JavaScript Contracts in the West Midlands

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 60 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -15
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 50 54 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.32% 2.61% 3.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.95% 12.39% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 54
10th Percentile £366 £318 £363
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £647
90th Percentile £695 £656 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +27.27%

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 386 436 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.66% 21.10% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 307 367
10th Percentile £273 £260 £313
25th Percentile £400 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £564 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -3.70% -2.70% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 8
10th Percentile £28.18 £36.36 £21.73
25th Percentile £33.91 £47.75 £23.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +96.13% -49.45%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile - £72.50 £98.25
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the West Midlands

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 3 July 2025. 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
Birmingham -5 18 £435 -17.14% 49
Coventry -2 6 £450 +50.00% 17
Warwickshire -7 4 - - 12
Herefordshire +17 3 £700 +75.00% 2
Staffordshire +1 3 £500 -9.09% 37
Shropshire - 3 £463 - 7
Worcestershire +3 2 £700 +55.56% 12
Solihull - 1 £575 - 4
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.00%) Confluence
1 3 (6.00%) IIS
1 3 (6.00%) Moodle
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (2.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.00%) Magento
2 2 (4.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.00%) AWS
1 10 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) GitHub
2 5 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (10.00%) PowerApps
3 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (8.00%) Serverless
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.00%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.00%) Boomi
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) PaaS
5 2 (4.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.00%) Tableau
6 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.00%) Power BI
6 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Git
2 6 (12.00%) JIRA
3 5 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 5 (10.00%) Postman
4 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.00%) PHPUnit
6 2 (4.00%) Android Studio
6 2 (4.00%) Gradle
6 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (4.00%) Xcode
7 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.00%) ER Studio
7 1 (2.00%) ERwin
7 1 (2.00%) JUnit
7 1 (2.00%) Mockito
7 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.00%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Retail
3 5 (10.00%) Advertising
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Finance
5 3 (6.00%) Legal
5 3 (6.00%) Marketing
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Automotive
7 1 (2.00%) Games
7 1 (2.00%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (56.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) Senior
2 9 (18.00%) Senior Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (10.00%) JavaScript Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Moodle Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Application Development Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Architect
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (4.00%) React Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.00%) .NET
1 15 (30.00%) React
2 14 (28.00%) HTML
3 10 (20.00%) RESTful
4 9 (18.00%) CSS
5 6 (12.00%) Node.js
5 6 (12.00%) REST
6 4 (8.00%) JSON
6 4 (8.00%) Web Services
7 3 (6.00%) Behat
7 3 (6.00%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (6.00%) Jest
7 3 (6.00%) Middleware
7 3 (6.00%) Next.js
7 3 (6.00%) Redux
7 3 (6.00%) XML
8 2 (4.00%) .NET Core
8 2 (4.00%) KnockoutJS
8 2 (4.00%) MACH
8 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (6.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (6.00%) VLE
2 2 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.00%) IoT
3 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.00%) NHS
3 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Android
1 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) Agile
2 18 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (24.00%) Microservices
5 10 (20.00%) API Development
6 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (14.00%) Front End Development
7 7 (14.00%) Project Management
7 7 (14.00%) Scrum
7 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (12.00%) Code Quality
8 6 (12.00%) CRM
8 6 (12.00%) DevOps
8 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (12.00%) ITIL
9 5 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 5 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 5 (10.00%) Service Management
9 5 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) SQL
2 12 (24.00%) C#
2 12 (24.00%) Python
3 9 (18.00%) PHP
4 8 (16.00%) Java
4 8 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.00%) R
5 3 (6.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) JSX
7 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.00%) Grafana
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) Oracle
3 3 (6.00%) Adobe
4 2 (4.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.00%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) UiPath
5 1 (2.00%) Workday