JavaScript Contracts in the South West

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 44 48 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -19
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 74 124 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.41% 3.88% 4.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.48% 19.84% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 87 123
10th Percentile - £308 £375
25th Percentile £355 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £644
90th Percentile £669 £703 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 1
10th Percentile £62.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.25 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £50.05
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +29.87% -12.96%
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - £72.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 449 625 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.76% 19.54% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 421 759
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £625
90th Percentile £676 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 91 97
10th Percentile £61.30 £46.39 £49.87
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.13 £57.33
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.00 £75.50
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Bristol +4 33 £370 -17.78% 52
Wiltshire +34 13 £525 +2.44% 11
Gloucestershire -3 12 £650 +13.04% 41
Dorset +5 6 £538 +207.14% 16
Somerset +2 4 £825 +83.33% 10
Devon +3 2 £513 +2.50% 16
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 1 (1.35%) Confluence
1 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Adobe XD
1 3 (4.05%) Sketch
2 1 (1.35%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.68%) AWS
2 16 (21.62%) Azure
3 12 (16.22%) GCP
4 4 (5.41%) Figma
5 3 (4.05%) Serverless
6 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.70%) GitHub
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.35%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.35%) Matillion
7 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.35%) DHCP
2 1 (1.35%) DNS
2 1 (1.35%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.35%) HTTP
2 1 (1.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.11%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.35%) MySQL
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Git
2 7 (9.46%) JIRA
3 4 (5.41%) Cucumber
3 4 (5.41%) Cypress.io
3 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.35%) Ant
4 1 (1.35%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.35%) JUnit
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.35%) Storybook
4 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.35%) Vite
4 1 (1.35%) webpack
4 1 (1.35%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.92%) Finance
3 12 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 9 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.16%) Manufacturing
4 9 (12.16%) Marketing
5 8 (10.81%) Electronics
5 8 (10.81%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Advertising
8 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.35%) Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Billing
8 1 (1.35%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Military
8 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (37.84%) Developer
2 16 (21.62%) Support Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Software Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Product Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Products Support Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Software Support Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Applications Developer
5 8 (10.81%) Applications Support
5 8 (10.81%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Lead
6 7 (9.46%) Linux Support
6 7 (9.46%) Linux Support Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Senior
7 6 (8.11%) Azure Developer
7 6 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) C# Developer
7 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow Developer
7 6 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (45.95%) CSS
1 34 (45.95%) HTML
2 15 (20.27%) AngularJS
3 11 (14.86%) Middleware
4 10 (13.51%) .NET
5 9 (12.16%) HTML5
5 9 (12.16%) RESTful
6 8 (10.81%) CSS3
7 7 (9.46%) jQuery
7 7 (9.46%) React
7 7 (9.46%) Web Services
8 6 (8.11%) Node.js
9 4 (5.41%) Ajax
9 4 (5.41%) Laravel
9 4 (5.41%) LDAP
10 3 (4.05%) Swagger
10 3 (4.05%) Yii
11 2 (2.70%) REST
11 2 (2.70%) RxJS
11 2 (2.70%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.05%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.03%) Linux
2 11 (14.86%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.95%) Software Engineering
2 30 (40.54%) Agile
3 27 (36.49%) CI/CD
4 18 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (24.32%) User Experience
5 15 (20.27%) Service Management
6 14 (18.92%) Test Automation
7 13 (17.57%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (17.57%) Web Development
8 11 (14.86%) Scrum
9 10 (13.51%) DevOps
10 9 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (12.16%) Continuous Delivery
10 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (12.16%) ITSM
10 9 (12.16%) TDD
11 8 (10.81%) Computer Science
11 8 (10.81%) Digital Marketing
11 8 (10.81%) Programme Management
11 8 (10.81%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.27%) C
2 14 (18.92%) C++
3 12 (16.22%) C#
3 12 (16.22%) Shell Script
3 12 (16.22%) SQL
4 11 (14.86%) Ada
5 10 (13.51%) Java
5 10 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 9 (12.16%) Python
7 4 (5.41%) PHP
8 2 (2.70%) Go
8 2 (2.70%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.35%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (36.49%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.92%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.81%) Azure Certification
4 8 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (10.81%) Degree
5 4 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.05%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (8.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.76%) Terraform
3 4 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) ServiceNow
2 11 (14.86%) Red Hat
3 10 (13.51%) Google
4 8 (10.81%) SAP
5 3 (4.05%) Adobe
5 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.35%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle
6 1 (1.35%) Pardot
6 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.35%) Splunk
6 1 (1.35%) Sun
6 1 (1.35%) Workday