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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.26% 1.45% 2.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 5.63% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £482 -
25th Percentile - £491 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £515 £410
Median % change year-on-year - +25.61% -8.89%
75th Percentile - £531 £443
90th Percentile - £535 £495
East of England median daily rate £507 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +1.40% +17.65% -10.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - £17.80 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -71.52% +19.05%
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £63.75
% change year-on-year +1.96% - -5.56%

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 79 71 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 20.79% 25.82% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 56 56
10th Percentile £206 £319 £405
25th Percentile £307 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £499
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £516 £541 £575
90th Percentile £573 £638 £619
East of England median daily rate £500 £490 £485
% change year-on-year +2.04% +1.03% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile £26.38 £22.04 £35.50
25th Percentile £26.50 £28.41 £35.52
Median hourly rate £28.49 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -27.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £33.16 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £34.57 - £68.25
East of England median hourly rate £68.21 £66.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.35% +1.54% -

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 16 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
Cambridge -6 1 - - 29
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) BYOD
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cutover Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Escalation Management
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow