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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 413 397
Rank change year-on-year -191 -16 +65
Contract jobs citing jQuery 31 98 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.067% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.32% 1.37% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 66 54
10th Percentile - £256 £254
25th Percentile £425 £331 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +1.05% -5.94%
75th Percentile £613 £554 £575
90th Percentile £786 £631 £619
UK median daily rate £475 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% -5.00%

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 9,834 7,150 8,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.26% 25.49% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,464 4,822 5,230
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £448 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 172 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.84 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £54.35 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% -16.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.07% -20.05% +8.33%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -110 23 £488 -15.22% 84
South East -74 4 £450 -10.00% 8
South West -27 3 - - 3
West Midlands -45 1 £500 +53.85% 4
Midlands -54 1 £500 +86.57% 6
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 5 (16.13%) SharePoint
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.45%) CMS
3 2 (6.45%) SharePoint 2013
3 2 (6.45%) Skype for Business
4 1 (3.23%) ColdFusion
4 1 (3.23%) Confluence
4 1 (3.23%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Eloqua
1 1 (3.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
3 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (16.13%) Power Automate
4 4 (12.90%) AWS
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 4 (12.90%) OneDrive
5 3 (9.68%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (6.45%) Figma
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (3.23%) ChatGPT
7 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (45.16%) SQL Server
2 7 (22.58%) Power BI
3 4 (12.90%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (12.90%) Couchbase
3 4 (12.90%) Data Lake
3 4 (12.90%) MySQL
4 3 (9.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
2 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) JUnit
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (6.45%) Claude Code
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (3.23%) GitLab
5 1 (3.23%) JIRA
5 1 (3.23%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (3.23%) Storybook
5 1 (3.23%) Subversion
5 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (67.74%) Developer
2 11 (35.48%) Senior
3 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (19.35%) Senior Developer
5 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
5 5 (16.13%) PHP Developer
5 5 (16.13%) SQL Server Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Administrator
6 4 (12.90%) SharePoint Administrator
6 4 (12.90%) Software Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (9.68%) Java Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Java Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Angular Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (3.23%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (87.10%) CSS
1 27 (87.10%) HTML
2 15 (48.39%) .NET
3 11 (35.48%) AngularJS
4 7 (22.58%) Ajax
4 7 (22.58%) React
4 7 (22.58%) Spring
4 7 (22.58%) Spring Boot
5 6 (19.35%) HTML5
6 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET
6 5 (16.13%) Kendo UI
6 5 (16.13%) Sass
7 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
7 4 (12.90%) JPA
7 4 (12.90%) REST
7 4 (12.90%) Spring MVC
8 3 (9.68%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (9.68%) CSS3
8 3 (9.68%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (9.68%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.45%) Equities
2 2 (6.45%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Unix
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Agile
1 15 (48.39%) Front End Development
2 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
2 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (29.03%) Design Patterns
4 8 (25.81%) AI
4 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (22.58%) DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) Analytics
6 6 (19.35%) Microservices
6 6 (19.35%) Web Development
7 5 (16.13%) Inversion of Control
7 5 (16.13%) Migration
7 5 (16.13%) MVC
7 5 (16.13%) Software Testing
7 5 (16.13%) User Experience
7 5 (16.13%) UX Design
8 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
8 4 (12.90%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 29 (93.55%) JavaScript
2 20 (64.52%) SQL
3 18 (58.06%) C#
4 10 (32.26%) PL/SQL
5 7 (22.58%) Java
6 5 (16.13%) PHP
6 5 (16.13%) T-SQL
7 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
7 4 (12.90%) Shell Script
8 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
9 1 (3.23%) CFML
9 1 (3.23%) Python
9 1 (3.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 7 (22.58%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) HL7
2 1 (3.23%) WAI
2 1 (3.23%) WAI-ARIA
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
1 9 (29.03%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) Google
3 3 (9.68%) Adobe
4 2 (6.45%) IBM
4 2 (6.45%) Optimizely
4 2 (6.45%) OutSystems
5 1 (3.23%) CODA
5 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.23%) Pardot
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow