JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Leicester

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 8.33% - 3.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.00% - 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £550 - -
25th Percentile £563 - £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.41%
75th Percentile £625 - £455
90th Percentile - - £460
Leicestershire median daily rate £600 - £450
% change year-on-year - - +8.43%

All Programming Languages
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 25 15 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 29.76% 20.55% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 41
10th Percentile £420 £323 £300
25th Percentile £433 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £398 £455
Median % change year-on-year +38.36% -12.71% +13.85%
75th Percentile £625 £518 £530
90th Percentile £659 £535 £563
Leicestershire median daily rate £495 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +16.47% -5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £13.84 - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.16%
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.00 - £56.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.16%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Leicester

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 7 (100.00%) CMS
2 5 (71.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (71.43%) Headless CMS
2 5 (71.43%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (71.43%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Kontent
2 5 (71.43%) Contentful
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) CMS Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (71.43%) C# Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 5 (71.43%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 7 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) React
1 7 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 7 (100.00%) MVC
2 5 (71.43%) AI
2 5 (71.43%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) API Development
3 2 (28.57%) API Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Mobile First
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Adobe
1 5 (71.43%) Sitecore
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft