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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 37 23
Rank change year-on-year -32 -14 +9
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 63 47 108
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.20% 4.91% 5.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.08% 15.72% 23.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 52
10th Percentile £363 £450 £330
25th Percentile £400 £470 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £625
90th Percentile £605 £619 £650
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.30
25th Percentile - - £35.59
Median hourly rate - - £44.39
75th Percentile - - £53.20
90th Percentile - - £58.48
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -8.40%

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 625 299 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.74% 31.21% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 202 331
10th Percentile £358 £359 £330
25th Percentile £425 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £546 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
England median daily rate £513 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -4.38% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £26.25 £16.97
25th Percentile £49.25 £27.56 £19.44
Median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +130.07% -57.15%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.66 £62.00
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -7 46 £500 - 43
South Yorkshire -53 13 £500 -4.76% 25
North Yorkshire - 3 £155 - 13
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 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 5 (7.94%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 35 (55.56%) AWS
2 28 (44.44%) Azure
3 9 (14.29%) GCP
4 8 (12.70%) GitHub
4 8 (12.70%) Serverless
5 7 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (11.11%) SaaS
6 5 (7.94%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (7.94%) Azure Storage
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.17%) AtomSphere
9 2 (3.17%) Azure API Management
9 2 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.17%) Boomi
9 2 (3.17%) npm
9 2 (3.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.70%) MySQL
2 6 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.94%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.35%) Redis
5 3 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.59%) Metadata
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 12 (19.05%) Git
3 11 (17.46%) Cucumber
3 11 (17.46%) GitLab
3 11 (17.46%) JIRA
4 8 (12.70%) Selenium
5 7 (11.11%) Postman
6 6 (9.52%) Cypress.io
6 6 (9.52%) REST Assured
6 6 (9.52%) TestRail
7 4 (6.35%) Mocha
8 3 (4.76%) SonarQube
8 3 (4.76%) webpack
9 2 (3.17%) git-flow
9 2 (3.17%) Maven
9 2 (3.17%) MSI
10 1 (1.59%) Babel
10 1 (1.59%) Bundler
10 1 (1.59%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
1 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.94%) Banking
2 5 (7.94%) Finance
3 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Military
5 1 (1.59%) Advertising
5 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.59%) Polish Language
5 1 (1.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (50.79%) Developer
2 20 (31.75%) Senior
3 10 (15.87%) Lead
3 10 (15.87%) Senior Developer
3 10 (15.87%) Test Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 5 (7.94%) AWS Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Lead Test Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) React Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Tester
7 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.35%) PHP Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Security Tester
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (36.51%) Node.js
2 18 (28.57%) React
3 15 (23.81%) CSS
3 15 (23.81%) HTML
4 12 (19.05%) Jest
5 11 (17.46%) REST
6 9 (14.29%) Spring Boot
7 8 (12.70%) .NET
7 8 (12.70%) RESTful
8 7 (11.11%) Spring
9 6 (9.52%) CSS3
9 6 (9.52%) HTML5
9 6 (9.52%) JWT
9 6 (9.52%) LDAP
9 6 (9.52%) OAuth
9 6 (9.52%) SailPoint
9 6 (9.52%) SAML
10 5 (7.94%) OpenID
10 5 (7.94%) Redux
11 4 (6.35%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) NHS
2 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Android
2 1 (1.59%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 27 (42.86%) Agile
3 19 (30.16%) Test Automation
4 17 (26.98%) DevOps
5 16 (25.40%) Microservices
6 15 (23.81%) BDD
6 15 (23.81%) Manual Testing
7 14 (22.22%) TDD
8 13 (20.63%) Test Strategy
9 12 (19.05%) Scrum
10 10 (15.87%) Front End Development
11 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (14.29%) Test Scripting
12 8 (12.70%) Clean Code
12 8 (12.70%) Code Quality
12 8 (12.70%) Identity Access Management
13 7 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 7 (11.11%) Software Engineering
13 7 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.86%) Java
2 20 (31.75%) Python
2 20 (31.75%) TypeScript
3 16 (25.40%) SQL
4 10 (15.87%) PHP
5 3 (4.76%) C#
5 3 (4.76%) Groovy
5 3 (4.76%) Kotlin
6 2 (3.17%) Bash
6 2 (3.17%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.59%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.59%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.59%) C++
7 1 (1.59%) Go
7 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.17%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) CISM
4 1 (1.59%) CISSP
4 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.59%) OCP
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.59%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.81%) Accessibility
2 8 (12.70%) QA
3 6 (9.52%) WCAG
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (23.81%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (15.87%) Terraform
2 9 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.52%) Grafana
4 3 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.17%) Ansible
6 1 (1.59%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Splunk
2 6 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle
4 2 (3.17%) Cribl.io
4 2 (3.17%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) Adobe
5 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.59%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) Workday