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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 39 72
Rank change year-on-year -56 +33 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 58 64 42
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.02% 4.84% 2.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.24% 20.13% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 31 27
10th Percentile £400 £363 £269
25th Percentile £404 £433 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £575
90th Percentile £575 - £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.13 £60.00
% change year-on-year +9.94% -1.46% -8.40%

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 704 318 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.46% 24.05% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 199 320
10th Percentile £350 £304 £260
25th Percentile £413 £407 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +7.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £575
90th Percentile £625 £690 £650
England median daily rate £502 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.48% -2.33% -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 14
10th Percentile £38.35 £16.75 £17.90
25th Percentile £56.50 £17.00 £32.78
Median hourly rate £58.00 £20.24 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +186.56% -64.02% +91.86%
75th Percentile £77.50 £28.47 £58.75
90th Percentile - £28.75 £68.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -36 15 £445 -8.72% 1
Coventry -21 14 £407 -11.52% 7
Warwickshire -8 13 £500 - 8
Birmingham -41 9 £525 -19.23% 20
Staffordshire -5 3 £400 -27.27% 7
Solihull - 2 - - 1
Worcestershire -15 1 £700 - 2
Herefordshire -16 1 £700 - 1
Bilston - 1 £550 -
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 4 (6.90%) Confluence
1 4 (6.90%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.72%) CMS
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Adobe XD
1 5 (8.62%) Sketch
2 1 (1.72%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.72%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) Azure
2 14 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (20.69%) GitHub
4 11 (18.97%) AWS
5 10 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.34%) Figma
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (5.17%) Serverless
9 2 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.72%) IaaS
10 1 (1.72%) Kong
10 1 (1.72%) PaaS
10 1 (1.72%) SaaS
10 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) SSL
1 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.45%) MySQL
3 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.72%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.72%) Redis
4 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (25.86%) Git
2 8 (13.79%) JIRA
3 5 (8.62%) GitLab
3 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.45%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.45%) REST Assured
4 2 (3.45%) Selenium
4 2 (3.45%) Vite
5 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) Mockito
5 1 (1.72%) Storybook
5 1 (1.72%) webpack
General
1 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.72%) Legal
5 1 (1.72%) Military
5 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (51.72%) Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (15.52%) Lead
4 6 (10.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (6.90%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (6.90%) Senior
6 3 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.17%) React Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Angular Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Consultant
7 2 (3.45%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Engineering Specialist
7 2 (3.45%) Lead Designer
7 2 (3.45%) Lead UX Designer
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.45%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (34.48%) React
2 16 (27.59%) CSS
2 16 (27.59%) HTML
3 15 (25.86%) AngularJS
3 15 (25.86%) Node.js
4 12 (20.69%) Django
4 12 (20.69%) Flask
4 12 (20.69%) RESTful
4 12 (20.69%) YAML
5 10 (17.24%) Playwright
6 9 (15.52%) REST
7 8 (13.79%) .NET
7 8 (13.79%) CSS3
7 8 (13.79%) HTML5
8 5 (8.62%) Kafka
9 4 (6.90%) ASP.NET
9 4 (6.90%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (5.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.45%) CMDB
3 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) CI/CD
2 25 (43.10%) Agile
3 24 (41.38%) DevOps
4 15 (25.86%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (24.14%) Data Integration
6 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (22.41%) Workflow
7 12 (20.69%) API Integration
7 12 (20.69%) User Experience
8 8 (13.79%) UX Design
9 7 (12.07%) Front End Development
10 6 (10.34%) Containerisation
10 6 (10.34%) Microservices
10 6 (10.34%) TDD
11 5 (8.62%) Mentoring
11 5 (8.62%) Responsive Web Design
11 5 (8.62%) Sprint Planning
11 5 (8.62%) Test Automation
12 4 (6.90%) Coaching
12 4 (6.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) SQL
2 9 (15.52%) Python
3 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.34%) C#
5 5 (8.62%) Go
5 5 (8.62%) Java
6 1 (1.72%) Bash
6 1 (1.72%) Groovy
6 1 (1.72%) PHP
6 1 (1.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.62%) Degree
3 4 (6.90%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) QA
2 7 (12.07%) Accessibility
3 6 (10.34%) WCAG
4 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.79%) Terraform
3 5 (8.62%) Grafana
4 4 (6.90%) Ansible
5 3 (5.17%) Argo
6 1 (1.72%) Kibana
6 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) Adobe
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
1 5 (8.62%) MuleSoft
2 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.17%) NEC
4 2 (3.45%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.72%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.72%) Splunk