The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 19 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 Stirling 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing jQuery 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 9.677% - -
As % of the Application Development category 20.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £238 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+18.64% -26.25%
All Application Development
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
44 16 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 47.31% 29.63% 29.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 17
Average daily rate £425 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £250 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £603
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
jQuery
Scotland

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling jQuery Daily Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 10 (90.91%) HTML
1 10 (90.91%) CSS
2 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
3 7 (63.64%) Photoshop
3 7 (63.64%) HTML5
4 6 (54.55%) ActionScript
4 6 (54.55%) Flash
4 6 (54.55%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (45.45%) ActionScript 3.0
5 5 (45.45%) Apple iOS
5 5 (45.45%) Animation
5 5 (45.45%) Adobe
5 5 (45.45%) W3C
6 4 (36.36%) Content Management
6 4 (36.36%) Finance
6 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Content Management
7 3 (27.27%) Degree
7 3 (27.27%) Marketing
7 3 (27.27%) Web Design
7 3 (27.27%) Dreamweaver
8 2 (18.18%) XML
8 2 (18.18%) .NET
8 2 (18.18%) Ajax
8 2 (18.18%) iPad
9 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
9 1 (9.091%) Smartphone
9 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
9 1 (9.091%) Web Development
9 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
9 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 10 (90.91%) HTML
1 10 (90.91%) CSS
2 7 (63.64%) HTML5
3 6 (54.55%) Flash
4 2 (18.18%) XML
4 2 (18.18%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) Ajax
5 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
5 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
5 1 (9.091%) Spring
5 1 (9.091%) JSTL
5 1 (9.091%) Spring MVC
5 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 1 (9.091%) CSS3
5 1 (9.091%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (9.091%) J2EE
5 1 (9.091%) ADO.NET
5 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
5 1 (9.091%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Drupal
1 1 (9.091%) IIS
1 1 (9.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Photoshop
2 6 (54.55%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (9.091%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (9.091%) Subversion
2 1 (9.091%) Firebug
2 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
2 1 (9.091%) JUnit
2 1 (9.091%) Eclipse
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Designer
2 5 (45.45%) Web Designer
2 5 (45.45%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) HTML Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Digital Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Animation
1 5 (45.45%) W3C
2 2 (18.18%) iPad
3 1 (9.091%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.091%) Android
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Content Management
1 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Content Management
2 3 (27.27%) Web Design
3 1 (9.091%) Web Development
3 1 (9.091%) MVC
3 1 (9.091%) OO
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) ActionScript
3 5 (45.45%) ActionScript 3.0
4 1 (9.091%) Perl
4 1 (9.091%) PHP
4 1 (9.091%) SQL
4 1 (9.091%) T-SQL
4 1 (9.091%) Java
4 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.091%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) MetaFrame
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Adobe
2 1 (9.091%) Twitter
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Citrix
Stirling, Scotland
This is an immediate requirement and you must be available to start within the next two weeks. Candidates must have experience in using most of the following technologies: ...
Cathcart Associates
Rate: £200 - £260 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013