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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 24 35
Rank change year-on-year -17 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 6 17 15
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.53% 4.71% 3.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.26% 16.04% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 13
10th Percentile - £277 £428
25th Percentile £383 £300 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £360 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -34.55% -
75th Percentile £428 £430 £675
90th Percentile - £440 £695
East of England median daily rate £513 £375 £575
% change year-on-year +36.67% -34.78% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.55 - £64.25
Median hourly rate £54.70 - £65.50
75th Percentile £55.85 - £66.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -0.76% +0.77%

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 114 106 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 29.01% 29.36% 22.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 61 58
10th Percentile £313 £300 £413
25th Percentile £391 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £571
90th Percentile £625 £588 £649
East of England median daily rate £500 £420 £477
% change year-on-year +19.05% -11.95% -9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 18
10th Percentile £30.33 £39.73 £22.28
25th Percentile £31.25 £46.25 £35.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -8.70% +27.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £74.81
90th Percentile £45.86 £64.13 £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -0.76% +4.80%

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
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 27 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
Cambridge -12 6 £405 +12.50% 11
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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) webpack
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (33.33%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) React
2 3 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) Celery
3 2 (33.33%) D3.js
3 2 (33.33%) Django
3 2 (33.33%) Sass
3 2 (33.33%) Vue
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Smartphone
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Inertial Measurement
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes