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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 353 465
Rank change year-on-year -156 +112 -41
Contract jobs citing jQuery 34 136 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.51% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.47% 2.29% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 48 74
10th Percentile £361 £245 £314
25th Percentile £413 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.36% -0.77%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £619
90th Percentile £600 £641 £674
UK median daily rate £476 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.90% +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 - - -25.00%

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 7,237 5,927 7,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.00% 22.37% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,847 3,765 5,693
10th Percentile £358 £363 £358
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 77 183
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £25.96
25th Percentile £49.06 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.80 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -109 15 £480 -4.00% 10
East of England -15 6 £600 +166.67% 4
North West -34 6 £510 +65.58% 4
North of England -70 6 £510 +33.51% 10
South East -19 5 £375 - 16
West Midlands -50 1 - - 5
Midlands -63 1 - - 9
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 6 (17.65%) CMS
1 6 (17.65%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.94%) Drupal
3 1 (2.94%) Gunicorn
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.94%) nginx
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (2.94%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.94%) InVision
1 1 (2.94%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.94%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) AWS
3 6 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.88%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.88%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Figma
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.94%) npm
6 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.88%) Redis
6 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.94%) MySQL
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) JUnit
2 5 (14.71%) Git
2 5 (14.71%) Postman
3 4 (11.76%) JIRA
4 2 (5.88%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.94%) Grunt
5 1 (2.94%) gulp
5 1 (2.94%) jMock
5 1 (2.94%) Maven
5 1 (2.94%) Mockito
5 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.94%) webpack
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Public Sector
3 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Finance
5 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (76.47%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Senior
3 7 (20.59%) Senior Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Java Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Architect
6 4 (11.76%) Technical Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Administrator
8 2 (5.88%) Informatica Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Principal Developer
8 2 (5.88%) SharePoint Administrator
9 1 (2.94%) .NET Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Django Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 1 (2.94%) UI Developer
9 1 (2.94%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (64.71%) CSS
2 21 (61.76%) HTML
3 20 (58.82%) AngularJS
4 18 (52.94%) React
5 14 (41.18%) .NET
6 9 (26.47%) Node.js
6 9 (26.47%) REST
6 9 (26.47%) Spring
7 7 (20.59%) ASP.NET
7 7 (20.59%) HTML5
7 7 (20.59%) JSON
7 7 (20.59%) RESTful
8 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (17.65%) Spring Boot
9 5 (14.71%) Bootstrap
9 5 (14.71%) POJO
9 5 (14.71%) Thymeleaf
9 5 (14.71%) Web Services
9 5 (14.71%) XML
10 3 (8.82%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.82%) Low-Code
2 3 (8.82%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.88%) Life Science
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Android
2 2 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Agile
2 14 (41.18%) DevOps
3 13 (38.24%) Microservices
4 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 11 (32.35%) Front End Development
5 11 (32.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (32.35%) Scrum
6 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (23.53%) User Experience
8 7 (20.59%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 6 (17.65%) MVC
9 6 (17.65%) Personalization
9 6 (17.65%) Unit Testing
9 6 (17.65%) UX Design
10 5 (14.71%) API Development
10 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
10 5 (14.71%) User Research
11 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) JavaScript
2 16 (47.06%) C#
2 16 (47.06%) SQL
3 14 (41.18%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) Groovy
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) Degree
3 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Sitecore
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) OutSystems
3 2 (5.88%) Informatica
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Adobe
4 1 (2.94%) Perforce
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.94%) SAP