jQuery Contracts

jQuery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 479 403
Rank change year-on-year +59 -76 -80
Contract jobs citing jQuery 99 121 333
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.28% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.49% 1.35% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 77 245
10th Percentile £303 £313 £350
25th Percentile £390 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £438 £456
% change year-on-year -8.11% -4.11% +7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £38.70
25th Percentile - - £47.63
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £87.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

jQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing jQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for jQuery in the UK

jQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing jQuery.

Daily rate trend for jQuery in the UK

jQuery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing jQuery over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for jQuery in the UK

jQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing jQuery.

Hourly rate trend for jQuery in the UK

jQuery
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +50 88 £475 - 101
London +10 50 £500 - 26
UK excluding London +74 44 £402 -8.11% 80
Work from Home +7 22 £408 -9.33% 69
Midlands +36 14 £288 -14.67% 20
North of England +34 11 £380 -1.94% 22
North West +20 10 £358 +10.15% 13
West Midlands +24 9 £550 +46.67% 13
South West +44 7 £538 +36.51% 12
South East +42 7 - - 13
East Midlands +14 5 £288 -4.00% 7
Scotland - 5 £550 - 1
Yorkshire +13 1 £414 +13.42% 8

jQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (9.09%) Apache
2 7 (7.07%) CMS
2 7 (7.07%) Confluence
3 5 (5.05%) Drupal
3 5 (5.05%) SharePoint
4 4 (4.04%) WordPress
5 3 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (3.03%) Tomcat
6 2 (2.02%) Umbraco
6 2 (2.02%) WebSphere
7 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.01%) govService
7 1 (1.01%) IIS
7 1 (1.01%) JBoss
7 1 (1.01%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.01%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.01%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.13%) AWS
2 9 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 8 (8.08%) Azure
4 6 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (6.06%) Power Automate
4 6 (6.06%) PowerApps
5 4 (4.04%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (4.04%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (3.03%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.03%) GCP
6 3 (3.03%) Route 53
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.02%) Boomi
7 2 (2.02%) GitHub
7 2 (2.02%) Serverless
8 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.01%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.13%) MySQL
2 10 (10.10%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.08%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.07%) DynamoDB
5 6 (6.06%) Power BI
6 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (5.05%) RDBMS
7 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (3.03%) Tableau
9 2 (2.02%) Power Query
9 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.01%) Big Data
10 1 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.01%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (17.17%) Git
2 14 (14.14%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.10%) JIRA
4 9 (9.09%) JUnit
4 9 (9.09%) Subversion
5 7 (7.07%) Selenium
6 6 (6.06%) Grunt
6 6 (6.06%) gulp
6 6 (6.06%) Jasmine
6 6 (6.06%) Maven
6 6 (6.06%) Mocha
7 5 (5.05%) Cucumber
7 5 (5.05%) Mockito
7 5 (5.05%) Postman
8 4 (4.04%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (4.04%) NUnit
9 3 (3.03%) CA Release Automation
9 3 (3.03%) HP UFT
9 3 (3.03%) IntelliJ
9 3 (3.03%) NetBeans
General
1 20 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.11%) Finance
4 9 (9.09%) Banking
5 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.05%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.03%) Marketing
7 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.02%) Local Government
7 2 (2.02%) Retail
8 1 (1.01%) Advertising
8 1 (1.01%) Billing
8 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (73.74%) Developer
2 12 (12.12%) Senior
3 10 (10.10%) ServiceNow Developer
4 9 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 9 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 8 (8.08%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (4.04%) Angular Developer
6 4 (4.04%) Architect
6 4 (4.04%) Consultant
6 4 (4.04%) PHP Software Engineer
6 4 (4.04%) Power Platform Developer
6 4 (4.04%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.03%) .NET Developer
7 3 (3.03%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 3 (3.03%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (3.03%) Lead
7 3 (3.03%) Python Developer
7 3 (3.03%) SAP Architect
7 3 (3.03%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (82.83%) HTML
2 72 (72.73%) CSS
3 40 (40.40%) HTML5
4 32 (32.32%) AngularJS
5 23 (23.23%) .NET
6 18 (18.18%) Web Services
7 16 (16.16%) REST
8 15 (15.15%) Spring
9 14 (14.14%) Node.js
10 12 (12.12%) Bootstrap
11 11 (11.11%) Hibernate
11 11 (11.11%) Sass
11 11 (11.11%) SOAP
12 10 (10.10%) Ajax
13 9 (9.09%) CSS3
13 9 (9.09%) RESTful
13 9 (9.09%) Spring Boot
13 9 (9.09%) XML
14 8 (8.08%) React
15 7 (7.07%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.11%) Low-Code
2 5 (5.05%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.05%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.04%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.03%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.01%) NHS
6 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.12%) Linux
2 11 (11.11%) Unix
3 5 (5.05%) Mac OS X
4 3 (3.03%) Windows
5 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (43.43%) Agile
2 36 (36.36%) User Experience
3 26 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (22.22%) UX Design
5 20 (20.20%) MVC
5 20 (20.20%) Web Development
6 17 (17.17%) TDD
7 16 (16.16%) CI/CD
7 16 (16.16%) Microservices
8 15 (15.15%) Responsive Web Design
9 14 (14.14%) Scrum
10 13 (13.13%) Front End Development
10 13 (13.13%) Test Automation
11 12 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (11.11%) Computer Science
13 9 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
13 9 (9.09%) Software Engineering
13 9 (9.09%) Workflow
14 7 (7.07%) ITSM
14 7 (7.07%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 89 (89.90%) JavaScript
2 31 (31.31%) SQL
3 29 (29.29%) Java
4 20 (20.20%) C#
5 7 (7.07%) Python
6 5 (5.05%) ABAP
6 5 (5.05%) COBOL
6 5 (5.05%) PHP
6 5 (5.05%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.04%) Formula Language
8 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.01%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.01%) Bash
9 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.01%) Scala
9 1 (1.01%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.01%) VBA
9 1 (1.01%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.12%) Degree
2 12 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.01%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.01%) MCAD
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.09%) QA
3 7 (7.07%) WCAG
4 4 (4.04%) GRC
5 3 (3.03%) SLA
6 1 (1.01%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (5.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.03%) Progress Chef
2 3 (3.03%) Puppet
3 2 (2.02%) Kibana
4 1 (1.01%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (18.18%) OutSystems
2 16 (16.16%) ServiceNow
3 15 (15.15%) Microsoft
4 10 (10.10%) SAP
5 8 (8.08%) Adobe
6 6 (6.06%) Oracle
6 6 (6.06%) Salesforce
7 4 (4.04%) Snow
7 4 (4.04%) Zend
8 3 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (3.03%) Splunk
8 3 (3.03%) Sun
9 2 (2.02%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.01%) Google
10 1 (1.01%) IBM
10 1 (1.01%) Perforce
10 1 (1.01%) Sitecore