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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 48 28
Rank change year-on-year -23 -20 0
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 74 37 91
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.20% 3.84% 5.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.79% 12.01% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 30 41
10th Percentile £377 £349 £330
25th Percentile £417 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £650
90th Percentile £588 £588 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.33%

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 686 308 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.63% 31.98% 25.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 213 301
10th Percentile £358 £326 £300
25th Percentile £415 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £624 £650 £625
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £31.62 £23.62
25th Percentile - £44.87 £29.89
Median hourly rate - £91.05 £41.60
Median % change year-on-year - +118.86% -33.44%
75th Percentile - £101.14 £53.30
90th Percentile - £102.00 £59.57
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.32
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.03% -3.49%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 54 £485 -1.77% 39
South Yorkshire -49 19 £475 -9.52% 12
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 4
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 (12.16%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.35%) nginx
2 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.35%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.35%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.35%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 34 (45.95%) AWS
2 23 (31.08%) Azure
3 17 (22.97%) GCP
4 13 (17.57%) Serverless
5 9 (12.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (9.46%) Akamai
6 7 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (9.46%) GitHub
7 6 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (8.11%) SaaS
8 5 (6.76%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Storage
8 5 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.76%) Power Automate
8 5 (6.76%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.76%) PowerApps
9 4 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.86%) DNS
2 8 (10.81%) Network Security
3 4 (5.41%) BIG-IP
3 4 (5.41%) DHCP
3 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.35%) Firewall
4 1 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.11%) MySQL
3 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.05%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.05%) Power BI
5 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.35%) Metadata
6 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (27.03%) Jenkins
2 17 (22.97%) JIRA
3 10 (13.51%) Git
3 10 (13.51%) Selenium
4 9 (12.16%) GitLab
5 8 (10.81%) Cucumber
6 6 (8.11%) Postman
6 6 (8.11%) REST Assured
6 6 (8.11%) TestRail
7 3 (4.05%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.70%) MSI
8 2 (2.70%) Vite
9 1 (1.35%) Maven
9 1 (1.35%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.35%) Subversion
9 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 16 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.46%) Banking
4 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.05%) Finance
5 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Advertising
6 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Military
6 1 (1.35%) Polish Language
6 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (47.30%) Developer
2 12 (16.22%) Senior
3 9 (12.16%) Java Developer
3 9 (12.16%) Lead
3 9 (12.16%) Senior Developer
4 8 (10.81%) Test Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (9.46%) Security Specialist
6 6 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Architect
7 5 (6.76%) Lead Test Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) React Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Technical Security Specialist
7 5 (6.76%) Technical Specialist
7 5 (6.76%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Tester
8 4 (5.41%) Applications Specialist
8 4 (5.41%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) React
2 18 (24.32%) Node.js
3 14 (18.92%) REST
4 10 (13.51%) CSS
5 9 (12.16%) HTML
5 9 (12.16%) Spring Boot
6 8 (10.81%) .NET
6 8 (10.81%) Redux
7 7 (9.46%) Spring
8 6 (8.11%) LDAP
8 6 (8.11%) SailPoint
8 6 (8.11%) Vue
8 6 (8.11%) Zustand
9 5 (6.76%) Flask
9 5 (6.76%) Jest
9 5 (6.76%) JWT
9 5 (6.76%) OAuth
9 5 (6.76%) OpenID
9 5 (6.76%) RESTful
9 5 (6.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 7 (9.46%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.11%) NHS
3 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.35%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (50.00%) Agile
2 34 (45.95%) CI/CD
3 26 (35.14%) DevOps
4 18 (24.32%) Test Automation
5 15 (20.27%) Test Strategy
6 12 (16.22%) Front End Development
6 12 (16.22%) Manual Testing
7 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (13.51%) Scrum
9 9 (12.16%) API Integration
9 9 (12.16%) BDD
9 9 (12.16%) Code Quality
9 9 (12.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (12.16%) Migration
9 9 (12.16%) Software Engineering
9 9 (12.16%) TDD
10 8 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (10.81%) Microservices
10 8 (10.81%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.65%) Python
2 24 (32.43%) Java
3 16 (21.62%) TypeScript
4 11 (14.86%) SQL
5 9 (12.16%) PHP
6 7 (9.46%) C#
7 4 (5.41%) VBA
8 3 (4.05%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.70%) Groovy
10 1 (1.35%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.35%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.35%) Bash
10 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.70%) Degree
5 1 (1.35%) CISM
5 1 (1.35%) CISSP
5 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) Accessibility
2 8 (10.81%) WCAG
3 7 (9.46%) QA
System Software
1 19 (25.68%) Docker
2 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.22%) Terraform
3 6 (8.11%) Ansible
4 4 (5.41%) Grafana
5 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.35%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.81%) Splunk
3 7 (9.46%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.41%) Brio
4 4 (5.41%) F5
4 4 (5.41%) Infoblox
5 2 (2.70%) Cribl.io
5 2 (2.70%) Google
5 2 (2.70%) Oracle
5 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.35%) Adobe
6 1 (1.35%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.35%) Databricks
6 1 (1.35%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.35%) Okta
6 1 (1.35%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.35%) Workday