JavaScript Contract Job Trends in London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 29 28
Rank change year-on-year -38 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 680 834 1,104
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.77% 6.75% 6.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.01% 17.27% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 622 859
10th Percentile £356 £380 £410
25th Percentile £415 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £555 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -7.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £788
90th Percentile £803 £838 £850
England median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 2
10th Percentile £32.25 - £41.68
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £43.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -24.59% -3.68%
75th Percentile £48.75 £39.89 £48.06
90th Percentile £61.45 £44.72 £49.23
England median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +2.00% -1.96% -4.14%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,663 4,828 6,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.37% 39.08% 36.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,803 3,403 4,915
10th Percentile £366 £380 £377
25th Percentile £435 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £838
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 31 51
10th Percentile £33.48 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £41.25 £33.25 £40.79
Median hourly rate £58.94 £40.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.52% -19.80% -14.04%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.25 £63.52
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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 -31 79 £600 +4.35% 67
South London -10 13 £500 +2.04% 5
East London -5 5 £445 -23.28% 19
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
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:

Application Platforms
1 36 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.53%) Confluence
3 11 (1.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 11 (1.62%) CMS
3 11 (1.62%) HCL Notes
3 11 (1.62%) Mendix
4 10 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.88%) IIS
6 4 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.59%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.59%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.44%) Drupal
7 3 (0.44%) nginx
7 3 (0.44%) WordPress
8 2 (0.29%) Apache
8 2 (0.29%) Kentico
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.59%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.44%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.44%) Sketch
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) Maya
5 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (4.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.76%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.59%) SAP HCM
4 3 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.15%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.15%) Magento
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 219 (32.21%) AWS
2 201 (29.56%) Azure
3 82 (12.06%) GitHub
4 78 (11.47%) Power Platform
5 73 (10.74%) GCP
6 72 (10.59%) Serverless
7 68 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (8.53%) Power Automate
9 44 (6.47%) PowerApps
10 42 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
11 41 (6.03%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
13 37 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (4.12%) Amazon S3
16 27 (3.97%) Azure Functions
17 25 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
19 20 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
20 19 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.62%) HTTP
2 10 (1.47%) Network Security
3 5 (0.74%) Internet
3 5 (0.74%) SSL
4 4 (0.59%) Firewall
4 4 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.44%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) LAN
5 3 (0.44%) WAN
6 2 (0.29%) BGP
6 2 (0.29%) Intranet
6 2 (0.29%) OSPF
6 2 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.29%) RTMP
6 2 (0.29%) SMS
7 1 (0.15%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.15%) Skype
7 1 (0.15%) SNMP
7 1 (0.15%) VLAN
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (8.38%) SQL Server
3 39 (5.74%) Power BI
4 38 (5.59%) Relational Database
5 32 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 27 (3.97%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.79%) Oracle Database
8 15 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.62%) Big Data
9 11 (1.62%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.62%) MySQL
10 10 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.47%) Tableau
11 9 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (1.18%) Metadata
12 8 (1.18%) Redis
13 7 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 88 (12.94%) Git
2 40 (5.88%) JIRA
3 39 (5.74%) GitLab
3 39 (5.74%) Jenkins
4 25 (3.68%) Cypress.io
5 23 (3.38%) Selenium
6 15 (2.21%) Cucumber
6 15 (2.21%) SpecFlow
7 10 (1.47%) Vite
8 9 (1.32%) JUnit
8 9 (1.32%) MSTest
8 9 (1.32%) Postman
9 8 (1.18%) webpack
10 7 (1.03%) JMeter
10 7 (1.03%) Mocha
10 7 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.88%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.74%) Mockito
12 5 (0.74%) tSQLt
General
1 181 (26.62%) Finance
2 137 (20.15%) Social Skills
3 80 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 75 (11.03%) Banking
5 70 (10.29%) Front Office
6 53 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (4.26%) Investment Banking
8 23 (3.38%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.21%) Marketing
11 13 (1.91%) Retail
12 6 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.74%) Publishing
14 4 (0.59%) Advertising
14 4 (0.59%) Games
14 4 (0.59%) Japanese Language
14 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.59%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 364 (53.53%) Developer
2 106 (15.59%) Senior
3 81 (11.91%) Software Engineer
4 75 (11.03%) Lead
5 59 (8.68%) Full-Stack Developer
6 58 (8.53%) Senior Developer
7 53 (7.79%) React Developer
8 47 (6.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 40 (5.88%) Lead Developer
10 37 (5.44%) Lead Software Engineer
11 34 (5.00%) Lead Software Developer
12 31 (4.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 31 (4.56%) Python Developer
13 30 (4.41%) Consultant
14 29 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 28 (4.12%) Architect
15 28 (4.12%) Java Developer
15 28 (4.12%) Tester
16 27 (3.97%) Software Developer
17 23 (3.38%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (39.12%) React
2 202 (29.71%) HTML
3 185 (27.21%) CSS
4 146 (21.47%) Node.js
5 129 (18.97%) REST
6 113 (16.62%) .NET
7 109 (16.03%) AngularJS
8 88 (12.94%) Redux
9 74 (10.88%) RESTful
10 71 (10.44%) Kafka
11 55 (8.09%) Spring
12 48 (7.06%) GraphQL
12 48 (7.06%) HTML5
13 45 (6.62%) JSON
14 42 (6.18%) SOAP
14 42 (6.18%) Spring Boot
15 36 (5.29%) Playwright
16 35 (5.15%) OAuth
17 31 (4.56%) Next.js
17 31 (4.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.97%) Fixed Income
2 43 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 38 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.53%) Derivative
5 22 (3.24%) Low-Code
6 20 (2.94%) Equities
7 17 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (2.21%) CMDB
10 14 (2.06%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.62%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.47%) Augmented Reality
14 10 (1.47%) Virtual Reality
15 8 (1.18%) Data Structures
16 5 (0.74%) Data Centre
17 4 (0.59%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.94%) Windows
2 18 (2.65%) Linux
3 13 (1.91%) Unix
4 9 (1.32%) Android
4 9 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.44%) Solaris
7 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (43.82%) Agile
2 233 (34.26%) CI/CD
3 164 (24.12%) DevOps
4 149 (21.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 123 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (18.09%) Software Engineering
5 123 (18.09%) Test Automation
6 101 (14.85%) Microservices
7 78 (11.47%) AI
7 78 (11.47%) User Experience
8 76 (11.18%) Containerisation
9 67 (9.85%) Front End Development
10 59 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 54 (7.94%) Scrum
12 53 (7.79%) Mentoring
13 52 (7.65%) Investment Management
14 51 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
14 51 (7.50%) Portfolio Management
15 44 (6.47%) TDD
16 43 (6.32%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 245 (36.03%) TypeScript
2 241 (35.44%) Python
3 177 (26.03%) Java
3 177 (26.03%) SQL
4 147 (21.62%) C#
5 38 (5.59%) Go
6 26 (3.82%) PowerShell
7 21 (3.09%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.79%) Ruby
9 18 (2.65%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.91%) Groovy
11 11 (1.62%) Scala
12 10 (1.47%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.47%) LotusScript
13 9 (1.32%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.88%) Bash
14 6 (0.88%) Bicep
14 6 (0.88%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.74%) C++
15 5 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 125 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 102 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.71%) Degree
4 15 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.74%) ISTQB
7 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.59%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.44%) CCNP
9 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.29%) CCNA
10 2 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.15%) OCP
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.56%) QA
2 49 (7.21%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.82%) WCAG
4 14 (2.06%) GDPR
5 10 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.74%) SLA
7 4 (0.59%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.44%) PSD2
8 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.29%) GRC
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) SEPA
10 1 (0.15%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 112 (16.47%) Docker
2 10 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 97 (14.26%) Kubernetes
2 64 (9.41%) Terraform
3 19 (2.79%) Grafana
4 13 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.18%) Ansible
5 8 (1.18%) Kibana
5 8 (1.18%) vRealize
6 6 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.59%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.15%) Icinga
Vendors
1 79 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.09%) Oracle
3 38 (5.59%) ServiceNow
4 27 (3.97%) Adobe
5 21 (3.09%) Google
6 20 (2.94%) Databricks
7 18 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.62%) Lotus
9 10 (1.47%) Kofax
9 10 (1.47%) Splunk
10 9 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.32%) SAP
10 9 (1.32%) VMware
10 9 (1.32%) Workday
11 8 (1.18%) OutSystems
12 7 (1.03%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.03%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.74%) IBM
13 5 (0.74%) Qualtrics
14 4 (0.59%) HP