JavaScript Contracts in Berkshire

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 59 52
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 28 51 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.44% 2.60% 3.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.89% 14.09% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 41
10th Percentile - £313 £308
25th Percentile £500 £363 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +8.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £575
90th Percentile £663 £620 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.25 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 - £13.00
75th Percentile £32.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -21.52% +7.69% +26.83%

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 315 362 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.42% 18.46% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 248 298
10th Percentile £400 £331 £334
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 9
10th Percentile £34.94 £56.41 £19.92
25th Percentile £41.99 £56.65 £56.88
Median hourly rate £54.35 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% -12.00% -3.45%
75th Percentile £66.08 £65.18 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.75 £74.38 £79.63
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -12.20% +11.14% +23.32%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Berkshire

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Berkshire

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Berkshire

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Berkshire

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 July 2025. 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 +17 14 £559 +24.11% 46
Windsor -3 7 £550 +10.00% 3
Maidenhead +4 4 - - 9
Wokingham -11 1 - -
JavaScript
South East

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.14%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (3.57%) CMS
3 1 (3.57%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.57%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (21.43%) Serverless
4 4 (14.29%) AWS
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub
5 3 (10.71%) SaaS
5 3 (10.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.14%) Azure API Management
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (7.14%) IaaS
6 2 (7.14%) npm
6 2 (7.14%) PaaS
6 2 (7.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (7.14%) MySQL
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) JMeter
3 2 (7.14%) JUnit
3 2 (7.14%) Mockito
3 2 (7.14%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.57%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.57%) Gradle
4 1 (3.57%) Maven
4 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Games
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Retail
3 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Cloud Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) .NET Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.71%) React Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Salesforce Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 2 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) HTML
2 10 (35.71%) CSS
3 6 (21.43%) jQuery
3 6 (21.43%) JSON
4 5 (17.86%) .NET
4 5 (17.86%) React
4 5 (17.86%) XML
5 4 (14.29%) REST
5 4 (14.29%) RESTful
6 3 (10.71%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (10.71%) Node.js
6 3 (10.71%) OAuth
6 3 (10.71%) PySpark
7 2 (7.14%) Apache Camel
7 2 (7.14%) Blazor
7 2 (7.14%) Material-UI
7 2 (7.14%) Next.js
7 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
7 2 (7.14%) Playwright
7 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) CMDB
3 2 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) DevOps
2 11 (39.29%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (17.86%) LLM
4 5 (17.86%) Machine Learning
4 5 (17.86%) Microservices
5 4 (14.29%) BDD
5 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Generative AI
5 4 (14.29%) Security Operations
5 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 3 (10.71%) API Development
6 3 (10.71%) Case Management
6 3 (10.71%) Design Patterns
6 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (10.71%) SDLC
6 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Python
2 10 (35.71%) C#
3 8 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 7 (25.00%) Java
4 7 (25.00%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) Apex Code
5 3 (10.71%) SOQL
6 2 (7.14%) Bash
6 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) CEH
1 2 (7.14%) ECSA
1 2 (7.14%) GCFA
1 2 (7.14%) GCIA
1 2 (7.14%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Kibana
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Foundry
2 4 (14.29%) Palantir
2 4 (14.29%) Splunk
3 3 (10.71%) Salesforce
4 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.14%) IBM
4 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle