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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 401 444
Rank change year-on-year -175 +43 +13
Contract jobs citing jQuery 33 107 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.072% 0.39% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 1.74% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 68 49
10th Percentile £404 £254 £314
25th Percentile £416 £322 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% - -7.59%
75th Percentile £597 £556 £573
90th Percentile £649 £629 £623
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -9.35%

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 8,486 6,154 7,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.60% 22.31% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,559 4,231 5,050
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £643 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 151 228
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £23.94
25th Percentile £47.60 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -11.00%
75th Percentile £73.34 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.25
% change year-on-year +18.45% +7.07% -14.58%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -101 25 £488 -17.02% 7
South East -73 4 £450 -10.00% 6
South West -35 3 - - 3
East of England -22 1 £600 +20.00% 1
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 (24.24%) SharePoint
2 4 (12.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (9.09%) CMS
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (6.06%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (3.03%) Apache
5 1 (3.03%) ColdFusion
5 1 (3.03%) Confluence
5 1 (3.03%) Drupal
5 1 (3.03%) nginx
5 1 (3.03%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (3.03%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Eloqua
1 1 (3.03%) Magento
1 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.03%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) Power Platform
2 10 (30.30%) Azure
3 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (24.24%) Power Automate
4 7 (21.21%) AWS
5 6 (18.18%) GCP
6 5 (15.15%) PowerApps
7 3 (9.09%) OneDrive
8 2 (6.06%) GitHub
8 2 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (3.03%) Figma
9 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) MySQL
2 8 (24.24%) SQL Server
3 7 (21.21%) Power BI
4 4 (12.12%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (12.12%) Couchbase
4 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
5 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (6.06%) Db2
6 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
6 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) JUnit
2 4 (12.12%) Maven
3 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (3.03%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) PHPUnit
5 1 (3.03%) Storybook
5 1 (3.03%) Subversion
5 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 8 (24.24%) Banking
4 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Retail
5 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Marketing
5 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 5 (15.15%) SharePoint Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Service Delivery Manager
4 4 (12.12%) Service Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Administrator
5 3 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) SharePoint Administrator
5 3 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Web Applications Developer
7 1 (3.03%) UI Developer
7 1 (3.03%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (81.82%) CSS
2 22 (66.67%) HTML
3 15 (45.45%) AngularJS
4 14 (42.42%) React
5 12 (36.36%) REST
6 9 (27.27%) .NET
6 9 (27.27%) Sass
7 8 (24.24%) Spring
7 8 (24.24%) Spring MVC
8 7 (21.21%) ASP.NET
8 7 (21.21%) HTML5
9 6 (18.18%) Bootstrap
10 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (15.15%) SPFx
10 5 (15.15%) Web Services
11 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (12.12%) Hibernate
11 4 (12.12%) Jakarta EE
11 4 (12.12%) JPA
11 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Unix
1 8 (24.24%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Android
3 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Agile
2 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
2 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 11 (33.33%) MVC
4 9 (27.27%) DevOps
5 8 (24.24%) Analytics
5 8 (24.24%) Design Patterns
6 7 (21.21%) AI
6 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (21.21%) Web Development
7 6 (18.18%) Change Management
7 6 (18.18%) E-Commerce
8 5 (15.15%) Inversion of Control
8 5 (15.15%) Microservices
8 5 (15.15%) Release Management
8 5 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (15.15%) User Experience
9 4 (12.12%) Data Science
9 4 (12.12%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 27 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 16 (48.48%) SQL
3 11 (33.33%) C#
3 11 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 8 (24.24%) Java
5 6 (18.18%) T-SQL
6 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
7 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 3 (9.09%) Python
8 1 (3.03%) CFML
8 1 (3.03%) PHP
8 1 (3.03%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) PhD
4 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) SLA
2 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.06%) QA
4 1 (3.03%) WAI
4 1 (3.03%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
1 1 (3.03%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Oracle
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.12%) Adobe
3 4 (12.12%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Optimizely
4 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) CODA
5 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.03%) Pardot
5 1 (3.03%) Sitecore
5 1 (3.03%) Telerik
5 1 (3.03%) Workday