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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 41 23
Rank change year-on-year -11 -18 -4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 42 27 59
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 3.16% 3.87% 6.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.11% 12.11% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 10 37
10th Percentile £413 £355 £308
25th Percentile £476 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.23% -9.27%
75th Percentile £588 £475 £625
90th Percentile - £489 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £536
% change year-on-year +5.26% -11.42% +2.14%

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 378 223 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.44% 31.99% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 140 206
10th Percentile £313 £350 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £575 £634
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.44% -1.42% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £19.85 £31.53 £33.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £35.63
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% -22.09% +99.44%
75th Percentile £25.25 £66.51 £50.63
90th Percentile £26.90 £85.74 £54.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.25 £33.11 £46.25
% change year-on-year -26.76% -28.41% +0.63%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -14 35 £515 +14.44% 14
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 (2.38%) nginx
1 1 (2.38%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.38%) WebLogic
1 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) AWS
2 9 (21.43%) GCP
2 9 (21.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 8 (19.05%) Serverless
4 7 (16.67%) Akamai
4 7 (16.67%) Azure
5 5 (11.90%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (11.90%) Power Automate
5 5 (11.90%) Power Platform
5 5 (11.90%) PowerApps
6 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Functions
7 3 (7.14%) GitHub
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.76%) Figma
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.38%) BrowserStack
9 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) DNS
1 7 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Power BI
1 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.38%) Appium
3 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.38%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) Vite
3 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Banking
3 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (61.90%) Developer
2 13 (30.95%) Senior
3 11 (26.19%) Senior Developer
4 9 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (16.67%) Security Specialist
6 6 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 6 (14.29%) Python Developer
6 6 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 5 (11.90%) Java Developer
7 5 (11.90%) Technical Security Specialist
7 5 (11.90%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (9.52%) Application Security Specialist
8 4 (9.52%) Applications Specialist
9 3 (7.14%) React Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
10 2 (4.76%) Cloud Specialist
10 2 (4.76%) Lead
10 2 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (40.48%) React
2 11 (26.19%) Node.js
3 9 (21.43%) CSS
3 9 (21.43%) HTML
4 8 (19.05%) Redux
5 6 (14.29%) REST
5 6 (14.29%) Vue
5 6 (14.29%) Zustand
6 5 (11.90%) RESTful
7 4 (9.52%) CSS3
7 4 (9.52%) HTML5
8 3 (7.14%) Flask
8 3 (7.14%) GraphQL
8 3 (7.14%) Nunjucks
8 3 (7.14%) Playwright
8 3 (7.14%) Spring
8 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
9 2 (4.76%) Django
9 2 (4.76%) Kafka
9 2 (4.76%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 7 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.14%) NHS
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Android
1 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) Agile
2 22 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 14 (33.33%) DevOps
4 13 (30.95%) Front End Development
5 10 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (21.43%) Migration
7 8 (19.05%) Code Quality
7 8 (19.05%) Responsive Web Design
8 7 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (16.67%) Test Strategy
9 6 (14.29%) Incident Response
9 6 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
10 5 (11.90%) CRM
10 5 (11.90%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
10 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
11 4 (9.52%) Event-Driven
11 4 (9.52%) Scrum
11 4 (9.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) Python
2 15 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 8 (19.05%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) C#
5 3 (7.14%) Ruby
6 2 (4.76%) SQL
7 1 (2.38%) Bash
7 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) Accessibility
2 9 (21.43%) WCAG
3 3 (7.14%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) HL7
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Brio
3 1 (2.38%) New Relic
3 1 (2.38%) Okta
3 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.38%) Splunk