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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 60 69
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 -16
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 25 51 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.14% 3.01% 2.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.31% 14.17% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 27
10th Percentile £258 £363 £308
25th Percentile £488 £393 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% +12.50% -12.33%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £575
90th Percentile £728 £653 £623
South East median daily rate £475 £385 £416
% change year-on-year +23.38% -7.45% -16.80%

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 301 360 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 25.81% 21.28% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 242 282
10th Percentile £360 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £639
90th Percentile £620 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 8
10th Percentile - £50.25 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £19.50 £58.49 £52.15
Median % change year-on-year -66.66% +12.17% -39.54%
75th Percentile £20.25 £74.87 £58.17
90th Percentile - £79.50 £68.91
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £69.69 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.08% +26.70% -8.33%

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
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 21 September 2025.

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 21 September 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 +9 15 £559 +24.11% 21
Windsor -6 5 £500 - 2
Wokingham -12 2 £508 -10.18% 1
Bracknell - 1 £208 - 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 1 (4.00%) Appian
1 1 (4.00%) CMS
1 1 (4.00%) Drupal
1 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Serverless
4 4 (16.00%) GitHub
5 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.00%) Azure API Management
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Storage
6 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.00%) dbt
7 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (16.00%) MySQL
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Redis
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (12.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (8.00%) GitLab
4 2 (8.00%) Gradle
4 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.00%) JMeter
4 2 (8.00%) JUnit
4 2 (8.00%) Maven
4 2 (8.00%) Mockito
4 2 (8.00%) Postman
4 2 (8.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.00%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
5 1 (4.00%) Firebug
5 1 (4.00%) Mocha
5 1 (4.00%) Robot Framework
5 1 (4.00%) Selenium
5 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Cloud Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Salesforce Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Technical Support
3 3 (12.00%) Web Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Java Web Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.00%) HTML CSS Developer
5 1 (4.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (52.00%) HTML
2 8 (32.00%) CSS
3 7 (28.00%) jQuery
3 7 (28.00%) JSON
3 7 (28.00%) XML
4 6 (24.00%) RESTful
5 4 (16.00%) .NET
5 4 (16.00%) React
5 4 (16.00%) REST
5 4 (16.00%) SOAP
5 4 (16.00%) Spring
5 4 (16.00%) Swagger
6 3 (12.00%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (12.00%) Node.js
6 3 (12.00%) OpenAPI
6 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (12.00%) Web Services
7 2 (8.00%) Hibernate
7 2 (8.00%) WSDL
7 2 (8.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) CMDB
1 2 (8.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Android
2 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (28.00%) Microservices
5 6 (24.00%) OO
6 4 (16.00%) API Testing
6 4 (16.00%) BDD
6 4 (16.00%) Scrum
6 4 (16.00%) Security Operations
6 4 (16.00%) TDD
6 4 (16.00%) Workflow
7 3 (12.00%) Case Management
7 3 (12.00%) Code Quality
7 3 (12.00%) OOP
7 3 (12.00%) SDLC
7 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (12.00%) Web Development
8 2 (8.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Java
2 9 (36.00%) Python
3 7 (28.00%) C#
4 6 (24.00%) SQL
5 3 (12.00%) Apex Code
5 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (12.00%) SOQL
6 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.00%) Perl
7 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) CEH
1 2 (8.00%) ECSA
1 2 (8.00%) GCFA
1 2 (8.00%) GCIA
1 2 (8.00%) GCIH
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Kibana
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Splunk
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.00%) IBM
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) Veracode