JavaScript Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median JavaScript Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £175, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 355 408
Rank change year-on-year -22 +53 +67
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Engineer 12 14 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.075% 0.081% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.088% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile - £208 £463
25th Percentile £163 £354 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% -4.76% +12.00%
75th Percentile £263 £534 £588
90th Percentile £489 £660 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -23.40% +2.17% +2.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 14,338 15,955 19,850
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.63% 92.23% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 9,086 13,230
10th Percentile £208 £220 £220
25th Percentile £363 £371 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £670 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,199 1,255
10th Percentile £13.57 £14.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £41.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.76% -6.74% +97.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.47 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.92 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -38.66% -8.89% +69.81%

JavaScript Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'JavaScript Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

JavaScript Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for JavaScript Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for JavaScript Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Engineer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for JavaScript Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for JavaScript Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +10 6 £175 -65.00% 4
Scotland - 4 £475 -
North of England -23 2 £488 -2.50%
Yorkshire - 2 £488 -
JavaScript Engineer
UK

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, JavaScript Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring JavaScript Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (66.67%) HTML
3 8 (66.67%) CSS
4 7 (58.33%) OO
4 7 (58.33%) Relational Database
5 6 (50.00%) Browser DevTools
5 6 (50.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (50.00%) XML
5 6 (50.00%) MySQL
5 6 (50.00%) Oracle
5 6 (50.00%) Firebug
5 6 (50.00%) MariaDB
6 4 (33.33%) Python
6 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
6 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
7 3 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 3 (25.00%) Community of Practice
7 3 (25.00%) Experimental Design
7 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
7 3 (25.00%) Data Science
7 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (25.00%) Finance
7 3 (25.00%) Data Security
7 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
7 3 (25.00%) Java
7 3 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Relational Database
2 6 (50.00%) MariaDB
2 6 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Browser DevTools
1 6 (50.00%) Firebug
2 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) CSS
1 8 (66.67%) HTML
2 6 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (16.67%) React
4 1 (8.33%) .NET
4 1 (8.33%) Ajax
4 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (8.33%) Compass CSS Framework
4 1 (8.33%) Django
4 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
4 1 (8.33%) Flask
4 1 (8.33%) jQuery
4 1 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) OO
2 6 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) AI
4 3 (25.00%) Community of Practice
4 3 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (25.00%) Data Science
4 3 (25.00%) Data Security
4 3 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (25.00%) Experimental Design
4 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (16.67%) OOP
6 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) GoldenSource