DOM Manipulation/Scripting Contracts

DOM Manipulation or DOM Scripting
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring DOM Manipulation/Scripting skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DOM Manipulation/Scripting over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 561 663
Rank change year-on-year -3 +102 +168
Contract jobs citing DOM Manipulation/Scripting 3 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.015% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% 0.018% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £346 £535 £448
25th Percentile £348 £541 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -36.07% -3.70% +6.48%
75th Percentile £357 £563 £681
90th Percentile £358 £567 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £354 £538 -
% change year-on-year -34.14% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DOM Manipulation/Scripting falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,972 33,531 47,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.45% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,760 21,562 32,735
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,662 1,890 1,565
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.15 £18.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.59 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.24% +3.13% +86.05%

DOM Manipulation/Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DOM Manipulation/Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DOM Manipulation/Scripting in the UK

DOM Manipulation/Scripting
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DOM Manipulation/Scripting.

Daily rate trend for DOM Manipulation/Scripting in the UK

DOM Manipulation/Scripting
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DOM Manipulation/Scripting.

Hourly rate trend for DOM Manipulation/Scripting in the UK

DOM Manipulation/Scripting
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 DOM Manipulation/Scripting within the UK over the 6 months to 2 August 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 +26 2 £354 -36.07% 16
Work from Home +21 2 £358 - 9
UK excluding London -1 2 £354 -34.14% 6
Yorkshire -5 2 £354 -34.14% 2
North of England -7 2 £354 -34.14% 2

DOM Manipulation/Scripting
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 2 (66.67%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Babel
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (66.67%) webpack
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (33.33%) React Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SAPUI5 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) DOM
1 3 (100.00%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Bootstrap
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) Jest
2 2 (66.67%) lodash
2 2 (66.67%) Redux
2 2 (66.67%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) Django
3 1 (33.33%) Flask
3 1 (33.33%) NumPy
3 1 (33.33%) OpenUI5
3 1 (33.33%) Pandas
3 1 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (33.33%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Atomic Design
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
1 2 (66.67%) Story Points
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Wireframes
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Async-Await
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP