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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 40 63
Rank change year-on-year -67 +23 +6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 50 66 43
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.59% 4.72% 2.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.39% 18.23% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 37 27
10th Percentile £392 £363 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £560 £700 £656
England median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.00% -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% -4.14%

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 677 362 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.46% 25.88% 22.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 218 313
10th Percentile £350 £235 £260
25th Percentile £412 £400 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £550
90th Percentile £619 £679 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 13
10th Percentile £48.75 £16.83 £40.10
25th Percentile £56.50 £19.12 £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.32 £28.18 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.59% -50.99% +96.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £33.91 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £50.00 £69.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 May 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 May 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 -9 13 £407 -9.56% 8
Shropshire -39 13 £435 -5.86% 1
Warwickshire -15 11 £500 - 4
Birmingham -36 7 £525 +20.69% 14
Staffordshire -3 4 £463 -7.50% 3
Bilston - 1 £550 -
Solihull - 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 4 (8.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.00%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Adobe XD
1 5 (10.00%) Sketch
2 1 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) Azure
2 13 (26.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (16.00%) GitHub
4 7 (14.00%) AWS
5 6 (12.00%) Figma
5 6 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (6.00%) Serverless
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (2.00%) DHCP
1 1 (2.00%) DNS
1 1 (2.00%) SSL
1 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.00%) DocumentDB
3 1 (2.00%) MySQL
3 1 (2.00%) Redis
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) Git
2 7 (14.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (4.00%) Vite
4 1 (2.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.00%) Storybook
4 1 (2.00%) webpack
General
1 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (54.00%) Developer
2 15 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Lead
4 6 (12.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (6.00%) Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (4.00%) Angular Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) Designer
6 2 (4.00%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Lead Designer
6 2 (4.00%) Lead UX Designer
6 2 (4.00%) React Developer
6 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow Architect
6 2 (4.00%) UI Designer
6 2 (4.00%) UI/UX Designer
6 2 (4.00%) UX Designer
7 1 (2.00%) .NET Developer
7 1 (2.00%) Performance Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.00%) React
2 15 (30.00%) CSS
2 15 (30.00%) HTML
3 14 (28.00%) AngularJS
3 14 (28.00%) Node.js
4 12 (24.00%) Django
4 12 (24.00%) Flask
4 12 (24.00%) YAML
5 10 (20.00%) RESTful
6 8 (16.00%) CSS3
6 8 (16.00%) HTML5
6 8 (16.00%) REST
7 7 (14.00%) Playwright
8 6 (12.00%) .NET
9 4 (8.00%) ASP.NET
9 4 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (6.00%) Kafka
11 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
11 2 (4.00%) Entity Framework
11 2 (4.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) CMDB
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (54.00%) CI/CD
2 20 (40.00%) Agile
3 18 (36.00%) DevOps
4 16 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (26.00%) API Integration
5 13 (26.00%) Data Integration
5 13 (26.00%) Workflow
6 12 (24.00%) User Experience
7 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (16.00%) UX Design
9 7 (14.00%) Front End Development
10 6 (12.00%) TDD
11 5 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
12 4 (8.00%) Containerisation
12 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
12 4 (8.00%) Microservices
13 3 (6.00%) Product Backlog
13 3 (6.00%) User Research
13 3 (6.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 3 (6.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) SQL
2 6 (12.00%) C#
2 6 (12.00%) Python
3 5 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.00%) Java
5 2 (4.00%) Go
6 1 (2.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.00%) PHP
6 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) Degree
3 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (12.00%) QA
3 5 (10.00%) WCAG
4 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.00%) ISO 22301
4 1 (2.00%) NIST
4 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Terraform
3 2 (4.00%) Ansible
3 2 (4.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Adobe
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (6.00%) NEC
2 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.00%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.00%) F5
4 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.00%) Splunk