JavaScript Contracts in the North West

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 42 45 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 -17 -9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 89 107 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.52% 3.88% 6.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.57% 15.53% 20.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 53 150
10th Percentile £335 £370 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £490 £550 £586
90th Percentile £538 £575 £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 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 537 689 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.29% 25.01% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 516 700
10th Percentile £359 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £540 £544 £594
90th Percentile £625 £613 £651
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 32 14
10th Percentile £55.75 £41.25 £20.46
25th Percentile £65.25 £44.72 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%
75th Percentile £86.00 £69.53 £51.93
90th Percentile £87.10 £80.15 £62.95
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Manchester +9 59 £435 -3.33% 166
Cheshire +9 16 £402 -21.56% 37
Lancashire 0 5 £550 - 60
Merseyside -16 2 - - 40
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 10 (11.24%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.62%) JBoss
2 5 (5.62%) Tomcat
2 5 (5.62%) WebSphere
3 4 (4.49%) Confluence
3 4 (4.49%) WebLogic
4 3 (3.37%) CMS
5 1 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.12%) Apache
5 1 (1.12%) Camunda
5 1 (1.12%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) InVision
1 2 (2.25%) UserZoom
2 1 (1.12%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.12%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (40.45%) AWS
2 13 (14.61%) Power Platform
3 12 (13.48%) Power Automate
3 12 (13.48%) PowerApps
4 11 (12.36%) Azure
5 10 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.74%) GitHub
7 5 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (5.62%) Serverless
8 3 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.25%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (2.25%) dbt
10 1 (1.12%) GCP
10 1 (1.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) HTTP
1 3 (3.37%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.12%) DHCP
2 1 (1.12%) DNS
2 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.49%) DB2
2 4 (4.49%) ObjectStore
3 3 (3.37%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (3.37%) GIS
3 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.25%) MySQL
4 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (23.60%) Git
2 12 (13.48%) GitLab
3 7 (7.87%) Jasmine
3 7 (7.87%) Mocha
4 5 (5.62%) Babel
4 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
4 5 (5.62%) gulp
4 5 (5.62%) JIRA
4 5 (5.62%) Subversion
4 5 (5.62%) webpack
5 4 (4.49%) Grunt
5 4 (4.49%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.37%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.37%) Selenium
7 2 (2.25%) Axure RP
7 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.25%) Maven
7 2 (2.25%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.25%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.12%) Postman
General
1 14 (15.73%) Public Sector
2 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.24%) Finance
4 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Billing
7 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
7 1 (1.12%) Marketing
7 1 (1.12%) Military
7 1 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (53.93%) Developer
2 19 (21.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 17 (19.10%) Senior
4 13 (14.61%) Software Developer
5 12 (13.48%) Software Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) JavaScript Developer
6 9 (10.11%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 9 (10.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.62%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) React Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Lead
10 4 (4.49%) Scrum Master
11 3 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) SAP Developer
11 3 (3.37%) SAPUI5 Developer
11 3 (3.37%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (43.82%) CSS
1 39 (43.82%) HTML
2 36 (40.45%) Node.js
3 34 (38.20%) React
4 20 (22.47%) HTML5
5 14 (15.73%) AngularJS
5 14 (15.73%) REST
5 14 (15.73%) RESTful
6 13 (14.61%) .NET
7 9 (10.11%) SOAP
7 9 (10.11%) Spring
8 8 (8.99%) jQuery
8 8 (8.99%) Sass
8 8 (8.99%) Spring Boot
8 8 (8.99%) Web Services
9 6 (6.74%) SPFx
10 5 (5.62%) CSS3
10 5 (5.62%) J2EE
10 5 (5.62%) Jest
10 5 (5.62%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Private Cloud
1 6 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.62%) PKI
3 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.37%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.12%) NHS
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.11%) Linux
2 5 (5.62%) Unix
3 3 (3.37%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.25%) Android
4 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.07%) Agile
2 22 (24.72%) Front End Development
3 19 (21.35%) Test Automation
4 18 (20.22%) Software Engineering
5 16 (17.98%) CI/CD
6 15 (16.85%) User Experience
6 15 (16.85%) Web Development
7 13 (14.61%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (12.36%) API Development
8 11 (12.36%) DevOps
8 11 (12.36%) Microservices
9 10 (11.24%) Scrum
10 9 (10.11%) SDLC
11 8 (8.99%) Code Quality
11 8 (8.99%) Task Automation
12 7 (7.87%) Containerisation
12 7 (7.87%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (7.87%) Mentoring
12 7 (7.87%) Responsive Web Design
12 7 (7.87%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.09%) Java
1 25 (28.09%) TypeScript
2 14 (15.73%) Python
3 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
3 11 (12.36%) SQL
4 6 (6.74%) C#
5 2 (2.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.12%) Go
6 1 (1.12%) Perl
6 1 (1.12%) Scala
6 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.12%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.49%) Degree
2 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.61%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.87%) WCAG
3 6 (6.74%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (11.24%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.87%) Terraform
3 4 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.37%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.12%) Grafana
5 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.62%) ForgeRock
2 5 (5.62%) Oracle
3 3 (3.37%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (3.37%) Ping Identity
3 3 (3.37%) SAP
3 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.25%) Adobe
4 2 (2.25%) Google
4 2 (2.25%) Mapbox
5 1 (1.12%) IBM
5 1 (1.12%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.12%) TIBCO