JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Basildon

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 6.67% - 6.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.38% - 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £519
25th Percentile - - £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £597
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.22%
75th Percentile - - £599
90th Percentile - - £599
Essex median daily rate £300 - £500

All Programming Languages
Basildon

JavaScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13 14 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 43.33% 73.68% 48.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 10
10th Percentile £300 £315 £473
25th Percentile £400 £317 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £403 £599
Median % change year-on-year +24.01% -32.63% +25.34%
75th Percentile £508 £488 £600
90th Percentile £515 £488 £675
Essex median daily rate £375 £400 £475
% change year-on-year -6.25% -15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 10
10th Percentile £52.38 £32.00 -
25th Percentile £54.06 £35.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £40.00 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -32.77% -9.16%
75th Percentile £66.25 £45.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £68.50 £48.00 £80.00
Essex median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £59.50
% change year-on-year +15.00% -15.97% +138.00%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Basildon

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
1 2 (100.00%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Sourcetree
1 2 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) White-Box Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian