JavaScript Contracts in Reading

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 48 46
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 -28
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 39 37 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.27% 3.54% 4.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.45% 13.36% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 42
10th Percentile £309 £354 £303
25th Percentile £381 £413 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £428
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +22.81% +17.30%
75th Percentile £591 £581 £484
90th Percentile £625 £600 £559
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £461
% change year-on-year +5.56% -2.44% +15.31%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 290 277 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.31% 26.53% 23.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 218 253
10th Percentile £360 £371 £351
25th Percentile £425 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £613
90th Percentile £688 £708 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £490
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 0
10th Percentile £54.13 £63.00 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £72.63 -
Median hourly rate £59.22 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.06 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.95
% change year-on-year -12.00% -4.04% +88.26%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Reading

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Reading

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Reading over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Reading

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Reading

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 7 (17.95%) OpenStack
2 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.13%) CMS
3 2 (5.13%) Jadu
3 2 (5.13%) JBoss
3 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.56%) Apache
4 1 (2.56%) Appian
4 1 (2.56%) Drupal
4 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (20.51%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (20.51%) Azure
2 8 (20.51%) Serverless
3 5 (12.82%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 5 (12.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (12.82%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (12.82%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.56%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.56%) MailChimp
5 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.56%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (20.51%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) Git
2 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
3 6 (15.38%) JUnit
4 1 (2.56%) JMeter
4 1 (2.56%) Mockito
4 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Billing
3 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.82%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.13%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (61.54%) Developer
2 13 (33.33%) Lead
3 12 (30.77%) Java Developer
4 9 (23.08%) Full Stack Developer
5 7 (17.95%) Designer
6 6 (15.38%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 6 (15.38%) Lead Designer
7 4 (10.26%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Web Applications Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Web Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Communications Manager
8 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (5.13%) Internal Communications Manager
8 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.56%) .NET Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Applications Developer
9 1 (2.56%) C# Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (51.28%) Node.js
2 17 (43.59%) HTML
3 14 (35.90%) AngularJS
4 13 (33.33%) CSS
5 12 (30.77%) Spring
5 12 (30.77%) Spring Boot
6 9 (23.08%) React
6 9 (23.08%) Web Services
7 8 (20.51%) REST
8 7 (17.95%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (17.95%) React Native
9 6 (15.38%) Kafka
9 6 (15.38%) RESTful
9 6 (15.38%) SOAP
9 6 (15.38%) Symfony
10 5 (12.82%) .NET
11 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET
11 4 (10.26%) J2EE
11 4 (10.26%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (7.69%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Social Media
3 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Agile
2 13 (33.33%) DevOps
2 13 (33.33%) TDD
3 12 (30.77%) Microservices
4 10 (25.64%) Scrum
5 9 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 9 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (17.95%) CRM
6 7 (17.95%) Integration Testing
6 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.95%) Unit Testing
7 6 (15.38%) BDD
7 6 (15.38%) Kanban
7 6 (15.38%) Workflow
8 5 (12.82%) API Design
8 5 (12.82%) API Development
8 5 (12.82%) Coaching
8 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.82%) Data-Driven Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) PHP
3 4 (10.26%) Python
4 2 (5.13%) C#
5 1 (2.56%) C
5 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.56%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.56%) Google
2 1 (2.56%) IBM
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle
2 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.56%) Splunk
2 1 (2.56%) TIBCO