JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 2 39 19
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 2.08% 16.88% 8.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.69% 42.39% 20.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 21 11
10th Percentile £565 £525 £506
25th Percentile £578 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £666 £675 £700
90th Percentile £675 £701 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +26.83%

All Programming Languages
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 26 92 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 27.08% 39.83% 41.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 53 55
10th Percentile £525 £513 £425
25th Percentile £550 £544 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £750 £676 £700
90th Percentile £762 £687 £800
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.18
25th Percentile - - £24.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £58.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.80%
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% -10.26% +33.69%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Podman
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform