JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Belfast

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 28 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 3 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 1.44% 0.63% 6.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.38% 2.22% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £201
25th Percentile - - £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £213
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.88%
75th Percentile - - £228
90th Percentile - - £234
County Antrim median daily rate - - £213
% change year-on-year - - -46.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.12
County Antrim median hourly rate - - £16.12

All Programming Languages
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 47 45 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 22.49% 28.13% 35.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 30
10th Percentile £309 £293 £200
25th Percentile £400 £434 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +18.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £611 £522 £500
90th Percentile £690 £560 £543
County Antrim median daily rate £456 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -3.95% +18.75% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £16.12
Median % change year-on-year - +163.65% -
County Antrim median hourly rate - £42.50 £16.12
% change year-on-year - +163.65% -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Belfast

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Vite
1 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) React
2 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (33.33%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
23 JavaScript jobs in Belfast