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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 56 72
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -24
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 42 57 49
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.17% 3.53% 2.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.00% 14.29% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £204 £360 £306
25th Percentile £355 £400 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +28.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £609 £579 £469
90th Percentile £746 £611 £635
South East median daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -57.14% +7.69% -

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 323 399 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 24.34% 24.68% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 251 267
10th Percentile £363 £390 £350
25th Percentile £414 £441 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +6.02%
75th Percentile £571 £643 £638
90th Percentile £624 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £486 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -4.66% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £24.38 £50.25 -
25th Percentile £32.81 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £47.25 £58.49 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +17.62% -35.42%
75th Percentile £61.31 £69.69 £55.31
90th Percentile £69.53 £77.39 £69.74
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -13.67%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +10 21 £525 +28.36% 28
Windsor -5 6 £500 +150.00% 3
Wokingham -17 3 £621 +9.96% 1
Bracknell - 3 £208 - 8
Slough - 1 £650 - 182
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 (4.76%) Appian
2 1 (2.38%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Drupal
2 1 (2.38%) Smallworld
2 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.38%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (16.67%) GitHub
4 6 (14.29%) Serverless
5 5 (11.90%) AWS
5 5 (11.90%) Azure API Management
5 5 (11.90%) Azure Functions
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 4 (9.52%) GCP
7 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.14%) SaaS
7 3 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Storage
8 2 (4.76%) Boomi
8 2 (4.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) MySQL
1 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.38%) GIS
3 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (11.90%) Selenium
2 5 (11.90%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (9.52%) Cucumber
4 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.14%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (7.14%) Firebug
4 3 (7.14%) GitLab
4 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.76%) Gradle
5 2 (4.76%) Maven
5 2 (4.76%) Postman
5 2 (4.76%) Robot Framework
5 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.38%) Appium
6 1 (2.38%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.38%) JIRA
6 1 (2.38%) Mocha
General
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
4 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) Billing
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Developer
2 9 (21.43%) Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Senior
4 6 (14.29%) Technical Support
5 5 (11.90%) ServiceNow Architect
6 4 (9.52%) Support Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Technical Support Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
7 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Salesforce Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Integration Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (35.71%) REST
2 12 (28.57%) SOAP
3 10 (23.81%) HTML
3 10 (23.81%) XML
4 9 (21.43%) JSON
5 6 (14.29%) .NET
5 6 (14.29%) CSS
5 6 (14.29%) jQuery
5 6 (14.29%) RESTful
6 5 (11.90%) .NET Core
6 5 (11.90%) OAuth
7 4 (9.52%) GraphQL
7 4 (9.52%) OAuth2
7 4 (9.52%) OpenID
7 4 (9.52%) React
8 3 (7.14%) .NET Framework
8 3 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (7.14%) Node.js
8 3 (7.14%) SAML
8 3 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) CMDB
2 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Android
1 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
1 2 (4.76%) Unix
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
3 17 (40.48%) DevOps
4 12 (28.57%) Agile
5 9 (21.43%) Security Operations
6 8 (19.05%) OO
7 7 (16.67%) AI
7 7 (16.67%) ITSM
7 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (11.90%) Analytics
9 5 (11.90%) Data Modelling
9 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (11.90%) IT Asset Management
9 5 (11.90%) ITIL
9 5 (11.90%) Microservices
9 5 (11.90%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
9 5 (11.90%) Technical Architecture
9 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) Java
2 13 (30.95%) Python
3 9 (21.43%) C#
4 7 (16.67%) SQL
5 3 (7.14%) Apex Code
5 3 (7.14%) Bash
5 3 (7.14%) PHP
5 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.14%) SOQL
6 2 (4.76%) Groovy
6 2 (4.76%) Jython
6 2 (4.76%) Perl
6 2 (4.76%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.38%) Magik
7 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) CEH
2 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) ECSA
2 2 (4.76%) GCFA
2 2 (4.76%) GCIA
2 2 (4.76%) GCIH
3 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) GRC
2 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Terraform
2 3 (7.14%) Ansible
3 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.38%) Grafana
4 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 5 (11.90%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.14%) IBM
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle
4 3 (7.14%) Splunk
5 2 (4.76%) Cisco
5 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.76%) Veracode
6 1 (2.38%) Google
6 1 (2.38%) Snow
6 1 (2.38%) Virgin Media