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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 30 34
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 5 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.43% 3.95% 3.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.62% 16.50% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 15
10th Percentile - £280 £425
25th Percentile - £300 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -11.58% -6.86%
75th Percentile - £430 £575
90th Percentile - - £645
East of England median daily rate £525 £375 £550
% change year-on-year +40.00% -31.82% +4.76%
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 89 103 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 25.50% 23.95% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 63 87
10th Percentile £243 £303 £390
25th Percentile £338 £344 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £628 £556 £538
90th Percentile £700 £588 £571
East of England median daily rate £504 £420 £498
% change year-on-year +19.94% -15.58% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 17
10th Percentile £26.50 £46.25 £29.60
25th Percentile £30.54 £46.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £47.38 - £68.50
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +21.05%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript 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 17 September 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 -11 5 £200 -52.38% 10
JavaScript
East of England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) webpack
3 1 (20.00%) Appium
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (20.00%) Gatling
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) TestNG
General
1 2 (40.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Celery
3 2 (40.00%) D3.js
3 2 (40.00%) Django
3 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (40.00%) Sass
3 2 (40.00%) Vue
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Inertial Measurement
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree