Senior JavaScript Developer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior JavaScript Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior JavaScript Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 367 412
Rank change year-on-year -27 +45 +99
Contract jobs requiring a Senior JavaScript Developer 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.006% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.007% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.18% +2.11%
75th Percentile £497 £475 £600
90th Percentile £499 - -
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -2.50% -6.98% -28.33%

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 15,820 15,102 19,226
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.94% 92.29% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,762 8,646 12,660
10th Percentile £210 £215 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,573 1,038 1,256
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £14.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +81.52%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.83 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +50.00%

Senior JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Senior JavaScript Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior JavaScript Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior JavaScript Developer
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 Senior JavaScript Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 November 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 - 3 £488 -
North West - 2 £488 -
North East - 1 - -
Senior JavaScript Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 November 2025, Senior JavaScript Developer 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 Senior JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Jest
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Express.js
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Next.js
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Redis
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB

Senior JavaScript Developer 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 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Mocha
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Jest
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Express.js
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Next.js
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) JWT
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) KYC
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker