JavaScript Contracts in England

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,763 3,025 5,828
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.77% 5.98% 8.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.29% 16.93% 22.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 2,229 4,450
10th Percentile £325 £384 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £728
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% +13.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 47 64
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.60 £17.40
25th Percentile £46.18 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £53.78
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +30.17% +19.51%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £65.44
90th Percentile £74.50 £77.60 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +27.27% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
England

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -6 1,075 £600 +4.35% 582
North of England -10 222 £475 -7.32% 324
South East -11 153 £423 -13.33% 223
South West +5 123 £500 -4.76% 194
North West -18 107 £450 -14.29% 189
Yorkshire -3 90 £550 +10.00% 103
Midlands -11 85 £419 -5.58% 203
East Midlands +2 45 £388 -3.13% 78
East of England -8 43 £438 -8.38% 125
West Midlands 0 40 £450 -8.86% 125
North East +8 25 £454 -17.45% 36
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
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
1 104 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (4.99%) Apache
3 50 (2.84%) CMS
4 47 (2.67%) Confluence
5 43 (2.44%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.25%) nginx
7 19 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (0.85%) Drupal
8 15 (0.85%) WordPress
9 12 (0.68%) IIS
10 11 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
11 8 (0.45%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.40%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.40%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
12 7 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
12 7 (0.40%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.34%) Tornado
14 4 (0.23%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 111 (6.30%) Chatbot
2 16 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.51%) Sketch
4 8 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.34%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.23%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.17%) Simulink
9 2 (0.11%) InVision
10 1 (0.057%) Avocode
Business Applications
1 27 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.85%) Shopify
3 11 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 6 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
6 5 (0.28%) Endur
6 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.23%) Magento
7 4 (0.23%) Maximo
7 4 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.17%) Eloqua
9 2 (0.11%) Unica
9 2 (0.11%) WebTrends
9 2 (0.11%) Workfront
10 1 (0.057%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle 11i
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (0.057%) SAP CX
10 1 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 524 (29.72%) AWS
2 362 (20.53%) Azure
3 202 (11.46%) GCP
4 98 (5.56%) GitHub
5 94 (5.33%) Serverless
6 88 (4.99%) dbt
7 86 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (4.88%) Power Platform
8 71 (4.03%) Snowflake
9 55 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (2.61%) Power Automate
11 43 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
12 41 (2.33%) PowerApps
13 39 (2.21%) npm
14 34 (1.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 33 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
16 28 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
17 25 (1.42%) Figma
18 24 (1.36%) Azure Functions
19 23 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.42%) HTTP
2 17 (0.96%) Firewall
3 16 (0.91%) Intranet
4 14 (0.79%) Software-Defined Radio
5 13 (0.74%) SNMP
6 10 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.51%) Ethernet
7 9 (0.51%) Internet
8 8 (0.45%) DNS
9 7 (0.40%) SSL
10 6 (0.34%) Wireless
11 5 (0.28%) MQTT
11 5 (0.28%) RTSP
12 4 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.23%) VPN
13 3 (0.17%) AMQP
13 3 (0.17%) BGP
13 3 (0.17%) DHCP
13 3 (0.17%) Kerberos
13 3 (0.17%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 93 (5.28%) MySQL
3 89 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
4 88 (4.99%) Apache Arrow
4 88 (4.99%) Dremio
5 80 (4.54%) Apache Ignite
5 80 (4.54%) MongoDB
6 78 (4.42%) NoSQL
6 78 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
7 68 (3.86%) Data Lake
8 53 (3.01%) Relational Database
9 38 (2.16%) Power BI
10 34 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
12 20 (1.13%) Redis
13 19 (1.08%) Metadata
14 17 (0.96%) Big Data
14 17 (0.96%) DynamoDB
15 15 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 15 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 214 (12.14%) Git
2 116 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 107 (6.07%) JIRA
4 56 (3.18%) Cypress.io
5 55 (3.12%) webpack
6 53 (3.01%) GitLab
7 39 (2.21%) Selenium
8 29 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 29 (1.64%) Eclipse
8 29 (1.64%) Postman
9 25 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 23 (1.30%) Visual Studio
11 18 (1.02%) JMeter
11 18 (1.02%) TeamCity
12 17 (0.96%) Robot Framework
13 16 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.79%) GoogleTest
14 14 (0.79%) Maven
15 11 (0.62%) NUnit
15 11 (0.62%) SpecFlow
General
1 358 (20.31%) Finance
2 335 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 182 (10.32%) Front Office
4 159 (9.02%) Banking
5 141 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 118 (6.69%) Public Sector
7 84 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 79 (4.48%) Marketing
9 33 (1.87%) Retail
10 26 (1.47%) Advertising
11 24 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.02%) Back Office
14 18 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (0.79%) Games
16 11 (0.62%) Legal
16 11 (0.62%) Military
16 11 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,082 (61.37%) Developer
2 224 (12.71%) Senior
3 201 (11.40%) Full Stack Developer
4 200 (11.34%) Software Engineer
5 195 (11.06%) Software Developer
6 136 (7.71%) Senior Developer
7 119 (6.75%) Lead
8 115 (6.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 101 (5.73%) React Developer
10 98 (5.56%) Architect
11 92 (5.22%) .NET Developer
12 87 (4.93%) JavaScript Developer
13 84 (4.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 66 (3.74%) Python Developer
15 65 (3.69%) C# Developer
16 57 (3.23%) Java Developer
17 53 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
18 49 (2.78%) Full Stack Engineer
19 48 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
20 46 (2.61%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 701 (39.76%) HTML
2 552 (31.31%) CSS
3 536 (30.40%) React
4 331 (18.77%) Node.js
5 276 (15.66%) .NET
6 247 (14.01%) AngularJS
7 189 (10.72%) REST
8 123 (6.98%) Web Services
9 104 (5.90%) ASP.NET
9 104 (5.90%) XML
10 101 (5.73%) gRPC
10 101 (5.73%) Protocol Buffers
11 99 (5.62%) Pandas
12 98 (5.56%) Redux
13 96 (5.45%) .NET Core
14 95 (5.39%) Vue
15 94 (5.33%) RESTful
16 88 (4.99%) NumPy
17 85 (4.82%) HTML5
17 85 (4.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 158 (8.96%) Fixed Income
2 125 (7.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 116 (6.58%) Derivative
3 116 (6.58%) Hedge funds
4 108 (6.13%) Equities
5 58 (3.29%) Product Ownership
6 44 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 42 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
8 40 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 32 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 30 (1.70%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.42%) Cloud Native
11 25 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 25 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (0.68%) Clustering
14 11 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (0.57%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 125 (7.09%) Linux
2 68 (3.86%) Windows
3 46 (2.61%) Unix
4 32 (1.82%) Android
5 28 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.057%) CentOS
8 1 (0.057%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (37.10%) Agile
2 525 (29.78%) Software Engineering
3 355 (20.14%) Full Stack Development
4 329 (18.66%) DevOps
5 281 (15.94%) CI/CD
6 235 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 218 (12.37%) Front End Development
8 191 (10.83%) Test Automation
9 184 (10.44%) TDD
10 169 (9.59%) Code Quality
11 153 (8.68%) Asset Management
12 146 (8.28%) Web Development
13 145 (8.22%) Artificial Intelligence
14 143 (8.11%) Microservices
15 140 (7.94%) Scrum
16 133 (7.54%) User Experience
17 119 (6.75%) Investment Management
18 113 (6.41%) Conversational UI
19 111 (6.30%) Design Patterns
19 111 (6.30%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 561 (31.82%) Python
2 481 (27.28%) TypeScript
3 474 (26.89%) C#
4 442 (25.07%) Java
5 432 (24.50%) SQL
6 104 (5.90%) PHP
7 79 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 64 (3.63%) C++
9 58 (3.29%) Go
10 38 (2.16%) Bash
11 33 (1.87%) Kotlin
11 33 (1.87%) Ruby
12 30 (1.70%) C
12 30 (1.70%) PL/SQL
13 25 (1.42%) Bicep
14 23 (1.30%) T-SQL
15 22 (1.25%) Apex Code
16 21 (1.19%) Groovy
17 17 (0.96%) Scala
18 12 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 269 (15.26%) Degree
2 234 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 171 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 70 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.45%) ISTQB
9 8 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
11 6 (0.34%) CEH
11 6 (0.34%) CREST Certified
11 6 (0.34%) GIAC
11 6 (0.34%) GPEN
11 6 (0.34%) OSCP
12 5 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.23%) CISSP
13 4 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (7.09%) QA
2 84 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 40 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.99%) WCAG
5 16 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.68%) GDPR
7 9 (0.51%) NIST
8 7 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
8 7 (0.40%) GxP
8 7 (0.40%) SLA
9 5 (0.28%) GRC
10 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.23%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.11%) MiFID
11 2 (0.11%) PMO
12 1 (0.057%) HL7
12 1 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.057%) MISRA
12 1 (0.057%) MISRA C
System Software
1 110 (6.24%) Docker
2 68 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.76%) IAG
4 28 (1.59%) ACF2
4 28 (1.59%) RACF
5 15 (0.85%) Firmware
6 10 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.23%) zsh
8 3 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.057%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.057%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.057%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 152 (8.62%) Kubernetes
2 90 (5.10%) Terraform
3 54 (3.06%) Ansible
4 29 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.96%) Grafana
6 12 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.45%) PingFederate
8 6 (0.34%) Kibana
9 5 (0.28%) Puppet
10 4 (0.23%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.23%) logstash
11 3 (0.17%) Netcool
11 3 (0.17%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.057%) Argo
12 1 (0.057%) Istio
12 1 (0.057%) MOM
12 1 (0.057%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.057%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.057%) vRealize
12 1 (0.057%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 138 (7.83%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.24%) PayPal
3 83 (4.71%) Google
3 83 (4.71%) Oracle
4 68 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 49 (2.78%) Adobe
6 44 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 28 (1.59%) SAP
8 22 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 22 (1.25%) Sybase
9 18 (1.02%) MuleSoft
10 17 (0.96%) Optimizely
11 15 (0.85%) Splunk
12 13 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 12 (0.68%) VMware
14 10 (0.57%) IBM
15 9 (0.51%) Tealium
16 8 (0.45%) BeyondTrust
16 8 (0.45%) Databricks
16 8 (0.45%) ESRI