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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 45 23
Rank change year-on-year -21 -22 -6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 35 38 47
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 2.64% 4.56% 5.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.75% 13.43% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 34
10th Percentile £358 £385 £325
25th Percentile £458 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £518
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -8.21% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £572
90th Percentile £638 £649 £694
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -8.70%

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 359 283 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.11% 33.93% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 166 200
10th Percentile £349 £366 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £604 £675 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £19.85 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.78%
75th Percentile £25.25 - £39.38
90th Percentile £26.90 - £49.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £49.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -51.52% +23.75% +87.71%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -19 33 £515 +8.42% 20
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 (2.86%) CMS
1 1 (2.86%) nginx
1 1 (2.86%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) AWS
2 13 (37.14%) Azure
3 11 (31.43%) GitHub
4 10 (28.57%) Serverless
5 6 (17.14%) GCP
6 5 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.86%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.86%) BrowserStack
8 1 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.86%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) Tableau
3 2 (5.71%) Big Data
3 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Pentaho
4 1 (2.86%) Power BI
4 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 5 (14.29%) JMeter
2 5 (14.29%) LoadRunner
3 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.43%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) eggPlant
4 2 (5.71%) Gatling
4 2 (5.71%) Selenium
5 1 (2.86%) Appium
5 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.86%) GitLab
5 1 (2.86%) Postman
5 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.86%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 4 (11.43%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Publishing
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Developer
2 13 (37.14%) Senior
3 12 (34.29%) Python Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Lead
4 8 (22.86%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (11.43%) Lead Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Lead Python Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Test Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead Test Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Test Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Performance Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Performance Test Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) CSS
1 14 (40.00%) HTML
2 13 (37.14%) Terraform
3 12 (34.29%) React
4 11 (31.43%) Vue
5 9 (25.71%) Flask
5 9 (25.71%) Node.js
6 8 (22.86%) REST
7 5 (14.29%) .NET
7 5 (14.29%) Kafka
7 5 (14.29%) Playwright
7 5 (14.29%) RESTful
8 4 (11.43%) .NET Core
8 4 (11.43%) ASP.NET
8 4 (11.43%) Jest
9 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (8.57%) CSS3
9 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (8.57%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) NHS
3 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Android
1 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) CI/CD
2 22 (62.86%) Agile
3 15 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (31.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (25.71%) Data Analysis
6 9 (25.71%) DevOps
7 8 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (22.86%) Front End Development
8 7 (20.00%) TDD
9 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
10 5 (14.29%) API Testing
10 5 (14.29%) Architectural Design
10 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 5 (14.29%) MVC
10 5 (14.29%) OO
10 5 (14.29%) Performance Testing
10 5 (14.29%) Test Strategy
10 5 (14.29%) User Stories
10 5 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) Python
2 17 (48.57%) TypeScript
3 8 (22.86%) SQL
4 5 (14.29%) C#
5 3 (8.57%) Ruby
6 2 (5.71%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) PHP
7 1 (2.86%) Bash
7 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
3 3 (8.57%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (8.57%) WCAG
4 1 (2.86%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) New Relic
1 5 (14.29%) Splunk
2 4 (11.43%) Dynatrace
2 4 (11.43%) IBM
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow