JavaScript Contracts in the City of London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 21 18
Rank change year-on-year -22 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 100 278 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.50% 7.62% 7.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.37% 17.42% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 156 269
10th Percentile £422 £385 £410
25th Percentile £463 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% -1.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £675
90th Percentile £757 £819 £726
Central London median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +239.29%

All Programming Languages
City of London

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 748 1,596 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.66% 43.77% 45.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 1,041 1,478
10th Percentile £413 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £513 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £599
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.38% +8.86%
75th Percentile £690 £738 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £565 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -8.13% +2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - £35.00 £43.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £51.25 £46.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +86.82%
75th Percentile £50.25 £58.75 £69.25
90th Percentile - £84.00 £77.63
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +138.81%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the City of London

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the City of London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the City of London

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the City of London

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 7 (7.00%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (3.00%) CMS
2 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.00%) Apache
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.00%) Gunicorn
4 1 (1.00%) IIS
4 1 (1.00%) nginx
4 1 (1.00%) NServiceBus
4 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.00%) Tornado
4 1 (1.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (2.00%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (2.00%) Unica
3 1 (1.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.00%) Azure
2 24 (24.00%) AWS
3 11 (11.00%) Serverless
4 9 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (7.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (7.00%) Azure Functions
6 6 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (6.00%) Azure Storage
6 6 (6.00%) GCP
6 6 (6.00%) GitHub
7 4 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (3.00%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) DHCP
1 1 (1.00%) DNS
1 1 (1.00%) Firewall
1 1 (1.00%) Intranet
1 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.00%) MongoDB
1 11 (11.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.00%) MySQL
6 3 (3.00%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.00%) Redis
7 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.00%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.00%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Git
2 7 (7.00%) Selenium
3 6 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.00%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.00%) JIRA
6 3 (3.00%) Postman
7 2 (2.00%) Appium
7 2 (2.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.00%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.00%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.00%) Gradle
8 1 (1.00%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.00%) Mercurial
8 1 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.00%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.00%) TestNG
General
1 25 (25.00%) Finance
2 13 (13.00%) Banking
3 11 (11.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Front Office
6 3 (3.00%) Legal
6 3 (3.00%) Marketing
6 3 (3.00%) Publishing
6 3 (3.00%) Retail
7 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (61.00%) Developer
2 20 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 14 (14.00%) Senior
4 13 (13.00%) Architect
5 10 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 9 (9.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (6.00%) Angular Developer
7 6 (6.00%) C# Developer
8 5 (5.00%) SOC Architect
8 5 (5.00%) SOC Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Full Stack Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) AWS Architect
10 3 (3.00%) Backend Developer
10 3 (3.00%) Digital Architect
10 3 (3.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 3 (3.00%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Senior Backend Developer
10 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (36.00%) HTML
2 34 (34.00%) CSS
3 25 (25.00%) .NET
4 24 (24.00%) AngularJS
5 22 (22.00%) React
6 17 (17.00%) REST
7 14 (14.00%) Node.js
8 12 (12.00%) .NET Core
8 12 (12.00%) jQuery
9 11 (11.00%) XML
10 10 (10.00%) ASP.NET
10 10 (10.00%) Web Services
11 8 (8.00%) JSON
12 7 (7.00%) Kafka
13 6 (6.00%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (6.00%) Blazor
13 6 (6.00%) HTML5
13 6 (6.00%) WebSockets
14 5 (5.00%) Sass
14 5 (5.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Cloud Native
1 7 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.00%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.00%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.00%) Video on Demand
5 2 (2.00%) Web 2.0
6 1 (1.00%) CBDC
6 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.00%) Genomics
6 1 (1.00%) Life Science
6 1 (1.00%) PKI
6 1 (1.00%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.00%) Windows
2 5 (5.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.00%) Android
4 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.00%) Agile
2 25 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 24 (24.00%) Full Stack Development
4 23 (23.00%) Front End Development
5 17 (17.00%) Software Engineering
6 15 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 14 (14.00%) Microservices
8 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (12.00%) DevOps
9 12 (12.00%) Web Development
10 10 (10.00%) Scrum
11 9 (9.00%) SDLC
11 9 (9.00%) User Experience
12 8 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (7.00%) Data Development
14 6 (6.00%) Multithreading
14 6 (6.00%) MVC
14 6 (6.00%) OOP
14 6 (6.00%) TDD
15 5 (5.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.00%) Python
2 26 (26.00%) SQL
3 21 (21.00%) C#
4 19 (19.00%) Java
4 19 (19.00%) TypeScript
5 12 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 9 (9.00%) T-SQL
7 7 (7.00%) C++
7 7 (7.00%) Go
7 7 (7.00%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.00%) PHP
9 3 (3.00%) Bicep
10 2 (2.00%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.00%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.00%) SOQL
11 1 (1.00%) BeanShell
11 1 (1.00%) C
11 1 (1.00%) Rust
11 1 (1.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.00%) Degree
3 10 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.00%) ISEB
6 1 (1.00%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.00%) WCAG
3 1 (1.00%) NIST
3 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.00%) IAG
4 1 (1.00%) ACF2
4 1 (1.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 16 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.00%) CSIRT
3 3 (3.00%) PingFederate
3 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.00%) Grafana
4 1 (1.00%) Kibana
4 1 (1.00%) logstash
4 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.00%) Puppet
4 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) Oracle
2 7 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.00%) MuleSoft
4 5 (5.00%) Google
4 5 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.00%) Adobe
6 3 (3.00%) Proofpoint
6 3 (3.00%) Symantec
7 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.00%) SAP
8 1 (1.00%) Databricks
8 1 (1.00%) Dell
8 1 (1.00%) Ensighten
8 1 (1.00%) IBM
8 1 (1.00%) Omniture
8 1 (1.00%) Optimizely
8 1 (1.00%) Splunk
8 1 (1.00%) Sybase
8 1 (1.00%) Tealium