JavaScript Contracts in Essex

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 17 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +12
DemandTrendContract jobs citing JavaScript 2 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 1.80% 3.88% 5.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.88% 13.16% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £376 - £455
25th Percentile £397 £213 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £225 £563
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -60.00% +32.35%
75th Percentile £472 £238 £600
90th Percentile £489 - -
East of England median daily rate £525 £403 £550
% change year-on-year +30.43% -26.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.00
Median hourly rate - - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £76.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £73.25
% change year-on-year - -11.26% +11.83%

All Programming Languages
Essex

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 Essex.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 34 38 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 30.63% 29.46% 28.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 52
10th Percentile £352 £173 £238
25th Percentile £400 £213 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +39.43% -30.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £511 £550 £575
90th Percentile £550 £570 £605
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 3
10th Percentile £39.33 £22.00 £59.40
25th Percentile £46.19 £51.06 £64.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -12.16% +0.68%
75th Percentile £106.25 £80.00 £77.75
90th Percentile £162.50 - £78.80
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.07%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Essex

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Essex over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Essex

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing JavaScript

JavaScript
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Essex region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chelmsford - 1 £375 - 5
JavaScript
East of England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft