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150 Best + Free jQuery Courses & Certificates [2026]
Ranked by Michael Kuhlman, CourseDuck's founder, from student reviews across every provider. How we rank
Our top picks
- The Complete jQuery Course: From Beginner To Advanced! [Udemy]
- Complete Javascript & jQuery Course with Bonus Vue JS Intro [Udemy]
- jQuery Crash Course: Learn the Essentials of jQuery Fast [Udemy]
- jQuery and AJAX for Beginners - The Definitive Guide (2014) [Udemy]
- jQuery for Beginners - Create Website Animations Easily [Udemy]
- Python and Django Full Stack Web Developer Bootcamp [Udemy]
- The Complete Front-End Web Development Course [Udemy]
- Complete Web Design: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue, React, Git [Udemy]
- Become a Certified Web Developer: HTML, CSS and JavaScript [Udemy]
- Build Responsive Website Using HTML5, CSS3, JS And Bootstrap [Udemy]
About the best jQuery courses
CourseDuck compares the 150 jQuery courses listed here from 6 providers, 25 of them free, and ranks them from the 159,000 ratings and reviews their students have left, with the price, length and level of each one side by side. No course pays to be listed or ranked. As featured on Harvard EDU, Stackify and Inc. How we rank
Frequently asked questions
- Udemy and Eduonix are best for practical, low cost and high quality jQuery courses.
- Coursera, Udacity and EdX are the best providers for a jQuery certificate, as many come from top Ivy League Universities.
- YouTube is best for free jQuery crash courses.
- PluralSight, SkillShare and LinkedIn are the best monthly subscription platforms if you want to take multiple jQuery courses.
- Independent Providers for jQuery courses & certificates are generally hit or miss.
jQuery is a lightweight, "write less, do more", JavaScript library. The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website. jQuery takes a lot of common tasks that require many lines of JavaScript code to accomplish, and wraps them into methods that you can call with a single line of code.
- Average
- $98,310 a year
- Middle half earn
- $74,500 to $116,500 25th to 75th percentile
- Full range
- $35,500 to $151,000
Share of US job postings in each pay band; the dark bar holds the average, the striped bars the 25th and 75th percentiles. Source: ZipRecruiter salary data, gathered when this guide was first published in October 2026.
Yes and No. Certified jQuery developers on average make more money. Having a jQuery certificate greatly increases the chance of landing an interview and can open otherwise closed doors. Coursera, Udacity and EdX offer excellent certificate options for impressing your future employers. Eduonix, Udemy and several other providers offer certificates, but they aren't as reputable. If you have a Computer Science Degree, certificates are not as important. Still, many employers won't care about certificates, but rather your interview skills, experience and/or skills assessment.
150 Filtered Courses
1
The Complete jQuery Course: From Beginner To Advanced! (2018)
4.5
Six hours of jQuery from animations to Ajax, taught clearly by Peter Sommerhoff, with 9,400 reviews behind it and a Q&A board that nobody answers anymore.
Best for: People who already know basic JavaScript and want every jQuery feature walked through at a gentle pace.
Pros
Cons
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- Peter Sommerhoff's clear, step-by-step explanations get praised across the four- and five-star reviews
- Mini-challenges in most lectures, and reviewers report building a small app or fixing a work problem afterward
- Covers form validation and Ajax against real APIs (Flickr, TheMovieDB), not just animations
- Captions in nine languages plus GitHub resources; one reviewer praises the reference materials
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- Q&A has gone unanswered for years, so there is no help when code breaks
- Ajax gets only five lectures; reviewers who use $.ajax daily wanted more
- Last updated June 2018 and slowly paced; one reviewer says it could fit in three hours
2
Complete Javascript & jQuery Course with Bonus Vue JS Intro (2021)
4.7
A beginner JavaScript course that adds a proper jQuery section, an Ajax quiz-game project and a short Vue 3 intro, all in about 17 hours of video.
Best for: Beginners with a little HTML and CSS who want JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax taught together with plenty of exercises.
Pros
Cons
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- Exercise lists praised in two reviews, one for showing students their own progress, one for motivating learning
- jQuery and Ajax are taught on top of real JavaScript, with a t-shirt calculator and a quiz game as projects
- Explanations are consistently called clear and step by step, including by non-native English speakers
- Complete written course material is included alongside the 98 video lectures
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- Last updated July 2021, so newer JavaScript features and tooling are not covered
- Content stays basic; a three-star reviewer says most of it is freely available on YouTube
- The Vue 3 section is a 76-minute taster, not a full Vue course
3
jQuery Crash Course: Learn the Essentials of jQuery Fast (2025)
4.5
A short, paid jQuery primer from Simon Sez IT that walks through selectors, events, DOM traversal and jQuery UI one line of code at a time, in about two and a half hours.
Best for: Web designers who know HTML and CSS and want a fast, watch-along overview of jQuery before reading the docs.
Pros
Cons
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- Every demo starts from a blank file and each line is written and explained on screen
- Covers jQuery UI widgets and popular plugins, not just core selectors and events
- Instructor leaves in mistakes and explains why code failed, which one reviewer found instructive
- Refreshed December 2025, with 4.5 stars from about 1,800 reviews and very few one-star ratings
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- Audio is low and uneven; several reviewers could barely hear the instructor at full volume
- No assignments or pauses to code along; it is a watch-as-he-codes format
- Big jump from the basics section to the advanced one, and too short for any real depth
4
jQuery and AJAX for Beginners - The Definitive Guide (2014)
4.5
A free, concise 2.6 hour run through jQuery selectors, events, effects and AJAX from Zenva, with downloadable example files and very little padding.
Best for: Developers who know basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript and want the jQuery and AJAX essentials in an afternoon, for free.
Pros
Cons
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- Free, and reviewers say it is straight to the point with little wasted time
- Downloadable practical example files with HTML, CSS and JS, which a reviewer singled out as exactly what they expected
- Dedicated 38 minute AJAX section covering JSON, form submission and cache issues
- Pablo Farias Navarro explains clearly and speaks well, according to several reviews
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- No quizzes, coding exercises or assignments to test what you learned
- Built around jQuery 2.x and first published in 2014; explains how more than why
- One reviewer mentions videos cutting off abruptly, another got no help with local server setup
5
jQuery for Beginners - Create Website Animations Easily (2022)
4.5
A three hour, 29 lecture jQuery primer from Edwin Diaz that gets HTML and CSS people animating and swapping page content, with a 4.5 rating from about 1,300 reviews.
Best for: HTML and CSS people who want fades, sliders and menus working this afternoon without learning much JavaScript first.
Pros
Cons
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- Diaz's energy and plain explanations keep nervous beginners going, according to most reviews
- Five short sections build from selectors to animation to dynamic content in a sensible order
- Roughly 88 percent of about 1,300 reviews are four or five stars
- Last updated January 2022, so it is not the untouched 2015 original
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- Code on screen isn't indented and some later videos go too fast to follow along
- No quizzes, exercises or projects; three hours of video and one article
- Stops before AJAX or plugins, and the course itself says real JavaScript is needed to go further
6
Python and Django Full Stack Web Developer Bootcamp (2019)
4.4
A 32-hour front-to-back bootcamp that teaches HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Python before Django, a Udemy Bestseller with over 220,000 students despite code last updated in 2019.
Best for: Complete beginners who want front end and Python basics folded in before touching Django, and don't mind fixing old code.
Pros
Cons
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- Covers HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript and Python before Django, so true beginners are not lost
- Two full clone projects, including the Star Social site a reviewer singles out
- One reviewer says the lectures are clear enough to finish the code without help
- Updated notes file and the student Q&A hold fixes for most version problems
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- Last updated September 2019 and built on Django 1.11; current versions throw errors on the course code
- Uses the discontinued Atom editor, and the lectures were never updated to say so
- REST framework, payments and deeper ORM coverage are missing, and one reviewer calls the jQuery part rushed
7
The Complete Front-End Web Development Course (2024)
4.3
Get started as a front-end web developer using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and Bootstrap!
What You'll Learn
- Build a simple HTML text site
- Style web pages using CSS
- Program websites with JavaScript
- Build a Pipboy using Bootstrap
- Build and publish a Google Chrome Extension
8
Complete Web Design: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue, React, Git (2025)
4.4
A 40-hour front-end bootcamp that runs from HTML and CSS through JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Firebase and Git, with Vue getting about six hours near the end.
Best for: Complete beginners who want one paid course covering the whole front end before choosing between React and Vue.
Pros
Cons
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- Covers HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Vue and Git in one 41-hour course
- Last updated September 2025; syllabus includes React with Redux Toolkit and Vue with Pinia
- Step-by-step teaching that beginners and older learners say works for them
- About 90 percent of 9,000 reviews give four or five stars
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- Only about six of the 41 hours are Vue; it is a survey course, not a Vue deep dive
- Reviewers report skipped JavaScript basics and weak continuity between sections
- Some links and materials reported out of date, and one reviewer waited a week for support
9
Become a Certified Web Developer: HTML, CSS and JavaScript (2023)
4.4
Learn: HTML | CSS | JavaScript | Web programming | Web development | Front-end | Responsive | JQuery
What You'll Learn
- Prepare for Industry Certification Exam
- Earn Certification that is Proof of your Competence
- Hours and Hours of Video Instruction
- Dozens of Code Examples to Download and Study
- Over 25 Engaging Lab Exercises
- All Lab Solutions
- Instructor Available by Email or on the Forums
- All Free Tools
- Comprehensive Coverage of HTML and CSS
- Client Side Programming with Javascript
- Server Side Development with PHP
- Learn Database Development with mySQL
10
Build Responsive Website Using HTML5, CSS3, JS And Bootstrap (2019)
4.2
Learn HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery and Bootstrap framework by building a modern looking responsive website.
What You'll Learn
- At the end of this course, You will have a great skills set like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery and Bootstrap Framwork.
- You will learn about web design guidelines which you can apply to real world web projects.
- You will see, the complete web development process from start to finish project.
- You will be able to build modern looking website which will look great on all the small & wide screens.
- You will learn about media queries and will be able to make website perfect for responsive design.
- You will get complete code for real responsive website
11
Web Development - Complete Fast Track Course (2020)
4.4
Become a full-stack web developer in a month. Master HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, PHP, MySQL and more!
What You'll Learn
- Design websites from scratch!
- Master six fundamental web development languages!
- Work as a full-stack web developer!
- Use CSS, images, fundamental design concepts and UX psychology to create professional quality websites.
- Build your portfolio of websites!
- And lots more...