JavaScript Contracts with Work from Home Options

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 25 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 -8
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,007 1,797 4,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.84% 7.25% 9.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.14% 19.54% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 1,335 3,097
10th Percentile £357 £394 £375
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -1.43% +10.53%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £619
90th Percentile £850 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 37 36
10th Percentile £35.00 £42.20 £35.00
25th Percentile £37.63 £51.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.55% +15.93% +10.24%
75th Percentile £51.50 £75.00 £67.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.60 £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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,001 9,198 16,914
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.96% 37.12% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,630 6,765 12,586
10th Percentile £355 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 193 190
10th Percentile £32.50 £27.83 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

JavaScript
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JavaScript trend for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript.

JavaScript daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

JavaScript daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript.

JavaScript hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

JavaScript hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 129 (12.81%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (10.63%) Apache
3 32 (3.18%) CMS
4 25 (2.48%) Confluence
5 20 (1.99%) SharePoint
6 19 (1.89%) nginx
7 11 (1.09%) WordPress
8 9 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.79%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.60%) Drupal
11 5 (0.50%) Kentico
11 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.40%) SAS
12 4 (0.40%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.30%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
13 3 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
14 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.20%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 122 (12.12%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.20%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.20%) Camtasia
5 2 (0.20%) Lectora
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.099%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.099%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.099%) Blender
6 1 (0.099%) InDesign
6 1 (0.099%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.50%) Shopify
4 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.20%) Endur
6 2 (0.20%) Magento
7 1 (0.099%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 344 (34.16%) AWS
2 160 (15.89%) Azure
3 133 (13.21%) GCP
4 114 (11.32%) dbt
5 95 (9.43%) Snowflake
6 64 (6.36%) GitHub
7 55 (5.46%) Serverless
8 50 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
10 36 (3.57%) Power Platform
11 29 (2.88%) Amazon S3
12 21 (2.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 19 (1.89%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.79%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.69%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
16 15 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (1.49%) Azure Functions
17 14 (1.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.38%) HTTP
2 21 (2.09%) Intranet
3 9 (0.89%) Firewall
4 8 (0.79%) DNS
4 8 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.70%) Internet
6 3 (0.30%) BGP
6 3 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.30%) IOS XR
6 3 (0.30%) SSL
6 3 (0.30%) Wireless
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.20%) LAN
7 2 (0.20%) RTSP
7 2 (0.20%) WLAN
8 1 (0.099%) FTP
8 1 (0.099%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (11.52%) Amazon Athena
2 114 (11.32%) Apache Arrow
2 114 (11.32%) Dremio
3 100 (9.93%) Apache Ignite
4 95 (9.43%) Data Lake
5 74 (7.35%) SQL Server
6 55 (5.46%) MySQL
7 45 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (3.18%) NoSQL
9 31 (3.08%) Relational Database
10 24 (2.38%) Power BI
11 23 (2.28%) MongoDB
12 21 (2.09%) Big Data
13 17 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
14 12 (1.19%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.19%) Redis
15 11 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 97 (9.63%) Git
2 74 (7.35%) JIRA
3 62 (6.16%) Jenkins
4 38 (3.77%) GitLab
5 24 (2.38%) Cypress.io
6 21 (2.09%) Selenium
7 19 (1.89%) Postman
8 18 (1.79%) webpack
9 17 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
10 16 (1.59%) JMeter
11 11 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.99%) git-flow
13 9 (0.89%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.89%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.79%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.79%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.79%) Maven
15 7 (0.70%) Appium
15 7 (0.70%) JUnit
15 7 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
General
1 259 (25.72%) Finance
2 148 (14.70%) Social Skills
3 139 (13.80%) Banking
3 139 (13.80%) Front Office
4 91 (9.04%) Investment Banking
5 76 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (2.88%) Marketing
8 18 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 17 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.59%) Retail
11 10 (0.99%) Tech for Good
12 9 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.70%) Advertising
13 7 (0.70%) Back Office
13 7 (0.70%) Publishing
14 6 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.40%) Automotive
16 4 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 627 (62.26%) Developer
2 182 (18.07%) Software Developer
3 132 (13.11%) Senior
4 131 (13.01%) Software Engineer
5 93 (9.24%) Full Stack Developer
6 71 (7.05%) AWS Engineer
7 70 (6.95%) Lead
7 70 (6.95%) Senior Developer
8 62 (6.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 61 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 61 (6.06%) React Developer
10 56 (5.56%) Architect
11 55 (5.46%) Python Engineer
12 52 (5.16%) Python Software Engineer
13 44 (4.37%) JavaScript Developer
14 42 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
15 41 (4.07%) Java Engineer
16 40 (3.97%) Java Developer
17 39 (3.87%) Python Developer
18 38 (3.77%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 425 (42.20%) HTML
2 294 (29.20%) CSS
3 251 (24.93%) React
4 166 (16.48%) Node.js
5 128 (12.71%) gRPC
5 128 (12.71%) Protocol Buffers
6 123 (12.21%) .NET
7 109 (10.82%) AngularJS
8 99 (9.83%) Pandas
9 97 (9.63%) REST
10 93 (9.24%) NumPy
10 93 (9.24%) SciPy
11 66 (6.55%) Web Services
12 61 (6.06%) XML
13 58 (5.76%) RESTful
13 58 (5.76%) Vue
14 54 (5.36%) jQuery
15 48 (4.77%) GraphQL
16 44 (4.37%) ASP.NET
16 44 (4.37%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 128 (12.71%) Fixed Income
2 109 (10.82%) Hedge funds
3 99 (9.83%) Derivative
4 97 (9.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 92 (9.14%) Equities
6 35 (3.48%) Product Ownership
7 26 (2.58%) Mobile App
8 19 (1.89%) Clustering
8 19 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.29%) Cloud Native
12 13 (1.29%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.19%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.99%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.99%) Pricing Data
15 8 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.76%) Linux
2 29 (2.88%) Unix
3 18 (1.79%) Android
4 17 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 17 (1.69%) Windows
5 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.099%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.099%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (36.15%) Software Engineering
2 323 (32.08%) Agile
3 178 (17.68%) Full Stack Development
4 158 (15.69%) Code Quality
5 155 (15.39%) DevOps
6 144 (14.30%) Asset Management
7 136 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
8 132 (13.11%) CI/CD
9 122 (12.12%) Conversational UI
10 113 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (11.12%) User Experience
12 108 (10.72%) Investment Management
13 101 (10.03%) Test Automation
14 96 (9.53%) Front End Development
15 84 (8.34%) Microservices
16 81 (8.04%) Web Development
17 78 (7.75%) TDD
18 61 (6.06%) Analytics
19 58 (5.76%) MVC
20 56 (5.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 406 (40.32%) Python
2 299 (29.69%) TypeScript
3 288 (28.60%) Java
4 280 (27.81%) SQL
5 263 (26.12%) C#
6 61 (6.06%) PHP
7 42 (4.17%) Go
8 35 (3.48%) PowerShell
9 30 (2.98%) Bash
10 24 (2.38%) Ruby
11 17 (1.69%) C++
12 14 (1.39%) Bicep
13 13 (1.29%) Apex Code
13 13 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.99%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.99%) Scala
15 9 (0.89%) C
15 9 (0.89%) SOQL
16 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 186 (18.47%) Degree
2 101 (10.03%) Security Cleared
3 74 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 38 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.28%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.30%) CEH
11 3 (0.30%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.30%) GIAC
11 3 (0.30%) GPEN
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.30%) OSCP
12 2 (0.20%) ISEB
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (7.25%) Accessibility
2 62 (6.16%) QA
3 37 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.89%) WCAG
5 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.40%) CDISC
7 4 (0.40%) NIST
8 3 (0.30%) GDPR
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.20%) PMO
9 2 (0.20%) SLA
10 1 (0.099%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.099%) GxP
10 1 (0.099%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.099%) HL7
10 1 (0.099%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 76 (7.55%) Docker
2 35 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.69%) IAG
4 16 (1.59%) ACF2
4 16 (1.59%) RACF
5 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.30%) zsh
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.099%) Firmware
8 1 (0.099%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.099%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (8.94%) Kubernetes
2 54 (5.36%) Terraform
3 21 (2.09%) Prometheus
4 17 (1.69%) Ansible
5 10 (0.99%) Grafana
6 7 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.50%) Kibana
8 4 (0.40%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.20%) logstash
9 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.20%) Puppet
9 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.099%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.099%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.099%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.099%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.099%) vRealize
10 1 (0.099%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 121 (12.02%) PayPal
2 70 (6.95%) Microsoft
3 46 (4.57%) Oracle
4 37 (3.67%) Google
5 31 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 27 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.28%) Adobe
8 22 (2.18%) SAP
9 16 (1.59%) Sybase
10 10 (0.99%) Splunk
11 9 (0.89%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.70%) Optimizely
13 6 (0.60%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.50%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.50%) Monetate
14 5 (0.50%) Tealium
15 4 (0.40%) Ensighten
15 4 (0.40%) Omniture
15 4 (0.40%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.40%) VMware