TypeScript Contract Job Trends

Microsoft TypeScript
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring TypeScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 79 72
Rank change year-on-year -51 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing TypeScript 1,129 995 1,128
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.11% 3.01% 2.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.02% 9.16% 9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 751 929
10th Percentile £365 £380 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £736 £825
90th Percentile £875 £838 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -4.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 6
10th Percentile £43.20 £42.58 £40.29
25th Percentile £59.31 £52.06 £40.62
Median hourly rate £75.50 £66.50 £48.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.53% +37.82% -35.67%
75th Percentile £91.25 £67.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £97.25 £89.95 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +13.43% - -10.67%

All Programming Languages
UK

TypeScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,083 10,864 12,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.32% 32.82% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,161 7,261 8,533
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £503 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -5.81% -3.00%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 280 397
10th Percentile £29.97 £28.24 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.38 £36.19 £44.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.95 £83.11 £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% +8.33%

TypeScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TypeScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

TypeScript job vacancy trend in the UK

TypeScript
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TypeScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TypeScript

TypeScript
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TypeScript over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TypeScript in the UK

TypeScript
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TypeScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TypeScript

TypeScript
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TypeScript over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for TypeScript in the UK

TypeScript
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TypeScript within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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 -48 918 £550 +2.09% 456
London -27 634 £575 -4.17% 186
Work from Home -62 349 £540 -10.00% 304
UK excluding London -56 335 £475 -5.00% 359
North of England -30 129 £500 +5.26% 100
Scotland -27 65 £425 -15.00% 19
North West -34 59 £550 +29.41% 61
Yorkshire -7 50 £500 - 23
South East -41 47 £400 -22.18% 107
South West -29 44 £600 +20.00% 60
Midlands -60 25 £545 +24.57% 44
North East -25 21 £450 -5.26% 16
West Midlands -55 20 £545 +9.00% 22
Wales -8 12 £475 -8.43% 9
East of England -20 11 £625 -3.85% 21
East Midlands -27 5 £445 +10.70% 22
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4

TypeScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 41 (3.63%) Confluence
2 27 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.42%) CMS
4 15 (1.33%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (0.89%) Apache
6 9 (0.80%) nginx
7 6 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.53%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.35%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.35%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.35%) IIS
9 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.27%) WordPress
10 2 (0.18%) Mendix
10 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.089%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.089%) Camunda
11 1 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (1.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.089%) Blender
2 1 (0.089%) InDesign
2 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.089%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.089%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.089%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.06%) Shopify
2 8 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.35%) Quorum
4 4 (0.35%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.35%) Ripple
5 3 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.27%) Magento
5 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.089%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 461 (40.83%) AWS
2 296 (26.22%) Azure
3 179 (15.85%) GitHub
4 172 (15.23%) Serverless
5 109 (9.65%) AWS Lambda
5 109 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (8.50%) GCP
8 78 (6.91%) Amazon S3
9 52 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (4.25%) Power Platform
11 44 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (3.90%) Entra ID
12 43 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (3.10%) Anthropic Claude
14 34 (3.01%) Power Automate
15 33 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
15 33 (2.92%) PowerApps
16 32 (2.83%) Figma
17 31 (2.75%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.24%) HTTP
2 5 (0.44%) DNS
3 4 (0.35%) Firewall
3 4 (0.35%) Intranet
4 3 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.18%) DSL
5 2 (0.18%) SSH
6 1 (0.089%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.089%) Internet
6 1 (0.089%) MQTT
6 1 (0.089%) SMS
6 1 (0.089%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (5.76%) NoSQL
3 62 (5.49%) DynamoDB
4 52 (4.61%) SQL Server
5 48 (4.25%) MongoDB
6 40 (3.54%) Relational Database
7 37 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (3.01%) Power BI
9 24 (2.13%) MySQL
10 19 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (1.68%) Redis
11 17 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.06%) Geospatial Data
12 12 (1.06%) Pinecone
13 10 (0.89%) DocumentDB
14 8 (0.71%) Metadata
14 8 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.71%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 166 (14.70%) Git
2 105 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 80 (7.09%) Cypress.io
4 72 (6.38%) JIRA
5 69 (6.11%) GitLab
6 37 (3.28%) JUnit
7 34 (3.01%) Claude Code
8 30 (2.66%) Selenium
9 27 (2.39%) Mockito
9 27 (2.39%) Vite
10 22 (1.95%) Gradle
11 19 (1.68%) Cucumber
12 18 (1.59%) Liquibase
12 18 (1.59%) webpack
13 17 (1.51%) Postman
13 17 (1.51%) REST Assured
14 15 (1.33%) Bitbucket
15 14 (1.24%) SpecFlow
15 14 (1.24%) Storybook
16 12 (1.06%) Gatling
General
1 223 (19.75%) Finance
2 199 (17.63%) Social Skills
3 142 (12.58%) Public Sector
4 115 (10.19%) Banking
5 90 (7.97%) Front Office
6 70 (6.20%) Investment Banking
7 66 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (2.83%) Retail
9 28 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.24%) Legal
12 13 (1.15%) Law
12 13 (1.15%) Military
13 10 (0.89%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.89%) Marketing
14 7 (0.62%) Back Office
14 7 (0.62%) Games
15 5 (0.44%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 527 (46.68%) Developer
2 290 (25.69%) Senior
3 158 (13.99%) Full-Stack Developer
4 155 (13.73%) Software Engineer
5 139 (12.31%) Senior Developer
6 119 (10.54%) Lead
7 115 (10.19%) React Developer
8 106 (9.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 77 (6.82%) Java Developer
10 66 (5.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 63 (5.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 49 (4.34%) Senior React Developer
13 45 (3.99%) Architect
13 45 (3.99%) UI Developer
14 41 (3.63%) Senior Java Developer
15 38 (3.37%) Lead Developer
15 38 (3.37%) Software Developer
16 36 (3.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 33 (2.92%) Python Developer
18 32 (2.83%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 638 (56.51%) React
2 313 (27.72%) Node.js
3 261 (23.12%) REST
4 146 (12.93%) RESTful
5 144 (12.75%) CSS
6 139 (12.31%) GraphQL
7 138 (12.22%) .NET
8 128 (11.34%) Playwright
9 125 (11.07%) HTML
10 118 (10.45%) Redux
11 114 (10.10%) Kafka
12 109 (9.65%) Spring
13 108 (9.57%) Next.js
14 100 (8.86%) AngularJS
15 92 (8.15%) Spring Boot
16 80 (7.09%) Jest
17 60 (5.31%) HTML5
18 54 (4.78%) CSS3
18 54 (4.78%) OAuth
19 48 (4.25%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 206 (18.25%) Cloud Native
2 89 (7.88%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (6.47%) Fixed Income
4 66 (5.85%) Product Ownership
5 58 (5.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 54 (4.78%) Greenfield Project
6 54 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
7 47 (4.16%) AI Agents
8 37 (3.28%) Equities
9 29 (2.57%) Derivative
10 27 (2.39%) Data Structures
11 24 (2.13%) Algorithms
11 24 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.77%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 15 (1.33%) NHS
16 10 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
16 10 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
17 9 (0.80%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.68%) Linux
2 17 (1.51%) Windows
3 9 (0.80%) Android
3 9 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.089%) AIX
5 1 (0.089%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (44.64%) CI/CD
2 432 (38.26%) Agile
3 396 (35.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 335 (29.67%) Software Engineering
5 308 (27.28%) DevOps
6 278 (24.62%) Microservices
7 256 (22.67%) AI
8 239 (21.17%) Test Automation
9 155 (13.73%) Containerisation
10 148 (13.11%) Front End Development
11 136 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 136 (12.05%) TDD
12 135 (11.96%) Observability
13 129 (11.43%) Event-Driven
14 122 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
15 113 (10.01%) User Experience
16 106 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 105 (9.30%) LLM
18 104 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
19 103 (9.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 497 (44.02%) JavaScript
2 364 (32.24%) Python
3 282 (24.98%) Java
4 208 (18.42%) C#
5 184 (16.30%) SQL
6 47 (4.16%) Go
7 38 (3.37%) Kotlin
8 26 (2.30%) Rust
9 21 (1.86%) C++
9 21 (1.86%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.77%) Bicep
11 19 (1.68%) Ruby
12 17 (1.51%) Scala
13 15 (1.33%) Bash
14 10 (0.89%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.62%) PHP
15 7 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.35%) Cypher
16 4 (0.35%) Groovy
16 4 (0.35%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 193 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 171 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 48 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 40 (3.54%) Degree
5 29 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.35%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.18%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.089%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.089%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.089%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.089%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (11.87%) Accessibility
2 77 (6.82%) QA
3 75 (6.64%) WCAG
4 11 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 11 (0.97%) NCSC
5 9 (0.80%) GDPR
6 6 (0.53%) HL7
7 5 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.18%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.18%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.18%) PSD2
10 2 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.089%) EMIR
11 1 (0.089%) GRC
11 1 (0.089%) MiFID
11 1 (0.089%) SEPA
System Software
1 229 (20.28%) Docker
2 6 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 217 (19.22%) Kubernetes
2 149 (13.20%) Terraform
3 45 (3.99%) Grafana
4 30 (2.66%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.97%) Argo
6 9 (0.80%) Kibana
7 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.27%) Ansible
8 3 (0.27%) Foglight
8 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.18%) Podman
9 2 (0.18%) Puppet
10 1 (0.089%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.089%) Istio
Vendors
1 86 (7.62%) Microsoft
2 32 (2.83%) Google
3 25 (2.21%) Oracle
4 24 (2.13%) OpenAI
5 20 (1.77%) Databricks
6 16 (1.42%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.15%) Splunk
9 9 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.53%) ForgeRock
10 6 (0.53%) New Relic
11 5 (0.44%) SAP
11 5 (0.44%) Solace
12 4 (0.35%) Confluent
12 4 (0.35%) Foundry
13 3 (0.27%) HP
13 3 (0.27%) HubSpot
14 2 (0.18%) Adobe
14 2 (0.18%) FactSet
14 2 (0.18%) Palantir