jQuery Contract Job Trends in London

jQuery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring jQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 277 337
Rank change year-on-year -84 +60 +52
Contract jobs citing jQuery 18 83 53
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.61% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% 2.32% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 39
10th Percentile £413 £378 £400
25th Percentile £415 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £638
90th Percentile £628 £649 £680
England median daily rate £480 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +3.23% -2.11% -5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,957 3,575 4,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.92% 26.33% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,674 2,363 3,456
10th Percentile £363 £381 £386
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 30
10th Percentile £28.39 £36.58 £28.35
25th Percentile £35.06 £39.06 £35.79
Median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +10.77% -25.00%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £82.50 £81.38 £73.79
England median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

jQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing jQuery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

jQuery job vacancy trend in London

jQuery
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing jQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing jQuery

jQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing jQuery in London over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for jQuery in London

jQuery
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing jQuery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing jQuery

jQuery
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing jQuery within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Central London -7 9 £563 -10.00% 4
jQuery
England

jQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (5.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe XD
1 1 (5.56%) InVision
1 1 (5.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Figma
4 1 (5.56%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) DB2
2 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Eclipse
2 2 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (5.56%) jMock
3 1 (5.56%) JUnit
3 1 (5.56%) Mockito
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Principal Developer
3 2 (11.11%) SharePoint Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.56%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (72.22%) CSS
2 11 (61.11%) HTML
3 9 (50.00%) AngularJS
4 7 (38.89%) .NET
4 7 (38.89%) Bootstrap
5 6 (33.33%) REST
6 5 (27.78%) HTML5
6 5 (27.78%) Spring
7 4 (22.22%) React
7 4 (22.22%) Web Services
8 3 (16.67%) Backbone.js
8 3 (16.67%) Ember.js
8 3 (16.67%) Hugging Face
8 3 (16.67%) Keras
8 3 (16.67%) PyTorch
8 3 (16.67%) TensorFlow
8 3 (16.67%) XML
9 2 (11.11%) SOAP
9 2 (11.11%) XHTML
9 2 (11.11%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Low-Code
2 2 (11.11%) Life Science
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
3 3 (16.67%) Android
3 3 (16.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (38.89%) User Experience
2 6 (33.33%) UX Design
3 5 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Prototyping
5 3 (16.67%) AI
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Business Development
5 3 (16.67%) Data Science
5 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (16.67%) Image Processing
5 3 (16.67%) LLM
5 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 3 (16.67%) Microservices
5 3 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) Statistics
5 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 13 (72.22%) SQL
3 8 (44.44%) C#
4 7 (38.89%) Java
5 3 (16.67%) Python
6 2 (11.11%) Groovy
6 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) PhD
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) OutSystems
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Workday