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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 44 28
Rank change year-on-year -28 -16 +6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 74 37 100
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.33% 3.98% 5.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.11% 11.90% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 29 45
10th Percentile £374 £347 £330
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £650
90th Percentile £588 £588 £665
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -3.75% -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 666 311 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.95% 33.48% 25.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 217 311
10th Percentile £362 £328 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.90% -2.33% -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £29.38 £27.80
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.62 £40.35
Median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +45.83% -0.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £100.28 £62.88
90th Percentile - £102.00 £63.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -5.51%

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 March 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 23 March 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 +15 58 £500 - 46
South Yorkshire -62 15 £468 -10.86% 12
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 4
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 8 (10.81%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.35%) nginx
2 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 39 (52.70%) AWS
2 27 (36.49%) Azure
3 18 (24.32%) GCP
4 11 (14.86%) Serverless
5 9 (12.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (9.46%) Akamai
6 7 (9.46%) GitHub
6 7 (9.46%) SaaS
7 6 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.76%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Storage
8 5 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (4.05%) Power Automate
10 3 (4.05%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.05%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.70%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.16%) DNS
2 8 (10.81%) Network Security
3 2 (2.70%) BIG-IP
3 2 (2.70%) DHCP
3 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.11%) MySQL
2 6 (8.11%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.41%) Redis
3 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.70%) Power BI
6 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (29.73%) Jenkins
2 14 (18.92%) JIRA
3 11 (14.86%) Cucumber
3 11 (14.86%) Git
3 11 (14.86%) GitLab
4 10 (13.51%) Selenium
5 7 (9.46%) Cypress.io
6 6 (8.11%) Postman
6 6 (8.11%) REST Assured
6 6 (8.11%) TestRail
7 4 (5.41%) Mocha
8 2 (2.70%) MSI
8 2 (2.70%) Vite
9 1 (1.35%) Maven
9 1 (1.35%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.35%) Subversion
9 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (2.70%) Finance
4 2 (2.70%) Military
5 1 (1.35%) Advertising
5 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Polish Language
5 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (43.24%) Developer
2 19 (25.68%) Senior
3 11 (14.86%) Test Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Lead
4 10 (13.51%) Senior Developer
5 9 (12.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 8 (10.81%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Security Specialist
8 6 (8.11%) Lead Test Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Technical Security Specialist
9 5 (6.76%) Technical Specialist
9 5 (6.76%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Tester
10 4 (5.41%) Application Security Specialist
10 4 (5.41%) Applications Specialist
10 4 (5.41%) AWS Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Security Tester
10 4 (5.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (33.78%) Node.js
2 21 (28.38%) React
3 14 (18.92%) CSS
3 14 (18.92%) HTML
4 13 (17.57%) REST
5 10 (13.51%) Jest
6 9 (12.16%) Spring Boot
7 8 (10.81%) .NET
8 7 (9.46%) Redux
8 7 (9.46%) RESTful
8 7 (9.46%) Spring
9 5 (6.76%) Flask
9 5 (6.76%) JWT
9 5 (6.76%) LDAP
9 5 (6.76%) OAuth
9 5 (6.76%) OpenID
9 5 (6.76%) Playwright
9 5 (6.76%) SailPoint
9 5 (6.76%) Vue
9 5 (6.76%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (6.76%) NHS
2 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.35%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.35%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Android
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
1 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.65%) CI/CD
2 34 (45.95%) Agile
3 24 (32.43%) DevOps
4 20 (27.03%) Test Automation
5 16 (21.62%) Test Strategy
6 15 (20.27%) Manual Testing
6 15 (20.27%) Microservices
7 14 (18.92%) BDD
7 14 (18.92%) Front End Development
8 12 (16.22%) Scrum
9 11 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (14.86%) TDD
10 9 (12.16%) Software Engineering
10 9 (12.16%) Test Scripting
11 8 (10.81%) Code Quality
11 8 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (10.81%) Migration
11 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (9.46%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (40.54%) Python
2 26 (35.14%) Java
3 22 (29.73%) TypeScript
4 15 (20.27%) SQL
5 9 (12.16%) PHP
6 6 (8.11%) C#
7 3 (4.05%) Groovy
7 3 (4.05%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.70%) VBA
9 1 (1.35%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.35%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.35%) Bash
9 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.70%) Degree
5 1 (1.35%) CISM
5 1 (1.35%) CISSP
5 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (24.32%) Accessibility
2 10 (13.51%) WCAG
3 9 (12.16%) QA
System Software
1 21 (28.38%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.22%) Terraform
3 6 (8.11%) Grafana
4 4 (5.41%) Ansible
5 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.35%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) Splunk
2 6 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.70%) Brio
3 2 (2.70%) Cribl.io
3 2 (2.70%) F5
3 2 (2.70%) Google
3 2 (2.70%) Infoblox
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle
3 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.35%) Adobe
4 1 (1.35%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.35%) Databricks
4 1 (1.35%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.35%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (1.35%) Workday