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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 45 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 -22 -4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 53 28 46
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 3.90% 3.67% 5.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.59% 11.52% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 10 32
10th Percentile £351 £355 £319
25th Percentile £461 £414 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £544
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -17.24% -1.14%
75th Percentile £588 £475 £641
90th Percentile £636 £489 £706
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £544
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.64% -1.14%

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 390 243 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.72% 31.89% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 155 199
10th Percentile £343 £350 £315
25th Percentile £413 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.31%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £584
90th Percentile £632 £590 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.85 £37.07 £33.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £45.03 £35.63
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +46.82% +99.44%
75th Percentile £25.25 £82.53 £50.63
90th Percentile £26.90 £92.15 £54.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £46.25
% change year-on-year -61.54% +34.92% +37.79%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -7 46 £515 +14.44% 20
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 (1.89%) CMS
1 1 (1.89%) nginx
1 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.89%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.89%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.89%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) AWS
2 14 (26.42%) GCP
2 14 (26.42%) Serverless
3 12 (22.64%) Azure
4 10 (18.87%) GitHub
5 9 (16.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (13.21%) Akamai
7 4 (7.55%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.55%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
7 4 (7.55%) PowerApps
8 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.77%) Figma
10 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.89%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) DNS
1 7 (13.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.77%) Power BI
3 2 (3.77%) Tableau
4 1 (1.89%) Big Data
4 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.89%) Redis
4 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Git
2 6 (11.32%) Cypress.io
3 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.55%) JIRA
3 4 (7.55%) JMeter
3 4 (7.55%) LoadRunner
4 2 (3.77%) Selenium
5 1 (1.89%) Appium
5 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.89%) eggPlant
5 1 (1.89%) Gatling
5 1 (1.89%) GitLab
5 1 (1.89%) Postman
5 1 (1.89%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.89%) Vite
5 1 (1.89%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (26.42%) Public Sector
2 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Banking
4 3 (5.66%) Finance
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Publishing
5 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (54.72%) Developer
2 13 (24.53%) Python Developer
2 13 (24.53%) Senior
3 10 (18.87%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (16.98%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 9 (16.98%) Senior Developer
5 8 (15.09%) Lead
6 7 (13.21%) Security Specialist
7 5 (9.43%) Technical Security Specialist
7 5 (9.43%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (7.55%) Application Security Specialist
8 4 (7.55%) Applications Specialist
8 4 (7.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (7.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (7.55%) Lead Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Lead Python Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Test Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.66%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (32.08%) CSS
1 17 (32.08%) HTML
1 17 (32.08%) React
2 13 (24.53%) Node.js
2 13 (24.53%) Vue
3 10 (18.87%) Flask
4 7 (13.21%) REST
5 6 (11.32%) Playwright
6 5 (9.43%) CSS3
6 5 (9.43%) HTML5
6 5 (9.43%) Kafka
6 5 (9.43%) RESTful
7 4 (7.55%) Jest
7 4 (7.55%) Redux
7 4 (7.55%) Zustand
8 3 (5.66%) Django
8 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (5.66%) GraphQL
8 3 (5.66%) Nunjucks
9 2 (3.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.43%) NHS
2 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Android
1 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) CI/CD
2 29 (54.72%) Agile
3 14 (26.42%) DevOps
4 13 (24.53%) Front End Development
4 13 (24.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (24.53%) Test Automation
5 11 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (16.98%) Data Analysis
6 9 (16.98%) Migration
7 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
7 7 (13.21%) Test Strategy
7 7 (13.21%) User Stories
7 7 (13.21%) Visualisation
8 6 (11.32%) API Testing
8 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (11.32%) Responsive Web Design
9 5 (9.43%) Architectural Design
9 5 (9.43%) Event-Driven
9 5 (9.43%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (49.06%) Python
2 16 (30.19%) TypeScript
3 6 (11.32%) Java
3 6 (11.32%) SQL
4 5 (9.43%) C#
5 3 (5.66%) Ruby
6 1 (1.89%) Bash
6 1 (1.89%) PHP
6 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) Accessibility
2 8 (15.09%) WCAG
3 3 (5.66%) QA
4 2 (3.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.89%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (33.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Terraform
2 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.66%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) New Relic
2 4 (7.55%) Splunk
3 3 (5.66%) Brio
3 3 (5.66%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.66%) IBM
4 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.89%) Databricks
5 1 (1.89%) Okta