JavaScript Contracts in London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,104 1,809 3,654
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.32% 6.95% 9.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.16% 17.25% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 1,335 2,904
10th Percentile £410 £418 £419
25th Percentile £475 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £788 £700 £688
90th Percentile £850 £788 £763
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 23
10th Percentile £41.68 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £43.06 £36.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £45.75 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.06 £73.75 £75.20
90th Percentile £49.23 £75.00 £78.77
England median hourly rate £63.75 £66.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -4.14% +20.36% +0.45%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,433 10,486 16,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.81% 40.30% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,915 7,864 12,496
10th Percentile £377 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £703
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 78 109
10th Percentile £23.80 £26.10 £30.45
25th Percentile £40.79 £46.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £58.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.52 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the London 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
Central London -20 112 £525 -1.87% 87
West London +6 26 £538 -10.42% 27
East London +7 17 £540 +8.00% 159
South London +11 15 £450 - 21
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 140 (12.68%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (10.87%) Apache
3 30 (2.72%) CMS
4 22 (1.99%) nginx
5 20 (1.81%) Confluence
6 18 (1.63%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.91%) BizTalk Server
7 10 (0.91%) WordPress
8 6 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.54%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.54%) IIS
9 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.27%) ThingWorx
10 3 (0.27%) Tornado
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.18%) JBoss
11 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 14 (1.27%) Chatbot
2 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.45%) Sketch
5 4 (0.36%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.18%) Simulink
7 1 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.091%) InVision
7 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.09%) Shopify
3 9 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.45%) Endur
5 4 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.18%) Unica
6 2 (0.18%) WebTrends
7 1 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.091%) Magento
7 1 (0.091%) Maximo
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.091%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.091%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.091%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 428 (38.77%) AWS
2 252 (22.83%) Azure
3 188 (17.03%) GCP
4 126 (11.41%) dbt
5 107 (9.69%) Snowflake
6 71 (6.43%) Serverless
7 68 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (5.25%) GitHub
9 50 (4.53%) Power Platform
10 48 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 37 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
13 31 (2.81%) Entra ID
14 29 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 28 (2.54%) npm
16 27 (2.45%) PowerApps
17 25 (2.26%) Power Automate
18 21 (1.90%) Amazon S3
19 20 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
20 18 (1.63%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.72%) HTTP
2 8 (0.72%) Firewall
3 7 (0.63%) DNS
4 5 (0.45%) Intranet
5 4 (0.36%) Internet
5 4 (0.36%) VoIP
6 3 (0.27%) DHCP
6 3 (0.27%) SSL
6 3 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.27%) VPN
7 2 (0.18%) AMQP
7 2 (0.18%) LAN
7 2 (0.18%) MQTT
7 2 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.18%) SMS
7 2 (0.18%) WLAN
8 1 (0.091%) FTP
8 1 (0.091%) Network Security
8 1 (0.091%) SSH
8 1 (0.091%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (11.50%) Amazon Athena
2 126 (11.41%) Apache Arrow
2 126 (11.41%) Dremio
3 112 (10.14%) Apache Ignite
4 107 (9.69%) Data Lake
5 104 (9.42%) SQL Server
6 64 (5.80%) NoSQL
7 49 (4.44%) MongoDB
8 48 (4.35%) MySQL
9 46 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (3.44%) Relational Database
11 29 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (2.54%) Power BI
13 27 (2.45%) Big Data
14 20 (1.81%) DynamoDB
15 19 (1.72%) Redis
16 17 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
17 12 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
18 10 (0.91%) RDBMS
18 10 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 145 (13.13%) Git
2 81 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 60 (5.43%) JIRA
4 41 (3.71%) Cypress.io
5 39 (3.53%) GitLab
5 39 (3.53%) webpack
6 25 (2.26%) Selenium
7 23 (2.08%) Postman
8 19 (1.72%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.54%) JMeter
10 14 (1.27%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.00%) git-flow
12 10 (0.91%) Appium
12 10 (0.91%) Maven
12 10 (0.91%) NUnit
13 9 (0.82%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.72%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.72%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.72%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.63%) Jasmine
General
1 354 (32.07%) Finance
2 201 (18.21%) Front Office
3 199 (18.03%) Social Skills
4 182 (16.49%) Banking
5 113 (10.24%) Investment Banking
6 90 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (6.52%) Public Sector
8 57 (5.16%) Marketing
9 22 (1.99%) Retail
10 20 (1.81%) Advertising
11 18 (1.63%) Back Office
12 14 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.18%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.54%) Automotive
17 5 (0.45%) Law
18 4 (0.36%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 628 (56.88%) Developer
2 212 (19.20%) Senior
3 157 (14.22%) Software Engineer
4 125 (11.32%) Full Stack Developer
5 118 (10.69%) Senior Developer
6 99 (8.97%) Lead
7 88 (7.97%) Architect
8 87 (7.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 81 (7.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 77 (6.97%) Software Developer
11 75 (6.79%) React Developer
12 74 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
13 61 (5.53%) Python Developer
14 56 (5.07%) .NET Developer
14 56 (5.07%) JavaScript Developer
15 53 (4.80%) C# Developer
15 53 (4.80%) Python Engineer
15 53 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
16 50 (4.53%) Python Software Engineer
17 48 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (35.05%) HTML
2 372 (33.70%) React
3 356 (32.25%) CSS
4 199 (18.03%) .NET
5 192 (17.39%) Node.js
6 152 (13.77%) AngularJS
7 141 (12.77%) gRPC
8 139 (12.59%) Protocol Buffers
9 128 (11.59%) REST
10 116 (10.51%) Pandas
11 109 (9.87%) NumPy
12 105 (9.51%) SciPy
13 95 (8.61%) .NET Core
14 82 (7.43%) Redux
15 78 (7.07%) Web Services
16 76 (6.88%) XML
17 70 (6.34%) ASP.NET
18 64 (5.80%) jQuery
19 58 (5.25%) Vue
20 57 (5.16%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 185 (16.76%) Fixed Income
2 150 (13.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 150 (13.59%) Hedge funds
3 143 (12.95%) Derivative
4 133 (12.05%) Equities
5 41 (3.71%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
8 25 (2.26%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (2.08%) Cloud Native
10 23 (2.08%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.99%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.90%) Algorithms
13 20 (1.81%) Clustering
14 17 (1.54%) Onboarding
15 15 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
17 10 (0.91%) Pricing Data
18 8 (0.72%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.25%) Linux
2 38 (3.44%) Unix
3 23 (2.08%) Windows
4 14 (1.27%) Android
5 11 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.091%) CentOS
6 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (43.57%) Agile
2 349 (31.61%) Software Engineering
3 257 (23.28%) DevOps
4 219 (19.84%) Full Stack Development
5 217 (19.66%) CI/CD
6 183 (16.58%) Asset Management
7 155 (14.04%) Front End Development
8 140 (12.68%) Investment Management
9 139 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
10 132 (11.96%) TDD
11 121 (10.96%) Test Automation
12 107 (9.69%) Microservices
13 103 (9.33%) Web Development
14 102 (9.24%) User Experience
15 83 (7.52%) Design Patterns
16 81 (7.34%) Analytics
17 80 (7.25%) Scrum
18 75 (6.79%) SDLC
19 69 (6.25%) Computer Science
20 65 (5.89%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 418 (37.86%) TypeScript
2 365 (33.06%) Python
3 333 (30.16%) Java
4 264 (23.91%) C#
5 255 (23.10%) SQL
6 68 (6.16%) Go
7 60 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 59 (5.34%) PHP
9 35 (3.17%) Bicep
10 30 (2.72%) Kotlin
11 28 (2.54%) Ruby
12 26 (2.36%) Bash
13 25 (2.26%) C++
14 19 (1.72%) T-SQL
15 18 (1.63%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.91%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.82%) C
17 9 (0.82%) Groovy
17 9 (0.82%) Perl
17 9 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 137 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 129 (11.68%) Degree
3 101 (9.15%) SC Cleared
4 51 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.18%) CISA
12 2 (0.18%) CRISC
12 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.18%) PMP
13 1 (0.091%) SANS
13 1 (0.091%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (7.16%) QA
2 60 (5.43%) Accessibility
3 41 (3.71%) Data Quality
4 28 (2.54%) WCAG
5 17 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.36%) GRC
6 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.36%) SLA
7 3 (0.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.18%) MiFID
9 1 (0.091%) GDPR
9 1 (0.091%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.091%) GxP
System Software
1 90 (8.15%) Docker
2 64 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.08%) IAG
4 22 (1.99%) ACF2
4 22 (1.99%) RACF
5 1 (0.091%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.091%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.091%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.091%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (11.14%) Kubernetes
2 72 (6.52%) Terraform
3 31 (2.81%) Ansible
4 22 (1.99%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (1.27%) Grafana
7 7 (0.63%) Kibana
8 5 (0.45%) logstash
8 5 (0.45%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.45%) Puppet
9 4 (0.36%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.27%) Netcool
11 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.091%) Argo
12 1 (0.091%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.091%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.091%) Istio
12 1 (0.091%) Podman
12 1 (0.091%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 101 (9.15%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.62%) Oracle
3 45 (4.08%) Google
4 42 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 30 (2.72%) Adobe
6 28 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.72%) Splunk
8 16 (1.45%) MuleSoft
8 16 (1.45%) Sybase
9 14 (1.27%) Optimizely
10 13 (1.18%) PayPal
11 12 (1.09%) SAP
12 8 (0.72%) Foundry
12 8 (0.72%) Tealium
13 7 (0.63%) BeyondTrust
13 7 (0.63%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.63%) Palantir
13 7 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 6 (0.54%) Ensighten
14 6 (0.54%) Monetate