Senior JavaScript Developer Contracts

Senior JavaScript Developer
UK

The median Senior JavaScript Developer daily rate in the UK is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 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
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 565 644
Rank change year-on-year +16 +79 +180
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Senior JavaScript Developer 6 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.031% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.033% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 12
10th Percentile £447 £480 £495
25th Percentile £472 £500 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £661
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% -13.04% -11.83%
75th Percentile £520 £620 £775
90th Percentile £579 £735 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 - £575
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,985 36,120 49,146
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.94% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,896 23,184 33,935
10th Percentile £281 £300 £304
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,550 1,984 1,477
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.16 £14.47
25th Percentile £17.26 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +2.87% +62.77%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.95 £37.50
% change year-on-year -42.78% +17.20% +77.14%

Senior JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior JavaScript Developer in the UK

Senior JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior JavaScript Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior JavaScript Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior JavaScript Developer over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior JavaScript Developer in the UK

Senior JavaScript Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior JavaScript Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior JavaScript Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior JavaScript Developer
Top 6 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior JavaScript Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +12 5 £520 -11.49% 9
Work from Home +32 4 £510 -8.93% 5
London +22 3 £520 -11.49% 8
UK excluding London +12 2 £488 - 5
North of England - 2 £488 -
North West - 2 £488 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 2025, Senior 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 Senior JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (83.33%) React
3 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (66.67%) Node.js
4 3 (50.00%) Docker
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (50.00%) Serverless
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (33.33%) Jest
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Next.js
5 2 (33.33%) Playwright
5 2 (33.33%) TDD
5 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
5 2 (33.33%) JIRA
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
5 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub
5 2 (33.33%) Express.js
5 2 (33.33%) REST
5 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (16.67%) Azure
6 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) React
2 4 (66.67%) Node.js
3 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (33.33%) Express.js
4 2 (33.33%) Jest
4 2 (33.33%) Next.js
4 2 (33.33%) Playwright
4 2 (33.33%) REST
5 1 (16.67%) CSS
5 1 (16.67%) HTML
5 1 (16.67%) HTML5
5 1 (16.67%) JWT
5 1 (16.67%) OAuth
5 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
5 1 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (16.67%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) API Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Async-Await
4 1 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
4 1 (16.67%) B2B
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) KYC
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google