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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 51 41
Rank change year-on-year -22 -10 -18
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 85 61 76
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.01% 4.11% 4.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.48% 12.84% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 39 50
10th Percentile £401 £351 £324
25th Percentile £460 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £544
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.64% +1.16%
75th Percentile £588 £512 £634
90th Percentile £600 £540 £700
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -

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 811 475 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.68% 32.03% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 314 321
10th Percentile £363 £322 £340
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -2.85% -2.34%
75th Percentile £563 £542 £588
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
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% +37.79%
75th Percentile £26.63 £82.53 £61.88
90th Percentile £34.80 £92.15 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -1 48 £500 +11.11% 32
South Yorkshire -17 35 £500 +2.30% 14
North Yorkshire -6 2 £495 - 5
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 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 9 (10.59%) Confluence
2 4 (4.71%) CMS
2 4 (4.71%) WordPress
3 2 (2.35%) nginx
4 1 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.18%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.18%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.18%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.06%) AWS
2 20 (23.53%) GitHub
3 18 (21.18%) GCP
4 17 (20.00%) Azure
5 13 (15.29%) Serverless
6 9 (10.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (8.24%) Akamai
8 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (5.88%) Power Automate
8 5 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.88%) PowerApps
9 4 (4.71%) Azure Functions
9 4 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.53%) Figma
11 2 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.35%) Codefresh
12 1 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.47%) DNS
2 7 (8.24%) BIG-IP
2 7 (8.24%) DHCP
2 7 (8.24%) Network Security
3 6 (7.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.35%) HTTP
5 1 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.53%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.53%) MySQL
3 3 (3.53%) Power BI
4 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (25.88%) JIRA
2 13 (15.29%) Git
3 9 (10.59%) Bitbucket
4 8 (9.41%) Jenkins
5 6 (7.06%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.71%) Selenium
7 2 (2.35%) GitLab
8 1 (1.18%) Appium
8 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.18%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.18%) Subversion
8 1 (1.18%) Vite
8 1 (1.18%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.47%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.41%) Banking
4 7 (8.24%) Finance
5 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Law
6 1 (1.18%) Marketing
6 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Publishing
6 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (50.59%) Developer
2 12 (14.12%) Full-Stack Developer
2 12 (14.12%) Java Developer
2 12 (14.12%) Lead
2 12 (14.12%) Senior
3 11 (12.94%) Python Developer
4 9 (10.59%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 9 (10.59%) Senior Developer
5 8 (9.41%) Architect
6 7 (8.24%) Security Specialist
7 6 (7.06%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Technical Security Specialist
8 5 (5.88%) Technical Specialist
9 4 (4.71%) Application Security Specialist
9 4 (4.71%) Applications Specialist
9 4 (4.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (4.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (4.71%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.65%) HTML
2 27 (31.76%) React
3 23 (27.06%) CSS
4 19 (22.35%) Node.js
5 13 (15.29%) REST
6 11 (12.94%) Vue
7 10 (11.76%) RESTful
8 9 (10.59%) Flask
9 8 (9.41%) Kafka
10 6 (7.06%) CSS3
10 6 (7.06%) HTML5
10 6 (7.06%) Jest
10 6 (7.06%) JSON
10 6 (7.06%) Playwright
11 5 (5.88%) .NET
11 5 (5.88%) Redux
11 5 (5.88%) Sass
12 4 (4.71%) Spring Boot
12 4 (4.71%) Zustand
13 3 (3.53%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Cloud Native
1 7 (8.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 7 (8.24%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.88%) NHS
3 4 (4.71%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) AIX
2 2 (2.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (56.47%) Agile
2 33 (38.82%) CI/CD
3 21 (24.71%) DevOps
4 18 (21.18%) Test Automation
5 17 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (18.82%) Front End Development
7 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (14.12%) Software Engineering
9 11 (12.94%) API Development
9 11 (12.94%) Microservices
10 10 (11.76%) API Integration
10 10 (11.76%) Event-Driven
10 10 (11.76%) Migration
11 9 (10.59%) Code Quality
11 9 (10.59%) User Stories
12 8 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (9.41%) TDD
13 7 (8.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (38.82%) Python
2 25 (29.41%) Java
3 20 (23.53%) TypeScript
4 17 (20.00%) SQL
5 13 (15.29%) Kotlin
6 9 (10.59%) C#
7 6 (7.06%) VBA
8 4 (4.71%) PHP
9 3 (3.53%) Ruby
10 1 (1.18%) Bash
10 1 (1.18%) Perl
10 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.18%) CISM
4 1 (1.18%) CISSP
4 1 (1.18%) Degree
4 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.94%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.59%) WCAG
3 6 (7.06%) QA
4 1 (1.18%) HL7
System Software
1 18 (21.18%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (20.00%) Terraform
2 15 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.24%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) Argo
5 1 (1.18%) Grafana
5 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.24%) F5
2 7 (8.24%) Infoblox
3 4 (4.71%) Brio
4 3 (3.53%) Google
5 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.35%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.18%) Adobe
6 1 (1.18%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.18%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.18%) Databricks
6 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.18%) New Relic
6 1 (1.18%) Okta
6 1 (1.18%) Splunk