JavaScript Contracts in the South East

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 66 58
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 103 165 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.24% 2.90% 3.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.19% 12.65% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 102 136
10th Percentile £325 £215 £306
25th Percentile £463 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 17
10th Percentile £25.55 £56.00 £39.64
25th Percentile £35.45 £67.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £54.94 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.52% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £59.77 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £61.31 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 845 1,304 1,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.60% 22.92% 25.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 896 1,036
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £612
90th Percentile £650 £675 £691
England median daily rate £521 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.01% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 85 79
10th Percentile £37.60 £35.00 £21.41
25th Percentile £47.62 £46.25 £45.13
Median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +11.14% +20.03%
75th Percentile £59.44 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.52 £76.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.69% +4.00% +19.05%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the South East.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the South East over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in the South East over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Thames Valley +8 38 £550 +15.79% 215
Hampshire +14 34 £513 +13.89% 85
Berkshire -4 28 £550 +15.79% 122
Surrey +19 23 £475 +88.12% 89
Buckinghamshire +11 8 £550 -2.22% 50
East Sussex -7 6 £444 +21.58% 43
Oxfordshire +3 2 £413 - 45
Middlesex +7 1 - - 28
Kent +1 1 £475 -13.64% 38
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (7.77%) Confluence
2 5 (4.85%) Apache
2 5 (4.85%) CMS
3 4 (3.88%) Drupal
3 4 (3.88%) WordPress
4 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.94%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.94%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.97%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.97%) nginx
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.97%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.97%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.92%) Azure
2 22 (21.36%) AWS
3 12 (11.65%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.74%) OpenShift
5 9 (8.74%) SaaS
6 8 (7.77%) GCP
6 8 (7.77%) Serverless
7 4 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.88%) GitHub
8 3 (2.91%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.91%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.91%) npm
8 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.91%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) NFC
1 5 (4.85%) PPP
2 4 (3.88%) HTTP
2 4 (3.88%) Internet
2 4 (3.88%) SNMP
2 4 (3.88%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (2.91%) Firewall
4 1 (0.97%) GPON
4 1 (0.97%) VoIP
4 1 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.30%) Relational Database
2 14 (13.59%) MySQL
3 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.94%) GIS
5 2 (1.94%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.94%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.94%) Redis
6 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.97%) DB2
6 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (26.21%) Git
2 13 (12.62%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.68%) Eclipse
4 8 (7.77%) JIRA
5 5 (4.85%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (4.85%) Valgrind
5 5 (4.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (3.88%) GoogleTest
6 4 (3.88%) JMeter
6 4 (3.88%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.91%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.91%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.91%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.94%) Firebug
8 2 (1.94%) JUnit
8 2 (1.94%) Mockito
8 2 (1.94%) Moq
8 2 (1.94%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (14.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.88%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.94%) Retail
7 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Finance
7 1 (0.97%) Games
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Marketing
7 1 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (48.54%) Developer
2 22 (21.36%) Senior
3 17 (16.50%) Software Engineer
4 11 (10.68%) Senior Developer
5 9 (8.74%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Salesforce Developer
7 6 (5.83%) C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (5.83%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) .NET Developer
8 5 (4.85%) Cloud Developer
8 5 (4.85%) Development Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (4.85%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Senior Development Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (45.63%) HTML
2 43 (41.75%) CSS
3 32 (31.07%) React
4 19 (18.45%) JSON
5 18 (17.48%) .NET
5 18 (17.48%) XML
6 17 (16.50%) AngularJS
7 16 (15.53%) Web Services
8 13 (12.62%) REST
9 12 (11.65%) RESTful
10 11 (10.68%) jQuery
10 11 (10.68%) Node.js
11 8 (7.77%) Ajax
11 8 (7.77%) Middleware
11 8 (7.77%) Vue
12 6 (5.83%) .NET Core
12 6 (5.83%) SOAP
13 5 (4.85%) .NET Framework
13 5 (4.85%) Lightning Web Components
14 4 (3.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.74%) Private Cloud
2 7 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.85%) Smartcard
4 4 (3.88%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.88%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.94%) CMDB
6 2 (1.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.94%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.97%) AS400
7 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.97%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.97%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.50%) Linux
2 5 (4.85%) Ubuntu
2 5 (4.85%) Unix
3 1 (0.97%) Android
3 1 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.86%) CI/CD
2 35 (33.98%) Agile
3 26 (25.24%) Software Engineering
4 24 (23.30%) DevOps
5 22 (21.36%) OO
6 18 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (15.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (15.53%) Scrum
8 15 (14.56%) Front End Development
9 14 (13.59%) Test Automation
10 13 (12.62%) Containerisation
10 13 (12.62%) Design Patterns
10 13 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (12.62%) Migration
10 13 (12.62%) User Experience
11 11 (10.68%) Microservices
12 10 (9.71%) Multithreading
13 9 (8.74%) OOP
13 9 (8.74%) Platform Engineering
14 8 (7.77%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (42.72%) Python
2 40 (38.83%) C#
2 40 (38.83%) Java
3 32 (31.07%) SQL
4 20 (19.42%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.68%) PowerShell
6 9 (8.74%) C++
7 6 (5.83%) Apex Code
8 5 (4.85%) Perl
8 5 (4.85%) PHP
9 4 (3.88%) ABAP
10 3 (2.91%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.91%) SOQL
11 2 (1.94%) Bash
11 2 (1.94%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.94%) Ruby
11 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.97%) Magik
12 1 (0.97%) RPG
12 1 (0.97%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 25 (24.27%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.91%) CCNA
3 3 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.94%) CEH
4 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.94%) Degree
4 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.94%) ECSA
4 2 (1.94%) GCFA
4 2 (1.94%) GCIA
4 2 (1.94%) GCIH
5 1 (0.97%) OCP
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.97%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.91%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) Software Quality Assurance
2 2 (1.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (13.59%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.94%) Firmware
3 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (24.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.74%) Ansible
3 3 (2.91%) Grafana
4 2 (1.94%) Kibana
4 2 (1.94%) Terraform
5 1 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 19 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.74%) Oracle
2 9 (8.74%) Red Hat
3 8 (7.77%) Salesforce
4 7 (6.80%) Google
5 6 (5.83%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.85%) SAP
6 5 (4.85%) Splunk
6 5 (4.85%) Zend
7 4 (3.88%) Adobe
7 4 (3.88%) Foundry
7 4 (3.88%) Palantir
8 3 (2.91%) IBM
8 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.94%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.97%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.97%) Sparx