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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 45 35 64
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 5.06% 5.65% 5.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.79% 16.51% 25.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 37
10th Percentile £396 £450 £385
25th Percentile £417 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £625
90th Percentile £610 £720 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -7.14%
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 - - -31.71%

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 268 212 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 30.15% 34.25% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 146 194
10th Percentile £371 £359 £350
25th Percentile £425 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £614
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £16.56
25th Percentile - £26.25 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £23.74
Median % change year-on-year - +280.81% -66.08%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £35.59
90th Percentile - - £51.43
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £26.78
% change year-on-year -45.25% +237.62% -59.58%

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 22 January 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 22 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
Leeds -9 45 £488 -2.40% 34
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 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 28 (62.22%) AWS
2 20 (44.44%) Azure
3 8 (17.78%) Serverless
4 7 (15.56%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (11.11%) Azure Storage
5 5 (11.11%) GitHub
6 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.89%) GCP
6 4 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.44%) AtomSphere
8 2 (4.44%) Boomi
8 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.44%) SaaS
8 2 (4.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (2.22%) Apigee
9 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.22%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 5 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.89%) Redis
4 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.22%) MySQL
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (31.11%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.00%) Git
3 6 (13.33%) Cypress.io
3 6 (13.33%) GitLab
4 5 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 5 (11.11%) JIRA
5 4 (8.89%) Mocha
6 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.44%) Maven
7 2 (4.44%) MSI
7 2 (4.44%) webpack
8 1 (2.22%) Bundler
8 1 (2.22%) ESLint
8 1 (2.22%) Jasmine
8 1 (2.22%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (2.22%) Selenium
8 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.22%) Vite
General
1 8 (17.78%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Military
5 1 (2.22%) Advertising
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 26 (57.78%) Developer
2 16 (35.56%) Senior
3 7 (15.56%) Senior Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 5 (11.11%) AWS Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (11.11%) Tester
6 4 (8.89%) Python Developer
6 4 (8.89%) React Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Security Tester
6 4 (8.89%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
7 3 (6.67%) PHP Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (35.56%) Node.js
2 14 (31.11%) React
3 13 (28.89%) CSS
3 13 (28.89%) HTML
4 8 (17.78%) Jest
4 8 (17.78%) RESTful
5 6 (13.33%) JWT
5 6 (13.33%) Spring
6 5 (11.11%) CSS3
6 5 (11.11%) HTML5
6 5 (11.11%) OAuth
6 5 (11.11%) REST
6 5 (11.11%) SAML
6 5 (11.11%) Spring Boot
7 4 (8.89%) Express.js
7 4 (8.89%) Playwright
7 4 (8.89%) Vue
8 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.67%) Flask
8 3 (6.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) NHS
2 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Android
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) CI/CD
2 19 (42.22%) Agile
3 12 (26.67%) Microservices
3 12 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 11 (24.44%) DevOps
5 10 (22.22%) Scrum
6 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 9 (20.00%) Test Strategy
7 8 (17.78%) Clean Code
7 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (17.78%) Front End Development
8 7 (15.56%) BDD
8 7 (15.56%) Validation
9 6 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (13.33%) Open Source
9 6 (13.33%) Software Testing
10 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Java
1 17 (37.78%) TypeScript
2 13 (28.89%) Python
3 10 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (6.67%) C#
4 3 (6.67%) Groovy
4 3 (6.67%) Kotlin
4 3 (6.67%) PHP
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.22%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.22%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.22%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) Go
6 1 (2.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.22%) OCP
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (31.11%) Accessibility
2 5 (11.11%) WCAG
3 3 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (22.22%) Terraform
2 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.33%) Grafana
4 2 (4.44%) Ansible
4 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.22%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Splunk
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) Cribl.io
3 2 (4.44%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Workday