JavaScript Contracts in the South West

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 52 31
Rank change year-on-year +5 -21 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 124 161 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.86% 4.37% 6.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 15.07% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 132 160
10th Percentile £308 £378 £374
25th Percentile £384 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £670 £569
90th Percentile £703 £700 £613
England median daily rate £550 £538 £540
% change year-on-year +2.33% -0.46% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £66.00 £51.55 £47.62
25th Percentile £67.50 £53.79 £53.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.53 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.69% -4.92% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £61.26 £64.01
90th Percentile £74.00 £63.51 £65.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £57.25
% change year-on-year -4.21% +13.97% +33.14%

All Programming Languages
South West

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 620 1,068 1,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.32% 28.96% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 764 777
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +7.53%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £625
England median daily rate £540 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 106 68
10th Percentile £40.00 £49.84 £46.57
25th Percentile £52.50 £57.37 £53.94
Median hourly rate £66.01 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +3.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £75.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.63%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Bristol +5 53 £450 - 71
Gloucestershire +2 37 £588 -16.07% 35
Devon +11 13 £500 +11.11% 27
Wiltshire +7 12 £525 +16.67% 10
Somerset +3 5 £450 - 18
Dorset +4 4 £175 -50.00% 15
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (11.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (2.42%) CMS
3 3 (2.42%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.81%) Drupal
4 1 (0.81%) IIS
4 1 (0.81%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.81%) Magento
2 1 (0.81%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 34 (27.42%) AWS
2 30 (24.19%) Azure
3 15 (12.10%) Power Automate
3 15 (12.10%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 9 (7.26%) Azure Storage
5 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.84%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.42%) GitHub
7 3 (2.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Firebase
8 2 (1.61%) npm
8 2 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Sumo Logic
9 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.81%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.81%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.84%) Intranet
2 4 (3.23%) Ethernet
3 3 (2.42%) Internet
3 3 (2.42%) RTSP
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.65%) MySQL
2 4 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.81%) ClickHouse
3 1 (0.81%) Couchbase
3 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.81%) Power BI
3 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.65%) Git
1 7 (5.65%) Jenkins
1 7 (5.65%) JIRA
2 5 (4.03%) Selenium
3 4 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.61%) git-flow
4 2 (1.61%) GitLab
4 2 (1.61%) JUnit
4 2 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.61%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.61%) webpack
5 1 (0.81%) Babel
5 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.81%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.81%) Maven
5 1 (0.81%) Subversion
5 1 (0.81%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (9.68%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.87%) Finance
3 9 (7.26%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.03%) Military
5 5 (4.03%) Tech for Good
6 3 (2.42%) Automotive
6 3 (2.42%) Legal
6 3 (2.42%) Marketing
6 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.81%) Law
7 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Publishing
7 1 (0.81%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 91 (73.39%) Developer
2 23 (18.55%) Software Developer
3 12 (9.68%) Full Stack Developer
4 11 (8.87%) Software Engineer
5 9 (7.26%) SharePoint Developer
6 7 (5.65%) JavaScript Developer
6 7 (5.65%) React Developer
6 7 (5.65%) Test Engineer
7 6 (4.84%) Applications Developer
8 5 (4.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Senior
9 4 (3.23%) Power Apps Developer
9 4 (3.23%) Power Platform Developer
9 4 (3.23%) Salesforce Developer
9 4 (3.23%) Web Developer
10 3 (2.42%) .NET Developer
10 3 (2.42%) 2nd Line Support
10 3 (2.42%) Support Engineer
10 3 (2.42%) Technical Engineer
10 3 (2.42%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (33.87%) React
2 39 (31.45%) HTML
3 30 (24.19%) CSS
4 26 (20.97%) Node.js
5 16 (12.90%) AngularJS
6 13 (10.48%) Spring
7 12 (9.68%) REST
8 11 (8.87%) .NET
9 9 (7.26%) SPFx
10 8 (6.45%) ASP.NET
11 6 (4.84%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (4.84%) Flask
11 6 (4.84%) RESTful
12 5 (4.03%) Blazor
12 5 (4.03%) jQuery
12 5 (4.03%) React Native
13 4 (3.23%) Jest
13 4 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
13 4 (3.23%) Spring Boot
13 4 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.84%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.42%) CUDA
2 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.81%) IoT
4 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.81%) Robotics
4 1 (0.81%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.23%) Linux
2 2 (1.61%) Android
2 2 (1.61%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.61%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.81%) Agile
2 26 (20.97%) Software Engineering
3 22 (17.74%) Full Stack Development
4 20 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (12.90%) DevOps
6 14 (11.29%) Project Management
7 13 (10.48%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (10.48%) Code Quality
8 12 (9.68%) Conversational UI
8 12 (9.68%) Front End Development
9 11 (8.87%) SDLC
10 10 (8.06%) Secure Coding
10 10 (8.06%) Unit Testing
11 9 (7.26%) Clean Code
11 9 (7.26%) MVC
11 9 (7.26%) OO
11 9 (7.26%) OOP
12 8 (6.45%) Change Management
12 8 (6.45%) Programme Management
12 8 (6.45%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.06%) Python
2 40 (32.26%) C#
3 26 (20.97%) Java
3 26 (20.97%) TypeScript
4 21 (16.94%) SQL
5 13 (10.48%) C
6 5 (4.03%) C++
6 5 (4.03%) PHP
7 4 (3.23%) Apex Code
8 3 (2.42%) Embedded C++
9 2 (1.61%) Dart
9 2 (1.61%) SOQL
10 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.52%) Degree
4 17 (13.71%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.61%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.06%) QA
2 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.61%) WCAG
4 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.81%) Ansible
2 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (9.68%) PayPal
2 6 (4.84%) Adobe
2 6 (4.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.03%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.42%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.61%) Google
6 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.81%) Marketo
6 1 (0.81%) Pardot
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.81%) VMware