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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 72 55
Rank change year-on-year -12 -17 -11
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 85 52 57
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.43% 2.87% 3.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.38% 11.50% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 38 31
10th Percentile £366 £310 £325
25th Percentile £413 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -13.00% -
75th Percentile £602 £584 £625
90th Percentile £697 £640 £675
England median daily rate £520 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +2.46% -7.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate £38.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -41.15% - +8.33%

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 747 452 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.36% 24.93% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 282 260
10th Percentile £370 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.73% -1.70%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £575
90th Percentile £656 £632 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 5
10th Percentile £19.85 £30.25 £34.36
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.91 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +136.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +3.17%

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 10 September 2026.

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 10 September 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
Shropshire -16 36 £595 +29.33% 11
Coventry +2 33 £425 -2.86% 6
Birmingham -23 8 £590 +47.50% 21
Warwickshire -13 5 £450 -14.29% 3
Staffordshire -12 1 £463 +2.78% 4
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 6 (7.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.35%) Sketch
2 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (12.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.00%) Azure
2 24 (28.24%) Azure DevOps
2 24 (28.24%) Dynamics 365
2 24 (28.24%) Power Automate
3 22 (25.88%) AWS
4 16 (18.82%) Power Platform
5 13 (15.29%) Serverless
6 12 (14.12%) PowerApps
7 10 (11.76%) Azure Functions
8 5 (5.88%) Figma
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.53%) GitHub
9 3 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.35%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) BIG-IP
1 1 (1.18%) DHCP
1 1 (1.18%) DNS
1 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.41%) MongoDB
3 7 (8.24%) MySQL
4 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.35%) ZAP BI
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (31.76%) Git
2 17 (20.00%) Selenium
3 14 (16.47%) Cucumber
4 10 (11.76%) JUnit
5 9 (10.59%) Cypress.io
5 9 (10.59%) GitLab
6 7 (8.24%) Postman
7 6 (7.06%) Gatling
7 6 (7.06%) WebDriver
8 4 (4.71%) Maven
9 3 (3.53%) JIRA
9 3 (3.53%) Mockito
9 3 (3.53%) Storybook
10 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
10 2 (2.35%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.18%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.18%) TestNG
11 1 (1.18%) TestRail
General
1 35 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 34 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 21 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.94%) Finance
6 3 (3.53%) Banking
6 3 (3.53%) Retail
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
8 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Front Office
8 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Legal
8 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (60.00%) Developer
2 19 (22.35%) Senior
3 17 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 15 (17.65%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 10 (11.76%) Architect
6 9 (10.59%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.41%) Lead
8 7 (8.24%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (7.06%) Analyst
9 6 (7.06%) Lead Test Analyst
9 6 (7.06%) Quality Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) React Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (7.06%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Senior Test Analyst
9 6 (7.06%) ServiceNow Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Test Analyst
9 6 (7.06%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.71%) Automation Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (42.35%) React
2 24 (28.24%) JSON
3 20 (23.53%) HTML
4 18 (21.18%) CSS
5 15 (17.65%) Playwright
5 15 (17.65%) REST
6 9 (10.59%) .NET
6 9 (10.59%) Node.js
7 8 (9.41%) Gherkin
8 7 (8.24%) OAuth
8 7 (8.24%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (8.24%) SOAP
8 7 (8.24%) Spring
9 6 (7.06%) OAuth2
9 6 (7.06%) OpenID
10 5 (5.88%) AngularJS
10 5 (5.88%) CSS3
10 5 (5.88%) HTML5
10 5 (5.88%) OpenAPI
10 5 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.82%) Product Ownership
2 10 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.71%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.71%) Taxonomies
5 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.18%) CMDB
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.18%) Equities
7 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Linux
1 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (76.47%) Agile
2 35 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 30 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (32.94%) DevOps
5 25 (29.41%) Scrum
6 24 (28.24%) Front End Development
6 24 (28.24%) Test Automation
7 23 (27.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (25.88%) SFIA
8 22 (25.88%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (24.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (23.53%) User Experience
11 19 (22.35%) Sprint Planning
12 18 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
14 16 (18.82%) AI
15 15 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (17.65%) Ticket Management
16 14 (16.47%) Mentoring
16 14 (16.47%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.41%) C#
2 24 (28.24%) Java
3 11 (12.94%) TypeScript
4 9 (10.59%) Python
5 6 (7.06%) SQL
6 2 (2.35%) R
7 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (34.12%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.88%) SC Cleared
3 21 (24.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (16.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (7.06%) ISTQB
6 4 (4.71%) Degree
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (48.24%) Accessibility
2 26 (30.59%) WCAG
3 13 (15.29%) QA
4 10 (11.76%) GDPR
5 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.18%) HL7
5 1 (1.18%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.18%) NIST
5 1 (1.18%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (10.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (22.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.53%) Grafana
2 3 (3.53%) Kibana
3 1 (1.18%) Ansible
3 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (32.94%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.47%) Oracle
3 6 (7.06%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.71%) Adobe
5 2 (2.35%) UiPath
6 1 (1.18%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.18%) DataRobot
6 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.18%) F5
6 1 (1.18%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.18%) NEC
6 1 (1.18%) New Relic
6 1 (1.18%) Pega
6 1 (1.18%) Splunk