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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 402 431
Rank change year-on-year -187 +29 +27
Contract jobs citing jQuery 33 106 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.072% 0.38% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% 1.53% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 70 59
10th Percentile £415 £256 £273
25th Percentile £425 £331 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -3.33% -5.08%
75th Percentile £538 £554 £575
90th Percentile £775 £626 £616
UK median daily rate £469 £482 £483
% change year-on-year -2.75% -0.10% -6.13%

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 9,819 6,909 8,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.39% 24.90% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,469 4,744 5,564
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 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 166 183
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £32.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.43 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 29 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 29 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 -104 25 £475 -17.39% 73
South East -71 4 £450 -10.00% 14
South West -40 3 - - 5
West Midlands -38 1 £500 +53.85% 2
Midlands -60 1 £500 +88.50% 3
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 (24.24%) SharePoint
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.06%) CMS
3 2 (6.06%) SharePoint 2013
3 2 (6.06%) Skype for Business
4 1 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Apache
4 1 (3.03%) ColdFusion
4 1 (3.03%) Confluence
4 1 (3.03%) Drupal
4 1 (3.03%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Eloqua
1 1 (3.03%) Magento
1 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.03%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 9 (27.27%) Azure
3 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (24.24%) Power Automate
4 4 (12.12%) AWS
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) OneDrive
4 4 (12.12%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.06%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (3.03%) Figma
6 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.21%) Power BI
3 6 (18.18%) MySQL
4 4 (12.12%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (12.12%) Couchbase
4 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
5 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
7 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.03%) Redis
7 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) JUnit
3 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (6.06%) Claude Code
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (3.03%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) Maven
5 1 (3.03%) PHPUnit
5 1 (3.03%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (3.03%) Storybook
5 1 (3.03%) Subversion
5 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Banking
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Marketing
4 2 (6.06%) Retail
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (63.64%) Developer
2 10 (30.30%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Senior Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 4 (12.12%) SharePoint Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) SharePoint Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Software Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) PHP Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Angular Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.06%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (87.88%) CSS
2 27 (81.82%) HTML
3 13 (39.39%) .NET
3 13 (39.39%) AngularJS
4 10 (30.30%) React
5 8 (24.24%) REST
6 7 (21.21%) HTML5
6 7 (21.21%) Sass
6 7 (21.21%) Spring
7 6 (18.18%) ASP.NET
7 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
8 5 (15.15%) Ajax
8 5 (15.15%) Spring MVC
9 4 (12.12%) Hibernate
9 4 (12.12%) JPA
9 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (12.12%) SPFx
10 3 (9.09%) Blazor
10 3 (9.09%) CSS3
10 3 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Equities
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Unix
2 3 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Agile
2 14 (42.42%) Front End Development
3 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
4 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (27.27%) Design Patterns
5 9 (27.27%) DevOps
6 8 (24.24%) MVC
7 7 (21.21%) AI
7 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (21.21%) Web Development
8 6 (18.18%) Analytics
8 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (15.15%) Inversion of Control
9 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
9 5 (15.15%) Migration
9 5 (15.15%) Software Testing
9 5 (15.15%) User Experience
10 4 (12.12%) Multithreading
10 4 (12.12%) System Testing
10 4 (12.12%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 30 (90.91%) JavaScript
2 18 (54.55%) SQL
3 15 (45.45%) C#
4 11 (33.33%) PL/SQL
5 7 (21.21%) Java
6 6 (18.18%) T-SQL
7 4 (12.12%) PHP
7 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
7 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
8 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (3.03%) CFML
9 1 (3.03%) Python
9 1 (3.03%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) HL7
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
3 1 (3.03%) WAI
3 1 (3.03%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
1 1 (3.03%) Varnish
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Oracle
2 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.12%) Adobe
3 4 (12.12%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) IBM
4 2 (6.06%) Optimizely
4 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) CODA
5 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.03%) Pardot
5 1 (3.03%) Telerik
5 1 (3.03%) Workday