JavaScript Contracts in Merseyside

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 13 41
Rank change year-on-year -14 +28 -6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 3 17 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.83% 7.59% 2.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.11% 35.42% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile - £448 £328
25th Percentile - £481 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +29.38% +58.42%
75th Percentile - £556 £481
90th Percentile - £568 £493
North West median daily rate £402 £463 £550
% change year-on-year -13.08% -15.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £46.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -30.71% -7.64% +42.25%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 37 48 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 22.56% 21.43% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 61
10th Percentile £392 £285 £325
25th Percentile £450 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £491 £600
90th Percentile £775 £511 £675
North West median daily rate £441 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -7.11% -7.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £29.39
25th Percentile - - £32.83
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £38.60
Median % change year-on-year - -6.74% -
75th Percentile - - £44.33
90th Percentile - - £47.73
North West median hourly rate £74.50 £51.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year +45.37% +5.67% +10.23%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Merseyside

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Merseyside

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Merseyside

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 8 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
Liverpool -12 3 £475 -8.21% 22
JavaScript
North West

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (66.67%) Figma
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (66.67%) UI Automator
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce Developer
1 2 (66.67%) UI Developer
1 2 (66.67%) UI/UX Developer
1 2 (66.67%) UX Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (66.67%) Semantic HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Vue
2 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce