JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 29 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -15 +13
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 6 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 3.00% 0.59% 6.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.11% 1.61% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.12
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% -7.41%

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 54 62 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 27.00% 36.69% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 52 12
10th Percentile £370 £278 £320
25th Percentile £413 £325 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £430
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +1.74% -4.44%
75th Percentile £655 £535 £481
90th Percentile £675 £624 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £27.03 £19.02
25th Percentile - £33.86 £23.37
Median hourly rate - £47.85 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year - +53.13% +131.48%
75th Percentile - £64.47 £31.88
90th Percentile - £72.87 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing JavaScript

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 15 May 2026. 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 +8 6 £450 -25.00% 38
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Figma
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) Next.js
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) Vue
2 1 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (16.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) API Integration
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Isomorphic JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Logistics
4 1 (16.67%) Monorepo
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft