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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 36 31
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 -13
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 764 1,276 1,887
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.68% 5.29% 6.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.65% 18.16% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 956 1,319
10th Percentile £300 £363 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +0.53% +13.10%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £549
90th Percentile £650 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 30 40
10th Percentile £31.63 £47.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.04 £51.44 £37.81
Median hourly rate £62.50 £66.50 £52.53
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +26.60% +31.32%
75th Percentile £66.25 £74.69 £64.01
90th Percentile £74.50 £75.00 £67.40
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £68.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.91% +25.00% +24.29%

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 4,881 7,028 8,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.49% 29.11% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 5,029 6,228
10th Percentile £319 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% +14.12%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £654 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 350 341
10th Percentile £37.50 £22.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £50.19 £49.76 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year - +26.16% +16.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% +14.29%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -9 223 £475 -7.32% 323
South East -10 153 £423 -11.98% 226
South West +9 125 £500 -4.76% 196
Scotland -23 111 £468 -1.58% 81
North West -18 107 £450 -14.29% 191
Yorkshire -4 91 £550 +10.00% 100
Midlands -7 86 £419 -2.67% 203
East Midlands +4 46 £394 -1.56% 79
East of England -10 43 £438 -8.38% 130
West Midlands 0 40 £450 -6.49% 124
North East +9 25 £454 -17.45% 36
Wales -4 15 £406 -9.72% 44
Northern Ireland +11 9 - - 22
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 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 33 (4.32%) Confluence
3 17 (2.23%) CMS
4 14 (1.83%) Drupal
5 10 (1.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.92%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.79%) IIS
7 6 (0.79%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.65%) WordPress
9 4 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.52%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.52%) nginx
9 4 (0.52%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.39%) Apache
10 3 (0.39%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.39%) Moodle
Applications
1 108 (14.14%) Chatbot
2 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.79%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.39%) Sketch
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.26%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.26%) Lectora
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.39%) Magento
3 3 (0.39%) Maximo
4 2 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.13%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 162 (21.20%) AWS
2 113 (14.79%) Azure
3 61 (7.98%) Serverless
4 37 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 35 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (4.32%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.40%) GitHub
8 26 (3.40%) Power Automate
9 23 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (2.88%) GCP
11 18 (2.36%) OpenShift
12 16 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.57%) SaaS
14 11 (1.44%) npm
14 11 (1.44%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.23%) TCP/IP
2 15 (1.96%) HTTP
3 14 (1.83%) Software-Defined Radio
4 13 (1.70%) SNMP
5 9 (1.18%) Ethernet
5 9 (1.18%) Intranet
6 8 (1.05%) SSL
7 7 (0.92%) Firewall
8 6 (0.79%) DNS
8 6 (0.79%) Wireless
9 5 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (0.52%) NetScaler
10 4 (0.52%) RTSP
11 3 (0.39%) BGP
11 3 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.39%) Internet
11 3 (0.39%) IOS XR
11 3 (0.39%) Skype
12 2 (0.26%) 5G
12 2 (0.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (6.41%) MySQL
3 45 (5.89%) SQL Server
4 36 (4.71%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.27%) Relational Database
6 21 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.83%) Metadata
8 14 (1.83%) Oracle Database
9 13 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.44%) Power BI
11 9 (1.18%) Redis
11 9 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (0.92%) GIS
12 7 (0.92%) MariaDB
12 7 (0.92%) PowerPivot
13 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Power View
14 4 (0.52%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 92 (12.04%) Git
2 64 (8.38%) Jenkins
3 52 (6.81%) JIRA
4 27 (3.53%) Eclipse
5 26 (3.40%) Cypress.io
6 24 (3.14%) Selenium
7 21 (2.75%) Bitbucket
8 18 (2.36%) GitLab
9 15 (1.96%) Visual Studio
9 15 (1.96%) webpack
10 14 (1.83%) GoogleTest
10 14 (1.83%) Robot Framework
11 13 (1.70%) Postman
12 11 (1.44%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.05%) Maven
13 8 (1.05%) Mercurial
14 7 (0.92%) JUnit
15 6 (0.79%) JMeter
15 6 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
15 6 (0.79%) WebDriver
General
1 140 (18.32%) Social Skills
2 79 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 49 (6.41%) Finance
4 41 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (2.36%) Manufacturing
5 18 (2.36%) Telecoms
6 17 (2.23%) Marketing
7 11 (1.44%) Publishing
8 10 (1.31%) Military
8 10 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.31%) Retail
9 9 (1.18%) Billing
9 9 (1.18%) Multimedia
10 8 (1.05%) Legal
11 7 (0.92%) Games
11 7 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (0.92%) Tech for Good
12 6 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.79%) Electronics
12 6 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 490 (64.14%) Developer
2 148 (19.37%) Software Developer
3 72 (9.42%) Full Stack Developer
4 59 (7.72%) Software Engineer
5 43 (5.63%) Senior
6 42 (5.50%) Java Developer
7 37 (4.84%) Lead
8 29 (3.80%) .NET Developer
9 27 (3.53%) React Developer
10 26 (3.40%) JavaScript Developer
11 22 (2.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 21 (2.75%) Senior Developer
13 19 (2.49%) Architect
13 19 (2.49%) Designer
14 18 (2.36%) Tester
15 17 (2.23%) Analyst
16 16 (2.09%) Full Stack Engineer
17 14 (1.83%) Applications Developer
17 14 (1.83%) C++ Software Engineer
17 14 (1.83%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (48.56%) HTML
2 249 (32.59%) CSS
3 202 (26.44%) React
4 155 (20.29%) Node.js
5 105 (13.74%) AngularJS
6 84 (10.99%) .NET
7 80 (10.47%) REST
8 58 (7.59%) Spring
9 52 (6.81%) RESTful
10 47 (6.15%) Spring Boot
11 42 (5.50%) Web Services
12 40 (5.24%) XML
13 35 (4.58%) JSON
14 32 (4.19%) AWS CDK
15 31 (4.06%) HTML5
16 30 (3.93%) ASP.NET
17 28 (3.66%) Vue
18 26 (3.40%) GraphQL
18 26 (3.40%) OAuth
19 22 (2.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
1 23 (3.01%) Product Ownership
2 18 (2.36%) Mobile App
3 17 (2.23%) Algorithms
4 15 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.05%) Data Structures
9 7 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 7 (0.92%) Social Media
10 6 (0.79%) CMDB
10 6 (0.79%) Operational Technology
11 5 (0.65%) IoT
11 5 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.65%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.65%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.52%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.52%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 64 (8.38%) Linux
2 41 (5.37%) Windows
3 11 (1.44%) Android
3 11 (1.44%) Unix
4 10 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (31.81%) Agile
2 218 (28.53%) Software Engineering
3 142 (18.59%) Code Quality
4 134 (17.54%) Full Stack Development
5 120 (15.71%) Artificial Intelligence
6 113 (14.79%) CI/CD
7 108 (14.14%) Conversational UI
8 105 (13.74%) DevOps
9 96 (12.57%) Test Automation
10 88 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
11 77 (10.08%) Scrum
12 74 (9.69%) TDD
13 70 (9.16%) Microservices
14 53 (6.94%) MVC
14 53 (6.94%) Unit Testing
15 52 (6.81%) Front End Development
16 48 (6.28%) User Experience
17 40 (5.24%) Mentoring
18 39 (5.10%) BDD
18 39 (5.10%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 248 (32.46%) Python
2 234 (30.63%) C#
3 210 (27.49%) SQL
4 194 (25.39%) Java
5 129 (16.88%) TypeScript
6 53 (6.94%) PHP
7 43 (5.63%) C++
8 30 (3.93%) Bash
9 24 (3.14%) C
10 23 (3.01%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.09%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.83%) Groovy
13 10 (1.31%) Apex Code
13 10 (1.31%) Go
14 9 (1.18%) PL/SQL
14 9 (1.18%) Ruby
15 7 (0.92%) Scala
15 7 (0.92%) VB.NET
16 6 (0.79%) VBA
17 5 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (20.42%) Degree
2 102 (13.35%) Security Cleared
3 76 (9.95%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.79%) CEH
7 6 (0.79%) CREST Certified
7 6 (0.79%) GIAC
7 6 (0.79%) GPEN
7 6 (0.79%) OSCP
8 5 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.65%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.26%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.94%) Accessibility
2 43 (5.63%) QA
3 12 (1.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 12 (1.57%) GDPR
4 8 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.79%) Good Clinical Practice
5 6 (0.79%) GxP
5 6 (0.79%) NIST
5 6 (0.79%) WCAG
6 3 (0.39%) SLA
7 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) GRC
8 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.13%) HL7
8 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.13%) MISRA
8 1 (0.13%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 50 (6.54%) Docker
2 15 (1.96%) Firmware
3 10 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.18%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.52%) zsh
6 3 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.26%) IAG
7 2 (0.26%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.13%) ACF2
8 1 (0.13%) RACF
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (5.37%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.27%) Grafana
3 24 (3.14%) Terraform
4 22 (2.88%) Ansible
5 11 (1.44%) Kibana
6 10 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.13%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) logstash
8 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (14.14%) PayPal
2 50 (6.54%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.45%) Google
4 31 (4.06%) Oracle
5 23 (3.01%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.36%) Adobe
7 16 (2.09%) Atlassian
8 15 (1.96%) SAP
9 14 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.57%) VMware
11 7 (0.92%) IBM
12 6 (0.79%) Pega
13 5 (0.65%) F5
14 4 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 3 (0.39%) Cisco
15 3 (0.39%) Confluent
15 3 (0.39%) ESRI
15 3 (0.39%) Nintex
15 3 (0.39%) NVIDIA
15 3 (0.39%) TOWER Software