JavaScript Developer Contracts in London

JavaScript Developer
England > London

The median JavaScript Developer daily rate in London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 340 350
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 -84
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 31 60 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.34% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.37% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 45 133
10th Percentile £320 £333 £450
25th Percentile £375 £450 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £635
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -9.45% +1.60%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £775
90th Percentile £787 £725 £1,000
England median daily rate £494 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -5.95% -12.50% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,044 16,404 23,985
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.88% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,141 11,758 17,511
10th Percentile £335 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 316 271
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.23 £20.17 £22.95
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -26.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £50.50 £45.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
% change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%

JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Developer in London

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript Developer in London

JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Developer in London

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript Developer in London

JavaScript Developer
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 JavaScript Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 July 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 3 £525 -4.55% 8
West London - 1 - - 5
JavaScript Developer
England

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, JavaScript Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 22 (70.97%) React
3 19 (61.29%) AWS
4 17 (54.84%) Finance
4 17 (54.84%) Java
5 16 (51.61%) Python
6 15 (48.39%) Banking
6 15 (48.39%) Git
6 15 (48.39%) Docker
6 15 (48.39%) Kubernetes
6 15 (48.39%) Vue
6 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
7 14 (45.16%) AngularJS
7 14 (45.16%) Investment Banking
7 14 (45.16%) Linux
8 13 (41.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (41.94%) C#
8 13 (41.94%) C++
8 13 (41.94%) Software Engineering
8 13 (41.94%) Mathematics
8 13 (41.94%) Hedge funds
8 13 (41.94%) SciPy
8 13 (41.94%) NumPy
8 13 (41.94%) Structured Programming
8 13 (41.94%) Flask
8 13 (41.94%) Pandas
8 13 (41.94%) Systematic Trading
8 13 (41.94%) Rust
8 13 (41.94%) Data Engineering
8 13 (41.94%) Polars

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (61.29%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) Serverless
3 6 (19.35%) Azure
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) npm
5 1 (3.23%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) DynamoDB
1 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
2 2 (6.45%) Mocha
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) ESLint
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) Postman
3 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 17 (54.84%) Finance
2 15 (48.39%) Banking
3 14 (45.16%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (70.97%) React
2 15 (48.39%) Vue
3 14 (45.16%) AngularJS
4 13 (41.94%) FastAPI
4 13 (41.94%) Flask
4 13 (41.94%) NumPy
4 13 (41.94%) Pandas
4 13 (41.94%) Polars
4 13 (41.94%) SciPy
5 9 (29.03%) Node.js
6 6 (19.35%) GraphQL
7 5 (16.13%) CSS
8 4 (12.90%) HTML
9 3 (9.68%) REST
10 2 (6.45%) .NET
10 2 (6.45%) Express.js
10 2 (6.45%) HTML5
10 2 (6.45%) Jest
10 2 (6.45%) SVG
10 2 (6.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 13 (41.94%) Hedge funds
2 3 (9.68%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.23%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Derivative
3 1 (3.23%) Vector Graphics
3 1 (3.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
2 13 (41.94%) Clean Code
2 13 (41.94%) Data Engineering
2 13 (41.94%) Mathematics
2 13 (41.94%) Software Engineering
2 13 (41.94%) Structured Programming
2 13 (41.94%) Systematic Trading
3 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (12.90%) Agile
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps
5 3 (9.68%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (9.68%) E-Commerce
5 3 (9.68%) TDD
5 3 (9.68%) User Experience
6 2 (6.45%) Analytics
6 2 (6.45%) Computer Science
6 2 (6.45%) Extreme Programming
6 2 (6.45%) Front End Development
6 2 (6.45%) Pair Programming
6 2 (6.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (54.84%) Java
3 16 (51.61%) Python
4 13 (41.94%) C#
4 13 (41.94%) C++
4 13 (41.94%) Rust
5 11 (35.48%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.45%) PHP
6 2 (6.45%) Ruby
7 1 (3.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
1 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (48.39%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.45%) YouTube
2 1 (3.23%) Atlassian