JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 32 15
Rank change year-on-year -29 -17 0
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 17 7 18
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 2.35% 2.69% 8.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.49% 8.97% 38.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 9
10th Percentile £350 £344 £355
25th Percentile £359 £380 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £440
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -0.57% -9.51%
75th Percentile - £487 £501
90th Percentile £450 £508 £586
North East median daily rate £400 £438 £440
% change year-on-year -8.57% -0.57% -9.51%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 227 78 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 31.44% 30.00% 22.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 50 26
10th Percentile £321 £361 £331
25th Percentile £363 £425 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £494 £433
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% +14.16% -8.71%
75th Percentile £486 £575 £538
90th Percentile £588 £577 £598
North East median daily rate £425 £488 £433
% change year-on-year -12.82% +12.72% -8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 3 0
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.70 -
25th Percentile - £40.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% - -
75th Percentile - £51.75 -
90th Percentile - £51.90 -
North East median hourly rate £70.00 £48.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +45.83% +3.94% -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Tyne and Wear

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -27 17 £400 -8.57% 22
JavaScript
North East

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (11.76%) CMS
1 2 (11.76%) WordPress
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon ECR
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Fargate
2 5 (29.41%) AWS KMS
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (29.41%) Kong
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
2 5 (29.41%) DocumentDB
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) GitLab
2 5 (29.41%) Git
3 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
3 3 (17.65%) Selenium
4 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.88%) JIRA
5 1 (5.88%) Postman
5 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
5 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (82.35%) Public Sector
2 10 (58.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Publishing
6 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Node.js Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Software Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Angular Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior
5 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
6 2 (11.76%) PHP Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Senior PHP Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (94.12%) Node.js
2 8 (47.06%) REST
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 7 (41.18%) Express.js
3 7 (41.18%) HTML
3 7 (41.18%) Kafka
4 6 (35.29%) AngularJS
4 6 (35.29%) CSS
4 6 (35.29%) Jest
4 6 (35.29%) Nunjucks
4 6 (35.29%) RESTful
5 5 (29.41%) MEAN Stack
6 2 (11.76%) CSS3
6 2 (11.76%) Gherkin
6 2 (11.76%) HTML5
6 2 (11.76%) Playwright
6 2 (11.76%) React
6 2 (11.76%) Semantic HTML
6 2 (11.76%) Spring
6 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Product Ownership
2 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
3 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
2 15 (88.24%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) Test Automation
4 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (52.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (41.18%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (41.18%) DevOps
6 7 (41.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (41.18%) SDLC
7 6 (35.29%) Microservices
8 5 (29.41%) Clean Code
8 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (29.41%) Monorepo
8 5 (29.41%) Service Delivery
8 5 (29.41%) Software Delivery
9 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
9 4 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (23.53%) Scrum
10 3 (17.65%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) TypeScript
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) QA
2 7 (41.18%) Accessibility
3 3 (17.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Confluent
1 5 (29.41%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.88%) Google