JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Chester

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring JavaScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 1.15% 7.14% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.25% 41.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £557 -
25th Percentile £663 £565 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £577 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.98% - -
75th Percentile £688 £594 -
90th Percentile - £603 -
Cheshire median daily rate £384 £456 £518
% change year-on-year -15.84% -11.84% -17.86%

All Programming Languages
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16 12 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 18.39% 17.14% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 12
10th Percentile £646 £541 £378
25th Percentile £663 £565 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £610 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.66% +31.89% +8.82%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £594
90th Percentile £733 £743 £658
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £444 £498
% change year-on-year -9.46% -10.75% +7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +83.65%
Cheshire median hourly rate £66.50 £85.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -21.76% +47.83% +98.28%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Chester

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) UiPath