Babel Contracts

Babel JavaScript Compiler
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Babel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Babel over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 590 695
Rank change year-on-year +84 +105 +88
Contract jobs citing Babel 13 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.023% 0.030%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.32% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 14
10th Percentile - £293 £450
25th Percentile £400 £300 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £643 £738 £627
90th Percentile £737 £746 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £725 £570
% change year-on-year -44.83% +27.19% +5.56%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Babel falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

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 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Babel in the UK

Babel
Top 6 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 30 April 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
England +65 12 £450 -25.00% 8
UK excluding London +59 6 £400 -44.83% 4
London +33 6 £643 +12.97% 4
North of England - 6 £400 - 1
North West - 5 £400 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) npm
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Yarn
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) Apigee
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) webpack
2 3 (23.08%) Ant
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) TeamCity
3 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
1 11 (84.62%) React Developer
2 10 (76.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (38.46%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior React Developer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Grid Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior UI Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) React
2 11 (84.62%) CSS
3 10 (76.92%) HTML
4 9 (69.23%) HTML5
4 9 (69.23%) RESTful
5 8 (61.54%) .NET
6 5 (38.46%) CSS3
6 5 (38.46%) REST
7 3 (23.08%) Material-UI
7 3 (23.08%) Node.js
7 3 (23.08%) Redux
7 3 (23.08%) Semantic UI
7 3 (23.08%) Web Services
7 3 (23.08%) WPF
8 1 (7.69%) FIDO
8 1 (7.69%) Jest
8 1 (7.69%) JSON
8 1 (7.69%) JWT
8 1 (7.69%) Next.js
8 1 (7.69%) WebAuthn
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Front End Development
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) API Development
3 5 (38.46%) B2B
3 5 (38.46%) Code Quality
3 5 (38.46%) User Experience
4 4 (30.77%) Wireframes
5 3 (23.08%) Asynchronous Programming
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Functional Programming
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) UX Design
6 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Fintech
6 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
7 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) JavaScript
2 8 (61.54%) TypeScript
3 3 (23.08%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Okta