JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 54 33
Rank change year-on-year -16 -21 -8
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 82 64 79
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.88% 4.16% 5.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.07% 12.62% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 41 55
10th Percentile £391 £345 £351
25th Percentile £460 £388 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £515 £625
90th Percentile £623 £550 £700
England median daily rate £523 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +2.96% -7.73% -

All Programming Languages
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 814 507 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.57% 32.94% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 333 325
10th Percentile £353 £325 £344
25th Percentile £424 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £505
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.96% -3.81%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £608 £650
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £18.79 £37.07 £34.38
25th Percentile £21.24 £45.03 £37.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +34.92% +92.35%
75th Percentile £26.63 £82.53 £61.88
90th Percentile £34.80 £92.15 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Yorkshire

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
West Yorkshire -6 47 £515 +14.44% 35
South Yorkshire -28 33 £500 +2.30% 21
East Yorkshire -3 2 - - 4
North Yorkshire -9 2 £495 +219.35% 7
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 8 (9.76%) Confluence
2 4 (4.88%) CMS
2 4 (4.88%) WordPress
3 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.22%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.22%) nginx
3 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.22%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.22%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.93%) AWS
2 23 (28.05%) GitHub
3 17 (20.73%) Azure
4 16 (19.51%) GCP
5 13 (15.85%) Serverless
6 7 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (4.88%) Akamai
9 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.66%) Figma
9 3 (3.66%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.66%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.44%) Codefresh
11 1 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.41%) DNS
2 7 (8.54%) BIG-IP
2 7 (8.54%) DHCP
3 6 (7.32%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.88%) Network Security
5 2 (2.44%) HTTP
6 1 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.66%) MySQL
4 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.44%) Tableau
5 1 (1.22%) Big Data
5 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.22%) Power BI
5 1 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (25.61%) JIRA
2 14 (17.07%) Git
3 10 (12.20%) Bitbucket
4 9 (10.98%) Jenkins
5 6 (7.32%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.88%) JMeter
6 4 (4.88%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.44%) GitLab
7 2 (2.44%) Selenium
8 1 (1.22%) Appium
8 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.22%) eggPlant
8 1 (1.22%) Gatling
8 1 (1.22%) Postman
8 1 (1.22%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.22%) Vite
8 1 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.85%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.20%) Banking
4 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.98%) Finance
5 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Law
6 1 (1.22%) Marketing
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Publishing
6 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (51.22%) Developer
2 16 (19.51%) Lead
3 13 (15.85%) Python Developer
3 13 (15.85%) Senior
4 12 (14.63%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (14.63%) Java Developer
5 9 (10.98%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Senior Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Architect
8 6 (7.32%) Lead Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (4.88%) Lead Python Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Security Specialist
9 4 (4.88%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (3.66%) Lead Test Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Software Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (42.68%) HTML
2 26 (31.71%) React
3 25 (30.49%) CSS
4 18 (21.95%) Terraform
5 17 (20.73%) Node.js
6 13 (15.85%) REST
6 13 (15.85%) Vue
7 12 (14.63%) Kafka
8 10 (12.20%) Flask
8 10 (12.20%) RESTful
9 6 (7.32%) CSS3
9 6 (7.32%) HTML5
9 6 (7.32%) JSON
9 6 (7.32%) Playwright
10 5 (6.10%) .NET
10 5 (6.10%) Jest
10 5 (6.10%) Sass
11 4 (4.88%) Redux
12 3 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (3.66%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.10%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (6.10%) NHS
2 5 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Linux
2 2 (2.44%) AIX
2 2 (2.44%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Android
3 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (58.54%) Agile
2 35 (42.68%) CI/CD
3 19 (23.17%) Test Automation
4 18 (21.95%) DevOps
5 17 (20.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (18.29%) Front End Development
8 12 (14.63%) API Development
8 12 (14.63%) User Stories
9 11 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (13.41%) Event-Driven
9 11 (13.41%) Microservices
10 10 (12.20%) Data Analysis
10 10 (12.20%) Software Engineering
11 9 (10.98%) API Integration
11 9 (10.98%) Architectural Design
11 9 (10.98%) Code Quality
11 9 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.98%) TDD
12 8 (9.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.68%) Python
2 25 (30.49%) Java
3 20 (24.39%) SQL
4 19 (23.17%) TypeScript
5 14 (17.07%) Kotlin
6 7 (8.54%) C#
7 6 (7.32%) VBA
8 4 (4.88%) PHP
9 3 (3.66%) Ruby
10 1 (1.22%) Bash
10 1 (1.22%) Perl
10 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) Accessibility
2 8 (9.76%) WCAG
3 5 (6.10%) QA
4 2 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.22%) HL7
System Software
1 20 (24.39%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (19.51%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.32%) Ansible
3 4 (4.88%) Grafana
4 2 (2.44%) Argo
5 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.54%) F5
2 7 (8.54%) Infoblox
3 4 (4.88%) New Relic
3 4 (4.88%) Splunk
4 3 (3.66%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.66%) Google
4 3 (3.66%) IBM
5 2 (2.44%) Brio
5 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.44%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.22%) Adobe
6 1 (1.22%) Databricks
6 1 (1.22%) Okta