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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 59 38
Rank change year-on-year -22 -21 -12
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 82 63 74
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.80% 4.05% 5.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.98% 11.65% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 35 54
10th Percentile £389 £350 £348
25th Percentile £445 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -10.38% -7.83%
75th Percentile £564 £519 £584
90th Percentile £588 £554 £700
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -

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 822 541 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.10% 34.77% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 349 317
10th Percentile £361 £340 £356
25th Percentile £420 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £584
90th Percentile £638 £675 £645
England median daily rate £525 £515 £545
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £18.79 - £29.25
25th Percentile £21.24 £49.25 £34.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 £49.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.52% +23.75% +87.71%
75th Percentile £26.63 £49.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £34.80 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -

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 30 September 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 30 September 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
South Yorkshire -20 44 £500 +2.01% 15
West Yorkshire -17 36 £515 +8.42% 30
East Yorkshire -2 2 - - 4
North Yorkshire -10 2 £420 +170.97% 8
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 12 (14.63%) Confluence
2 4 (4.88%) CMS
2 4 (4.88%) nginx
2 4 (4.88%) Tomcat
2 4 (4.88%) WebLogic
2 4 (4.88%) WebSphere
2 4 (4.88%) WordPress
3 3 (3.66%) Apache
3 3 (3.66%) IBM HTTP Server
3 3 (3.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 3 (3.66%) WebLogic Portal
3 3 (3.66%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (3.66%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.22%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (36.59%) GitHub
2 26 (31.71%) AWS
3 22 (26.83%) Azure
4 15 (18.29%) GCP
5 10 (12.20%) Serverless
6 7 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.10%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.66%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (3.66%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.44%) BrowserStack
10 2 (2.44%) Codefresh
10 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.22%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.22%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.22%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) BIG-IP
1 7 (8.54%) DHCP
1 7 (8.54%) DNS
2 6 (7.32%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.10%) HTTP
4 2 (2.44%) Internet
5 1 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.98%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.66%) MySQL
3 3 (3.66%) Tableau
4 2 (2.44%) Big Data
4 2 (2.44%) Power BI
4 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.22%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.22%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.22%) Redis
5 1 (1.22%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 26 (31.71%) JIRA
2 13 (15.85%) Bitbucket
2 13 (15.85%) Git
3 8 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.32%) JMeter
5 5 (6.10%) Cypress.io
5 5 (6.10%) LoadRunner
6 3 (3.66%) Claude Code
6 3 (3.66%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.44%) eggPlant
7 2 (2.44%) Gatling
7 2 (2.44%) Postman
7 2 (2.44%) Selenium
8 1 (1.22%) Appium
8 1 (1.22%) GitLab
8 1 (1.22%) JUnit
8 1 (1.22%) Maven
8 1 (1.22%) Mockito
8 1 (1.22%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.22%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.63%) Finance
3 12 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.41%) Banking
5 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.44%) Law
6 1 (1.22%) Marketing
6 1 (1.22%) Military
6 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Publishing
6 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (48.78%) Developer
2 18 (21.95%) Lead
3 16 (19.51%) Senior
4 12 (14.63%) Python Developer
5 10 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (12.20%) Java Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Architect
6 8 (9.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.32%) Lead Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (4.88%) Lead Python Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Lead Test Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Software Developer
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Test Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (43.90%) HTML
2 23 (28.05%) CSS
3 22 (26.83%) React
4 17 (20.73%) Node.js
5 15 (18.29%) REST
5 15 (18.29%) Terraform
6 12 (14.63%) Kafka
7 11 (13.41%) Vue
8 10 (12.20%) RESTful
9 9 (10.98%) Flask
10 7 (8.54%) JSON
11 6 (7.32%) Middleware
11 6 (7.32%) Playwright
12 5 (6.10%) .NET
12 5 (6.10%) ASP.NET
12 5 (6.10%) HTML5
12 5 (6.10%) Jest
12 5 (6.10%) Sass
13 4 (4.88%) AngularJS
13 4 (4.88%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Cloud Native
1 6 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.88%) NHS
2 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Linux
2 2 (2.44%) AIX
2 2 (2.44%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Android
3 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (59.76%) Agile
2 39 (47.56%) CI/CD
3 23 (28.05%) Test Automation
4 18 (21.95%) DevOps
5 15 (18.29%) Front End Development
5 15 (18.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (18.29%) Microservices
6 14 (17.07%) API Development
6 14 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (14.63%) TDD
7 12 (14.63%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (13.41%) Software Engineering
8 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (12.20%) Data Analysis
9 10 (12.20%) Mentoring
9 10 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.20%) User Stories
10 9 (10.98%) Architectural Design
10 9 (10.98%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.24%) Python
2 25 (30.49%) Java
2 25 (30.49%) SQL
3 23 (28.05%) TypeScript
4 16 (19.51%) Kotlin
5 9 (10.98%) C#
6 6 (7.32%) VBA
7 5 (6.10%) PHP
8 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.66%) Ruby
10 1 (1.22%) Bash
10 1 (1.22%) C
10 1 (1.22%) Perl
10 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) CISSP
4 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.54%) QA
3 5 (6.10%) WCAG
4 3 (3.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.22%) HL7
System Software
1 17 (20.73%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.32%) Ansible
3 4 (4.88%) Grafana
4 2 (2.44%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.54%) F5
2 7 (8.54%) IBM
2 7 (8.54%) Infoblox
3 5 (6.10%) New Relic
3 5 (6.10%) Splunk
4 4 (4.88%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.66%) Databricks
5 3 (3.66%) Oracle
5 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.44%) Google
6 2 (2.44%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.22%) Adobe
7 1 (1.22%) Brio
7 1 (1.22%) Okta
7 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.22%) OutSystems