The first table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 17 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jQuery
Rank 11 31 25
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -6
Permanent jobs citing jQuery 64 26 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 16.08% 7.123% 6.507%
As % of the Application Development category 30.33% 13.00% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 58 25 18
Average salary £33,750 £32,500 £25,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.84% +27.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,200 £28,500 £23,100
10% offered a salary of more than £42,800 £37,500 £32,950
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Application Development
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
211 200 133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 53.02% 54.79% 45.55%
Number of salaries quoted 188 194 119
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% +11.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,000 £19,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
jQuery
Leicestershire

jQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester jQuery Jobs Demand Trend

jQuery
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing jQuery across the Leicester region.

Leicester jQuery Salary Trend

jQuery
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing jQuery across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leicester jQuery Salary Histogram

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited jQuery.

1 127 (86.99%) .NET
2 123 (84.25%) C#
3 119 (81.51%) Ajax
4 115 (78.77%) SQL Server
5 109 (74.66%) ASP.NET
6 90 (61.64%) MVC
7 87 (59.59%) CSS
8 85 (58.22%) HTML5
9 81 (55.48%) JavaScript
10 80 (54.79%) XML
11 68 (46.58%) XHTML
12 66 (45.21%) Visual Studio
12 66 (45.21%) CSS3
13 63 (43.15%) SQL
14 58 (39.73%) XSLT
15 53 (36.30%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 53 (36.30%) ASP.NET MVC
16 48 (32.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (32.88%) E-Commerce
17 45 (30.82%) Web Accessibility
18 38 (26.03%) Microsoft
18 38 (26.03%) HTML
19 37 (25.34%) OWASP
20 36 (24.66%) RESTful
21 35 (23.97%) ASP
22 34 (23.29%) Scrum
22 34 (23.29%) Marketing
23 33 (22.60%) OO
24 30 (20.55%) WCF
24 30 (20.55%) UML

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited jQuery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 127 (86.99%) .NET
2 119 (81.51%) Ajax
3 109 (74.66%) ASP.NET
4 87 (59.59%) CSS
5 85 (58.22%) HTML5
6 80 (54.79%) XML
7 68 (46.58%) XHTML
8 66 (45.21%) CSS3
9 58 (39.73%) XSLT
10 53 (36.30%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 53 (36.30%) ASP.NET MVC
11 38 (26.03%) HTML
12 36 (24.66%) RESTful
13 35 (23.97%) ASP
14 30 (20.55%) WCF
15 28 (19.18%) Web Services
16 12 (8.219%) JSON
17 9 (6.164%) .NET Framework
18 7 (4.795%) WinForms
19 6 (4.110%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 26 (17.81%) IIS
2 16 (10.96%) CMS
3 6 (4.110%) Sitecore CMS
3 6 (4.110%) Umbraco
4 3 (2.055%) Drupal
4 3 (2.055%) Magento
4 3 (2.055%) Apache
5 2 (1.370%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.370%) Joomla!
5 2 (1.370%) WordPress
6 1 (0.685%) Windows Azure
6 1 (0.685%) SilverStripe
Applications
1 17 (11.64%) MS Excel
2 16 (10.96%) Photoshop
3 6 (4.110%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (2.055%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (0.685%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 30 (20.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (78.77%) SQL Server
2 18 (12.33%) DTS
2 18 (12.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 15 (10.27%) MySQL
4 6 (4.110%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (3.425%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.425%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (2.740%) Informix
7 1 (0.685%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 66 (45.21%) Visual Studio
2 29 (19.86%) NUnit
3 8 (5.479%) Subversion
3 8 (5.479%) Team Foundation Server
3 8 (5.479%) Dreamweaver
4 5 (3.425%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 4 (2.740%) MSTest
6 1 (0.685%) Rhino Mocks
6 1 (0.685%) GitHub
6 1 (0.685%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.685%) NCover
6 1 (0.685%) ReSharper
6 1 (0.685%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (23.29%) Marketing
2 28 (19.18%) Retail
3 15 (10.27%) Back Office
4 8 (5.479%) Finance
5 3 (2.055%) Advertising
6 1 (0.685%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 126 (86.30%) Developer
2 78 (53.42%) .NET Developer
3 42 (28.77%) ASP.NET Developer
4 40 (27.40%) C# Developer
5 38 (26.03%) C# .NET Developer
6 32 (21.92%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 28 (19.18%) Senior Developer
8 24 (16.44%) Web Developer
9 14 (9.589%) Senior .NET Developer
10 12 (8.219%) Senior C# Developer
10 12 (8.219%) .NET Team Leader
10 12 (8.219%) Team Leader
11 11 (7.534%) Programmer
12 9 (6.164%) .NET Web Developer
12 9 (6.164%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
12 9 (6.164%) C# Web Developer
13 7 (4.795%) Senior .NET Web Developer
13 7 (4.795%) E-Commerce Web Developer
13 7 (4.795%) Senior Web Developer
13 7 (4.795%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.86%) N-Tier
2 18 (12.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.055%) Computer Science
3 3 (2.055%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.685%) Open Source
4 1 (0.685%) SaaS
4 1 (0.685%) Smartphone
4 1 (0.685%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.164%) Windows
2 8 (5.479%) Linux
3 5 (3.425%) Android
3 5 (3.425%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (61.64%) MVC
2 48 (32.88%) E-Commerce
2 48 (32.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 45 (30.82%) Web Accessibility
4 37 (25.34%) OWASP
5 34 (23.29%) Scrum
6 33 (22.60%) OO
7 30 (20.55%) UML
8 29 (19.86%) Extreme Programming
9 12 (8.219%) Test Scripting
10 10 (6.849%) Web Development
11 9 (6.164%) Project Management
11 9 (6.164%) TDD
12 8 (5.479%) Logistics
13 7 (4.795%) OOP
14 6 (4.110%) Requirements Analysis
14 6 (4.110%) Agile Software Development
14 6 (4.110%) Change Control
14 6 (4.110%) Web Application Development
15 5 (3.425%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 123 (84.25%) C#
2 81 (55.48%) JavaScript
3 63 (43.15%) SQL
4 21 (14.38%) VB
5 20 (13.70%) VBScript
6 16 (10.96%) Java
7 15 (10.27%) PHP
8 10 (6.849%) T-SQL
9 6 (4.110%) C
10 5 (3.425%) VB.NET
11 3 (2.055%) VB6
11 3 (2.055%) Perl
12 1 (0.685%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 8 (5.479%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.685%) QA
Vendors
1 38 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.38%) Telerik
2 21 (14.38%) DevExpress
3 9 (6.164%) Oracle
4 6 (4.110%) Sitecore
5 4 (2.740%) Zend
5 4 (2.740%) Apple
6 3 (2.055%) Adobe
7 2 (1.370%) Sage
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