jQuery Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

jQuery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring jQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 306 354
Rank change year-on-year -57 +48 -24
Contract jobs citing jQuery 29 41 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.28% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 1.54% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 28
10th Percentile £268 £213 £280
25th Percentile £325 £225 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £363
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -3.45% -20.55%
75th Percentile £515 £438 £480
90th Percentile £531 £538 £522
UK median daily rate £494 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -0.25% +10.00% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.63
25th Percentile - - £50.94
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
75th Percentile - - £60.94
90th Percentile - - £61.88
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -21.54%

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 3,325 2,657 3,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.14% 17.91% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,180 1,655 2,340
10th Percentile £332 £340 £325
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £665 £688 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 64 135
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £40.12
25th Percentile £46.25 £41.57 £46.18
Median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.31 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £59.86 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.22% +19.05% -19.23%

jQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

jQuery job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

jQuery
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing jQuery

jQuery
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 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for jQuery in the UK excluding London

jQuery
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing jQuery

jQuery
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 25 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
North of England -49 18 £488 +39.29% 12
Yorkshire -33 11 £488 +9.67% 6
North West -33 7 £435 +63.53% 6
South East -29 4 £350 +16.67% 12
Midlands -45 4 £263 -50.00% 4
West Midlands -39 2 £325 -38.10% 3
East Midlands - 2 £246 - 1
Scotland +2 1 £513 +21.30% 1
South West -14 1 £557 - 4
East of England -24 1 £500 +122.22% 6
jQuery
UK

jQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Drupal
1 1 (3.45%) Gunicorn
1 1 (3.45%) nginx
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.45%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Azure AKS
4 2 (6.90%) AWS
4 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (44.83%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) JUnit
2 5 (17.24%) Postman
3 3 (10.34%) Cucumber
3 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) Selenium
4 2 (6.90%) JIRA
4 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.45%) Grunt
5 1 (3.45%) gulp
5 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Developer
2 8 (27.59%) Senior
2 8 (27.59%) Senior Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Java Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.90%) Tester
6 1 (3.45%) Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Designer
6 1 (3.45%) Django Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.45%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) UI Designer
6 1 (3.45%) UI Developer
6 1 (3.45%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (55.17%) HTML
2 15 (51.72%) CSS
3 13 (44.83%) .NET
4 10 (34.48%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (31.03%) AngularJS
5 9 (31.03%) React
6 7 (24.14%) JSON
6 7 (24.14%) RESTful
7 6 (20.69%) Compass CSS Framework
7 6 (20.69%) Spring
8 5 (17.24%) POJO
8 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
8 5 (17.24%) Thymeleaf
9 4 (13.79%) REST
9 4 (13.79%) Web Services
10 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
10 3 (10.34%) HTML5
10 3 (10.34%) Node.js
11 2 (6.90%) Bootstrap
11 2 (6.90%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Android
1 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (55.17%) MVC
3 14 (48.28%) Agile
4 13 (44.83%) Test Automation
5 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
5 11 (37.93%) Front End Development
6 10 (34.48%) DevOps
7 8 (27.59%) OOP
8 7 (24.14%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (24.14%) Business Analysis
8 7 (24.14%) Code Quality
8 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
8 7 (24.14%) Microservices
8 7 (24.14%) OO
8 7 (24.14%) Use Case
9 6 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (20.69%) Unit Testing
9 6 (20.69%) WFM
10 5 (17.24%) API Development
10 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) JavaScript
2 12 (41.38%) C#
3 11 (37.93%) Java
4 5 (17.24%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) GoldenSource
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) BMC
3 1 (3.45%) HP
3 1 (3.45%) Ivanti
3 1 (3.45%) Nintex
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Perforce
3 1 (3.45%) Remedy
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow