JavaScript Contracts in the South East

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 54 46
Rank change year-on-year -14 -8 -22
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 151 222 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.72% 3.85% 4.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% 13.97% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 142 237
10th Percentile £255 £363 £345
25th Percentile £313 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.64% +2.63% +13.43%
75th Percentile £528 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £638
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 19 10
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.45 £46.13
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.88 £62.15
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.52
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.79% +31.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.80
90th Percentile £77.00 - £68.02
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.50 £53.78
% change year-on-year -4.58% +21.80% +7.56%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,208 1,589 2,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.77% 27.58% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 1,131 1,355
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £621 £588
90th Percentile £684 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 91 89
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.10 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £43.42
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% +26.68% +2.15%
75th Percentile £66.01 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £65.51
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Thames Valley -30 53 £475 +9.84% 55
Berkshire -17 46 £475 +4.11% 23
Hampshire -15 43 £450 -10.00% 51
Surrey +22 26 £300 -40.45% 34
East Sussex +20 14 £350 -53.33% 10
Buckinghamshire +9 6 £494 +23.44% 19
Kent +1 6 £485 -23.92% 24
West Sussex +6 5 £400 -30.43% 7
Middlesex +4 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire -3 1 - - 13
Home Counties - 1 £475 -
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 19 (12.58%) Confluence
2 9 (5.96%) Drupal
3 6 (3.97%) CMS
3 6 (3.97%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.65%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.99%) Apache
5 3 (1.99%) Moodle
6 2 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.32%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.32%) Jadu
6 2 (1.32%) Kentico
6 2 (1.32%) WordPress
7 1 (0.66%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.66%) Appian
7 1 (0.66%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.66%) JBoss
7 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.66%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.99%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.66%) Simulink
3 1 (0.66%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.32%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.66%) Magento
2 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.87%) Azure
2 17 (11.26%) AWS
3 13 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.62%) Serverless
5 7 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (3.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (3.97%) GCP
6 6 (3.97%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.31%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 5 (3.31%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.99%) Google App Engine
8 3 (1.99%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.32%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.32%) GitHub
9 2 (1.32%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.93%) Software-Defined Radio
2 14 (9.27%) SNMP
3 3 (1.99%) BGP
3 3 (1.99%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.99%) Intranet
3 3 (1.99%) IOS XR
4 2 (1.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.66%) NFC
5 1 (0.66%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.57%) SQL Server
2 15 (9.93%) Relational Database
3 14 (9.27%) MySQL
4 10 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.31%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.99%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.32%) CouchDB
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.32%) Power BI
7 2 (1.32%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.66%) Redis
8 1 (0.66%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (31.13%) Git
2 23 (15.23%) JIRA
3 18 (11.92%) Bitbucket
4 16 (10.60%) Eclipse
5 15 (9.93%) GoogleTest
6 14 (9.27%) Robot Framework
7 10 (6.62%) Jenkins
8 5 (3.31%) GitLab
8 5 (3.31%) JUnit
8 5 (3.31%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.99%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.32%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (1.32%) Selenium
10 2 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.32%) VersionOne
11 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.66%) JMeter
11 1 (0.66%) Mockito
11 1 (0.66%) Valgrind
General
1 28 (18.54%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.96%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.96%) Telecoms
4 7 (4.64%) Billing
5 6 (3.97%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.97%) Marketing
6 5 (3.31%) Finance
6 5 (3.31%) Retail
7 3 (1.99%) Advertising
8 1 (0.66%) Aviation
8 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Legal
8 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 81 (53.64%) Developer
2 22 (14.57%) Full Stack Developer
3 20 (13.25%) Software Engineer
4 16 (10.60%) Lead
5 15 (9.93%) Java Developer
6 11 (7.28%) C++ Software Engineer
7 9 (5.96%) Senior
8 8 (5.30%) Designer
8 8 (5.30%) Drupal Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Java Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Analyst
10 6 (3.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (3.97%) Lead Designer
10 6 (3.97%) Software Developer
11 5 (3.31%) .NET Developer
11 5 (3.31%) JavaScript Developer
11 5 (3.31%) Scrum Master
11 5 (3.31%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.31%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (53.64%) HTML
2 76 (50.33%) CSS
3 45 (29.80%) AngularJS
4 41 (27.15%) Node.js
5 30 (19.87%) React
6 22 (14.57%) .NET
7 18 (11.92%) REST
8 16 (10.60%) Spring
9 15 (9.93%) RESTful
9 15 (9.93%) Web Services
10 13 (8.61%) ASP.NET
10 13 (8.61%) Spring Boot
11 11 (7.28%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (6.62%) JSON
13 8 (5.30%) XML
14 7 (4.64%) .NET Framework
14 7 (4.64%) Entity Framework
14 7 (4.64%) Kafka
14 7 (4.64%) SOAP
14 7 (4.64%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (2.65%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.99%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.32%) Social Media
5 1 (0.66%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.66%) Digital TV
5 1 (0.66%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.66%) IoT
5 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.66%) Smartcard
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.54%) Linux
2 14 (9.27%) Windows
3 2 (1.32%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.32%) Unix
4 1 (0.66%) Android
4 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.66%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (42.38%) Agile
2 40 (26.49%) Scrum
3 36 (23.84%) Software Engineering
4 30 (19.87%) Full Stack Development
5 28 (18.54%) DevOps
6 24 (15.89%) TDD
7 22 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (13.91%) CI/CD
9 19 (12.58%) Test Automation
9 19 (12.58%) UML
10 17 (11.26%) Microservices
11 16 (10.60%) BDD
11 16 (10.60%) MVC
12 15 (9.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (9.93%) Kanban
12 15 (9.93%) SysML
12 15 (9.93%) Validation
13 14 (9.27%) Prototyping
14 13 (8.61%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 45 (29.80%) Java
2 26 (17.22%) C#
3 23 (15.23%) PHP
4 21 (13.91%) Python
5 20 (13.25%) C++
6 14 (9.27%) SQL
7 8 (5.30%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.31%) Bash
8 5 (3.31%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.99%) C
9 3 (1.99%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.99%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.32%) Go
10 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.32%) Scala
11 1 (0.66%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.66%) Rust
11 1 (0.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 26 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.30%) Degree
4 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.27%) QA
2 5 (3.31%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.31%) GDPR
3 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.66%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.66%) MISRA
3 1 (0.66%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.66%) PMO
3 1 (0.66%) SLA
3 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (10.60%) Firmware
2 9 (5.96%) Docker
3 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.32%) VirtualBox
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.64%) Ansible
3 2 (1.32%) Terraform
4 1 (0.66%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (12.58%) Google
2 14 (9.27%) Atlassian
3 13 (8.61%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.96%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.97%) Oracle
6 3 (1.99%) Adobe
6 3 (1.99%) Cisco
6 3 (1.99%) SAP
6 3 (1.99%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.32%) VMware
8 1 (0.66%) Compaq
8 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.66%) IBM
8 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.66%) Sparx
8 1 (0.66%) Splunk
8 1 (0.66%) TIBCO