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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 48 62
Rank change year-on-year -66 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 44 59 54
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.35% 3.97% 2.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.32% 15.05% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 32 31
10th Percentile £378 £366 £300
25th Percentile £404 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £513 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £656
England median daily rate £525 £522 £550
% change year-on-year +0.67% -5.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.95% -7.50% -7.14%

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 696 392 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.29% 26.38% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 233 315
10th Percentile £350 £276 £260
25th Percentile £410 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -2.63% -7.00%
75th Percentile £538 £543 £554
90th Percentile £624 £650 £638
England median daily rate £514 £521 £538
% change year-on-year -1.25% -3.25% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 15
10th Percentile £46.25 £27.24 £36.36
25th Percentile £56.50 £32.77 £47.75
Median hourly rate £59.50 £41.96 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.82% -27.03% +96.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.77 - £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 June 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 June 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 -4 20 £407 -9.56% 26
Warwickshire -17 8 £500 - 3
Birmingham -41 7 £488 +12.07% 34
Shropshire -47 5 £720 +55.68% 29
Staffordshire -3 2 £463 -7.50% 30
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 3 (6.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) nginx
2 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.27%) Photoshop
1 1 (2.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (56.82%) Azure
2 18 (40.91%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (20.45%) AWS
4 6 (13.64%) GitHub
5 5 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (9.09%) Power Automate
6 4 (9.09%) Serverless
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.82%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.55%) Figma
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.27%) GCP
9 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) BIG-IP
1 1 (2.27%) DHCP
1 1 (2.27%) DNS
1 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
1 2 (4.55%) MySQL
1 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 3 (6.82%) Selenium
4 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.55%) Postman
4 2 (4.55%) Vite
5 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.27%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.27%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.27%) JMeter
5 1 (2.27%) Maven
5 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.27%) Storybook
5 1 (2.27%) TestNG
5 1 (2.27%) TestRail
5 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.27%) webpack
General
1 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
1 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.55%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Finance
4 2 (4.55%) Retail
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Front Office
5 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (68.18%) Developer
2 14 (31.82%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (13.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (13.64%) Senior
4 5 (11.36%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.82%) React Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Lead
6 2 (4.55%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.55%) UI Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 1 (2.27%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Senior UI Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Test Automation Manager
7 1 (2.27%) UX Designer
7 1 (2.27%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (38.64%) React
2 15 (34.09%) Node.js
3 13 (29.55%) CSS
3 13 (29.55%) HTML
4 12 (27.27%) Django
4 12 (27.27%) Flask
4 12 (27.27%) YAML
5 6 (13.64%) REST
6 5 (11.36%) .NET
6 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
7 4 (9.09%) ASP.NET
7 4 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (9.09%) JSON
7 4 (9.09%) Playwright
7 4 (9.09%) RESTful
8 3 (6.82%) CSS3
8 3 (6.82%) HTML5
8 3 (6.82%) Jest
9 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
9 2 (4.55%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.27%) CMDB
3 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Equities
3 1 (2.27%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) CI/CD
2 21 (47.73%) DevOps
3 20 (45.45%) Agile
4 15 (34.09%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (31.82%) Workflow
6 13 (29.55%) API Integration
7 12 (27.27%) Data Integration
8 10 (22.73%) User Experience
9 9 (20.45%) Front End Development
10 8 (18.18%) Test Automation
11 7 (15.91%) TDD
12 6 (13.64%) AI
12 6 (13.64%) UX Design
13 5 (11.36%) BDD
13 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (11.36%) Scrum
13 5 (11.36%) User Stories
14 4 (9.09%) SFIA
14 4 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) SQL
2 9 (20.45%) C#
3 8 (18.18%) Java
4 7 (15.91%) Python
4 7 (15.91%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.27%) PHP
5 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.27%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) QA
2 7 (15.91%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.82%) WCAG
4 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.27%) GDPR
4 1 (2.27%) ISO 22301
4 1 (2.27%) NIST
4 1 (2.27%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.82%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) NEC
3 1 (2.27%) Adobe
3 1 (2.27%) F5
3 1 (2.27%) Infoblox
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle
3 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.27%) Splunk
3 1 (2.27%) UiPath