JavaScript Contracts in Reading

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 52 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 -27
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 37 37 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.14% 3.58% 4.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.89% 13.26% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 41
10th Percentile £309 £368 £300
25th Percentile £381 £431 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +22.22% +16.13%
75th Percentile £591 £584 £523
90th Percentile £625 £600 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £488 £470
% change year-on-year -2.56% +3.72% +17.50%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 287 279 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.34% 27.01% 23.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 220 247
10th Percentile £362 £374 £354
25th Percentile £425 £463 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £613
90th Percentile £688 £706 £653
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £531 £500
% change year-on-year +3.53% +6.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 0
10th Percentile £54.13 £63.00 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £72.63 -
Median hourly rate £59.22 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.06 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.78% +81.88%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Reading

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Reading

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Reading over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Reading

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Reading

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (16.22%) OpenStack
2 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.41%) CMS
3 2 (5.41%) Jadu
4 1 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) Appian
4 1 (2.70%) Drupal
4 1 (2.70%) JBoss
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) Serverless
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.70%) MailChimp
5 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (18.92%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) MySQL
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Git
2 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.51%) JUnit
4 1 (2.70%) JMeter
4 1 (2.70%) Mockito
4 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Billing
3 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.51%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Developer
2 13 (35.14%) Lead
3 11 (29.73%) Java Developer
4 8 (21.62%) Full Stack Developer
5 7 (18.92%) Designer
6 6 (16.22%) Lead Designer
7 5 (13.51%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 4 (10.81%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) Web Applications Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) Web Engineer
9 2 (5.41%) Communications Manager
9 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (5.41%) Internal Communications Manager
9 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
10 1 (2.70%) Applications Developer
10 1 (2.70%) C# Developer
10 1 (2.70%) Lead Developer
10 1 (2.70%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (51.35%) Node.js
2 16 (43.24%) HTML
3 13 (35.14%) AngularJS
3 13 (35.14%) CSS
4 11 (29.73%) Spring
4 11 (29.73%) Spring Boot
5 9 (24.32%) React
6 8 (21.62%) Web Services
7 7 (18.92%) React Native
7 7 (18.92%) REST
8 6 (16.22%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (16.22%) Kafka
8 6 (16.22%) Symfony
9 5 (13.51%) RESTful
9 5 (13.51%) SOAP
10 4 (10.81%) .NET
10 4 (10.81%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET
11 3 (8.11%) J2EE
12 2 (5.41%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Social Media
3 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Agile
2 12 (32.43%) DevOps
2 12 (32.43%) TDD
3 11 (29.73%) Microservices
4 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
4 9 (24.32%) Scrum
5 8 (21.62%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (18.92%) CRM
6 7 (18.92%) Integration Testing
6 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (18.92%) Software Engineering
6 7 (18.92%) Unit Testing
7 6 (16.22%) Workflow
8 5 (13.51%) BDD
8 5 (13.51%) Coaching
8 5 (13.51%) Kanban
8 5 (13.51%) Security Testing
8 5 (13.51%) Software Testing
8 5 (13.51%) System Testing
8 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) Java
1 12 (32.43%) PHP
2 4 (10.81%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) C
3 1 (2.70%) C#
3 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.70%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Ansible
3 1 (2.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.70%) Google
2 1 (2.70%) IBM
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle
2 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.70%) Splunk
2 1 (2.70%) TIBCO