JavaScript Contracts in the Midlands

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 51 47
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 -20
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 92 86 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.81% 3.12% 4.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.29% 13.92% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 54 115
10th Percentile £320 £213 £313
25th Percentile £403 £303 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £544 £523 £538
90th Percentile £700 £634 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £29.13 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £33.44 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £41.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £28.75 £48.44 -
90th Percentile - £52.38 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the Midlands

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the Midlands

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the Midlands

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the Midlands

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +37 71 £466 +3.61% 133
East Midlands -9 20 £425 +9.68% 102
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.52%) Confluence
2 6 (6.52%) IIS
3 3 (3.26%) Moodle
4 1 (1.09%) Apache
4 1 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (5.43%) InfoPath
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.17%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.17%) Magento
2 2 (2.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.09%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.48%) AWS
2 14 (15.22%) Azure
3 11 (11.96%) Power Platform
4 10 (10.87%) PowerApps
5 9 (9.78%) Serverless
6 8 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (8.70%) Power Automate
7 7 (7.61%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.43%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (5.43%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (4.35%) GCP
11 3 (3.26%) AWS KMS
11 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) HTTP
2 1 (1.09%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.30%) Relational Database
2 11 (11.96%) NoSQL
2 11 (11.96%) SQL Server
3 9 (9.78%) RDBMS
4 8 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (6.52%) MySQL
5 6 (6.52%) Power BI
6 4 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.17%) Tableau
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.09%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (16.30%) Git
2 13 (14.13%) JIRA
3 11 (11.96%) Postman
4 7 (7.61%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.61%) JUnit
5 5 (5.43%) Cypress.io
5 5 (5.43%) Mockito
5 5 (5.43%) Selenium
6 4 (4.35%) Maven
7 3 (3.26%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (3.26%) PHPUnit
7 3 (3.26%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.17%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.17%) GitLab
8 2 (2.17%) Gradle
8 2 (2.17%) NetBeans
8 2 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 22 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.78%) Finance
4 6 (6.52%) Legal
5 5 (5.43%) Advertising
5 5 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Retail
7 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.09%) Automotive
8 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Marketing
8 1 (1.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 46 (50.00%) Developer
2 12 (13.04%) Senior
3 11 (11.96%) Architect
4 9 (9.78%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (9.78%) Senior Developer
4 9 (9.78%) Support Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (6.52%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.52%) Software Developer
6 6 (6.52%) Software Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) JavaScript Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Analyst
8 4 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Automation Architect
8 4 (4.35%) SAP Architect
8 4 (4.35%) SAP Developer
8 4 (4.35%) SQL Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Moodle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (50.00%) HTML
2 37 (40.22%) CSS
3 26 (28.26%) React
4 21 (22.83%) .NET
5 15 (16.30%) REST
6 13 (14.13%) RESTful
7 12 (13.04%) jQuery
8 11 (11.96%) Node.js
9 10 (10.87%) HTML5
10 8 (8.70%) CSS3
11 7 (7.61%) ASP.NET
11 7 (7.61%) Hibernate
11 7 (7.61%) Spring Boot
11 7 (7.61%) Web Services
12 6 (6.52%) .NET Framework
12 6 (6.52%) Entity Framework
12 6 (6.52%) HTML5 Canvas
12 6 (6.52%) JSON
12 6 (6.52%) Middleware
13 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Enterprise Cloud
1 5 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.26%) e-Learning
3 3 (3.26%) VLE
4 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.09%) APACS
5 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) NHS
5 1 (1.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.09%) Linux
1 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (47.83%) Agile
2 25 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (25.00%) Microservices
4 21 (22.83%) CI/CD
5 18 (19.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (15.22%) API Development
6 14 (15.22%) MVC
7 13 (14.13%) Test Automation
8 12 (13.04%) Project Management
8 12 (13.04%) Web Development
9 11 (11.96%) Scrum
10 10 (10.87%) Code Quality
10 10 (10.87%) DevOps
10 10 (10.87%) Software Engineering
10 10 (10.87%) Workflow
11 9 (9.78%) CRM
11 9 (9.78%) Front End Development
11 9 (9.78%) TDD
12 8 (8.70%) Data Modelling
12 8 (8.70%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.13%) SQL
2 20 (21.74%) C#
3 18 (19.57%) Java
4 16 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 14 (15.22%) Python
6 11 (11.96%) PHP
6 11 (11.96%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.70%) ABAP
8 7 (7.61%) COBOL
9 3 (3.26%) Groovy
9 3 (3.26%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.26%) R
9 3 (3.26%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.17%) Go
10 2 (2.17%) Ruby
11 1 (1.09%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.09%) Bash
11 1 (1.09%) C++
11 1 (1.09%) Scala
11 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.87%) DV Cleared
3 7 (7.61%) Degree
4 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.26%) SAP Certification
6 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.17%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) QA
2 4 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.09%) GDPR
3 1 (1.09%) PERC
System Software
1 13 (14.13%) Docker
2 7 (7.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.09%) Firmware
3 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Grafana
2 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.17%) Puppet
2 2 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.96%) Oracle
3 8 (8.70%) SAP
4 6 (6.52%) Adobe
5 2 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.17%) Google
5 2 (2.17%) Veracode
6 1 (1.09%) HP
6 1 (1.09%) Perforce
6 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow