jQuery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring jQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 424 268
Rank change year-on-year -170 -156 +21
Permanent jobs citing jQuery 145 248 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.56% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.53% 2.84% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 133 189 629
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £63,500 £90,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £32,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +46.15% -27.78% -18.18%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

jQuery falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,475 8,737 21,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 19.74% 19.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7,044 5,718 16,250
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,150 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

jQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing jQuery relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

jQuery job vacancy trend in the UK

jQuery
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing jQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing jQuery

jQuery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing jQuery over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for jQuery in the UK

jQuery
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing jQuery within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -128 132 £47,500 +2.70% 22
UK excluding London -100 124 £47,500 +46.15% 22
Work from Home -64 69 £37,500 -6.25% 15
South East -4 63 £47,500 - 9
East of England -21 19 £25,000 - 3
Midlands -32 14 £37,500 +50.00%
North of England -60 14 £52,000 +60.00% 4
London -84 13 £61,250 +6.52% 6
South West -62 11 £57,500 +32.95% 3
East Midlands -30 10 £37,500 -16.67%
North East -40 5 £67,500 +170.00% 1
Yorkshire -43 5 £62,500 +92.31% 2
North West -7 4 £36,250 +11.54% 1
West Midlands -36 4 £31,250 +25.00%
Wales - 3 £45,000 - 3

jQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.76%) Apache
2 2 (1.38%) CMS
2 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.38%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.38%) WordPress
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.69%) Confluence
3 1 (0.69%) IIS
3 1 (0.69%) JBoss
3 1 (0.69%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.69%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 54 (37.24%) Azure
2 53 (36.55%) AWS
3 17 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (11.72%) Power Platform
4 12 (8.28%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (7.59%) Serverless
6 9 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (4.83%) SaaS
8 5 (3.45%) GitHub
8 5 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.07%) GCP
9 3 (2.07%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (1.38%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.38%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.38%) Figma
10 2 (1.38%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.48%) Internet
2 3 (2.07%) Intranet
3 2 (1.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (54.48%) SQL Server
2 34 (23.45%) MySQL
3 19 (13.10%) Relational Database
4 18 (12.41%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (10.34%) Power BI
6 5 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.45%) GIS
6 5 (3.45%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.07%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (8.97%) Git
2 8 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.83%) JMeter
3 7 (4.83%) JUnit
3 7 (4.83%) Mockito
4 3 (2.07%) JIRA
4 3 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.38%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.38%) Selenium
6 1 (0.69%) Bower
6 1 (0.69%) Maven
6 1 (0.69%) Sourcetree
6 1 (0.69%) Subversion
6 1 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (42.07%) Social Skills
2 42 (28.97%) Finance
3 8 (5.52%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.07%) Retail
6 2 (1.38%) Law
6 2 (1.38%) Legal
6 2 (1.38%) Marketing
7 1 (0.69%) Banking
7 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (85.52%) Developer
2 32 (22.07%) Software Developer
3 30 (20.69%) Graduate
4 27 (18.62%) PHP Developer
5 26 (17.93%) C# Developer
5 26 (17.93%) C# Software Developer
5 26 (17.93%) Graduate C# Developer
5 26 (17.93%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 26 (17.93%) Graduate Developer
5 26 (17.93%) Graduate Software Developer
5 26 (17.93%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 26 (17.93%) SQL Developer
6 25 (17.24%) Web Developer
7 23 (15.86%) Senior
8 22 (15.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (12.41%) Azure Developer
10 17 (11.72%) Senior Developer
11 16 (11.03%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 14 (9.66%) JavaScript Developer
13 9 (6.21%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (87.59%) CSS
2 104 (71.72%) HTML
3 57 (39.31%) .NET
4 41 (28.28%) HTML5
5 31 (21.38%) CSS3
6 30 (20.69%) React
7 29 (20.00%) AngularJS
8 22 (15.17%) Ajax
9 15 (10.34%) LESS
9 15 (10.34%) Sass
10 13 (8.97%) Laravel
11 11 (7.59%) .NET Core
12 10 (6.90%) JSON
12 10 (6.90%) RESTful
13 9 (6.21%) Spring
14 8 (5.52%) .NET Framework
14 8 (5.52%) Bootstrap
14 8 (5.52%) Hibernate
14 8 (5.52%) REST
14 8 (5.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.34%) Virtual Team
2 9 (6.21%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.07%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.38%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.38%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.38%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.38%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.69%) NHS
7 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.69%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.45%) Linux
2 2 (1.38%) Windows
2 2 (1.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (50.34%) Agile
2 60 (41.38%) Computer Science
3 51 (35.17%) MVC
4 39 (26.90%) OOP
5 32 (22.07%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (20.69%) Web Development
7 28 (19.31%) OO
8 26 (17.93%) SEO
9 24 (16.55%) DevOps
9 24 (16.55%) Mentoring
9 24 (16.55%) TDD
10 23 (15.86%) User Experience
11 21 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (13.79%) CI/CD
13 17 (11.72%) Clean Code
13 17 (11.72%) Scrum
14 16 (11.03%) Responsive Web Design
15 15 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
16 14 (9.66%) AI
16 14 (9.66%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 100 (68.97%) JavaScript
2 78 (53.79%) SQL
3 72 (49.66%) PHP
4 55 (37.93%) C#
5 39 (26.90%) Java
5 39 (26.90%) Python
6 30 (20.69%) C++
7 8 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.83%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.76%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.07%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.07%) VB
Qualifications
1 64 (44.14%) Degree
2 56 (38.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.31%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.76%) GDPR
4 3 (2.07%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.38%) WCAG
6 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 18 (12.41%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (11.03%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.52%) Kibana
3 3 (2.07%) Plesk
4 1 (0.69%) Grafana
4 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (11.72%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.52%) Oracle
3 7 (4.83%) Dynatrace
3 7 (4.83%) Splunk
4 4 (2.76%) SAP
5 2 (1.38%) Google
6 1 (0.69%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.69%) Optimizely