Babel Contracts in London

Babel JavaScript Compiler
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Babel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Babel 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 347 383 487
Rank change year-on-year +36 +104 +72
Contract jobs citing Babel 6 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.045% 0.022%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.33% 0.34% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £369 £289 £451
25th Percentile £500 £300 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £569 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.97% +19.74% -16.48%
75th Percentile £737 £674 £556
90th Percentile £738 £747 £605
England median daily rate £450 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Development Application Skills
London

Babel falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,814 2,325 4,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.46% 13.04% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,656 3,172
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £419 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 39
10th Percentile £22.93 £22.90 £48.20
25th Percentile £26.04 £25.99 £56.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.31 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.25 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Babel
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Babel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Babel in London

Babel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Babel in London.

Daily rate trend for Babel in London

Babel
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Babel in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Babel in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Babel within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +5 2 £725 -3.33% 2
Babel
England

Babel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (66.67%) npm
1 4 (66.67%) Yarn
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) webpack
2 3 (50.00%) Ant
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) React Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Grid Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Junior
4 1 (16.67%) Junior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior UI Developer
4 1 (16.67%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) React
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) CSS3
3 3 (50.00%) .NET
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) HTML5
3 3 (50.00%) Material-UI
3 3 (50.00%) Redux
3 3 (50.00%) RESTful
3 3 (50.00%) Semantic UI
3 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 3 (50.00%) WPF
4 2 (33.33%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Front End Development
2 4 (66.67%) User Experience
2 4 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 3 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Functional Programming
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) UX Design
4 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Fintech
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Adaptive Web Design
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
5 1 (16.67%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility