JavaScript Developer Contracts

JavaScript Developer
UK

The median JavaScript Developer daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 497 448
Rank change year-on-year +28 -49 -85
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 50 103 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.24% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.25% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 76 245
10th Percentile £331 £325 £400
25th Percentile £343 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £519 £588 £700
90th Percentile £575 £656 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -15.79% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - £65.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £40.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.25% -38.93% +69.03%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.50
% change year-on-year - - +54.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript Developer.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Developer 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 +13 38 £400 -20.00% 39
London -5 22 £511 -2.62% 18
Work from Home +15 17 £400 -20.00% 28
UK excluding London +43 15 £400 -15.79% 24
North of England +29 11 £400 -11.11% 8
North West +12 9 £400 -11.11% 5
Midlands +25 2 £260 - 2
North East - 2 £350 - 2
South East +39 1 - - 8
East Midlands +10 1 £270 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £250 - 1

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, JavaScript Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 32 (64.00%) React
3 25 (50.00%) CSS
4 24 (48.00%) HTML
5 22 (44.00%) Git
6 21 (42.00%) Front End Development
7 20 (40.00%) Python
8 19 (38.00%) AWS
8 19 (38.00%) Node.js
9 17 (34.00%) Agile
10 15 (30.00%) AngularJS
11 12 (24.00%) Vue
11 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
11 12 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
12 11 (22.00%) Docker
12 11 (22.00%) Flask
12 11 (22.00%) Finance
12 11 (22.00%) Java
13 10 (20.00%) Banking
13 10 (20.00%) REST
13 10 (20.00%) RESTful
13 10 (20.00%) TypeScript
13 10 (20.00%) FastAPI
14 9 (18.00%) Clean Code
14 9 (18.00%) Investment Banking
14 9 (18.00%) C#
14 9 (18.00%) Linux
15 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
15 8 (16.00%) Azure

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.00%) nginx
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) AWS
2 8 (16.00%) Azure
3 7 (14.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (14.00%) Amazon SQS
3 7 (14.00%) Serverless
4 6 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.00%) GitHub
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 3 (6.00%) CloudFront
7 2 (4.00%) Firebase
7 2 (4.00%) GCP
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.00%) Figma
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.00%) npm
8 1 (2.00%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (4.00%) GIS
3 2 (4.00%) MySQL
3 2 (4.00%) ObjectStore
3 2 (4.00%) Redis
4 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (44.00%) Git
2 6 (12.00%) webpack
3 5 (10.00%) Babel
3 5 (10.00%) Mocha
4 3 (6.00%) GitLab
4 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.00%) ESLint
5 2 (4.00%) Jasmine
5 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.00%) gulp
6 1 (2.00%) JIRA
6 1 (2.00%) JUnit
6 1 (2.00%) Maven
6 1 (2.00%) Mockito
6 1 (2.00%) Postman
6 1 (2.00%) Selenium
6 1 (2.00%) Subversion
General
1 11 (22.00%) Finance
2 10 (20.00%) Banking
3 9 (18.00%) Investment Banking
4 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Electronics
6 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.00%) Marketing
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (64.00%) React
2 25 (50.00%) CSS
3 24 (48.00%) HTML
4 19 (38.00%) Node.js
5 15 (30.00%) AngularJS
6 12 (24.00%) Vue
7 11 (22.00%) Flask
8 10 (20.00%) FastAPI
8 10 (20.00%) REST
8 10 (20.00%) RESTful
9 8 (16.00%) HTML5
10 7 (14.00%) .NET
10 7 (14.00%) Jest
10 7 (14.00%) NumPy
10 7 (14.00%) Pandas
10 7 (14.00%) Polars
10 7 (14.00%) Sass
10 7 (14.00%) SciPy
11 6 (12.00%) Nunjucks
12 5 (10.00%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (14.00%) Hedge funds
2 4 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.00%) Derivative
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) iSeries
4 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) Front End Development
2 17 (34.00%) Agile
3 12 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (18.00%) Clean Code
6 8 (16.00%) Data Engineering
6 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
6 8 (16.00%) Web Development
7 7 (14.00%) Mathematics
7 7 (14.00%) Structured Programming
7 7 (14.00%) Systematic Trading
7 7 (14.00%) TDD
8 6 (12.00%) Code Quality
8 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.00%) User Experience
9 5 (10.00%) API Development
9 5 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (10.00%) B2B
9 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (8.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 50 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 20 (40.00%) Python
3 11 (22.00%) Java
4 10 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 9 (18.00%) C#
6 8 (16.00%) Rust
7 7 (14.00%) C++
8 2 (4.00%) PHP
8 2 (4.00%) SQL
9 1 (2.00%) Bash
9 1 (2.00%) RPG
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) WCAG
2 4 (8.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (4.00%) Mapbox
3 2 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.00%) Foundry
4 1 (2.00%) OutSystems
4 1 (2.00%) Palantir
4 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.00%) Veracode
4 1 (2.00%) Virgin Media