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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 44 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 91 104 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.15% 3.48% 4.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.40% 15.25% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 60 120
10th Percentile £305 £213 £313
25th Percentile £358 £321 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £425 £471
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -9.67% -0.95%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £548
90th Percentile £625 £626 £650
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £41.25 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +33.26%

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 591 682 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.94% 22.81% 25.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 474 612
10th Percentile £269 £260 £310
25th Percentile £363 £350 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -5.26% +2.15%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £635 £699
England median daily rate £523 £538 £560
% change year-on-year -2.88% -3.93% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 16
10th Percentile £18.55 £22.50 £23.61
25th Percentile £28.18 £30.37 £26.02
Median hourly rate £33.91 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +10.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - £72.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £56.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.20% - +19.05%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +9 59 £450 -10.00% 352
East Midlands -4 31 £367 -5.29% 277
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 9 (9.89%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) IIS
2 3 (3.30%) Moodle
2 3 (3.30%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (2.20%) CMS
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.10%) Apache
4 1 (1.10%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.20%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.10%) InDesign
2 1 (1.10%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.30%) Sprinklr
2 2 (2.20%) Magento
2 2 (2.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.10%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.58%) AWS
2 12 (13.19%) Azure
3 7 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.59%) Amazon S3
4 6 (6.59%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.49%) GitHub
5 5 (5.49%) PowerApps
5 5 (5.49%) SaaS
5 5 (5.49%) Serverless
6 4 (4.40%) AWS CodeBuild
6 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.30%) AWS KMS
7 3 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.30%) PaaS
7 3 (3.30%) Route 53
8 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) HTTP
2 3 (3.30%) HTTPS
2 3 (3.30%) SSL
3 1 (1.10%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) Relational Database
1 12 (13.19%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.09%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.59%) MySQL
5 5 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.49%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.30%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.20%) Power BI
7 2 (2.20%) Tableau
8 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.10%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (19.78%) Git
2 16 (17.58%) JIRA
3 11 (12.09%) Jenkins
4 10 (10.99%) Postman
5 9 (9.89%) JUnit
6 7 (7.69%) Mockito
6 7 (7.69%) Selenium
7 6 (6.59%) Maven
8 5 (5.49%) Bitbucket
8 5 (5.49%) Cypress.io
8 5 (5.49%) SonarQube
9 4 (4.40%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.40%) GitLab
9 4 (4.40%) Gradle
9 4 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (3.30%) PHPUnit
10 3 (3.30%) Visual Studio
11 2 (2.20%) IntelliJ
11 2 (2.20%) Jasmine
11 2 (2.20%) Mocha
General
1 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (9.89%) Finance
3 7 (7.69%) Retail
4 5 (5.49%) Advertising
5 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Marketing
5 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.30%) Legal
7 2 (2.20%) Banking
7 2 (2.20%) Publishing
8 1 (1.10%) Automotive
8 1 (1.10%) Games
8 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (58.24%) Developer
2 12 (13.19%) Java Developer
3 10 (10.99%) Senior
4 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (9.89%) Senior Developer
5 8 (8.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 7 (7.69%) Architect
7 5 (5.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) JavaScript Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) SAP Architect
8 4 (4.40%) SAP Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Implementation Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.30%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (45.05%) HTML
2 34 (37.36%) CSS
3 27 (29.67%) React
4 23 (25.27%) REST
5 22 (24.18%) .NET
6 15 (16.48%) RESTful
7 14 (15.38%) Node.js
8 13 (14.29%) Spring Boot
9 12 (13.19%) HTML5
10 11 (12.09%) jQuery
10 11 (12.09%) Web Services
11 10 (10.99%) CSS3
12 9 (9.89%) Hibernate
12 9 (9.89%) Spring
13 8 (8.79%) AngularJS
13 8 (8.79%) Redux
14 7 (7.69%) Jest
14 7 (7.69%) JPA
15 6 (6.59%) JSON
16 5 (5.49%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.30%) e-Learning
2 3 (3.30%) State Machine
2 3 (3.30%) VLE
3 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.20%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.20%) Social Media
4 1 (1.10%) APACS
4 1 (1.10%) Blog
4 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.10%) NHS
4 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.10%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Android
1 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.10%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (50.55%) Agile
2 30 (32.97%) CI/CD
3 28 (30.77%) Microservices
4 26 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (20.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (18.68%) Test Automation
7 15 (16.48%) API Development
8 14 (15.38%) Project Management
9 13 (14.29%) Code Quality
10 12 (13.19%) Scrum
10 12 (13.19%) TDD
11 11 (12.09%) DevOps
12 10 (10.99%) Front End Development
12 10 (10.99%) MVC
12 10 (10.99%) User Experience
13 9 (9.89%) Analytics
13 9 (9.89%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 9 (9.89%) Software Engineering
14 8 (8.79%) SDLC
14 8 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (42.86%) SQL
2 23 (25.27%) Java
3 20 (21.98%) C#
4 17 (18.68%) TypeScript
5 14 (15.38%) Python
6 9 (9.89%) PHP
7 8 (8.79%) ABAP
8 7 (7.69%) COBOL
9 5 (5.49%) PL/SQL
9 5 (5.49%) PowerShell
10 4 (4.40%) T-SQL
11 3 (3.30%) Groovy
11 3 (3.30%) R
12 2 (2.20%) Apex Code
12 2 (2.20%) Go
12 2 (2.20%) JSX
12 2 (2.20%) VB.NET
13 1 (1.10%) Bash
13 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.69%) Degree
2 7 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) SAP Certification
6 2 (2.20%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.10%) Firmware
3 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.20%) Grafana
2 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.20%) Puppet
2 2 (2.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (17.58%) Oracle
2 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.89%) SAP
4 7 (7.69%) Adobe
5 4 (4.40%) Veracode
6 2 (2.20%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.20%) Facebook
6 2 (2.20%) Google
6 2 (2.20%) Instagram
6 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.20%) Twitter
6 2 (2.20%) YouTube
7 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.10%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.10%) Avaya
7 1 (1.10%) Genesys
7 1 (1.10%) HP
7 1 (1.10%) Perforce
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Workday