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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 37 26
Rank change year-on-year -38 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 69 43 109
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.31% 4.71% 5.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.45% 14.98% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 32 50
10th Percentile £384 £450 £330
25th Percentile £413 £468 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% -8.43%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £625
90th Percentile £610 £588 £650
England median daily rate £492 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% - -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 £51.38 £60.00
% change year-on-year +26.52% -14.38% -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 660 287 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.65% 31.43% 25.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 201 340
10th Percentile £360 £350 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £666 £650 £625
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £26.25 £21.64
25th Percentile £49.25 £27.56 £24.95
Median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £44.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +38.80% -28.98%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.66 £62.44
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.23
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +4.13% -6.92%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -1 50 £500 - 49
South Yorkshire -59 15 £500 -4.76% 21
North Yorkshire - 3 £155 - 9
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 6
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 (10.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.45%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 37 (53.62%) AWS
2 30 (43.48%) Azure
3 11 (15.94%) GCP
4 10 (14.49%) Serverless
5 8 (11.59%) GitHub
6 7 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.14%) SaaS
7 5 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.25%) Azure Storage
8 4 (5.80%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.90%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (2.90%) BIG-IP
2 2 (2.90%) DHCP
2 2 (2.90%) Network Security
2 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.59%) MySQL
2 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.25%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.80%) Redis
4 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.90%) Power BI
7 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.45%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.45%) Metadata
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 13 (18.84%) JIRA
3 11 (15.94%) Cucumber
3 11 (15.94%) Git
3 11 (15.94%) GitLab
4 9 (13.04%) Selenium
5 6 (8.70%) Cypress.io
5 6 (8.70%) Postman
5 6 (8.70%) REST Assured
5 6 (8.70%) TestRail
6 4 (5.80%) Mocha
7 3 (4.35%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.90%) git-flow
8 2 (2.90%) Maven
8 2 (2.90%) MSI
8 2 (2.90%) webpack
9 1 (1.45%) Bundler
9 1 (1.45%) ESLint
9 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.45%) Vite
General
1 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
2 9 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Banking
4 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.35%) Finance
5 2 (2.90%) Military
6 1 (1.45%) Advertising
6 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.45%) Polish Language
6 1 (1.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (50.72%) Developer
2 21 (30.43%) Senior
3 12 (17.39%) Senior Developer
4 11 (15.94%) Lead
4 11 (15.94%) Test Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 7 (10.14%) Java Developer
6 7 (10.14%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Lead Test Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) AWS Developer
8 5 (7.25%) React Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Tester
9 4 (5.80%) Architect
9 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (5.80%) PHP Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Security Tester
9 4 (5.80%) Senior Test Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.23%) Node.js
2 19 (27.54%) React
3 14 (20.29%) CSS
3 14 (20.29%) HTML
4 11 (15.94%) Jest
4 11 (15.94%) REST
5 8 (11.59%) Spring Boot
6 7 (10.14%) RESTful
7 6 (8.70%) .NET
7 6 (8.70%) JWT
7 6 (8.70%) LDAP
7 6 (8.70%) OAuth
7 6 (8.70%) Redux
7 6 (8.70%) SailPoint
7 6 (8.70%) SAML
7 6 (8.70%) Spring
8 5 (7.25%) CSS3
8 5 (7.25%) HTML5
8 5 (7.25%) OpenID
9 4 (5.80%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) NHS
1 6 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.90%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.45%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Android
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.93%) Agile
1 31 (44.93%) CI/CD
2 21 (30.43%) DevOps
3 20 (28.99%) Test Automation
4 15 (21.74%) Manual Testing
4 15 (21.74%) Microservices
4 15 (21.74%) Test Strategy
5 14 (20.29%) BDD
6 12 (17.39%) Front End Development
6 12 (17.39%) Scrum
7 11 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (15.94%) TDD
8 10 (14.49%) Code Quality
8 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (13.04%) Test Scripting
10 8 (11.59%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (10.14%) Software Engineering
11 7 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (10.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (37.68%) Java
1 26 (37.68%) Python
2 22 (31.88%) TypeScript
3 16 (23.19%) SQL
4 10 (14.49%) PHP
5 4 (5.80%) C#
6 3 (4.35%) Groovy
6 3 (4.35%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.90%) Bash
7 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.90%) VBA
8 1 (1.45%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.45%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.45%) Go
8 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.45%) Rust
8 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.90%) CISM
3 2 (2.90%) CISSP
3 2 (2.90%) Degree
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.45%) OCP
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.45%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (24.64%) Accessibility
2 8 (11.59%) QA
2 8 (11.59%) WCAG
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (24.64%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) Kubernetes
1 11 (15.94%) Terraform
2 6 (8.70%) Grafana
3 4 (5.80%) Ansible
4 3 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.45%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Splunk
2 6 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.35%) Oracle
5 2 (2.90%) Brio
5 2 (2.90%) Cribl.io
5 2 (2.90%) F5
5 2 (2.90%) Google
5 2 (2.90%) Infoblox
5 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.45%) Adobe
6 1 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.45%) Databricks
6 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.45%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.45%) SAP
6 1 (1.45%) Workday