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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 69 46
Rank change year-on-year +25 -23 -3
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 18 32 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.05% 2.75% 3.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.84% 11.35% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 28
10th Percentile £250 £306 £375
25th Percentile £306 £364 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +39.71% -22.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £583
90th Percentile £656 £625 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +35.29% -17.07% +10.81%

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 166 282 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 28.14% 24.21% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 198 215
10th Percentile £393 £351 £363
25th Percentile £475 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% +5.68% +12.53%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £640
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
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 9 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 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (11.11%) npm
3 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
3 2 (11.11%) Serverless
3 2 (11.11%) Veeva
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.56%) dbt
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) JMeter
2 2 (11.11%) JUnit
2 2 (11.11%) Mockito
2 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Publishing
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 3 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Developer
4 2 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) React Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.56%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior React Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (94.44%) HTML
2 15 (83.33%) CSS
3 9 (50.00%) .NET
4 3 (16.67%) React
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 2 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (11.11%) Apache Camel
5 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 2 (11.11%) jQuery
5 2 (11.11%) JSON
5 2 (11.11%) Material-UI
5 2 (11.11%) Next.js
5 2 (11.11%) Node.js
5 2 (11.11%) Playwright
5 2 (11.11%) REST
5 2 (11.11%) Spring
5 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 2 (11.11%) Swagger
5 2 (11.11%) Web Services
5 2 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.56%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 8 (44.44%) SDLC
4 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 6 (33.33%) LLM
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 6 (33.33%) System Testing
4 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 4 (22.22%) BDD
5 4 (22.22%) Channel Management
5 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
5 4 (22.22%) Microservices
6 3 (16.67%) API Development
6 3 (16.67%) Scrum
6 3 (16.67%) TDD
7 2 (11.11%) Load Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) C#
2 8 (44.44%) Python
3 7 (38.89%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk