The first part of the table below looks at the demand for jQuery skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited jQuery over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

jQuery
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank2853102
Rank change year-on-year
Up+25Up+49
Matching permanent IT job ads760048712031
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK6.302 %3.973 %2.127 %
As % of the Application Development category15.08 %9.917 %5.578 %
Number of salaries quoted704544601827
Average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£52,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£32,500£30,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69 %+8.33 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
504084911936413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.80 %40.06 %38.14 %
Number of salaries quoted447934339731363
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

jQuery
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing jQuery within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

jQuery Demand Trend

jQuery
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing jQuery within the UK.

jQuery Salary Trend

jQuery
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing jQuery over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

jQuery Salary Histogram

jQuery
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing jQuery within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+267311£37,500+4.16 %
LondonUp+323375£42,500-
South EastUp+141451£37,500+7.14 %
City of LondonUp+65639£45,000+12.50 %
North WestUp+24620£31,500+5.00 %
East of EnglandUp+36551£37,500+7.14 %
BerkshireUp+10386£37,500+8.69 %
YorkshireUp+8372£32,500+3.17 %
South WestUp+26357£32,500-
West MidlandsUp+30350£35,000-
SurreyUp+4347£42,500+13.33 %
ManchesterUp+20310£31,500+5.00 %
West YorkshireUp+11243£32,500+4.83 %
CambridgeshireUp+8222£37,500+7.14 %
HampshireUp+17214£35,000+7.69 %
East MidlandsUp+7187£32,500+8.33 %
LeedsUp+7170£31,500-
ScotlandUp+34163£32,500-6.47 %
CheshireUp+6159£31,500+5.00 %
CambridgeUp+11155£36,000+2.85 %
ReadingUp+5144£37,500+10.29 %
BuckinghamshireUp+5135£35,000+6.06 %
HertfordshireUp+66123£35,000-11.39 %
East SussexUp+5119£35,000-
BristolUp+17117£31,500+5.00 %
WarwickshireUp+9111£34,000+13.33 %
EssexUp+28103£37,500+7.14 %
BrightonUp+9103£32,500-7.14 %
OxfordshireUp+7100£34,000-2.85 %
NottinghamshireUp+3890£33,500+25.23 %

jQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

111556 (82.79 %)JavaScript
210687 (76.56 %)CSS
38886 (63.66 %)HTML
46705 (48.03 %).NET
55698 (40.82 %)C#
65533 (39.64 %)ASP.NET
75002 (35.83 %)Ajax
84563 (32.69 %)SQL Server
94201 (30.10 %)MVC
104084 (29.26 %)SQL
113963 (28.39 %)PHP
123812 (27.31 %)XML
133293 (23.59 %)HTML5
142923 (20.94 %)MySQL
152776 (19.89 %)OO
162771 (19.85 %)XHTML
172701 (19.35 %)Web Development
182466 (17.67 %)Web Services
192381 (17.06 %)Java
202060 (14.76 %)Agile Software Development
212035 (14.58 %)CSS3
221985 (14.22 %)E-Commerce
231871 (13.40 %)TDD
241760 (12.61 %)Subversion
251757 (12.59 %)Microsoft
261687 (12.09 %)ASP.NET MVC
271600 (11.46 %)Linux
281586 (11.36 %)CMS
291575 (11.28 %)Degree
301561 (11.18 %)Finance

jQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
110687 (76.56 %)CSS
28886 (63.66 %)HTML
36705 (48.03 %).NET
45533 (39.64 %)ASP.NET
55002 (35.83 %)Ajax
63812 (27.31 %)XML
73293 (23.59 %)HTML5
82771 (19.85 %)XHTML
92466 (17.67 %)Web Services
102035 (14.58 %)CSS3
111687 (12.09 %)ASP.NET MVC
121507 (10.80 %)WCF
131451 (10.39 %)XSLT
141253 (8.976 %).NET Framework
151209 (8.661 %)JSON
16943 (6.755 %)LINQ
17878 (6.290 %)Flash
18855 (6.125 %)Spring
19769 (5.509 %)LAMP
20680 (4.871 %)SOAP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11586 (11.36 %)CMS
21066 (7.637 %)Apache
3765 (5.480 %)IIS
4705 (5.051 %)SharePoint
5663 (4.750 %)Drupal
6561 (4.019 %)WordPress
7400 (2.866 %)Tomcat
8323 (2.314 %)Umbraco
9278 (1.992 %)Magento
10260 (1.863 %)Joomla!
11231 (1.655 %)SharePoint 2010
12134 (0.960 %)Sitecore CMS
13112 (0.802 %)SharePoint Server
14108 (0.774 %)Apache Solr
15107 (0.767 %)Amazon EC2
16102 (0.731 %)ColdFusion
1793 (0.666 %)Facebook Platform
1886 (0.616 %)Amazon AWS
1979 (0.566 %)WebLogic
2074 (0.530 %)Amazon S3
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11347 (9.650 %)Photoshop
2708 (5.072 %)MS Excel
3397 (2.844 %)Adobe Illustrator
4230 (1.648 %)Fireworks
5205 (1.469 %)MS Visio
681 (0.580 %)MS Office
757 (0.408 %)InfoPath
850 (0.358 %)InDesign
924 (0.172 %)MS PowerPoint
1018 (0.129 %)OmniGraffle
1116 (0.115 %)Acrobat
1214 (0.100 %)Spreadsheet
1313 (0.093 %)MS Project
148 (0.057 %)Adobe After Effects
156 (0.043 %)ImageReady
165 (0.036 %)Adobe Premiere
165 (0.036 %)Paint Shop Pro
165 (0.036 %)GIMP
174 (0.029 %)Mingle
174 (0.029 %)MicroStation
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1116 (0.831 %)Google Analytics
278 (0.559 %)Dynamics CRM
351 (0.365 %)WebTrends
441 (0.294 %)SiteCatalyst
523 (0.165 %)Optimost
613 (0.093 %)Oracle BPM
710 (0.072 %)Summit
86 (0.043 %)Dynamics NAV
94 (0.029 %)Oracle Applications
94 (0.029 %)Visualfiles
103 (0.021 %)Agresso
112 (0.014 %)Tridion
112 (0.014 %)Dynamics AX
112 (0.014 %)Line 50
121 (0.007 %)Oracle Clinical
121 (0.007 %)Dynamics GP
121 (0.007 %)Apache OFBiz
121 (0.007 %)Movex
121 (0.007 %)Pivotal CRM
121 (0.007 %)Solarsoft Tropos
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1738 (5.287 %)Internet
2301 (2.156 %)Intranet
3280 (2.006 %)HTTP
475 (0.537 %)DNS
565 (0.466 %)Extranet
663 (0.451 %)SSL
756 (0.401 %)FTP
845 (0.322 %)Firewall
935 (0.251 %)TCP/IP
1034 (0.244 %)SMTP
1128 (0.201 %)SSH
1225 (0.179 %)Broadband
1320 (0.143 %)GSM
1320 (0.143 %)UMTS
1419 (0.136 %)HTTPS
1515 (0.107 %)SMS
1614 (0.100 %)DHCP
1713 (0.093 %)VPN
1713 (0.093 %)Symposium
1812 (0.086 %)LDAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14563 (32.69 %)SQL Server
22923 (20.94 %)MySQL
31371 (9.822 %)SQL Server 2008
41156 (8.281 %)SQL Server 2005
5503 (3.603 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6419 (3.002 %)SQL Server Integration Services
7236 (1.691 %)PostgreSQL
8179 (1.282 %)MongoDB
9168 (1.204 %)Data Warehouse
10163 (1.168 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
11154 (1.103 %)NoSQL
12147 (1.053 %)RDBMS
13127 (0.910 %)SQL Server 2000
1488 (0.630 %)GIS
1587 (0.623 %)ETL
1671 (0.509 %)Oracle 8/8i
1770 (0.501 %)Crystal Reports
1868 (0.487 %)OLAP
1958 (0.416 %)Redis
2056 (0.401 %)Apache Cassandra
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11760 (12.61 %)Subversion
21455 (10.42 %)Visual Studio
3801 (5.738 %)Git (software)
4607 (4.348 %)Team Foundation Server
5316 (2.264 %)JUnit
6297 (2.128 %)Eclipse
7271 (1.941 %)Maven
8260 (1.863 %)Dreamweaver
9255 (1.827 %)Ant
10249 (1.784 %)NUnit
11208 (1.490 %)TeamCity
12205 (1.469 %)Selenium
13203 (1.454 %)PHPUnit
14185 (1.325 %)JIRA
15130 (0.931 %)VSS/SourceSafe
16127 (0.910 %)Cucumber
17120 (0.860 %)Mercurial
18118 (0.845 %)Hudson
19114 (0.817 %)MSBuild
2080 (0.573 %)Rhino Mocks
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11561 (11.18 %)Finance
2940 (6.734 %)Marketing
3535 (3.833 %)Retail
4323 (2.314 %)Games
5279 (1.999 %)Advertising
6247 (1.769 %)Publishing
7246 (1.762 %)Telecoms
8227 (1.626 %)Banking
9177 (1.268 %)Law
10143 (1.024 %)Back Office
11105 (0.752 %)Multimedia
1281 (0.580 %)Legal
1377 (0.552 %)Music
1474 (0.530 %)Automotive
1569 (0.494 %)Manufacturing
1657 (0.408 %)Investment Banking
1733 (0.236 %)Music Industry
1831 (0.222 %)Pharmaceutical
1927 (0.193 %)Financial Institution
2021 (0.150 %)Electronics
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
112356 (88.52 %)Developer
23876 (27.77 %)Web Developer
33143 (22.52 %).NET Developer
41916 (13.73 %)PHP Developer
51851 (13.26 %)Senior Developer
61628 (11.66 %)C# Developer
71584 (11.35 %)Front-End Developer
81416 (10.14 %)ASP.NET Developer
91327 (9.506 %)C# .NET Developer
10973 (6.970 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
11825 (5.910 %)Java Developer
12635 (4.549 %).NET Web Developer
13615 (4.406 %)Designer
14611 (4.377 %)Software Developer
15542 (3.883 %)Senior .NET Developer
16540 (3.868 %)Junior
17512 (3.668 %)Junior Developer
18482 (3.453 %)Lead Developer
19478 (3.424 %)Front-End Web Developer
20411 (2.944 %)Web Designer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1673 (4.821 %)Computer Science
2663 (4.750 %)W3C
3621 (4.449 %)Open Source
4549 (3.933 %)Social Media
5519 (3.718 %)iPhone
6349 (2.500 %)Web 2.0
7301 (2.156 %)Digital Media
8290 (2.078 %)Blackberry
9288 (2.063 %)iPad
10241 (1.726 %)N-Tier
11213 (1.526 %)SaaS
12209 (1.497 %)Social Network
13157 (1.125 %)Graphic Design
14138 (0.989 %)Mathematics
15137 (0.981 %)RIA
16110 (0.788 %)Inversion of Control
1798 (0.702 %)Spread Betting
1798 (0.702 %)Blog
1895 (0.681 %)Management Information System
1989 (0.638 %)Cloud Computing
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11600 (11.46 %)Linux
21251 (8.962 %)Windows
3759 (5.437 %)Android
4487 (3.489 %)Apple iOS
5436 (3.123 %)UNIX
6192 (1.375 %)Windows Mobile
7156 (1.118 %)Windows Server 2003
8139 (0.996 %)Windows Server 2008
958 (0.416 %)Mac OS X
1051 (0.365 %)Ubuntu
1143 (0.308 %)Windows Phone 7
1237 (0.265 %)Debian
1336 (0.258 %)Windows XP
1434 (0.244 %)Windows 7
1434 (0.244 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1533 (0.236 %)CentOS
1627 (0.193 %)BlackBerry OS
1718 (0.129 %)Mac OS
1814 (0.100 %)Windows Vista
198 (0.057 %)Solaris
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14201 (30.10 %)MVC
22776 (19.89 %)OO
32701 (19.35 %)Web Development
42060 (14.76 %)Agile Software Development
51985 (14.22 %)E-Commerce
61871 (13.40 %)TDD
71536 (11.00 %)Scrum
81178 (8.439 %)OOP
9840 (6.018 %)SEO
10829 (5.939 %)Content Management
11808 (5.788 %)Unit Testing
12658 (4.714 %)Continuous Integration
13614 (4.399 %)Web Design
14491 (3.517 %)BDD
15405 (2.901 %)UML
16393 (2.815 %)Project Management
17361 (2.586 %)SOA
18344 (2.464 %)Web Application Development
19282 (2.020 %)CRM
20278 (1.992 %)Software Engineering
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
111556 (82.79 %)JavaScript
25698 (40.82 %)C#
34084 (29.26 %)SQL
43963 (28.39 %)PHP
52381 (17.06 %)Java
61158 (8.296 %)VB.NET
71024 (7.336 %)PHP5
81007 (7.214 %)T-SQL
9649 (4.649 %)Ruby
10573 (4.105 %)Python
11463 (3.317 %)ActionScript
12412 (2.952 %)VB
13348 (2.493 %)Perl
14288 (2.063 %)C++
15284 (2.035 %)XPath
16239 (1.712 %)Objective-C
17226 (1.619 %)PL/SQL
18199 (1.426 %)C
19183 (1.311 %)ActionScript 3.0
20114 (0.817 %)XAML
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11575 (11.28 %)Degree
2287 (2.056 %)Microsoft Certification
387 (0.623 %)Security Cleared
462 (0.444 %)SC Cleared
550 (0.358 %)MCP
646 (0.330 %)MCTS
731 (0.222 %)MCAD
830 (0.215 %)MCSD
830 (0.215 %)MCPD
926 (0.186 %)HND
1018 (0.129 %)Sun Certification
1114 (0.100 %)MCSE
1210 (0.072 %)PhD
136 (0.043 %)SCJA
136 (0.043 %)SCJP
145 (0.036 %)DV Cleared
145 (0.036 %)ITIL Certification
154 (0.029 %)ISEB
154 (0.029 %)MCSA
154 (0.029 %)BC Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1430 (3.080 %)QA
298 (0.702 %)WCAG
387 (0.623 %)WAI
461 (0.437 %)ISO 9001
542 (0.301 %)SLA
629 (0.208 %)PAS 78
716 (0.115 %)PCI DSS
88 (0.057 %)Data Quality
91 (0.007 %)Dublin Core
91 (0.007 %)ISO 8583
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
172 (0.516 %)Active Directory
236 (0.258 %)VMware Infrastructure
324 (0.172 %)Varnish
412 (0.086 %)Postfix
412 (0.086 %)Sendmail
59 (0.064 %)XenServer
59 (0.064 %)vSphere
59 (0.064 %)Hyper-V
68 (0.057 %)Oracle RAC
74 (0.029 %)Xen
82 (0.014 %)Squid
82 (0.014 %)vCloud
82 (0.014 %)XenDesktop
91 (0.007 %)NFS
91 (0.007 %)VMware Workstation
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
133 (0.236 %)Puppet
214 (0.100 %)SCCM
214 (0.100 %)SCVMM
39 (0.064 %)Plesk
48 (0.057 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
57 (0.050 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
66 (0.043 %)Backup Exec
75 (0.036 %)WMI
75 (0.036 %)Cisco CUCM
83 (0.021 %)HP Quality Center
91 (0.007 %)Data Guard
91 (0.007 %)Nagios
91 (0.007 %)MOM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11757 (12.59 %)Microsoft
2987 (7.071 %)Zend
3884 (6.333 %)Oracle
4588 (4.212 %)Facebook
5527 (3.775 %)Adobe
6439 (3.145 %)Google
7222 (1.590 %)JBoss
8212 (1.519 %)Twitter
9172 (1.232 %)Symbian
10148 (1.060 %)Sitecore
11118 (0.845 %)ATG
1291 (0.652 %)Telerik
1385 (0.609 %)EPiServer
1482 (0.587 %)IBM
1577 (0.552 %)Salesforce.com
1669 (0.494 %)Red Hat
1768 (0.487 %)Apple
1859 (0.423 %)Omniture
1948 (0.344 %)VMware
2045 (0.322 %)SAP