JavaScript Contracts

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 34 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 0
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 2,417 5,638 7,973
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.39% 7.34% 8.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.47% 19.48% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,765 4,096 6,048
10th Percentile £333 £398 £363
25th Percentile £419 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £643 £650 £613
90th Percentile £750 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.50% +11.11% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 72 81
10th Percentile £29.44 £35.00 £30.00
25th Percentile £46.05 £52.50 £41.67
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +37.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £67.80
90th Percentile £75.18 £73.38 £77.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -9.62% +23.81% +26.51%

All Programming Languages
UK

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,834 28,943 34,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.82% 37.70% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,852 20,725 25,297
10th Percentile £360 £400 £363
25th Percentile £433 £468 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £470
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.64% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 502 432
10th Percentile £31.28 £25.50 £18.60
25th Percentile £46.48 £46.38 £27.50
Median hourly rate £61.42 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +31.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.41 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.68 £74.52 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.30
% change year-on-year - +40.39% +7.67%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 -8 1,991 £540 -4.00% 2,373
London -11 1,214 £575 -4.17% 951
Work from Home -11 1,076 £510 -7.27% 1,664
UK excluding London -13 891 £473 -5.50% 1,654
North of England -7 255 £500 -4.76% 484
Scotland -4 180 £463 -0.70% 90
South East -9 176 £400 -25.23% 494
North West -9 144 £510 -2.86% 287
South West -13 135 £494 -4.82% 191
Yorkshire +1 100 £508 -3.33% 142
Midlands -15 90 £450 -1.57% 221
West Midlands +2 63 £456 -8.75% 134
East of England -25 54 £600 +7.87% 127
East Midlands -16 31 £450 +5.88% 86
Wales -8 16 £425 -5.56% 51
North East -5 11 £473 -12.50% 62
Northern Ireland -1 8 £213 -46.88% 35

JavaScript
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 75 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 71 (2.94%) Apache
3 70 (2.90%) CMS
4 61 (2.52%) Confluence
5 54 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (1.74%) WordPress
7 30 (1.24%) BizTalk Server
8 20 (0.83%) nginx
9 18 (0.74%) Drupal
10 17 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 16 (0.66%) IIS
12 14 (0.58%) Tomcat
12 14 (0.58%) Umbraco
13 11 (0.46%) JBoss
13 11 (0.46%) OpenStack
14 10 (0.41%) Joomla!
15 7 (0.29%) Apache Solr
15 7 (0.29%) Apache Spark
15 7 (0.29%) Tornado
16 6 (0.25%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 15 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.21%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.21%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.17%) Blender
5 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.17%) Sketch
5 4 (0.17%) Trello
6 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.12%) Windchill
7 2 (0.083%) Avocode
7 2 (0.083%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.083%) InVision
7 2 (0.083%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.041%) FileZilla
8 1 (0.041%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 60 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.99%) Shopify
3 23 (0.95%) Magento
4 15 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
5 14 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
8 6 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
9 4 (0.17%) SAP MII
10 3 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
10 3 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
10 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.12%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.083%) Distributed Ledger
11 2 (0.083%) Endur
11 2 (0.083%) Exstream
11 2 (0.083%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 741 (30.66%) AWS
2 563 (23.29%) Azure
3 210 (8.69%) GCP
4 170 (7.03%) Serverless
5 141 (5.83%) GitHub
6 130 (5.38%) Power Platform
7 110 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 89 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
10 69 (2.85%) PowerApps
11 68 (2.81%) Azure Functions
12 64 (2.65%) Amazon S3
12 64 (2.65%) Power Automate
13 60 (2.48%) SaaS
14 57 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 53 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
16 48 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
16 48 (1.99%) npm
17 47 (1.94%) OpenShift
18 44 (1.82%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.94%) HTTP
2 54 (2.23%) Firewall
3 50 (2.07%) DNS
4 32 (1.32%) Internet
5 31 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.28%) VPN
6 26 (1.08%) SSL
7 18 (0.74%) Network Security
8 17 (0.70%) SMTP
9 15 (0.62%) Intranet
9 15 (0.62%) POP3
10 14 (0.58%) Wireless
11 12 (0.50%) SNMP
12 10 (0.41%) Software-Defined Radio
13 8 (0.33%) HTTPS
13 8 (0.33%) IMAP
13 8 (0.33%) WinSCP
14 7 (0.29%) PuTTY
15 6 (0.25%) DHCP
15 6 (0.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 178 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
3 164 (6.79%) MySQL
4 122 (5.05%) Relational Database
5 114 (4.72%) MongoDB
6 112 (4.63%) NoSQL
7 70 (2.90%) Power BI
8 50 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 42 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
10 40 (1.65%) Apache Ignite
11 36 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 36 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
12 33 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
13 28 (1.16%) Dremio
14 27 (1.12%) Apache Arrow
14 27 (1.12%) Big Data
15 26 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (0.99%) RDBMS
17 23 (0.95%) DynamoDB
17 23 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 330 (13.65%) Git
2 211 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 177 (7.32%) JIRA
4 136 (5.63%) Cypress.io
5 79 (3.27%) webpack
6 77 (3.19%) Selenium
7 68 (2.81%) Cucumber
8 65 (2.69%) GitLab
9 55 (2.28%) Bitbucket
10 52 (2.15%) Postman
11 43 (1.78%) TeamCity
12 29 (1.20%) Eclipse
12 29 (1.20%) Maven
13 27 (1.12%) JUnit
14 25 (1.03%) JMeter
14 25 (1.03%) Visual Studio
15 24 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 24 (0.99%) Subversion
15 24 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
16 23 (0.95%) SoapUI
General
1 434 (17.96%) Social Skills
2 406 (16.80%) Finance
3 217 (8.98%) Public Sector
4 184 (7.61%) Banking
5 164 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 161 (6.66%) Front Office
7 119 (4.92%) Marketing
8 64 (2.65%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 31 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 25 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (0.99%) Retail
15 22 (0.91%) Advertising
16 20 (0.83%) Electronics
17 17 (0.70%) Publishing
18 13 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.50%) Health Technology
20 11 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,495 (61.85%) Developer
2 279 (11.54%) Full Stack Developer
3 254 (10.51%) Senior
4 191 (7.90%) Software Engineer
5 176 (7.28%) React Developer
6 175 (7.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 147 (6.08%) Lead
8 137 (5.67%) .NET Developer
9 133 (5.50%) JavaScript Developer
9 133 (5.50%) Senior Developer
10 109 (4.51%) Java Developer
11 104 (4.30%) Architect
12 100 (4.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 92 (3.81%) UI Developer
14 90 (3.72%) Angular Developer
15 89 (3.68%) Software Developer
16 85 (3.52%) Python Developer
17 61 (2.52%) Python Engineer
18 60 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
19 58 (2.40%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 876 (36.24%) HTML
2 784 (32.44%) CSS
3 721 (29.83%) React
4 474 (19.61%) Node.js
5 442 (18.29%) .NET
6 349 (14.44%) AngularJS
7 289 (11.96%) REST
8 217 (8.98%) Web Services
9 192 (7.94%) XML
10 157 (6.50%) Redux
11 152 (6.29%) HTML5
12 146 (6.04%) SOAP
13 130 (5.38%) Vue
14 127 (5.25%) RESTful
15 126 (5.21%) .NET Core
16 122 (5.05%) JSON
17 119 (4.92%) Spring
18 110 (4.55%) .NET Framework
18 110 (4.55%) GraphQL
19 105 (4.34%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 85 (3.52%) Fixed Income
2 84 (3.48%) Mobile App
3 77 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 64 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 61 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 57 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 54 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 53 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 52 (2.15%) Equities
10 51 (2.11%) Hedge funds
11 49 (2.03%) Derivative
12 40 (1.65%) Onboarding
13 38 (1.57%) CMDB
14 37 (1.53%) Algorithms
15 35 (1.45%) Data Structures
16 25 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
16 25 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
17 22 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
17 22 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 202 (8.36%) Linux
2 152 (6.29%) Windows
3 105 (4.34%) Unix
4 34 (1.41%) Android
5 25 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 21 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (0.70%) CentOS
9 16 (0.66%) Debian
10 12 (0.50%) Fedora
11 6 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
11 6 (0.25%) Solaris
11 6 (0.25%) Windows Server
12 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.083%) AIX
13 2 (0.083%) HPUX
13 2 (0.083%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.083%) Slackware
14 1 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (38.15%) Agile
2 464 (19.20%) Full Stack Development
3 423 (17.50%) CI/CD
4 402 (16.63%) DevOps
5 386 (15.97%) Software Engineering
6 334 (13.82%) Front End Development
7 313 (12.95%) Test Automation
8 298 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
9 254 (10.51%) Microservices
10 242 (10.01%) User Experience
11 237 (9.81%) TDD
12 179 (7.41%) Web Development
13 157 (6.50%) Scrum
14 151 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
14 151 (6.25%) SDLC
15 149 (6.16%) Analytics
16 133 (5.50%) Asset Management
17 130 (5.38%) OO
18 124 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
18 124 (5.13%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 703 (29.09%) TypeScript
2 615 (25.44%) Java
3 592 (24.49%) Python
4 526 (21.76%) SQL
5 430 (17.79%) C#
6 149 (6.16%) PHP
7 111 (4.59%) PowerShell
8 109 (4.51%) Bash
9 100 (4.14%) Go
10 96 (3.97%) C++
11 85 (3.52%) PL/SQL
12 60 (2.48%) Ruby
13 55 (2.28%) Perl
13 55 (2.28%) T-SQL
14 35 (1.45%) Shell Script
15 34 (1.41%) C
16 31 (1.28%) Kotlin
17 30 (1.24%) Apex Code
18 26 (1.08%) Scala
19 15 (0.62%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 356 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 275 (11.38%) SC Cleared
3 159 (6.58%) Degree
4 79 (3.27%) DV Cleared
5 64 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.29%) ISEB
10 7 (0.29%) MCSD
10 7 (0.29%) MCSE
11 6 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.17%) CTC Cleared
12 4 (0.17%) RHCE
12 4 (0.17%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.12%) BC Cleared
13 3 (0.12%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (6.12%) Accessibility
2 114 (4.72%) QA
3 27 (1.12%) WCAG
4 16 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
5 10 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.37%) SLA
7 5 (0.21%) GDPR
7 5 (0.21%) GxP
7 5 (0.21%) HL7
8 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.12%) NIST
10 2 (0.083%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.083%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.041%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.041%) GRC
11 1 (0.041%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.041%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.041%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 235 (9.72%) Docker
2 59 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.49%) IAG
4 32 (1.32%) RACF
5 30 (1.24%) ACF2
6 17 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (0.46%) Firmware
8 7 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.25%) zsh
10 3 (0.12%) Cronacle
10 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.083%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.083%) HDFS
11 2 (0.083%) KVM
11 2 (0.083%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.083%) Xen
12 1 (0.041%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.041%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.041%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 216 (8.94%) Kubernetes
2 103 (4.26%) Terraform
3 85 (3.52%) Grafana
4 77 (3.19%) Ansible
5 38 (1.57%) Kibana
6 30 (1.24%) Prometheus
7 27 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.46%) Puppet
9 9 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (0.37%) Rundeck
10 8 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.29%) logstash
12 4 (0.17%) Control-M
12 4 (0.17%) Istio
12 4 (0.17%) Nagios
12 4 (0.17%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.17%) vRealize
13 3 (0.12%) CASB
13 3 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 237 (9.81%) Oracle
2 235 (9.72%) Microsoft
3 142 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 128 (5.30%) Google
5 82 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 64 (2.65%) SAP
7 45 (1.86%) Adobe
8 38 (1.57%) Red Hat
8 38 (1.57%) Sybase
9 36 (1.49%) MuleSoft
10 22 (0.91%) Atlassian
11 18 (0.74%) Splunk
11 18 (0.74%) VMware
12 13 (0.54%) HP
13 12 (0.50%) Databricks
14 11 (0.46%) UiPath
15 10 (0.41%) Confluent
15 10 (0.41%) Veracode
16 9 (0.37%) Dynatrace
16 9 (0.37%) Marketo