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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -20 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 97 266 344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.45% 7.50% 8.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.02% 17.55% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 147 286
10th Percentile £421 £404 £409
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £761 £798 £734
Central London median daily rate £525 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -3.45% -1.14% +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 745 1,516 1,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.17% 42.75% 44.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 993 1,447
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £693 £738 £713
90th Percentile £793 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £43.13 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +120.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.25 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%

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 11 May 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 (7.22%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) Apache
3 2 (2.06%) Confluence
4 1 (1.03%) CMS
4 1 (1.03%) Gunicorn
4 1 (1.03%) IIS
4 1 (1.03%) nginx
4 1 (1.03%) NServiceBus
4 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.03%) Tornado
4 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (2.06%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (2.06%) Unica
2 1 (1.03%) Endur
2 1 (1.03%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.87%) Azure
2 25 (25.77%) AWS
3 11 (11.34%) Serverless
4 9 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (8.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (7.22%) Azure Functions
7 6 (6.19%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.19%) Azure Storage
7 6 (6.19%) GCP
7 6 (6.19%) GitHub
8 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (3.09%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (3.09%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) DHCP
1 1 (1.03%) DNS
1 1 (1.03%) HTTP
1 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.34%) MongoDB
1 11 (11.34%) NoSQL
2 10 (10.31%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.09%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.09%) Redis
7 2 (2.06%) MySQL
8 1 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.03%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.03%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Git
2 7 (7.22%) Selenium
3 6 (6.19%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.12%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.12%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.09%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.09%) JIRA
5 3 (3.09%) Postman
6 2 (2.06%) Appium
6 2 (2.06%) GitLab
6 2 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.06%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.06%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.03%) Babel
7 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.03%) Gradle
7 1 (1.03%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.03%) Pylint
7 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 25 (25.77%) Finance
2 13 (13.40%) Banking
3 12 (12.37%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.09%) Front Office
6 3 (3.09%) Legal
6 3 (3.09%) Marketing
6 3 (3.09%) Retail
7 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Publishing
8 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.03%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (62.89%) Developer
2 21 (21.65%) Full Stack Developer
3 13 (13.40%) Senior
4 10 (10.31%) Architect
5 9 (9.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (9.28%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.19%) Angular Developer
7 5 (5.15%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.12%) Full Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) JavaScript Developer
8 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow Developer
8 4 (4.12%) SOC Architect
8 4 (4.12%) SOC Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Architect
9 3 (3.09%) Backend Developer
9 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 3 (3.09%) Senior Backend Developer
9 3 (3.09%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (38.14%) CSS
1 37 (38.14%) HTML
2 25 (25.77%) .NET
3 24 (24.74%) AngularJS
4 23 (23.71%) React
5 15 (15.46%) Node.js
5 15 (15.46%) REST
6 12 (12.37%) .NET Core
6 12 (12.37%) jQuery
7 10 (10.31%) ASP.NET
7 10 (10.31%) XML
8 9 (9.28%) JSON
8 9 (9.28%) Web Services
9 8 (8.25%) Kafka
10 6 (6.19%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (6.19%) Blazor
10 6 (6.19%) GraphQL
10 6 (6.19%) WebSockets
11 5 (5.15%) CSS3
11 5 (5.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Cloud Native
1 7 (7.22%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.12%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.09%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.06%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.06%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (2.06%) Video on Demand
5 2 (2.06%) Web 2.0
6 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.03%) CBDC
6 1 (1.03%) CMDB
6 1 (1.03%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.03%) Life Science
6 1 (1.03%) PKI
6 1 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.03%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Windows
2 6 (6.19%) Linux
3 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.03%) Android
4 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.08%) Agile
2 26 (26.80%) CI/CD
3 25 (25.77%) Full Stack Development
4 23 (23.71%) Front End Development
5 17 (17.53%) Software Engineering
6 14 (14.43%) DevOps
6 14 (14.43%) Microservices
6 14 (14.43%) Test Automation
7 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (12.37%) Web Development
9 9 (9.28%) Scrum
9 9 (9.28%) SDLC
9 9 (9.28%) User Experience
10 8 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (7.22%) Data Development
11 7 (7.22%) TDD
12 6 (6.19%) Clean Code
12 6 (6.19%) MVC
12 6 (6.19%) OO
12 6 (6.19%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.80%) SQL
2 25 (25.77%) Python
3 21 (21.65%) C#
3 21 (21.65%) TypeScript
4 14 (14.43%) Java
5 11 (11.34%) PowerShell
6 8 (8.25%) T-SQL
7 7 (7.22%) C++
7 7 (7.22%) Go
7 7 (7.22%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.12%) Bicep
8 4 (4.12%) PHP
9 2 (2.06%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.06%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.06%) SOQL
10 1 (1.03%) C
10 1 (1.03%) Rust
10 1 (1.03%) SPARQL
10 1 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.34%) Degree
2 11 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.09%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) ISEB
5 1 (1.03%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) WCAG
3 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (17.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.12%) CSIRT
3 3 (3.09%) PingFederate
3 3 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.03%) Ansible
4 1 (1.03%) Grafana
4 1 (1.03%) Kibana
4 1 (1.03%) logstash
4 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.03%) Puppet
4 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (9.28%) Microsoft
1 9 (9.28%) Oracle
2 6 (6.19%) MuleSoft
3 5 (5.15%) Google
3 5 (5.15%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.12%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.09%) Adobe
5 3 (3.09%) Proofpoint
5 3 (3.09%) Symantec
6 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.03%) Confluent
7 1 (1.03%) Databricks
7 1 (1.03%) Dell
7 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.03%) Ensighten
7 1 (1.03%) IBM
7 1 (1.03%) Omniture
7 1 (1.03%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.03%) SAP
7 1 (1.03%) Tealium