JavaScript Contract Job Trends in West End of London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring JavaScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 7 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 5 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 12.20% 10.20% 7.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.67% 27.78% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £451 £616
25th Percentile £475 £453 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £688
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -29.14% +23.96%
75th Percentile £525 £534 -
90th Percentile - £544 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -9.68% +5.68% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.72 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £51.44 £41.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.95% - -
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +28.60% - -

All Programming Languages
West End of London

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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12 18 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 29.27% 36.73% 23.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 15
10th Percentile £344 £443 £500
25th Percentile £466 £463 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £605
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -16.59% +10.09%
75th Percentile £750 £619 £688
90th Percentile £763 £630 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £40.80 -
25th Percentile £50.72 £40.88 -
Median hourly rate £51.44 £41.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.95% - -
75th Percentile £52.16 £42.13 -
90th Percentile - £42.20 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year +2.94% +232.00% -76.19%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in West End of London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Westminster -4 1 - - 2
JavaScript
Central London

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of London 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 (20.00%) Mattermost
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Google App Engine
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Tools Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) WSE
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Loki
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) WebRTC
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
1 2 (40.00%) User Experience
1 2 (40.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) API Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) GitOps
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (20.00%) Webhook
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Argo
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft