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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 62 61
Rank change year-on-year -35 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 74 49 51
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.15% 2.84% 2.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.18% 11.19% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 33 30
10th Percentile £306 £307 £325
25th Percentile £408 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -10.60% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £625
90th Percentile £673 £625 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
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% - -7.14%

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 727 438 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.15% 25.39% 21.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 271 273
10th Percentile £366 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 9
10th Percentile £21.25 £28.18 £33.22
25th Percentile £25.00 £33.91 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% +129.17%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £56.25
90th Percentile - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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
Coventry +2 31 £425 -5.56% 3
Shropshire -24 26 £605 +30.89% 11
Birmingham -24 8 £590 +47.50% 16
Warwickshire -15 5 £450 -14.29% 2
Staffordshire -8 2 £463 +2.78% 2
Solihull -14 1 - -
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 2 (2.70%) Confluence
1 2 (2.70%) OpenStack
1 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.70%) Sketch
2 1 (1.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.30%) Azure
2 25 (33.78%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (27.03%) AWS
3 20 (27.03%) Dynamics 365
3 20 (27.03%) Power Automate
4 12 (16.22%) Power Platform
4 12 (16.22%) PowerApps
5 10 (13.51%) Serverless
6 6 (8.11%) Azure Functions
7 4 (5.41%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (4.05%) GitHub
8 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.70%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.70%) Figma
9 2 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) BIG-IP
1 1 (1.35%) DHCP
1 1 (1.35%) DNS
1 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) MySQL
1 7 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.11%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.70%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.70%) ZAP BI
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (22.97%) Git
2 14 (18.92%) Selenium
3 11 (14.86%) Cucumber
4 9 (12.16%) Cypress.io
5 7 (9.46%) JUnit
5 7 (9.46%) Postman
6 6 (8.11%) GitLab
6 6 (8.11%) WebDriver
7 5 (6.76%) Gatling
8 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
8 3 (4.05%) JIRA
9 2 (2.70%) Maven
9 2 (2.70%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.35%) Eclipse
10 1 (1.35%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.35%) JMeter
10 1 (1.35%) MLflow
10 1 (1.35%) Mockito
10 1 (1.35%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.35%) TestNG
General
1 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.08%) Public Sector
3 17 (22.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.76%) Finance
6 3 (4.05%) Retail
7 2 (2.70%) Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Marketing
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Front Office
8 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (58.11%) Developer
2 14 (18.92%) Senior
3 12 (16.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 11 (14.86%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 9 (12.16%) Architect
6 8 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (9.46%) React Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Senior Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (8.11%) Analyst
8 6 (8.11%) Lead
8 6 (8.11%) Lead Test Analyst
8 6 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (8.11%) Senior Test Analyst
8 6 (8.11%) Test Analyst
8 6 (8.11%) Test Leader
9 5 (6.76%) Quality Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Automation Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (40.54%) React
2 18 (24.32%) JSON
3 12 (16.22%) CSS
3 12 (16.22%) HTML
4 10 (13.51%) Node.js
5 9 (12.16%) Playwright
6 7 (9.46%) .NET
6 7 (9.46%) REST
7 6 (8.11%) Django
7 6 (8.11%) Flask
7 6 (8.11%) Gherkin
7 6 (8.11%) YAML
8 5 (6.76%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (6.76%) Spring
8 5 (6.76%) Web Services
9 3 (4.05%) CSS3
9 3 (4.05%) HTML5
9 3 (4.05%) Spring Boot
9 3 (4.05%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.92%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.76%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.41%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.35%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.35%) Equities
7 1 (1.35%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
1 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (67.57%) Agile
2 33 (44.59%) CI/CD
3 27 (36.49%) DevOps
4 24 (32.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (29.73%) Scrum
6 21 (28.38%) SFIA
7 19 (25.68%) Technical Leadership
7 19 (25.68%) Test Automation
8 18 (24.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (21.62%) Front End Development
9 16 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (21.62%) User Experience
10 14 (18.92%) UX Design
11 13 (17.57%) Sprint Planning
11 13 (17.57%) Test Strategy
11 13 (17.57%) User Stories
12 12 (16.22%) AI
12 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (14.86%) Programme Delivery
13 11 (14.86%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.38%) C#
1 21 (28.38%) Java
2 11 (14.86%) SQL
3 9 (12.16%) Python
4 8 (10.81%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.70%) R
6 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.97%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (8.11%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.70%) Degree
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (39.19%) Accessibility
2 14 (18.92%) WCAG
3 12 (16.22%) QA
4 6 (8.11%) GDPR
5 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.35%) HL7
5 1 (1.35%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.35%) NIST
5 1 (1.35%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (12.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (22.97%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.35%) Ansible
2 1 (1.35%) Grafana
2 1 (1.35%) Kibana
2 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.22%) Oracle
3 2 (2.70%) Adobe
3 2 (2.70%) UiPath
4 1 (1.35%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.35%) DataRobot
4 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.35%) F5
4 1 (1.35%) Infoblox
4 1 (1.35%) New Relic
4 1 (1.35%) Splunk