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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 358 456
Rank change year-on-year -195 +98 -47
Contract jobs citing jQuery 30 121 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.082% 0.47% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.38% 2.08% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 41 69
10th Percentile £396 £255 £313
25th Percentile £414 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% - -2.01%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £619
90th Percentile £641 £638 £671
UK median daily rate £478 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +0.58% +2.70% -2.63%
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 - - -31.79%

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 7,840 5,821 7,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.53% 22.65% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,265 3,854 5,485
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £674
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 84 209
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.22 £21.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £81.88 £76.53
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 7 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 7 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 -106 17 £480 -4.00% 7
East of England - 8 £600 - 8
South East -36 4 £425 - 13
West Midlands -62 1 - - 1
Midlands -76 1 - - 2
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%) CMS
1 8 (26.67%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (13.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.33%) Drupal
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.33%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (3.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (3.33%) InVision
1 1 (3.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub
5 3 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
6 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) Figma
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) NoSQL
2 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
3 5 (16.67%) MySQL
4 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.00%) DB2
5 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Maven
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) jMock
3 1 (3.33%) JUnit
3 1 (3.33%) Mockito
General
1 22 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Architect
2 6 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Service Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) Informatica Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) SharePoint Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.33%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (3.33%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (3.33%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (80.00%) CSS
2 22 (73.33%) AngularJS
3 19 (63.33%) HTML
4 17 (56.67%) React
5 13 (43.33%) .NET
5 13 (43.33%) REST
6 10 (33.33%) Node.js
7 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET
7 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (26.67%) Bootstrap
8 7 (23.33%) Web Services
9 6 (20.00%) Spring
10 5 (16.67%) Sass
11 4 (13.33%) HTML5
11 4 (13.33%) J2EE
11 4 (13.33%) Spring MVC
12 3 (10.00%) Ember.js
12 3 (10.00%) Keras
12 3 (10.00%) PyTorch
12 3 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Linux
2 7 (23.33%) Windows
3 5 (16.67%) Android
3 5 (16.67%) Apple iOS
4 4 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (43.33%) Agile
3 11 (36.67%) Front End Development
3 11 (36.67%) Scrum
4 9 (30.00%) DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) Microservices
4 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 8 (26.67%) Personalization
6 7 (23.33%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 6 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (16.67%) Analytics
8 5 (16.67%) MVC
9 4 (13.33%) Change Management
9 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
9 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
9 4 (13.33%) ITIL
9 4 (13.33%) Prototyping
9 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (43.33%) C#
3 11 (36.67%) SQL
4 9 (30.00%) Java
5 3 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) PhD
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) SLA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Sitecore
2 2 (6.67%) Informatica
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) OutSystems
3 1 (3.33%) Adobe
3 1 (3.33%) IBM
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Workday