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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 45 28
Rank change year-on-year -24 -17 -9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 79 45 98
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.05% 4.28% 5.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.55% 13.98% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 34 43
10th Percentile £399 £354 £315
25th Percentile £447 £416 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -14.54% +13.86%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £650
90th Percentile - £578 £675
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.62% -4.55% -

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 749 322 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.93% 30.61% 28.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 225 338
10th Percentile £356 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £405 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £588
90th Percentile £615 £600 £632
England median daily rate £513 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.37% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - £31.53 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £61.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% -47.02% -
75th Percentile £25.00 £66.51 £63.75
90th Percentile - £85.74 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 0 49 £500 +11.11% 28
South Yorkshire -49 31 £464 -11.62% 15
North Yorkshire -6 1 £550 - 5
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 7 (8.86%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) nginx
2 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.27%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.27%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.51%) AWS
2 20 (25.32%) Azure
3 19 (24.05%) GCP
4 12 (15.19%) GitHub
5 10 (12.66%) Serverless
6 9 (11.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (8.86%) Akamai
8 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.33%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (6.33%) Power Automate
8 5 (6.33%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.33%) PowerApps
8 5 (6.33%) SaaS
9 4 (5.06%) Azure Functions
10 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.53%) Figma
11 2 (2.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.72%) DNS
2 8 (10.13%) Network Security
3 7 (8.86%) BIG-IP
3 7 (8.86%) DHCP
4 6 (7.59%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.53%) HTTP
6 1 (1.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (1.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.59%) MySQL
3 4 (5.06%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.80%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.80%) Power BI
5 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (26.58%) JIRA
2 14 (17.72%) Jenkins
3 11 (13.92%) Git
4 9 (11.39%) Selenium
5 8 (10.13%) GitLab
6 7 (8.86%) Cucumber
7 6 (7.59%) Bitbucket
7 6 (7.59%) Postman
7 6 (7.59%) REST Assured
7 6 (7.59%) TestRail
8 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.27%) Appium
9 1 (1.27%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.27%) Subversion
9 1 (1.27%) Vite
9 1 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Banking
2 9 (11.39%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.59%) Finance
4 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.27%) Law
6 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (53.16%) Developer
2 15 (18.99%) Senior
3 13 (16.46%) Java Developer
3 13 (16.46%) Senior Developer
4 11 (13.92%) Lead
5 10 (12.66%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (10.13%) Architect
6 8 (10.13%) Test Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (8.86%) Security Specialist
7 7 (8.86%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 6 (7.59%) Lead Test Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) Python Developer
9 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 5 (6.33%) Technical Security Specialist
9 5 (6.33%) Technical Specialist
9 5 (6.33%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Application Security Specialist
10 4 (5.06%) Applications Specialist
10 4 (5.06%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.05%) Node.js
1 19 (24.05%) React
2 17 (21.52%) HTML
3 13 (16.46%) REST
4 12 (15.19%) CSS
5 10 (12.66%) .NET
6 9 (11.39%) Redux
7 7 (8.86%) RESTful
7 7 (8.86%) Spring Boot
7 7 (8.86%) Vue
7 7 (8.86%) Zustand
8 6 (7.59%) JSON
8 6 (7.59%) LDAP
8 6 (7.59%) SailPoint
8 6 (7.59%) Spring
9 5 (6.33%) OpenID
10 4 (5.06%) Flask
11 3 (3.80%) Django
11 3 (3.80%) Kafka
11 3 (3.80%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 7 (8.86%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.53%) NHS
4 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) AIX
2 2 (2.53%) Unix
3 1 (1.27%) Android
3 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (51.90%) Agile
2 33 (41.77%) CI/CD
3 26 (32.91%) DevOps
4 20 (25.32%) Test Automation
5 16 (20.25%) Front End Development
6 13 (16.46%) Code Quality
6 13 (16.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (13.92%) TDD
7 11 (13.92%) Test Strategy
8 10 (12.66%) API Integration
8 10 (12.66%) Migration
9 9 (11.39%) API Development
9 9 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (11.39%) Responsive Web Design
9 9 (11.39%) Test Scripting
10 8 (10.13%) API Testing
10 8 (10.13%) Incident Response
10 8 (10.13%) Microservices
10 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 35 (44.30%) Python
2 28 (35.44%) Java
3 18 (22.78%) SQL
4 16 (20.25%) TypeScript
5 9 (11.39%) Kotlin
5 9 (11.39%) PHP
6 8 (10.13%) C#
7 6 (7.59%) VBA
8 3 (3.80%) Ruby
9 1 (1.27%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.27%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.27%) Perl
9 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.27%) Scala
9 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.27%) CISM
4 1 (1.27%) CISSP
4 1 (1.27%) Degree
4 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.92%) Accessibility
2 9 (11.39%) QA
2 9 (11.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (22.78%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (18.99%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.39%) Terraform
3 7 (8.86%) Ansible
4 1 (1.27%) Grafana
4 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) F5
2 7 (8.86%) Infoblox
2 7 (8.86%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.06%) Brio
4 3 (3.80%) Google
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle
5 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.53%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.27%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.27%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.27%) Databricks
6 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.27%) New Relic
6 1 (1.27%) Okta
6 1 (1.27%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.27%) Splunk
6 1 (1.27%) Workday