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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 306 317
Rank change year-on-year -119 +11 +64
Contract jobs citing jQuery 24 53 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.40% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% 1.37% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 42
10th Percentile £412 £419 £400
25th Percentile £425 £477 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £565 £531
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% +6.35% -7.61%
75th Percentile £613 £632 £588
90th Percentile £779 £690 £625
England median daily rate £475 £478 £493
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.05% -5.56%

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 5,275 3,870 4,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.29% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,520 2,683 3,447
10th Percentile £400 £369 £384
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +24.94% -14.19% +0.28%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -31 3 £750 +39.53% 2
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 8 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (8.33%) CMS
3 2 (8.33%) SharePoint 2013
3 2 (8.33%) Skype for Business
4 1 (4.17%) Apache
4 1 (4.17%) ColdFusion
4 1 (4.17%) Confluence
4 1 (4.17%) Drupal
4 1 (4.17%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Eloqua
1 1 (4.17%) Magento
1 1 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (4.17%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) OneDrive
3 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.33%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (4.17%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (4.17%) Figma
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.17%) Redis
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Claude Code
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) PHPUnit
3 1 (4.17%) Storybook
3 1 (4.17%) Subversion
3 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing
3 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Administrator
4 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 4 (16.67%) SharePoint Administrator
4 4 (16.67%) SharePoint Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
5 3 (12.50%) PHP Developer
5 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Angular Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Designer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Web Applications Developer
7 1 (4.17%) UI Developer
7 1 (4.17%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (95.83%) CSS
2 22 (91.67%) HTML
3 11 (45.83%) AngularJS
4 9 (37.50%) .NET
5 7 (29.17%) HTML5
5 7 (29.17%) React
5 7 (29.17%) REST
6 5 (20.83%) Ajax
6 5 (20.83%) Sass
7 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (16.67%) SPFx
8 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
8 3 (12.50%) CSS3
8 3 (12.50%) Kendo UI
8 3 (12.50%) SOAP
9 2 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (8.33%) JSON
9 2 (8.33%) Kafka
9 2 (8.33%) RESTful
9 2 (8.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.17%) Equities
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) Front End Development
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Migration
4 5 (20.83%) User Experience
5 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.67%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (16.67%) UX Design
6 3 (12.50%) AI
6 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 3 (12.50%) MVC
6 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.50%) Web Development
7 2 (8.33%) Change Management
7 2 (8.33%) Data Management
7 2 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 11 (45.83%) C#
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) PHP
3 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 2 (8.33%) Java
5 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) CFML
6 1 (4.17%) Python
6 1 (4.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) WAI
3 1 (4.17%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
1 1 (4.17%) Varnish
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle
3 4 (16.67%) Adobe
4 2 (8.33%) IBM
4 2 (8.33%) Optimizely
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) CODA
5 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (4.17%) Pardot
5 1 (4.17%) Telerik
5 1 (4.17%) Workday