JavaScript Engineer Contracts

JavaScript Engineer
UK

The median JavaScript Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 634 751
Rank change year-on-year +89 +117 -143
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Engineer 46 71 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 38 83
10th Percentile £413 £403 £425
25th Percentile £480 £477 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +26.37%
75th Percentile £745 £622 £675
90th Percentile £950 £704 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

JavaScript Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +99 44 £675 +28.57% 13
London +84 35 £700 +16.67% 9
Work from Home +105 21 £608 +15.71% 10
UK excluding London +34 8 £500 -4.76% 4
East of England +9 4 £550 +10.00%
North of England +23 2 £400 -20.00% 1
Yorkshire +14 2 £400 -
South East +19 1 - - 1
South West +15 1 £525 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, JavaScript Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 32 (69.57%) TypeScript
3 30 (65.22%) React
4 25 (54.35%) Node.js
4 25 (54.35%) CSS
4 25 (54.35%) Software Engineering
5 18 (39.13%) Redux
5 18 (39.13%) Jest
6 17 (36.96%) Agile
7 16 (34.78%) HTML
8 14 (30.43%) Marketing
8 14 (30.43%) Full Stack Development
9 13 (28.26%) Clean Code
9 13 (28.26%) TDD
10 12 (26.09%) Pair Programming
10 12 (26.09%) Git
11 11 (23.91%) Kanban
11 11 (23.91%) Software Architecture
11 11 (23.91%) Sass
11 11 (23.91%) Java
12 10 (21.74%) Advertising
12 10 (21.74%) Express.js
12 10 (21.74%) User Experience
12 10 (21.74%) Cypress.io
13 8 (17.39%) Customer Experience
13 8 (17.39%) OpenFin
13 8 (17.39%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
13 8 (17.39%) Material-UI
13 8 (17.39%) Post-Production

JavaScript Engineer 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 3 (6.52%) CMS
1 3 (6.52%) WordPress
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.22%) Azure
2 5 (10.87%) AWS
3 3 (6.52%) GCP
3 3 (6.52%) GitHub
3 3 (6.52%) SaaS
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) MySQL
1 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) CouchDB
2 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Git
2 10 (21.74%) Cypress.io
3 8 (17.39%) git-flow
4 3 (6.52%) webpack
5 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.35%) Selenium
6 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.17%) JIRA
6 1 (2.17%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (2.17%) Postman
6 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (30.43%) Marketing
2 10 (21.74%) Advertising
3 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (65.22%) React
2 25 (54.35%) CSS
2 25 (54.35%) Node.js
3 18 (39.13%) Jest
3 18 (39.13%) Redux
4 16 (34.78%) HTML
5 11 (23.91%) Sass
6 10 (21.74%) Express.js
7 8 (17.39%) HTML5
7 8 (17.39%) LESS
7 8 (17.39%) Material-UI
7 8 (17.39%) OpenFin
7 8 (17.39%) Tailwind CSS
7 8 (17.39%) WebSockets
8 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.52%) Laravel
8 3 (6.52%) Twig
9 2 (4.35%) .NET
9 2 (4.35%) jQuery
9 2 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (17.39%) Fixed Income
2 7 (15.22%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.17%) Genomics
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) Software Engineering
2 17 (36.96%) Agile
3 14 (30.43%) Full Stack Development
4 13 (28.26%) Clean Code
4 13 (28.26%) TDD
5 12 (26.09%) Pair Programming
6 11 (23.91%) Kanban
6 11 (23.91%) Software Architecture
7 10 (21.74%) User Experience
8 8 (17.39%) Customer Experience
8 8 (17.39%) Electronic Trading
8 8 (17.39%) Post-Production
8 8 (17.39%) SDLC
9 7 (15.22%) Prototyping
10 5 (10.87%) Test Automation
11 4 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (8.70%) Web Development
12 3 (6.52%) BEM - Block Element Modifier
12 3 (6.52%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (6.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 32 (69.57%) TypeScript
3 11 (23.91%) Java
4 3 (6.52%) Bash
4 3 (6.52%) C#
4 3 (6.52%) SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Python
5 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.17%) C++
6 1 (2.17%) PHP
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.17%) Degree
1 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) zsh
2 1 (2.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.17%) VirtualBox
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) Google
1 3 (6.52%) WooCommerce
2 1 (2.17%) Compaq
2 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.17%) VMware