JavaScript Engineer Contracts

JavaScript Engineer
UK

The median JavaScript Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 538 642
Rank change year-on-year +62 +104 +110
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Engineer 44 44 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 29 41
10th Percentile £375 £413 £350
25th Percentile £425 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £561 £740 £625
90th Percentile £615 £950 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -13.00% -4.76% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £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 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 11 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 1 May 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
Work from Home +55 34 £443 -26.71% 14
England +44 29 £475 -29.63% 24
UK excluding London +73 18 £435 -13.00% 16
London +22 17 £501 -28.39% 11
Scotland - 8 - - 1
West Midlands - 5 £435 -
Midlands - 5 £435 -
North of England +20 3 £500 +25.00% 5
South East +47 2 £575 - 7
Yorkshire +8 2 £525 +31.25% 2
North West - 1 £475 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 44 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 30 (68.18%) React
3 22 (50.00%) Python
4 21 (47.73%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (43.18%) TypeScript
6 18 (40.91%) Node.js
7 17 (38.64%) Agile
7 17 (38.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (34.09%) AWS
9 14 (31.82%) Git
10 13 (29.55%) Artificial Intelligence
10 13 (29.55%) Microservices
11 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
12 11 (25.00%) Serverless
12 11 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (22.73%) REST
13 10 (22.73%) Finance
13 10 (22.73%) HTML
13 10 (22.73%) CSS
14 9 (20.45%) Java
14 9 (20.45%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (20.45%) Machine Learning
15 8 (18.18%) Vue
15 8 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
15 8 (18.18%) Data Security
15 8 (18.18%) Management Information System
15 8 (18.18%) Risk Management
15 8 (18.18%) Banking
15 8 (18.18%) Investment Banking
15 8 (18.18%) Statistical Analysis

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 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) AWS
2 11 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (25.00%) Serverless
3 9 (20.45%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.27%) Azure
7 1 (2.27%) Figma
7 1 (2.27%) GCP
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) HTTP
2 1 (2.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) Redis
2 6 (13.64%) DocumentDB
3 4 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (31.82%) Git
2 6 (13.64%) SonarQube
3 3 (6.82%) Postman
4 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.55%) Mocha
4 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.27%) Mockito
5 1 (2.27%) Selenium
5 1 (2.27%) Storybook
5 1 (2.27%) Vite
5 1 (2.27%) webpack
General
1 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Banking
3 8 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.36%) Advertising
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Local Government
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (68.18%) React
2 18 (40.91%) Node.js
3 10 (22.73%) CSS
3 10 (22.73%) HTML
3 10 (22.73%) REST
4 8 (18.18%) Vue
5 7 (15.91%) GraphQL
6 6 (13.64%) Ajax
6 6 (13.64%) AngularJS
6 6 (13.64%) Django
6 6 (13.64%) FastAPI
6 6 (13.64%) Flask
7 4 (9.09%) Swagger
8 3 (6.82%) AWS CDK
8 3 (6.82%) HTML5
8 3 (6.82%) Jest
8 3 (6.82%) Next.js
8 3 (6.82%) OpenAPI
9 2 (4.55%) GatsbyJS
9 2 (4.55%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.82%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.55%) Vector Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (38.64%) Agile
2 17 (38.64%) Full-Stack Development
3 13 (29.55%) Artificial Intelligence
3 13 (29.55%) Microservices
4 9 (20.45%) Machine Learning
5 8 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 8 (18.18%) Community of Practice
5 8 (18.18%) Critical Thinking
5 8 (18.18%) Data Science
5 8 (18.18%) Data Security
5 8 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 8 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 8 (18.18%) Experimental Design
5 8 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
5 8 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 8 (18.18%) Statistical Analysis
5 8 (18.18%) Task Automation
6 7 (15.91%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 22 (50.00%) Python
3 19 (43.18%) TypeScript
4 9 (20.45%) Java
5 5 (11.36%) PHP
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Go
6 1 (2.27%) Rust
6 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.55%) WCAG
3 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.27%) Foundry
1 1 (2.27%) Palantir