JavaScript Contracts in the West Midlands

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 73 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 -42 +4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 40 73 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.07% 3.05% 5.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.41% 11.59% 22.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 48 141
10th Percentile £288 £363 £363
25th Percentile £361 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £485
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -0.77% +29.33%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £540
90th Percentile £656 £629 £638
England median daily rate £550 £538 £545
% change year-on-year +2.33% -1.38% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 425 630 925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.04% 26.34% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 439 678
10th Percentile £260 £360 £325
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £459
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +14.38% +14.75%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £541
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
England median daily rate £540 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 2
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.51
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +68.59% -53.63%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £18.38
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £18.60
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Birmingham +5 32 £550 +15.79% 63
Worcestershire +9 3 £450 +20.00% 11
Coventry +4 2 £325 -31.58% 10
Herefordshire -8 1 £400 -20.00% 2
Warwickshire -14 1 £150 -73.91% 11
Walsall - 1 £350 -
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.50%) Drupal
2 1 (2.50%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) AWS
2 4 (10.00%) Boomi
3 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.50%) GCP
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
3 1 (2.50%) SaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Serverless
3 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.00%) MySQL
2 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) webpack
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) Travis CI
2 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Finance
3 2 (5.00%) Billing
3 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (77.50%) Developer
2 12 (30.00%) Software Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (10.00%) React Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) PHP Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Applications Support
7 1 (2.50%) Backend Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (2.50%) Full Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.50%) SAP Architect
7 1 (2.50%) SAP Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (65.00%) HTML
2 11 (27.50%) CSS
3 10 (25.00%) React
4 7 (17.50%) Node.js
4 7 (17.50%) XML
5 6 (15.00%) JSON
6 5 (12.50%) Web Services
7 4 (10.00%) GraphQL
8 3 (7.50%) .NET
8 3 (7.50%) RESTful
9 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET
9 2 (5.00%) Next.js
9 2 (5.00%) OAuth
9 2 (5.00%) SAML
9 2 (5.00%) Visualforce
9 2 (5.00%) Vue
10 1 (2.50%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (2.50%) OSGi
10 1 (2.50%) React Native
10 1 (2.50%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Android
1 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Code Quality
2 13 (32.50%) Software Engineering
3 12 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (30.00%) Conversational UI
4 6 (15.00%) Agile
4 6 (15.00%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (10.00%) Business Transformation
5 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.00%) Product Management
5 4 (10.00%) Scrum
6 2 (5.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (5.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (5.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (5.00%) Defect Tracking
6 2 (5.00%) Microservices
6 2 (5.00%) MVC
6 2 (5.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (5.00%) Revenue Recognition
6 2 (5.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (5.00%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) Python
1 16 (40.00%) SQL
2 15 (37.50%) C#
3 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.50%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) Apex Code
5 2 (5.00%) PHP
5 2 (5.00%) SOQL
6 1 (2.50%) Groovy
6 1 (2.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) CAPM
3 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) PayPal
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Confluent
4 1 (2.50%) Dell
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow