JavaScript Contracts in the South West

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 52 33
Rank change year-on-year +8 -19 -2
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 126 148 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.96% 4.19% 6.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.94% 14.37% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 119 154
10th Percentile £317 £375 £366
25th Percentile £413 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £644 £573
90th Percentile £702 £705 £625
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile - - £47.99
25th Percentile - - £49.28
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.05 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -12.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile - - £63.60
90th Percentile £70.00 - £65.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £66.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -6.02% +18.22% +2.27%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 632 1,030 1,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.86% 29.13% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 736 765
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £635
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 93 70
10th Percentile £49.20 £48.72 £46.66
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £53.81
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +6.12% +34.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.70 £75.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year - +22.91% +18.26%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the South West.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the South West over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Bristol +9 59 £456 +1.39% 71
Gloucestershire -6 35 £575 -14.81% 30
Devon +6 13 £500 +11.11% 30
Wiltshire -3 9 £481 +6.94% 13
Dorset +4 5 £175 -62.16% 16
Somerset +2 5 £450 - 19
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (8.73%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.97%) Umbraco
3 4 (3.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (3.17%) Apache
4 3 (2.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.79%) Confluence
5 1 (0.79%) Drupal
Applications
1 12 (9.52%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.79%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.79%) Magento
2 1 (0.79%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.95%) AWS
2 32 (25.40%) Azure
3 14 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 12 (9.52%) Power Automate
5 8 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.56%) PowerApps
7 6 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (4.76%) Azure Storage
7 6 (4.76%) GitHub
8 4 (3.17%) Amazon Cognito
8 4 (3.17%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.59%) Firebase
10 2 (1.59%) npm
10 2 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.59%) Serverless
10 2 (1.59%) Sumo Logic
11 1 (0.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.35%) Ethernet
2 5 (3.97%) Intranet
2 5 (3.97%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.17%) HTTP
4 3 (2.38%) Internet
4 3 (2.38%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.56%) MySQL
2 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.17%) Triplestore
3 3 (2.38%) Power BI
4 2 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.79%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.79%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.35%) Visual Studio
2 7 (5.56%) GitLab
2 7 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.56%) JIRA
3 6 (4.76%) Git
3 6 (4.76%) Selenium
4 5 (3.97%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.97%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.38%) Postman
6 2 (1.59%) git-flow
6 2 (1.59%) JUnit
6 2 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.59%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.59%) webpack
7 1 (0.79%) Babel
7 1 (0.79%) JMeter
7 1 (0.79%) Maven
7 1 (0.79%) Subversion
General
1 19 (15.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.14%) Finance
4 8 (6.35%) Military
5 7 (5.56%) Tech for Good
6 6 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Automotive
8 3 (2.38%) Legal
8 3 (2.38%) Marketing
8 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.79%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (66.67%) Developer
2 25 (19.84%) Software Developer
3 15 (11.90%) Software Engineer
4 11 (8.73%) Full Stack Developer
5 7 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
5 7 (5.56%) React Developer
6 6 (4.76%) Applications Developer
6 6 (4.76%) SharePoint Developer
6 6 (4.76%) Test Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) C# Software Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) Senior
8 4 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.17%) Power Apps Developer
8 4 (3.17%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (3.17%) Salesforce Developer
8 4 (3.17%) Web Developer
9 3 (2.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (2.38%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (32.54%) HTML
2 39 (30.95%) React
3 32 (25.40%) CSS
4 29 (23.02%) Node.js
5 16 (12.70%) REST
6 12 (9.52%) .NET
6 12 (9.52%) AngularJS
6 12 (9.52%) Spring
7 8 (6.35%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (4.76%) Flask
8 6 (4.76%) RESTful
8 6 (4.76%) SPFx
9 5 (3.97%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.97%) jQuery
9 5 (3.97%) Kafka
9 5 (3.97%) React Native
9 5 (3.97%) Web Services
10 4 (3.17%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.38%) CUDA
4 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.79%) IoT
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.79%) Robotics
5 1 (0.79%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.52%) Linux
2 6 (4.76%) Windows
3 2 (1.59%) Android
3 2 (1.59%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (26.98%) Agile
2 31 (24.60%) Software Engineering
3 22 (17.46%) Full Stack Development
4 20 (15.87%) DevOps
5 16 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (11.90%) CI/CD
6 15 (11.90%) Project Management
7 13 (10.32%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (10.32%) Code Quality
7 13 (10.32%) Front End Development
7 13 (10.32%) Unit Testing
8 12 (9.52%) Conversational UI
9 9 (7.14%) Clean Code
9 9 (7.14%) MVC
9 9 (7.14%) Secure Coding
9 9 (7.14%) TDD
10 8 (6.35%) OO
10 8 (6.35%) OOP
10 8 (6.35%) SDLC
10 8 (6.35%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (33.33%) C#
2 40 (31.75%) Python
3 25 (19.84%) SQL
3 25 (19.84%) TypeScript
4 24 (19.05%) Java
5 12 (9.52%) C
6 9 (7.14%) C++
7 5 (3.97%) PHP
8 4 (3.17%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.17%) SPARQL
9 3 (2.38%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.59%) Dart
10 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.59%) SOQL
11 1 (0.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 40 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.70%) Degree
4 14 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.97%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.59%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.14%) QA
2 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.59%) WCAG
4 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (8.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.38%) Ansible
3 2 (1.59%) Terraform
4 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (9.52%) PayPal
2 11 (8.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.76%) Adobe
4 5 (3.97%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.38%) NVIDIA
6 2 (1.59%) Google
6 2 (1.59%) VMware
6 2 (1.59%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.79%) Marketo
7 1 (0.79%) Pardot
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.79%) Splunk