JavaScript Contract Job Trends in the North East

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > North East

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 25 20
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 14 19 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.41% 6.46% 5.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.28% 21.35% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 6
10th Percentile £350 £335 £266
25th Percentile £400 £349 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £440 £423
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.02% -23.09%
75th Percentile £463 £523 £471
90th Percentile £523 £650 £486
England median daily rate £490 £535 £528
% change year-on-year -8.41% +1.42% -4.09%

All Programming Languages
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 114 89 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 27.80% 30.27% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 46 21
10th Percentile £398 £319 £225
25th Percentile £403 £348 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £452 £454
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% -0.44% -19.29%
75th Percentile £565 £534 £523
90th Percentile £589 £598 £620
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile £41.95 - £33.48
25th Percentile £49.56 - £46.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% -16.04% -4.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile £64.28 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the North East

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the North East over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the North East

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the North East region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Tyne and Wear -17 14 £413 -2.94% 33
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) Redis
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) GitLab
2 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 4 (28.57%) REST Assured
3 3 (21.43%) Mocha
4 2 (14.29%) Git
4 2 (14.29%) Selenium
5 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
5 1 (7.14%) Gatling
5 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.14%) JIRA
5 1 (7.14%) JMeter
5 1 (7.14%) TestRail
General
1 9 (64.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (21.43%) Lead
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Test Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (7.14%) HTML CSS Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Open Source Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Node.js
2 4 (28.57%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) WireMock
3 3 (21.43%) CSS
3 3 (21.43%) Express.js
3 3 (21.43%) Gherkin
3 3 (21.43%) HTML
3 3 (21.43%) Jest
3 3 (21.43%) React
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) MERN Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) BDD
3 6 (42.86%) TDD
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Functional Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) Front End Development
6 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 3 (21.43%) Open Source
7 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) Go
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
4 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) WCAG
3 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Grafana
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 1 (7.14%) Icinga
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Blue Prism
1 1 (7.14%) Google
1 1 (7.14%) UiPath