JavaScript Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 46 40
Rank change year-on-year -54 -6 +15
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 41 71 81
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.00% 3.72% 4.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.84% 16.32% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 32 63
10th Percentile £365 £414 £325
25th Percentile £416 £470 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £588 £688
90th Percentile £645 £711 £725
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 523 435 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.55% 22.76% 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 260 314
10th Percentile £358 £345 £280
25th Percentile £445 £409 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -13.46%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £600
90th Percentile £627 £660 £700
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 9
10th Percentile £33.91 £25.72 £17.43
25th Percentile - £33.93 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +89.19% -58.89%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £19.25
90th Percentile - £69.00 £25.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.53%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Birmingham -36 10 £400 -29.45% 50
Coventry -10 9 £425 -10.05% 19
Warwickshire -2 7 £500 - 21
Herefordshire - 5 £600 - 3
Worcestershire -6 4 £600 +14.29% 4
Shropshire -43 4 - - 4
Solihull - 4 £588 - 2
Staffordshire -3 1 £450 -18.18% 27
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (7.32%) SugarCRM
2 2 (4.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.44%) CMS
3 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.44%) Moqups
1 1 (2.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) Power Platform
3 9 (21.95%) AWS
3 9 (21.95%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (21.95%) Power Automate
3 9 (21.95%) PowerApps
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
5 2 (4.88%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) MySQL
2 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.44%) Power BI
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) JIRA
3 2 (4.88%) Android Studio
3 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.88%) GitLab
3 2 (4.88%) Gradle
3 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) JUnit
3 2 (4.88%) Selenium
3 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (4.88%) Xcode
4 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.44%) Gatling
4 1 (2.44%) Maven
4 1 (2.44%) Mockito
4 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.44%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Public Sector
3 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.20%) Marketing
5 4 (9.76%) Finance
6 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Retail
7 1 (2.44%) Games
7 1 (2.44%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.44%) Military
7 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (63.41%) Developer
2 6 (14.63%) React Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Software Developer
4 4 (9.76%) .NET Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Lead
4 4 (9.76%) Node.js Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior React Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (4.88%) Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.88%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Lead Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (41.46%) .NET
2 12 (29.27%) React
3 10 (24.39%) HTML
4 9 (21.95%) CSS
5 7 (17.07%) REST
6 6 (14.63%) Node.js
7 4 (9.76%) Jest
7 4 (9.76%) RESTful
8 3 (7.32%) .NET Core
8 3 (7.32%) OAuth
8 3 (7.32%) OAuth2
8 3 (7.32%) Playwright
8 3 (7.32%) SOAP
8 3 (7.32%) Web Services
9 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (4.88%) Entity Framework
9 2 (4.88%) OpenID
9 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (4.88%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (4.88%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.32%) IoT
3 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) CMDB
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Android
1 3 (7.32%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
3 15 (36.59%) DevOps
4 13 (31.71%) Agile
5 11 (26.83%) Clean Code
5 11 (26.83%) CRM
6 10 (24.39%) User Experience
7 7 (17.07%) UX Design
8 6 (14.63%) Customer Service
8 6 (14.63%) MVC
8 6 (14.63%) Scrum
9 5 (12.20%) API Integration
9 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
10 4 (9.76%) Containerisation
10 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
10 4 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (9.76%) Translating Business Requirements
11 3 (7.32%) Data Security
11 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Development
11 3 (7.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.83%) TypeScript
2 9 (21.95%) C#
3 6 (14.63%) SQL
4 5 (12.20%) Python
5 4 (9.76%) Java
5 4 (9.76%) PHP
6 2 (4.88%) Go
6 2 (4.88%) JSX
7 1 (2.44%) ABAP
7 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.44%) Groovy
7 1 (2.44%) Ruby
7 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Degree
4 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) QA
2 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.32%) GDPR
3 3 (7.32%) WCAG
4 2 (4.88%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
3 1 (2.44%) Kibana
3 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle
2 4 (9.76%) SAP
3 2 (4.88%) Automation Anywhere
3 2 (4.88%) UiPath
3 2 (4.88%) Workday
4 1 (2.44%) Adobe
4 1 (2.44%) Ariba
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.44%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.44%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow