JavaScript Contracts in Cambridge

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 4 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.29% 10.29% 4.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.80% 28.13% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 8
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile - £405 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -16.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile - £430 £594
90th Percentile - - £650
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £200 £415 £475
% change year-on-year -51.81% -12.63% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.80 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £17.80 - -

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 69 64 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 39.43% 36.57% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 36 75
10th Percentile £250 £327 £413
25th Percentile £379 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £535 £538
90th Percentile £690 £579 £565
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £481 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +1.32% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £27.24 - £36.95
25th Percentile £41.40 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% -7.89%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile - - £61.75
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £37.50 £51.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -27.18% +3.00% -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Cambridge

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Cambridge

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Cambridge

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) webpack
3 1 (25.00%) Appium
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) Gatling
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Celery
1 2 (50.00%) D3.js
1 2 (50.00%) Django
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) Sass
1 2 (50.00%) Vue
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) SLA