JavaScript Developer Contracts in the North of England

JavaScript Developer
England > North of England

The median JavaScript Developer daily rate in the North of England is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 162 166
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +59
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 7 2 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.047% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.051% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 32
10th Percentile £433 - £413
25th Percentile £463 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £625
90th Percentile £504 - £649
England median daily rate £500 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% -4.00%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,716 3,909 4,868
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.83% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,407 2,342 3,304
10th Percentile £250 £277 £263
25th Percentile £369 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% - +0.25%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 281 204
10th Percentile £12.91 £11.44 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.65
Median hourly rate £22.32 £29.77 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year -25.04% +8.85% +35.87%
75th Percentile £47.84 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £56.24
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.60% +68.69%

JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Developer in the North of England

JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for JavaScript Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for JavaScript Developer job vacancies in the North of England

JavaScript Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for JavaScript Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for JavaScript Developer job vacancies in the North of England

JavaScript Developer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -4 5 £481 +6.94% 5
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
JavaScript Developer
England

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 26 August 2025, JavaScript Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (71.43%) Node.js
3 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
3 5 (71.43%) React
4 4 (57.14%) Next.js
5 3 (42.86%) Jest
5 3 (42.86%) Microservices
5 3 (42.86%) GraphQL
5 3 (42.86%) Docker
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) Express.js
5 3 (42.86%) REST
5 3 (42.86%) GitHub
5 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (42.86%) RESTful
5 3 (42.86%) Agile
6 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
6 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (28.57%) Playwright
6 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
6 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (28.57%) JIRA
6 2 (28.57%) Java
6 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
6 2 (28.57%) Azure
6 2 (28.57%) Git

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Slack
4 1 (14.29%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Node.js
1 5 (71.43%) React
2 4 (57.14%) Next.js
3 3 (42.86%) Express.js
3 3 (42.86%) GraphQL
3 3 (42.86%) Jest
3 3 (42.86%) REST
3 3 (42.86%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) Playwright
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) HTML5
5 1 (14.29%) JWT
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
5 1 (14.29%) Spring
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Educational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
5 1 (14.29%) API Design
5 1 (14.29%) API Integration
5 1 (14.29%) B2B
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Fintech
5 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 1 (14.29%) KYC
5 1 (14.29%) OWASP
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker