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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 38 72
Rank change year-on-year -54 +34 -3
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 63 66 45
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.22% 5.00% 2.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.95% 19.53% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 32 29
10th Percentile £400 £367 £272
25th Percentile £404 £435 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £575
90th Percentile £600 - £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £58.75
% change year-on-year +12.55% -1.70% -10.31%

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 704 338 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.78% 25.63% 22.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 207 316
10th Percentile £350 £292 £260
25th Percentile £413 £404 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +7.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £591 £575
90th Percentile £625 £691 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 14
10th Percentile £35.33 £16.60 £17.90
25th Percentile £48.94 £17.00 £32.78
Median hourly rate £58.00 £19.49 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +197.59% -65.35% +91.86%
75th Percentile £64.00 £26.62 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.10 £31.13 £68.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 18 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 18 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 16 £445 -8.72% 1
Coventry -15 15 £407 -9.56% 7
Warwickshire -11 13 £500 - 8
Birmingham -39 10 £538 -14.00% 27
Staffordshire -5 3 £400 -27.27% 5
Worcestershire -9 3 £600 -14.29% 2
Herefordshire -15 3 £600 -14.29% 2
Solihull - 2 - - 2
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 (6.35%) Confluence
1 4 (6.35%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.59%) CMS
2 1 (1.59%) nginx
2 1 (1.59%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Adobe XD
1 5 (7.94%) Sketch
2 1 (1.59%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.59%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.92%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (19.05%) AWS
3 12 (19.05%) GitHub
4 10 (15.87%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (9.52%) Figma
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.76%) Serverless
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.59%) IaaS
9 1 (1.59%) PaaS
9 1 (1.59%) SaaS
9 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) SSL
1 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
1 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.76%) MySQL
2 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.59%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.59%) Redis
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (26.98%) Git
2 8 (12.70%) JIRA
3 6 (9.52%) GitLab
4 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.76%) Selenium
6 2 (3.17%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.17%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.17%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.17%) JUnit
6 2 (3.17%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.17%) Vite
7 1 (1.59%) Gatling
7 1 (1.59%) Maven
7 1 (1.59%) Mockito
7 1 (1.59%) Storybook
7 1 (1.59%) webpack
General
1 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.59%) Legal
5 1 (1.59%) Military
5 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (52.38%) Developer
2 15 (23.81%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (14.29%) Lead
4 6 (9.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (9.52%) Senior
5 5 (7.94%) React Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior React Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Angular Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Engineering Specialist
8 2 (3.17%) Lead UX Designer
8 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow Developer
8 2 (3.17%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (36.51%) React
2 17 (26.98%) CSS
2 17 (26.98%) HTML
2 17 (26.98%) Node.js
3 15 (23.81%) AngularJS
4 12 (19.05%) Django
4 12 (19.05%) Flask
4 12 (19.05%) RESTful
4 12 (19.05%) YAML
5 11 (17.46%) Playwright
6 10 (15.87%) REST
7 9 (14.29%) .NET
8 8 (12.70%) CSS3
8 8 (12.70%) HTML5
9 5 (7.94%) Kafka
9 5 (7.94%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (6.35%) ASP.NET
10 4 (6.35%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (6.35%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.17%) CMDB
3 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 26 (41.27%) Agile
2 26 (41.27%) DevOps
3 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (22.22%) Data Integration
6 13 (20.63%) API Integration
6 13 (20.63%) User Experience
6 13 (20.63%) Workflow
7 9 (14.29%) UX Design
8 7 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 7 (11.11%) Front End Development
8 7 (11.11%) TDD
9 6 (9.52%) Microservices
9 6 (9.52%) Test Automation
10 5 (7.94%) Coaching
10 5 (7.94%) Mentoring
10 5 (7.94%) Responsive Web Design
10 5 (7.94%) Scrum
10 5 (7.94%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) SQL
2 10 (15.87%) Python
3 9 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 6 (9.52%) C#
4 6 (9.52%) Java
5 5 (7.94%) Go
6 2 (3.17%) PHP
7 1 (1.59%) Bash
7 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.59%) Groovy
7 1 (1.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) Degree
3 4 (6.35%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) QA
2 8 (12.70%) Accessibility
3 7 (11.11%) WCAG
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (20.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.70%) Terraform
3 5 (7.94%) Grafana
4 4 (6.35%) Ansible
5 3 (4.76%) Argo
6 1 (1.59%) Kibana
6 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Adobe
2 5 (7.94%) MuleSoft
3 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.76%) NEC
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle
5 2 (3.17%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.59%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.59%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.59%) Splunk