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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 572 665
Rank change year-on-year +23 +93 +146
Contract jobs citing Babel 7 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.021% 0.018%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.15% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 9
10th Percentile £360 £526 £434
25th Percentile £525 £541 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% +0.84% +9.17%
75th Percentile £738 £741 £688
90th Percentile - £747 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate - £631 £675
% change year-on-year - -6.48% +25.00%

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 4,783 5,255 7,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.57% 12.49% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,217 3,470 5,402
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £595 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 238 235
10th Percentile £22.64 £26.00 £44.78
25th Percentile £49.00 £46.18 £53.75
Median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.60 £72.88 £89.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year - +5.69% +6.96%

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 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Babel in the UK

Babel
Top 2 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 19 July 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
London +43 6 £710 +18.33% 4
England +38 6 £710 +18.33% 9

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 (85.71%) npm
1 6 (85.71%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) webpack
2 3 (42.86%) Ant
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) TeamCity
3 1 (14.29%) ESLint
3 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
1 6 (85.71%) React Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Grid Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior UI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) React
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
3 5 (71.43%) CSS3
3 5 (71.43%) RESTful
4 4 (57.14%) HTML
4 4 (57.14%) HTML5
4 4 (57.14%) Redux
5 3 (42.86%) .NET
5 3 (42.86%) Material-UI
5 3 (42.86%) Semantic UI
5 3 (42.86%) Web Services
5 3 (42.86%) WPF
6 2 (28.57%) Jest
7 1 (14.29%) FIDO
7 1 (14.29%) Next.js
7 1 (14.29%) React Native
7 1 (14.29%) WebAuthn
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) User Experience
2 4 (57.14%) UX Design
2 4 (57.14%) Wireframes
3 3 (42.86%) Asynchronous Programming
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
3 3 (42.86%) Functional Programming
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Fintech
5 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
5 1 (14.29%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
3 3 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Okta