jQuery Contracts in the UK excluding London

jQuery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring jQuery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited jQuery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 374 306
Rank change year-on-year +82 -68 -42
Contract jobs citing jQuery 44 25 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.12% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.85% 0.76% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 117
10th Percentile £224 £300 £313
25th Percentile £326 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -5.41% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £480 £575
90th Percentile £610 £550 £630
UK median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £48.80
25th Percentile - - £49.25
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +67.30%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing jQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for jQuery in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing jQuery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for jQuery in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing jQuery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for jQuery in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing jQuery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for jQuery in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Midlands +34 14 £288 -14.67% 20
North of England +25 11 £380 -1.94% 23
North West +26 10 £358 +10.15% 14
West Midlands +22 9 £550 +46.67% 13
South East +45 7 - - 16
South West +45 7 £538 +36.51% 12
East Midlands +14 5 £288 -4.00% 7
Scotland - 5 £550 - 1
Yorkshire +6 1 £414 +13.42% 8
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (15.91%) Confluence
2 5 (11.36%) Apache
2 5 (11.36%) CMS
3 4 (9.09%) Drupal
3 4 (9.09%) WordPress
4 1 (2.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.27%) JBoss
4 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.27%) Umbraco
4 1 (2.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.64%) AWS
2 5 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (6.82%) AWS KMS
3 3 (6.82%) Route 53
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.55%) Serverless
5 1 (2.27%) Azure
5 1 (2.27%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) Relational Database
2 7 (15.91%) MySQL
3 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.36%) RDBMS
3 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.82%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (27.27%) Git
1 12 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 8 (18.18%) JUnit
3 7 (15.91%) JIRA
3 7 (15.91%) Subversion
4 6 (13.64%) Selenium
5 5 (11.36%) Grunt
5 5 (11.36%) gulp
5 5 (11.36%) Jasmine
5 5 (11.36%) Mocha
5 5 (11.36%) Mockito
5 5 (11.36%) Postman
6 4 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (6.82%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
7 3 (6.82%) Gradle
7 3 (6.82%) HP UFT
7 3 (6.82%) IntelliJ
7 3 (6.82%) Maven
7 3 (6.82%) NetBeans
General
1 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Advertising
5 1 (2.27%) Billing
5 1 (2.27%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (63.64%) Developer
2 8 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 8 (18.18%) Senior
3 7 (15.91%) ServiceNow Developer
4 6 (13.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (11.36%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Architect
6 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.09%) PHP Software Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) SAP Architect
8 2 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Junior
8 2 (4.55%) SAP Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (2.27%) Analyst
9 1 (2.27%) Integration Architect
9 1 (2.27%) Support Analyst
9 1 (2.27%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (90.91%) HTML
2 32 (72.73%) CSS
3 21 (47.73%) HTML5
4 19 (43.18%) AngularJS
5 14 (31.82%) Web Services
6 11 (25.00%) REST
7 10 (22.73%) Spring
8 9 (20.45%) Ajax
8 9 (20.45%) Hibernate
8 9 (20.45%) Node.js
8 9 (20.45%) SOAP
9 8 (18.18%) Spring Boot
10 7 (15.91%) CSS3
11 6 (13.64%) RESTful
11 6 (13.64%) Sass
12 5 (11.36%) Mustache
12 5 (11.36%) SAP Fiori
12 5 (11.36%) SAPUI5
12 5 (11.36%) Spring MVC
12 5 (11.36%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Legacy Code
2 3 (6.82%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.82%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.82%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.27%) NHS
3 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Linux
2 7 (15.91%) Unix
3 3 (6.82%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) Agile
2 14 (31.82%) TDD
2 14 (31.82%) User Experience
3 13 (29.55%) MVC
3 13 (29.55%) Scrum
4 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (27.27%) Web Development
5 11 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 11 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 9 (20.45%) Front End Development
6 9 (20.45%) Microservices
7 8 (18.18%) Workflow
8 7 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (15.91%) Kanban
8 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
9 6 (13.64%) Code Quality
9 6 (13.64%) SDLC
10 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (11.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 40 (90.91%) JavaScript
2 22 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (11.36%) ABAP
3 5 (11.36%) COBOL
3 5 (11.36%) PHP
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
4 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.55%) C#
5 2 (4.55%) Python
5 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 5 (11.36%) WCAG
3 4 (9.09%) GRC
4 3 (6.82%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.82%) Progress Chef
2 3 (6.82%) Puppet
3 2 (4.55%) Kibana
4 1 (2.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) ServiceNow
2 5 (11.36%) SAP
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.09%) Snow
3 4 (9.09%) Zend
4 3 (6.82%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (6.82%) Splunk
5 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) Adobe
6 1 (2.27%) IBM
6 1 (2.27%) Perforce
6 1 (2.27%) Sun