JavaScript Contracts in Hertfordshire

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 36 67
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 -23
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 31 25 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.28% 3.56% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.25% 16.45% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 4
10th Percentile £427 - £415
25th Percentile £472 £363 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £489 £713
90th Percentile - £633 £825
East of England median daily rate £545 £420 £543
% change year-on-year +29.76% -22.58% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 1
10th Percentile £63.70 £63.25 -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £66.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £73.25
% change year-on-year - -11.26% +12.26%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 161 152 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 37.79% 21.62% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 52 98
10th Percentile £446 £325 £355
25th Percentile £489 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £423 £525
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% -19.52% -1.18%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £675
90th Percentile £613 £649 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +7.53% -2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 78 77
10th Percentile £48.13 £57.50 £54.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +19.09%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £77.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.07%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Hertfordshire

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Hertfordshire

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Hertfordshire

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Hertfordshire

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage +13 22 - - 8
Watford +11 5 £550 +29.41% 4
Hemel Hempstead +6 2 £431 -33.65% 10
St Albans - 1 - - 2
JavaScript
East of England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 5 (16.13%) Apache
1 5 (16.13%) IIS
1 5 (16.13%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) npm
2 2 (6.45%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) Figma
3 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (41.94%) Ethernet
1 13 (41.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.13%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (16.13%) DB2
Development Applications
1 22 (70.97%) Visual Studio
2 13 (41.94%) Eclipse
3 9 (29.03%) Artifactory
3 9 (29.03%) GitLab
3 9 (29.03%) JIRA
4 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 20 (64.52%) Social Skills
2 13 (41.94%) Military
2 13 (41.94%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Software Engineer
2 13 (41.94%) C# Software Engineer
3 10 (32.26%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) Developer
5 6 (19.35%) Consultant
6 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 5 (16.13%) Maximo Consultant
7 3 (9.68%) Development Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Software Development Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
9 1 (3.23%) .NET Developer
9 1 (3.23%) IT Consultant
9 1 (3.23%) IT Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Maximo Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Python Developer
9 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow Consultant
9 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow Developer
9 1 (3.23%) Synthetic Environment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (74.19%) Node.js
2 18 (58.06%) Web Services
3 12 (38.71%) CSS
3 12 (38.71%) HTML
4 11 (35.48%) .NET
4 11 (35.48%) AngularJS
5 10 (32.26%) .NET Framework
5 10 (32.26%) React
5 10 (32.26%) Vue
6 9 (29.03%) Svelte
7 6 (19.35%) SOAP
8 5 (16.13%) XML
9 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
9 1 (3.23%) Blazor
9 1 (3.23%) Bootstrap
9 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
9 1 (3.23%) jQuery
9 1 (3.23%) KnockoutJS
9 1 (3.23%) REST
9 1 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Algorithms
1 9 (29.03%) Data Structures
1 9 (29.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (64.52%) Linux
2 18 (58.06%) Windows
3 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) CI/CD
2 22 (70.97%) Agile
2 22 (70.97%) TDD
3 16 (51.61%) Software Engineering
4 14 (45.16%) DevOps
4 14 (45.16%) Validation
5 13 (41.94%) Synthetic Environment
5 13 (41.94%) Verification and Validation
5 13 (41.94%) Visualisation
6 12 (38.71%) Continuous Delivery
6 12 (38.71%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (38.71%) Digital Twin
6 12 (38.71%) Unit Testing
7 11 (35.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (32.26%) Microservices
9 9 (29.03%) Computer Science
9 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
9 9 (29.03%) Design Patterns
9 9 (29.03%) SDLC
9 9 (29.03%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) C#
2 20 (64.52%) C++
3 9 (29.03%) TypeScript
4 6 (19.35%) Python
5 5 (16.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) QA
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (61.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) IBM
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow