152 (78.35%) JavaScript
2 103 (53.09%) C#
3 44 (22.68%) Java
3 44 (22.68%) PHP
4 29 (14.95%) SQL
5 19 (9.794%) C
6 13 (6.701%) Python
7 9 (4.639%) VB.NET
8 8 (4.124%) PHP5
9 7 (3.608%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.093%) XPath
11 5 (2.577%) XQuery
12 4 (2.062%) VB
13 3 (1.546%) Ruby
13 3 (1.546%) VB6
13 3 (1.546%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.546%) Delphi
14 2 (1.031%) Objective-C
14 2 (1.031%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.031%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 32 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.82%) DV Cleared
3 9 (4.639%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.062%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.608%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.546%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.515%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.031%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (2.062%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 43 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.43%) Oracle
3 16 (8.247%) JBoss
4 15 (7.732%) ESRI
5 10 (5.155%) Zend
6 7 (3.608%) Adobe
7 6 (3.093%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.093%) Google
8 5 (2.577%) Twitter
9 3 (1.546%) Foundry
9 3 (1.546%) Facebook
10 2 (1.031%) Ektron
10 2 (1.031%) Infragistics
10 2 (1.031%) Telerik
11 1 (0.515%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.515%) SAP
11 1 (0.515%) Salesforce.com
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