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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 355 459
Rank change year-on-year -202 +104 -52
Contract jobs citing jQuery 27 117 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.072% 0.48% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% 2.14% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 42 67
10th Percentile £404 £274 £313
25th Percentile £415 £390 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £463
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +1.62% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £528 £594
90th Percentile £645 £636 £638
UK median daily rate £476 £475 £454
% change year-on-year +0.11% +4.63% -6.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -31.35%

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 7,832 5,477 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.88% 22.56% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,258 3,762 5,367
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 86 178
10th Percentile £35.25 £27.30 £20.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -126 16 £420 -16.00% 6
East of England - 8 £600 - 8
South East -51 2 £475 - 16
West Midlands -60 1 - - 1
Midlands -80 1 - - 4
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 (29.63%) CMS
1 8 (29.63%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (14.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Drupal
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.70%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (3.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Adobe XD
1 1 (3.70%) InVision
1 1 (3.70%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (14.81%) GitHub
4 4 (14.81%) Power Automate
4 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (11.11%) PowerApps
6 2 (7.41%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) Figma
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.70%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) NoSQL
2 8 (29.63%) SQL Server
3 4 (14.81%) MySQL
4 3 (11.11%) DB2
4 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Maven
2 2 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) jMock
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Mockito
General
1 20 (74.07%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (18.52%) Retail
5 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Technical Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Service Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Data Scientist
4 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 3 (11.11%) SharePoint Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Informatica Developer
5 2 (7.41%) SharePoint Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior
6 1 (3.70%) UI Developer
6 1 (3.70%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (88.89%) CSS
2 21 (77.78%) AngularJS
3 19 (70.37%) HTML
4 17 (62.96%) React
5 14 (51.85%) REST
6 12 (44.44%) .NET
7 9 (33.33%) ASP.NET
8 8 (29.63%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (29.63%) Bootstrap
8 8 (29.63%) Node.js
9 6 (22.22%) Sass
10 5 (18.52%) Spring
11 4 (14.81%) HTML5
11 4 (14.81%) J2EE
11 4 (14.81%) Spring MVC
11 4 (14.81%) Web Services
12 3 (11.11%) Backbone.js
12 3 (11.11%) Ember.js
12 3 (11.11%) RESTful
12 3 (11.11%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 7 (25.93%) Windows
3 4 (14.81%) Unix
4 3 (11.11%) Android
4 3 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (48.15%) Agile
3 11 (40.74%) Front End Development
4 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 10 (37.04%) DevOps
4 10 (37.04%) Scrum
5 9 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (29.63%) Microservices
6 8 (29.63%) Personalization
7 7 (25.93%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (22.22%) Data Governance
9 5 (18.52%) Analytics
9 5 (18.52%) Change Management
9 5 (18.52%) MVC
9 5 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
10 4 (14.81%) ITIL
10 4 (14.81%) Problem Management
10 4 (14.81%) Release Management
10 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 11 (40.74%) C#
3 9 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (18.52%) Java
5 3 (11.11%) Python
6 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) PhD
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) SLA
2 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.41%) QA
4 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Sitecore
2 2 (7.41%) Informatica
3 1 (3.70%) Adobe
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Telerik
3 1 (3.70%) Workday