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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 50 35
Rank change year-on-year -28 -15 -12
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 77 55 88
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.70% 3.98% 5.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.21% 13.06% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 35 55
10th Percentile £413 £354 £321
25th Percentile £460 £406 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £583 £538 £631
90th Percentile £588 £550 £690
England median daily rate £525 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -

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 836 421 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 29.31% 30.44% 28.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 274 332
10th Percentile £354 £340 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -1.42% -2.44%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £587
90th Percentile £638 £600 £645
England median daily rate £520 £520 £545
% change year-on-year +0.05% -4.63% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £20.38 £31.53 £34.38
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £37.50
Median hourly rate £24.25 £33.11 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% -28.41% +0.63%
75th Percentile £27.31 £66.51 £61.88
90th Percentile £36.50 £85.74 £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 July 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 July 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 -14 41 £500 +11.11% 24
South Yorkshire -28 34 £500 +0.73% 13
North Yorkshire -11 2 £495 - 5
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
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 9 (11.69%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) CMS
3 2 (2.60%) nginx
3 2 (2.60%) WordPress
4 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.30%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.30%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.30%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.97%) AWS
2 15 (19.48%) GCP
2 15 (19.48%) GitHub
3 14 (18.18%) Azure
4 9 (11.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (10.39%) Serverless
6 7 (9.09%) Akamai
7 5 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.49%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (6.49%) Power Automate
7 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.49%) PowerApps
8 4 (5.19%) Azure Functions
8 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.90%) Figma
10 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.60%) Codefresh
11 1 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.78%) DNS
2 9 (11.69%) BIG-IP
2 9 (11.69%) DHCP
3 8 (10.39%) Network Security
3 8 (10.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.60%) HTTP
5 1 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.90%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.90%) Power BI
2 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.60%) MySQL
4 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (25.97%) JIRA
2 11 (14.29%) Git
3 8 (10.39%) Bitbucket
3 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.90%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.60%) GitLab
5 2 (2.60%) Selenium
6 1 (1.30%) Appium
6 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.30%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.30%) Subversion
6 1 (1.30%) Vite
6 1 (1.30%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Banking
4 6 (7.79%) Finance
5 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.30%) Law
6 1 (1.30%) Marketing
6 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (50.65%) Developer
2 14 (18.18%) Senior
3 12 (15.58%) Java Developer
4 11 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 10 (12.99%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (11.69%) Architect
7 8 (10.39%) Lead
8 7 (9.09%) Security Specialist
9 6 (7.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (7.79%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Python Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Software Engineer
10 5 (6.49%) Technical Security Specialist
10 5 (6.49%) Technical Specialist
11 4 (5.19%) Application Security Specialist
11 4 (5.19%) Applications Specialist
11 4 (5.19%) Software Developer
12 3 (3.90%) Senior Software Developer
12 3 (3.90%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.47%) React
2 23 (29.87%) HTML
3 17 (22.08%) Node.js
4 16 (20.78%) CSS
5 11 (14.29%) REST
6 9 (11.69%) RESTful
7 8 (10.39%) JSON
7 8 (10.39%) Redux
8 6 (7.79%) Kafka
8 6 (7.79%) Vue
8 6 (7.79%) Zustand
9 5 (6.49%) .NET
9 5 (6.49%) CSS3
9 5 (6.49%) HTML5
9 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
10 4 (5.19%) Flask
10 4 (5.19%) Sass
11 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.90%) ASP.NET
11 3 (3.90%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.90%) NHS
6 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) AIX
2 2 (2.60%) Unix
3 1 (1.30%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (58.44%) Agile
2 27 (35.06%) CI/CD
3 21 (27.27%) DevOps
4 16 (20.78%) Front End Development
5 13 (16.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (16.88%) Test Automation
6 12 (15.58%) API Integration
6 12 (15.58%) Software Engineering
7 11 (14.29%) API Development
7 11 (14.29%) Code Quality
8 10 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (12.99%) Migration
9 9 (11.69%) Microservices
9 9 (11.69%) Responsive Web Design
10 8 (10.39%) Risk Management
10 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (9.09%) Incident Response
11 7 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (9.09%) Project Management
11 7 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.56%) Python
2 24 (31.17%) Java
3 19 (24.68%) TypeScript
4 12 (15.58%) SQL
5 11 (14.29%) Kotlin
6 9 (11.69%) C#
7 8 (10.39%) VBA
8 3 (3.90%) Ruby
9 2 (2.60%) PHP
10 1 (1.30%) Bash
10 1 (1.30%) Perl
10 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.30%) Scala
10 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) CISM
4 1 (1.30%) CISSP
4 1 (1.30%) Degree
4 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) Accessibility
2 10 (12.99%) WCAG
3 6 (7.79%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (19.48%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.69%) Ansible
2 9 (11.69%) Terraform
3 2 (2.60%) Argo
4 1 (1.30%) Grafana
4 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.69%) F5
2 9 (11.69%) Infoblox
3 4 (5.19%) Brio
4 3 (3.90%) Google
5 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.60%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.30%) Adobe
6 1 (1.30%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.30%) Databricks
6 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.30%) New Relic
6 1 (1.30%) Okta
6 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) Splunk