jQuery Contract Job Trends in England

jQuery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring jQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 397 462
Rank change year-on-year -40 +65 -91
Contract jobs citing jQuery 93 115 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 1.65% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 45 87
10th Percentile £268 £229 £325
25th Percentile £356 £323 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.84% -9.52% -2.33%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £638
90th Percentile £634 £632 £663
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -5.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £50.50
25th Percentile - - £53.13
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -21.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,502 6,978 8,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.88% 22.05% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,378 4,453 6,631
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £507 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.02% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 135 186
10th Percentile £31.00 £27.30 £38.80
25th Percentile £41.56 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.78
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +16.53% -14.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £72.85 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.44 £65.00 £56.03
% change year-on-year -20.86% +16.01% -13.80%

jQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

jQuery job vacancy trend in England

jQuery
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing jQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing jQuery

jQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing jQuery in England over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for jQuery in England

jQuery
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing jQuery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing jQuery

jQuery
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing jQuery within the England region over the 6 months to 23 October 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -24 44 £575 +15.00% 18
North of England -23 23 £464 +0.38% 18
Midlands -20 13 £268 -43.58% 2
North West -18 12 £360 -14.74% 7
East Midlands +1 11 £268 -36.94% 1
Yorkshire -18 11 £488 +2.63% 7
South East +15 8 £500 +66.67% 17
South West +15 2 £466 - 4
East of England -9 2 £500 +122.22% 5
West Midlands -16 2 £325 -38.10% 1
jQuery
UK

jQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 16 (17.20%) Confluence
2 6 (6.45%) Tomcat
3 5 (5.38%) Apache
4 4 (4.30%) nginx
5 3 (3.23%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.15%) Drupal
7 1 (1.08%) Gunicorn
7 1 (1.08%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.08%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 13 (13.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.08%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.08%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.20%) Azure
2 11 (11.83%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (6.45%) AWS
4 5 (5.38%) GitHub
5 4 (4.30%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.23%) npm
6 3 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.15%) GCP
7 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.15%) SaaS
7 2 (2.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.98%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.58%) Relational Database
2 18 (19.35%) SQL Server
3 11 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.60%) Redis
5 7 (7.53%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.23%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.15%) MySQL
7 2 (2.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (2.15%) Power BI
8 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (33.33%) Git
2 20 (21.51%) JIRA
3 11 (11.83%) Jenkins
4 10 (10.75%) Cucumber
4 10 (10.75%) Selenium
5 7 (7.53%) webpack
6 6 (6.45%) JUnit
7 5 (5.38%) Postman
7 5 (5.38%) Subversion
8 4 (4.30%) REST Assured
8 4 (4.30%) Visual Studio
8 4 (4.30%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (3.23%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.23%) Eclipse
9 3 (3.23%) Gerrit
9 3 (3.23%) Grunt
9 3 (3.23%) gulp
9 3 (3.23%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (3.23%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.83%) Finance
4 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.60%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (7.53%) Banking
7 3 (3.23%) Legal
8 1 (1.08%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.08%) Police
8 1 (1.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (59.14%) Developer
2 18 (19.35%) Senior
3 11 (11.83%) Architect
4 10 (10.75%) ServiceNow Architect
5 9 (9.68%) Automation Tester
5 9 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (9.68%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.68%) Senior Developer
5 9 (9.68%) Tester
6 8 (8.60%) Senior Architect
7 6 (6.45%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.38%) UI Developer
9 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow Developer
10 3 (3.23%) .NET Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Cloud Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Salesforce Developer
10 3 (3.23%) SharePoint Developer
11 2 (2.15%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (77.42%) HTML
2 52 (55.91%) CSS
3 36 (38.71%) REST
4 33 (35.48%) HTML5
5 31 (33.33%) AngularJS
6 29 (31.18%) JSON
7 27 (29.03%) .NET
8 25 (26.88%) React
9 21 (22.58%) Web Services
10 18 (19.35%) SOAP
11 14 (15.05%) JDBC
12 13 (13.98%) Apache Camel
12 13 (13.98%) LDAP
12 13 (13.98%) ODBC
12 13 (13.98%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (13.98%) RESTful
12 13 (13.98%) SAML
13 12 (12.90%) ASP.NET Web API
14 11 (11.83%) Bootstrap
15 10 (10.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.90%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.53%) Reinsurance
3 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.30%) Low-Code
3 4 (4.30%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.15%) Life Science
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.53%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Android
2 3 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (63.44%) Agile
2 32 (34.41%) DevOps
3 31 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 24 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (25.81%) Scrum
5 23 (24.73%) Microservices
6 22 (23.66%) MVC
7 21 (22.58%) Front End Development
8 20 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (21.51%) User Experience
9 16 (17.20%) CI/CD
10 14 (15.05%) Business Analysis
10 14 (15.05%) ITSM
11 13 (13.98%) Integration Patterns
11 13 (13.98%) SDLC
12 12 (12.90%) OO
13 11 (11.83%) OOP
13 11 (11.83%) UX Design
14 10 (10.75%) Code Quality
15 9 (9.68%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 65 (69.89%) JavaScript
2 29 (31.18%) Java
3 28 (30.11%) C#
4 23 (24.73%) SQL
5 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.23%) Apex Code
6 3 (3.23%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.23%) Python
6 3 (3.23%) SOQL
7 2 (2.15%) Groovy
7 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.08%) Bash
8 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.60%) Degree
4 4 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.15%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.51%) Accessibility
2 10 (10.75%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) WCAG
4 1 (1.08%) HL7
4 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (16.13%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (4.30%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.08%) Ansible
3 1 (1.08%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 15 (16.13%) Oracle
2 14 (15.05%) ServiceNow
3 13 (13.98%) BMC
3 13 (13.98%) HP
3 13 (13.98%) Ivanti
3 13 (13.98%) Remedy
4 10 (10.75%) Microsoft
5 8 (8.60%) GoldenSource
6 6 (6.45%) OutSystems
7 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.23%) Nintex
8 3 (3.23%) Perforce
9 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.08%) Adobe
10 1 (1.08%) SAP