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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 51 46
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 51 65 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.79% 3.40% 3.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.94% 15.01% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 35 60
10th Percentile £338 £383 £361
25th Percentile £405 £426 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £688
90th Percentile £650 £668 £725
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year - +1.56% -1.54%

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 466 433 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.45% 22.62% 22.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 271 319
10th Percentile £322 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £398 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £648 £700
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 9
10th Percentile £30.25 £34.47 £17.43
25th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £56.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +204.05% -58.89%
75th Percentile - £59.69 £23.22
90th Percentile - £67.50 £50.75
England median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.08% - +13.04%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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 -19 16 £400 -29.45% 30
Coventry -3 8 £425 +21.43% 18
Warwickshire -3 6 £525 - 11
Shropshire -20 4 £460 -18.87% 13
Solihull - 4 £588 - 5
Herefordshire - 3 £600 - 3
Staffordshire +2 2 £450 -18.18% 19
Worcestershire -9 2 £600 +33.33% 7
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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) IIS
2 2 (3.92%) Moodle
2 2 (3.92%) SugarCRM
3 1 (1.96%) CMS
3 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.96%) Moqups
1 1 (1.96%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 15 (29.41%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) AWS
2 9 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 9 (17.65%) PowerApps
3 8 (15.69%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (15.69%) Power Automate
4 4 (7.84%) GitHub
5 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.88%) Serverless
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.92%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.96%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.96%) Boomi
7 1 (1.96%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.88%) MySQL
4 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.92%) Tableau
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) Cypress.io
2 4 (7.84%) JIRA
3 3 (5.88%) Postman
4 2 (3.92%) Android Studio
4 2 (3.92%) Gradle
4 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.92%) PHPUnit
4 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (3.92%) Xcode
5 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.96%) Gatling
5 1 (1.96%) GitLab
5 1 (1.96%) JUnit
5 1 (1.96%) Selenium
5 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.96%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.76%) Marketing
4 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Finance
4 5 (9.80%) Retail
5 2 (3.92%) Advertising
5 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.96%) Games
6 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (60.78%) Developer
2 6 (11.76%) Senior
2 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
2 6 (11.76%) Software Developer
3 4 (7.84%) .NET Developer
3 4 (7.84%) Analyst
3 4 (7.84%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 4 (7.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (7.84%) React Developer
4 3 (5.88%) Architect
4 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (3.92%) Application Development Manager
5 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (3.92%) JavaScript Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Lead Architect
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (3.92%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (3.92%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (45.10%) .NET
2 14 (27.45%) HTML
2 14 (27.45%) React
3 11 (21.57%) CSS
4 7 (13.73%) REST
5 6 (11.76%) RESTful
6 5 (9.80%) Jest
6 5 (9.80%) Node.js
7 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
7 3 (5.88%) JSON
7 3 (5.88%) Next.js
7 3 (5.88%) Redux
7 3 (5.88%) Web Services
8 2 (3.92%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (3.92%) Behat
8 2 (3.92%) Middleware
8 2 (3.92%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (3.92%) SOAP
8 2 (3.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (5.88%) IoT
1 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.92%) e-Learning
2 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.92%) Low-Code
2 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.92%) VLE
3 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Android
1 3 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.96%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) Agile
1 20 (39.22%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (31.37%) CI/CD
3 11 (21.57%) DevOps
4 10 (19.61%) CRM
5 9 (17.65%) Clean Code
5 9 (17.65%) User Experience
6 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
7 7 (13.73%) ITIL
7 7 (13.73%) Microservices
8 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
8 6 (11.76%) Customer Service
8 6 (11.76%) Project Management
8 6 (11.76%) Scrum
8 6 (11.76%) UX Design
9 5 (9.80%) Front End Development
9 5 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (9.80%) MVC
9 5 (9.80%) Service Management
9 5 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) SQL
2 14 (27.45%) C#
3 11 (21.57%) TypeScript
4 7 (13.73%) PHP
5 6 (11.76%) Python
6 4 (7.84%) Java
7 3 (5.88%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.92%) JSX
8 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.96%) ABAP
9 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.96%) Go
9 1 (1.96%) R
9 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) Degree
4 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.92%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.92%) GDPR
3 2 (3.92%) WCAG
4 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle
2 4 (7.84%) SAP
3 2 (3.92%) Adobe
3 2 (3.92%) Automation Anywhere
3 2 (3.92%) Google
3 2 (3.92%) UiPath
3 2 (3.92%) Workday
4 1 (1.96%) Ariba
4 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow