JavaScript Contracts in Kent

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 23 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +1
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 0.95% 2.97% 4.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% 31.58% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £408 £549
25th Percentile £463 £442 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -25.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £488 £525 -
90th Percentile - £570 -
South East median daily rate £545 £423 £488
% change year-on-year +28.99% -13.33% +2.63%

All Programming Languages
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7 19 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 6.67% 9.41% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 25
10th Percentile £413 - £328
25th Percentile £463 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £569 £650
90th Percentile £568 £575 £772
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £51.98 £46.94
25th Percentile - £53.82 £50.38
Median hourly rate - £58.91 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year - +4.75% +25.74%
75th Percentile - £63.98 £56.41
90th Percentile - £65.80 £56.45
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Kent

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Kent

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Kent

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Octopus Deploy
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Speech Recognition
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#