JavaScript Contracts in the 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 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

JavaScript (including ECMAScript) England / South West
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	10	11	15
Rank change year-on-year	+1	+4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript	281	297	257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West	10.34%	9.93%	8.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category	27.41%	26.01%	21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted	177	203	186
Median daily rate	£360	£350	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£304	£265	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£425	£425
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£350
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	9	3
Median hourly rate	£45.00	£42.50	£19.46
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+118.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£41.00	£28.60	£19.09
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£50.00	£31.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.39	£37.50	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+15.70%	-6.25%

JavaScript is in the programming language skills category. The next 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 programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills South West
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	1025	1142	1193
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West	37.73%	38.17%	38.22%
Number of daily rates quoted	625	718	789
Median daily rate	£375	£365	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.73%	-2.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£275	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£483	£475	£460
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	53	80	74
Median hourly rate	£47.50	£39.00	£36.20
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+21.79%	+7.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£37.60	£25.00	£20.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£48.90	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£36.50
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+2.73%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the South West citing JavaScript as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing JavaScript in the South West.

Contractor daily rate trend for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing JavaScript in the South West over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript in the South West.

Contractor 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 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Bristol	-6	85	£350	+6.06%	59
Wiltshire	+13	66	£351	+3.85%	21
Devon	0	46	£400	+25.00%	9
Somerset	-5	30	£388	+6.89%	17
Gloucestershire	-1	21	£350	-6.66%	20
Dorset	+2	17	£325	-7.14%	39
Cornwall	-	6	£250	-	5
JavaScript England

JavaScript
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the South West

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the South West region with a requirement for JavaScript.

1	419 (71.26%)	HTML
2	386 (65.65%)	CSS
3	270 (45.92%)	Agile Software Development
4	221 (37.59%)	.NET
5	201 (34.18%)	C#
6	200 (34.01%)	AngularJS
7	173 (29.42%)	jQuery
8	165 (28.06%)	MVC
9	158 (26.87%)	HTML5
10	138 (23.47%)	ASP.NET
11	134 (22.79%)	Java
12	129 (21.94%)	SQL
13	121 (20.58%)	Scrum
14	109 (18.54%)	Front End Development
15	108 (18.37%)	Git (software)

16	98 (16.67%)	SQL Server
17	92 (15.65%)	CSS3
18	91 (15.48%)	Web Development
19	89 (15.14%)	XML
20	88 (14.97%)	TDD
21	83 (14.12%)	Microsoft
21	83 (14.12%)	Twitter Bootstrap
22	80 (13.61%)	Ajax
23	79 (13.44%)	REST
24	77 (13.10%)	Web Services
24	77 (13.10%)	User Experience
25	73 (12.41%)	Finance
26	72 (12.24%)	JSON
27	71 (12.07%)	ASP.NET Web API
28	69 (11.73%)	ASP.NET MVC

JavaScript
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	46 (7.82%)	CMS
2	21 (3.57%)	SharePoint
3	20 (3.40%)	ColdFusion
3	20 (3.40%)	Elasticsearch
4	17 (2.89%)	IIS
4	17 (2.89%)	Sitecore CMS
5	15 (2.55%)	Apache
5	15 (2.55%)	Confluence
6	11 (1.87%)	WebLogic
6	11 (1.87%)	WordPress
7	10 (1.70%)	Tomcat
8	9 (1.53%)	Drupal
8	9 (1.53%)	Railo
9	8 (1.36%)	SharePoint 2010
10	6 (1.02%)	WebSphere
11	4 (0.68%)	WebSphere Portal
12	3 (0.51%)	Apache Pig
12	3 (0.51%)	Apache Qpid
12	3 (0.51%)	Apache Solr
12	3 (0.51%)	Sitefinity

Applications
1	9 (1.53%)	Photoshop
2	8 (1.36%)	Adobe Illustrator
3	5 (0.85%)	Adobe Creative Suite
4	4 (0.68%)	LaTeX
4	4 (0.68%)	OmniGraffle
5	2 (0.34%)	InDesign
5	2 (0.34%)	Microsoft Office
6	1 (0.17%)	Fireworks
6	1 (0.17%)	InfoPath
6	1 (0.17%)	Microsoft Excel
6	1 (0.17%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	30 (5.10%)	Dynamics CRM
2	13 (2.21%)	Magento
2	13 (2.21%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	4 (0.68%)	Oracle Applications
4	2 (0.34%)	OpenText Process Suite
5	1 (0.17%)	Oracle BPM
5	1 (0.17%)	Payment Gateway
5	1 (0.17%)	Remedy ITSM
5	1 (0.17%)	SAP BPC
5	1 (0.17%)	SDL Web 8

Cloud Services
1	31 (5.27%)	Microsoft Azure
2	29 (4.93%)	Amazon AWS
3	16 (2.72%)	GitHub
4	10 (1.70%)	SaaS
5	7 (1.19%)	IaaS
5	7 (1.19%)	PaaS
6	6 (1.02%)	Amazon EC2
7	5 (0.85%)	IBM Blueworks
8	4 (0.68%)	Cloud Computing
8	4 (0.68%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	3 (0.51%)	OpenShift
10	2 (0.34%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
10	2 (0.34%)	AWS Lambda
10	2 (0.34%)	Google Analytics
11	1 (0.17%)	Firebase
11	1 (0.17%)	Office 365

Communications & Networking
1	16 (2.72%)	Internet
2	12 (2.04%)	HTTP
3	4 (0.68%)	LDAP
4	3 (0.51%)	AMQP
4	3 (0.51%)	Intranet
4	3 (0.51%)	SSH
4	3 (0.51%)	VoIP
4	3 (0.51%)	Wireshark
5	2 (0.34%)	Modbus
5	2 (0.34%)	SMS
5	2 (0.34%)	SSL
5	2 (0.34%)	TCP/IP
6	1 (0.17%)	Firewall
6	1 (0.17%)	Skype
6	1 (0.17%)	SMTP
6	1 (0.17%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	98 (16.67%)	SQL Server
2	27 (4.59%)	MySQL
3	26 (4.42%)	SQL Server 2012
4	22 (3.74%)	PostgreSQL
5	21 (3.57%)	Oracle Database
6	20 (3.40%)	Relational Database
7	11 (1.87%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
8	10 (1.70%)	Hadoop
8	10 (1.70%)	NoSQL
9	8 (1.36%)	Amazon DynamoDB
9	8 (1.36%)	Data Warehouse
9	8 (1.36%)	SQL Server 2008
10	7 (1.19%)	MongoDB
10	7 (1.19%)	Oracle Database 12c
10	7 (1.19%)	SQL Server 2005
11	6 (1.02%)	DTS
11	6 (1.02%)	RDBMS
12	5 (0.85%)	Oracle BI Publisher
12	5 (0.85%)	Oracle Database 10g
12	5 (0.85%)	Oracle Database 11g

Development Applications
1	108 (18.37%)	Git (software)
2	67 (11.39%)	Team Foundation Server
3	61 (10.37%)	Visual Studio
4	57 (9.69%)	Jenkins
5	39 (6.63%)	Cucumber
6	34 (5.78%)	Maven
6	34 (5.78%)	Selenium
7	31 (5.27%)	TeamCity
8	30 (5.10%)	Ant
9	24 (4.08%)	JIRA
10	18 (3.06%)	Subversion
11	17 (2.89%)	Gradle
11	17 (2.89%)	Jasmine
12	16 (2.72%)	Grunt
12	16 (2.72%)	JUnit
12	16 (2.72%)	Visual Studio Team System
13	14 (2.38%)	Bitbucket
13	14 (2.38%)	Eclipse
14	13 (2.21%)	gulp
14	13 (2.21%)	Hudson

General
1	73 (12.41%)	Finance
2	36 (6.12%)	Banking
3	24 (4.08%)	Marketing
4	16 (2.72%)	Electronics
5	14 (2.38%)	Telecoms
6	13 (2.21%)	Manufacturing
7	9 (1.53%)	Advertising
8	7 (1.19%)	Retail
9	5 (0.85%)	Back Office
10	4 (0.68%)	Games
11	3 (0.51%)	Investment Banking
11	3 (0.51%)	Local Government
12	2 (0.34%)	Automotive
12	2 (0.34%)	Publishing
13	1 (0.17%)	Aerospace
13	1 (0.17%)	Billing
13	1 (0.17%)	Financial Institution

Job Titles
1	507 (86.22%)	Developer
2	116 (19.73%)	.NET Developer
3	78 (13.27%)	C# Developer
4	75 (12.76%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5	73 (12.41%)	Java Developer
6	58 (9.86%)	C# .NET Developer
6	58 (9.86%)	JavaScript Developer
7	44 (7.48%)	Angular Developer
8	42 (7.14%)	UI Developer
9	40 (6.80%)	HTML Developer
10	38 (6.46%)	Software Developer
11	36 (6.12%)	Senior Developer
12	33 (5.61%)	ASP.NET Developer
13	32 (5.44%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
14	27 (4.59%)	CRM Developer
14	27 (4.59%)	HTML CSS Developer
15	26 (4.42%)	ASP.NET MVC Developer
16	25 (4.25%)	Sitecore Developer
17	24 (4.08%)	Web Developer
18	21 (3.57%)	Full Stack Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	419 (71.26%)	HTML
2	386 (65.65%)	CSS
3	221 (37.59%)	.NET
4	200 (34.01%)	AngularJS
5	173 (29.42%)	jQuery
6	158 (26.87%)	HTML5
7	138 (23.47%)	ASP.NET
8	92 (15.65%)	CSS3
9	89 (15.14%)	XML
10	83 (14.12%)	Twitter Bootstrap
11	80 (13.61%)	Ajax
12	79 (13.44%)	REST
13	77 (13.10%)	Web Services
14	72 (12.24%)	JSON
15	71 (12.07%)	ASP.NET Web API
16	69 (11.73%)	ASP.NET MVC
17	67 (11.39%)	React
18	66 (11.22%)	.NET Framework
19	65 (11.05%)	Spring
20	55 (9.35%)	RESTful

Miscellaneous
1	77 (13.10%)	User Experience
2	29 (4.93%)	Analytical Skills
3	24 (4.08%)	W3C
4	23 (3.91%)	Greenfield Project
5	12 (2.04%)	N-Tier
6	11 (1.87%)	Computer Science
7	9 (1.53%)	RIA
8	7 (1.19%)	Mobile App
8	7 (1.19%)	Web 2.0
9	6 (1.02%)	Blog
9	6 (1.02%)	Management Information System
9	6 (1.02%)	Public Cloud
10	5 (0.85%)	Client/Server
10	5 (0.85%)	Driving Licence
10	5 (0.85%)	Virtual Team
11	4 (0.68%)	iPad
12	3 (0.51%)	Enterprise Software
12	3 (0.51%)	Fintech
12	3 (0.51%)	Social Media
13	2 (0.34%)	CMDB

Operating Systems
1	31 (5.27%)	Windows
2	28 (4.76%)	Linux
3	19 (3.23%)	Unix
4	9 (1.53%)	Mac OS
5	7 (1.19%)	Android
5	7 (1.19%)	Apple iOS
6	6 (1.02%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	6 (1.02%)	Windows Server
7	5 (0.85%)	Oracle Linux
8	2 (0.34%)	Debian
8	2 (0.34%)	Ubuntu
9	1 (0.17%)	CentOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	270 (45.92%)	Agile Software Development
2	165 (28.06%)	MVC
3	121 (20.58%)	Scrum
4	109 (18.54%)	Front End Development
5	91 (15.48%)	Web Development
6	88 (14.97%)	TDD
7	68 (11.56%)	Test Automation
8	57 (9.69%)	BDD
9	48 (8.16%)	Continuous Integration
10	42 (7.14%)	Content Management
11	39 (6.63%)	Software Engineering
11	39 (6.63%)	Unit Testing
12	38 (6.46%)	E-Commerce
12	38 (6.46%)	OO
13	37 (6.29%)	DevOps
14	36 (6.12%)	Web Design
15	32 (5.44%)	Responsive Web Design
16	31 (5.27%)	CRM
16	31 (5.27%)	User Stories
17	28 (4.76%)	Open Source

Programming Languages
1	201 (34.18%)	C#
2	134 (22.79%)	Java
3	129 (21.94%)	SQL
4	46 (7.82%)	Python
5	43 (7.31%)	PHP
6	23 (3.91%)	PL/SQL
7	21 (3.57%)	T-SQL
8	16 (2.72%)	TypeScript
9	15 (2.55%)	Ruby
9	15 (2.55%)	VB.NET
10	12 (2.04%)	ES6
11	11 (1.87%)	C
12	9 (1.53%)	Scala
13	8 (1.36%)	ActionScript
13	8 (1.36%)	C++
14	5 (0.85%)	Bash Shell
14	5 (0.85%)	Delphi
14	5 (0.85%)	PowerShell
15	4 (0.68%)	VB
15	4 (0.68%)	XPath

Qualifications
1	55 (9.35%)	Security Cleared
2	40 (6.80%)	SC Cleared
3	24 (4.08%)	Degree
4	16 (2.72%)	BPSS Clearance
5	9 (1.53%)	Computer Science Degree
6	8 (1.36%)	DV Cleared
6	8 (1.36%)	Oracle Certification
7	2 (0.34%)	ISTQB
8	1 (0.17%)	A+ Certification
8	1 (0.17%)	BC Cleared
8	1 (0.17%)	DBS Check
8	1 (0.17%)	ISEB
8	1 (0.17%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
8	1 (0.17%)	MCP
8	1 (0.17%)	Microsoft Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	34 (5.78%)	QA
2	7 (1.19%)	Disclosure Scotland
3	5 (0.85%)	ISO 9001
3	5 (0.85%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	1 (0.17%)	SLA

System Software
1	28 (4.76%)	Docker
2	9 (1.53%)	VirtualBox
3	3 (0.51%)	Active Directory
3	3 (0.51%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	2 (0.34%)	Varnish

Systems Management
1	9 (1.53%)	Ansible
2	6 (1.02%)	Opscode Chef
3	4 (0.68%)	HP Quality Center
4	2 (0.34%)	vRealize
5	1 (0.17%)	Business Desktop Deployment
5	1 (0.17%)	Kibana
5	1 (0.17%)	Puppet
5	1 (0.17%)	SCCM
5	1 (0.17%)	SELinux
5	1 (0.17%)	WMI

Vendors
1	83 (14.12%)	Microsoft
2	58 (9.86%)	Oracle
3	30 (5.10%)	Sencha
4	25 (4.25%)	Sitecore
5	16 (2.72%)	Google
6	15 (2.55%)	Apple
7	14 (2.38%)	ATG
7	14 (2.38%)	SAP
8	12 (2.04%)	hybris
9	10 (1.70%)	Adobe
9	10 (1.70%)	IBM
10	8 (1.36%)	Nintex
10	8 (1.36%)	Xamarin
11	5 (0.85%)	Pega
11	5 (0.85%)	Red Hat
11	5 (0.85%)	webMethods
12	4 (0.68%)	Telerik
13	3 (0.51%)	CA Agile Central
13	3 (0.51%)	Twitter
13	3 (0.51%)	VMware