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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 40 30
Rank change year-on-year -27 -10 +1
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 71 46 97
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.65% 4.61% 5.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.22% 15.28% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 35 48
10th Percentile £361 £450 £353
25th Percentile £400 £466 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £625
90th Percentile £602 £688 £650
England median daily rate £488 £528 £525
% change year-on-year -7.58% +0.48% -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 633 301 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.54% 30.19% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 209 324
10th Percentile £355 £359 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £703 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - £16.97
25th Percentile £49.25 £26.25 £19.44
Median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +237.62% -59.58%
75th Percentile £49.75 £102.00 £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.92% -7.48%

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 22 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 22 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 -10 45 £488 -2.40% 73
South Yorkshire -45 22 £500 -4.76% 45
North Yorkshire - 3 £155 - 33
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 27
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 (7.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 35 (49.30%) AWS
2 28 (39.44%) Azure
3 9 (12.68%) GCP
4 8 (11.27%) GitHub
4 8 (11.27%) Serverless
5 7 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (9.86%) SaaS
6 5 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (7.04%) Azure Storage
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.23%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.23%) npm
9 2 (2.82%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.82%) Boomi
9 2 (2.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) Relational Database
2 8 (11.27%) MySQL
3 6 (8.45%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.04%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.63%) Redis
6 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.41%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.41%) Metadata
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (33.80%) Jenkins
2 18 (25.35%) Git
3 12 (16.90%) GitLab
3 12 (16.90%) JIRA
4 11 (15.49%) Cucumber
5 8 (11.27%) Postman
5 8 (11.27%) Selenium
6 6 (8.45%) Cypress.io
6 6 (8.45%) REST Assured
6 6 (8.45%) TestRail
7 4 (5.63%) Mocha
7 4 (5.63%) SonarQube
7 4 (5.63%) webpack
8 2 (2.82%) Babel
8 2 (2.82%) git-flow
8 2 (2.82%) Maven
8 2 (2.82%) MSI
9 1 (1.41%) Bundler
9 1 (1.41%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.41%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
1 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.45%) Banking
2 6 (8.45%) Finance
3 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Military
5 1 (1.41%) Advertising
5 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.41%) Polish Language
5 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (49.30%) Developer
2 19 (26.76%) Senior
3 11 (15.49%) Lead
4 10 (14.08%) Test Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.27%) Java Developer
7 6 (8.45%) React Developer
8 5 (7.04%) AWS Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Lead Test Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Tester
9 4 (5.63%) PHP Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Security Tester
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.99%) Node.js
2 21 (29.58%) CSS
2 21 (29.58%) HTML
3 19 (26.76%) React
4 14 (19.72%) .NET
5 13 (18.31%) Jest
6 12 (16.90%) REST
7 9 (12.68%) RESTful
7 9 (12.68%) Spring Boot
8 8 (11.27%) Spring
9 7 (9.86%) CSS3
9 7 (9.86%) HTML5
10 6 (8.45%) jQuery
10 6 (8.45%) JWT
10 6 (8.45%) LDAP
10 6 (8.45%) OAuth
10 6 (8.45%) SailPoint
10 6 (8.45%) SAML
11 5 (7.04%) OpenID
11 5 (7.04%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) NHS
2 5 (7.04%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Android
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.89%) Agile
2 31 (43.66%) CI/CD
3 24 (33.80%) Test Automation
4 19 (26.76%) Microservices
5 17 (23.94%) DevOps
6 15 (21.13%) BDD
6 15 (21.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (21.13%) Manual Testing
6 15 (21.13%) TDD
7 13 (18.31%) Front End Development
8 12 (16.90%) Scrum
8 12 (16.90%) Test Strategy
9 10 (14.08%) Code Quality
10 9 (12.68%) Clean Code
10 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (12.68%) Test Scripting
11 8 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (11.27%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (11.27%) Identity Access Management
12 7 (9.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (39.44%) Java
2 22 (30.99%) Python
3 19 (26.76%) TypeScript
4 18 (25.35%) SQL
5 10 (14.08%) PHP
6 9 (12.68%) C#
7 3 (4.23%) Groovy
7 3 (4.23%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.82%) Bash
8 2 (2.82%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.41%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.41%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.41%) C++
9 1 (1.41%) Go
9 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (25.35%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.23%) Degree
4 1 (1.41%) CISM
4 1 (1.41%) CISSP
4 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.41%) OCP
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.41%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.54%) Accessibility
2 9 (12.68%) QA
3 5 (7.04%) WCAG
4 1 (1.41%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (19.72%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (15.49%) Terraform
2 9 (12.68%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.45%) Grafana
4 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.82%) Ansible
6 1 (1.41%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Splunk
2 6 (8.45%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.63%) GoldenSource
3 4 (5.63%) Oracle
4 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.82%) Cribl.io
5 2 (2.82%) Google
5 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.41%) Adobe
6 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.41%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.41%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) Workday