jQuery Contract Job Trends in the North West

jQuery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring jQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 113 134
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 +26
Contract jobs citing jQuery 7 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.28% 0.46% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 2.83% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £296 £256 -
25th Percentile £337 £260 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £266 £488
Median % change year-on-year +63.53% -45.44% +10.17%
75th Percentile £510 £308 £513
90th Percentile - £333 £532
England median daily rate £500 £493 £450
% change year-on-year +1.52% +9.44% -10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 503 353 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.27% 16.29% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 231 449
10th Percentile £325 £356 £367
25th Percentile £381 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £669 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 31
10th Percentile £50.25 - £45.88
25th Percentile £53.44 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £65.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +41.84% +3.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £74.98 £78.80 £73.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

jQuery job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing jQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing jQuery

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing jQuery in the North West over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for jQuery in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing jQuery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing jQuery

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing jQuery within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Merseyside -3 5 £510 -
Cheshire -20 2 £314 +20.31% 2
jQuery
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure AKS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) npm
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JUnit
1 5 (71.43%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Grunt
2 1 (14.29%) gulp
2 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Java Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) JSON
1 6 (85.71%) React
2 5 (71.43%) AngularJS
2 5 (71.43%) POJO
2 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 5 (71.43%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 5 (71.43%) Thymeleaf
3 2 (28.57%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) Ajax
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) CSS3
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5
4 1 (14.29%) LESS
4 1 (14.29%) Nightwatchjs
4 1 (14.29%) Node.js
4 1 (14.29%) Sass
4 1 (14.29%) Swagger
4 1 (14.29%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Unit Testing
2 5 (71.43%) API Development
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 4 (57.14%) User Research
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Perforce