JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 54 76
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 -31
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 53 48 49
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.55% 3.33% 2.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.87% 12.47% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 36 21
10th Percentile £204 £250 £313
25th Percentile £290 £386 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +16.13% -30.15%
75th Percentile £541 £589 £450
90th Percentile £700 £626 £625
South East median daily rate £425 £409 £400
% change year-on-year +3.91% +2.25% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -52.00% +2.04% -5.77%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 334 385 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.36% 26.68% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 238 247
10th Percentile £336 £390 £350
25th Percentile £409 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% +1.80%
75th Percentile £560 £651 £638
90th Percentile £620 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £39.25 £44.62 £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £49.07
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +1.22% -19.91%
75th Percentile £82.00 £65.62 £63.95
90th Percentile £84.40 £69.32 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.31% -4.17%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Berkshire

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Berkshire

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Reading -1 21 £488 +14.37% 10
Windsor -3 9 £208 -36.15% 2
Wokingham -27 5 £621 +9.96% 2
Bracknell -3 4 £208 -63.91% 5
Slough - 2 £563 - 7
JavaScript
South East

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (3.77%) Appian
2 1 (1.89%) CMS
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Drupal
2 1 (1.89%) Smallworld
2 1 (1.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Maximo
2 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Azure
2 11 (20.75%) AWS
3 9 (16.98%) GCP
3 9 (16.98%) Serverless
4 7 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (13.21%) Azure Functions
5 6 (11.32%) GitHub
6 5 (9.43%) Azure API Management
6 5 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.55%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.66%) Boomi
8 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.66%) SaaS
9 2 (3.77%) AtomSphere
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Storage
9 2 (3.77%) PaaS
9 2 (3.77%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) MySQL
2 7 (13.21%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.89%) GIS
5 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
1 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (9.43%) Selenium
2 4 (7.55%) Cucumber
3 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.66%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (5.66%) Firebug
3 3 (5.66%) GitLab
4 2 (3.77%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.77%) Postman
4 2 (3.77%) Robot Framework
4 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.89%) Appium
5 1 (1.89%) Gradle
5 1 (1.89%) JIRA
5 1 (1.89%) Maven
5 1 (1.89%) Mocha
General
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Telecoms
4 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.77%) Billing
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Architect
2 11 (20.75%) Senior
3 10 (18.87%) Developer
3 10 (18.87%) Technical Support
4 8 (15.09%) ServiceNow Architect
5 5 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Lead
5 5 (9.43%) Technical Leader
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Integration Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (45.28%) REST
2 17 (32.08%) SOAP
3 7 (13.21%) .NET
3 7 (13.21%) .NET Core
3 7 (13.21%) XML
4 6 (11.32%) GraphQL
4 6 (11.32%) HTML
4 6 (11.32%) JSON
5 5 (9.43%) CSS
6 4 (7.55%) AngularJS
6 4 (7.55%) OAuth
6 4 (7.55%) OAuth2
6 4 (7.55%) OpenID
6 4 (7.55%) RESTful
7 3 (5.66%) .NET Framework
7 3 (5.66%) Node.js
7 3 (5.66%) React
7 3 (5.66%) SAML
7 3 (5.66%) Swagger
7 3 (5.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) CMDB
2 3 (5.66%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.21%) Linux
1 7 (13.21%) Unix
1 7 (13.21%) Windows
2 2 (3.77%) Android
2 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (39.62%) CI/CD
3 18 (33.96%) Agile
4 15 (28.30%) DevOps
5 12 (22.64%) Data Modelling
5 12 (22.64%) ITSM
6 11 (20.75%) AI
6 11 (20.75%) OO
7 10 (18.87%) IT Asset Management
7 10 (18.87%) Security Operations
8 9 (16.98%) ITIL
8 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (16.98%) Translating Business Requirements
9 8 (15.09%) Computer Science
9 8 (15.09%) OOP
9 8 (15.09%) Roadmaps
9 8 (15.09%) Scrum
10 7 (13.21%) Software Engineering
10 7 (13.21%) Strategic Roadmap
10 7 (13.21%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) Java
2 16 (30.19%) Python
3 13 (24.53%) SQL
4 11 (20.75%) C#
5 7 (13.21%) Perl
6 5 (9.43%) Bash
6 5 (9.43%) PHP
6 5 (9.43%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.66%) Jython
8 2 (3.77%) Groovy
8 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.89%) Magik
9 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (13.21%) Degree
2 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) GRC
2 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.66%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.43%) Ansible
2 5 (9.43%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) ServiceNow
2 7 (13.21%) Oracle
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.66%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.66%) Virgin Media
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco
4 2 (3.77%) Google
4 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.77%) Veracode
5 1 (1.89%) IBM
5 1 (1.89%) Snow
5 1 (1.89%) Splunk