JavaScript Engineer Contracts in England

JavaScript Engineer
UK > England

The median JavaScript Engineer daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 510 580
Rank change year-on-year +44 +70 +109
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Engineer 29 49 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 35 30
10th Percentile £413 £335 £418
25th Percentile £425 £413 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £553 £950 £688
90th Percentile £605 £1,030 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 24,278 34,696 45,028
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.91% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,841 22,709 31,930
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 2,561 1,374
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.88 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.69
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -8.45% +74.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.80% -12.21% +68.63%

JavaScript Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured JavaScript Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Engineer in England

JavaScript Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript Engineer in England

JavaScript Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Engineer in England

JavaScript Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript Engineer in England

JavaScript Engineer
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 JavaScript Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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 +13 17 £478 -36.32% 38
Midlands +12 5 £435 +35.09% 1
West Midlands - 5 £435 - 1
South East +40 3 £175 -12.50% 16
North of England +8 2 £525 +31.25% 5
Yorkshire +4 2 £525 +31.25% 3
JavaScript Engineer
UK

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, JavaScript Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring JavaScript Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 22 (75.86%) React
3 13 (44.83%) Node.js
4 12 (41.38%) Agile
4 12 (41.38%) AWS
5 11 (37.93%) Microservices
5 11 (37.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (34.48%) Serverless
6 10 (34.48%) Python
7 9 (31.03%) Git
7 9 (31.03%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (27.59%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (27.59%) TypeScript
8 8 (27.59%) CSS
8 8 (27.59%) HTML
8 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
9 7 (24.14%) REST
9 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (20.69%) GraphQL
10 6 (20.69%) DevOps
10 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
10 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
10 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
11 5 (17.24%) Project Delivery
11 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
11 5 (17.24%) DocumentDB
11 5 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
11 5 (17.24%) Project Management
11 5 (17.24%) Advertising

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Serverless
3 9 (31.03%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (27.59%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.45%) Azure
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.45%) Figma
7 1 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) DocumentDB
1 5 (17.24%) Redis
2 3 (10.34%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.90%) MariaDB
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
3 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) SonarQube
3 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.90%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.90%) Firebug
3 2 (6.90%) Mocha
3 2 (6.90%) Postman
3 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) Mockito
4 1 (3.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) Storybook
4 1 (3.45%) Vite
4 1 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Advertising
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.45%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (75.86%) React
2 13 (44.83%) Node.js
3 8 (27.59%) CSS
3 8 (27.59%) HTML
4 7 (24.14%) REST
5 6 (20.69%) GraphQL
6 4 (13.79%) Swagger
6 4 (13.79%) Vue
7 3 (10.34%) AWS CDK
7 3 (10.34%) Jest
7 3 (10.34%) Next.js
7 3 (10.34%) OpenAPI
8 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
8 2 (6.90%) Flask
8 2 (6.90%) GatsbyJS
8 2 (6.90%) HTML5
8 2 (6.90%) React Native
8 2 (6.90%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (6.90%) WebRTC
8 2 (6.90%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Structures
1 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.90%) Vector Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Agile
2 11 (37.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (37.93%) Microservices
3 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
4 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.69%) DevOps
6 5 (17.24%) API Development
6 5 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (17.24%) Project Delivery
6 5 (17.24%) Project Management
6 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.34%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (10.34%) OO
8 2 (6.90%) Data Protection
8 2 (6.90%) E-Commerce
8 2 (6.90%) SEO
8 2 (6.90%) Test Automation
8 2 (6.90%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (34.48%) Python
3 8 (27.59%) TypeScript
4 5 (17.24%) PHP
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) Go
5 1 (3.45%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) Rust
5 1 (3.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.90%) WCAG
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Foundry
2 1 (3.45%) Palantir