JavaScript Contracts in West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

JavaScript (including ECMAScript) Yorkshire / West Yorkshire
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	5	5	11
Rank change year-on-year	0	+6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript	247	332	212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire	17.52%	16.43%	10.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category	39.84%	35.70%	25.70%
Number of daily rates quoted	195	236	154
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£312	£320	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£475	£500	£450
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£341
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	4
Median hourly rate	-	-	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.39	£37.50	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+15.70%	-6.25%

JavaScript is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills West Yorkshire
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	620	930	825
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire	43.97%	46.02%	39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted	445	648	577
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£330
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+21.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£315	£310	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£500	£450
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	4	9
Median hourly rate	£39.00	£14.88	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+162.18%	-62.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£18.63	£13.75	£35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£40.00	£16.09	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in West Yorkshire citing JavaScript as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in West Yorkshire

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing JavaScript in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate trend for JavaScript in West Yorkshire

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing JavaScript in West Yorkshire over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for JavaScript in West Yorkshire

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript in West Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate trend for JavaScript in West Yorkshire

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 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Leeds	+1	216	£400	-	72
Bradford	+5	11	£320	-28.88%	9
Huddersfield	-	8	£356	-	3
Halifax	+14	7	£350	-	4
Elland	-	3	£375	-
Wakefield	-4	2	£350	+40.00%	3
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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing JavaScript also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the West Yorkshire region with a requirement for JavaScript.

1	256 (58.31%)	HTML
2	237 (53.99%)	Agile Software Development
3	222 (50.57%)	CSS
4	133 (30.30%)	Java
5	121 (27.56%)	AngularJS
6	110 (25.06%)	Git (software)
7	109 (24.83%)	Python
8	104 (23.69%)	PHP
9	100 (22.78%)	HTML5
10	94 (21.41%)	Node.js
11	89 (20.27%)	Front End Development
12	88 (20.05%)	MVC
13	87 (19.82%)	CSS3
14	82 (18.68%)	SQL
14	82 (18.68%)	.NET

14	82 (18.68%)	jQuery
15	80 (18.22%)	React
16	78 (17.77%)	TDD
17	74 (16.86%)	Test Automation
18	72 (16.40%)	Jenkins
19	67 (15.26%)	C#
20	55 (12.53%)	Linux
21	54 (12.30%)	ASP.NET
21	54 (12.30%)	Software Engineering
22	51 (11.62%)	Symfony
22	51 (11.62%)	MySQL
23	49 (11.16%)	Web Development
24	45 (10.25%)	JIRA
24	45 (10.25%)	BDD
25	44 (10.02%)	Spring

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Co-occurring IT Skills in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	21 (4.78%)	Confluence
2	18 (4.10%)	CMS
3	16 (3.64%)	Apache
4	9 (2.05%)	Sitecore CMS
4	9 (2.05%)	Tomcat
4	9 (2.05%)	WebSphere
5	6 (1.37%)	IIS
5	6 (1.37%)	SharePoint
5	6 (1.37%)	SharePoint 2013
6	5 (1.14%)	WordPress
7	4 (0.91%)	Adobe Experience Manager
7	4 (0.91%)	nginx
7	4 (0.91%)	Umbraco
7	4 (0.91%)	WebSphere Application Server
8	3 (0.68%)	Apache Solr
8	3 (0.68%)	Drupal
9	2 (0.46%)	Elasticsearch
9	2 (0.46%)	JBoss
9	2 (0.46%)	SAS
9	2 (0.46%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	8 (1.82%)	Photoshop
2	5 (1.14%)	Microsoft Office
3	4 (0.91%)	Adobe Illustrator
4	1 (0.23%)	Adobe Creative Suite
4	1 (0.23%)	HipChat
4	1 (0.23%)	InfoPath
4	1 (0.23%)	OmniGraffle

Business Applications
1	4 (0.91%)	Dynamics CRM
2	3 (0.68%)	Payment Gateway
3	2 (0.46%)	Magento

Cloud Services
1	13 (2.96%)	Slack
2	10 (2.28%)	Amazon AWS
3	7 (1.59%)	Microsoft Azure
4	6 (1.37%)	Google Cloud Platform
4	6 (1.37%)	IaaS
5	4 (0.91%)	Loggly
5	4 (0.91%)	Sumo Logic
6	2 (0.46%)	GitHub
7	1 (0.23%)	Amazon EC2
7	1 (0.23%)	Dynamics 365
7	1 (0.23%)	Google Analytics
7	1 (0.23%)	Google Tag Manager

Communications & Networking
1	23 (5.24%)	HTTP
2	17 (3.87%)	Internet
3	10 (2.28%)	Firewall
4	9 (2.05%)	DNS
5	5 (1.14%)	DHCP
5	5 (1.14%)	LAN
5	5 (1.14%)	VLAN
5	5 (1.14%)	WAN
5	5 (1.14%)	Wi-Fi
6	3 (0.68%)	LDAP
6	3 (0.68%)	SMTP
6	3 (0.68%)	SSH
7	2 (0.46%)	Intranet
7	2 (0.46%)	OpenLDAP
8	1 (0.23%)	Broadband
8	1 (0.23%)	Extranet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	51 (11.62%)	MySQL
2	41 (9.34%)	SQL Server
3	33 (7.52%)	NoSQL
4	29 (6.61%)	Relational Database
5	26 (5.92%)	MongoDB
6	22 (5.01%)	PostgreSQL
7	16 (3.64%)	Apache Cassandra
8	6 (1.37%)	Amazon DynamoDB
8	6 (1.37%)	MS Access
8	6 (1.37%)	Oracle Database
8	6 (1.37%)	RDBMS
8	6 (1.37%)	Redis
8	6 (1.37%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
9	4 (0.91%)	Riak
9	4 (0.91%)	SQL Server 2012
10	3 (0.68%)	DB2
10	3 (0.68%)	SQL Server 2014
11	2 (0.46%)	Big Data
11	2 (0.46%)	SQL Server 2008
12	1 (0.23%)	Hadoop

Development Applications
1	110 (25.06%)	Git (software)
2	72 (16.40%)	Jenkins
3	45 (10.25%)	JIRA
4	33 (7.52%)	Cucumber
5	31 (7.06%)	Subversion
6	28 (6.38%)	Grunt
7	26 (5.92%)	Selenium
8	21 (4.78%)	JUnit
8	21 (4.78%)	Visual Studio
9	20 (4.56%)	WebDriver
10	19 (4.33%)	Jasmine
11	17 (3.87%)	Hudson
12	15 (3.42%)	gulp
13	14 (3.19%)	Maven
14	11 (2.51%)	Team Foundation Server
15	8 (1.82%)	Mercurial
16	7 (1.59%)	JMeter
17	6 (1.37%)	Eclipse
17	6 (1.37%)	Octopus Deploy
18	5 (1.14%)	Bower

General
1	22 (5.01%)	Finance
2	16 (3.64%)	Marketing
3	10 (2.28%)	Retail
4	8 (1.82%)	Advertising
5	5 (1.14%)	Banking
5	5 (1.14%)	Games
5	5 (1.14%)	Online Betting
6	3 (0.68%)	Law
6	3 (0.68%)	Telecoms
7	2 (0.46%)	Back Office
7	2 (0.46%)	Electronics
7	2 (0.46%)	German Language
7	2 (0.46%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	351 (79.95%)	Developer
2	107 (24.37%)	JavaScript Developer
3	72 (16.40%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4	56 (12.76%)	Java Developer
5	54 (12.30%)	PHP Developer
6	44 (10.02%)	.NET Developer
7	26 (5.92%)	Angular Developer
8	25 (5.69%)	HTML CSS Developer
8	25 (5.69%)	HTML Developer
9	24 (5.47%)	Python Developer
9	24 (5.47%)	Tester
10	19 (4.33%)	C# Developer
11	18 (4.10%)	Agile Developer
11	18 (4.10%)	Software Engineer
12	16 (3.64%)	Automation Tester
12	16 (3.64%)	C# .NET Developer
13	13 (2.96%)	Scala Developer
13	13 (2.96%)	Senior Developer
13	13 (2.96%)	Web Developer
14	12 (2.73%)	ASP.NET MVC Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	256 (58.31%)	HTML
2	222 (50.57%)	CSS
3	121 (27.56%)	AngularJS
4	100 (22.78%)	HTML5
5	94 (21.41%)	Node.js
6	87 (19.82%)	CSS3
7	82 (18.68%)	.NET
7	82 (18.68%)	jQuery
8	80 (18.22%)	React
9	54 (12.30%)	ASP.NET
10	51 (11.62%)	Symfony
11	44 (10.02%)	Spring
12	42 (9.57%)	XML
13	36 (8.20%)	ASP.NET MVC
14	32 (7.29%)	REST
15	31 (7.06%)	Hibernate
15	31 (7.06%)	Sass
16	22 (5.01%)	J2EE
17	21 (4.78%)	ASP.NET Web API
18	20 (4.56%)	.NET Framework

Miscellaneous
1	36 (8.20%)	User Experience
2	28 (6.38%)	Greenfield Project
3	27 (6.15%)	Analytical Skills
4	7 (1.59%)	Data Centre
5	6 (1.37%)	Algorithms
5	6 (1.37%)	Data Structures
6	5 (1.14%)	Mobile App
7	4 (0.91%)	Enterprise Software
7	4 (0.91%)	Replication
8	3 (0.68%)	Animation
8	3 (0.68%)	NHS
8	3 (0.68%)	Private Cloud
8	3 (0.68%)	VxBlock/Vblock
8	3 (0.68%)	W3C
9	2 (0.46%)	Computer Science
9	2 (0.46%)	Management Information System
9	2 (0.46%)	N-Tier
9	2 (0.46%)	Over-the-Top Content
9	2 (0.46%)	RIA
9	2 (0.46%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	55 (12.53%)	Linux
2	33 (7.52%)	Unix
3	14 (3.19%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3	14 (3.19%)	Windows
4	11 (2.51%)	Mac OS X
5	7 (1.59%)	Android
6	3 (0.68%)	AIX
6	3 (0.68%)	Embedded Linux
6	3 (0.68%)	Solaris
7	2 (0.46%)	Apple iOS
7	2 (0.46%)	Windows Embedded Compact
8	1 (0.23%)	CoreOS
8	1 (0.23%)	Windows Server
8	1 (0.23%)	Windows Server 2003

Processes & Methodologies
1	237 (53.99%)	Agile Software Development
2	89 (20.27%)	Front End Development
3	88 (20.05%)	MVC
4	78 (17.77%)	TDD
5	74 (16.86%)	Test Automation
6	54 (12.30%)	Software Engineering
7	49 (11.16%)	Web Development
8	45 (10.25%)	BDD
9	43 (9.79%)	Scrum
10	38 (8.66%)	OO
11	33 (7.52%)	Continuous Integration
12	31 (7.06%)	Responsive Web Design
12	31 (7.06%)	SDLC
13	28 (6.38%)	Kanban
14	27 (6.15%)	DevOps
15	25 (5.69%)	Web Design
16	24 (5.47%)	Microservices
17	22 (5.01%)	Configuration Management
17	22 (5.01%)	Open Source
18	19 (4.33%)	Stakeholder Management

Programming Languages
1	133 (30.30%)	Java
2	109 (24.83%)	Python
3	104 (23.69%)	PHP
4	82 (18.68%)	SQL
5	67 (15.26%)	C#
6	32 (7.29%)	Bash Shell
7	30 (6.83%)	Ruby
8	28 (6.38%)	Scala
9	16 (3.64%)	TypeScript
10	10 (2.28%)	C++
11	9 (2.05%)	Groovy
12	8 (1.82%)	T-SQL
13	7 (1.59%)	C
13	7 (1.59%)	ECMAScript
14	5 (1.14%)	Delphi
14	5 (1.14%)	Go
14	5 (1.14%)	PowerShell
15	3 (0.68%)	Elixir
15	3 (0.68%)	ES6
16	2 (0.46%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	13 (2.96%)	Degree
2	3 (0.68%)	BPSS Clearance
2	3 (0.68%)	Security Cleared
3	2 (0.46%)	Computer Science Degree
4	1 (0.23%)	CTC Cleared
4	1 (0.23%)	SC Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	3 (0.68%)	QA
2	1 (0.23%)	ISO 9001
2	1 (0.23%)	ISO/IEC 27001

System Software
1	37 (8.43%)	Docker
2	3 (0.68%)	vCloud
2	3 (0.68%)	VMware ESXi
2	3 (0.68%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	1 (0.23%)	HDFS
3	1 (0.23%)	VirtualBox
3	1 (0.23%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	28 (6.38%)	Puppet
2	20 (4.56%)	Ansible
3	14 (3.19%)	vRealize
4	9 (2.05%)	Opscode Chef
4	9 (2.05%)	vCenter Server
5	7 (1.59%)	Salt
6	5 (1.14%)	Nagios
7	4 (0.91%)	Kubernetes
7	4 (0.91%)	ZABBIX
8	3 (0.68%)	Oracle Identity Management
8	3 (0.68%)	Oracle Identity Manager
8	3 (0.68%)	Prometheus
9	2 (0.46%)	Rancher
10	1 (0.23%)	Cobbler

Vendors
1	25 (5.69%)	Microsoft
2	20 (4.56%)	Oracle
3	16 (3.64%)	VMware
3	16 (3.64%)	Zend
4	15 (3.42%)	Sitecore
5	11 (2.51%)	Google
6	10 (2.28%)	Red Hat
7	6 (1.37%)	Adobe
7	6 (1.37%)	Rackspace
7	6 (1.37%)	SaltStack
8	5 (1.14%)	Splunk
9	4 (0.91%)	HP
9	4 (0.91%)	New Relic
10	3 (0.68%)	IBM
10	3 (0.68%)	Sun
11	2 (0.46%)	Apple
12	1 (0.23%)	ATG
12	1 (0.23%)	Citrix
12	1 (0.23%)	hybris
12	1 (0.23%)	Xamarin