JavaScript Contracts with Work from Home Options

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 24 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 -7
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,003 1,836 4,089
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.64% 7.31% 9.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.87% 19.61% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 1,355 3,093
10th Percentile £335 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £725 £613 £618
90th Percentile £850 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 40 34
10th Percentile £35.26 £44.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £37.63 £51.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £40.88 £67.75 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.67% +19.91% +10.24%
75th Percentile £56.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £67.71
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £66.50 £53.78
% change year-on-year -6.02% +23.66% +13.22%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,049 9,363 16,804
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.45% 37.27% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 6,853 12,474
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 203 186
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

JavaScript
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JavaScript trend for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript.

JavaScript daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

JavaScript daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript.

JavaScript hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

JavaScript hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 110 (10.97%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (8.87%) Apache
3 33 (3.29%) CMS
4 24 (2.39%) Confluence
5 18 (1.79%) nginx
5 18 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.20%) WordPress
7 9 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.70%) Drupal
8 7 (0.70%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.50%) Kentico
9 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.40%) SAS
10 4 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 122 (12.16%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.20%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.20%) Lectora
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.100%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.100%) Blender
7 1 (0.100%) InDesign
7 1 (0.100%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.60%) Shopify
4 5 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.20%) Endur
7 2 (0.20%) Magento
8 1 (0.100%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.100%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 323 (32.20%) AWS
2 159 (15.85%) Azure
3 123 (12.26%) GCP
4 96 (9.57%) dbt
5 78 (7.78%) Snowflake
6 65 (6.48%) GitHub
7 53 (5.28%) Serverless
8 51 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (3.69%) Power Platform
11 36 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (2.69%) Amazon S3
13 21 (2.09%) Azure Service Bus
14 19 (1.89%) Power Automate
14 19 (1.89%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.69%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
16 15 (1.50%) Azure Functions
17 14 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (1.40%) Entra ID
17 14 (1.40%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.99%) Intranet
2 19 (1.89%) HTTP
3 9 (0.90%) Firewall
4 8 (0.80%) DNS
4 8 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.70%) Internet
6 3 (0.30%) BGP
6 3 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.30%) IOS XR
6 3 (0.30%) SSL
6 3 (0.30%) Wireless
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.20%) LAN
7 2 (0.20%) RTSP
7 2 (0.20%) SNMP
7 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (9.77%) Amazon Athena
2 96 (9.57%) Apache Arrow
2 96 (9.57%) Dremio
3 85 (8.47%) Apache Ignite
4 78 (7.78%) Data Lake
5 73 (7.28%) SQL Server
6 55 (5.48%) MySQL
7 47 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (3.19%) NoSQL
9 30 (2.99%) Relational Database
10 24 (2.39%) MongoDB
10 24 (2.39%) Power BI
11 17 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
12 16 (1.60%) Big Data
13 13 (1.30%) Redis
14 11 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.10%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 104 (10.37%) Git
2 76 (7.58%) JIRA
3 64 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.59%) GitLab
5 25 (2.49%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.19%) Selenium
7 19 (1.89%) Postman
7 19 (1.89%) webpack
8 17 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
9 14 (1.40%) JMeter
10 11 (1.10%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.00%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.00%) git-flow
11 10 (1.00%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.90%) Maven
13 7 (0.70%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.70%) JUnit
13 7 (0.70%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.60%) Appium
14 6 (0.60%) SoapUI
General
1 238 (23.73%) Finance
2 146 (14.56%) Social Skills
3 126 (12.56%) Banking
4 125 (12.46%) Front Office
5 79 (7.88%) Investment Banking
6 74 (7.38%) Public Sector
7 44 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (2.99%) Marketing
9 17 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 16 (1.60%) Retail
10 16 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.00%) Tech for Good
12 9 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.70%) Back Office
13 7 (0.70%) Publishing
14 6 (0.60%) Advertising
14 6 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.40%) Automotive
16 4 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 640 (63.81%) Developer
2 178 (17.75%) Software Developer
3 125 (12.46%) Senior
4 121 (12.06%) Software Engineer
5 99 (9.87%) Full Stack Developer
6 71 (7.08%) Senior Developer
7 69 (6.88%) Lead
8 65 (6.48%) React Developer
9 63 (6.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 58 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
11 57 (5.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 54 (5.38%) Architect
13 48 (4.79%) JavaScript Developer
14 46 (4.59%) Python Engineer
15 44 (4.39%) Python Software Engineer
16 38 (3.79%) Lead Developer
16 38 (3.79%) Python Developer
17 37 (3.69%) Java Developer
18 36 (3.59%) .NET Developer
19 35 (3.49%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 430 (42.87%) HTML
2 298 (29.71%) CSS
3 259 (25.82%) React
4 169 (16.85%) Node.js
5 122 (12.16%) .NET
6 110 (10.97%) AngularJS
7 109 (10.87%) gRPC
7 109 (10.87%) Protocol Buffers
8 96 (9.57%) REST
9 85 (8.47%) Pandas
10 79 (7.88%) NumPy
10 79 (7.88%) SciPy
11 67 (6.68%) Web Services
12 59 (5.88%) XML
13 58 (5.78%) Vue
14 55 (5.48%) RESTful
15 52 (5.18%) jQuery
16 47 (4.69%) ASP.NET
16 47 (4.69%) JSON
17 46 (4.59%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 113 (11.27%) Fixed Income
2 92 (9.17%) Hedge funds
3 86 (8.57%) Derivative
4 84 (8.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 79 (7.88%) Equities
6 34 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 29 (2.89%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.69%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.50%) Clustering
10 15 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.30%) Cloud Native
11 13 (1.30%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.20%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.70%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.60%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.78%) Linux
2 27 (2.69%) Unix
3 20 (1.99%) Android
4 19 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.69%) Windows
6 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.100%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (34.60%) Software Engineering
2 312 (31.11%) Agile
3 184 (18.34%) Full Stack Development
4 156 (15.55%) Code Quality
5 146 (14.56%) DevOps
6 134 (13.36%) Artificial Intelligence
7 130 (12.96%) CI/CD
8 126 (12.56%) Asset Management
9 122 (12.16%) Conversational UI
10 115 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (10.97%) User Experience
12 105 (10.47%) Test Automation
13 101 (10.07%) Front End Development
14 97 (9.67%) Investment Management
15 85 (8.47%) Web Development
16 81 (8.08%) Microservices
17 79 (7.88%) TDD
18 61 (6.08%) Analytics
19 59 (5.88%) Scrum
20 58 (5.78%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 396 (39.48%) Python
2 292 (29.11%) TypeScript
3 277 (27.62%) SQL
4 274 (27.32%) Java
5 265 (26.42%) C#
6 66 (6.58%) PHP
7 38 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 35 (3.49%) Go
9 31 (3.09%) Bash
10 23 (2.29%) Ruby
11 16 (1.60%) C++
12 14 (1.40%) Bicep
13 13 (1.30%) Apex Code
13 13 (1.30%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.00%) Scala
15 9 (0.90%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.90%) SOQL
16 7 (0.70%) C
16 7 (0.70%) VB.NET
17 6 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 185 (18.44%) Degree
2 98 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 68 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 37 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.60%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.30%) CEH
10 3 (0.30%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.30%) GIAC
10 3 (0.30%) GPEN
10 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.30%) OSCP
11 2 (0.20%) CAPM
11 2 (0.20%) ISEB
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.08%) Accessibility
2 60 (5.98%) QA
3 35 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.89%) WCAG
5 7 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.40%) CDISC
7 4 (0.40%) NIST
8 3 (0.30%) GDPR
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.20%) PMO
9 2 (0.20%) SLA
10 1 (0.100%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.100%) GxP
10 1 (0.100%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.100%) HL7
10 1 (0.100%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 75 (7.48%) Docker
2 35 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.69%) IAG
4 16 (1.60%) ACF2
4 16 (1.60%) RACF
5 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.30%) zsh
7 2 (0.20%) Firmware
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.100%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.100%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.89%) Terraform
3 19 (1.89%) Ansible
4 18 (1.79%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.00%) Grafana
6 8 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.50%) Kibana
8 4 (0.40%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.20%) logstash
9 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.20%) Puppet
9 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.100%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.100%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.100%) vRealize
10 1 (0.100%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 121 (12.06%) PayPal
2 68 (6.78%) Microsoft
3 45 (4.49%) Oracle
4 38 (3.79%) Google
5 31 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.29%) Adobe
8 22 (2.19%) SAP
9 16 (1.60%) Sybase
10 9 (0.90%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.70%) Optimizely
11 7 (0.70%) Splunk
12 6 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.60%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.50%) Monetate
13 5 (0.50%) Tealium
14 4 (0.40%) Confluent
14 4 (0.40%) Ensighten
14 4 (0.40%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.40%) WooCommerce