JavaScript Developer Contracts

JavaScript Developer
UK

The median JavaScript Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 453 367
Rank change year-on-year -32 -86 -159
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 94 250 647
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.44% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.46% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 230 538
10th Percentile £325 £412 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £578 £713 £700
90th Percentile £670 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +69.03% -12.43%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - - £79.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +54.12% -3.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Developer within the UK 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
England -16 79 £500 -13.04% 76
London +21 56 £525 -14.98% 40
Work from Home +20 45 £500 -9.09% 56
UK excluding London -9 23 £450 -10.00% 49
North of England +8 9 £450 -16.28% 14
North West +8 7 £450 -17.24% 10
South East +22 6 £375 -13.04% 19
South West +6 4 £510 -9.33%
East of England +7 3 £600 +20.00% 2
Yorkshire +7 2 £375 -28.57% 3
East Midlands +10 1 - - 9
Midlands +9 1 - - 13

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, JavaScript Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 93 (98.94%) JavaScript
2 57 (60.64%) React
3 37 (39.36%) HTML
3 37 (39.36%) CSS
4 33 (35.11%) Node.js
5 27 (28.72%) TypeScript
6 25 (26.60%) Git
7 22 (23.40%) Full Stack Development
8 19 (20.21%) Web Development
9 18 (19.15%) DevOps
9 18 (19.15%) Azure
9 18 (19.15%) Front End Development
10 17 (18.09%) AWS
10 17 (18.09%) Finance
11 15 (15.96%) Python
11 15 (15.96%) Agile
12 14 (14.89%) C#
12 14 (14.89%) GraphQL
12 14 (14.89%) User Experience
12 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
13 13 (13.83%) Docker
14 12 (12.77%) HTML5
14 12 (12.77%) E-Commerce
15 11 (11.70%) Java
15 11 (11.70%) CMS
15 11 (11.70%) UX Design
15 11 (11.70%) Kubernetes
16 10 (10.64%) Vue
16 10 (10.64%) REST

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
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 11 (11.70%) CMS
2 8 (8.51%) Headless CMS
3 6 (6.38%) Kentico
4 2 (2.13%) Camunda
4 2 (2.13%) Confluence
4 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.06%) nginx
5 1 (1.06%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Sketch
2 1 (1.06%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.15%) Azure
2 17 (18.09%) AWS
3 9 (9.57%) GitHub
4 8 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.45%) GCP
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (3.19%) IaaS
6 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.19%) SaaS
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.13%) Figma
7 2 (2.13%) Serverless
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.06%) Firebase
8 1 (1.06%) npm
8 1 (1.06%) NuGet
8 1 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) Firewall
1 1 (1.06%) Internet
1 1 (1.06%) Intranet
1 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.38%) MySQL
2 5 (5.32%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.19%) GIS
4 3 (3.19%) Spatial Data
5 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.06%) Power BI
6 1 (1.06%) Redis
6 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (26.60%) Git
2 6 (6.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (5.32%) JIRA
4 3 (3.19%) webpack
5 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.13%) GitLab
5 2 (2.13%) gulp
5 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.13%) Selenium
6 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.06%) git-flow
6 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (18.09%) Finance
2 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.38%) Marketing
6 5 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.32%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.26%) Banking
8 3 (3.19%) Electronics
8 3 (3.19%) Front Office
9 2 (2.13%) Advertising
9 2 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (60.64%) React
2 37 (39.36%) CSS
2 37 (39.36%) HTML
3 33 (35.11%) Node.js
4 14 (14.89%) GraphQL
5 12 (12.77%) HTML5
6 10 (10.64%) CSS3
6 10 (10.64%) REST
6 10 (10.64%) Vue
7 9 (9.57%) .NET
7 9 (9.57%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.51%) Express.js
9 7 (7.45%) Next.js
9 7 (7.45%) Web Services
10 6 (6.38%) DOM
10 6 (6.38%) GatsbyJS
10 6 (6.38%) React Native
11 5 (5.32%) Ajax
11 5 (5.32%) RESTful
12 4 (4.26%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.19%) Derivative
3 3 (3.19%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.19%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.13%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.13%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.06%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.06%) CMDB
5 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.06%) e-Health
5 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.06%) Web 2.0
5 1 (1.06%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Android
2 4 (4.26%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.13%) Linux
3 2 (2.13%) Unix
4 1 (1.06%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.40%) Full Stack Development
2 19 (20.21%) Web Development
3 18 (19.15%) DevOps
3 18 (19.15%) Front End Development
4 15 (15.96%) Agile
5 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (14.89%) User Experience
6 12 (12.77%) E-Commerce
7 11 (11.70%) UX Design
8 8 (8.51%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.51%) Microservices
9 7 (7.45%) Clean Code
9 7 (7.45%) Software Engineering
10 6 (6.38%) Test Automation
11 5 (5.32%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (5.32%) Scrum
12 4 (4.26%) Kanban
12 4 (4.26%) Migration
12 4 (4.26%) OOP
12 4 (4.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 93 (98.94%) JavaScript
2 27 (28.72%) TypeScript
3 15 (15.96%) Python
4 14 (14.89%) C#
5 11 (11.70%) Java
6 8 (8.51%) PHP
7 5 (5.32%) Rust
7 5 (5.32%) SQL
8 4 (4.26%) Go
8 4 (4.26%) Ruby
9 2 (2.13%) Bash
10 1 (1.06%) Bicep
10 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (6.38%) SC Cleared
1 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.32%) Degree
3 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.06%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.32%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.19%) WCAG
3 2 (2.13%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.13%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) HL7
System Software
1 13 (13.83%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) zsh
3 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (11.70%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.32%) Google
2 4 (4.26%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.19%) ESRI
3 3 (3.19%) SAP
3 3 (3.19%) Splunk
4 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft