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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 20 11
Rank change year-on-year -22 -9 +15
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 13 17 22
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 2.62% 7.11% 9.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.40% 21.52% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 6
10th Percentile - £335 £385
25th Percentile £350 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £480 £454
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.73% -17.45%
75th Percentile £419 £490 £572
90th Percentile £460 £650 £625
North East median daily rate £400 £470 £454
% change year-on-year -14.89% +3.52% -17.45%

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 125 79 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.15% 33.05% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 61 29
10th Percentile £354 £325 £343
25th Percentile £400 £356 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -20.35%
75th Percentile £559 £490 £500
90th Percentile £596 £550 £560
North East median daily rate £475 £425 £454
% change year-on-year +11.76% -6.39% -19.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 9
10th Percentile £54.25 - -
25th Percentile £58.37 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.47% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £66.25 £52.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +27.40% +9.47% -3.06%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -22 13 £400 -16.67% 15
South Tyneside - 1 £450 -
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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Cucumber
1 7 (53.85%) REST Assured
2 6 (46.15%) Selenium
3 5 (38.46%) Git
3 5 (38.46%) JIRA
4 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
4 4 (30.77%) Postman
5 3 (23.08%) GitLab
5 3 (23.08%) SoapUI
6 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (7.69%) Gatling
6 1 (7.69%) JMeter
6 1 (7.69%) TestRail
6 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (61.54%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Test Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (15.38%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Angular Developer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Node.js
1 5 (38.46%) Playwright
2 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) SOAP
2 3 (23.08%) WireMock
3 2 (15.38%) Express.js
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
4 1 (7.69%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) MERN Stack
4 1 (7.69%) React
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Test Automation
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 4 (30.77%) BDD
5 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 4 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (30.77%) TDD
6 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
7 2 (15.38%) API Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
7 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (15.38%) Kanban
7 2 (15.38%) Test Management
7 2 (15.38%) Test Planning
8 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
8 1 (7.69%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Icinga
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Blue Prism
1 1 (7.69%) UiPath