JavaScript Contracts in London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,075 1,868 3,658
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.07% 6.90% 9.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.91% 16.90% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 1,380 2,901
10th Percentile £400 £413 £423
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £800 £756
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 25
10th Percentile - £35.00 -
25th Percentile - £36.14 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -
75th Percentile - £73.44 £75.84
90th Percentile - £75.00 £80.30
England median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £53.78
% change year-on-year -10.71% +30.17% +19.51%

All Programming Languages
London

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,358 11,052 16,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.90% 40.82% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,852 8,230 12,504
10th Percentile £380 £413 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 87 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.70 £29.08
25th Percentile £35.19 £49.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.94 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.94 £84.25 £79.28
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend 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 27 April 2024. 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 -18 112 £550 +2.80% 81
South London +17 17 £450 - 2
East London +4 16 £540 +8.00% 16
West London -2 16 £450 -18.18% 14
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
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
1 101 (9.40%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (7.91%) Apache
3 33 (3.07%) CMS
4 16 (1.49%) Confluence
4 16 (1.49%) nginx
5 14 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.02%) BizTalk Server
6 11 (1.02%) WordPress
7 8 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.65%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.56%) IIS
9 6 (0.56%) Tornado
10 5 (0.47%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 2 (0.19%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.093%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 14 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.56%) Sketch
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.37%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.19%) InVision
6 2 (0.19%) Simulink
7 1 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.093%) Avocode
7 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.093%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.30%) Shopify
3 6 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.47%) Endur
4 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.19%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.19%) Unica
6 2 (0.19%) WebTrends
7 1 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.093%) Magento
7 1 (0.093%) Maximo
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.093%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.093%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.093%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 401 (37.30%) AWS
2 243 (22.60%) Azure
3 175 (16.28%) GCP
4 88 (8.19%) dbt
5 69 (6.42%) Snowflake
6 66 (6.14%) Serverless
7 63 (5.86%) GitHub
8 53 (4.93%) Power Platform
9 51 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
12 30 (2.79%) npm
12 30 (2.79%) PowerApps
13 28 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 26 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
15 24 (2.23%) Power Automate
16 20 (1.86%) Entra ID
17 19 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (1.77%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.49%) HTTP
2 10 (0.93%) Firewall
3 7 (0.65%) DNS
3 7 (0.65%) Intranet
4 5 (0.47%) Internet
5 3 (0.28%) DHCP
5 3 (0.28%) MQTT
5 3 (0.28%) SSL
5 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.28%) VPN
6 2 (0.19%) LAN
6 2 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.19%) SMS
6 2 (0.19%) WLAN
7 1 (0.093%) AMQP
7 1 (0.093%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.093%) Network Security
7 1 (0.093%) RTSP
7 1 (0.093%) SSH
7 1 (0.093%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (9.86%) SQL Server
2 89 (8.28%) Amazon Athena
3 88 (8.19%) Apache Arrow
3 88 (8.19%) Dremio
4 80 (7.44%) Apache Ignite
5 68 (6.33%) Data Lake
6 59 (5.49%) NoSQL
7 58 (5.40%) MongoDB
8 50 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
9 49 (4.56%) MySQL
10 35 (3.26%) Relational Database
11 29 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (2.42%) Power BI
13 20 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
14 17 (1.58%) Big Data
15 15 (1.40%) DynamoDB
16 13 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (0.93%) Redis
17 10 (0.93%) Tableau
18 9 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 135 (12.56%) Git
2 80 (7.44%) Jenkins
3 57 (5.30%) JIRA
4 45 (4.19%) webpack
5 39 (3.63%) Cypress.io
6 30 (2.79%) GitLab
7 21 (1.95%) Selenium
8 20 (1.86%) Cucumber
9 19 (1.77%) Postman
10 15 (1.40%) TeamCity
11 12 (1.12%) JMeter
12 10 (0.93%) NUnit
13 9 (0.84%) git-flow
13 9 (0.84%) Maven
14 8 (0.74%) Babel
14 8 (0.74%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.65%) Appium
15 7 (0.65%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.65%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 316 (29.40%) Finance
2 210 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 182 (16.93%) Front Office
4 155 (14.42%) Banking
5 96 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
6 84 (7.81%) Investment Banking
7 71 (6.60%) Public Sector
8 63 (5.86%) Marketing
9 22 (2.05%) Retail
10 21 (1.95%) Advertising
11 18 (1.67%) Back Office
12 15 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.56%) Automotive
16 6 (0.56%) Games
16 6 (0.56%) Law
17 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 644 (59.91%) Developer
2 184 (17.12%) Senior
3 138 (12.84%) Software Engineer
4 132 (12.28%) Full Stack Developer
5 111 (10.33%) Senior Developer
6 91 (8.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 89 (8.28%) Lead
8 79 (7.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 78 (7.26%) Architect
9 78 (7.26%) React Developer
10 68 (6.33%) Software Developer
11 65 (6.05%) .NET Developer
12 61 (5.67%) JavaScript Developer
13 60 (5.58%) Python Developer
14 54 (5.02%) C# Developer
15 51 (4.74%) AWS Engineer
16 42 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (3.72%) Python Engineer
18 39 (3.63%) Java Developer
19 38 (3.53%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (35.26%) HTML
1 379 (35.26%) React
2 342 (31.81%) CSS
3 198 (18.42%) Node.js
4 195 (18.14%) .NET
5 155 (14.42%) AngularJS
6 130 (12.09%) REST
7 100 (9.30%) gRPC
7 100 (9.30%) Protocol Buffers
8 90 (8.37%) Pandas
9 85 (7.91%) Redux
9 85 (7.91%) Web Services
10 83 (7.72%) .NET Core
11 79 (7.35%) NumPy
12 75 (6.98%) SciPy
13 71 (6.60%) XML
14 69 (6.42%) ASP.NET
15 65 (6.05%) Vue
16 64 (5.95%) jQuery
17 57 (5.30%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 158 (14.70%) Fixed Income
2 125 (11.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 116 (10.79%) Derivative
4 115 (10.70%) Hedge funds
5 108 (10.05%) Equities
6 36 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
8 33 (3.07%) Product Ownership
9 27 (2.51%) Mobile App
10 23 (2.14%) Algorithms
10 23 (2.14%) Cloud Native
10 23 (2.14%) Management Information System
11 22 (2.05%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.95%) Onboarding
13 20 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.12%) Clustering
15 12 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
17 8 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 68 (6.33%) Linux
2 38 (3.53%) Unix
3 26 (2.42%) Windows
4 20 (1.86%) Android
5 17 (1.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.093%) CentOS
6 1 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (41.86%) Agile
2 316 (29.40%) Software Engineering
3 239 (22.23%) DevOps
4 229 (21.30%) Full Stack Development
5 196 (18.23%) CI/CD
6 167 (15.53%) Front End Development
7 148 (13.77%) Asset Management
8 146 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
9 132 (12.28%) TDD
10 119 (11.07%) Investment Management
11 108 (10.05%) Test Automation
12 105 (9.77%) Microservices
13 102 (9.49%) Web Development
14 100 (9.30%) User Experience
15 86 (8.00%) Design Patterns
16 85 (7.91%) Analytics
17 79 (7.35%) SDLC
18 77 (7.16%) Scrum
19 65 (6.05%) Continuous Integration
20 64 (5.95%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 383 (35.63%) TypeScript
2 330 (30.70%) Python
3 297 (27.63%) Java
4 256 (23.81%) C#
5 248 (23.07%) SQL
6 57 (5.30%) PHP
7 55 (5.12%) PowerShell
8 48 (4.47%) Go
9 28 (2.60%) Kotlin
9 28 (2.60%) Ruby
10 25 (2.33%) Bash
10 25 (2.33%) Bicep
11 22 (2.05%) C++
12 20 (1.86%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.58%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.93%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.93%) Scala
15 9 (0.84%) Perl
16 8 (0.74%) Groovy
17 7 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 129 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 127 (11.81%) Degree
3 91 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 48 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (3.16%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.84%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.47%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.28%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.19%) PMP
13 1 (0.093%) CCNP
13 1 (0.093%) CISSP
13 1 (0.093%) ISEB
13 1 (0.093%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.26%) QA
2 56 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 32 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 28 (2.60%) WCAG
5 16 (1.49%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.37%) GRC
6 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.37%) SLA
7 3 (0.28%) NIST
8 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.093%) GDPR
9 1 (0.093%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.093%) GxP
System Software
1 86 (8.00%) Docker
2 57 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.51%) IAG
4 25 (2.33%) ACF2
4 25 (2.33%) RACF
5 1 (0.093%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.093%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.093%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (10.79%) Kubernetes
2 63 (5.86%) Terraform
3 33 (3.07%) Ansible
4 19 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.74%) Grafana
7 6 (0.56%) Kibana
8 5 (0.47%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.47%) Puppet
9 4 (0.37%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.37%) logstash
10 3 (0.28%) Netcool
11 2 (0.19%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.093%) Argo
12 1 (0.093%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.093%) Istio
12 1 (0.093%) MOM
12 1 (0.093%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.093%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 88 (8.19%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.23%) Oracle
3 46 (4.28%) Google
4 42 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.07%) Adobe
6 28 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.77%) Sybase
8 17 (1.58%) MuleSoft
9 16 (1.49%) Optimizely
10 13 (1.21%) PayPal
10 13 (1.21%) SAP
10 13 (1.21%) Splunk
11 9 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 9 (0.84%) Tealium
12 8 (0.74%) Databricks
12 8 (0.74%) Foundry
13 7 (0.65%) BeyondTrust
13 7 (0.65%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.65%) Palantir
13 7 (0.65%) UiPath