Senior JavaScript Developer Contracts

Senior JavaScript Developer
UK

The median Senior JavaScript Developer daily rate in the UK is £545 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 677 805
Rank change year-on-year +103 +128 -159
Contract jobs requiring a Senior JavaScript Developer 17 30 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.050% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.053% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 28 48
10th Percentile £405 £523 £425
25th Percentile £425 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £750 £588
Median % change year-on-year -27.33% +27.66% +18.69%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £638
90th Percentile £735 - £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £625 £463
% change year-on-year -28.00% +35.14% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £57.75
90th Percentile - - £71.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior JavaScript Developer in the UK

Senior JavaScript Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior JavaScript Developer in the UK

Senior JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior JavaScript Developer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior JavaScript Developer in the UK

Senior JavaScript Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior JavaScript Developer in the UK

Senior JavaScript Developer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior JavaScript Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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
England +106 14 £545 -27.33% 13
London +88 8 £700 -6.67% 7
UK excluding London +56 6 £450 -28.00% 5
Work from Home +111 4 - - 7
North of England - 4 £450 - 3
North West - 3 £450 - 1
South East - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 2

Senior JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Senior JavaScript Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) JavaScript
2 13 (76.47%) React
3 6 (35.29%) C#
3 6 (35.29%) Node.js
4 5 (29.41%) HTML
4 5 (29.41%) CSS
4 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
5 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
5 4 (23.53%) Express.js
5 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
6 3 (17.65%) Azure
6 3 (17.65%) WPF
6 3 (17.65%) WCAG
6 3 (17.65%) Electronic Trading
6 3 (17.65%) Finance
6 3 (17.65%) Migration
6 3 (17.65%) Banking
6 3 (17.65%) GitHub
6 3 (17.65%) User Experience
6 3 (17.65%) Vue
6 3 (17.65%) MERN Stack
6 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (17.65%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
7 2 (11.76%) Next.js
7 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
7 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (11.76%) Redux

Senior JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) GitHub
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.88%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Redis
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) React
2 6 (35.29%) Node.js
3 5 (29.41%) CSS
3 5 (29.41%) HTML
4 4 (23.53%) Express.js
5 3 (17.65%) MERN Stack
5 3 (17.65%) Vue
5 3 (17.65%) WPF
6 2 (11.76%) Entity Framework
6 2 (11.76%) HTML5
6 2 (11.76%) Next.js
6 2 (11.76%) Redux
6 2 (11.76%) Semantic HTML
7 1 (5.88%) .NET
7 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
7 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.88%) jQuery
7 1 (5.88%) RESTful
7 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) CentOS
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
2 3 (17.65%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (17.65%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (17.65%) Migration
2 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (17.65%) User Experience
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (5.88%) Agile
4 1 (5.88%) API Development
4 1 (5.88%) API Management
4 1 (5.88%) Clean Code
4 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Generative AI
4 1 (5.88%) Software Architecture
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) TDD
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.88%) UX Design
4 1 (5.88%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) C#
3 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
1 3 (17.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Atlassian