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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,094 1,814 3,611
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.19% 6.91% 9.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.05% 17.07% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 1,341 2,871
10th Percentile £400 £414 £425
25th Percentile £469 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% +10.48%
75th Percentile £763 £695 £675
90th Percentile £850 £788 £763
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +13.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 23
10th Percentile £41.68 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £43.06 £36.14 £35.00
Median hourly rate £45.75 £56.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +12.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.06 £73.44 £75.62
90th Percentile £49.23 £75.00 £80.30
England median hourly rate £62.50 £66.50 £52.56
% change year-on-year -6.02% +26.53% -4.45%

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 6,418 10,624 16,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.30% 40.46% 41.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,908 7,938 12,324
10th Percentile £381 £413 £419
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 £731 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 82 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.33 £29.08
25th Percentile £40.80 £50.11 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.01 £75.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%

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 9 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 9 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 -17 110 £525 -1.87% 84
West London +5 22 £575 -4.17% 27
East London +6 17 £540 +8.00% 33
South London +12 16 £450 - 18
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
1 121 (11.06%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (9.32%) Apache
3 28 (2.56%) CMS
4 21 (1.92%) nginx
5 17 (1.55%) Confluence
6 15 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 11 (1.01%) BizTalk Server
7 11 (1.01%) WordPress
8 6 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.55%) IIS
8 6 (0.55%) Tornado
9 5 (0.46%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.18%) JBoss
12 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.18%) ThingWorx
12 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.46%) Sketch
4 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.18%) Simulink
6 1 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.091%) InVision
6 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.19%) Shopify
3 8 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.46%) Endur
5 4 (0.37%) 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
1 416 (38.03%) AWS
2 251 (22.94%) Azure
3 179 (16.36%) GCP
4 108 (9.87%) dbt
5 90 (8.23%) Snowflake
6 70 (6.40%) Serverless
7 63 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (5.39%) GitHub
9 53 (4.84%) Power Platform
10 48 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (3.38%) Azure Service Bus
11 37 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
12 30 (2.74%) Entra ID
12 30 (2.74%) npm
12 30 (2.74%) PowerApps
13 29 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 26 (2.38%) Power Automate
15 22 (2.01%) Amazon S3
16 19 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.46%) HTTP
2 8 (0.73%) Firewall
3 7 (0.64%) DNS
4 5 (0.46%) Intranet
5 4 (0.37%) Internet
6 3 (0.27%) DHCP
6 3 (0.27%) SSL
6 3 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.27%) VoIP
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%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.091%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.091%) Network Security
8 1 (0.091%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (9.96%) Amazon Athena
2 108 (9.87%) Apache Arrow
2 108 (9.87%) Dremio
3 107 (9.78%) SQL Server
4 97 (8.87%) Apache Ignite
5 90 (8.23%) Data Lake
6 59 (5.39%) NoSQL
7 53 (4.84%) MongoDB
8 50 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
9 47 (4.30%) MySQL
10 36 (3.29%) Relational Database
11 29 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (2.65%) Power BI
12 22 (2.01%) Big Data
13 19 (1.74%) DynamoDB
14 18 (1.65%) Redis
15 17 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
16 12 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
17 9 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 143 (13.07%) Git
2 79 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 58 (5.30%) JIRA
4 42 (3.84%) webpack
5 39 (3.56%) Cypress.io
6 31 (2.83%) GitLab
7 23 (2.10%) Selenium
8 20 (1.83%) Postman
9 19 (1.74%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.28%) JMeter
11 13 (1.19%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.91%) git-flow
12 10 (0.91%) Maven
12 10 (0.91%) NUnit
13 9 (0.82%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.73%) Appium
14 8 (0.73%) Babel
15 7 (0.64%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.64%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 331 (30.26%) Finance
2 203 (18.56%) Social Skills
3 191 (17.46%) Front Office
4 170 (15.54%) Banking
5 99 (9.05%) Investment Banking
6 93 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
7 71 (6.49%) Public Sector
8 59 (5.39%) Marketing
9 22 (2.01%) Retail
10 21 (1.92%) Advertising
11 18 (1.65%) Back Office
12 16 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.55%) Automotive
17 6 (0.55%) Local Government
18 5 (0.46%) Games
18 5 (0.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 638 (58.32%) Developer
2 206 (18.83%) Senior
3 151 (13.80%) Software Engineer
4 127 (11.61%) Full Stack Developer
5 117 (10.69%) Senior Developer
6 98 (8.96%) Lead
7 91 (8.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 85 (7.77%) Architect
9 78 (7.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 77 (7.04%) React Developer
11 71 (6.49%) Software Developer
12 64 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
13 61 (5.58%) Python Developer
14 59 (5.39%) .NET Developer
15 58 (5.30%) JavaScript Developer
16 52 (4.75%) C# Developer
17 48 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
18 47 (4.30%) Python Engineer
19 44 (4.02%) Python Software Engineer
19 44 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (35.56%) React
2 384 (35.10%) HTML
3 357 (32.63%) CSS
4 205 (18.74%) .NET
5 200 (18.28%) Node.js
6 156 (14.26%) AngularJS
7 128 (11.70%) REST
8 122 (11.15%) gRPC
9 120 (10.97%) Protocol Buffers
10 105 (9.60%) Pandas
11 95 (8.68%) NumPy
12 93 (8.50%) .NET Core
13 91 (8.32%) SciPy
14 84 (7.68%) Redux
15 80 (7.31%) Web Services
16 75 (6.86%) ASP.NET
16 75 (6.86%) XML
17 64 (5.85%) jQuery
18 61 (5.58%) Vue
19 58 (5.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 174 (15.90%) Fixed Income
2 139 (12.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 134 (12.25%) Hedge funds
4 131 (11.97%) Derivative
5 122 (11.15%) Equities
6 40 (3.66%) Product Ownership
7 36 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (2.38%) Mobile App
10 24 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (2.19%) Management Information System
11 23 (2.10%) Cloud Native
12 21 (1.92%) Algorithms
12 21 (1.92%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.55%) Onboarding
14 16 (1.46%) Clustering
15 15 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
17 9 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
18 8 (0.73%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 68 (6.22%) Linux
2 39 (3.56%) Unix
3 24 (2.19%) Windows
4 18 (1.65%) Android
5 15 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.091%) CentOS
6 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (43.05%) Agile
2 340 (31.08%) Software Engineering
3 250 (22.85%) DevOps
4 224 (20.48%) Full Stack Development
5 211 (19.29%) CI/CD
6 165 (15.08%) Asset Management
6 165 (15.08%) Front End Development
7 143 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
8 135 (12.34%) TDD
9 132 (12.07%) Investment Management
10 115 (10.51%) Test Automation
11 110 (10.05%) Microservices
12 104 (9.51%) Web Development
13 103 (9.41%) User Experience
14 87 (7.95%) Design Patterns
15 81 (7.40%) Scrum
16 80 (7.31%) Analytics
17 79 (7.22%) SDLC
18 66 (6.03%) Computer Science
19 64 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 415 (37.93%) TypeScript
2 354 (32.36%) Python
3 313 (28.61%) Java
4 268 (24.50%) C#
5 251 (22.94%) SQL
6 63 (5.76%) PowerShell
7 60 (5.48%) PHP
8 59 (5.39%) Go
9 34 (3.11%) Bicep
10 31 (2.83%) Kotlin
11 28 (2.56%) Ruby
12 26 (2.38%) Bash
13 24 (2.19%) C++
14 20 (1.83%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.74%) 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
1 131 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 129 (11.79%) Degree
3 95 (8.68%) SC Cleared
4 49 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.18%) PMP
13 1 (0.091%) CCNP
13 1 (0.091%) ISEB
13 1 (0.091%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.091%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.13%) QA
2 60 (5.48%) Accessibility
3 38 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.65%) WCAG
5 17 (1.55%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.37%) GRC
6 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.37%) 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 89 (8.14%) Docker
2 63 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.10%) IAG
4 22 (2.01%) ACF2
4 22 (2.01%) RACF
5 1 (0.091%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.091%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.091%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.091%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 122 (11.15%) Kubernetes
2 66 (6.03%) Terraform
3 31 (2.83%) Ansible
4 21 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.91%) Grafana
7 7 (0.64%) Kibana
8 5 (0.46%) logstash
8 5 (0.46%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.46%) Puppet
9 4 (0.37%) 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%) Istio
12 1 (0.091%) MOM
12 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.091%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 99 (9.05%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.67%) Oracle
3 44 (4.02%) Google
4 41 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 29 (2.65%) Adobe
6 28 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.65%) MuleSoft
8 16 (1.46%) Sybase
9 14 (1.28%) Optimizely
10 13 (1.19%) PayPal
10 13 (1.19%) Splunk
11 12 (1.10%) SAP
12 8 (0.73%) Databricks
12 8 (0.73%) Foundry
12 8 (0.73%) Tealium
13 7 (0.64%) BeyondTrust
13 7 (0.64%) Blue Prism
13 7 (0.64%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 7 (0.64%) UiPath