JavaScript Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 32 34
Rank change year-on-year -28 +2 -18
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 16 27 31
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.86% 4.08% 4.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.65% 16.67% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 29
10th Percentile £272 £320 £377
25th Percentile £357 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £625 £499 £538
90th Percentile - £528 £650
England median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 185 162 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 21.54% 24.51% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 115 141
10th Percentile £314 £313 £313
25th Percentile £381 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -5.50% -
75th Percentile £500 £500 £550
90th Percentile £625 £530 £650
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.75 £19.58
25th Percentile £18.84 £15.00 £26.02
Median hourly rate £23.71 £17.71 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.87% -66.58% +33.06%
75th Percentile £36.72 £21.04 £54.50
90th Percentile £56.69 £22.67 £60.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the East Midlands

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Leicestershire - 8 £600 - 21
Northamptonshire -15 5 £276 -35.06% 21
Nottinghamshire -9 2 £373 -24.65% 31
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 17
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 7 (43.75%) CMS
2 5 (31.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Headless CMS
2 5 (31.25%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (31.25%) Umbraco
3 2 (12.50%) Confluence
4 1 (6.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Kontent
2 5 (31.25%) Contentful
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) Google Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Maven
2 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
2 3 (18.75%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (12.50%) GitLab
3 2 (12.50%) Grunt
3 2 (12.50%) gulp
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
3 2 (12.50%) Mockito
3 2 (12.50%) Selenium
3 2 (12.50%) webpack
4 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.25%) IntelliJ
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 11 (68.75%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (43.75%) CMS Developer
4 5 (31.25%) C# Developer
4 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (31.25%) React Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Angular Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Digital Transformation
7 1 (6.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (6.25%) Lead
7 1 (6.25%) Project Leader
7 1 (6.25%) Senior
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) CSS
1 12 (75.00%) HTML
2 10 (62.50%) React
2 10 (62.50%) RESTful
3 9 (56.25%) AngularJS
4 8 (50.00%) .NET
4 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET
5 7 (43.75%) .NET Framework
5 7 (43.75%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (18.75%) Jest
6 3 (18.75%) Node.js
6 3 (18.75%) Redux
6 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
7 2 (12.50%) Bootstrap
7 2 (12.50%) CSS3
7 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
7 2 (12.50%) HTML5
7 2 (12.50%) JPA
8 1 (6.25%) J2EE
8 1 (6.25%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (50.00%) User Experience
3 7 (43.75%) MVC
4 6 (37.50%) AI
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
6 3 (18.75%) Microservices
6 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) API Development
7 2 (12.50%) API Integration
7 2 (12.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 2 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (12.50%) Mobile First
7 2 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
7 2 (12.50%) TDD
7 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 2 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Google Apps Script
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Adobe
2 5 (31.25%) Sitecore
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Google
4 2 (12.50%) Veracode
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle