JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Dorset

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 21 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 -14
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 3.09% 1.05% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.09% 2.94% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.27%
75th Percentile - - £425
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £475 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -13.64% +12.82% -7.14%

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 33 34 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 34.02% 35.79% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 27
10th Percentile £241 £394 £362
25th Percentile £278 £428 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -23.08% +23.81%
75th Percentile £547 £647 £675
90th Percentile £605 £688 -
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £69.62
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.35%
75th Percentile - - £69.88
90th Percentile - - £70.34
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Dorset

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing JavaScript

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 25 December 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 +2 2 £409 - 30
JavaScript
South West

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CockroachDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Compact Framework
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Android Development
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Xamarin
32 JavaScript jobs in Dorset