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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 366 463
Rank change year-on-year -178 +97 -60
Contract jobs citing jQuery 31 122 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.087% 0.48% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% 2.09% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 38 67
10th Percentile £400 £263 £313
25th Percentile £415 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £534 £619
90th Percentile £638 £649 £672
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +1.05% +5.56% -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 - - -23.55%

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 7,720 5,829 7,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.73% 22.70% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,178 3,838 5,493
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.10% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 81 211
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.11 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £81.01 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 28 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 28 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 -102 17 £480 -4.00% 8
East of England - 8 £600 - 7
South East -37 4 £425 - 14
West Midlands -58 1 - - 2
Midlands -67 1 - - 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 (25.81%) CMS
1 8 (25.81%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (9.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) Drupal
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.23%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (3.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Adobe XD
1 1 (3.23%) InVision
1 1 (3.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (3.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) GCP
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
5 3 (9.68%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.45%) OneDrive
6 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
6 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) Figma
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.23%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) NoSQL
2 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.90%) MySQL
3 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (9.68%) DB2
4 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Maven
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) jMock
3 1 (3.23%) JUnit
3 1 (3.23%) Mockito
General
1 23 (74.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Finance
4 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 4 (12.90%) Retail
6 1 (3.23%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
2 6 (19.35%) Technical Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Data Scientist
3 3 (9.68%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Service Delivery Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Service Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Administrator
4 2 (6.45%) Informatica Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.45%) SharePoint Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 1 (3.23%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (3.23%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (74.19%) CSS
2 21 (67.74%) AngularJS
3 19 (61.29%) HTML
4 17 (54.84%) React
5 13 (41.94%) .NET
6 12 (38.71%) REST
7 10 (32.26%) Node.js
8 8 (25.81%) ASP.NET
8 8 (25.81%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (22.58%) Bootstrap
10 6 (19.35%) Web Services
11 5 (16.13%) Spring
12 4 (12.90%) HTML5
12 4 (12.90%) Sass
12 4 (12.90%) XML
13 3 (9.68%) Backbone.js
13 3 (9.68%) Ember.js
13 3 (9.68%) J2EE
13 3 (9.68%) Spring MVC
13 3 (9.68%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.68%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 6 (19.35%) Windows
3 5 (16.13%) Android
3 5 (16.13%) Apple iOS
4 3 (9.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Agile
2 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (41.94%) Scrum
3 11 (35.48%) Front End Development
4 9 (29.03%) DevOps
4 9 (29.03%) Microservices
4 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
5 8 (25.81%) Personalization
6 7 (22.58%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (19.35%) Data Governance
8 5 (16.13%) Analytics
8 5 (16.13%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
9 4 (12.90%) E-Commerce
9 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (12.90%) MVC
9 4 (12.90%) Prototyping
10 3 (9.68%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
10 3 (9.68%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) JavaScript
2 15 (48.39%) C#
3 13 (41.94%) SQL
4 10 (32.26%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) Python
6 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Degree
3 3 (9.68%) PhD
3 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) SLA
2 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Sitecore
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Informatica
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) OutSystems
4 1 (3.23%) Adobe
4 1 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Workday