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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 38 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 -16 +8
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 49 23 69
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 5.12% 4.41% 6.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.56% 12.78% 26.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 15 37
10th Percentile £360 £450 £330
25th Percentile £413 £466 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £562 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +18.21% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £625
90th Percentile £588 £573 £660
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -7.05% +10.53% -7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.46%

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 264 180 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.59% 34.55% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 119 190
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £588
90th Percentile £623 £725 £653
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £509 £450
% change year-on-year -1.72% +13.06% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £28.34 £23.70
25th Percentile - £31.47 £30.08
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £41.35
Median % change year-on-year - +118.64% -40.93%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £51.99
90th Percentile - - £58.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £62.00
% change year-on-year -45.25% +45.83% -0.80%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 +4 47 £500 -10.95% 42
Halifax - 4 £375 - 1
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 (10.20%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 30 (61.22%) AWS
2 19 (38.78%) Azure
3 10 (20.41%) Serverless
4 7 (14.29%) GCP
5 6 (12.24%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.20%) Azure Storage
7 4 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.16%) GitHub
7 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (6.12%) Akamai
9 2 (4.08%) AtomSphere
9 2 (4.08%) Boomi
9 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.08%) SaaS
9 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) DNS
1 3 (6.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.16%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.16%) Redis
2 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.37%) Git
3 6 (12.24%) Cypress.io
4 5 (10.20%) Cucumber
4 5 (10.20%) GitLab
4 5 (10.20%) JIRA
5 4 (8.16%) Mocha
6 2 (4.08%) MSI
7 1 (2.04%) Maven
7 1 (2.04%) Selenium
7 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.04%) Vite
7 1 (2.04%) webpack
General
1 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Military
5 1 (2.04%) Advertising
5 1 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Polish Language
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (57.14%) Developer
2 17 (34.69%) Senior
3 9 (18.37%) Senior Developer
4 8 (16.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 6 (12.24%) Java Developer
7 5 (10.20%) Tester
8 4 (8.16%) AWS Developer
8 4 (8.16%) Security Tester
8 4 (8.16%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Test Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Application Security Specialist
9 3 (6.12%) Applications Specialist
9 3 (6.12%) PHP Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Python Developer
9 3 (6.12%) React Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Security Specialist
9 3 (6.12%) Technical Security Specialist
9 3 (6.12%) Technical Specialist
10 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (38.78%) Node.js
2 17 (34.69%) React
3 12 (24.49%) CSS
3 12 (24.49%) HTML
4 7 (14.29%) Jest
4 7 (14.29%) RESTful
5 6 (12.24%) Redux
5 6 (12.24%) Spring
6 5 (10.20%) JWT
6 5 (10.20%) OAuth
6 5 (10.20%) REST
6 5 (10.20%) SAML
6 5 (10.20%) Spring Boot
7 4 (8.16%) CSS3
7 4 (8.16%) Express.js
7 4 (8.16%) HTML5
7 4 (8.16%) Playwright
7 4 (8.16%) Vue
7 4 (8.16%) Zustand
8 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) NHS
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.04%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) CI/CD
2 23 (46.94%) Agile
3 14 (28.57%) DevOps
4 12 (24.49%) Test Strategy
5 11 (22.45%) Front End Development
5 11 (22.45%) Microservices
6 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (20.41%) Scrum
7 9 (18.37%) Manual Testing
7 9 (18.37%) Test Automation
8 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (14.29%) BDD
9 7 (14.29%) Validation
10 6 (12.24%) Clean Code
10 6 (12.24%) Code Quality
10 6 (12.24%) Open Source
10 6 (12.24%) Responsive Web Design
10 6 (12.24%) Software Testing
11 5 (10.20%) Continuous Deployment
11 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.82%) TypeScript
2 15 (30.61%) Java
2 15 (30.61%) Python
3 9 (18.37%) SQL
4 4 (8.16%) C#
5 3 (6.12%) Groovy
5 3 (6.12%) Kotlin
5 3 (6.12%) PHP
6 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.04%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.04%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (32.65%) Accessibility
2 8 (16.33%) WCAG
3 3 (6.12%) QA
System Software
1 14 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.37%) Terraform
3 5 (10.20%) Grafana
4 2 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.04%) Ansible
5 1 (2.04%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Splunk
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.08%) Brio
3 2 (4.08%) Cribl.io
3 2 (4.08%) Google
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle
3 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.04%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.04%) Workday