JavaScript Contracts in the West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

JavaScript (including ECMAScript) England / West Midlands
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	10	12	12
Rank change year-on-year	+2	0
Contract jobs citing JavaScript	195	286	198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands	9.54%	9.58%	8.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category	29.59%	29.27%	25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	123	186	122
Median daily rate	£350	£325	£310
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.69%	+4.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£238	£220	£220
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£460	£450	£414
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£350
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	5	5
Median hourly rate	£34.50	£37.50	£23.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-8.00%	+57.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£28.55	£36.90	£22.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£38.35	£39.00	£34.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.45	£37.50	£39.78
% change year-on-year	+15.85%	-5.71%

JavaScript is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills West Midlands
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	659	977	769
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands	32.24%	32.72%	32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted	415	620	469
Median daily rate	£375	£375	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£250	£220
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£510	£490	£425
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	18	21	38
Median hourly rate	£38.00	£25.00	£23.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+52.00%	+5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.00	£20.50	£16.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£38.40	£37.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the West Midlands citing JavaScript as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing JavaScript in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate trend for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing JavaScript in the West Midlands over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript in the West Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the West Midlands

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 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Birmingham	+1	79	£325	-	41
Coventry	+16	25	£351	-12.37%	16
Warwickshire	-2	22	£238	-35.59%	30
Shropshire	0	8	£479	-8.73%	4
Staffordshire	-4	8	£338	+12.50%	26
Herefordshire	-2	6	£306	-	1
Solihull	0	5	£375	+28.75%	16
Wolverhampton	-7	3	£350	+16.66%	1
Walsall	-3	1	£275	-49.54%
Wednesbury	-	1	-	-
JavaScript England

JavaScript
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the West Midlands region with a requirement for JavaScript.

1	304 (76.96%)	HTML
2	273 (69.11%)	CSS
3	171 (43.29%)	Agile Software Development
4	156 (39.49%)	AngularJS
5	131 (33.16%)	.NET
6	125 (31.65%)	jQuery
7	112 (28.35%)	C#
8	107 (27.09%)	MVC
8	107 (27.09%)	HTML5
9	91 (23.04%)	ASP.NET
10	87 (22.03%)	SQL
11	83 (21.01%)	CSS3
12	76 (19.24%)	Java
13	72 (18.23%)	SQL Server
14	71 (17.97%)	TDD

15	69 (17.47%)	PHP
16	61 (15.44%)	Web Development
17	59 (14.94%)	Node.js
18	57 (14.43%)	Git (software)
18	57 (14.43%)	Front End Development
19	54 (13.67%)	Twitter Bootstrap
20	51 (12.91%)	Microsoft
21	50 (12.66%)	MySQL
22	46 (11.65%)	Web Services
23	44 (11.14%)	User Experience
24	41 (10.38%)	React
24	41 (10.38%)	ASP.NET Web API
25	38 (9.62%)	BDD
25	38 (9.62%)	ASP.NET MVC
26	36 (9.11%)	Test Automation

JavaScript
Co-occurring IT Skills in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	19 (4.81%)	SharePoint
2	18 (4.56%)	CMS
3	11 (2.78%)	nginx
3	11 (2.78%)	Tomcat
4	8 (2.03%)	DNN
4	8 (2.03%)	Drupal
4	8 (2.03%)	Elasticsearch
5	6 (1.52%)	WordPress
6	5 (1.27%)	JBoss
7	3 (0.76%)	Apache
7	3 (0.76%)	ColdFusion
7	3 (0.76%)	SharePoint 2010
8	2 (0.51%)	SharePoint 2013
8	2 (0.51%)	WebSphere
9	1 (0.25%)	Confluence
9	1 (0.25%)	IIS
9	1 (0.25%)	NServiceBus
9	1 (0.25%)	WebLogic
9	1 (0.25%)	WebSphere Application Server

Applications
1	6 (1.52%)	Photoshop
2	3 (0.76%)	Adobe Illustrator
3	2 (0.51%)	Adobe After Effects
3	2 (0.51%)	Adobe Creative Suite
4	1 (0.25%)	Fireworks
4	1 (0.25%)	Microsoft Excel
4	1 (0.25%)	UXPin

Business Applications
1	23 (5.82%)	Dynamics CRM
2	6 (1.52%)	Magento
3	5 (1.27%)	Dynamics AX
4	1 (0.25%)	Dynamics NAV
4	1 (0.25%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	25 (6.33%)	Microsoft Azure
2	14 (3.54%)	Amazon AWS
3	11 (2.78%)	Google Analytics
3	11 (2.78%)	Google Cloud Platform
4	10 (2.53%)	GitHub
5	7 (1.77%)	Office 365
6	6 (1.52%)	Heroku
7	5 (1.27%)	Dynamics 365
8	4 (1.01%)	PaaS
8	4 (1.01%)	SaaS
9	3 (0.76%)	Trello
10	2 (0.51%)	AdWords
11	1 (0.25%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11	1 (0.25%)	Bluemix
11	1 (0.25%)	Google App Engine
11	1 (0.25%)	IaaS
11	1 (0.25%)	IBM Cloud
11	1 (0.25%)	Slack

Communications & Networking
1	9 (2.28%)	Internet
2	8 (2.03%)	HTTP
2	8 (2.03%)	SSL
3	6 (1.52%)	Intranet
3	6 (1.52%)	TCP/IP
4	5 (1.27%)	LDAP
5	1 (0.25%)	Profibus

Database & Business Intelligence
1	72 (18.23%)	SQL Server
2	50 (12.66%)	MySQL
3	31 (7.85%)	MongoDB
4	18 (4.56%)	SQL Server 2012
5	15 (3.80%)	NoSQL
6	11 (2.78%)	SQL Server 2008
7	10 (2.53%)	PostgreSQL
8	7 (1.77%)	Pentaho
8	7 (1.77%)	SQL Server 2005
9	6 (1.52%)	Relational Database
10	5 (1.27%)	SQL Server 2000
11	4 (1.01%)	Hazelcast
11	4 (1.01%)	Power BI
12	3 (0.76%)	DB2
12	3 (0.76%)	Redis
12	3 (0.76%)	SSDT
13	2 (0.51%)	DocumentDB
13	2 (0.51%)	GIS
13	2 (0.51%)	MS Access
13	2 (0.51%)	SQL Server Reporting Services

Development Applications
1	57 (14.43%)	Git (software)
2	34 (8.61%)	Visual Studio
3	30 (7.59%)	gulp
4	22 (5.57%)	Grunt
5	20 (5.06%)	Visual Studio Team System
6	18 (4.56%)	Selenium
7	16 (4.05%)	Team Foundation Server
8	13 (3.29%)	Jenkins
9	12 (3.04%)	Subversion
10	11 (2.78%)	Ant
10	11 (2.78%)	JIRA
11	10 (2.53%)	Mocha
12	9 (2.28%)	Cucumber
12	9 (2.28%)	JUnit
12	9 (2.28%)	PHPUnit
13	8 (2.03%)	IntelliJ
13	8 (2.03%)	Karma Test Runner
14	7 (1.77%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14	7 (1.77%)	Sublime Text
14	7 (1.77%)	Vagrant

General
1	30 (7.59%)	Finance
2	24 (6.08%)	Marketing
3	14 (3.54%)	Retail
4	6 (1.52%)	Automotive
4	6 (1.52%)	Manufacturing
5	3 (0.76%)	Games
6	2 (0.51%)	Advertising
6	2 (0.51%)	Back Office
6	2 (0.51%)	Legal
6	2 (0.51%)	Local Government
7	1 (0.25%)	Banking
7	1 (0.25%)	Electronics
7	1 (0.25%)	Investment Banking
7	1 (0.25%)	Telecoms

Job Titles
1	358 (90.63%)	Developer
2	66 (16.71%)	.NET Developer
3	63 (15.95%)	JavaScript Developer
4	50 (12.66%)	PHP Developer
5	41 (10.38%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6	33 (8.35%)	Java Developer
7	32 (8.10%)	Angular Developer
8	31 (7.85%)	ASP.NET Developer
8	31 (7.85%)	Web Developer
9	30 (7.59%)	C# Developer
10	26 (6.58%)	HTML Developer
11	25 (6.33%)	Senior Developer
12	24 (6.08%)	HTML CSS Developer
13	23 (5.82%)	Full Stack Developer
14	21 (5.32%)	C# .NET Developer
15	20 (5.06%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
16	19 (4.81%)	CRM Developer
17	17 (4.30%)	Software Developer
18	14 (3.54%)	Microsoft Developer
19	13 (3.29%)	ServiceNow Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	304 (76.96%)	HTML
2	273 (69.11%)	CSS
3	156 (39.49%)	AngularJS
4	131 (33.16%)	.NET
5	125 (31.65%)	jQuery
6	107 (27.09%)	HTML5
7	91 (23.04%)	ASP.NET
8	83 (21.01%)	CSS3
9	59 (14.94%)	Node.js
10	54 (13.67%)	Twitter Bootstrap
11	46 (11.65%)	Web Services
12	41 (10.38%)	ASP.NET Web API
12	41 (10.38%)	React
13	38 (9.62%)	ASP.NET MVC
14	36 (9.11%)	Angular 2
15	33 (8.35%)	Sass
16	29 (7.34%)	REST
17	27 (6.84%)	.NET Framework
18	25 (6.33%)	RESTful
19	23 (5.82%)	Hibernate

Miscellaneous
1	44 (11.14%)	User Experience
2	15 (3.80%)	Analytical Skills
3	12 (3.04%)	Greenfield Project
4	9 (2.28%)	W3C
5	8 (2.03%)	Computer Science
5	8 (2.03%)	Mobile App
6	5 (1.27%)	Enterprise Software
6	5 (1.27%)	Linux Command Line
7	3 (0.76%)	CMDB
7	3 (0.76%)	Graphic Design
7	3 (0.76%)	NHS
8	2 (0.51%)	Internet of Things
9	1 (0.25%)	Device Driver
9	1 (0.25%)	Online Games
9	1 (0.25%)	RIA
9	1 (0.25%)	Smart City
9	1 (0.25%)	Smart Energy
9	1 (0.25%)	Video Conferencing
9	1 (0.25%)	Web 2.0
9	1 (0.25%)	Wiki

Operating Systems
1	25 (6.33%)	Linux
2	20 (5.06%)	Windows
3	9 (2.28%)	Unix
4	7 (1.77%)	Ubuntu
5	6 (1.52%)	Apple iOS
6	5 (1.27%)	Android
7	3 (0.76%)	Mac OS X
8	1 (0.25%)	VxWorks

Processes & Methodologies
1	171 (43.29%)	Agile Software Development
2	107 (27.09%)	MVC
3	71 (17.97%)	TDD
4	61 (15.44%)	Web Development
5	57 (14.43%)	Front End Development
6	38 (9.62%)	BDD
7	36 (9.11%)	Scrum
7	36 (9.11%)	Test Automation
8	33 (8.35%)	OO
9	31 (7.85%)	CRM
10	23 (5.82%)	E-Commerce
11	21 (5.32%)	Migration
12	20 (5.06%)	Microservices
12	20 (5.06%)	Unit Testing
13	19 (4.81%)	DevOps
14	18 (4.56%)	Continuous Integration
15	17 (4.30%)	OO PHP
15	17 (4.30%)	SDLC
16	16 (4.05%)	Responsive Web Design
16	16 (4.05%)	Software Engineering

Programming Languages
1	112 (28.35%)	C#
2	87 (22.03%)	SQL
3	76 (19.24%)	Java
4	69 (17.47%)	PHP
5	21 (5.32%)	T-SQL
6	17 (4.30%)	Python
7	15 (3.80%)	TypeScript
8	12 (3.04%)	Scala
9	9 (2.28%)	VB.NET
10	8 (2.03%)	ES6
10	8 (2.03%)	Perl
10	8 (2.03%)	Ruby
11	7 (1.77%)	PowerShell
12	6 (1.52%)	Groovy
12	6 (1.52%)	Haskell
13	5 (1.27%)	Bash Shell
13	5 (1.27%)	ECMAScript
14	4 (1.01%)	PHP 5
15	3 (0.76%)	C++
15	3 (0.76%)	PHP 7

Qualifications
1	11 (2.78%)	Degree
2	7 (1.77%)	Security Cleared
3	6 (1.52%)	SC Cleared
4	4 (1.01%)	ISEB
4	4 (1.01%)	ISTQB
5	3 (0.76%)	DV Cleared
6	2 (0.51%)	Computer Science Degree
6	2 (0.51%)	Microsoft Certification
7	1 (0.25%)	DBS Check
7	1 (0.25%)	MCPD
7	1 (0.25%)	MCSD
7	1 (0.25%)	Sun Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	7 (1.77%)	QA
2	3 (0.76%)	WAI
3	1 (0.25%)	SLA
3	1 (0.25%)	WCAG

System Software
1	14 (3.54%)	Docker

Systems Management
1	9 (2.28%)	Ansible
2	8 (2.03%)	Puppet
3	6 (1.52%)	Grafana
3	6 (1.52%)	Kibana
4	3 (0.76%)	HP Quality Center
5	1 (0.25%)	Terraform

Vendors
1	51 (12.91%)	Microsoft
2	26 (6.58%)	Google
3	16 (4.05%)	ServiceNow
4	12 (3.04%)	Salesforce.com
5	10 (2.53%)	Oracle
6	7 (1.77%)	Zend
7	6 (1.52%)	IBM
8	4 (1.01%)	Adobe
9	3 (0.76%)	Demandware
9	3 (0.76%)	hybris
9	3 (0.76%)	Remedy
10	2 (0.51%)	Apple
10	2 (0.51%)	Telerik
10	2 (0.51%)	Xamarin
11	1 (0.25%)	Cincom
11	1 (0.25%)	SAP
11	1 (0.25%)	Sun
11	1 (0.25%)	webMethods