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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 69 45
Rank change year-on-year -15 -24 +4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 91 49 65
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.59% 2.68% 3.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.71% 10.58% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 35 35
10th Percentile £340 £333 £383
25th Percentile £413 £403 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £447 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -18.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £692 £655 £668
England median daily rate £513 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +0.49% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -19.23% - +1.56%

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 777 463 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.07% 25.29% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 292 267
10th Percentile £375 £316 £313
25th Percentile £416 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £663 £625 £648
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 6
10th Percentile £19.85 £30.25 £34.47
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.91 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.75 £50.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -11.11% +204.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £59.69
90th Percentile - - £67.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +0.78%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -7 39 £580 +26.03% 11
Coventry +6 38 £425 - 7
Birmingham -17 7 £600 +50.00% 48
Warwickshire -15 3 £450 -14.29% 4
Staffordshire -12 1 £463 +2.78% 2
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 (10.99%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.20%) Sketch
2 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (17.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (41.76%) Azure
2 29 (31.87%) Azure DevOps
2 29 (31.87%) Dynamics 365
2 29 (31.87%) Power Automate
3 21 (23.08%) AWS
4 20 (21.98%) Power Platform
5 16 (17.58%) Serverless
6 15 (16.48%) Azure Functions
7 12 (13.19%) PowerApps
8 7 (7.69%) Figma
9 2 (2.20%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.10%) GitHub
10 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.10%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) BIG-IP
1 1 (1.10%) DHCP
1 1 (1.10%) DNS
1 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.58%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.89%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.69%) MySQL
4 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.20%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.20%) ZAP BI
6 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (35.16%) Git
2 19 (20.88%) Selenium
3 16 (17.58%) Cucumber
4 11 (12.09%) JUnit
5 10 (10.99%) GitLab
6 9 (9.89%) Cypress.io
7 8 (8.79%) Postman
8 7 (7.69%) Gatling
8 7 (7.69%) WebDriver
9 5 (5.49%) Storybook
10 4 (4.40%) Maven
11 3 (3.30%) Mockito
12 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
12 2 (2.20%) REST Assured
13 1 (1.10%) MLflow
13 1 (1.10%) Rational Rhapsody
13 1 (1.10%) SoapUI
13 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
13 1 (1.10%) TestNG
13 1 (1.10%) TestRail
General
1 40 (43.96%) Public Sector
1 40 (43.96%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.29%) Finance
5 3 (3.30%) Banking
6 2 (2.20%) Marketing
6 2 (2.20%) Retail
7 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Front Office
7 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (61.54%) Developer
2 22 (24.18%) Senior
3 19 (20.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 18 (19.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 11 (12.09%) Lead
5 11 (12.09%) Senior Developer
6 10 (10.99%) Architect
7 8 (8.79%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
8 7 (7.69%) Analyst
8 7 (7.69%) Lead Test Analyst
8 7 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) React Developer
8 7 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
8 7 (7.69%) ServiceNow Developer
8 7 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (7.69%) Test Analyst
8 7 (7.69%) Test Leader
9 4 (4.40%) Automation Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (40.66%) React
2 28 (30.77%) JSON
3 21 (23.08%) HTML
4 19 (20.88%) CSS
5 18 (19.78%) REST
6 17 (18.68%) Playwright
7 10 (10.99%) Node.js
8 9 (9.89%) .NET
8 9 (9.89%) Gherkin
8 9 (9.89%) OAuth
9 8 (8.79%) OAuth2
9 8 (8.79%) OpenID
9 8 (8.79%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (8.79%) SOAP
9 8 (8.79%) Spring
9 8 (8.79%) XML
9 8 (8.79%) XSLT
10 7 (7.69%) OpenAPI
10 7 (7.69%) Swagger
11 5 (5.49%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Management Information System
1 15 (16.48%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.79%) Taxonomies
3 5 (5.49%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.40%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) CMDB
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.10%) Equities
6 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Linux
1 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (76.92%) Agile
2 39 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 34 (37.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (34.07%) DevOps
5 27 (29.67%) Front End Development
5 27 (29.67%) Test Automation
6 26 (28.57%) Scrum
7 25 (27.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (27.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (27.47%) Technical Leadership
8 24 (26.37%) SFIA
9 21 (23.08%) AI
9 21 (23.08%) User Experience
10 20 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (21.98%) Sprint Planning
11 19 (20.88%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (20.88%) Ticket Management
12 18 (19.78%) Backlog Refinement
12 18 (19.78%) Mentoring
13 16 (17.58%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 29 (31.87%) C#
2 25 (27.47%) Java
3 12 (13.19%) TypeScript
4 8 (8.79%) Python
5 5 (5.49%) SQL
6 2 (2.20%) R
7 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (32.97%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (25.27%) SC Cleared
4 15 (16.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (7.69%) ISTQB
6 6 (6.59%) Degree
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (53.85%) Accessibility
2 34 (37.36%) WCAG
3 15 (16.48%) GDPR
4 13 (14.29%) QA
5 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.10%) HL7
5 1 (1.10%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
5 1 (1.10%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (8.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (20.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.30%) Grafana
2 3 (3.30%) Kibana
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (36.26%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.48%) Oracle
3 7 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.40%) Adobe
5 2 (2.20%) UiPath
6 1 (1.10%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.10%) DataRobot
6 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.10%) F5
6 1 (1.10%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.10%) NEC
6 1 (1.10%) New Relic
6 1 (1.10%) Pega