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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -22 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 38 47 97
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 4.56% 5.80% 7.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.43% 18.01% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 34 71
10th Percentile £385 £325 £410
25th Percentile £420 £450 £463
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 £649 £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 283 261 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.93% 32.18% 23.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 197 232
10th Percentile £366 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £640 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.55% +0.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - £17.72
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +40.78% +0.66%
75th Percentile - £39.38 £26.78
90th Percentile - £49.50 £47.91
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -40.12%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -13 38 £475 -11.21% 41
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 2 (5.26%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) InVision
1 2 (5.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) AWS
2 15 (39.47%) Azure
3 6 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (13.16%) Power Automate
4 5 (13.16%) Power Platform
4 5 (13.16%) PowerApps
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.53%) GCP
5 4 (10.53%) Serverless
6 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.26%) GitHub
7 2 (5.26%) npm
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.63%) Datadog
8 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.79%) NoSQL
2 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (13.16%) MySQL
4 4 (10.53%) Power BI
5 2 (5.26%) Redis
5 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) GitLab
1 13 (34.21%) Jenkins
2 10 (26.32%) Git
3 9 (23.68%) Cypress.io
4 8 (21.05%) Cucumber
5 7 (18.42%) Maven
6 6 (15.79%) SonarQube
7 5 (13.16%) JMeter
7 5 (13.16%) Postman
7 5 (13.16%) REST Assured
7 5 (13.16%) Selenium
7 5 (13.16%) TestNG
8 4 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (7.89%) Artifactory
9 3 (7.89%) JUnit
10 2 (5.26%) Mocha
10 2 (5.26%) webpack
11 1 (2.63%) Bundler
11 1 (2.63%) ESLint
11 1 (2.63%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.63%) Legal
4 1 (2.63%) Marketing
4 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Developer
2 11 (28.95%) Senior
3 8 (21.05%) Test Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Consultant
5 4 (10.53%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Lead
6 3 (7.89%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 3 (7.89%) Lead Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Android Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (5.26%) React Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) Node.js
2 11 (28.95%) CSS
2 11 (28.95%) HTML
3 10 (26.32%) RESTful
4 9 (23.68%) React
5 8 (21.05%) Playwright
6 4 (10.53%) .NET
6 4 (10.53%) CSS3
6 4 (10.53%) HTML5
6 4 (10.53%) Jest
6 4 (10.53%) REST
7 3 (7.89%) Web Services
8 2 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
8 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
8 2 (5.26%) Dagger
8 2 (5.26%) GraphQL
8 2 (5.26%) J2EE
8 2 (5.26%) JPA
8 2 (5.26%) Retrofit
8 2 (5.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Android
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) CI/CD
2 17 (44.74%) Test Automation
3 16 (42.11%) Agile
4 13 (34.21%) Microservices
5 9 (23.68%) TDD
6 8 (21.05%) Clean Code
6 8 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (21.05%) DevOps
6 8 (21.05%) Front End Development
7 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.79%) Continuous Deployment
8 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 6 (15.79%) Open Source
9 5 (13.16%) BDD
9 5 (13.16%) Customer Engagement
9 5 (13.16%) Scrum
9 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
9 5 (13.16%) Test Scripting
9 5 (13.16%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) Java
2 11 (28.95%) TypeScript
3 9 (23.68%) SQL
4 7 (18.42%) Python
5 5 (13.16%) C#
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.63%) C++
7 1 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) OCP
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) Accessibility
2 7 (18.42%) WCAG
3 5 (13.16%) QA
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
1 5 (13.16%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) Grafana
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) Adobe
2 2 (5.26%) Google
2 2 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle