TypeScript Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft TypeScript
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring TypeScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 104 187
Rank change year-on-year -54 +83 -40
Contract jobs citing TypeScript 31 53 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.63% 1.69% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.10% 5.90% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 16
10th Percentile £450 £386 £406
25th Percentile £500 £404 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £409 £445
Median % change year-on-year +34.47% -8.09% -11.00%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £488
90th Percentile £700 £588 £531
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £39.00 £64.75
% change year-on-year +94.87% -39.77% -7.50%

All Programming Languages
South East

TypeScript 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 1,000 899 1,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 20.41% 28.67% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 585 773
10th Percentile £307 £350 £325
25th Percentile £403 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £613
90th Percentile £675 £673 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 25 83
10th Percentile £29.11 £43.31 £46.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.50 £46.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.54% +7.27%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £82.20 £69.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

TypeScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TypeScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

TypeScript job vacancy trend in the South East

TypeScript
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TypeScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TypeScript

TypeScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TypeScript in the South East over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TypeScript in the South East

TypeScript
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TypeScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TypeScript

TypeScript
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 TypeScript within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. 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 -36 24 £563 +37.53% 16
Berkshire -37 13 £550 +34.47% 7
Buckinghamshire -9 8 £563 +2.27% 3
Surrey -10 3 £410 - 6
Oxfordshire - 3 £575 - 6
Hampshire -31 2 £550 -4.35% 10
West Sussex - 2 £575 - 1
TypeScript
England

TypeScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.68%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (3.23%) IIS
2 1 (3.23%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) Serverless
4 6 (19.35%) GCP
5 4 (12.90%) GitHub
5 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) CloudFront
6 1 (3.23%) npm
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.68%) MySQL
3 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
2 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) JUnit
2 4 (12.90%) Storybook
3 2 (6.45%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.23%) GitLab
4 1 (3.23%) Postman
4 1 (3.23%) Selenium
4 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Finance
5 3 (9.68%) Electronics
5 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
5 3 (9.68%) Marketing
5 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
6 2 (6.45%) Law
7 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Senior
3 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Lead
5 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (9.68%) React Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Technical Leader
8 1 (3.23%) Applications Support
8 1 (3.23%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Technical Consultant
8 1 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (48.39%) React
2 8 (25.81%) CSS
3 7 (22.58%) Node.js
4 6 (19.35%) HTML
4 6 (19.35%) RESTful
5 4 (12.90%) PySpark
5 4 (12.90%) Spring
5 4 (12.90%) Spring Boot
5 4 (12.90%) Vitest
6 3 (9.68%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (9.68%) React Native
6 3 (9.68%) REST
7 2 (6.45%) .NET
7 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
7 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
7 2 (6.45%) Entity Framework
7 2 (6.45%) GraphQL
7 2 (6.45%) Material-UI
7 2 (6.45%) Playwright
7 2 (6.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.45%) AI Agents
2 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Life Science
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Android
1 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Agile
2 13 (41.94%) CI/CD
3 12 (38.71%) DevOps
4 11 (35.48%) AI
4 11 (35.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (29.03%) Front End Development
7 8 (25.81%) Microservices
8 7 (22.58%) Code Quality
8 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
8 7 (22.58%) User Experience
9 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
10 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
10 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
10 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
10 4 (12.90%) End-to-End Testing
10 4 (12.90%) Event-Driven
10 4 (12.90%) Machine Learning
10 4 (12.90%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) JavaScript
2 7 (22.58%) Java
3 6 (19.35%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) Go
5 1 (3.23%) Objective-C
5 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Argo
2 1 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Foundry
1 3 (9.68%) Palantir
1 3 (9.68%) SAP