JavaScript Contract Job Trends in South London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring JavaScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 20 36
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 +1
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 4 20 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.31% 10.42% 3.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.48% 28.17% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - £413 £413
25th Percentile £706 £426 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -11.63% -8.51%
75th Percentile £719 £713 £572
90th Percentile - £774 £628
London median daily rate £575 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 73 71 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 42.20% 36.98% 37.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 53 92
10th Percentile £413 £401 £413
25th Percentile £470 £430 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £715 £650
90th Percentile £739 £820 £734
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £47.04
25th Percentile - £65.63 £52.97
Median hourly rate - £68.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.90%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.79
90th Percentile - - £66.58
London median hourly rate £44.70 £48.50 £60.21
% change year-on-year -7.84% -19.45% +9.47%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in South London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Croydon -6 4 £713 +58.33% 7
JavaScript
London

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Mockito
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Camel
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) WireMock
2 2 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Process Management
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Master Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kibana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk