Babel JavaScript Compiler
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Babel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Babel over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 698 783
Rank change year-on-year +114 +85 -134
Contract jobs citing Babel 10 18 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.030% 0.081%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% 0.20% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 49
10th Percentile £293 £450 £425
25th Percentile £300 £484 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +27.06%
75th Percentile £738 £627 £594
90th Percentile £746 £723 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £570 £540
% change year-on-year +27.19% +5.56% +18.36%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Babel is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,122 9,016 15,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 15.10% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,340 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 246 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +22.14% +11.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Babel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Babel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Babel in the UK

Babel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Babel.

Daily rate trend for Babel in the UK

Babel
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Babel over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Babel in the UK

Babel
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +111 10 £600 +5.26% 6
London +109 8 £569 +19.74% 3
Work from Home +121 4 £538 -5.70% 1
UK excluding London +56 1 £725 +27.19% 5
South West +11 1 £725 +7.41% 3

Babel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) npm
2 5 (50.00%) Yarn
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) KDB
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) webpack
2 4 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) Ant
3 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (10.00%) ESLint
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) Vite
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) UI Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (20.00%) React Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Development Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior React Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Development Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior UI Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) React
2 7 (70.00%) CSS
2 7 (70.00%) HTML
3 4 (40.00%) Material-UI
3 4 (40.00%) RESTful
3 4 (40.00%) Vue
4 3 (30.00%) Jest
4 3 (30.00%) Redux
5 2 (20.00%) .NET
5 2 (20.00%) CSS3
5 2 (20.00%) HTML5
5 2 (20.00%) MobX
5 2 (20.00%) Node.js
5 2 (20.00%) Semantic UI
5 2 (20.00%) Web Services
5 2 (20.00%) WPF
6 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (10.00%) Middleware
6 1 (10.00%) REST
6 1 (10.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) Derivative
1 2 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
1 2 (20.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Grid Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (60.00%) Front End Development
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) OO
3 5 (50.00%) User Experience
4 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (40.00%) SEO
4 4 (40.00%) UX Design
4 4 (40.00%) Wireframes
5 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) OOP
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Web Development
6 2 (20.00%) OOD
6 2 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) JSX
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) MiFID
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle