The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 20 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 West Midlands 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 27 33 68
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +35
Contract jobs citing jQuery 85 82 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 5.114% 3.643% 1.287%
As % of the Application Development category 20.94% 14.88% 5.195%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 46 12
Average daily rate £265 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.46% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £210 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £373 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Average hourly rate £26.75 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+67.18% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £23.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+52.17% -42.50%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
406 551 462
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 24.43% 24.48% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 301 250
Average daily rate £300 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.72% -9.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £37.50 £25.30
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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
Birmingham -1 16 £305 -6.15%
Worcestershire -2 10 £375 -
Warwickshire -8 9 £245 -24.61%
Wolverhampton +3 8 £269 +25.00%
Staffordshire +9 7 £330 +1.53%
Coventry +1 7 £275 -
Herefordshire +1 2 £255 -34.19%
Solihull - 2 - -
Walsall - 1 - -
jQuery
England

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 156 (87.64%) JavaScript
2 136 (76.40%) CSS
3 121 (67.98%) .NET
4 115 (64.61%) ASP.NET
5 108 (60.67%) HTML
6 97 (54.49%) C#
7 78 (43.82%) SQL Server
8 76 (42.70%) HTML5
9 65 (36.52%) SQL
9 65 (36.52%) CSS3
10 58 (32.58%) XML
11 50 (28.09%) Ajax
12 44 (24.72%) VB.NET
13 42 (23.60%) MVC
14 37 (20.79%) XSLT
15 36 (20.22%) XHTML
16 32 (17.98%) .NET Framework
17 29 (16.29%) ASP.NET MVC
17 29 (16.29%) Photoshop
18 28 (15.73%) E-Commerce
19 27 (15.17%) TDD
19 27 (15.17%) Web Development
20 26 (14.61%) CMS
21 25 (14.04%) SEO
21 25 (14.04%) Unit Testing
22 23 (12.92%) Degree
23 22 (12.36%) N-Tier
23 22 (12.36%) Java
24 21 (11.80%) Subversion
25 19 (10.67%) Web Application Development

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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
1 136 (76.40%) CSS
2 121 (67.98%) .NET
3 115 (64.61%) ASP.NET
4 108 (60.67%) HTML
5 76 (42.70%) HTML5
6 65 (36.52%) CSS3
7 58 (32.58%) XML
8 50 (28.09%) Ajax
9 37 (20.79%) XSLT
10 36 (20.22%) XHTML
11 32 (17.98%) .NET Framework
12 29 (16.29%) ASP.NET MVC
13 18 (10.11%) JSON
13 18 (10.11%) WCF
13 18 (10.11%) Web Services
13 18 (10.11%) JSP
14 13 (7.303%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 12 (6.742%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 12 (6.742%) Spring
16 11 (6.180%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 26 (14.61%) CMS
2 8 (4.494%) Sitecore CMS
3 7 (3.933%) Tomcat
3 7 (3.933%) Umbraco
4 6 (3.371%) Apache
5 5 (2.809%) Adobe CQ
6 4 (2.247%) WordPress
6 4 (2.247%) Joomla!
7 2 (1.124%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.124%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (1.124%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.562%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.562%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 29 (16.29%) Photoshop
2 7 (3.933%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.562%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.562%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.247%) Internet
2 3 (1.685%) FTP
3 1 (0.562%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (43.82%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.303%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (5.618%) MySQL
4 6 (3.371%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (2.809%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.124%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.124%) Redis
6 2 (1.124%) OLTP
6 2 (1.124%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.562%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 21 (11.80%) Subversion
2 15 (8.427%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.933%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.933%) Maven
4 6 (3.371%) Eclipse
4 6 (3.371%) Ant
5 4 (2.247%) JIRA
6 3 (1.685%) Git (software)
6 3 (1.685%) Dreamweaver
7 2 (1.124%) Mercurial
7 2 (1.124%) PhoneGap
8 1 (0.562%) Appcelerator Titanium
8 1 (0.562%) Moq
General
1 10 (5.618%) Marketing
2 8 (4.494%) Games
3 4 (2.247%) Finance
3 4 (2.247%) Automotive
4 3 (1.685%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.124%) Back Office
6 1 (0.562%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.562%) Retail
6 1 (0.562%) German Language
6 1 (0.562%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 169 (94.94%) Developer
2 68 (38.20%) .NET Developer
3 59 (33.15%) Web Developer
4 36 (20.22%) Front-End Developer
5 34 (19.10%) ASP.NET Developer
6 23 (12.92%) C# Developer
7 20 (11.24%) VB.NET Developer
8 19 (10.67%) .NET Web Developer
8 19 (10.67%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
9 18 (10.11%) SQL Developer
10 16 (8.989%) C# .NET Developer
11 14 (7.865%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 13 (7.303%) Java Developer
13 11 (6.180%) Java Web Developer
14 10 (5.618%) JavaScript Developer
15 9 (5.056%) Programmer
16 6 (3.371%) Senior Developer
16 6 (3.371%) Front-End Web Developer
17 5 (2.809%) Java/J2EE Developer
17 5 (2.809%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.36%) N-Tier
2 10 (5.618%) W3C
3 7 (3.933%) Open Source
4 4 (2.247%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.685%) WURFL
5 3 (1.685%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.124%) VLE
6 2 (1.124%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.124%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.124%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.124%) iPhone
6 2 (1.124%) Social Media
7 1 (0.562%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (0.562%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (0.562%) Web 2.0
7 1 (0.562%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.180%) Apple iOS
2 6 (3.371%) Android
2 6 (3.371%) Linux
3 5 (2.809%) Windows
4 3 (1.685%) Windows Mobile
4 3 (1.685%) BlackBerry OS
5 1 (0.562%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.60%) MVC
2 28 (15.73%) E-Commerce
3 27 (15.17%) TDD
3 27 (15.17%) Web Development
4 25 (14.04%) Unit Testing
4 25 (14.04%) SEO
5 19 (10.67%) Web Application Development
6 17 (9.551%) SOA
7 14 (7.865%) OO
8 11 (6.180%) Document Management
9 10 (5.618%) Agile Software Development
10 7 (3.933%) Scrum
11 6 (3.371%) Web Accessibility
11 6 (3.371%) BDD
11 6 (3.371%) Content Management
12 4 (2.247%) Time Management
12 4 (2.247%) OOD
13 3 (1.685%) Release Management
13 3 (1.685%) Graceful Degradation
14 2 (1.124%) Social Media Marketing
Programming Languages
1 156 (87.64%) JavaScript
2 97 (54.49%) C#
3 65 (36.52%) SQL
4 44 (24.72%) VB.NET
5 22 (12.36%) Java
6 14 (7.865%) PHP
6 14 (7.865%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.809%) VB
8 4 (2.247%) PHP5
9 3 (1.685%) Python
9 3 (1.685%) XAML
9 3 (1.685%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.124%) VBScript
10 2 (1.124%) ABAP
10 2 (1.124%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.124%) J#
Qualifications
1 23 (12.92%) Degree
2 1 (0.562%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.371%) QA
2 1 (0.562%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.562%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 16 (8.989%) Facebook
2 11 (6.180%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.056%) Sitecore
4 8 (4.494%) Oracle
4 8 (4.494%) Adobe
5 6 (3.371%) Alterian
6 4 (2.247%) AccuRev
7 2 (1.124%) Sencha
7 2 (1.124%) SAP
7 2 (1.124%) Macromedia
7 2 (1.124%) Apple
7 2 (1.124%) BT
8 1 (0.562%) FatWire
8 1 (0.562%) VMware
8 1 (0.562%) Telerik
8 1 (0.562%) Zend
8 1 (0.562%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.562%) Appcelerator
8 1 (0.562%) DevExpress
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