JavaScript Contract Job Trends in England

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 35 36
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,313 1,572 1,952
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.22% 5.36% 5.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.50% 16.44% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 993 1,450
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -3.57%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £489 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -6.01% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 34 27
10th Percentile £45.65 £36.05 £30.64
25th Percentile £61.25 £41.69 £46.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £67.85 £71.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% -7.69%

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 9,728 9,560 11,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.29% 32.59% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,454 6,216 8,446
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 243 388
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £34.20
25th Percentile £50.44 £44.75 £46.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -0.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.23
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -0.80%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in England

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in England over the 6 months to 14 December 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 14 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
London -19 739 £525 -10.26% 443
North of England -18 152 £430 -9.47% 439
South East -3 149 £413 +3.13% 460
South West +4 105 £475 -13.64% 203
Yorkshire -21 75 £488 -2.50% 172
Midlands -53 69 £500 +3.63% 282
North West -15 68 £400 -12.09% 221
East of England -7 61 £500 +25.79% 210
West Midlands -47 53 £500 -10.95% 155
East Midlands -29 16 £475 +11.76% 118
North East -17 14 £413 -12.23% 50
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 55 (4.19%) Confluence
2 45 (3.43%) Apache
3 39 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.28%) SharePoint
5 23 (1.75%) CMS
6 17 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 11 (0.84%) Headless CMS
7 11 (0.84%) SAS
8 10 (0.76%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.69%) Appian
10 8 (0.61%) IIS
11 7 (0.53%) Mendix
11 7 (0.53%) WordPress
12 6 (0.46%) Apache Spark
12 6 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
13 5 (0.38%) SugarCRM
13 5 (0.38%) Umbraco
14 4 (0.30%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
15 3 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (0.76%) Sketch
2 8 (0.61%) Adobe XD
2 8 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.23%) InVision
6 2 (0.15%) Trello
7 1 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.076%) Moqups
7 1 (0.076%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 50 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
3 12 (0.91%) Maximo
4 9 (0.69%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.23%) Magento
5 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.23%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.15%) OpenText MBPM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.15%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.076%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.076%) Endur
7 1 (0.076%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.076%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.076%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 373 (28.41%) AWS
2 371 (28.26%) Azure
3 159 (12.11%) Azure DevOps
4 144 (10.97%) GitHub
5 120 (9.14%) Serverless
6 117 (8.91%) GCP
7 102 (7.77%) Power Platform
8 89 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
9 74 (5.64%) Power Automate
10 65 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
10 65 (4.95%) PowerApps
11 61 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
12 55 (4.19%) SaaS
13 46 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
14 43 (3.27%) Snowflake
15 41 (3.12%) Amazon S3
16 38 (2.89%) dbt
17 37 (2.82%) npm
18 33 (2.51%) Entra ID
19 32 (2.44%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.60%) HTTP
1 21 (1.60%) TCP/IP
2 20 (1.52%) SSL
3 19 (1.45%) Ethernet
4 18 (1.37%) Wireless
5 10 (0.76%) Network Security
6 8 (0.61%) Firewall
7 6 (0.46%) VPN
8 5 (0.38%) DNS
8 5 (0.38%) NFC
8 5 (0.38%) PPP
9 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.30%) Internet
10 2 (0.15%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.15%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.076%) POP3
11 1 (0.076%) SMS
11 1 (0.076%) STUN
11 1 (0.076%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (7.62%) Relational Database
3 97 (7.39%) MySQL
4 82 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 55 (4.19%) Power BI
6 48 (3.66%) NoSQL
7 38 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
8 37 (2.82%) Apache Arrow
8 37 (2.82%) Apache Iceberg
8 37 (2.82%) Dremio
9 36 (2.74%) MongoDB
10 28 (2.13%) Data Lake
11 26 (1.98%) Apache Ignite
12 23 (1.75%) Oracle Database
13 22 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (1.68%) Redis
14 14 (1.07%) Big Data
14 14 (1.07%) Tableau
15 11 (0.84%) DB2
15 11 (0.84%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 233 (17.75%) Git
2 143 (10.89%) JIRA
3 121 (9.22%) Jenkins
4 94 (7.16%) GitLab
5 72 (5.48%) Cypress.io
6 54 (4.11%) Selenium
7 53 (4.04%) Eclipse
8 49 (3.73%) Cucumber
9 38 (2.89%) Browser DevTools
10 37 (2.82%) Oracle APEX
11 34 (2.59%) Postman
11 34 (2.59%) SonarQube
11 34 (2.59%) Visual Studio
12 33 (2.51%) JUnit
13 30 (2.28%) Xcode
14 29 (2.21%) webpack
15 24 (1.83%) Maven
16 23 (1.75%) Android Studio
17 22 (1.68%) REST Assured
18 21 (1.60%) Bitbucket
General
1 416 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 227 (17.29%) Finance
3 150 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 127 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 115 (8.76%) Banking
6 68 (5.18%) Front Office
7 59 (4.49%) Investment Banking
8 42 (3.20%) Marketing
9 37 (2.82%) Military
9 37 (2.82%) Telecoms
10 24 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.37%) Retail
13 12 (0.91%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.76%) Legal
16 8 (0.61%) Law
17 7 (0.53%) Electronics
17 7 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 606 (46.15%) Developer
2 206 (15.69%) Senior
3 156 (11.88%) Software Engineer
4 114 (8.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 93 (7.08%) Senior Developer
6 77 (5.86%) Lead
7 56 (4.27%) Architect
8 54 (4.11%) Consultant
9 51 (3.88%) Java Developer
9 51 (3.88%) React Developer
10 50 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 49 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
11 49 (3.73%) Technical Support
12 48 (3.66%) Python Engineer
13 46 (3.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 45 (3.43%) Python Developer
14 45 (3.43%) Support Engineer
15 44 (3.35%) AWS Developer
16 43 (3.27%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (33.59%) React
2 372 (28.33%) HTML
3 361 (27.49%) CSS
4 275 (20.94%) Node.js
5 230 (17.52%) REST
6 216 (16.45%) AngularJS
7 186 (14.17%) .NET
8 147 (11.20%) RESTful
9 115 (8.76%) SOAP
10 106 (8.07%) JSON
11 95 (7.24%) HTML5
12 94 (7.16%) Vue
13 92 (7.01%) Web Services
14 82 (6.25%) GraphQL
15 78 (5.94%) Spring
16 71 (5.41%) Playwright
17 69 (5.26%) Jest
18 65 (4.95%) XML
19 64 (4.87%) Spring Boot
20 58 (4.42%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 68 (5.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 61 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 57 (4.34%) Fixed Income
5 56 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 43 (3.27%) Hedge funds
7 39 (2.97%) Equities
8 38 (2.89%) CMDB
9 35 (2.67%) Derivative
10 32 (2.44%) Data Structures
11 29 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.98%) Pricing Data
13 25 (1.90%) Low-Code
14 23 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
17 19 (1.45%) Onboarding
18 18 (1.37%) AI Agents
19 17 (1.29%) Algorithms
20 15 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 136 (10.36%) Linux
2 90 (6.85%) Windows
3 57 (4.34%) Unix
4 53 (4.04%) Android
5 29 (2.21%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.84%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.46%) CentOS
8 6 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.15%) Debian
11 1 (0.076%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.076%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.076%) VMS
11 1 (0.076%) Windows Embedded Compact
11 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (44.86%) Agile
2 481 (36.63%) CI/CD
3 380 (28.94%) DevOps
4 268 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 253 (19.27%) Software Engineering
6 240 (18.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 205 (15.61%) Test Automation
8 194 (14.78%) Microservices
9 173 (13.18%) User Experience
10 171 (13.02%) Scrum
11 132 (10.05%) Front End Development
12 123 (9.37%) Containerisation
13 116 (8.83%) TDD
14 111 (8.45%) Computer Science
15 101 (7.69%) AI
16 100 (7.62%) Analytics
17 97 (7.39%) Clean Code
18 95 (7.24%) Validation
19 87 (6.63%) Mentoring
20 84 (6.40%) OO
Programming Languages
1 450 (34.27%) Python
2 376 (28.64%) Java
3 374 (28.48%) TypeScript
4 321 (24.45%) SQL
5 255 (19.42%) C#
6 91 (6.93%) C++
7 72 (5.48%) PowerShell
8 51 (3.88%) PL/SQL
9 47 (3.58%) Perl
10 44 (3.35%) PHP
11 37 (2.82%) Go
12 35 (2.67%) Bash
13 31 (2.36%) Shell Script
14 28 (2.13%) C
15 26 (1.98%) Ruby
16 24 (1.83%) Groovy
17 19 (1.45%) Kotlin
18 18 (1.37%) Rust
19 17 (1.29%) Bicep
20 16 (1.22%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 351 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 296 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 108 (8.23%) Degree
4 78 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 15 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.69%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.46%) MCP
14 5 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.30%) CCNA
15 4 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.30%) OCP
15 4 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
16 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (7.84%) QA
2 102 (7.77%) Accessibility
3 45 (3.43%) WCAG
4 20 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.99%) GDPR
6 9 (0.69%) GRC
7 5 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.15%) HL7
9 2 (0.15%) MiFID
9 2 (0.15%) SLA
9 2 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.076%) FATCA
10 1 (0.076%) GxP
10 1 (0.076%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.076%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.076%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.076%) NCSC
10 1 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 214 (16.30%) Docker
2 28 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.076%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.076%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 179 (13.63%) Kubernetes
2 102 (7.77%) Terraform
3 42 (3.20%) Ansible
4 35 (2.67%) Grafana
5 27 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (1.68%) vRealize
7 16 (1.22%) Argo
8 9 (0.69%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.38%) Icinga
10 5 (0.38%) Puppet
10 5 (0.38%) Salt
11 4 (0.30%) Rundeck
12 3 (0.23%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.15%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.15%) Kibana
13 2 (0.15%) Nagios
13 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.076%) Control-M
14 1 (0.076%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 195 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 147 (11.20%) Oracle
3 105 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 59 (4.49%) Google
5 45 (3.43%) Adobe
6 43 (3.27%) Splunk
7 42 (3.20%) SAP
8 39 (2.97%) Red Hat
9 33 (2.51%) Salesforce
10 29 (2.21%) VMware
11 26 (1.98%) Databricks
12 16 (1.22%) HP
12 16 (1.22%) OpenAI
13 15 (1.14%) IBM
14 13 (0.99%) BMC
14 13 (0.99%) Ivanti
14 13 (0.99%) Remedy
15 11 (0.84%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.76%) Cisco
16 10 (0.76%) Lotus