JavaScript Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 25 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 699 1,007 1,884
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 7.06% 6.56% 7.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.90% 19.62% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 684 1,402
10th Percentile £358 £341 £375
25th Percentile £414 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £613
90th Percentile £838 £850 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 39
10th Percentile £38.88 £35.00 £43.60
25th Percentile £61.25 £37.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.49% -42.50% +23.89%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £65.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.20% -10.71% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

JavaScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

JavaScript
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JavaScript trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 remote working options citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 58 (8.30%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (7.01%) Apache
3 19 (2.72%) Confluence
4 17 (2.43%) SharePoint
5 15 (2.15%) CMS
6 6 (0.86%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.72%) Moodle
8 4 (0.57%) Drupal
8 4 (0.57%) WordPress
9 3 (0.43%) IIS
10 2 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.29%) nginx
10 2 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Magnolia
11 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.43%) Sketch
4 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.29%) InVision
4 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.14%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.14%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 23 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.29%) Endur
2 2 (0.29%) iTrent
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.14%) BASE24
3 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 317 (45.35%) AWS
2 158 (22.60%) Azure
3 140 (20.03%) GCP
4 71 (10.16%) Power Platform
5 70 (10.01%) Serverless
6 58 (8.30%) dbt
7 54 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (6.01%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (5.72%) GitHub
12 36 (5.15%) Amazon S3
12 36 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
13 33 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (4.58%) PowerApps
14 32 (4.58%) Snowflake
15 29 (4.15%) Power Automate
16 27 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
17 24 (3.43%) SaaS
18 22 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.15%) HTTP
2 7 (1.00%) SSL
3 6 (0.86%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.72%) Firewall
4 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.57%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.57%) Internet
6 3 (0.43%) IPsec
6 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.43%) POP3
6 3 (0.43%) SMTP
6 3 (0.43%) SNMP
6 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.29%) DNS
7 2 (0.29%) SMS
8 1 (0.14%) ATM
8 1 (0.14%) DHCP
8 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (8.44%) Amazon Athena
3 58 (8.30%) Apache Iceberg
3 58 (8.30%) Dremio
4 56 (8.01%) Apache Arrow
5 51 (7.30%) Data Lake
6 40 (5.72%) Apache Ignite
7 39 (5.58%) SQL Server
8 34 (4.86%) Power BI
9 32 (4.58%) Relational Database
10 26 (3.72%) MySQL
11 23 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
11 23 (3.29%) DynamoDB
12 21 (3.00%) Redis
13 19 (2.72%) MongoDB
13 19 (2.72%) Neo4j
14 16 (2.29%) NoSQL
15 10 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
17 7 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 108 (15.45%) Git
2 61 (8.73%) JIRA
3 48 (6.87%) Jenkins
4 40 (5.72%) GitLab
5 39 (5.58%) Cypress.io
6 31 (4.43%) Postman
7 19 (2.72%) Selenium
8 17 (2.43%) webpack
9 16 (2.29%) Bitbucket
10 15 (2.15%) Maven
10 15 (2.15%) REST Assured
11 14 (2.00%) JMeter
12 13 (1.86%) SonarQube
13 11 (1.57%) Appium
14 9 (1.29%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.29%) SoapUI
15 8 (1.14%) Subversion
16 7 (1.00%) Eclipse
16 7 (1.00%) Gatling
16 7 (1.00%) JUnit
General
1 173 (24.75%) Finance
2 139 (19.89%) Social Skills
3 132 (18.88%) Front Office
4 102 (14.59%) Banking
5 98 (14.02%) Public Sector
6 51 (7.30%) Investment Banking
7 41 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (1.72%) Marketing
9 10 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.29%) Back Office
11 8 (1.14%) Advertising
12 5 (0.72%) Retail
13 4 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.57%) Military
13 4 (0.57%) Publishing
14 3 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 351 (50.21%) Developer
2 175 (25.04%) Software Engineer
3 99 (14.16%) Senior
4 87 (12.45%) AWS Engineer
5 78 (11.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 66 (9.44%) Python Engineer
7 62 (8.87%) AWS Software Engineer
7 62 (8.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 51 (7.30%) Lead
9 50 (7.15%) React Developer
10 42 (6.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 42 (6.01%) Python Developer
10 42 (6.01%) Python Software Engineer
11 39 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
12 38 (5.44%) AWS Developer
13 34 (4.86%) Java Engineer
13 34 (4.86%) JavaScript Engineer
13 34 (4.86%) Senior Developer
14 30 (4.29%) Architect
14 30 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (40.49%) React
2 192 (27.47%) HTML
3 188 (26.90%) Node.js
4 186 (26.61%) CSS
5 144 (20.60%) AngularJS
6 93 (13.30%) .NET
7 86 (12.30%) Redux
8 76 (10.87%) REST
9 70 (10.01%) Vue
10 56 (8.01%) NumPy
10 56 (8.01%) Pandas
10 56 (8.01%) SciPy
11 51 (7.30%) Web Services
12 45 (6.44%) RESTful
13 41 (5.87%) gRPC
13 41 (5.87%) Protocol Buffers
14 35 (5.01%) SOAP
15 31 (4.43%) Spring Boot
16 30 (4.29%) JSON
17 29 (4.15%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 108 (15.45%) Fixed Income
2 60 (8.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (7.73%) Equities
4 45 (6.44%) Hedge funds
5 35 (5.01%) Derivative
6 29 (4.15%) Product Ownership
7 24 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.15%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.00%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.86%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.72%) Pricing Data
13 11 (1.57%) CMDB
14 10 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.43%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.14%) Cloud Native
16 7 (1.00%) PKI
17 6 (0.86%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.58%) Linux
2 12 (1.72%) Windows
3 10 (1.43%) Unix
4 8 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.72%) Android
5 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (50.21%) Agile
2 234 (33.48%) Software Engineering
3 161 (23.03%) CI/CD
4 127 (18.17%) DevOps
5 119 (17.02%) Asset Management
6 118 (16.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 103 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (13.73%) Microservices
8 96 (13.73%) Test Automation
9 93 (13.30%) Fintech
10 92 (13.16%) Investment Management
11 86 (12.30%) User Experience
12 79 (11.30%) TDD
13 55 (7.87%) Scrum
14 54 (7.73%) OO
15 52 (7.44%) Analytics
15 52 (7.44%) Front End Development
16 51 (7.30%) Mentoring
17 48 (6.87%) Visualisation
18 45 (6.44%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 272 (38.91%) TypeScript
2 264 (37.77%) Python
3 183 (26.18%) Java
4 121 (17.31%) C#
5 119 (17.02%) SQL
6 31 (4.43%) C++
6 31 (4.43%) PHP
7 27 (3.86%) PowerShell
8 21 (3.00%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.57%) C
9 11 (1.57%) Ruby
10 10 (1.43%) Bash
11 9 (1.29%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.14%) Ada
12 8 (1.14%) Go
13 6 (0.86%) Groovy
14 5 (0.72%) Scala
15 4 (0.57%) Perl
16 3 (0.43%) RPG
Qualifications
1 131 (18.74%) Security Cleared
2 113 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.58%) Degree
4 16 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.57%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.29%) ISEB
9 2 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.14%) MCAD
10 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.44%) Accessibility
2 31 (4.43%) QA
3 13 (1.86%) WCAG
4 7 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.29%) GDPR
7 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.14%) GRC
8 1 (0.14%) HL7
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 92 (13.16%) Docker
2 10 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.43%) RACF
4 2 (0.29%) OpenAM
4 2 (0.29%) OpenDJ
4 2 (0.29%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 84 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 46 (6.58%) Terraform
3 13 (1.86%) Grafana
4 12 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.14%) Ansible
6 6 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.72%) Packer
7 5 (0.72%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.57%) Perfmon
9 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.29%) Puppet
10 1 (0.14%) Istio
10 1 (0.14%) Kibana
10 1 (0.14%) Nagios
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 70 (10.01%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.29%) ServiceNow
3 36 (5.15%) Oracle
4 25 (3.58%) Google
5 20 (2.86%) Databricks
6 10 (1.43%) Adobe
7 9 (1.29%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.29%) ForgeRock
7 9 (1.29%) OutSystems
7 9 (1.29%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.14%) SAP
9 7 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.00%) Splunk
10 6 (0.86%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.86%) PayPal
11 5 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (0.57%) New Relic
12 4 (0.57%) Ping Identity
12 4 (0.57%) Reuters
12 4 (0.57%) Zend