JavaScript Contracts in England

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 29 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,789 2,910 5,777
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.91% 6.01% 8.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.41% 17.21% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,261 2,138 4,414
10th Percentile £330 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.24%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £650
90th Percentile £850 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 44 62
10th Percentile £36.84 £35.30 £25.78
25th Percentile £47.14 £50.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £63.75 £66.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +20.36% +0.45%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.70 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £66.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year -6.02% +16.67% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
England

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,903 16,906 25,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.95% 34.89% 36.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,919 12,370 19,191
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 404 450
10th Percentile £37.59 £25.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.53 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
Median % change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £79.59 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
London -2 1,104 £600 +4.35% 804
North of England -9 222 £475 -8.65% 390
South East -17 146 £400 -20.00% 365
South West +2 121 £500 - 177
North West -17 104 £469 -12.79% 220
Yorkshire -8 95 £575 +15.00% 134
Midlands -5 90 £425 -5.56% 289
East Midlands +3 46 £388 -6.63% 105
East of England -6 45 £425 -10.99% 150
West Midlands 0 43 £475 -5.00% 183
North East +9 23 £466 -15.32% 38
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 143 (7.99%) Apache Airflow
2 130 (7.27%) Apache
3 54 (3.02%) Confluence
4 47 (2.63%) CMS
4 47 (2.63%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.51%) nginx
6 18 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 14 (0.78%) Drupal
7 14 (0.78%) WordPress
8 11 (0.61%) IIS
9 10 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
10 9 (0.50%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.45%) SharePoint 2010
11 8 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
12 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.34%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.34%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.28%) Umbraco
14 4 (0.22%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 111 (6.20%) Chatbot
2 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.50%) Sketch
4 8 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.34%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.17%) Simulink
9 1 (0.056%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.056%) InVision
9 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
3 13 (0.73%) Shopify
4 5 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.28%) Endur
4 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.22%) Magento
5 4 (0.22%) Maximo
5 4 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.17%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Unica
7 2 (0.11%) WebTrends
7 2 (0.11%) Workfront
8 1 (0.056%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.056%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 552 (30.86%) AWS
2 365 (20.40%) Azure
3 221 (12.35%) GCP
4 126 (7.04%) dbt
5 108 (6.04%) Snowflake
6 102 (5.70%) Serverless
7 100 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (5.48%) GitHub
9 88 (4.92%) Power Platform
10 60 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
11 50 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
12 49 (2.74%) Power Automate
13 45 (2.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 43 (2.40%) PowerApps
15 37 (2.07%) npm
16 33 (1.84%) Entra ID
17 32 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 29 (1.62%) Azure Functions
19 27 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
20 25 (1.40%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.84%) HTTP
2 16 (0.89%) Software-Defined Radio
3 15 (0.84%) SNMP
3 15 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.78%) Ethernet
4 14 (0.78%) Firewall
5 13 (0.73%) Intranet
6 8 (0.45%) DNS
6 8 (0.45%) Internet
7 7 (0.39%) SSL
8 6 (0.34%) Wireless
9 4 (0.22%) RTSP
9 4 (0.22%) VoIP
9 4 (0.22%) VPN
10 3 (0.17%) BGP
10 3 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.17%) DHCP
10 3 (0.17%) IOS XR
10 3 (0.17%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (8.55%) SQL Server
2 128 (7.15%) Amazon Athena
3 126 (7.04%) Apache Arrow
3 126 (7.04%) Dremio
4 112 (6.26%) Apache Ignite
5 107 (5.98%) Data Lake
6 100 (5.59%) MySQL
7 84 (4.70%) NoSQL
8 82 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
9 74 (4.14%) MongoDB
10 63 (3.52%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.57%) Power BI
12 35 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
13 29 (1.62%) Redis
14 27 (1.51%) Big Data
15 22 (1.23%) DynamoDB
16 21 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
17 19 (1.06%) Metadata
18 15 (0.84%) RDBMS
18 15 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 216 (12.07%) Git
2 114 (6.37%) Jenkins
2 114 (6.37%) JIRA
3 68 (3.80%) GitLab
4 59 (3.30%) Cypress.io
5 49 (2.74%) webpack
6 44 (2.46%) Selenium
7 35 (1.96%) Eclipse
8 33 (1.84%) Postman
9 32 (1.79%) Bitbucket
10 28 (1.57%) Visual Studio
11 24 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 24 (1.34%) JMeter
12 19 (1.06%) Robot Framework
13 17 (0.95%) TeamCity
14 16 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
15 15 (0.84%) GoogleTest
15 15 (0.84%) Maven
16 14 (0.78%) Appium
17 12 (0.67%) Jasmine
General
1 393 (21.97%) Finance
2 334 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 201 (11.24%) Front Office
4 188 (10.51%) Banking
5 135 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 117 (6.54%) Public Sector
7 113 (6.32%) Investment Banking
8 73 (4.08%) Marketing
9 32 (1.79%) Retail
10 29 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.51%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.45%) Advertising
13 22 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 18 (1.01%) Back Office
15 18 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (0.78%) Military
17 12 (0.67%) Billing
18 11 (0.61%) Legal
18 11 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,058 (59.14%) Developer
2 246 (13.75%) Senior
3 224 (12.52%) Software Engineer
4 205 (11.46%) Software Developer
5 191 (10.68%) Full Stack Developer
6 139 (7.77%) Senior Developer
7 125 (6.99%) Lead
8 109 (6.09%) Architect
9 108 (6.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 96 (5.37%) React Developer
11 86 (4.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 82 (4.58%) .NET Developer
13 79 (4.42%) JavaScript Developer
14 78 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
15 64 (3.58%) C# Developer
15 64 (3.58%) Python Developer
16 58 (3.24%) Java Developer
17 57 (3.19%) Python Engineer
17 57 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
18 55 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 717 (40.08%) HTML
2 578 (32.31%) CSS
3 517 (28.90%) React
4 322 (18.00%) Node.js
5 286 (15.99%) .NET
6 245 (13.69%) AngularJS
7 193 (10.79%) REST
8 142 (7.94%) gRPC
9 140 (7.83%) Protocol Buffers
10 122 (6.82%) Pandas
11 121 (6.76%) Web Services
12 116 (6.48%) XML
13 115 (6.43%) NumPy
14 109 (6.09%) SciPy
15 108 (6.04%) .NET Core
16 101 (5.65%) ASP.NET
17 100 (5.59%) RESTful
18 96 (5.37%) Redux
19 86 (4.81%) Vue
20 83 (4.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 185 (10.34%) Fixed Income
2 151 (8.44%) Hedge funds
3 150 (8.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 143 (7.99%) Derivative
5 133 (7.43%) Equities
6 65 (3.63%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
8 42 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
9 38 (2.12%) Algorithms
9 38 (2.12%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 31 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 29 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (1.40%) Cloud Native
14 23 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.12%) Clustering
15 20 (1.12%) Onboarding
16 12 (0.67%) CMDB
16 12 (0.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 133 (7.43%) Linux
2 64 (3.58%) Windows
3 47 (2.63%) Unix
4 28 (1.57%) Android
5 24 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.056%) CentOS
7 1 (0.056%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.056%) VMS
7 1 (0.056%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.056%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (38.68%) Agile
2 561 (31.36%) Software Engineering
3 347 (19.40%) DevOps
4 338 (18.89%) Full Stack Development
5 312 (17.44%) CI/CD
6 219 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
7 203 (11.35%) Front End Development
8 190 (10.62%) Test Automation
9 188 (10.51%) Asset Management
9 188 (10.51%) TDD
10 173 (9.67%) Code Quality
11 149 (8.33%) Scrum
12 148 (8.27%) Artificial Intelligence
13 147 (8.22%) Microservices
14 144 (8.05%) Web Development
15 140 (7.83%) Investment Management
16 135 (7.55%) User Experience
17 113 (6.32%) Conversational UI
18 110 (6.15%) SDLC
19 107 (5.98%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 589 (32.92%) Python
2 515 (28.79%) TypeScript
3 483 (27.00%) C#
4 480 (26.83%) Java
5 447 (24.99%) SQL
6 99 (5.53%) PHP
7 83 (4.64%) PowerShell
8 77 (4.30%) Go
9 73 (4.08%) C++
10 40 (2.24%) Bash
11 35 (1.96%) Bicep
11 35 (1.96%) Kotlin
12 33 (1.84%) Ruby
13 31 (1.73%) C
14 29 (1.62%) PL/SQL
15 25 (1.40%) T-SQL
16 23 (1.29%) Apex Code
17 22 (1.23%) Groovy
18 16 (0.89%) Scala
19 12 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 272 (15.20%) Degree
2 243 (13.58%) Security Cleared
3 186 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 28 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (0.39%) PMP
12 6 (0.34%) CEH
12 6 (0.34%) CREST Certified
12 6 (0.34%) GIAC
12 6 (0.34%) GPEN
12 6 (0.34%) OSCP
12 6 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (6.71%) QA
2 85 (4.75%) Accessibility
3 49 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 34 (1.90%) WCAG
5 17 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.67%) GDPR
7 9 (0.50%) NIST
8 7 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
8 7 (0.39%) GxP
8 7 (0.39%) SLA
9 5 (0.28%) GRC
10 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.11%) MiFID
12 2 (0.11%) PMO
13 1 (0.056%) MISRA
13 1 (0.056%) MISRA C
System Software
1 122 (6.82%) Docker
2 75 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.45%) IAG
4 25 (1.40%) ACF2
4 25 (1.40%) RACF
5 16 (0.89%) Firmware
6 10 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.22%) zsh
8 3 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.056%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.056%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 165 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 100 (5.59%) Terraform
3 51 (2.85%) Ansible
4 30 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (1.23%) Grafana
5 22 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.45%) Kibana
6 8 (0.45%) PingFederate
7 5 (0.28%) logstash
7 5 (0.28%) Puppet
8 4 (0.22%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.17%) Netcool
9 3 (0.17%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.056%) Argo
10 1 (0.056%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.056%) Istio
10 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.056%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.056%) vRealize
10 1 (0.056%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 160 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.15%) PayPal
3 85 (4.75%) Google
4 79 (4.42%) Oracle
5 72 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 46 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 45 (2.52%) Adobe
8 28 (1.57%) SAP
9 24 (1.34%) Atlassian
10 21 (1.17%) Splunk
11 18 (1.01%) Sybase
12 17 (0.95%) MuleSoft
13 15 (0.84%) Optimizely
14 12 (0.67%) VMware
15 11 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 9 (0.50%) IBM
17 8 (0.45%) CyberArk
17 8 (0.45%) ESRI
17 8 (0.45%) Foundry
17 8 (0.45%) Tealium