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 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 70 71 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 -11
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 93 152 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.09% 2.73% 3.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.74% 12.61% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 93 145
10th Percentile £384 £255 £363
25th Percentile £456 £313 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £423 £488
Median % change year-on-year +28.99% -13.33% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £657 £625 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 18
10th Percentile £28.37 £35.00 £42.54
25th Percentile £51.06 £50.00 £57.22
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -10.71% +6.84%
75th Percentile £62.50 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £77.25 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +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 792 1,205 1,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.31% 21.68% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 831 1,136
10th Percentile £353 £325 £328
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 73 91
10th Percentile £40.05 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.19 £74.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +28 39 £550 +15.79% 124
Berkshire +14 30 £546 +14.95% 45
Hampshire +11 27 £513 +13.89% 48
Surrey +11 20 £550 +83.33% 29
Buckinghamshire +18 8 £550 +11.39% 50
East Sussex -10 5 £550 +57.14% 27
West Sussex +8 1 - - 16
Oxfordshire +5 1 - - 38
Kent +3 1 £475 -2.06% 17
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 11 (11.83%) Confluence
2 5 (5.38%) Apache
2 5 (5.38%) CMS
3 4 (4.30%) Drupal
3 4 (4.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (4.30%) WordPress
4 3 (3.23%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.15%) Apache Solr
5 2 (2.15%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (2.15%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (2.15%) Umbraco
5 2 (2.15%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.08%) Anypoint
6 1 (1.08%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.08%) Smallworld
6 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 31 (33.33%) Azure
2 17 (18.28%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (17.20%) AWS
4 9 (9.68%) GCP
4 9 (9.68%) SaaS
5 5 (5.38%) Serverless
6 4 (4.30%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.15%) Azure Stack
8 2 (2.15%) IaaS
8 2 (2.15%) npm
8 2 (2.15%) PaaS
8 2 (2.15%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.15%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) SNMP
1 7 (7.53%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (4.30%) Internet
3 2 (2.15%) HTTP
4 1 (1.08%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.13%) Relational Database
2 11 (11.83%) MySQL
3 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.30%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.30%) Redis
6 3 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.08%) GIS
8 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (39.78%) Git
2 13 (13.98%) JIRA
3 7 (7.53%) Bitbucket
3 7 (7.53%) Eclipse
3 7 (7.53%) GoogleTest
3 7 (7.53%) Robot Framework
4 5 (5.38%) Cypress.io
4 5 (5.38%) JMeter
4 5 (5.38%) Maven
4 5 (5.38%) SpecFlow
5 4 (4.30%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (4.30%) GitLab
5 4 (4.30%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.30%) Selenium
5 4 (4.30%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (3.23%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.23%) Subversion
6 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.15%) JUnit
7 2 (2.15%) Moq
General
1 11 (11.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (8.60%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.30%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.23%) Finance
4 3 (3.23%) Retail
4 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.08%) Aviation
6 1 (1.08%) Electronics
6 1 (1.08%) Games
6 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.08%) Marketing
6 1 (1.08%) Military
6 1 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (56.99%) Developer
2 16 (17.20%) Senior
3 14 (15.05%) Software Engineer
4 12 (12.90%) Senior Developer
5 11 (11.83%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (8.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (6.45%) .NET Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Lead
8 5 (5.38%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.38%) Software Test Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.30%) PHP Software Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (52.69%) HTML
2 48 (51.61%) CSS
3 26 (27.96%) React
4 24 (25.81%) .NET
5 16 (17.20%) AngularJS
6 14 (15.05%) Web Services
7 13 (13.98%) RESTful
8 11 (11.83%) JSON
8 11 (11.83%) Node.js
9 9 (9.68%) .NET Core
9 9 (9.68%) REST
9 9 (9.68%) Vue
10 8 (8.60%) XML
11 7 (7.53%) jQuery
12 6 (6.45%) Ajax
12 6 (6.45%) SOAP
13 5 (5.38%) ActiveMQ
14 4 (4.30%) ASP.NET
14 4 (4.30%) CodeIgniter
14 4 (4.30%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.38%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.30%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.23%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.08%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.08%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.08%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.98%) Linux
2 4 (4.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (52.69%) Agile
2 33 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 28 (30.11%) Software Engineering
4 26 (27.96%) Scrum
5 22 (23.66%) DevOps
6 20 (21.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (20.43%) Test Automation
8 18 (19.35%) OO
9 14 (15.05%) Design Patterns
9 14 (15.05%) Front End Development
9 14 (15.05%) Software Testing
10 13 (13.98%) SDLC
10 13 (13.98%) User Experience
11 12 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (12.90%) Microservices
12 11 (11.83%) MVC
13 10 (10.75%) LLM
13 10 (10.75%) Unit Testing
14 9 (9.68%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.48%) C#
2 30 (32.26%) Python
3 27 (29.03%) SQL
4 25 (26.88%) TypeScript
5 23 (24.73%) Java
6 9 (9.68%) PHP
7 7 (7.53%) C++
8 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.23%) ABAP
9 3 (3.23%) Apex Code
9 3 (3.23%) Perl
10 2 (2.15%) Bash
10 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.15%) XPath
11 1 (1.08%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.08%) Go
11 1 (1.08%) Magik
11 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.08%) RPG
Qualifications
1 26 (27.96%) SC Cleared
1 26 (27.96%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.68%) Degree
3 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.08%) OCP
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.08%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (11.83%) Docker
2 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.15%) Firmware
3 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.15%) Kibana
2 2 (2.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 14 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.98%) Google
3 8 (8.60%) SAP
3 8 (8.60%) Zend
4 7 (7.53%) Atlassian
5 6 (6.45%) OpenAI
5 6 (6.45%) Oracle
6 4 (4.30%) Foundry
6 4 (4.30%) Palantir
7 3 (3.23%) Adobe
7 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.15%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.15%) Splunk
9 1 (1.08%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.08%) Rackspace
9 1 (1.08%) Sparx
9 1 (1.08%) Twitter