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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 59 60
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 -21
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 59 54 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.95% 2.62% 3.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.01% 11.97% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 54
10th Percentile £366 £323 £363
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £656 £725
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
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% +33.26%

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 393 451 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.32% 21.90% 24.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 315 364
10th Percentile £277 £260 £313
25th Percentile £400 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £511
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -7.98% +4.23%
75th Percentile £546 £550 £600
90th Percentile £649 £638 £700
England median daily rate £520 £538 £560
% change year-on-year -3.35% -3.93% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 8
10th Percentile £27.24 £36.36 £21.73
25th Percentile £32.77 £47.75 £23.81
Median hourly rate £41.96 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% +96.13% -49.45%
75th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile - £72.50 £98.25
England median hourly rate £56.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.20% - +19.05%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -3 22 £435 -20.91% 95
Coventry +6 6 £450 +50.00% 25
Warwickshire +1 4 - - 21
Wolverhampton - 4 £850 - 12
Herefordshire +16 3 £700 +75.00% 2
Staffordshire +1 3 £500 -9.09% 35
Shropshire - 3 £463 - 22
Worcestershire +2 2 £700 +55.56% 23
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 (5.08%) Confluence
1 3 (5.08%) IIS
1 3 (5.08%) Moodle
2 1 (1.69%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) CMS
2 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) InfoPath
1 1 (1.69%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.39%) Magento
2 2 (3.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.34%) AWS
2 9 (15.25%) Azure
3 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
3 6 (10.17%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (8.47%) GitHub
5 4 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.78%) PowerApps
5 4 (6.78%) Serverless
6 3 (5.08%) AWS KMS
6 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.08%) Route 53
7 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.39%) Boomi
7 2 (3.39%) GCP
7 2 (3.39%) PaaS
7 2 (3.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) NoSQL
2 8 (13.56%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (8.47%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.39%) Tableau
7 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.69%) Power BI
7 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) Postman
2 8 (13.56%) Git
3 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.17%) JIRA
4 5 (8.47%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.08%) JUnit
5 3 (5.08%) Mockito
5 3 (5.08%) PHPUnit
6 2 (3.39%) Android Studio
6 2 (3.39%) Gradle
6 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.39%) Xcode
7 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.69%) ER Studio
7 1 (1.69%) ERwin
7 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.69%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Retail
3 5 (8.47%) Advertising
3 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Finance
4 4 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Legal
5 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Automotive
7 1 (1.69%) Games
7 1 (1.69%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (55.93%) Developer
2 9 (15.25%) Senior
2 9 (15.25%) Senior Developer
3 7 (11.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (10.17%) Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (8.47%) JavaScript Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.78%) SAP Architect
6 4 (6.78%) SAP Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Moodle Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Application Development Manager
8 2 (3.39%) Integration Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Power Apps Developer
8 2 (3.39%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (33.90%) HTML
2 15 (25.42%) React
3 14 (23.73%) .NET
3 14 (23.73%) CSS
4 11 (18.64%) REST
5 10 (16.95%) RESTful
6 8 (13.56%) jQuery
7 7 (11.86%) CSS3
7 7 (11.86%) HTML5
8 6 (10.17%) Node.js
8 6 (10.17%) Web Services
9 5 (8.47%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (8.47%) SAPUI5
10 4 (6.78%) JSON
10 4 (6.78%) Spring
10 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
11 3 (5.08%) EDI
11 3 (5.08%) Hibernate
11 3 (5.08%) XML
11 3 (5.08%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (5.08%) e-Learning
1 3 (5.08%) VLE
2 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.69%) NHS
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Android
1 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) Agile
2 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (28.81%) CI/CD
4 14 (23.73%) Microservices
5 11 (18.64%) Code Quality
5 11 (18.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (16.95%) API Development
6 10 (16.95%) Project Management
7 9 (15.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 9 (15.25%) Scrum
7 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
8 8 (13.56%) Data Modelling
8 8 (13.56%) MVC
8 8 (13.56%) User Experience
9 7 (11.86%) Front End Development
9 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (11.86%) TDD
10 6 (10.17%) SDLC
10 6 (10.17%) Workflow
11 5 (8.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.59%) SQL
2 13 (22.03%) Java
3 12 (20.34%) Python
4 11 (18.64%) C#
5 9 (15.25%) PHP
6 8 (13.56%) ABAP
6 8 (13.56%) TypeScript
7 6 (10.17%) COBOL
8 3 (5.08%) Groovy
8 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.08%) R
8 3 (5.08%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.39%) Go
9 2 (3.39%) JSX
10 1 (1.69%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) Degree
4 3 (5.08%) SAP Certification
5 2 (3.39%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Grafana
2 2 (3.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) SAP
2 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle
4 3 (5.08%) Adobe
5 2 (3.39%) Google
6 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.69%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.69%) UiPath
6 1 (1.69%) Workday