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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 57 38
Rank change year-on-year -20 -19 -16
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 86 72 70
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.97% 4.27% 4.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.57% 12.12% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 40 50
10th Percentile £394 £357 £393
25th Percentile £445 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £572
90th Percentile £628 £610 £700
England median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% -

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 814 594 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.15% 35.23% 29.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 380 309
10th Percentile £361 £345 £356
25th Percentile £419 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £579
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £543
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £18.79 - £26.25
25th Percentile £21.24 £49.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £49.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.52% +23.75% +87.71%
75th Percentile £26.63 £49.75 £58.13
90th Percentile £34.80 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +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 14 October 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 October 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
South Yorkshire -3 45 £500 +2.56% 15
West Yorkshire -24 37 £500 +5.26% 23
North Yorkshire -8 4 £488 +214.52% 3
East Yorkshire -2 2 - - 3
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 15 (17.44%) Confluence
2 5 (5.81%) nginx
3 4 (4.65%) Apache
3 4 (4.65%) CMS
3 4 (4.65%) IBM HTTP Server
3 4 (4.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 4 (4.65%) Tomcat
3 4 (4.65%) WebLogic
3 4 (4.65%) WebLogic Portal
3 4 (4.65%) WebSphere
3 4 (4.65%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (4.65%) WebSphere Portal
3 4 (4.65%) WordPress
4 1 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.16%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (43.02%) GitHub
2 27 (31.40%) AWS
2 27 (31.40%) Azure
3 19 (22.09%) GCP
4 10 (11.63%) Serverless
5 7 (8.14%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (8.14%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.65%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.49%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (3.49%) Azure API Management
8 3 (3.49%) BrowserStack
8 3 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.33%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.33%) Codefresh
9 2 (2.33%) Prefect
10 1 (1.16%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) BIG-IP
1 5 (5.81%) DHCP
1 5 (5.81%) DNS
1 5 (5.81%) HTTP
2 4 (4.65%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.49%) Internet
4 1 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.65%) Neo4j
4 3 (3.49%) MySQL
4 3 (3.49%) Power BI
4 3 (3.49%) Tableau
5 2 (2.33%) Big Data
5 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.33%) ZAP BI
6 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.16%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (32.56%) JIRA
2 16 (18.60%) Git
3 15 (17.44%) Bitbucket
4 8 (9.30%) Jenkins
5 7 (8.14%) Cypress.io
5 7 (8.14%) JMeter
6 5 (5.81%) LoadRunner
7 4 (4.65%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.65%) Selenium
8 3 (3.49%) Claude Code
8 3 (3.49%) Postman
9 2 (2.33%) Applitools
9 2 (2.33%) eggPlant
9 2 (2.33%) Gatling
9 2 (2.33%) Newman
9 2 (2.33%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.16%) Appium
10 1 (1.16%) GitLab
10 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.16%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.44%) Finance
4 11 (12.79%) Banking
4 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.33%) Law
6 1 (1.16%) Marketing
6 1 (1.16%) Military
6 1 (1.16%) Publishing
6 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (47.67%) Developer
2 19 (22.09%) Lead
3 17 (19.77%) Senior
4 13 (15.12%) Java Developer
5 12 (13.95%) Python Developer
6 9 (10.47%) Architect
6 9 (10.47%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (9.30%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 8 (9.30%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.98%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 6 (6.98%) Lead Developer
9 5 (5.81%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Lead Python Developer
10 4 (4.65%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.65%) Test Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Lead Test Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Senior Software Developer
11 3 (3.49%) Senior Test Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (45.35%) HTML
2 24 (27.91%) React
3 22 (25.58%) CSS
4 19 (22.09%) Node.js
5 18 (20.93%) REST
6 17 (19.77%) Terraform
7 12 (13.95%) Kafka
8 11 (12.79%) RESTful
8 11 (12.79%) Vue
9 9 (10.47%) Flask
9 9 (10.47%) Playwright
10 7 (8.14%) .NET
10 7 (8.14%) Jest
10 7 (8.14%) Middleware
11 6 (6.98%) AngularJS
11 6 (6.98%) ASP.NET
12 5 (5.81%) HTML5
12 5 (5.81%) JSON
12 5 (5.81%) Sass
13 4 (4.65%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.81%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.65%) NHS
5 3 (3.49%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) AIX
3 1 (1.16%) Android
3 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.14%) Agile
2 45 (52.33%) CI/CD
3 30 (34.88%) Test Automation
4 21 (24.42%) DevOps
4 21 (24.42%) Microservices
5 19 (22.09%) API Development
6 16 (18.60%) Front End Development
6 16 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (18.60%) TDD
7 13 (15.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (15.12%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (13.95%) Software Engineering
8 12 (13.95%) Test Scripting
9 11 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (12.79%) Event-Driven
9 11 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (11.63%) BDD
10 10 (11.63%) Mentoring
10 10 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.47%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.05%) Python
1 31 (36.05%) SQL
2 28 (32.56%) TypeScript
3 27 (31.40%) Java
4 18 (20.93%) Kotlin
5 12 (13.95%) C#
6 5 (5.81%) PHP
7 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.65%) VBA
8 3 (3.49%) Ruby
9 1 (1.16%) Bash
9 1 (1.16%) C
9 1 (1.16%) Perl
9 1 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.49%) CISSP
4 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.47%) Accessibility
1 9 (10.47%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) WCAG
3 3 (3.49%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.16%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (17.44%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.65%) Ansible
2 4 (4.65%) Grafana
3 2 (2.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.30%) IBM
3 5 (5.81%) F5
3 5 (5.81%) Infoblox
3 5 (5.81%) New Relic
3 5 (5.81%) Splunk
4 4 (4.65%) Databricks
4 4 (4.65%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.65%) Oracle
5 3 (3.49%) OutSystems
6 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.33%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.16%) Adobe
7 1 (1.16%) Google