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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 34 54
Rank change year-on-year -49 +20 +4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 57 78 64
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.27% 5.13% 3.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.33% 20.63% 15.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 34 42
10th Percentile £400 £407 £275
25th Percentile £444 £470 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £638
90th Percentile £605 £700 £688
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -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 611 378 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.36% 24.85% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 217 294
10th Percentile £365 £355 £260
25th Percentile £450 £425 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £575
90th Percentile £633 £700 £663
England median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 12
10th Percentile £40.20 £16.98 £17.50
25th Percentile £46.50 £17.81 £17.69
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +109.47% -30.31% +55.68%
75th Percentile £56.88 £33.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £53.25 £71.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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
Warwickshire -2 14 £500 - 10
Shropshire -34 14 £434 -23.39% 1
Birmingham -36 12 £525 -7.89% 13
Coventry -18 6 £463 -1.60% 4
Herefordshire -16 5 £600 +14.29% 2
Worcestershire -17 4 £600 +14.29% 2
Solihull - 3 £588 -
Staffordshire 0 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 (5.26%) Confluence
1 3 (5.26%) OpenStack
1 3 (5.26%) SugarCRM
2 1 (1.75%) CMS
2 1 (1.75%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Adobe XD
1 5 (8.77%) Sketch
2 1 (1.75%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.75%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.82%) Azure
2 11 (19.30%) AWS
3 10 (17.54%) GitHub
4 9 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (14.04%) Power Automate
5 8 (14.04%) Power Platform
6 6 (10.53%) Figma
6 6 (10.53%) PowerApps
7 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.75%) IaaS
9 1 (1.75%) Kong
9 1 (1.75%) Serverless
9 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) SSL
1 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) MySQL
2 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.75%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.75%) Power BI
5 1 (1.75%) Redis
5 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (26.32%) Git
2 8 (14.04%) JIRA
3 6 (10.53%) GitLab
4 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.26%) Selenium
6 2 (3.51%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.51%) JUnit
6 2 (3.51%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.51%) Vite
7 1 (1.75%) Gatling
7 1 (1.75%) Maven
7 1 (1.75%) Mockito
7 1 (1.75%) Storybook
7 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.51%) Finance
5 2 (3.51%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (47.37%) Developer
2 10 (17.54%) Lead
3 7 (12.28%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
4 6 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 5 (8.77%) Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (7.02%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (7.02%) Node.js Developer
6 4 (7.02%) React Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior React Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Engineering Specialist
7 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow Architect
7 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (3.51%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.33%) React
2 18 (31.58%) CSS
3 17 (29.82%) HTML
4 15 (26.32%) AngularJS
4 15 (26.32%) RESTful
5 14 (24.56%) .NET
6 12 (21.05%) REST
7 11 (19.30%) Playwright
8 7 (12.28%) CSS3
8 7 (12.28%) HTML5
9 6 (10.53%) Node.js
10 5 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (8.77%) SOAP
11 4 (7.02%) Kafka
12 3 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (5.26%) Jest
12 3 (5.26%) OAuth
12 3 (5.26%) OAuth2
12 3 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
13 2 (3.51%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.51%) CMDB
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) IoT
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) CI/CD
2 25 (43.86%) Agile
3 22 (38.60%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (31.58%) DevOps
5 16 (28.07%) User Experience
6 11 (19.30%) CRM
6 11 (19.30%) UX Design
7 9 (15.79%) Clean Code
8 7 (12.28%) Containerisation
8 7 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (12.28%) Mentoring
9 6 (10.53%) API Integration
9 6 (10.53%) Microservices
9 6 (10.53%) Responsive Web Design
10 5 (8.77%) Coaching
10 5 (8.77%) Front End Development
10 5 (8.77%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (8.77%) Sprint Planning
10 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
11 4 (7.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.56%) TypeScript
2 9 (15.79%) Python
2 9 (15.79%) SQL
3 8 (14.04%) C#
4 6 (10.53%) Go
5 5 (8.77%) Java
5 5 (8.77%) PHP
6 1 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.75%) Groovy
6 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) Degree
4 4 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (7.02%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) QA
2 9 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 8 (14.04%) WCAG
4 1 (1.75%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (17.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.53%) Terraform
3 5 (8.77%) Grafana
4 4 (7.02%) Ansible
5 3 (5.26%) Argo
6 1 (1.75%) Kibana
6 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Adobe
2 5 (8.77%) MuleSoft
3 4 (7.02%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle
4 2 (3.51%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.75%) Ariba
5 1 (1.75%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.75%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.75%) SAP