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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 2.61% - 2.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.09% - 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £450 - -

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 44 60 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 28.76% 29.27% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 22
10th Percentile £263 £340 £320
25th Percentile £370 £411 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +8.11% +15.63%
75th Percentile £689 £569 £613
90th Percentile £694 £606 £675
County Antrim median daily rate £650 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +30.00% +8.11% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 £51.80 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.84% - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £44.50 £51.80 £31.25
% change year-on-year -14.09% +65.76% -

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Jest
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) CRM
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) API Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft