JavaScript Contracts with Work from Home Options

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 25 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 994 1,928 4,220
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.38% 7.29% 9.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.32% 19.47% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 1,436 3,238
10th Percentile £330 £388 £375
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.31% +0.49% +7.89%
75th Percentile £700 £614 £600
90th Percentile £850 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 40 40
10th Percentile £34.13 £44.30 £34.63
25th Percentile £37.63 £51.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £67.75 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +15.32% +43.29%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.91
90th Percentile £65.50 £85.00 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.50 £57.25
% change year-on-year -8.40% +14.41% +34.71%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,145 9,900 17,231
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.01% 37.44% 38.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,707 7,228 12,791
10th Percentile £350 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £625
90th Percentile £775 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 218 205
10th Percentile £26.25 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +32.65% +13.47%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.44 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.13 £76.83 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.03% +21.25% +15.61%

JavaScript
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JavaScript trend for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript.

JavaScript daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

JavaScript daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript.

JavaScript hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

JavaScript hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 90 (9.05%) Apache Airflow
2 72 (7.24%) Apache
3 28 (2.82%) CMS
4 20 (2.01%) Confluence
5 18 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.51%) nginx
7 13 (1.31%) WordPress
8 9 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.80%) Drupal
10 6 (0.60%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.50%) Kentico
12 4 (0.40%) SAS
12 4 (0.40%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.40%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
13 3 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
14 2 (0.20%) GeoServer
14 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 122 (12.27%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.20%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.20%) Lectora
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.10%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.10%) Blender
7 1 (0.10%) InDesign
7 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.70%) Shopify
4 5 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.20%) Endur
7 2 (0.20%) Magento
8 1 (0.10%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 310 (31.19%) AWS
2 161 (16.20%) Azure
3 119 (11.97%) GCP
4 74 (7.44%) dbt
5 71 (7.14%) GitHub
6 58 (5.84%) Serverless
7 50 (5.03%) Snowflake
8 47 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (3.72%) Power Platform
11 35 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
12 32 (3.22%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.01%) PowerApps
14 19 (1.91%) Power Automate
15 16 (1.61%) Azure Functions
15 16 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 15 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (1.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.71%) HTTP
2 15 (1.51%) Intranet
3 9 (0.91%) Firewall
3 9 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.80%) DNS
5 5 (0.50%) Internet
5 5 (0.50%) SSL
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.30%) Wireless
7 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.20%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.20%) LAN
7 2 (0.20%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.20%) RTSP
7 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.20%) WinSCP
7 2 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.65%) Amazon Athena
2 74 (7.44%) Apache Arrow
2 74 (7.44%) Dremio
3 71 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 68 (6.84%) Apache Ignite
5 52 (5.23%) MySQL
5 52 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.13%) Data Lake
7 29 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 25 (2.52%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.31%) MongoDB
10 22 (2.21%) Power BI
11 20 (2.01%) Oracle Reports
12 18 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.01%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.91%) Big Data
16 9 (0.91%) Redis
17 8 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 104 (10.46%) Git
2 68 (6.84%) JIRA
3 66 (6.64%) Jenkins
4 30 (3.02%) GitLab
5 26 (2.62%) Cypress.io
6 24 (2.41%) Selenium
7 19 (1.91%) webpack
8 17 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
9 14 (1.41%) Postman
10 12 (1.21%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.01%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.01%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.91%) JMeter
12 9 (0.91%) Maven
12 9 (0.91%) SoapUI
13 8 (0.80%) git-flow
14 7 (0.70%) Eclipse
14 7 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
15 6 (0.60%) JUnit
15 6 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 224 (22.54%) Finance
2 138 (13.88%) Social Skills
3 115 (11.57%) Front Office
4 108 (10.87%) Banking
5 85 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 64 (6.44%) Investment Banking
7 43 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (3.22%) Marketing
9 20 (2.01%) Financial Institution
10 15 (1.51%) Retail
11 12 (1.21%) Telecoms
12 9 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.91%) Tech for Good
13 7 (0.70%) Back Office
14 6 (0.60%) Advertising
14 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.60%) Publishing
15 5 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 658 (66.20%) Developer
2 173 (17.40%) Software Developer
3 114 (11.47%) Senior
4 111 (11.17%) Software Engineer
5 110 (11.07%) Full Stack Developer
6 73 (7.34%) Senior Developer
7 69 (6.94%) React Developer
8 66 (6.64%) Lead
9 62 (6.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 62 (6.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 54 (5.43%) Architect
11 49 (4.93%) JavaScript Developer
12 46 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
13 40 (4.02%) Java Developer
14 39 (3.92%) .NET Developer
14 39 (3.92%) Python Developer
14 39 (3.92%) Python Engineer
15 38 (3.82%) Python Software Engineer
16 32 (3.22%) Lead Developer
17 27 (2.72%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 431 (43.36%) HTML
2 291 (29.28%) CSS
3 271 (27.26%) React
4 175 (17.61%) Node.js
5 122 (12.27%) .NET
6 111 (11.17%) AngularJS
7 100 (10.06%) REST
8 89 (8.95%) gRPC
8 89 (8.95%) Protocol Buffers
9 72 (7.24%) Pandas
10 70 (7.04%) Web Services
11 63 (6.34%) NumPy
11 63 (6.34%) SciPy
12 61 (6.14%) Vue
13 57 (5.73%) XML
14 52 (5.23%) RESTful
15 51 (5.13%) jQuery
16 48 (4.83%) GraphQL
17 44 (4.43%) JSON
18 42 (4.23%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 93 (9.36%) Fixed Income
2 67 (6.74%) Derivative
3 65 (6.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 64 (6.44%) Hedge funds
5 60 (6.04%) Equities
6 31 (3.12%) Mobile App
7 30 (3.02%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.51%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.31%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.21%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.91%) Clustering
15 7 (0.70%) Blockchain
15 7 (0.70%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.33%) Linux
2 24 (2.41%) Unix
3 23 (2.31%) Android
4 22 (2.21%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.71%) Windows
6 5 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (32.80%) Software Engineering
2 300 (30.18%) Agile
3 190 (19.11%) Full Stack Development
4 153 (15.39%) Code Quality
5 139 (13.98%) DevOps
6 134 (13.48%) Artificial Intelligence
7 122 (12.27%) Conversational UI
8 121 (12.17%) CI/CD
9 111 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
9 111 (11.17%) User Experience
10 107 (10.76%) Asset Management
11 99 (9.96%) Front End Development
12 97 (9.76%) Test Automation
13 84 (8.45%) Microservices
14 81 (8.15%) TDD
15 80 (8.05%) Web Development
16 79 (7.95%) Investment Management
17 71 (7.14%) Analytics
18 65 (6.54%) MVC
19 53 (5.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 386 (38.83%) Python
2 284 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 282 (28.37%) SQL
4 265 (26.66%) Java
5 258 (25.96%) C#
6 70 (7.04%) PHP
7 35 (3.52%) PowerShell
8 31 (3.12%) Bash
9 26 (2.62%) Go
10 23 (2.31%) Ruby
11 18 (1.81%) C++
12 15 (1.51%) Apex Code
12 15 (1.51%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.31%) Scala
14 9 (0.91%) Bicep
14 9 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.91%) SOQL
15 8 (0.80%) C
16 7 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 180 (18.11%) Degree
2 102 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 68 (6.84%) SC Cleared
4 28 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.70%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.30%) CEH
11 3 (0.30%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.30%) GIAC
11 3 (0.30%) GPEN
11 3 (0.30%) ISEB
11 3 (0.30%) OSCP
12 2 (0.20%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.20%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (7.75%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.83%) QA
3 24 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.71%) WCAG
5 8 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.40%) CDISC
7 4 (0.40%) NIST
8 3 (0.30%) GDPR
9 2 (0.20%) GxP
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.20%) PMO
9 2 (0.20%) SLA
10 1 (0.10%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.10%) HL7
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 70 (7.04%) Docker
2 30 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.11%) IAG
4 17 (1.71%) ACF2
4 17 (1.71%) RACF
5 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.30%) zsh
7 2 (0.20%) Firmware
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.10%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (7.75%) Kubernetes
2 43 (4.33%) Terraform
3 19 (1.91%) Ansible
4 15 (1.51%) Grafana
5 13 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.50%) CSIRT
7 5 (0.50%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.20%) logstash
8 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.10%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.10%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.10%) Puppet
9 1 (0.10%) vRealize
9 1 (0.10%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 121 (12.17%) PayPal
2 65 (6.54%) Microsoft
3 47 (4.73%) Oracle
4 36 (3.62%) Google
5 29 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 29 (2.92%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.31%) SAP
7 21 (2.11%) Adobe
8 19 (1.91%) Sybase
9 11 (1.11%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.80%) Optimizely
11 6 (0.60%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.60%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.50%) Monetate
12 5 (0.50%) Splunk
13 4 (0.40%) Ensighten
13 4 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.40%) Tealium
13 4 (0.40%) WooCommerce