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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 394 474
Rank change year-on-year -84 +80 -73
Contract jobs citing jQuery 71 117 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.40% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% 1.83% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 47 60
10th Percentile £313 £220 £311
25th Percentile £406 £313 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £581
90th Percentile £630 £629 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
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 7,026 6,380 8,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.37% 21.87% 21.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,694 4,091 5,916
10th Percentile £350 £358 £374
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.09%
75th Percentile £630 £666 £675
90th Percentile £736 £800 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 85 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.75 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -54 39 £540 +8.00% 6
North of England -42 20 £475 +35.71% 10
Yorkshire -36 11 £488 +9.67% 5
North West -29 9 £464 +74.53% 5
South East -14 5 £375 +25.00% 14
Midlands -30 4 £263 -32.26% 3
West Midlands -35 2 £325 -16.13% 3
East Midlands - 2 £246 -
South West -3 1 £557 - 3
East of England -16 1 £500 +122.22% 8
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 13 (18.31%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.82%) Apache
3 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.41%) Drupal
4 1 (1.41%) Gunicorn
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.41%) nginx
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (1.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.41%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.41%) InVision
1 1 (1.41%) Moqups
1 1 (1.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (18.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.90%) Azure
2 8 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.63%) Azure AKS
4 3 (4.23%) AWS
4 3 (4.23%) npm
5 2 (2.82%) GCP
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.82%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.82%) SaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Figma
6 1 (1.41%) GitHub
6 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.31%) SSL
2 1 (1.41%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.76%) Relational Database
2 11 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (15.49%) SQL Server
3 8 (11.27%) Redis
4 7 (9.86%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.41%) MySQL
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (28.17%) Git
2 17 (23.94%) JIRA
3 7 (9.86%) webpack
4 6 (8.45%) JUnit
5 5 (7.04%) Postman
6 3 (4.23%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.23%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.23%) Grunt
6 3 (4.23%) gulp
6 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.23%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (4.23%) Selenium
6 3 (4.23%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.82%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.82%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.41%) jMock
8 1 (1.41%) Maven
8 1 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.08%) Finance
4 8 (11.27%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.41%) Police
6 1 (1.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (57.75%) Developer
2 18 (25.35%) Senior
3 10 (14.08%) Architect
3 10 (14.08%) ServiceNow Architect
4 9 (12.68%) Senior Developer
5 8 (11.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (11.27%) Java Developer
5 8 (11.27%) Senior Architect
6 6 (8.45%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.23%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow Developer
9 2 (2.82%) Administrator
9 2 (2.82%) Automation Tester
9 2 (2.82%) Principal Developer
9 2 (2.82%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
9 2 (2.82%) SharePoint Administrator
9 2 (2.82%) Tester
9 2 (2.82%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (74.65%) HTML
2 39 (54.93%) CSS
3 30 (42.25%) HTML5
4 26 (36.62%) AngularJS
4 26 (36.62%) JSON
4 26 (36.62%) REST
5 22 (30.99%) .NET
6 21 (29.58%) Web Services
7 19 (26.76%) React
8 15 (21.13%) SOAP
9 13 (18.31%) Apache Camel
9 13 (18.31%) JDBC
9 13 (18.31%) LDAP
9 13 (18.31%) ODBC
9 13 (18.31%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (18.31%) SAML
10 12 (16.90%) Bootstrap
11 11 (15.49%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (14.08%) Spring
13 9 (12.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.86%) Reinsurance
3 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.63%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.82%) Life Science
5 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.41%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Linux
2 3 (4.23%) Android
2 3 (4.23%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (63.38%) Agile
2 24 (33.80%) DevOps
3 23 (32.39%) Microservices
3 23 (32.39%) Scrum
4 22 (30.99%) Test Automation
5 21 (29.58%) Front End Development
6 20 (28.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (25.35%) MVC
8 16 (22.54%) User Experience
9 14 (19.72%) Business Analysis
10 13 (18.31%) Integration Patterns
10 13 (18.31%) ITSM
10 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (15.49%) CI/CD
11 11 (15.49%) SDLC
12 10 (14.08%) OO
12 10 (14.08%) OOP
13 9 (12.68%) Architectural Patterns
14 8 (11.27%) Unit Testing
14 8 (11.27%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 53 (74.65%) JavaScript
2 23 (32.39%) C#
3 20 (28.17%) SQL
4 19 (26.76%) Java
5 2 (2.82%) Groovy
5 2 (2.82%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.41%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.41%) Bash
6 1 (1.41%) Python
6 1 (1.41%) SOQL
6 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.45%) Degree
4 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (26.76%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.86%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) HL7
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (18.31%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.41%) Ansible
3 1 (1.41%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Oracle
2 13 (18.31%) BMC
2 13 (18.31%) HP
2 13 (18.31%) Ivanti
2 13 (18.31%) Remedy
2 13 (18.31%) ServiceNow
3 8 (11.27%) GoldenSource
4 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
5 5 (7.04%) OutSystems
6 3 (4.23%) Perforce
7 2 (2.82%) Adobe
7 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.41%) Nintex
8 1 (1.41%) SAP