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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 38 47
Rank change year-on-year -54 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 55 79 66
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.33% 4.97% 3.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.31% 20.15% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 37 45
10th Percentile £396 £409 £275
25th Percentile £418 £470 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £675 £650
90th Percentile £625 £713 £688
England median daily rate £488 £528 £525
% change year-on-year -7.58% +0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -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 591 392 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.00% 24.69% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 226 285
10th Percentile £367 £354 £275
25th Percentile £453 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £575
90th Percentile £637 £700 £675
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £40.20 £16.98 £17.43
25th Percentile £46.50 £17.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.47% +29.03% -15.91%
75th Percentile £56.88 £33.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £53.25 £61.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.92% -7.48%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -40 14 £434 -23.39% 8
Birmingham -33 12 £525 -8.38% 18
Warwickshire -2 10 £500 - 5
Coventry -17 7 £463 -1.60% 5
Herefordshire -14 5 £600 +14.29% 3
Worcestershire -16 4 £600 +14.29% 3
Solihull - 4 £600 - 1
Staffordshire -1 2 £400 -27.27% 3
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 3 (5.45%) Confluence
1 3 (5.45%) OpenStack
1 3 (5.45%) SugarCRM
2 1 (1.82%) CMS
2 1 (1.82%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Adobe XD
1 5 (9.09%) Sketch
2 1 (1.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.82%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.82%) Moqups
2 1 (1.82%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.91%) Azure
2 10 (18.18%) AWS
2 10 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (16.36%) GitHub
3 9 (16.36%) Power Automate
3 9 (16.36%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (12.73%) PowerApps
5 5 (9.09%) Figma
6 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.82%) IaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Kong
8 1 (1.82%) Serverless
8 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) SSL
1 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) MySQL
2 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.82%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.82%) Power BI
4 1 (1.82%) Redis
4 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (27.27%) Git
2 8 (14.55%) JIRA
3 6 (10.91%) GitLab
4 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.45%) Selenium
6 2 (3.64%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.64%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.64%) JUnit
7 1 (1.82%) Gatling
7 1 (1.82%) Maven
7 1 (1.82%) Mockito
7 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.82%) Vite
General
1 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Marketing
4 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Finance
6 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.82%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (43.64%) Developer
2 10 (18.18%) Lead
3 6 (10.91%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (10.91%) Senior
3 6 (10.91%) Software Developer
4 5 (9.09%) Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (7.27%) Node.js Developer
5 4 (7.27%) React Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior React Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Designer
6 3 (5.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (5.45%) UI Designer
6 3 (5.45%) UI/UX Designer
6 3 (5.45%) UX Designer
7 2 (3.64%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.91%) React
2 15 (27.27%) .NET
2 15 (27.27%) CSS
2 15 (27.27%) HTML
3 13 (23.64%) AngularJS
4 12 (21.82%) RESTful
5 11 (20.00%) Playwright
6 10 (18.18%) REST
7 8 (14.55%) CSS3
7 8 (14.55%) HTML5
8 6 (10.91%) Node.js
9 5 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (9.09%) SOAP
10 4 (7.27%) Kafka
11 3 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (5.45%) Jest
11 3 (5.45%) OAuth
11 3 (5.45%) OAuth2
11 3 (5.45%) Tailwind CSS
12 2 (3.64%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) IoT
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) CMDB
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Android
3 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 22 (40.00%) Agile
2 22 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (34.55%) DevOps
4 14 (25.45%) User Experience
5 12 (21.82%) CRM
6 11 (20.00%) UX Design
7 9 (16.36%) Clean Code
8 7 (12.73%) Containerisation
9 6 (10.91%) API Integration
9 6 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
9 6 (10.91%) Responsive Web Design
10 5 (9.09%) Customer Service
10 5 (9.09%) Microservices
10 5 (9.09%) MVC
11 4 (7.27%) Data Modelling
11 4 (7.27%) ITIL
11 4 (7.27%) Sprint Planning
11 4 (7.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.82%) TypeScript
2 9 (16.36%) Python
2 9 (16.36%) SQL
3 8 (14.55%) C#
4 6 (10.91%) Go
5 5 (9.09%) PHP
6 4 (7.27%) Java
7 1 (1.82%) Bash
7 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.82%) Groovy
7 1 (1.82%) Ruby
7 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) Degree
2 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) Accessibility
2 8 (14.55%) QA
3 7 (12.73%) WCAG
4 2 (3.64%) GDPR
4 2 (3.64%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.91%) Terraform
3 5 (9.09%) Grafana
4 4 (7.27%) Ansible
5 3 (5.45%) Argo
6 1 (1.82%) Kibana
6 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Adobe
3 5 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle
4 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.64%) SAP
5 2 (3.64%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.82%) Ariba
6 1 (1.82%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.82%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.82%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.82%) UiPath
6 1 (1.82%) Workday