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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 356 459
Rank change year-on-year -126 +103 -35
Contract jobs citing jQuery 59 130 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.48% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.84% 2.17% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 49 62
10th Percentile £313 £223 £325
25th Percentile £400 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £597
90th Percentile £638 £640 £675
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% -5.26%
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 6,999 5,982 7,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.18% 21.86% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,673 3,827 5,524
10th Percentile £356 £359 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £671
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 68 161
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £45.00 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -67 32 £500 - 7
North of England -50 18 £488 +27.62% 12
Yorkshire -38 11 £488 +9.67% 5
North West -28 7 £435 +41.23% 5
South East -21 4 £350 - 15
Midlands -47 3 £294 -44.05% 9
West Midlands -48 2 £325 -38.10% 5
South West -10 1 £557 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £263 - 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 (13.56%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.39%) Apache
3 2 (3.39%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.69%) Drupal
4 1 (1.69%) Gunicorn
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.69%) nginx
4 1 (1.69%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (1.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.69%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.69%) InVision
1 1 (1.69%) Moqups
1 1 (1.69%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.69%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Azure
2 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
4 3 (5.08%) AWS
5 2 (3.39%) GCP
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.39%) SaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Figma
6 1 (1.69%) npm
6 1 (1.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.56%) SSL
2 1 (1.69%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (30.51%) Relational Database
2 10 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
4 7 (11.86%) Redis
5 6 (10.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.69%) MySQL
7 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (28.81%) Git
2 12 (20.34%) JIRA
3 6 (10.17%) JUnit
3 6 (10.17%) webpack
4 5 (8.47%) Postman
5 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.39%) Eclipse
5 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.39%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (3.39%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.39%) Selenium
6 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.69%) Grunt
6 1 (1.69%) jMock
6 1 (1.69%) Maven
6 1 (1.69%) Mockito
6 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.03%) Public Sector
3 9 (15.25%) Finance
4 7 (11.86%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Police
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
6 1 (1.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (61.02%) Developer
2 14 (23.73%) Senior
3 9 (15.25%) Senior Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Oracle Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (8.47%) ServiceNow Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Architect
8 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow Developer
9 2 (3.39%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Administrator
9 2 (3.39%) Principal Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
9 2 (3.39%) SharePoint Administrator
10 1 (1.69%) Analyst
10 1 (1.69%) C# Developer
10 1 (1.69%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (69.49%) HTML
2 34 (57.63%) CSS
3 22 (37.29%) HTML5
4 21 (35.59%) .NET
5 20 (33.90%) AngularJS
6 18 (30.51%) REST
7 17 (28.81%) JSON
8 16 (27.12%) React
9 15 (25.42%) Web Services
10 11 (18.64%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (16.95%) Bootstrap
11 10 (16.95%) SOAP
11 10 (16.95%) Spring
12 8 (13.56%) Apache Camel
12 8 (13.56%) JDBC
12 8 (13.56%) LDAP
12 8 (13.56%) ODBC
12 8 (13.56%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (13.56%) RESTful
12 8 (13.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.17%) Reinsurance
3 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) Life Science
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.69%) NHS
6 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Linux
2 3 (5.08%) Android
2 3 (5.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (61.02%) Agile
2 19 (32.20%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (30.51%) Front End Development
3 18 (30.51%) MVC
3 18 (30.51%) Test Automation
4 17 (28.81%) DevOps
4 17 (28.81%) Microservices
4 17 (28.81%) Scrum
5 15 (25.42%) User Experience
6 13 (22.03%) Business Analysis
7 10 (16.95%) OO
7 10 (16.95%) OOP
7 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.25%) Architectural Patterns
8 9 (15.25%) CI/CD
8 9 (15.25%) SDLC
9 8 (13.56%) Integration Patterns
9 8 (13.56%) ITSM
9 8 (13.56%) UX Design
10 7 (11.86%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 43 (72.88%) JavaScript
2 22 (37.29%) C#
3 19 (32.20%) SQL
4 17 (28.81%) Java
5 2 (3.39%) Groovy
5 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.69%) Bash
6 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.69%) Python
6 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) Degree
4 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.12%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.17%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) HL7
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (11.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.69%) Ansible
3 1 (1.69%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Oracle
2 8 (13.56%) BMC
2 8 (13.56%) GoldenSource
2 8 (13.56%) HP
2 8 (13.56%) Ivanti
2 8 (13.56%) Remedy
2 8 (13.56%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) OutSystems
4 2 (3.39%) Adobe
4 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.69%) Nintex
5 1 (1.69%) Perforce
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) SAP