Mocha Contracts

Mocha
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Mocha skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mocha over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 582 649
Rank change year-on-year +79 +67 +96
Contract jobs citing Mocha 16 18 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.041% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.39% 0.35% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 40
10th Percentile £406 £436 £414
25th Percentile £411 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +4.88% -5.75%
75th Percentile £504 £616 £570
90th Percentile £533 £663 £639
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +6.58% -9.52% +10.53%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Mocha falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Mocha
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mocha in the UK

Mocha
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mocha in the UK

Mocha
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Mocha in the UK

Mocha
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mocha in the UK

Mocha
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mocha 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 +63 16 £425 -20.93% 8
UK excluding London +55 8 £506 +6.58% 5
London +35 8 £425 -27.66% 5
North of England +28 7 £506 +6.58% 2
North West +11 7 £506 +6.58% 1
Work from Home +52 6 £425 - 14
South East - 1 - - 1

Mocha
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 (18.75%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (25.00%) GitHub
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (18.75%) Serverless
5 2 (12.50%) Azure
5 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Redis
2 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (6.25%) GIS
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Jasmine
2 5 (31.25%) Cypress.io
2 5 (31.25%) Git
2 5 (31.25%) Grunt
2 5 (31.25%) gulp
2 5 (31.25%) Subversion
3 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
3 3 (18.75%) ESLint
3 3 (18.75%) Postman
3 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
3 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) JMeter
4 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Agile Developer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (6.25%) HTML Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Linux Developer
6 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (93.75%) Node.js
2 13 (81.25%) CSS
2 13 (81.25%) HTML
3 9 (56.25%) HTML5
3 9 (56.25%) Jest
4 7 (43.75%) Sass
5 6 (37.50%) jQuery
5 6 (37.50%) Mustache
6 4 (25.00%) Express.js
6 4 (25.00%) React
7 3 (18.75%) GatsbyJS
7 3 (18.75%) GraphQL
7 3 (18.75%) Keycloak
7 3 (18.75%) REST
7 3 (18.75%) RESTful
7 3 (18.75%) SVG
7 3 (18.75%) Swagger
7 3 (18.75%) Vue
7 3 (18.75%) WebRTC
7 3 (18.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
1 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
1 3 (18.75%) Vector Graphics
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Code
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Mac OS X
2 4 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) User Experience
2 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
3 7 (43.75%) Front End Development
3 7 (43.75%) Responsive Web Design
3 7 (43.75%) Web Accessibility
4 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) TDD
4 6 (37.50%) Web Design
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (25.00%) Web Development
7 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (18.75%) Jamstack
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) SEO
7 3 (18.75%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 8 (50.00%) WCAG
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform