The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon 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 33 33 37
Rank change year-on-year
0 +4
Contract jobs citing jQuery 11 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 3.143% 1.775% 1.102%
As % of the Application Development category 15.71% 10.00% 7.843%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
Average daily rate £300 £280 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +12.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £290
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £185.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+18.64% -26.25%
All Application Development
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
70 60 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 20.00% 17.75% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 38 31
Average daily rate £320 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £210 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £540 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -30.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
jQuery
Wiltshire

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon jQuery Daily Rate Trend

jQuery
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing jQuery across the Swindon region.

Swindon jQuery Hourly Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 24 (96.00%) C#
2 23 (92.00%) .NET
3 18 (72.00%) XML
3 18 (72.00%) WCF
4 17 (68.00%) SQL
5 16 (64.00%) JavaScript
6 14 (56.00%) SQL Server
6 14 (56.00%) Scrum
6 14 (56.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
7 13 (52.00%) XSLT
7 13 (52.00%) .NET Framework
8 11 (44.00%) Ajax
8 11 (44.00%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (44.00%) Silverlight
8 11 (44.00%) CSS
8 11 (44.00%) Web Services
9 10 (40.00%) ASP.NET
9 10 (40.00%) HTML
9 10 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (40.00%) JSON
10 9 (36.00%) Unit Testing
11 7 (28.00%) LINQ
11 7 (28.00%) Finance
12 6 (24.00%) Visual Studio
12 6 (24.00%) MS Excel
12 6 (24.00%) SharePoint
13 5 (20.00%) ISO 9001
13 5 (20.00%) Windows
13 5 (20.00%) Subversion

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 23 (92.00%) .NET
2 18 (72.00%) XML
2 18 (72.00%) WCF
3 14 (56.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 13 (52.00%) XSLT
4 13 (52.00%) .NET Framework
5 11 (44.00%) Ajax
5 11 (44.00%) Silverlight
5 11 (44.00%) CSS
5 11 (44.00%) Web Services
6 10 (40.00%) ASP.NET
6 10 (40.00%) HTML
6 10 (40.00%) JSON
7 7 (28.00%) LINQ
8 2 (8.000%) HTML5
8 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (8.000%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (4.000%) Dojo
9 1 (4.000%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (4.000%) Windows Azure
3 1 (4.000%) Content Management Server
3 1 (4.000%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (56.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (24.00%) Visual Studio
3 5 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (4.000%) Multimedia
3 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (44.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 5 (20.00%) SharePoint Developer
4 3 (12.00%) SQL Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Front-End Developer
4 3 (12.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (8.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (4.000%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (4.000%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.000%) C# Programmer
6 1 (4.000%) Front-End Web Developer
6 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET Programmer
6 1 (4.000%) XML Developer
6 1 (4.000%) CSS Developer
6 1 (4.000%) HTML Developer
6 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Programmer
6 1 (4.000%) SQL Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) Blog
1 1 (4.000%) Social Network
1 1 (4.000%) W3C
1 1 (4.000%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Scrum
2 11 (44.00%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (36.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (16.00%) MVC
5 2 (8.000%) TDD
6 1 (4.000%) Content Management
6 1 (4.000%) Web Development
6 1 (4.000%) Web Usability
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) C#
2 17 (68.00%) SQL
3 16 (64.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.000%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft