JavaScript Contracts in the North of England

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 47 35 25
Rank change year-on-year -12 -10 -9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 143 222 366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.34% 4.66% 6.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.36% 18.30% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 102 269
10th Percentile £335 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £554 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £49.20
25th Percentile - £37.63 £50.25
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - -14.48% +66.15%
75th Percentile - - £68.00
90th Percentile - - £75.20
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the North of England

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the North of England

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the North of England

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the North of England

JavaScript
Contract 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 within the North of England 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
North West +3 89 £445 -6.32% 262
Yorkshire -23 41 £493 -10.40% 112
North East -3 20 £470 +3.52% 42
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.50%) JBoss
2 5 (3.50%) Tomcat
2 5 (3.50%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.80%) Confluence
3 4 (2.80%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.10%) CMS
5 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.70%) Apache
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.70%) Camunda
5 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.70%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) InVision
1 2 (1.40%) UserZoom
2 1 (0.70%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.70%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (40.56%) AWS
2 16 (11.19%) Azure
2 16 (11.19%) Power Platform
3 15 (10.49%) Power Automate
3 15 (10.49%) PowerApps
4 13 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (8.39%) GitHub
6 8 (5.59%) Serverless
7 7 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.90%) GCP
8 5 (3.50%) CloudBees
8 5 (3.50%) Kong
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.10%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (2.10%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.10%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.50%) HTTP
2 3 (2.10%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.70%) DHCP
3 1 (0.70%) DNS
3 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.39%) MySQL
2 10 (6.99%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.99%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.80%) DB2
3 4 (2.80%) ObjectStore
4 3 (2.10%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (2.10%) GIS
5 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.40%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.40%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.70%) Flink
6 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (27.27%) Git
2 24 (16.78%) GitLab
3 15 (10.49%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.29%) gulp
5 8 (5.59%) JIRA
5 8 (5.59%) webpack
6 7 (4.90%) Jasmine
6 7 (4.90%) Mocha
7 6 (4.20%) Babel
7 6 (4.20%) Bitbucket
7 6 (4.20%) Maven
8 5 (3.50%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.50%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (3.50%) Subversion
9 4 (2.80%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.80%) Grunt
10 3 (2.10%) Selenium
11 2 (1.40%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.40%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (19.58%) Public Sector
2 25 (17.48%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.39%) Finance
4 5 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.80%) Banking
6 3 (2.10%) Marketing
7 2 (1.40%) Electronics
7 2 (1.40%) Legal
7 2 (1.40%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.70%) Billing
8 1 (0.70%) German Language
8 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Military
8 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 79 (55.24%) Developer
2 25 (17.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 21 (14.69%) Senior
4 18 (12.59%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (11.19%) Software Developer
5 16 (11.19%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Lead
6 12 (8.39%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 11 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
7 11 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) React Developer
9 7 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.20%) AWS Software Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) ForgeRock Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.50%) Lead Developer
12 4 (2.80%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (41.96%) CSS
2 58 (40.56%) HTML
3 57 (39.86%) Node.js
4 55 (38.46%) React
5 24 (16.78%) AngularJS
6 21 (14.69%) HTML5
7 19 (13.29%) REST
7 19 (13.29%) RESTful
8 17 (11.89%) Spring
9 16 (11.19%) .NET
9 16 (11.19%) Spring Boot
10 14 (9.79%) Jest
10 14 (9.79%) Sass
11 11 (7.69%) SOAP
11 11 (7.69%) Web Services
12 9 (6.29%) jQuery
12 9 (6.29%) SPFx
13 8 (5.59%) Kafka
14 7 (4.90%) Express.js
14 7 (4.90%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.20%) Private Cloud
1 6 (4.20%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.50%) PKI
3 4 (2.80%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.10%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.40%) NHS
6 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.70%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.49%) Linux
2 5 (3.50%) Unix
3 3 (2.10%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.40%) Android
4 2 (1.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (39.86%) Agile
2 31 (21.68%) Front End Development
2 31 (21.68%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (20.28%) CI/CD
4 28 (19.58%) Software Engineering
5 26 (18.18%) Microservices
6 24 (16.78%) Test Automation
7 23 (16.08%) DevOps
7 23 (16.08%) TDD
8 21 (14.69%) User Experience
9 18 (12.59%) Web Development
10 15 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (9.79%) SDLC
12 13 (9.09%) Scrum
13 12 (8.39%) API Development
14 11 (7.69%) Code Quality
14 11 (7.69%) Open Source
14 11 (7.69%) Task Automation
14 11 (7.69%) The Twelve-Factor App
15 10 (6.99%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 45 (31.47%) Java
2 36 (25.17%) TypeScript
3 32 (22.38%) Python
4 17 (11.89%) SQL
5 15 (10.49%) PowerShell
6 8 (5.59%) C#
7 7 (4.90%) Kotlin
8 6 (4.20%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.80%) Bash
9 4 (2.80%) PHP
10 2 (1.40%) Go
10 2 (1.40%) Groovy
10 2 (1.40%) Ruby
11 1 (0.70%) Perl
11 1 (0.70%) Scala
11 1 (0.70%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 27 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.39%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.59%) Degree
4 5 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 13 (9.09%) WCAG
2 10 (6.99%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (13.99%) Terraform
2 19 (13.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.10%) Ansible
4 3 (2.10%) Grafana
4 3 (2.10%) Packer
4 3 (2.10%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.59%) Oracle
3 6 (4.20%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.50%) ForgeRock
4 5 (3.50%) Google
4 5 (3.50%) SAP
5 3 (2.10%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (2.10%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.40%) Adobe
6 2 (1.40%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.70%) IBM
7 1 (0.70%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.70%) TIBCO