JavaScript Contracts in the North West

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -18 -6 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 107 201 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.87% 6.26% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.57% 21.41% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 156 226
10th Percentile £364 £334 £315
25th Percentile £410 £417 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £550
90th Percentile £575 £638 £600
England median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.63 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - £58.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £53.78
% change year-on-year -10.71% +30.17% +19.51%

All Programming Languages
North West

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 687 939 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.86% 29.23% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 711 1,089
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.21%
75th Percentile £539 £589 £588
90th Percentile £612 £650 £663
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 14 33
10th Percentile £41.25 £20.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £37.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -2.19% +22.06%
75th Percentile £69.53 £51.93 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.15 £62.95 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the North West

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the North West

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the North West

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the North West

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Manchester -12 65 £450 -10.00% 120
Merseyside +33 22 £480 +6.67% 17
Lancashire +1 8 - - 16
Cheshire -32 7 £513 -6.82% 34
Cumbria - 2 £575 - 4
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (6.54%) SharePoint
1 7 (6.54%) SharePoint 2010
1 7 (6.54%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (2.80%) IIS
3 2 (1.87%) CMS
3 2 (1.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.93%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (23.36%) Chatbot
2 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Maximo
2 1 (0.93%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.50%) AWS
2 16 (14.95%) Azure
3 7 (6.54%) Serverless
4 6 (5.61%) GitHub
5 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.74%) npm
6 4 (3.74%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.74%) Yarn
7 3 (2.80%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.87%) GCP
8 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.87%) SaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.93%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.93%) Route 53
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.48%) Metadata
2 8 (7.48%) MySQL
3 7 (6.54%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.54%) PowerPivot
3 7 (6.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Power View
5 5 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.74%) Redis
7 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.87%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.87%) Power BI
9 1 (0.93%) Essbase
9 1 (0.93%) GIS
9 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.93%) QGIS
9 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Git
2 5 (4.67%) Mocha
3 4 (3.74%) Jasmine
3 4 (3.74%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (3.74%) Selenium
3 4 (3.74%) webpack
4 3 (2.80%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.80%) GitLab
4 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.80%) JIRA
4 3 (2.80%) Postman
5 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.87%) JMeter
5 2 (1.87%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.87%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.93%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.93%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.93%) Maven
General
1 15 (14.02%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
2 6 (5.61%) Publishing
3 4 (3.74%) Finance
4 1 (0.93%) Advertising
4 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.93%) Banking
4 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
4 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (0.93%) Retail
4 1 (0.93%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 66 (61.68%) Developer
2 31 (28.97%) Software Developer
3 8 (7.48%) JavaScript Developer
4 6 (5.61%) Full Stack Developer
4 6 (5.61%) Senior
4 6 (5.61%) SharePoint Engineer
4 6 (5.61%) Tester
5 5 (4.67%) .NET Developer
5 5 (4.67%) Designer
5 5 (4.67%) Senior Developer
6 4 (3.74%) Automation Tester
6 4 (3.74%) C# Developer
6 4 (3.74%) Development Manager
6 4 (3.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (3.74%) Full Stack Engineer
6 4 (3.74%) Interaction Designer
6 4 (3.74%) Software Development Manager
6 4 (3.74%) Software Engineer
6 4 (3.74%) Software Manager
7 3 (2.80%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (49.53%) HTML
2 28 (26.17%) CSS
3 27 (25.23%) React
4 21 (19.63%) Node.js
5 19 (17.76%) .NET
6 9 (8.41%) .NET Framework
6 9 (8.41%) REST
7 7 (6.54%) AngularJS
7 7 (6.54%) RESTful
8 6 (5.61%) Kafka
8 6 (5.61%) Vue
8 6 (5.61%) Web Services
9 5 (4.67%) Express.js
10 4 (3.74%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.74%) GraphQL
10 4 (3.74%) HTML5
10 4 (3.74%) Jest
10 4 (3.74%) JSON
10 4 (3.74%) MERN Stack
11 3 (2.80%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.67%) Algorithms
1 5 (4.67%) Data Structures
1 5 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.80%) Low-Code
3 3 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Linux
1 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (31.78%) Software Engineering
2 27 (25.23%) Agile
2 27 (25.23%) Artificial Intelligence
3 26 (24.30%) Code Quality
4 25 (23.36%) Conversational UI
5 18 (16.82%) Test Automation
6 16 (14.95%) Full Stack Development
7 15 (14.02%) CI/CD
8 11 (10.28%) OO
8 11 (10.28%) TDD
9 10 (9.35%) DevOps
10 9 (8.41%) Design Patterns
10 9 (8.41%) ITIL
10 9 (8.41%) Microservices
11 8 (7.48%) Coaching
11 8 (7.48%) Scrum
11 8 (7.48%) Statistics
12 7 (6.54%) Front End Development
12 7 (6.54%) Metadata Management
12 7 (6.54%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 50 (46.73%) C#
2 42 (39.25%) SQL
3 40 (37.38%) Python
4 15 (14.02%) Java
5 11 (10.28%) TypeScript
6 10 (9.35%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.61%) PHP
8 3 (2.80%) C
8 3 (2.80%) C++
9 2 (1.87%) Delphi
9 2 (1.87%) Groovy
9 2 (1.87%) VBScript
10 1 (0.93%) Bash
10 1 (0.93%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (28.04%) Degree
2 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.87%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) CISM
6 1 (0.93%) CISSP
6 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.80%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.93%) GxP
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.48%) Terraform
2 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (23.36%) PayPal
2 7 (6.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.54%) VMware
3 3 (2.80%) IBM
3 3 (2.80%) Nintex
3 3 (2.80%) Pega
3 3 (2.80%) SAP
4 2 (1.87%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.93%) Hyperion
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle