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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 82 48
Rank change year-on-year +5 -34 -7
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 101 45 67
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.85% 2.39% 3.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.23% 9.62% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 29 31
10th Percentile £340 £311 £410
25th Percentile £413 £406 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £625 £575
90th Percentile £692 £730 £656
England median daily rate £511 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.25% -9.09% -

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 826 468 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.29% 24.84% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 300 261
10th Percentile £400 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.31% +1.89%
75th Percentile £581 £569 £575
90th Percentile £664 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 4
10th Percentile £19.25 £33.91 £34.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £35.48 £34.73
Median hourly rate £35.80 £50.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% +5.26% +156.76%
75th Percentile £55.38 - £63.75
90th Percentile £67.84 - £70.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +3.17%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -2 48 £540 - 3
Coventry +4 39 £425 - 5
Birmingham -5 6 £700 +75.00% 31
Warwickshire -15 3 £450 -12.20% 2
Staffordshire -12 2 £594 +31.94% 3
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 10 (9.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.99%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.98%) Sketch
2 1 (0.99%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (16.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (39.60%) Azure
2 30 (29.70%) Azure DevOps
2 30 (29.70%) Dynamics 365
2 30 (29.70%) Power Automate
3 27 (26.73%) AWS
4 20 (19.80%) Power Platform
5 17 (16.83%) Serverless
6 16 (15.84%) Azure Functions
7 12 (11.88%) PowerApps
8 7 (6.93%) Figma
9 3 (2.97%) GitHub
10 2 (1.98%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.98%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.99%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.99%) LangSmith
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) MongoDB
1 17 (16.83%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.92%) MySQL
3 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.98%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.98%) ZAP BI
5 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (39.60%) Git
2 24 (23.76%) Selenium
3 21 (20.79%) Cucumber
4 17 (16.83%) GitLab
5 15 (14.85%) JUnit
6 11 (10.89%) Gatling
7 10 (9.90%) Cypress.io
8 9 (8.91%) Postman
9 8 (7.92%) WebDriver
10 5 (4.95%) Storybook
11 4 (3.96%) Maven
12 3 (2.97%) Mockito
12 3 (2.97%) SonarQube
13 2 (1.98%) Jenkins
13 2 (1.98%) REST Assured
14 1 (0.99%) MLflow
14 1 (0.99%) Rational Rhapsody
14 1 (0.99%) SoapUI
14 1 (0.99%) TestNG
14 1 (0.99%) TestRail
General
1 47 (46.53%) Social Skills
2 44 (43.56%) Public Sector
3 27 (26.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (12.87%) Finance
6 2 (1.98%) Banking
6 2 (1.98%) Marketing
6 2 (1.98%) Retail
7 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Front Office
7 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Legal
7 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 58 (57.43%) Developer
2 25 (24.75%) Senior
3 19 (18.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 19 (18.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 12 (11.88%) Lead
5 11 (10.89%) Quality Engineer
5 11 (10.89%) Senior Developer
6 9 (8.91%) Architect
7 8 (7.92%) Analyst
7 8 (7.92%) Lead Test Analyst
7 8 (7.92%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (7.92%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Senior Test Analyst
7 8 (7.92%) Test Analyst
7 8 (7.92%) Test Leader
8 7 (6.93%) React Developer
8 7 (6.93%) ServiceNow Developer
8 7 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.96%) Automation Developer
9 4 (3.96%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (46.53%) React
2 34 (33.66%) JSON
3 22 (21.78%) HTML
4 21 (20.79%) Playwright
5 20 (19.80%) CSS
6 18 (17.82%) REST
7 15 (14.85%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (12.87%) .NET
9 12 (11.88%) Gherkin
10 11 (10.89%) Node.js
11 9 (8.91%) OAuth
12 8 (7.92%) OAuth2
12 8 (7.92%) OpenID
12 8 (7.92%) SOAP
12 8 (7.92%) Spring
12 8 (7.92%) XML
12 8 (7.92%) XSLT
13 7 (6.93%) AngularJS
13 7 (6.93%) OpenAPI
13 7 (6.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.84%) Management Information System
2 15 (14.85%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.92%) Taxonomies
4 5 (4.95%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.96%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.96%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.99%) CMDB
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.99%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.99%) Equities
8 1 (0.99%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.99%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.99%) Linux
1 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (76.24%) Agile
2 45 (44.55%) CI/CD
3 37 (36.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (32.67%) DevOps
4 33 (32.67%) Test Automation
5 31 (30.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (29.70%) Scrum
7 29 (28.71%) Front End Development
8 26 (25.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 26 (25.74%) Technical Leadership
9 25 (24.75%) SFIA
10 24 (23.76%) AI
11 23 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (21.78%) User Experience
13 20 (19.80%) Sprint Planning
14 19 (18.81%) Mentoring
14 19 (18.81%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (18.81%) Test Strategy
14 19 (18.81%) Ticket Management
15 18 (17.82%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 34 (33.66%) Java
2 30 (29.70%) C#
3 13 (12.87%) Python
3 13 (12.87%) TypeScript
4 8 (7.92%) SQL
5 2 (1.98%) R
6 1 (0.99%) Bash
6 1 (0.99%) C++
6 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (29.70%) Security Cleared
2 27 (26.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
4 21 (20.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (7.92%) ISTQB
6 6 (5.94%) Degree
7 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (54.46%) Accessibility
2 39 (38.61%) WCAG
3 19 (18.81%) QA
4 16 (15.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.99%) HL7
5 1 (0.99%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.99%) NIST
5 1 (0.99%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (13.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (24.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.97%) Grafana
2 3 (2.97%) Kibana
3 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (33.66%) Microsoft
2 22 (21.78%) Oracle
3 7 (6.93%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.96%) Adobe
5 2 (1.98%) UiPath
6 1 (0.99%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.99%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.99%) Google
6 1 (0.99%) NEC
6 1 (0.99%) New Relic
6 1 (0.99%) Pega