JavaScript Contracts in the UK excluding London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 54 37 31
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 -12
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 734 1,236 1,853
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.58% 5.27% 6.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.33% 18.13% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 916 1,291
10th Percentile £300 £363 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £631
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 30 36
10th Percentile £33.88 £49.90 £14.25
25th Percentile £46.18 £52.13 £40.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £53.78
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +21.33% +28.04%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £64.01
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.10 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% +15.79%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,787 6,816 8,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 29.05% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,837 6,106
10th Percentile £316 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 340 327
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England -12 219 £475 -7.32% 315
South East -17 149 £400 -20.00% 197
South West +1 123 £500 -3.15% 179
North West -14 103 £475 -11.63% 181
Yorkshire -4 92 £575 +15.00% 107
Midlands -2 88 £419 -6.89% 241
Scotland -33 87 £475 - 72
East of England -8 46 £425 -15.00% 113
East Midlands +3 45 £388 -3.13% 100
West Midlands -2 42 £450 -8.86% 140
North East +8 24 £431 -21.64% 31
Wales +2 14 £413 -8.33% 40
Northern Ireland +10 9 - - 24
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 37 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.77%) Confluence
3 17 (2.32%) CMS
4 14 (1.91%) Drupal
5 10 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (1.09%) SharePoint 2010
6 8 (1.09%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.82%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.68%) Apache
8 5 (0.68%) IIS
9 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.54%) WordPress
10 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.41%) Moodle
10 3 (0.41%) nginx
10 3 (0.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 108 (14.71%) Chatbot
2 15 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.82%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.54%) Sketch
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.27%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.27%) InfoPath
7 2 (0.27%) Lectora
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.41%) Magento
3 3 (0.41%) Maximo
4 2 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.14%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.14%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 137 (18.66%) AWS
2 104 (14.17%) Azure
3 52 (7.08%) Serverless
4 38 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (5.04%) Power Platform
6 28 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (3.68%) Power Automate
8 26 (3.54%) GitHub
9 25 (3.41%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.27%) GCP
11 16 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (2.04%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (1.63%) SaaS
15 11 (1.50%) npm
15 11 (1.50%) OpenShift
16 9 (1.23%) Azure Functions
16 9 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (1.09%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.45%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.18%) Software-Defined Radio
3 15 (2.04%) SNMP
4 14 (1.91%) Ethernet
5 10 (1.36%) HTTP
6 8 (1.09%) Intranet
7 7 (0.95%) Firewall
8 6 (0.82%) DNS
8 6 (0.82%) Wireless
9 4 (0.54%) RTSP
9 4 (0.54%) SSL
10 3 (0.41%) BGP
10 3 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.41%) Internet
10 3 (0.41%) IOS XR
10 3 (0.41%) Skype
11 2 (0.27%) 5G
11 2 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (0.27%) Modbus
11 2 (0.27%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.81%) MySQL
2 48 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (6.13%) SQL Server
4 39 (5.31%) MongoDB
5 22 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.32%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (1.91%) Metadata
7 14 (1.91%) Oracle Database
8 13 (1.77%) Power BI
9 9 (1.23%) Redis
9 9 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (0.95%) GIS
10 7 (0.95%) MariaDB
10 7 (0.95%) PowerPivot
11 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Power View
12 4 (0.54%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 82 (11.17%) Git
2 56 (7.63%) JIRA
3 54 (7.36%) Jenkins
4 34 (4.63%) Eclipse
5 25 (3.41%) Selenium
6 23 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.86%) Visual Studio
8 19 (2.59%) Cypress.io
9 18 (2.45%) GitLab
10 16 (2.18%) GoogleTest
10 16 (2.18%) Robot Framework
11 15 (2.04%) webpack
12 13 (1.77%) Postman
13 9 (1.23%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.09%) Maven
15 6 (0.82%) Mercurial
15 6 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
15 6 (0.82%) PyCharm
15 6 (0.82%) TeamCity
15 6 (0.82%) WebDriver
General
1 144 (19.62%) Social Skills
2 68 (9.26%) Public Sector
3 43 (5.86%) Finance
4 42 (5.72%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (2.59%) Manufacturing
5 19 (2.59%) Telecoms
6 17 (2.32%) Marketing
7 15 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.91%) Military
9 11 (1.50%) Retail
10 10 (1.36%) Billing
10 10 (1.36%) Publishing
11 9 (1.23%) Banking
12 8 (1.09%) Legal
12 8 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.95%) Games
13 7 (0.95%) Multimedia
13 7 (0.95%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 469 (63.90%) Developer
2 147 (20.03%) Software Developer
3 63 (8.58%) Software Engineer
4 61 (8.31%) Full Stack Developer
5 41 (5.59%) Senior
6 34 (4.63%) Java Developer
7 28 (3.81%) Lead
8 27 (3.68%) .NET Developer
9 26 (3.54%) JavaScript Developer
9 26 (3.54%) React Developer
10 21 (2.86%) C++ Software Engineer
10 21 (2.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 20 (2.72%) Senior Developer
12 19 (2.59%) Architect
12 19 (2.59%) Tester
13 18 (2.45%) Full Stack Engineer
14 17 (2.32%) Analyst
14 17 (2.32%) Designer
15 15 (2.04%) Applications Developer
16 12 (1.63%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (49.32%) HTML
2 245 (33.38%) CSS
3 183 (24.93%) React
4 152 (20.71%) Node.js
5 94 (12.81%) AngularJS
6 82 (11.17%) .NET
7 68 (9.26%) REST
8 50 (6.81%) Spring
9 48 (6.54%) RESTful
10 45 (6.13%) Web Services
11 42 (5.72%) Spring Boot
11 42 (5.72%) XML
12 35 (4.77%) JSON
13 32 (4.36%) HTML5
14 29 (3.95%) ASP.NET
15 27 (3.68%) Vue
16 25 (3.41%) GraphQL
17 23 (3.13%) AWS CDK
18 22 (3.00%) Kafka
19 21 (2.86%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (3.00%) Product Ownership
2 20 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (2.45%) Mobile App
4 17 (2.32%) Algorithms
5 14 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.95%) CMDB
8 7 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (0.95%) Social Media
9 6 (0.82%) Low-Code
9 6 (0.82%) Operational Technology
10 5 (0.68%) IoT
10 5 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.68%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.54%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.54%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 66 (8.99%) Linux
2 42 (5.72%) Windows
3 13 (1.77%) Android
4 12 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.82%) Unix
6 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (31.06%) Agile
2 217 (29.56%) Software Engineering
3 135 (18.39%) Code Quality
4 122 (16.62%) Full Stack Development
5 118 (16.08%) Artificial Intelligence
6 108 (14.71%) Conversational UI
7 107 (14.58%) CI/CD
8 95 (12.94%) DevOps
9 86 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
10 83 (11.31%) Test Automation
11 75 (10.22%) Scrum
12 71 (9.67%) TDD
13 58 (7.90%) Microservices
14 54 (7.36%) Front End Development
15 46 (6.27%) MVC
15 46 (6.27%) Unit Testing
16 44 (5.99%) User Experience
17 41 (5.59%) Web Development
18 39 (5.31%) Continuous Integration
19 36 (4.90%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 235 (32.02%) C#
1 235 (32.02%) Python
2 203 (27.66%) SQL
3 176 (23.98%) Java
4 118 (16.08%) TypeScript
5 48 (6.54%) C++
6 47 (6.40%) PHP
7 27 (3.68%) Bash
8 23 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.00%) C
10 16 (2.18%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.91%) Groovy
12 11 (1.50%) Apex Code
13 9 (1.23%) Go
13 9 (1.23%) Ruby
14 8 (1.09%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.09%) Scala
14 8 (1.09%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.95%) VBA
16 6 (0.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 157 (21.39%) Degree
2 95 (12.94%) Security Cleared
3 72 (9.81%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.82%) CEH
7 6 (0.82%) CREST Certified
7 6 (0.82%) GIAC
7 6 (0.82%) GPEN
7 6 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.82%) OSCP
8 5 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.68%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.27%) ISEB
11 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.59%) Accessibility
2 39 (5.31%) QA
3 12 (1.63%) GDPR
4 10 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 7 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.82%) Good Clinical Practice
6 6 (0.82%) GxP
6 6 (0.82%) NIST
6 6 (0.82%) WCAG
7 3 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) MISRA
9 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 47 (6.40%) Docker
2 17 (2.32%) Firmware
3 10 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) zsh
5 3 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.27%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.14%) ACF2
7 1 (0.14%) IAG
7 1 (0.14%) RACF
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.13%) Terraform
3 20 (2.72%) Ansible
4 18 (2.45%) Grafana
5 12 (1.63%) Kibana
6 10 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) logstash
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.14%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 108 (14.71%) PayPal
2 57 (7.77%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.90%) Google
4 29 (3.95%) Oracle
5 25 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.45%) Atlassian
7 17 (2.32%) Adobe
8 15 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.04%) SAP
9 12 (1.63%) VMware
10 7 (0.95%) IBM
11 6 (0.82%) Pega
12 4 (0.54%) Confluent
12 4 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.41%) Cisco
13 3 (0.41%) ESRI
13 3 (0.41%) Nintex
13 3 (0.41%) NVIDIA
13 3 (0.41%) TOWER Software
14 2 (0.27%) Red Hat