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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 475 402
Rank change year-on-year +75 -73 -77
Contract jobs citing jQuery 119 117 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.26% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.81% 1.31% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 76 261
10th Percentile £314 £300 £350
25th Percentile £390 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -6.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £579 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £363 £450
% change year-on-year +10.90% -19.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - £39.40
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - - £76.47
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £87.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +41.17%

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 6,577 8,963 15,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.62% 20.28% 23.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,493 6,267 10,950
10th Percentile £363 £334 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £678
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 176 166
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.49 £25.75
25th Percentile £41.13 £34.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £84.95 £73.13 £80.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%

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 2 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 2 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 +92 107 £470 -1.05% 96
London +45 66 £500 - 47
UK excluding London +93 45 £402 +10.90% 55
Work from Home +13 26 £414 -8.00% 84
Midlands +35 13 £326 -3.41% 8
North of England +34 13 £358 +2.29% 19
North West +18 12 £354 +4.89% 9
West Midlands +25 9 £550 +46.67% 5
South East +53 7 - - 11
South West +33 7 £538 +36.51% 6
Scotland - 5 £550 - 2
East Midlands +18 4 £326 +8.67% 3
Yorkshire +13 1 £414 +18.29% 10

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 29 (24.37%) CMS
2 11 (9.24%) Apache
3 9 (7.56%) Confluence
4 7 (5.88%) Drupal
5 6 (5.04%) SharePoint
5 6 (5.04%) WordPress
6 3 (2.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (2.52%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.68%) Umbraco
7 2 (1.68%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.84%) govService
8 1 (0.84%) IIS
8 1 (0.84%) JBoss
8 1 (0.84%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.84%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.24%) AWS
2 10 (8.40%) Azure
3 9 (7.56%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.88%) Power Automate
4 7 (5.88%) PowerApps
5 5 (4.20%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.36%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.52%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.52%) GCP
7 3 (2.52%) Route 53
8 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.84%) Boomi
9 1 (0.84%) npm
9 1 (0.84%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.61%) MySQL
2 12 (10.08%) SQL Server
3 10 (8.40%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.88%) Power BI
5 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.52%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.52%) Tableau
7 2 (1.68%) Power Query
7 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.84%) Big Data
8 1 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.84%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (15.13%) Git
2 12 (10.08%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.08%) JIRA
3 9 (7.56%) Subversion
4 7 (5.88%) Grunt
4 7 (5.88%) gulp
4 7 (5.88%) Jasmine
4 7 (5.88%) JUnit
4 7 (5.88%) Mocha
4 7 (5.88%) Selenium
5 6 (5.04%) Bitbucket Server
5 6 (5.04%) Maven
6 5 (4.20%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.20%) Postman
7 3 (2.52%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (2.52%) Gradle
7 3 (2.52%) IntelliJ
7 3 (2.52%) Mockito
7 3 (2.52%) NetBeans
7 3 (2.52%) NUnit
General
1 24 (20.17%) Public Sector
2 21 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.92%) Finance
4 8 (6.72%) Banking
5 5 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.36%) Marketing
7 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.68%) Local Government
7 2 (1.68%) Retail
8 1 (0.84%) Advertising
8 1 (0.84%) Billing
8 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (61.34%) Developer
2 23 (19.33%) Architect
3 19 (15.97%) ServiceNow Architect
4 11 (9.24%) Senior
4 11 (9.24%) ServiceNow Developer
5 10 (8.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 8 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (6.72%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.04%) PHP Software Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) .NET Developer
9 4 (3.36%) Angular Developer
9 4 (3.36%) Consultant
10 3 (2.52%) Analytics Consultant
10 3 (2.52%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 3 (2.52%) JavaScript Developer
10 3 (2.52%) Python Developer
10 3 (2.52%) SAP Architect
10 3 (2.52%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (84.87%) HTML
2 95 (79.83%) CSS
3 59 (49.58%) HTML5
4 54 (45.38%) AngularJS
5 32 (26.89%) REST
6 24 (20.17%) .NET
7 18 (15.13%) Web Services
8 15 (12.61%) Node.js
9 13 (10.92%) Spring
10 12 (10.08%) Ajax
10 12 (10.08%) Sass
11 11 (9.24%) Bootstrap
11 11 (9.24%) SOAP
12 9 (7.56%) CSS3
12 9 (7.56%) Hibernate
12 9 (7.56%) RESTful
13 8 (6.72%) React
14 7 (5.88%) Mustache
14 7 (5.88%) Spring Boot
14 7 (5.88%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.56%) Low-Code
2 6 (5.04%) Legacy Code
3 4 (3.36%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.52%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.52%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.52%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.84%) NHS
6 1 (0.84%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.76%) Linux
2 13 (10.92%) Unix
3 5 (4.20%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.52%) Windows
5 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.29%) Agile
2 38 (31.93%) User Experience
3 26 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (21.85%) Workflow
4 22 (18.49%) MVC
5 21 (17.65%) UX Design
6 20 (16.81%) Web Development
7 18 (15.13%) TDD
8 16 (13.45%) Responsive Web Design
8 16 (13.45%) Scrum
9 15 (12.61%) CI/CD
9 15 (12.61%) Front End Development
9 15 (12.61%) Test Automation
10 14 (11.76%) Microservices
11 12 (10.08%) Computer Science
11 12 (10.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (9.24%) Software Engineering
13 9 (7.56%) Kanban
13 9 (7.56%) Root Cause Analysis
14 8 (6.72%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 108 (90.76%) JavaScript
2 50 (42.02%) Java
3 28 (23.53%) SQL
4 22 (18.49%) C#
5 7 (5.88%) PHP
6 5 (4.20%) ABAP
6 5 (4.20%) COBOL
6 5 (4.20%) Python
6 5 (4.20%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.36%) Formula Language
8 1 (0.84%) Bash
8 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.84%) Scala
8 1 (0.84%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.84%) VBA
8 1 (0.84%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.92%) Degree
2 13 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.84%) MCAD
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.24%) Accessibility
2 10 (8.40%) QA
3 8 (6.72%) WCAG
4 4 (3.36%) GRC
5 3 (2.52%) SLA
6 1 (0.84%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.52%) Progress Chef
1 3 (2.52%) Puppet
2 1 (0.84%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (30.25%) ServiceNow
2 18 (15.13%) Microsoft
3 16 (13.45%) OutSystems
4 10 (8.40%) SAP
5 9 (7.56%) Adobe
6 6 (5.04%) Oracle
6 6 (5.04%) Zend
7 5 (4.20%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.36%) Snow
9 3 (2.52%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (2.52%) Sun
10 1 (0.84%) Google
10 1 (0.84%) IBM
10 1 (0.84%) Perforce
10 1 (0.84%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.84%) Splunk