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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 402 430
Rank change year-on-year -193 +28 +26
Contract jobs citing jQuery 30 105 96
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.066% 0.38% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 1.53% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 68 61
10th Percentile £404 £254 £275
25th Percentile £415 £322 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £525 £556 £575
90th Percentile £638 £629 £624
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -2.63% -3.06% -6.67%

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 9,818 6,843 8,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.50% 24.83% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,465 4,702 5,616
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 165 209
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.96
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.43
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.47% -1.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.61 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +20.37% -4.00% -10.00%

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 21 August 2026.

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 21 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -112 22 £475 -19.15% 66
South East -70 4 £450 -10.00% 14
South West -49 3 - - 5
West Midlands -51 1 £500 +53.85% 1
Midlands -62 1 £500 +88.50% 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 8 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (6.67%) CMS
3 2 (6.67%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (3.33%) Apache
4 1 (3.33%) ColdFusion
4 1 (3.33%) Confluence
4 1 (3.33%) Drupal
4 1 (3.33%) nginx
4 1 (3.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Eloqua
1 1 (3.33%) Magento
1 1 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.33%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (26.67%) Power Automate
3 5 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 4 (13.33%) AWS
4 4 (13.33%) GCP
5 3 (10.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (3.33%) Figma
6 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (23.33%) MySQL
2 7 (23.33%) Power BI
3 4 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (13.33%) Couchbase
3 4 (13.33%) Data Lake
4 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.33%) JUnit
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (6.67%) Maven
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (3.33%) GitLab
5 1 (3.33%) JIRA
5 1 (3.33%) PHPUnit
5 1 (3.33%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (3.33%) Storybook
5 1 (3.33%) Subversion
5 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Banking
3 7 (23.33%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Retail
6 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Marketing
6 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Senior
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 5 (16.67%) SharePoint Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) SharePoint Administrator
6 2 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Service Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Angular Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Web Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Magento Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (86.67%) CSS
2 23 (76.67%) HTML
3 11 (36.67%) AngularJS
3 11 (36.67%) React
4 10 (33.33%) .NET
5 9 (30.00%) REST
6 8 (26.67%) Sass
7 7 (23.33%) HTML5
8 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET
8 6 (20.00%) Spring
8 6 (20.00%) Spring MVC
9 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (16.67%) SPFx
10 4 (13.33%) Hibernate
10 4 (13.33%) JPA
10 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
10 4 (13.33%) Web Services
11 3 (10.00%) Ajax
11 3 (10.00%) RESTful
11 3 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Unix
2 4 (13.33%) Windows
3 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (36.67%) Front End Development
4 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (30.00%) MVC
6 8 (26.67%) Design Patterns
6 8 (26.67%) DevOps
7 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (23.33%) Web Development
8 6 (20.00%) Analytics
9 5 (16.67%) AI
9 5 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
9 5 (16.67%) User Experience
10 4 (13.33%) AOP
10 4 (13.33%) Change Management
10 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
10 4 (13.33%) Multithreading
10 4 (13.33%) Software Testing
10 4 (13.33%) System Testing
10 4 (13.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 27 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (50.00%) SQL
3 12 (40.00%) C#
4 11 (36.67%) PL/SQL
5 6 (20.00%) Java
5 6 (20.00%) T-SQL
6 4 (13.33%) Shell Script
7 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (6.67%) PHP
9 1 (3.33%) CFML
9 1 (3.33%) Python
9 1 (3.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (3.33%) HL7
3 1 (3.33%) WAI
3 1 (3.33%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
1 1 (3.33%) Varnish
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Oracle
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.33%) Adobe
3 4 (13.33%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Optimizely
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) CODA
5 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.33%) Pardot
5 1 (3.33%) Telerik
5 1 (3.33%) Workday