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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 38 31
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 -12
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 728 1,196 1,857
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.54% 5.20% 6.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.93% 18.40% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 888 1,304
10th Percentile £300 £363 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +0.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £630
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 28 36
10th Percentile £36.58 £50.43 £14.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.38 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +15.65% +33.72%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.30 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £68.75 £56.25
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +15.38%

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 4,875 6,499 8,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.72% 28.23% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,288 4,546 6,174
10th Percentile £319 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +16.01%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £677 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 327 325
10th Percentile £37.55 £26.11 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +23.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year - +22.91% +16.90%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -6 226 £475 -9.52% 380
South East -14 149 £400 -20.00% 533
South West +1 119 £500 - 150
North West -12 105 £475 -11.63% 231
Yorkshire -7 97 £588 +16.34% 109
Midlands -2 90 £425 -5.56% 285
Scotland -29 78 £463 -2.63% 70
East of England -7 46 £425 -10.99% 172
East Midlands +2 45 £394 -5.12% 115
West Midlands -1 44 £463 -7.50% 167
North East +10 24 £466 -12.94% 43
Wales -1 13 £419 -6.94% 36
Northern Ireland +8 8 - - 23
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 39 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 33 (4.53%) Confluence
3 13 (1.79%) Drupal
4 12 (1.65%) CMS
5 11 (1.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (1.24%) Apache
7 8 (1.10%) SharePoint 2010
7 8 (1.10%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.82%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.69%) IIS
10 4 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.55%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.55%) WordPress
11 3 (0.41%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.41%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.41%) Moodle
11 3 (0.41%) nginx
11 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 108 (14.84%) Chatbot
2 14 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.82%) Sketch
5 5 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.69%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
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
8 1 (0.14%) InVision
8 1 (0.14%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.14%) Simulink
8 1 (0.14%) Trello
8 1 (0.14%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.41%) Magento
3 3 (0.41%) Maximo
3 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
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
1 145 (19.92%) AWS
2 113 (15.52%) Azure
3 55 (7.55%) Serverless
4 45 (6.18%) Power Platform
5 35 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (4.26%) Power Automate
8 30 (4.12%) GitHub
9 29 (3.98%) Amazon S3
10 27 (3.71%) GCP
11 21 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (2.75%) OpenShift
12 20 (2.75%) PowerApps
13 19 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (1.65%) SaaS
16 10 (1.37%) npm
17 9 (1.24%) Azure Functions
17 9 (1.24%) Figma
18 8 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.34%) Software-Defined Radio
1 17 (2.34%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.20%) SNMP
3 14 (1.92%) Ethernet
3 14 (1.92%) HTTP
4 7 (0.96%) Intranet
5 6 (0.82%) DNS
5 6 (0.82%) Firewall
5 6 (0.82%) Wireless
6 4 (0.55%) Internet
6 4 (0.55%) RTSP
7 3 (0.41%) BGP
7 3 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.41%) IOS XR
7 3 (0.41%) Skype
7 3 (0.41%) SSL
8 1 (0.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.14%) Modbus
8 1 (0.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.14%) MySQL
2 51 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (6.46%) SQL Server
4 39 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 27 (3.71%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.75%) Power BI
7 18 (2.47%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (1.92%) Metadata
10 13 (1.79%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.10%) Redis
13 7 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (0.96%) PowerPivot
14 6 (0.82%) GIS
14 6 (0.82%) MariaDB
14 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Power View
15 5 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 72 (9.89%) Git
2 51 (7.01%) JIRA
3 47 (6.46%) Jenkins
4 34 (4.67%) Eclipse
5 28 (3.85%) Selenium
6 24 (3.30%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.75%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.75%) Visual Studio
8 19 (2.61%) GitLab
9 17 (2.34%) Robot Framework
10 16 (2.20%) GoogleTest
11 15 (2.06%) webpack
12 13 (1.79%) Cucumber
13 11 (1.51%) Maven
14 9 (1.24%) JMeter
14 9 (1.24%) Postman
15 6 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
15 6 (0.82%) PyCharm
15 6 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.82%) WebDriver
General
1 142 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 76 (10.44%) Public Sector
3 46 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (5.49%) Finance
5 19 (2.61%) Manufacturing
5 19 (2.61%) Telecoms
6 16 (2.20%) Marketing
6 16 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (1.79%) Military
8 11 (1.51%) Retail
9 10 (1.37%) Billing
9 10 (1.37%) Publishing
10 9 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.24%) Legal
10 9 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (0.96%) Banking
11 7 (0.96%) Tech for Good
12 6 (0.82%) Electronics
12 6 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.82%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 461 (63.32%) Developer
2 148 (20.33%) Software Developer
3 67 (9.20%) Software Engineer
4 63 (8.65%) Full Stack Developer
5 39 (5.36%) Senior
6 34 (4.67%) Java Developer
7 29 (3.98%) Lead
8 27 (3.71%) .NET Developer
9 26 (3.57%) React Developer
10 22 (3.02%) C++ Software Engineer
11 21 (2.88%) JavaScript Developer
12 20 (2.75%) Analyst
12 20 (2.75%) Architect
12 20 (2.75%) Senior Developer
13 18 (2.47%) Designer
13 18 (2.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 18 (2.47%) Full Stack Engineer
13 18 (2.47%) Tester
14 15 (2.06%) Applications Developer
15 13 (1.79%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (50.41%) HTML
2 249 (34.20%) CSS
3 177 (24.31%) React
4 142 (19.51%) Node.js
5 94 (12.91%) AngularJS
6 92 (12.64%) .NET
7 73 (10.03%) REST
8 52 (7.14%) RESTful
9 49 (6.73%) Spring
10 45 (6.18%) Spring Boot
11 44 (6.04%) XML
12 41 (5.63%) Web Services
13 30 (4.12%) HTML5
14 29 (3.98%) Kafka
15 28 (3.85%) JSON
16 26 (3.57%) ASP.NET
16 26 (3.57%) GraphQL
17 25 (3.43%) Vue
18 24 (3.30%) .NET Framework
18 24 (3.30%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 20 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
1 20 (2.75%) Mobile App
1 20 (2.75%) Product Ownership
2 17 (2.34%) Algorithms
3 13 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (1.51%) Data Structures
6 10 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (0.96%) CMDB
10 6 (0.82%) Cloud Native
10 6 (0.82%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.82%) Operational Technology
10 6 (0.82%) Social Media
11 5 (0.69%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.69%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.55%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.55%) IoT
13 3 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 70 (9.62%) Linux
2 41 (5.63%) Windows
3 13 (1.79%) Android
3 13 (1.79%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (32.01%) Agile
2 221 (30.36%) Software Engineering
3 132 (18.13%) Code Quality
4 116 (15.93%) Artificial Intelligence
4 116 (15.93%) Full Stack Development
5 114 (15.66%) CI/CD
6 108 (14.84%) Conversational UI
7 98 (13.46%) DevOps
8 83 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (10.85%) Test Automation
10 78 (10.71%) Scrum
11 75 (10.30%) TDD
12 65 (8.93%) Microservices
13 46 (6.32%) MVC
14 44 (6.04%) Front End Development
15 42 (5.77%) User Experience
16 40 (5.49%) Unit Testing
17 37 (5.08%) Continuous Integration
18 36 (4.95%) Web Development
19 35 (4.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 234 (32.14%) Python
2 233 (32.01%) C#
3 206 (28.30%) SQL
4 182 (25.00%) Java
5 117 (16.07%) TypeScript
6 51 (7.01%) C++
7 39 (5.36%) PHP
8 26 (3.57%) Bash
9 24 (3.30%) C
10 22 (3.02%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.20%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.79%) Groovy
13 8 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 8 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.10%) Scala
13 8 (1.10%) VB.NET
14 7 (0.96%) Go
14 7 (0.96%) Ruby
14 7 (0.96%) VBA
15 6 (0.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 156 (21.43%) Degree
2 100 (13.74%) Security Cleared
3 77 (10.58%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.82%) CEH
8 6 (0.82%) CREST Certified
8 6 (0.82%) GIAC
8 6 (0.82%) GPEN
8 6 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.82%) OSCP
9 5 (0.69%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.69%) PMP
10 4 (0.55%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.27%) ISEB
12 2 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.63%) Accessibility
2 33 (4.53%) QA
3 12 (1.65%) GDPR
4 8 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (0.82%) Good Clinical Practice
5 6 (0.82%) GxP
5 6 (0.82%) NIST
5 6 (0.82%) WCAG
6 3 (0.41%) SLA
7 2 (0.27%) GRC
7 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.14%) MISRA
8 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (6.87%) Docker
2 17 (2.34%) Firmware
3 10 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.55%) zsh
6 3 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.27%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.14%) ACF2
8 1 (0.14%) IAG
8 1 (0.14%) RACF
8 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (6.18%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.02%) Terraform
3 19 (2.61%) Grafana
4 17 (2.34%) Ansible
5 10 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.96%) Kibana
7 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.14%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 108 (14.84%) PayPal
2 61 (8.38%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.95%) Google
4 27 (3.71%) Oracle
4 27 (3.71%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.61%) Atlassian
6 17 (2.34%) Adobe
7 16 (2.20%) SAP
8 14 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.51%) VMware
10 7 (0.96%) IBM
11 4 (0.55%) Confluent
11 4 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.41%) Cisco
12 3 (0.41%) Nintex
12 3 (0.41%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.41%) Pega
12 3 (0.41%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.27%) ESRI
13 2 (0.27%) Splunk