JavaScript Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 21 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +21
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 7 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 2.85% 3.48% 1.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.67% 8.51% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £563 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% - -
75th Percentile £738 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £425 £409 £400
% change year-on-year +3.91% +2.25% -20.32%

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 60 47 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 24.39% 40.87% 25.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 33 39
10th Percentile £205 £320 £293
25th Percentile £212 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +4.44% -23.14%
75th Percentile £544 £580 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £678
South East median daily rate £481 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -4.70% -3.81% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £50.25 - -
25th Percentile £50.63 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.63 - -
90th Percentile £56.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.65 £57.90
% change year-on-year -4.59% -0.44% -3.50%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in West Sussex

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in West Sussex over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in West Sussex

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 20 January 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
Gatwick - 4 £725 - 1
Crawley -6 3 £500 +5.26% 31
JavaScript
South East

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (42.86%) ArcGIS
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) CMS
2 1 (14.29%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Functions
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (42.86%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (42.86%) PaaS
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Aviation
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) React Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Web Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) VB.NET Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) Next.js
2 3 (42.86%) React
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) React Native
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
4 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) API Development
3 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
3 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
3 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (42.86%) Secure Coding
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
5 1 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform