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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 29 19
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 -6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 104 190 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.84% 5.99% 8.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.36% 20.43% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 146 226
10th Percentile £375 £331 £315
25th Percentile £413 £433 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £531 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +11.84% +17.28%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £550
90th Percentile £575 £638 £614
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +13.46%
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 £65.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -4.58% +18.55% +0.45%

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 677 930 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.00% 29.33% 34.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 695 1,080
10th Percentile £325 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £588
90th Percentile £613 £658 £663
England median daily rate £545 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.17% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 30
10th Percentile £38.68 £24.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.80 £16.83
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.80 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% +27.75% +11.67%
75th Percentile £71.87 £53.84 £55.63
90th Percentile £80.82 £65.88 £60.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £50.50
% change year-on-year +2.97% +20.20% +17.44%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 63 £450 -10.00% 118
Merseyside +29 23 £510 +23.64% 21
Lancashire +4 8 - - 10
Cheshire -33 6 £513 -6.82% 30
Cumbria - 2 £575 - 5
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 8 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.73%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (6.73%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (2.88%) IIS
4 2 (1.92%) CMS
4 2 (1.92%) Confluence
5 1 (0.96%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.96%) Camunda
5 1 (0.96%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (24.04%) Chatbot
2 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Maximo
2 1 (0.96%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 20 (19.23%) AWS
2 14 (13.46%) Azure
3 7 (6.73%) Serverless
4 6 (5.77%) GitHub
5 5 (4.81%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.85%) npm
6 4 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.85%) Yarn
7 2 (1.92%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.92%) GCP
7 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.92%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.92%) SaaS
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.96%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.69%) Metadata
2 8 (7.69%) MySQL
3 7 (6.73%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.73%) PowerPivot
3 7 (6.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Power View
4 6 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.85%) Redis
6 3 (2.88%) Power BI
6 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.92%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.96%) Essbase
8 1 (0.96%) GIS
8 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.96%) QGIS
8 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (9.62%) Git
2 5 (4.81%) Mocha
2 5 (4.81%) Selenium
3 4 (3.85%) Jasmine
3 4 (3.85%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (3.85%) webpack
4 3 (2.88%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.92%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.92%) GitLab
5 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.92%) JIRA
5 2 (1.92%) Postman
5 2 (1.92%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.92%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.96%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.96%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.96%) JMeter
6 1 (0.96%) Maven
6 1 (0.96%) PyCharm
General
1 14 (13.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.77%) Public Sector
2 6 (5.77%) Publishing
3 4 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (0.96%) Advertising
4 1 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.96%) Banking
4 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
4 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (0.96%) Retail
4 1 (0.96%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 67 (64.42%) Developer
2 30 (28.85%) Software Developer
3 8 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
4 6 (5.77%) Full Stack Developer
4 6 (5.77%) Senior
4 6 (5.77%) SharePoint Engineer
5 5 (4.81%) .NET Developer
5 5 (4.81%) Designer
5 5 (4.81%) Senior Developer
5 5 (4.81%) Tester
6 4 (3.85%) C# Developer
6 4 (3.85%) Development Manager
6 4 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (3.85%) Full Stack Engineer
6 4 (3.85%) Interaction Designer
6 4 (3.85%) Software Development Manager
6 4 (3.85%) Software Engineer
6 4 (3.85%) Software Manager
7 3 (2.88%) Lead
7 3 (2.88%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (51.92%) HTML
2 29 (27.88%) CSS
3 26 (25.00%) React
4 21 (20.19%) Node.js
5 19 (18.27%) .NET
6 9 (8.65%) .NET Framework
6 9 (8.65%) REST
7 8 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.73%) RESTful
8 7 (6.73%) Web Services
9 6 (5.77%) Kafka
9 6 (5.77%) Vue
10 5 (4.81%) Express.js
10 5 (4.81%) JSON
11 4 (3.85%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.85%) GraphQL
11 4 (3.85%) HTML5
11 4 (3.85%) MERN Stack
11 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
12 3 (2.88%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.81%) Data Structures
1 5 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.85%) Low-Code
3 3 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.96%) CMDB
5 1 (0.96%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.69%) Software Engineering
2 27 (25.96%) Agile
2 27 (25.96%) Artificial Intelligence
3 26 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 25 (24.04%) Conversational UI
5 16 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
5 16 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 15 (14.42%) CI/CD
7 11 (10.58%) OO
7 11 (10.58%) TDD
8 9 (8.65%) Design Patterns
8 9 (8.65%) DevOps
8 9 (8.65%) ITIL
8 9 (8.65%) Microservices
9 8 (7.69%) Coaching
9 8 (7.69%) Scrum
9 8 (7.69%) Statistics
10 7 (6.73%) Front End Development
10 7 (6.73%) Metadata Management
10 7 (6.73%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 50 (48.08%) C#
2 42 (40.38%) SQL
3 38 (36.54%) Python
4 15 (14.42%) Java
5 10 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.65%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.77%) PHP
8 2 (1.92%) C
8 2 (1.92%) C++
8 2 (1.92%) Delphi
8 2 (1.92%) Groovy
8 2 (1.92%) VBScript
9 1 (0.96%) Bash
Qualifications
1 31 (29.81%) Degree
2 11 (10.58%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) CISM
5 1 (0.96%) CISSP
5 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.88%) QA
3 1 (0.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.96%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (0.96%) GxP
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (7.69%) Terraform
2 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.88%) Ansible
4 1 (0.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (24.04%) PayPal
2 8 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.73%) VMware
4 3 (2.88%) IBM
4 3 (2.88%) Nintex
4 3 (2.88%) Pega
4 3 (2.88%) SAP
5 2 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.96%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle
6 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow