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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 11 14 13
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 3.90% 6.97% 7.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.79% 33.33% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile £341 £348 £266
25th Percentile £388 £388 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £440 £486
Median % change year-on-year -7.67% -9.51% -7.38%
75th Percentile £433 £528 £594
90th Percentile £489 £597 £681
North East median daily rate £406 £440 £486
% change year-on-year -7.67% -9.51% -7.38%

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 86 42 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 30.50% 20.90% 23.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 25 25
10th Percentile £361 £325 £240
25th Percentile £400 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.05% -14.09%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £540
90th Percentile £577 £600 £612
North East median daily rate £488 £425 £461
% change year-on-year +14.71% -7.86% -16.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £37.70 - -
25th Percentile £40.25 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.25 - -
90th Percentile £54.30 - -
North East median hourly rate £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +11.52% - -30.03%

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -13 11 £406 -7.67% 15
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
1 3 (27.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Cucumber
2 4 (36.36%) REST Assured
3 3 (27.27%) GitLab
3 3 (27.27%) Mocha
4 2 (18.18%) Selenium
5 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
5 1 (9.09%) Gatling
5 1 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (9.09%) JMeter
5 1 (9.09%) Postman
5 1 (9.09%) TestRail
General
1 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Test Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) HTML Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) WireMock
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) Gherkin
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) Jest
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) Express.js
3 2 (18.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) BDD
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (45.45%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Functional Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Open Source
6 2 (18.18%) Coaching
6 2 (18.18%) Line Management
6 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
6 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
3 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) WCAG
3 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google