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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 63 80
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 -28
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 54 31 47
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.91% 2.68% 2.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.30% 9.25% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 21 25
10th Percentile £204 £250 £313
25th Percentile £340 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% +4.11%
75th Percentile £517 £594 £623
90th Percentile £643 £600 £625
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £411
% change year-on-year -2.82% +25.11% -13.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.50 -
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -48.05% -7.60% -7.41%

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 353 335 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.04% 28.98% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 209 251
10th Percentile £310 £400 £330
25th Percentile £385 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £587 £638 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 15
10th Percentile £73.06 £39.74 £56.20
25th Percentile £80.75 £53.97 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £63.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.85% +3.48% -12.00%
75th Percentile £83.38 £68.51 £64.55
90th Percentile £83.98 £73.72 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £60.07
% change year-on-year -3.08% -5.53% +9.27%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -15 23 £425 -23.04% 4
Windsor +7 11 £208 -56.32%
Slough - 3 £650 - 5
Wokingham -25 2 - - 2
Bracknell 0 1 - - 3
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 1 (1.85%) Apache
1 1 (1.85%) ArcGIS
1 1 (1.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Maximo
2 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (31.48%) Azure
2 13 (24.07%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) Serverless
4 7 (12.96%) GCP
5 6 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Functions
6 5 (9.26%) GitHub
6 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.56%) Azure API Management
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.56%) SaaS
8 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.70%) Boomi
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.85%) AtomSphere
9 1 (1.85%) Figma
9 1 (1.85%) iPaaS
9 1 (1.85%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) MySQL
1 10 (18.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.85%) GIS
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.85%) Appium
4 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.85%) Gradle
4 1 (1.85%) Maven
4 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Telecoms
4 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Billing
5 2 (3.70%) Marketing
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Developer
2 11 (20.37%) Architect
3 9 (16.67%) ServiceNow Architect
3 9 (16.67%) Technical Support
4 6 (11.11%) Senior
5 5 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Lead
5 5 (9.26%) Technical Leader
5 5 (9.26%) Tester
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Integration Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (48.15%) REST
2 15 (27.78%) SOAP
3 7 (12.96%) React
4 6 (11.11%) .NET
5 5 (9.26%) .NET Core
5 5 (9.26%) GraphQL
6 4 (7.41%) CSS
6 4 (7.41%) OAuth
6 4 (7.41%) SAML
7 3 (5.56%) ARM Templates
7 3 (5.56%) HTML
7 3 (5.56%) Kafka
7 3 (5.56%) Node.js
7 3 (5.56%) OAuth2
7 3 (5.56%) OpenID
8 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (3.70%) Spring
8 2 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) CMDB
2 4 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Linux
2 9 (16.67%) Unix
2 9 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (3.70%) VMS
4 1 (1.85%) Android
4 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (42.59%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (31.48%) Agile
3 16 (29.63%) AI
3 16 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 14 (25.93%) ITSM
5 13 (24.07%) Data Modelling
5 13 (24.07%) Test Automation
6 12 (22.22%) DevOps
6 12 (22.22%) IT Asset Management
6 12 (22.22%) Security Operations
7 10 (18.52%) Computer Science
7 10 (18.52%) ITIL
7 10 (18.52%) Roadmaps
7 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (16.67%) OO
8 9 (16.67%) OOP
8 9 (16.67%) Process Improvement
9 8 (14.81%) Translating Business Requirements
10 7 (12.96%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (12.96%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) Python
2 20 (37.04%) Java
3 15 (27.78%) SQL
4 10 (18.52%) Perl
5 7 (12.96%) C#
6 6 (11.11%) PHP
6 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 5 (9.26%) Bash
7 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.70%) Jython
9 1 (1.85%) Groovy
9 1 (1.85%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (18.52%) Degree
2 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) GRC
2 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
3 2 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (25.93%) ServiceNow
2 9 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.70%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.85%) ESRI
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.85%) Instagram
5 1 (1.85%) Snow
5 1 (1.85%) TikTok