JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Croydon

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring JavaScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 22 31
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 7 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 8.86% 7.37% 2.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.89% 21.21% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £475 £338 -
25th Percentile £495 £394 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.99% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £604 £481 -
90th Percentile £673 £493 -
South London median daily rate £565 £475 £531
% change year-on-year +19.03% -10.59% -9.57%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 47 33 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 59.49% 34.74% 41.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 47
10th Percentile £466 £400 £425
25th Percentile £505 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.98% -7.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £633 £538 £625
90th Percentile £730 £567 £650
South London median daily rate £558 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +11.54% -9.09% -4.35%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Croydon

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Croydon over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Croydon

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 2 (28.57%) SAS
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
2 2 (28.57%) Mockito
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Camel
2 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) jQuery
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 2 (28.57%) WireMock
2 2 (28.57%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) pytest
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Process Management
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
5 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Master Data Management
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 1 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Kibana
3 2 (28.57%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow