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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 41 56
Rank change year-on-year -42 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 55 79 55
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.40% 4.78% 3.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.67% 19.60% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 35 44
10th Percentile £396 £408 £275
25th Percentile £418 £454 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £562 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +24.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £688 £656
90th Percentile £625 £713 £688
England median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £60.00
% change year-on-year +10.40% -1.88% -8.05%

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 569 403 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.80% 24.41% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 234 284
10th Percentile £360 £354 £293
25th Percentile £450 £409 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +1.52% -5.65%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £637 £696 £688
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £40.20 £16.98 £17.43
25th Percentile £46.50 £17.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.47% +29.03% -15.91%
75th Percentile £56.88 £33.44 £19.25
90th Percentile £69.25 £53.25 £25.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.47%

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 30 December 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 30 December 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
Shropshire -38 15 £434 -23.39% 106
Birmingham -37 12 £525 -8.38% 74
Warwickshire -6 10 £500 - 12
Coventry -17 6 £444 -5.59% 50
Herefordshire - 5 £600 - 3
Solihull - 5 £588 - 6
Worcestershire -17 4 £600 +14.29% 45
Staffordshire -1 2 £400 -27.27% 60
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 (5.45%) OpenStack
1 3 (5.45%) SugarCRM
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Adobe XD
1 5 (9.09%) Sketch
2 1 (1.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.82%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.91%) Azure
2 11 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (18.18%) Power Automate
3 10 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 9 (16.36%) AWS
5 8 (14.55%) PowerApps
6 7 (12.73%) GitHub
7 6 (10.91%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (9.09%) Figma
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.82%) IaaS
10 1 (1.82%) Serverless
10 1 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) SSL
1 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) MySQL
2 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.82%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.82%) Power BI
4 1 (1.82%) Redis
4 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) Git
2 7 (12.73%) JIRA
3 6 (10.91%) GitLab
4 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.45%) Selenium
6 2 (3.64%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.64%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.64%) JUnit
7 1 (1.82%) Gatling
7 1 (1.82%) Maven
7 1 (1.82%) Mockito
7 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.45%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Marketing
5 3 (5.45%) Finance
5 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (43.64%) Developer
2 10 (18.18%) Lead
3 6 (10.91%) Senior
3 6 (10.91%) Software Developer
4 5 (9.09%) Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Node.js Developer
5 4 (7.27%) React Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior React Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (5.45%) .NET Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Designer
6 3 (5.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (5.45%) UI Designer
6 3 (5.45%) UI/UX Designer
6 3 (5.45%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.09%) .NET
1 16 (29.09%) HTML
2 15 (27.27%) CSS
2 15 (27.27%) React
3 13 (23.64%) AngularJS
4 12 (21.82%) RESTful
5 10 (18.18%) Playwright
6 9 (16.36%) REST
7 8 (14.55%) HTML5
8 7 (12.73%) CSS3
9 5 (9.09%) Node.js
9 5 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (9.09%) SOAP
10 4 (7.27%) Kafka
11 3 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (5.45%) OAuth
11 3 (5.45%) OAuth2
12 2 (3.64%) Entity Framework
12 2 (3.64%) OpenID
12 2 (3.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.45%) IoT
3 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) CMDB
5 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Android
3 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) CI/CD
1 24 (43.64%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (40.00%) Agile
3 19 (34.55%) DevOps
4 13 (23.64%) CRM
4 13 (23.64%) User Experience
5 10 (18.18%) UX Design
6 9 (16.36%) Clean Code
7 8 (14.55%) Containerisation
8 6 (10.91%) Customer Service
8 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.91%) MVC
8 6 (10.91%) Responsive Web Design
8 6 (10.91%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (9.09%) API Integration
9 5 (9.09%) ITIL
9 5 (9.09%) Microservices
10 4 (7.27%) Front End Development
10 4 (7.27%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (7.27%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.82%) TypeScript
2 9 (16.36%) C#
2 9 (16.36%) Python
3 8 (14.55%) SQL
4 6 (10.91%) Go
5 4 (7.27%) Java
5 4 (7.27%) PHP
6 1 (1.82%) ABAP
6 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.82%) Groovy
6 1 (1.82%) Ruby
6 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) Degree
4 4 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 7 (12.73%) QA
2 7 (12.73%) WCAG
3 2 (3.64%) GDPR
3 2 (3.64%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (16.36%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.09%) Grafana
2 5 (9.09%) Terraform
3 4 (7.27%) Ansible
4 3 (5.45%) Argo
5 1 (1.82%) Kibana
5 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Adobe
3 5 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle
4 3 (5.45%) SAP
4 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.64%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.82%) Ariba
6 1 (1.82%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.82%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.82%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.82%) UiPath
6 1 (1.82%) Workday