JavaScript Contracts in Wales

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 30 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 14 14 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.78% 3.54% 5.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.67% 12.28% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 33
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £393 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% -8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £564 £463 £575
90th Percentile £600 £483 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.20% -10.71% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
Wales

JavaScript 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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 75 114 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 25.60% 28.86% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 87 124
10th Percentile £225 £340 £363
25th Percentile £355 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £613
90th Percentile £588 £599 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £17.18
25th Percentile £21.53 £16.98 £17.48
Median hourly rate £26.13 £21.49 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +21.60% +14.19% -9.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.96 £19.81
90th Percentile £47.63 £39.56 £19.91
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
South Wales +8 13 £501 +27.11% 25
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 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) GCP
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Multimedia
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (7.14%) CRM Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) CSS
1 7 (50.00%) Node.js
2 6 (42.86%) .NET
3 5 (35.71%) React
4 3 (21.43%) Jest
4 3 (21.43%) Puppeteer
5 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (14.29%) HTML
5 2 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (7.14%) Angular 2
6 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.14%) Express.js
6 1 (7.14%) HTML5
6 1 (7.14%) NestJS
6 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
6 1 (7.14%) REST
6 1 (7.14%) RESTful
6 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
6 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Software Engineering
1 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 5 (35.71%) TDD
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (21.43%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
3 3 (21.43%) CRM
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Coaching
4 2 (14.29%) Data Security
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) MVC
4 2 (14.29%) OO
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Google
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft