JavaScript Contract Job Trends in East London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 24 25
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 10 3 16
As % of all contract jobs in East London 9.62% 2.31% 5.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.22% 5.36% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 13
10th Percentile £374 £460 £495
25th Percentile £445 £482 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% +2.38% -16.27%
75th Percentile £503 £593 £550
90th Percentile £540 £615 £590
London median daily rate £525 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
East London

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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 45 56 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 43.27% 43.08% 26.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 55 63
10th Percentile £420 £392 £400
25th Percentile £450 £400 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £495 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -8.33% +13.68%
75th Percentile £688 £585 £580
90th Percentile £1,000 £635 £720
London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55.75 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £58.75 - -
75th Percentile £60.63 - -
90th Percentile £61.75 - -
London median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +2.86% +3.96% -12.17%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in East London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in East London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in East London

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the East London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Tower Hamlets +7 9 £450 -28.57%
Hackney - 1 £400 -
JavaScript
London

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Figma
3 2 (20.00%) Adobe Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) JMeter
3 2 (20.00%) Maven
3 2 (20.00%) Postman
4 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (10.00%) Gradle
4 1 (10.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) NeoLoad
4 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Automation Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) CSS
1 5 (50.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) Playwright
3 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (30.00%) CSS3
3 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (30.00%) HTML5
3 3 (30.00%) JSP
3 3 (30.00%) OSGi
3 3 (30.00%) React
4 2 (20.00%) JSON
4 2 (20.00%) Sass
4 2 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (10.00%) JMS
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Batch
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Kanban
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Web Development
6 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (30.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Adobe
2 2 (20.00%) Marketo
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle