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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 398 487
Rank change year-on-year -61 +89 -83
Contract jobs citing jQuery 74 120 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.39% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 1.80% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 48 60
10th Percentile £313 £221 £306
25th Percentile £409 £311 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £581
90th Percentile £638 £612 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -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 6,949 6,675 8,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.34% 21.83% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,671 4,252 6,119
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 99 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.45 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -15.72%

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 6 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 6 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 -46 41 £563 +12.50% 6
North of England -44 20 £475 +29.78% 14
Yorkshire -28 11 £488 +9.67% 7
North West -28 9 £464 +33.31% 7
South East -3 6 £375 +25.00% 16
Midlands -35 4 £263 -32.26% 3
West Midlands -27 2 £325 -16.13% 3
East Midlands - 2 £246 -
South West -4 1 £557 - 3
East of England -14 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 (17.57%) Confluence
2 3 (4.05%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (1.35%) Drupal
4 1 (1.35%) Gunicorn
4 1 (1.35%) nginx
4 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.35%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.35%) InVision
1 1 (1.35%) Moqups
1 1 (1.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.57%) Azure
2 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.41%) AWS
3 4 (5.41%) Azure AKS
4 3 (4.05%) npm
5 2 (2.70%) GCP
5 2 (2.70%) SaaS
6 1 (1.35%) Figma
6 1 (1.35%) GitHub
6 1 (1.35%) PaaS
6 1 (1.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (25.68%) Relational Database
2 14 (18.92%) SQL Server
3 11 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.81%) Redis
5 7 (9.46%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.05%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.70%) MySQL
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (28.38%) Git
2 17 (22.97%) JIRA
3 7 (9.46%) webpack
4 6 (8.11%) JUnit
5 5 (6.76%) Postman
6 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.05%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.05%) Eclipse
6 3 (4.05%) Grunt
6 3 (4.05%) gulp
6 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.05%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (4.05%) Selenium
6 3 (4.05%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.70%) Maven
7 2 (2.70%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.35%) Gradle
8 1 (1.35%) jMock
8 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.51%) Finance
4 8 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.05%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.35%) Police
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
7 1 (1.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 43 (58.11%) Developer
2 19 (25.68%) Senior
3 11 (14.86%) Architect
4 10 (13.51%) ServiceNow Architect
5 9 (12.16%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.16%) Senior Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Senior Architect
7 6 (8.11%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (5.41%) ServiceNow Developer
10 3 (4.05%) .NET Developer
11 2 (2.70%) Automation Tester
11 2 (2.70%) Principal Developer
11 2 (2.70%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
11 2 (2.70%) Tester
11 2 (2.70%) UI Developer
12 1 (1.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 1 (1.35%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (75.68%) HTML
2 42 (56.76%) CSS
3 30 (40.54%) HTML5
4 29 (39.19%) REST
5 28 (37.84%) AngularJS
6 27 (36.49%) JSON
7 23 (31.08%) .NET
8 22 (29.73%) React
9 21 (28.38%) Web Services
10 15 (20.27%) SOAP
11 14 (18.92%) JDBC
12 13 (17.57%) Apache Camel
12 13 (17.57%) LDAP
12 13 (17.57%) ODBC
12 13 (17.57%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (17.57%) SAML
13 12 (16.22%) Bootstrap
13 12 (16.22%) RESTful
14 11 (14.86%) ASP.NET Web API
15 10 (13.51%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.46%) Reinsurance
3 4 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.41%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.05%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.70%) Life Science
5 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Android
2 3 (4.05%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (64.86%) Agile
2 26 (35.14%) DevOps
3 23 (31.08%) Microservices
3 23 (31.08%) Scrum
3 23 (31.08%) Test Automation
4 22 (29.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (28.38%) MVC
6 20 (27.03%) Front End Development
7 16 (21.62%) User Experience
8 14 (18.92%) Business Analysis
8 14 (18.92%) ITSM
9 13 (17.57%) CI/CD
9 13 (17.57%) Integration Patterns
9 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (16.22%) SDLC
11 10 (13.51%) OO
11 10 (13.51%) OOP
12 9 (12.16%) Architectural Patterns
12 9 (12.16%) Code Quality
13 8 (10.81%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 56 (75.68%) JavaScript
2 24 (32.43%) C#
3 20 (27.03%) Java
3 20 (27.03%) SQL
4 3 (4.05%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.70%) Groovy
5 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.35%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.35%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) Python
6 1 (1.35%) SOQL
6 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) Degree
4 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (25.68%) Accessibility
2 9 (12.16%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) HL7
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (9.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (17.57%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.35%) Ansible
3 1 (1.35%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 15 (20.27%) Oracle
2 14 (18.92%) ServiceNow
3 13 (17.57%) BMC
3 13 (17.57%) HP
3 13 (17.57%) Ivanti
3 13 (17.57%) Remedy
4 8 (10.81%) GoldenSource
5 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
6 5 (6.76%) OutSystems
7 3 (4.05%) Perforce
8 2 (2.70%) Adobe
8 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.35%) Nintex
9 1 (1.35%) SAP