JavaScript Contracts in Northern Ireland

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 31 15 28
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.63% 6.04% 2.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.67% 25.00% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £385
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.79%
75th Percentile £625 - £438
90th Percentile - - £475
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.12 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.20% -10.71% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 60 36 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 37.74% 24.16% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 18 38
10th Percentile £273 £318 -
25th Percentile £325 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £443 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -1.67% -7.22%
75th Percentile £517 £505 £530
90th Percentile £627 £575 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £27.03 £19.02 -
25th Percentile £33.86 £23.37 £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.85 £31.25 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% +131.48% -28.95%
75th Percentile £64.47 £31.88 £13.75
90th Percentile £72.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Northern Ireland

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Northern Ireland

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Northern Ireland

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -18 1 £600 - 19
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PMO