JavaScript Contracts in Dorset

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 23 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -13
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 6 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 6.12% 3.03% 2.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.24% 17.86% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £491 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £175 £350
Median % change year-on-year +207.14% -50.00% -30.86%
75th Percentile £591 £288 £375
90th Percentile £611 £438 -
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.05
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £50.05
% change year-on-year +4.62% +29.87% -12.96%

All Programming Languages
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 49 28 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 50.00% 16.97% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 25
10th Percentile £384 £175 £303
25th Percentile £433 £341 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £419 £513
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -18.29% +10.81%
75th Percentile £606 £472 £638
90th Percentile £688 £551 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - - £49.32
25th Percentile - £61.25 £49.96
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £56.08
Median % change year-on-year - +11.45% +15.68%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £57.95
90th Percentile - - £60.07
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Dorset

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Dorset.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Dorset

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Dorset over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Dorset

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Dorset.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Dorset

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth +4 5 £600 +50.00% 30
JavaScript
South West

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) InfoPath
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Production Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
3 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (66.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) CAD
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) ITSM
3 4 (66.67%) Web Development
4 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (50.00%) Community of Practice
4 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (50.00%) Operational Stability
4 3 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Service Management
4 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) User Experience
4 3 (50.00%) UX Design
4 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Information Management
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Sun