Hybrid/Remote Babel Contract Job Trends

Babel JavaScript Compiler
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Babel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 304 368
Rank change year-on-year -15 +64 +150
Contract jobs citing Babel 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.010% 0.027% 0.012%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.066% 0.21% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £304 £281
25th Percentile - £306 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £310 £365
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% -15.07% -35.96%
75th Percentile - £443 £421
90th Percentile - £522 £447
UK median daily rate £364 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -9.00% -11.11% -21.05%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Babel falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,525 1,452 2,043
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.95% 13.23% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,029 959 1,512
10th Percentile £334 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £578 £620 £614
90th Percentile £668 £723 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 18 58
10th Percentile £39.00 £25.83 £47.38
25th Percentile - £33.44 £63.22
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £78.73
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -22.20% +21.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.76 £90.00
90th Percentile - £70.63 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

Babel
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Babel and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Babel job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Babel
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Babel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Babel

Babel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) lodash
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Atomic Design
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Story Points
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA