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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 31 23
Rank change year-on-year -15 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 40 41 69
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 4.44% 5.45% 5.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.25% 16.73% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 50
10th Percentile £389 £333 £396
25th Percentile £408 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £625
90th Percentile £648 £706 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
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 302 245 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.56% 32.58% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 168 197
10th Percentile £363 £356 £342
25th Percentile £413 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £574 £567 £600
90th Percentile £675 £716 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.91
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +146.36% -69.56%
75th Percentile - £99.32 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -69.56%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -12 40 £509 +1.75% 45
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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) InVision
1 2 (5.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) AWS
2 18 (45.00%) Azure
3 8 (20.00%) Serverless
4 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (12.50%) Azure Storage
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (10.00%) GCP
6 4 (10.00%) GitHub
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (5.00%) AtomSphere
8 2 (5.00%) Boomi
8 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.00%) Power Automate
8 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.00%) Redis
3 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.00%) Power BI
5 1 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.00%) Cypress.io
2 6 (15.00%) Git
3 5 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 5 (12.50%) GitLab
3 5 (12.50%) JIRA
4 4 (10.00%) Mocha
5 3 (7.50%) SonarQube
6 2 (5.00%) Maven
6 2 (5.00%) MSI
6 2 (5.00%) webpack
7 1 (2.50%) Bundler
7 1 (2.50%) ESLint
7 1 (2.50%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (2.50%) Selenium
7 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.50%) Vite
General
1 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Advertising
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Developer
2 13 (32.50%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Tester
4 4 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (10.00%) Security Tester
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.50%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Python Developer
5 3 (7.50%) React Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Android Developer
6 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (5.00%) Integration Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) React
2 13 (32.50%) Node.js
3 9 (22.50%) CSS
3 9 (22.50%) HTML
4 8 (20.00%) Jest
5 7 (17.50%) RESTful
6 6 (15.00%) JWT
7 5 (12.50%) CSS3
7 5 (12.50%) HTML5
7 5 (12.50%) OAuth
7 5 (12.50%) SAML
8 4 (10.00%) Playwright
8 4 (10.00%) REST
9 3 (7.50%) .NET
9 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
9 3 (7.50%) Express.js
9 3 (7.50%) Spring
9 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
9 3 (7.50%) Vue
10 2 (5.00%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) NHS
2 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Android
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (45.00%) Agile
3 12 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 11 (27.50%) Front End Development
4 11 (27.50%) Microservices
5 10 (25.00%) DevOps
6 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (22.50%) Manual Testing
7 8 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (20.00%) Test Strategy
7 8 (20.00%) User Experience
8 7 (17.50%) BDD
8 7 (17.50%) Validation
9 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (15.00%) Open Source
9 6 (15.00%) Scrum
9 6 (15.00%) Software Testing
9 6 (15.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) TypeScript
2 14 (35.00%) Python
3 13 (32.50%) Java
4 5 (12.50%) SQL
5 4 (10.00%) C#
6 3 (7.50%) Groovy
6 3 (7.50%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.50%) C++
8 1 (2.50%) Go
8 1 (2.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) OCP
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.00%) WCAG
3 3 (7.50%) QA
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Terraform
2 6 (15.00%) Grafana
2 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.50%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Splunk
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Adobe
3 2 (5.00%) Cribl.io
3 2 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle