Babel Contracts in England

Babel JavaScript Compiler
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Babel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Babel 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 473 532 637
Rank change year-on-year +59 +105 +79
Contract jobs citing Babel 12 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.027% 0.032%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.36% 0.23% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 13
10th Percentile - £293 £465
25th Percentile £400 £300 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £643 £738 £638
90th Percentile £737 £746 £728
UK median daily rate £450 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Development Application Skills
England

Babel falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Babel
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Babel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Babel in England

Babel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Babel in England.

Daily rate trend for Babel in England

Babel
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Babel in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Babel within the England 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
London +36 6 £643 +12.97% 9
North of England - 6 £400 - 1
North West - 5 £400 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Babel
UK

Babel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) npm
2 4 (33.33%) Yarn
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Apigee
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) webpack
2 3 (25.00%) Ant
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
1 11 (91.67%) React Developer
2 10 (83.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (41.67%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior React Developer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Grid Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Junior
5 1 (8.33%) Junior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior UI Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) React
2 10 (83.33%) CSS
3 9 (75.00%) HTML
4 8 (66.67%) .NET
4 8 (66.67%) HTML5
4 8 (66.67%) RESTful
5 5 (41.67%) REST
6 4 (33.33%) CSS3
7 3 (25.00%) Material-UI
7 3 (25.00%) Node.js
7 3 (25.00%) Redux
7 3 (25.00%) Semantic UI
7 3 (25.00%) Web Services
7 3 (25.00%) WPF
8 1 (8.33%) JSON
8 1 (8.33%) JWT
8 1 (8.33%) Next.js
8 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Front End Development
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) API Development
2 5 (41.67%) B2B
2 5 (41.67%) Code Quality
2 5 (41.67%) User Experience
3 4 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 3 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Functional Programming
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) UX Design
5 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Fintech
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 7 (58.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft