JavaScript Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

JavaScript Engineer
England > London

The median JavaScript Engineer daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 358 394
Rank change year-on-year +3 +36 +123
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Engineer 16 35 40
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.23% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 22
10th Percentile £400 £546 £478
25th Percentile £425 £575 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +10.64% +2.17%
75th Percentile £550 £1,000 £700
90th Percentile £575 £1,050 -
England median daily rate £450 £643 £575
% change year-on-year -29.96% +11.74% -

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 12,383 15,100 19,507
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.08% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,270 9,834 14,215
10th Percentile £335 £341 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.48% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 170 212
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.89 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.20 £35.75 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.92% -11.73% +23.66%
75th Percentile £49.13 £58.75 £61.59
90th Percentile £67.75 £78.95 £76.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +67.93%

JavaScript Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'JavaScript Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

JavaScript Engineer job vacancy trend in London

JavaScript Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for JavaScript Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for JavaScript Engineer job vacancies in London

JavaScript Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Engineer in London

JavaScript Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for JavaScript Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for JavaScript Engineer job vacancies in London

JavaScript Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 16 October 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 +10 4 £488 -
West London -2 1 - - 2
JavaScript Engineer
England

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, JavaScript Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring JavaScript Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (68.75%) React
3 10 (62.50%) TypeScript
4 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
5 8 (50.00%) DevOps
6 7 (43.75%) AWS
6 7 (43.75%) Node.js
6 7 (43.75%) Agile
6 7 (43.75%) Serverless
7 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (37.50%) Docker
8 5 (31.25%) Microservices
8 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
8 5 (31.25%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
8 5 (31.25%) Git
8 5 (31.25%) GraphQL
9 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
9 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
9 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
9 4 (25.00%) E-Commerce
9 4 (25.00%) AI
10 3 (18.75%) HTML
10 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
10 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
10 3 (18.75%) CSS
10 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
10 3 (18.75%) OpenAI

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) Serverless
2 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (31.25%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (12.50%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (12.50%) Azure
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Figma
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Google Gemini
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DocumentDB
1 2 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Storybook
3 1 (6.25%) Vite
3 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Front Office
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) React
2 7 (43.75%) Node.js
3 5 (31.25%) GraphQL
4 3 (18.75%) CSS
4 3 (18.75%) HTML
4 3 (18.75%) Next.js
4 3 (18.75%) Playwright
5 2 (12.50%) REST
5 2 (12.50%) RESTful
6 1 (6.25%) .NET
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.25%) Django
6 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
6 1 (6.25%) Flask
6 1 (6.25%) Material-UI
6 1 (6.25%) React Native
6 1 (6.25%) Sass
6 1 (6.25%) Web Services
6 1 (6.25%) WebSockets
6 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (31.25%) Microservices
5 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) AI
6 4 (25.00%) E-Commerce
7 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
8 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 2 (12.50%) Conversational UI
8 2 (12.50%) LLM
8 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
8 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
9 1 (6.25%) End-to-End Testing
9 1 (6.25%) Inclusive Design
9 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.25%) JSX
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Rust
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) OpenAI
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft