Hybrid/Remote JavaScript Engineer Contract Job Trends

JavaScript Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median JavaScript Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 305 372
Rank change year-on-year +7 +67 +139
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Engineer 14 16 25
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.14% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 23
10th Percentile £445 £368 £478
25th Percentile £494 £478 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £1,050 £700
90th Percentile £615 - -
UK median daily rate £463 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -19.57% -4.17% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,499 11,342 17,619
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 93.16% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,225 7,117 12,347
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 198 385
10th Percentile £14.83 £19.21 £17.06
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.93 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.68 £40.58 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% -18.85% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.88 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +53.98%

JavaScript Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'JavaScript Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

JavaScript Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

JavaScript Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid JavaScript Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid JavaScript Engineer job vacancies

JavaScript Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing JavaScript Engineer over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

JavaScript Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, JavaScript Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring JavaScript Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (92.86%) TypeScript
3 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 9 (64.29%) React
5 8 (57.14%) Node.js
5 8 (57.14%) Software Engineering
6 7 (50.00%) Agile
7 6 (42.86%) AWS
7 6 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (42.86%) Serverless
8 5 (35.71%) AI
8 5 (35.71%) DevOps
8 5 (35.71%) GraphQL
9 4 (28.57%) Docker
9 4 (28.57%) E-Commerce
9 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
10 3 (21.43%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
10 3 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (21.43%) CSS
10 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
10 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
10 3 (21.43%) Git
10 3 (21.43%) GitHub
10 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (21.43%) Java
10 3 (21.43%) Jest
10 3 (21.43%) JSX

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (42.86%) Serverless
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon Cognito
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) Google Gemini
4 1 (7.14%) n8n
4 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Vertex AI
4 1 (7.14%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Front Office
3 1 (7.14%) German Language
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) React
2 8 (57.14%) Node.js
3 5 (35.71%) GraphQL
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
4 3 (21.43%) Jest
4 3 (21.43%) Next.js
4 3 (21.43%) RESTful
4 3 (21.43%) Sass
5 2 (14.29%) Enzyme
5 2 (14.29%) Playwright
6 1 (7.14%) CrewAI
6 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
6 1 (7.14%) HTML
6 1 (7.14%) NestJS
6 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
6 1 (7.14%) Vitest
6 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
6 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) AI
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) E-Commerce
5 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Microservices
6 3 (21.43%) TDD
7 2 (14.29%) BDD
7 2 (14.29%) Component Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (14.29%) Conversational UI
7 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
8 1 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (92.86%) TypeScript
3 3 (21.43%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) JSX
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.14%) Okta
2 1 (7.14%) UiPath
59 hybrid/remote JavaScript Engineer jobs