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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 48 47 76
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 5.37% 6.07% 6.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.38% 19.03% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 34 57
10th Percentile £363 £348 £406
25th Percentile £400 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -10.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £572 £625
90th Percentile £636 £694 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +15.00%
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 - - -11.22%

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 312 247 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 34.90% 31.91% 21.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 180 204
10th Percentile £360 £348 £363
25th Percentile £413 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £567 £625
90th Percentile £675 £648 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £17.38
25th Percentile - £26.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +40.78% -40.12%
75th Percentile - £39.38 £25.58
90th Percentile - £49.50 £44.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £36.25 £21.31
% change year-on-year +36.55% +70.11% -57.38%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 -8 48 £475 -11.21% 56
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 (10.42%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) InVision
1 2 (4.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) Azure
2 22 (45.83%) AWS
3 6 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (10.42%) Azure Storage
4 5 (10.42%) Power Automate
4 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
4 5 (10.42%) PowerApps
4 5 (10.42%) Serverless
5 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.33%) GCP
5 4 (8.33%) GitHub
6 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.17%) AtomSphere
7 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.17%) Boomi
7 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 7 (14.58%) MongoDB
2 7 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.42%) MySQL
4 4 (8.33%) Power BI
4 4 (8.33%) Redis
5 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (39.58%) Jenkins
2 12 (25.00%) GitLab
3 10 (20.83%) Git
4 9 (18.75%) Cypress.io
5 8 (16.67%) Cucumber
6 7 (14.58%) Maven
7 6 (12.50%) SonarQube
8 5 (10.42%) JIRA
8 5 (10.42%) JMeter
8 5 (10.42%) Postman
8 5 (10.42%) REST Assured
8 5 (10.42%) Selenium
8 5 (10.42%) TestNG
9 4 (8.33%) Mocha
9 4 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (6.25%) Artifactory
10 3 (6.25%) JUnit
11 2 (4.17%) MSI
11 2 (4.17%) webpack
12 1 (2.08%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.08%) Legal
5 1 (2.08%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) Senior
3 8 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Senior Test Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Tester
5 4 (8.33%) Consultant
5 4 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
5 4 (8.33%) Security Tester
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 3 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Lead Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Android Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) Node.js
2 13 (27.08%) React
3 11 (22.92%) CSS
3 11 (22.92%) HTML
4 10 (20.83%) RESTful
5 8 (16.67%) Playwright
6 7 (14.58%) Jest
7 6 (12.50%) JWT
8 5 (10.42%) CSS3
8 5 (10.42%) HTML5
8 5 (10.42%) OAuth
8 5 (10.42%) REST
8 5 (10.42%) SAML
9 4 (8.33%) .NET
10 3 (6.25%) Express.js
10 3 (6.25%) Spring
10 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
11 2 (4.17%) Android SDK
11 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
11 2 (4.17%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.17%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.17%) NHS
2 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) CI/CD
2 21 (43.75%) Agile
3 18 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 14 (29.17%) Microservices
5 13 (27.08%) DevOps
6 11 (22.92%) TDD
7 10 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (18.75%) Front End Development
8 9 (18.75%) Test Strategy
9 8 (16.67%) Clean Code
9 8 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
9 8 (16.67%) Manual Testing
9 8 (16.67%) Open Source
9 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.58%) BDD
10 7 (14.58%) Customer Engagement
10 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
10 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
10 7 (14.58%) Translating Business Requirements
10 7 (14.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (41.67%) Java
2 15 (31.25%) TypeScript
3 12 (25.00%) Python
4 10 (20.83%) SQL
5 7 (14.58%) C#
6 2 (4.17%) Groovy
6 2 (4.17%) Kotlin
6 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.08%) Bash
7 1 (2.08%) C++
7 1 (2.08%) Go
7 1 (2.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.08%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) OCP
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (31.25%) Accessibility
2 9 (18.75%) WCAG
3 5 (10.42%) QA
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) Terraform
2 5 (10.42%) Grafana
3 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.17%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Splunk
2 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.17%) Adobe
3 2 (4.17%) Cribl.io
3 2 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle