Babel Contracts in the UK excluding London

Babel JavaScript Compiler
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Babel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Babel over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 398 437
Rank change year-on-year +65 +39 +48
Contract jobs citing Babel 6 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.005% 0.042%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.35% 0.044% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile - - £508
25th Percentile - £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £725 £570
Median % change year-on-year -44.83% +27.19% +5.56%
75th Percentile - £738 £664
90th Percentile £450 - £738
UK median daily rate £450 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Babel falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,725 2,267 3,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.48% 10.92% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,468 2,388
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 170 181
10th Percentile £46.50 £40.85 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.18 £55.00 £52.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.28 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Babel
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Babel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Babel in the UK excluding London

Babel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Babel in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Babel in the UK excluding London

Babel
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Babel within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England - 6 £400 - 1
North West - 5 £400 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Babel
UK

Babel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) Apigee
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) npm
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) webpack
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript Developer
1 5 (83.33%) React Developer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) React
2 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) HTML5
2 5 (83.33%) REST
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) JWT
3 1 (16.67%) Next.js
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) API Development
2 5 (83.33%) B2B
2 5 (83.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft