The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Walsall region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 23 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 Walsall 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing jQuery 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Walsall 20.00% - -
As % of the Application Development category 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
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 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+40.00% -37.50%
All Application Development
Walsall
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Walsall 30.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
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 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
jQuery
West Midlands

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Walsall 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 Walsall region.

Walsall jQuery Daily Rate Trend

jQuery
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Walsall 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 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) Facebook
3 2 (50.00%) SEO
3 2 (50.00%) CMS
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (50.00%) Sitecore
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Walsall 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 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CMS
1 2 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) SEO
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Facebook
1 2 (50.00%) Sitecore