jQuery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring jQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 458 260
Rank change year-on-year -159 -198 +42
Permanent jobs citing jQuery 157 233 1,038
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.47% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.54% 2.59% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 143 172 551
10th Percentile £25,000 - £31,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £25,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,000 £97,626 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £32,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +46.15% -27.78% -18.18%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,174 8,984 20,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.30% 18.25% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,613 5,946 15,166
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

jQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing jQuery relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

jQuery job vacancy trend in the UK

jQuery
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing jQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing jQuery

jQuery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing jQuery over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for jQuery in the UK

jQuery
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing jQuery within the UK over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -119 140 £47,500 +5.56% 23
UK excluding London -95 133 £47,500 +46.15% 23
Work from Home -61 79 £37,500 - 16
South East +6 66 £47,500 +5.56% 8
East of England -23 19 £25,000 - 2
London -78 16 £72,500 +20.83% 7
North of England -49 15 £52,000 +60.00% 6
Midlands -43 14 £37,500 +50.00% 3
South West -61 12 £56,250 +30.06% 1
East Midlands -27 10 £37,500 -9.09% 3
Yorkshire -38 6 £53,750 +86.96%
Wales - 6 £45,000 -
North East -52 5 £67,500 +170.00% 1
North West -31 4 £36,250 +11.54% 5
West Midlands -34 4 £31,250 +25.00%
Scotland -16 1 £32,500 -65.66% 2

jQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (2.55%) Apache
1 4 (2.55%) IIS
1 4 (2.55%) WordPress
2 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.27%) CMS
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) Moodle
4 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Elementor
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.64%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 59 (37.58%) AWS
2 57 (36.31%) Azure
3 21 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.10%) Power Platform
5 12 (7.64%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (7.01%) Serverless
7 9 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (4.46%) SaaS
9 5 (3.18%) GitHub
9 5 (3.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.55%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.55%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.91%) GCP
12 2 (1.27%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.27%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.27%) Figma
12 2 (1.27%) npm
12 2 (1.27%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.29%) Internet
2 6 (3.82%) Intranet
3 2 (1.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (54.78%) SQL Server
2 38 (24.20%) MySQL
3 23 (14.65%) Relational Database
4 18 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (10.19%) Power BI
6 5 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.18%) GIS
6 5 (3.18%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.91%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.91%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (12.10%) Git
2 9 (5.73%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.46%) JMeter
3 7 (4.46%) JUnit
3 7 (4.46%) Mockito
4 3 (1.91%) JIRA
4 3 (1.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.27%) Bower
5 2 (1.27%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.27%) Postman
5 2 (1.27%) Selenium
5 2 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.64%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.64%) Maven
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.64%) Sourcetree
6 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (42.68%) Social Skills
2 45 (28.66%) Finance
3 8 (5.10%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.91%) Law
5 3 (1.91%) Legal
6 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.27%) Marketing
6 2 (1.27%) Retail
7 1 (0.64%) Banking
7 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (84.71%) Developer
2 32 (20.38%) Software Developer
2 32 (20.38%) Web Developer
3 30 (19.11%) Graduate
3 30 (19.11%) PHP Developer
4 27 (17.20%) C# Developer
5 26 (16.56%) C# Software Developer
5 26 (16.56%) Graduate C# Developer
5 26 (16.56%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 26 (16.56%) Graduate Developer
5 26 (16.56%) Graduate Software Developer
5 26 (16.56%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 26 (16.56%) SQL Developer
6 25 (15.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (15.29%) Senior
8 18 (11.46%) Azure Developer
9 16 (10.19%) Graduate PHP Developer
10 15 (9.55%) Senior Developer
11 13 (8.28%) .NET Developer
12 11 (7.01%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (84.71%) CSS
2 110 (70.06%) HTML
3 67 (42.68%) .NET
4 41 (26.11%) HTML5
5 31 (19.75%) CSS3
6 28 (17.83%) React
7 26 (16.56%) Ajax
7 26 (16.56%) AngularJS
8 17 (10.83%) LESS
9 16 (10.19%) Sass
10 14 (8.92%) .NET Core
10 14 (8.92%) ASP.NET
10 14 (8.92%) Bootstrap
11 13 (8.28%) JSON
11 13 (8.28%) Laravel
12 11 (7.01%) .NET Framework
12 11 (7.01%) RESTful
12 11 (7.01%) XML
13 10 (6.37%) ASP.NET Core
13 10 (6.37%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.55%) Virtual Team
2 9 (5.73%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.18%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.18%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.91%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.91%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.91%) Hackathon
6 3 (1.91%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.27%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.64%) NHS
8 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.64%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.82%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Windows
3 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (45.86%) Agile
2 65 (41.40%) Computer Science
3 57 (36.31%) MVC
4 42 (26.75%) OOP
5 37 (23.57%) Web Development
6 35 (22.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 31 (19.75%) OO
8 29 (18.47%) SEO
9 28 (17.83%) DevOps
10 26 (16.56%) Mentoring
11 24 (15.29%) User Experience
12 23 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (12.74%) CI/CD
13 20 (12.74%) TDD
14 19 (12.10%) Responsive Web Design
15 17 (10.83%) AI
15 17 (10.83%) Clean Code
16 16 (10.19%) Business Intelligence
17 14 (8.92%) Front End Development
18 13 (8.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 108 (68.79%) JavaScript
2 85 (54.14%) SQL
3 80 (50.96%) PHP
4 61 (38.85%) C#
5 42 (26.75%) Python
6 38 (24.20%) Java
7 30 (19.11%) C++
8 8 (5.10%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.46%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.46%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.91%) VB
11 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 69 (43.95%) Degree
2 60 (38.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.91%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.27%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.27%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (21.02%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.55%) GDPR
4 3 (1.91%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.91%) QA
5 2 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (12.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.10%) Kibana
3 3 (1.91%) Plesk
4 1 (0.64%) Grafana
4 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.73%) Oracle
3 7 (4.46%) Dynatrace
3 7 (4.46%) Splunk
4 4 (2.55%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.91%) SAP
6 2 (1.27%) Google
7 1 (0.64%) Optimizely