JavaScript Contracts in England

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 36 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 -10
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,325 1,781 3,007
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.44% 4.79% 5.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.13% 16.31% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 1,259 2,209
10th Percentile £358 £325 £385
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £663 £699 £650
90th Percentile £800 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 34 47
10th Percentile £26.25 £35.00 £35.60
25th Percentile £34.13 £46.18 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £67.75 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.50 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.20% -10.71% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,215 10,919 17,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.75% 29.34% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,685 7,932 13,006
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 439 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year - +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +3 847 £574 -4.42% 682
North of England -10 143 £460 -3.16% 377
South East +1 93 £545 +28.99% 273
Midlands +18 91 £450 +7.53% 225
North West -1 89 £445 -3.78% 242
South West +2 76 £488 -2.50% 138
West Midlands +40 71 £466 +3.61% 127
Yorkshire -20 41 £493 -10.40% 100
North East -2 20 £470 +3.52% 37
East of England +8 19 £500 +14.29% 132
East Midlands -11 19 £425 +9.68% 96
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 59 (4.45%) Apache
2 57 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (3.40%) SharePoint
4 43 (3.25%) Confluence
5 22 (1.66%) CMS
6 20 (1.51%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.91%) nginx
8 9 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
8 9 (0.68%) IIS
8 9 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.60%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.53%) Drupal
10 7 (0.53%) WordPress
11 6 (0.45%) JBoss
11 6 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.45%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.38%) Moodle
12 5 (0.38%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (0.98%) Adobe XD
2 12 (0.91%) Sketch
3 8 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.45%) InfoPath
4 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.23%) InVision
6 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.15%) Trello
7 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.075%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.075%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.075%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 55 (4.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.45%) Shopify
3 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.23%) Endur
4 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Magento
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.075%) BASE24
6 1 (0.075%) FastStats
6 1 (0.075%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 463 (34.94%) AWS
2 299 (22.57%) Azure
3 159 (12.00%) GCP
4 126 (9.51%) Power Platform
5 116 (8.75%) Serverless
6 94 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
7 85 (6.42%) Power Automate
8 82 (6.19%) PowerApps
9 77 (5.81%) GitHub
10 73 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
11 65 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
12 61 (4.60%) dbt
13 45 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
13 45 (3.40%) Amazon S3
14 44 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
15 43 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
16 36 (2.72%) Snowflake
17 35 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
17 35 (2.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.09%) HTTP
2 13 (0.98%) HTTPS
2 13 (0.98%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.83%) DNS
4 8 (0.60%) POP3
4 8 (0.60%) SMTP
5 7 (0.53%) SNMP
5 7 (0.53%) Software-Defined Radio
5 7 (0.53%) SSL
6 6 (0.45%) Firewall
7 5 (0.38%) DHCP
7 5 (0.38%) Ethernet
7 5 (0.38%) Internet
8 4 (0.30%) Intranet
8 4 (0.30%) VPN
9 2 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.15%) IPsec
9 2 (0.15%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.15%) SMS
10 1 (0.075%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (6.57%) SQL Server
3 77 (5.81%) NoSQL
4 74 (5.58%) MongoDB
5 58 (4.38%) Amazon Athena
6 57 (4.30%) Apache Iceberg
6 57 (4.30%) Dremio
7 55 (4.15%) Apache Arrow
7 55 (4.15%) Power BI
8 53 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 53 (4.00%) MySQL
9 52 (3.92%) Relational Database
10 40 (3.02%) Apache Ignite
11 35 (2.64%) DynamoDB
12 29 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
13 26 (1.96%) Redis
14 20 (1.51%) Neo4j
15 19 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 16 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
17 14 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 235 (17.74%) Git
2 95 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 93 (7.02%) JIRA
4 70 (5.28%) Cypress.io
5 62 (4.68%) GitLab
6 46 (3.47%) Bitbucket
7 42 (3.17%) Selenium
8 38 (2.87%) Postman
9 32 (2.42%) webpack
10 29 (2.19%) SonarQube
11 27 (2.04%) Maven
12 25 (1.89%) Cucumber
12 25 (1.89%) TeamCity
13 21 (1.58%) JMeter
14 20 (1.51%) REST Assured
15 19 (1.43%) JUnit
16 16 (1.21%) Mocha
16 16 (1.21%) Subversion
17 15 (1.13%) CircleCI
18 14 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 304 (22.94%) Finance
2 291 (21.96%) Social Skills
3 158 (11.92%) Banking
4 153 (11.55%) Front Office
5 152 (11.47%) Public Sector
6 137 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
7 81 (6.11%) Investment Banking
8 52 (3.92%) Marketing
9 35 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (1.96%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.43%) Legal
11 19 (1.43%) Retail
12 18 (1.36%) Back Office
13 17 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.98%) Electronics
16 11 (0.83%) Military
17 10 (0.75%) Advertising
17 10 (0.75%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 697 (52.60%) Developer
2 213 (16.08%) Senior
3 212 (16.00%) Software Engineer
4 118 (8.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 100 (7.55%) Lead
6 94 (7.09%) Senior Developer
7 92 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
8 82 (6.19%) Architect
9 79 (5.96%) React Developer
10 75 (5.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 67 (5.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 64 (4.83%) AWS Software Engineer
13 60 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
14 56 (4.23%) Python Engineer
15 54 (4.08%) Java Developer
16 51 (3.85%) Software Developer
17 50 (3.77%) Python Developer
18 47 (3.55%) AWS Developer
19 43 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 41 (3.09%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 469 (35.40%) HTML
2 455 (34.34%) React
3 447 (33.74%) CSS
4 298 (22.49%) Node.js
5 246 (18.57%) .NET
6 224 (16.91%) AngularJS
7 139 (10.49%) REST
8 134 (10.11%) RESTful
9 124 (9.36%) Web Services
10 108 (8.15%) HTML5
11 103 (7.77%) Redux
12 100 (7.55%) Vue
13 79 (5.96%) jQuery
14 76 (5.74%) SOAP
15 75 (5.66%) JSON
16 69 (5.21%) Pandas
17 66 (4.98%) NumPy
18 65 (4.91%) Spring
19 64 (4.83%) SciPy
20 60 (4.53%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.92%) Fixed Income
2 80 (6.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 60 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 55 (4.15%) Equities
5 53 (4.00%) Hedge funds
6 44 (3.32%) Derivative
7 34 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (2.26%) Data Structures
9 29 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (1.89%) Cloud Native
11 24 (1.81%) Management Information System
12 20 (1.51%) Algorithms
13 18 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.28%) CMDB
14 17 (1.28%) Low-Code
14 17 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
15 14 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
16 13 (0.98%) Onboarding
16 13 (0.98%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 84 (6.34%) Linux
2 37 (2.79%) Windows
3 28 (2.11%) Unix
4 11 (0.83%) Ubuntu
5 10 (0.75%) Android
5 10 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.38%) Mac OS X
7 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.30%) CentOS
9 1 (0.075%) AIX
9 1 (0.075%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.075%) Rocky
9 1 (0.075%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (45.43%) Agile
2 335 (25.28%) Software Engineering
3 321 (24.23%) CI/CD
4 268 (20.23%) DevOps
5 227 (17.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 227 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
6 179 (13.51%) Test Automation
6 179 (13.51%) User Experience
7 173 (13.06%) Microservices
8 136 (10.26%) Front End Development
9 128 (9.66%) TDD
10 126 (9.51%) Scrum
11 123 (9.28%) Asset Management
12 111 (8.38%) Web Development
13 107 (8.08%) Fintech
14 99 (7.47%) Mentoring
15 92 (6.94%) Investment Management
16 85 (6.42%) Analytics
17 84 (6.34%) Continuous Integration
17 84 (6.34%) OO
Programming Languages
1 394 (29.74%) TypeScript
2 386 (29.13%) Python
3 364 (27.47%) Java
4 301 (22.72%) C#
5 299 (22.57%) SQL
6 73 (5.51%) PowerShell
7 61 (4.60%) C++
7 61 (4.60%) PHP
8 34 (2.57%) Shell Script
9 28 (2.11%) Ruby
10 25 (1.89%) Go
11 22 (1.66%) T-SQL
12 20 (1.51%) Scala
13 17 (1.28%) Bash
13 17 (1.28%) C
14 16 (1.21%) Apex Code
14 16 (1.21%) Groovy
14 16 (1.21%) PL/SQL
15 15 (1.13%) Kotlin
16 14 (1.06%) Perl
Qualifications
1 272 (20.53%) Security Cleared
2 210 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 107 (8.08%) Degree
4 55 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
8 15 (1.13%) AWS Certification
9 12 (0.91%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.45%) CEH
10 6 (0.45%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.38%) CCSAS
11 5 (0.38%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.38%) GIAC
11 5 (0.38%) GPEN
11 5 (0.38%) GWAPT
11 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.38%) OSCP
12 4 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.30%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (6.26%) QA
2 80 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 29 (2.19%) WCAG
4 10 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (0.45%) GDPR
8 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.23%) EMIR
10 3 (0.23%) HL7
10 3 (0.23%) MiFID
10 3 (0.23%) SLA
11 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) DICOM
11 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.15%) WAI
12 1 (0.075%) PERC
System Software
1 140 (10.57%) Docker
2 37 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.45%) OpenAM
3 6 (0.45%) OpenDJ
3 6 (0.45%) OpenIDM
3 6 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.23%) Firmware
5 3 (0.23%) vCloud
5 3 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (0.23%) vSphere
6 2 (0.15%) RACF
7 1 (0.075%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 171 (12.91%) Kubernetes
2 81 (6.11%) Terraform
3 27 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (1.21%) Ansible
4 16 (1.21%) Grafana
5 10 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.45%) Kibana
6 6 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.38%) Packer
8 4 (0.30%) Perfmon
9 3 (0.23%) Puppet
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) Argo
10 2 (0.15%) Nagios
10 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.075%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.075%) Istio
11 1 (0.075%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.075%) Rancher
11 1 (0.075%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 179 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 81 (6.11%) ServiceNow
3 71 (5.36%) Oracle
4 60 (4.53%) Google
5 44 (3.32%) Adobe
6 43 (3.25%) SAP
7 37 (2.79%) Databricks
8 28 (2.11%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.66%) Atlassian
10 17 (1.28%) ForgeRock
11 16 (1.21%) OutSystems
11 16 (1.21%) Splunk
12 13 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.91%) Cloudera
14 9 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.60%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.60%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.60%) Ping Identity
15 8 (0.60%) VMware
15 8 (0.60%) Zend