JavaScript Contracts in Wales

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 29 29
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 15 36 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.61% 5.59% 5.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% 22.78% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 34 47
10th Percentile £336 £340 £374
25th Percentile £366 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £456 £575 £538
90th Percentile £480 £671 £635
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 advertised in Wales with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 120 158 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 28.92% 24.53% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 125 237
10th Percentile £314 £338 £363
25th Percentile £381 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £539 £613 £625
90th Percentile £600 £670 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £15.51 £17.18 £18.82
25th Percentile £16.98 £17.48 £19.91
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.19% -9.33% -17.00%
75th Percentile £24.96 £19.81 £25.00
90th Percentile £39.56 £19.91 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £61.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +22.35% +14.94%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Wales

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Wales

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Wales over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Wales

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Wales

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Wales region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
South Wales -4 12 £388 -13.89% 24
West Wales +3 2 £450 - 9
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (6.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (20.00%) React Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Full Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Angular Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.67%) GUI Tester
5 1 (6.67%) PHP Developer
5 1 (6.67%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Tester
5 1 (6.67%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) CSS
1 7 (46.67%) HTML
2 5 (33.33%) Node.js
2 5 (33.33%) React
3 4 (26.67%) .NET
3 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
4 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (20.00%) Vue
5 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
5 2 (13.33%) Laravel
5 2 (13.33%) Next.js
5 2 (13.33%) Redux
5 2 (13.33%) RESTful
6 1 (6.67%) CSS3
6 1 (6.67%) Express.js
6 1 (6.67%) HTML5
6 1 (6.67%) MobX
6 1 (6.67%) Nuxt
6 1 (6.67%) Playwright
6 1 (6.67%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (13.33%) NHS
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 1 (6.67%) API Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce
5 1 (6.67%) Kanban
5 1 (6.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.67%) Project Management
5 1 (6.67%) Refactoring
5 1 (6.67%) Regression Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (26.67%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) PHP
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Ruby
4 1 (6.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Google
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft