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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 46 32
Rank change year-on-year -14 -14 -4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 78 46 85
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.14% 4.04% 4.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.79% 14.38% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 36 53
10th Percentile £358 £432 £330
25th Percentile £400 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £613
90th Percentile £595 £706 £650
England median daily rate £500 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.27% -6.01%
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 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 610 320 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.41% 28.07% 23.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 224 311
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £406 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £587
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £513 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -5.44% -1.46% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile £49.25 £30.00 £19.91
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -69.56%
75th Percentile £49.75 £97.98 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 -12 46 £488 -5.70% 125
South Yorkshire -24 28 £488 +3.72% 54
North Yorkshire - 3 £155 - 30
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 21
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 (6.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) CMS
3 1 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) InVision
1 2 (2.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 34 (43.59%) AWS
2 28 (35.90%) Azure
3 10 (12.82%) Serverless
4 9 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (11.54%) GCP
5 8 (10.26%) GitHub
6 7 (8.97%) SaaS
7 5 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.41%) Azure Storage
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.13%) npm
9 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (2.56%) AtomSphere
10 2 (2.56%) Boomi
10 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 8 (10.26%) MySQL
3 6 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.13%) Redis
5 2 (2.56%) Power BI
6 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.28%) Metadata
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 25 (32.05%) Jenkins
2 22 (28.21%) Git
3 13 (16.67%) JIRA
4 12 (15.38%) GitLab
5 11 (14.10%) Cucumber
6 9 (11.54%) Postman
7 7 (8.97%) Selenium
8 6 (7.69%) Cypress.io
8 6 (7.69%) REST Assured
8 6 (7.69%) TestRail
9 5 (6.41%) SonarQube
9 5 (6.41%) webpack
10 4 (5.13%) Mocha
11 3 (3.85%) Babel
12 2 (2.56%) git-flow
12 2 (2.56%) Maven
12 2 (2.56%) MSI
13 1 (1.28%) Bundler
13 1 (1.28%) Jasmine
13 1 (1.28%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 11 (14.10%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.82%) Finance
2 10 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.26%) Banking
4 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Military
6 1 (1.28%) Advertising
6 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.28%) Legal
6 1 (1.28%) Marketing
6 1 (1.28%) Polish Language
6 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (48.72%) Developer
2 18 (23.08%) Senior
3 9 (11.54%) Lead
3 9 (11.54%) Test Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 5 (6.41%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Tester
7 4 (5.13%) Lead Test Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.13%) React Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Security Tester
7 4 (5.13%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Automation Test Lead
8 3 (3.85%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.05%) CSS
1 25 (32.05%) HTML
2 21 (26.92%) Node.js
3 20 (25.64%) .NET
3 20 (25.64%) React
4 13 (16.67%) Jest
5 12 (15.38%) REST
6 11 (14.10%) jQuery
7 10 (12.82%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (10.26%) CSS3
8 8 (10.26%) HTML5
9 7 (8.97%) RESTful
10 6 (7.69%) Compass CSS Framework
10 6 (7.69%) JWT
10 6 (7.69%) LDAP
10 6 (7.69%) OAuth
10 6 (7.69%) SailPoint
10 6 (7.69%) SAML
10 6 (7.69%) Spring
10 6 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.69%) NHS
3 5 (6.41%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.41%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.56%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.28%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Android
1 2 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (48.72%) Agile
2 32 (41.03%) CI/CD
3 29 (37.18%) Test Automation
4 23 (29.49%) Front End Development
5 19 (24.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (23.08%) DevOps
6 18 (23.08%) Microservices
6 18 (23.08%) TDD
7 15 (19.23%) BDD
7 15 (19.23%) Manual Testing
8 12 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 12 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (15.38%) Test Strategy
9 11 (14.10%) Clean Code
9 11 (14.10%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (14.10%) MVC
10 10 (12.82%) Scrum
10 10 (12.82%) User Experience
11 9 (11.54%) Software Engineering
11 9 (11.54%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.05%) Java
2 24 (30.77%) Python
3 22 (28.21%) TypeScript
4 15 (19.23%) C#
4 15 (19.23%) SQL
5 9 (11.54%) PHP
6 3 (3.85%) Groovy
6 3 (3.85%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.56%) Bash
7 2 (2.56%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.28%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.28%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.28%) C
8 1 (1.28%) C++
8 1 (1.28%) Go
8 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.13%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.28%) CISM
5 1 (1.28%) CISSP
5 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.28%) OCP
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 10 (12.82%) QA
3 5 (6.41%) WCAG
4 1 (1.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.28%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (16.67%) Terraform
2 9 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.69%) Grafana
4 3 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.56%) Ansible
6 1 (1.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (12.82%) Splunk
2 8 (10.26%) GoldenSource
3 5 (6.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.41%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.85%) Adobe
4 3 (3.85%) Oracle
5 2 (2.56%) Cribl.io
5 2 (2.56%) Google
5 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.28%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.28%) SAP