JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 26 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 7 18 15
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.92% 4.52% 2.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.36% 16.22% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 13
10th Percentile £218 £280 £425
25th Percentile £246 £300 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £303 £420 £495
Median % change year-on-year -27.98% -15.15% -5.71%
75th Percentile £371 £430 £638
90th Percentile £405 - £695
East of England median daily rate £545 £398 £550
% change year-on-year +37.11% -27.73% -1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.55 - -
Median hourly rate £54.70 - -
75th Percentile £55.85 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year - -12.16% +12.98%

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 110 111 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 30.22% 27.89% 22.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 72
10th Percentile £240 £303 £413
25th Percentile £350 £344 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £454 £477
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -4.82% -4.60%
75th Percentile £578 £556 £553
90th Percentile £666 £598 £586
East of England median daily rate £500 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +19.11% -16.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 17
10th Percentile £28.41 £44.08 £22.26
25th Percentile £31.25 £46.56 £47.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £44.75 £63.88 £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +20.00%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Cambridgeshire

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Cambridge -14 7 £303 -27.98% 20
JavaScript
East of England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) webpack
3 1 (14.29%) Appium
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Gatling
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) JMeter
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 3 (42.86%) Multimedia
2 2 (28.57%) Wearables
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) React
2 4 (57.14%) RESTful
3 3 (42.86%) FastAPI
4 2 (28.57%) Celery
4 2 (28.57%) D3.js
4 2 (28.57%) Django
4 2 (28.57%) Sass
4 2 (28.57%) Vue
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Data Collection
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Inertial Measurement
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Web Development
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) API Testing
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) SOLID
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bourne shell
3 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes