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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 52 22
Rank change year-on-year +14 -30 +1
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 48 13 63
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 4.34% 2.37% 6.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.43% 6.88% 24.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 7 35
10th Percentile £406 £400 £318
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.58%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £638
90th Percentile - £550 £665
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 311 189 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.09% 34.43% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 125 190
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £623 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -3.60% +8.11% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £31.62 -
25th Percentile - £44.87 £19.44
Median hourly rate - £91.05 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +339.76% -70.42%
75th Percentile - £101.14 £21.97
90th Percentile - £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £91.05 £41.60
% change year-on-year - +118.86% -33.44%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +6 42 £500 - 23
Halifax - 6 £375 -
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 (2.08%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.08%) WebLogic
1 1 (2.08%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) AWS
2 13 (27.08%) Serverless
3 10 (20.83%) Azure
4 9 (18.75%) GCP
4 9 (18.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (14.58%) Akamai
6 6 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon S3
7 5 (10.42%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (10.42%) GitHub
7 5 (10.42%) Power Automate
7 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
7 5 (10.42%) PowerApps
8 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (8.33%) Azure Functions
8 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) DNS
1 7 (14.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.25%) Power BI
3 2 (4.17%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Git
2 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.25%) GitLab
5 2 (4.17%) MSI
6 1 (2.08%) Maven
6 1 (2.08%) Selenium
6 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.08%) Vite
General
1 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Advertising
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Banking
3 1 (2.08%) Military
3 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Polish Language
3 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (62.50%) Developer
2 11 (22.92%) Senior
3 9 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 8 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (14.58%) Security Specialist
6 6 (12.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Technical Security Specialist
7 5 (10.42%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (8.33%) Application Security Specialist
8 4 (8.33%) Applications Specialist
8 4 (8.33%) AWS Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Python Developer
8 4 (8.33%) React Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Lead
9 3 (6.25%) PHP Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Senior Test Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (35.42%) React
2 14 (29.17%) Node.js
3 8 (16.67%) Redux
4 7 (14.58%) CSS
4 7 (14.58%) HTML
5 6 (12.50%) REST
5 6 (12.50%) Spring
5 6 (12.50%) Zustand
6 5 (10.42%) Spring Boot
6 5 (10.42%) Vue
7 4 (8.33%) Django
7 4 (8.33%) Flask
8 3 (6.25%) FastAPI
8 3 (6.25%) Playwright
9 2 (4.17%) CSS3
9 2 (4.17%) GraphQL
9 2 (4.17%) HTML5
9 2 (4.17%) Kafka
9 2 (4.17%) React Native
9 2 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (12.50%) NHS
2 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) CI/CD
2 24 (50.00%) Agile
3 18 (37.50%) DevOps
4 11 (22.92%) Front End Development
5 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (18.75%) Migration
6 9 (18.75%) Scrum
6 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 8 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 8 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
8 7 (14.58%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (14.58%) Test Strategy
9 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 6 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 6 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
10 5 (10.42%) CRM
10 5 (10.42%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (10.42%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) Python
2 15 (31.25%) TypeScript
3 12 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (10.42%) C#
4 5 (10.42%) SQL
5 3 (6.25%) PHP
6 1 (2.08%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.08%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.08%) Bash
6 1 (2.08%) Groovy
6 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (29.17%) Accessibility
2 8 (16.67%) WCAG
3 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 13 (27.08%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Terraform
2 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.25%) Grafana
4 2 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.08%) Ansible
5 1 (2.08%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) Brio
3 3 (6.25%) Splunk
4 2 (4.17%) Cribl.io
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.08%) Okta
5 1 (2.08%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (2.08%) Workday