JavaScript Contracts in the UK excluding London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 38 31
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 -13
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 737 1,226 1,851
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.60% 5.24% 6.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.36% 18.07% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 911 1,284
10th Percentile £300 £363 £354
25th Percentile £375 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £631
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 30 40
10th Percentile £33.88 £49.90 £14.25
25th Percentile £46.18 £52.13 £41.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +15.49% +34.52%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £65.44
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.10 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £67.50 £57.25
% change year-on-year -7.41% +17.90% +20.53%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,797 6,785 8,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.43% 29.00% 28.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,228 4,802 6,091
10th Percentile £318 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +2.46% +14.82%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 342 339
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.57 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £30.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.98 £67.99
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.50
% change year-on-year +0.95% +22.45% +16.09%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
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 JavaScript within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 -9 222 £475 -7.32% 280
South East -16 150 £400 -20.00% 192
South West +8 126 £500 -3.85% 178
North West -17 103 £475 -11.63% 166
Yorkshire -5 96 £554 +10.80% 90
Midlands -3 87 £419 -4.23% 225
Scotland -29 85 £475 - 59
East of England -4 45 £425 -15.00% 102
East Midlands +1 44 £388 -3.13% 91
West Midlands -5 42 £450 -7.69% 133
North East +10 23 £466 -15.32% 28
Wales -1 14 £413 -8.33% 35
Northern Ireland +11 9 - - 20
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
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:

Application Platforms
1 37 (5.02%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.75%) Confluence
3 16 (2.17%) CMS
4 14 (1.90%) Drupal
5 10 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (1.22%) Apache
7 8 (1.09%) SharePoint 2010
7 8 (1.09%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.81%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.68%) IIS
10 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.54%) WordPress
11 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.41%) Moodle
11 3 (0.41%) nginx
11 3 (0.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 108 (14.65%) Chatbot
2 15 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.81%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.54%) Sketch
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.27%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.27%) InfoPath
7 2 (0.27%) Lectora
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.41%) Magento
3 3 (0.41%) Maximo
4 2 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.14%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.14%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 142 (19.27%) AWS
2 108 (14.65%) Azure
3 52 (7.06%) Serverless
4 40 (5.43%) Power Platform
5 37 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (4.07%) GitHub
7 28 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (3.66%) Power Automate
9 25 (3.39%) Amazon S3
9 25 (3.39%) GCP
10 16 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (2.04%) OpenShift
11 15 (2.04%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.63%) SaaS
14 11 (1.49%) npm
15 9 (1.22%) Azure Functions
15 9 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.09%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.17%) Software-Defined Radio
3 15 (2.04%) SNMP
4 14 (1.90%) Ethernet
4 14 (1.90%) HTTP
5 8 (1.09%) Intranet
6 6 (0.81%) DNS
6 6 (0.81%) Firewall
6 6 (0.81%) Wireless
7 4 (0.54%) RTSP
7 4 (0.54%) SSL
8 3 (0.41%) BGP
8 3 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.41%) Internet
8 3 (0.41%) IOS XR
8 3 (0.41%) Skype
9 2 (0.27%) 5G
9 2 (0.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (0.14%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (7.33%) MySQL
2 49 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (6.11%) SQL Server
4 39 (5.29%) MongoDB
5 26 (3.53%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.31%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.17%) Power BI
8 14 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (1.90%) Metadata
8 14 (1.90%) Oracle Database
9 13 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.22%) Redis
10 9 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (0.95%) GIS
11 7 (0.95%) MariaDB
11 7 (0.95%) PowerPivot
12 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Power View
13 4 (0.54%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 81 (10.99%) Git
2 55 (7.46%) JIRA
3 54 (7.33%) Jenkins
4 34 (4.61%) Eclipse
5 25 (3.39%) Selenium
6 23 (3.12%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.85%) GitLab
7 21 (2.85%) Visual Studio
8 18 (2.44%) Cypress.io
9 16 (2.17%) GoogleTest
9 16 (2.17%) Robot Framework
10 15 (2.04%) webpack
11 13 (1.76%) Postman
12 9 (1.22%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.09%) Maven
14 6 (0.81%) JMeter
14 6 (0.81%) Oracle APEX
14 6 (0.81%) PyCharm
14 6 (0.81%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.81%) WebDriver
General
1 145 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 71 (9.63%) Public Sector
3 43 (5.83%) Finance
4 42 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (2.58%) Telecoms
6 18 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 17 (2.31%) Marketing
8 15 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.90%) Military
10 11 (1.49%) Retail
11 10 (1.36%) Billing
11 10 (1.36%) Publishing
12 9 (1.22%) Banking
13 8 (1.09%) Legal
13 8 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.95%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.95%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.81%) Electronics
15 6 (0.81%) Games
15 6 (0.81%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 468 (63.50%) Developer
2 147 (19.95%) Software Developer
3 62 (8.41%) Software Engineer
4 61 (8.28%) Full Stack Developer
5 39 (5.29%) Senior
6 34 (4.61%) Java Developer
7 29 (3.93%) Lead
8 27 (3.66%) .NET Developer
9 26 (3.53%) JavaScript Developer
9 26 (3.53%) React Developer
10 21 (2.85%) C++ Software Engineer
10 21 (2.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 20 (2.71%) Senior Developer
12 19 (2.58%) Architect
12 19 (2.58%) Tester
13 18 (2.44%) Full Stack Engineer
14 17 (2.31%) Analyst
14 17 (2.31%) Designer
15 15 (2.04%) Applications Developer
16 12 (1.63%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (49.93%) HTML
2 250 (33.92%) CSS
3 180 (24.42%) React
4 151 (20.49%) Node.js
5 96 (13.03%) AngularJS
6 84 (11.40%) .NET
7 72 (9.77%) REST
8 50 (6.78%) Spring
9 48 (6.51%) RESTful
10 44 (5.97%) Web Services
11 43 (5.83%) Spring Boot
11 43 (5.83%) XML
12 33 (4.48%) JSON
13 32 (4.34%) HTML5
14 29 (3.93%) ASP.NET
14 29 (3.93%) GraphQL
15 27 (3.66%) Vue
16 26 (3.53%) Kafka
17 23 (3.12%) AWS CDK
18 21 (2.85%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (2.99%) Product Ownership
2 20 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 17 (2.31%) Algorithms
5 14 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (0.95%) CMDB
10 6 (0.81%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.81%) Operational Technology
10 6 (0.81%) Social Media
11 5 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.68%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.68%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.54%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.54%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.54%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 70 (9.50%) Linux
2 41 (5.56%) Windows
3 13 (1.76%) Android
4 12 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.95%) Unix
6 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (30.80%) Agile
2 216 (29.31%) Software Engineering
3 134 (18.18%) Code Quality
4 121 (16.42%) Full Stack Development
5 117 (15.88%) Artificial Intelligence
6 110 (14.93%) CI/CD
7 108 (14.65%) Conversational UI
8 99 (13.43%) DevOps
9 85 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
10 80 (10.85%) Test Automation
11 79 (10.72%) Scrum
12 71 (9.63%) TDD
13 59 (8.01%) Microservices
14 54 (7.33%) Front End Development
15 46 (6.24%) MVC
15 46 (6.24%) Unit Testing
16 43 (5.83%) User Experience
17 39 (5.29%) Web Development
18 37 (5.02%) Continuous Integration
19 36 (4.88%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 235 (31.89%) Python
2 234 (31.75%) C#
3 205 (27.82%) SQL
4 178 (24.15%) Java
5 118 (16.01%) TypeScript
6 49 (6.65%) C++
7 46 (6.24%) PHP
8 27 (3.66%) Bash
9 23 (3.12%) C
10 22 (2.99%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.17%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.90%) Groovy
13 11 (1.49%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.22%) Go
14 9 (1.22%) Ruby
15 8 (1.09%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.09%) Scala
15 8 (1.09%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.95%) VBA
17 6 (0.81%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 157 (21.30%) Degree
2 98 (13.30%) Security Cleared
3 76 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.36%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.81%) CEH
7 6 (0.81%) CREST Certified
7 6 (0.81%) GIAC
7 6 (0.81%) GPEN
7 6 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.81%) OSCP
8 5 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.68%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.68%) PMP
9 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.27%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.43%) Accessibility
2 39 (5.29%) QA
3 12 (1.63%) GDPR
4 10 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 7 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.81%) Good Clinical Practice
6 6 (0.81%) GxP
6 6 (0.81%) NIST
6 6 (0.81%) WCAG
7 3 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) MISRA
9 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (6.78%) Docker
2 17 (2.31%) Firmware
3 10 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) zsh
5 3 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.27%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.14%) ACF2
7 1 (0.14%) IAG
7 1 (0.14%) RACF
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.12%) Terraform
3 20 (2.71%) Ansible
4 17 (2.31%) Grafana
5 11 (1.49%) Kibana
6 10 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.14%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 108 (14.65%) PayPal
2 56 (7.60%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.02%) Google
4 29 (3.93%) Oracle
5 28 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.44%) Atlassian
7 17 (2.31%) Adobe
8 16 (2.17%) SAP
9 15 (2.04%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.63%) VMware
11 7 (0.95%) IBM
12 5 (0.68%) Pega
13 4 (0.54%) Confluent
13 4 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.41%) Cisco
14 3 (0.41%) ESRI
14 3 (0.41%) Nintex
14 3 (0.41%) NVIDIA
14 3 (0.41%) TOWER Software
15 2 (0.27%) Red Hat