JavaScript Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 +9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 46 30 75
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 5.07% 5.32% 6.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.55% 15.31% 27.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 42
10th Percentile £400 £450 £337
25th Percentile £426 £481 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £562 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +18.21% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £625
90th Percentile £605 £713 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -7.05% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.30
25th Percentile - - £35.59
Median hourly rate - - £44.39
75th Percentile - - £53.20
90th Percentile - - £58.48
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £44.39
% change year-on-year - - -17.80%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 278 196 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 30.62% 34.75% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 129 200
10th Percentile £350 £354 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £588
90th Percentile £675 £725 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £466
% change year-on-year - +7.24% -11.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £26.25 £16.56
25th Percentile - £27.56 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £61.61 £23.74
Median % change year-on-year - +159.50% -64.16%
75th Percentile - £100.66 £35.59
90th Percentile - £102.00 £51.43
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £26.78
% change year-on-year -19.66% +130.07% -57.15%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in West Yorkshire

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
Leeds -10 46 £500 -10.95% 38
JavaScript
Yorkshire

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (10.87%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) AWS
2 19 (41.30%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) Serverless
4 7 (15.22%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (10.87%) Azure Storage
5 5 (10.87%) GitHub
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.70%) GCP
6 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.35%) AtomSphere
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) Boomi
7 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.35%) SaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.17%) Apigee
8 1 (2.17%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 5 (10.87%) MongoDB
2 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.70%) Redis
4 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.17%) MySQL
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (19.57%) Git
3 6 (13.04%) Cypress.io
3 6 (13.04%) GitLab
4 5 (10.87%) Cucumber
4 5 (10.87%) JIRA
5 4 (8.70%) Mocha
6 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.35%) Maven
7 2 (4.35%) MSI
7 2 (4.35%) webpack
8 1 (2.17%) Bundler
8 1 (2.17%) ESLint
8 1 (2.17%) Jasmine
8 1 (2.17%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (2.17%) Selenium
8 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.17%) Vite
General
1 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Military
5 1 (2.17%) Advertising
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 27 (58.70%) Developer
2 18 (39.13%) Senior
3 9 (19.57%) Senior Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 6 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 5 (10.87%) AWS Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Tester
7 4 (8.70%) Python Developer
7 4 (8.70%) React Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Security Tester
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Test Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Lead
8 3 (6.52%) PHP Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (39.13%) Node.js
2 16 (34.78%) React
3 13 (28.26%) CSS
3 13 (28.26%) HTML
4 8 (17.39%) Jest
4 8 (17.39%) RESTful
5 6 (13.04%) JWT
5 6 (13.04%) Spring
6 5 (10.87%) CSS3
6 5 (10.87%) HTML5
6 5 (10.87%) OAuth
6 5 (10.87%) Redux
6 5 (10.87%) REST
6 5 (10.87%) SAML
6 5 (10.87%) Spring Boot
7 4 (8.70%) Express.js
7 4 (8.70%) Playwright
7 4 (8.70%) Vue
8 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
8 3 (6.52%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) NHS
2 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 21 (45.65%) Agile
3 12 (26.09%) DevOps
3 12 (26.09%) Microservices
3 12 (26.09%) Test Automation
4 11 (23.91%) Test Strategy
5 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (21.74%) Front End Development
5 10 (21.74%) Scrum
6 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (19.57%) Manual Testing
7 7 (15.22%) BDD
7 7 (15.22%) Clean Code
7 7 (15.22%) Validation
8 6 (13.04%) Code Quality
8 6 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
8 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (13.04%) Open Source
8 6 (13.04%) Software Testing
9 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) TypeScript
2 17 (36.96%) Java
3 15 (32.61%) Python
4 10 (21.74%) SQL
5 3 (6.52%) Groovy
5 3 (6.52%) Kotlin
5 3 (6.52%) PHP
6 2 (4.35%) Bash
6 2 (4.35%) C#
6 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.17%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.17%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.17%) C++
7 1 (2.17%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) SC Cleared
1 15 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) OCP
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (34.78%) Accessibility
2 7 (15.22%) WCAG
3 3 (6.52%) QA
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Terraform
2 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.04%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.17%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Splunk
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle
3 2 (4.35%) Cribl.io
3 2 (4.35%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.17%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.17%) Workday