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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 46 26
Rank change year-on-year -5 -20 -6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 46 30 49
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 3.33% 4.00% 5.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.68% 11.81% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 12 34
10th Percentile £375 £366 £321
25th Percentile £474 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £463 £498
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -7.04% -9.55%
75th Percentile £588 £491 £625
90th Percentile £638 £595 £694
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%

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 394 254 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.53% 33.87% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 156 215
10th Percentile £350 £350 £335
25th Percentile £424 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £505
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.95% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £19.85 £37.07 £27.25
25th Percentile £23.00 £45.03 £28.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +92.00% +52.51%
75th Percentile £25.25 £82.53 £45.00
90th Percentile £26.90 £92.15 £51.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year -61.54% +56.00% +66.35%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -4 41 £515 +11.35% 25
Halifax - 2 - -
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 1 (2.17%) CMS
1 1 (2.17%) nginx
1 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
1 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Serverless
3 11 (23.91%) Azure
4 10 (21.74%) GCP
4 10 (21.74%) GitHub
5 5 (10.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (8.70%) Akamai
6 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (6.52%) Power Automate
7 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.52%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.35%) Figma
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.17%) BrowserStack
9 1 (2.17%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) DNS
1 4 (8.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.35%) Tableau
3 1 (2.17%) Big Data
3 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Power BI
3 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) Cypress.io
3 4 (8.70%) JIRA
3 4 (8.70%) JMeter
3 4 (8.70%) LoadRunner
4 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.35%) Selenium
6 1 (2.17%) Appium
6 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.17%) eggPlant
6 1 (2.17%) Gatling
6 1 (2.17%) GitLab
6 1 (2.17%) Postman
6 1 (2.17%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.17%) Vite
6 1 (2.17%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (28.26%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Publishing
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (56.52%) Developer
2 13 (28.26%) Python Developer
3 12 (26.09%) Senior
4 10 (21.74%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (19.57%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 8 (17.39%) Lead
6 8 (17.39%) Senior Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (8.70%) Lead Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Lead Python Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Security Specialist
7 4 (8.70%) Test Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (6.52%) Lead Test Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Software Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Performance Test Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) CSS
1 17 (36.96%) HTML
2 15 (32.61%) React
2 15 (32.61%) Terraform
3 13 (28.26%) Vue
4 11 (23.91%) Node.js
5 10 (21.74%) Flask
6 6 (13.04%) Playwright
6 6 (13.04%) REST
7 5 (10.87%) CSS3
7 5 (10.87%) HTML5
7 5 (10.87%) RESTful
8 4 (8.70%) Jest
8 4 (8.70%) Kafka
9 3 (6.52%) Django
9 3 (6.52%) GraphQL
9 3 (6.52%) Nunjucks
9 3 (6.52%) Redux
9 3 (6.52%) Zustand
10 2 (4.35%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.87%) NHS
2 4 (8.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Android
1 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Agile
1 26 (56.52%) CI/CD
2 13 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
2 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (28.26%) Test Automation
3 12 (26.09%) Front End Development
4 11 (23.91%) DevOps
5 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (19.57%) Data Analysis
7 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
7 7 (15.22%) User Stories
8 6 (13.04%) API Testing
8 6 (13.04%) Migration
8 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.04%) Test Strategy
8 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
9 5 (10.87%) Architectural Design
9 5 (10.87%) Event-Driven
9 5 (10.87%) Responsive Web Design
10 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (52.17%) Python
2 15 (32.61%) TypeScript
3 6 (13.04%) SQL
4 5 (10.87%) Java
5 4 (8.70%) C#
6 3 (6.52%) Ruby
7 1 (2.17%) Bash
7 1 (2.17%) PHP
7 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 12 (26.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) Accessibility
2 7 (15.22%) WCAG
3 3 (6.52%) QA
4 2 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.17%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
1 4 (8.70%) New Relic
1 4 (8.70%) Splunk
2 3 (6.52%) Dynatrace
2 3 (6.52%) IBM
3 2 (4.35%) Brio
3 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.17%) Databricks
4 1 (2.17%) Okta
35 JavaScript jobs in West Yorkshire