JavaScript Contracts in Reading

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 43 53 52
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 17 38 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.85% 3.19% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.30% 13.15% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 25
10th Percentile £250 £309 £354
25th Percentile £288 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.03% -11.90% +19.32%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £581
90th Percentile - £625 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £546 £475 £456
% change year-on-year +14.95% +4.11% -1.35%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 165 289 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 24.24% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 202 216
10th Percentile £406 £363 £369
25th Percentile £500 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £670
90th Percentile £700 £688 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - £54.13 £63.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £72.63
Median hourly rate £77.19 £59.22 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -25.22% -
75th Percentile - £66.03 -
90th Percentile - £67.63 £80.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 (5.88%) CMS
1 1 (5.88%) Headless CMS
1 1 (5.88%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
3 2 (11.76%) Veeva
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) dbt
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JMeter
2 2 (11.76%) JUnit
2 2 (11.76%) Mockito
2 2 (11.76%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Publishing
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
2 3 (17.65%) C# Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Developer
3 2 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
4 1 (5.88%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (5.88%) React Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Umbraco Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (94.12%) HTML
2 14 (82.35%) CSS
3 9 (52.94%) .NET
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
4 2 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (11.76%) Apache Camel
4 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
4 2 (11.76%) jQuery
4 2 (11.76%) JSON
4 2 (11.76%) Playwright
4 2 (11.76%) React
4 2 (11.76%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) Spring
4 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
4 2 (11.76%) WireMock
4 2 (11.76%) XML
5 1 (5.88%) Babylonjs
5 1 (5.88%) Blazor
5 1 (5.88%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.88%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) SDLC
4 6 (35.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Integration Testing
4 6 (35.29%) LLM
4 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) Software Testing
4 6 (35.29%) System Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Unit Testing
5 4 (23.53%) BDD
5 4 (23.53%) Channel Management
6 3 (17.65%) Front End Development
6 3 (17.65%) Microservices
6 3 (17.65%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) TDD
7 2 (11.76%) Load Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
7 2 (11.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) C#
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 7 (41.18%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) OpenAI
2 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk