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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 61 71
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 -28
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 35 28 46
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.93% 2.50% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.25% 8.43% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 14 28
10th Percentile - £363 £313
25th Percentile £204 £500 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £575 £463
Median % change year-on-year -29.57% +24.32% -2.63%
75th Percentile £509 £598 £586
90th Percentile £700 £644 £625
South East median daily rate £488 £516 £400
% change year-on-year -5.52% +29.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.50 -
South East median hourly rate £38.25 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -30.45% -21.43% +3.70%

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 311 332 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.11% 29.59% 18.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 207 250
10th Percentile £306 £400 £325
25th Percentile £375 £452 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -9.00% +2.33%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 13
10th Percentile £61.87 £39.74 £56.33
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 £82.25 £68.51 £67.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.72 £68.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +12.00%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -25 16 £446 -24.04% 7
Windsor +8 11 £208 -61.40%
Wokingham -22 2 - -
Slough - 1 £800 - 6
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 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) ArcGIS
1 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) Serverless
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) n8n
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) MySQL
1 9 (25.71%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.86%) GIS
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.86%) Gradle
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Maven
2 1 (2.86%) Postman
2 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.71%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Developer
1 8 (22.86%) Technical Support
2 5 (14.29%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Tester
3 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.86%) Android Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Head of Software Engineering
6 1 (2.86%) iOS Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Mobile Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) REST
2 8 (22.86%) React
3 5 (14.29%) SOAP
4 3 (8.57%) CSS
4 3 (8.57%) Kafka
4 3 (8.57%) Node.js
5 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.71%) HTML
5 2 (5.71%) RESTful
5 2 (5.71%) Spring
6 1 (2.86%) .NET
6 1 (2.86%) CSS3
6 1 (2.86%) HTML5
6 1 (2.86%) LAMP
6 1 (2.86%) LDAP
6 1 (2.86%) Mustache
6 1 (2.86%) OAuth
6 1 (2.86%) SAML
6 1 (2.86%) Sass
6 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) CMDB
1 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Linux
2 9 (25.71%) Unix
3 8 (22.86%) Windows
4 2 (5.71%) VMS
5 1 (2.86%) Android
5 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (31.43%) Test Automation
2 10 (28.57%) AI
2 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 8 (22.86%) Agile
3 8 (22.86%) Computer Science
3 8 (22.86%) OO
3 8 (22.86%) OOP
3 8 (22.86%) Process Improvement
4 7 (20.00%) DevOps
5 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
6 5 (14.29%) ITSM
6 5 (14.29%) LLM
7 4 (11.43%) Code Quality
7 4 (11.43%) Data Modelling
7 4 (11.43%) Microservices
8 3 (8.57%) ITIL
8 3 (8.57%) Scrum
8 3 (8.57%) TDD
8 3 (8.57%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) Python
2 14 (40.00%) Java
3 12 (34.29%) SQL
4 9 (25.71%) Perl
5 6 (17.14%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.86%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Oracle
2 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.71%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.86%) Conga
4 1 (2.86%) ESRI
4 1 (2.86%) GoCardless
4 1 (2.86%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.86%) Instagram
4 1 (2.86%) TikTok