JavaScript Contracts in England

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,786 2,893 5,722
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.91% 6.00% 8.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.47% 17.17% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 2,123 4,375
10th Percentile £333 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.82%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £650
90th Percentile £850 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 47 63
10th Percentile £36.84 £35.60 £26.65
25th Percentile £47.14 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £63.75 £67.50 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +21.62% +5.71%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.43
90th Percentile £71.50 £77.60 £76.93
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £68.75 £57.25
% change year-on-year -9.09% +20.09% +20.53%

All Programming Languages
England

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,846 16,845 25,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.81% 34.96% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 12,314 19,084
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £772
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 408 456
10th Percentile £37.59 £26.11 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in England.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in England.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London -2 1,098 £600 +4.35% 628
North of England -8 222 £475 -9.52% 324
South East -14 147 £400 -20.00% 214
South West +4 122 £500 - 174
North West -18 104 £463 -13.95% 194
Yorkshire -8 95 £575 +15.00% 99
Midlands +5 90 £425 -1.45% 248
East Midlands 0 46 £388 -3.13% 103
East of England -8 45 £425 -10.99% 113
West Midlands +9 43 £475 - 144
North East +7 23 £466 -15.32% 33
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 137 (7.67%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (7.05%) Apache
3 53 (2.97%) Confluence
4 46 (2.58%) CMS
4 46 (2.58%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.51%) nginx
6 17 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 14 (0.78%) Drupal
7 14 (0.78%) WordPress
8 12 (0.67%) BizTalk Server
9 11 (0.62%) IIS
10 9 (0.50%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.45%) SharePoint 2010
11 8 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
12 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.34%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.34%) Tomcat
12 6 (0.34%) Tornado
13 5 (0.28%) Umbraco
14 4 (0.22%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 111 (6.22%) Chatbot
2 17 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.50%) Sketch
4 8 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.34%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.17%) Simulink
9 1 (0.056%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.056%) InVision
9 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
3 13 (0.73%) Shopify
4 5 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.28%) Endur
4 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.22%) Magento
5 4 (0.22%) Maximo
5 4 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.17%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Unica
7 2 (0.11%) WebTrends
7 2 (0.11%) Workfront
8 1 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.056%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.056%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 548 (30.68%) AWS
2 371 (20.77%) Azure
3 216 (12.09%) GCP
4 120 (6.72%) dbt
5 104 (5.82%) Serverless
6 102 (5.71%) Snowflake
7 100 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (5.43%) GitHub
9 90 (5.04%) Power Platform
10 62 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
11 51 (2.86%) Power Automate
12 44 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 44 (2.46%) PowerApps
13 37 (2.07%) npm
14 33 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 32 (1.79%) Entra ID
16 31 (1.74%) Azure Functions
17 27 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
18 25 (1.40%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.85%) HTTP
2 16 (0.90%) Software-Defined Radio
3 15 (0.84%) SNMP
3 15 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.78%) Ethernet
4 14 (0.78%) Firewall
5 13 (0.73%) Intranet
6 8 (0.45%) DNS
6 8 (0.45%) Internet
7 7 (0.39%) SSL
8 6 (0.34%) Wireless
9 4 (0.22%) RTSP
9 4 (0.22%) VPN
10 3 (0.17%) AMQP
10 3 (0.17%) BGP
10 3 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.17%) DHCP
10 3 (0.17%) IOS XR
10 3 (0.17%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (8.68%) SQL Server
2 122 (6.83%) Amazon Athena
3 120 (6.72%) Apache Arrow
3 120 (6.72%) Dremio
4 108 (6.05%) Apache Ignite
5 101 (5.66%) Data Lake
6 100 (5.60%) MySQL
7 83 (4.65%) NoSQL
8 82 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
9 76 (4.26%) MongoDB
10 60 (3.36%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.58%) Power BI
12 35 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
13 28 (1.57%) Redis
14 26 (1.46%) Big Data
15 22 (1.23%) DynamoDB
16 21 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
17 19 (1.06%) Metadata
18 17 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
19 15 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 216 (12.09%) Git
2 114 (6.38%) Jenkins
3 113 (6.33%) JIRA
4 67 (3.75%) GitLab
5 58 (3.25%) Cypress.io
6 49 (2.74%) webpack
7 45 (2.52%) Selenium
8 35 (1.96%) Eclipse
9 32 (1.79%) Bitbucket
9 32 (1.79%) Postman
10 28 (1.57%) Visual Studio
11 24 (1.34%) Cucumber
12 23 (1.29%) JMeter
13 19 (1.06%) Robot Framework
14 17 (0.95%) TeamCity
15 16 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
16 15 (0.84%) GoogleTest
16 15 (0.84%) Maven
17 13 (0.73%) Appium
18 12 (0.67%) Jasmine
General
1 387 (21.67%) Finance
2 334 (18.70%) Social Skills
3 198 (11.09%) Front Office
4 187 (10.47%) Banking
5 135 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
6 117 (6.55%) Public Sector
7 109 (6.10%) Investment Banking
8 73 (4.09%) Marketing
9 32 (1.79%) Retail
10 31 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.46%) Advertising
13 22 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.01%) Back Office
14 18 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (0.84%) Military
16 12 (0.67%) Billing
17 11 (0.62%) Legal
17 11 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,060 (59.35%) Developer
2 244 (13.66%) Senior
3 223 (12.49%) Software Engineer
4 202 (11.31%) Software Developer
5 193 (10.81%) Full Stack Developer
6 137 (7.67%) Senior Developer
7 125 (7.00%) Lead
8 109 (6.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 106 (5.94%) Architect
10 97 (5.43%) React Developer
11 85 (4.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 83 (4.65%) .NET Developer
13 80 (4.48%) JavaScript Developer
14 77 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
15 65 (3.64%) Python Developer
16 64 (3.58%) C# Developer
17 57 (3.19%) Python Engineer
18 56 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
19 55 (3.08%) Java Developer
20 53 (2.97%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 714 (39.98%) HTML
2 576 (32.25%) CSS
3 520 (29.12%) React
4 323 (18.09%) Node.js
5 289 (16.18%) .NET
6 244 (13.66%) AngularJS
7 192 (10.75%) REST
8 136 (7.61%) gRPC
9 134 (7.50%) Protocol Buffers
10 122 (6.83%) Web Services
11 121 (6.77%) Pandas
12 114 (6.38%) XML
13 111 (6.22%) NumPy
14 109 (6.10%) .NET Core
15 105 (5.88%) SciPy
16 102 (5.71%) ASP.NET
17 99 (5.54%) RESTful
18 98 (5.49%) Redux
19 88 (4.93%) Vue
20 83 (4.65%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 182 (10.19%) Fixed Income
2 147 (8.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 146 (8.17%) Hedge funds
4 140 (7.84%) Derivative
5 130 (7.28%) Equities
6 65 (3.64%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
8 41 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
9 39 (2.18%) Mobile App
10 38 (2.13%) Algorithms
11 31 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 30 (1.68%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.51%) Cloud Native
14 23 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.06%) Onboarding
16 18 (1.01%) Clustering
17 12 (0.67%) CMDB
17 12 (0.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 135 (7.56%) Linux
2 66 (3.70%) Windows
3 47 (2.63%) Unix
4 30 (1.68%) Android
5 26 (1.46%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.056%) CentOS
7 1 (0.056%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.056%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.056%) VMS
7 1 (0.056%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.056%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (38.58%) Agile
2 563 (31.52%) Software Engineering
3 349 (19.54%) DevOps
4 342 (19.15%) Full Stack Development
5 315 (17.64%) CI/CD
6 219 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (11.70%) Front End Development
8 189 (10.58%) Test Automation
9 187 (10.47%) TDD
10 183 (10.25%) Asset Management
11 171 (9.57%) Code Quality
12 150 (8.40%) Artificial Intelligence
13 149 (8.34%) Microservices
14 148 (8.29%) Scrum
15 147 (8.23%) Web Development
16 139 (7.78%) Investment Management
17 134 (7.50%) User Experience
18 113 (6.33%) Conversational UI
18 113 (6.33%) SDLC
19 108 (6.05%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 588 (32.92%) Python
2 515 (28.84%) TypeScript
3 485 (27.16%) C#
4 471 (26.37%) Java
5 445 (24.92%) SQL
6 99 (5.54%) PHP
7 83 (4.65%) PowerShell
8 77 (4.31%) Go
9 74 (4.14%) C++
10 40 (2.24%) Bash
11 35 (1.96%) Kotlin
12 34 (1.90%) Bicep
13 33 (1.85%) Ruby
14 31 (1.74%) C
14 31 (1.74%) PL/SQL
15 27 (1.51%) T-SQL
16 23 (1.29%) Apex Code
17 22 (1.23%) Groovy
18 16 (0.90%) Scala
19 12 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 271 (15.17%) Degree
2 244 (13.66%) Security Cleared
3 186 (10.41%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 28 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (0.39%) PMP
12 6 (0.34%) CEH
12 6 (0.34%) CREST Certified
12 6 (0.34%) GIAC
12 6 (0.34%) GPEN
12 6 (0.34%) OSCP
12 6 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (6.77%) QA
2 84 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 49 (2.74%) Data Quality
4 33 (1.85%) WCAG
5 17 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.67%) GDPR
7 9 (0.50%) NIST
8 7 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
8 7 (0.39%) GxP
8 7 (0.39%) SLA
9 5 (0.28%) GRC
10 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.11%) MiFID
12 2 (0.11%) PMO
13 1 (0.056%) HL7
13 1 (0.056%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 121 (6.77%) Docker
2 74 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.46%) IAG
4 25 (1.40%) ACF2
4 25 (1.40%) RACF
5 16 (0.90%) Firmware
6 10 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.22%) zsh
8 3 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.056%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.056%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 168 (9.41%) Kubernetes
2 97 (5.43%) Terraform
3 51 (2.86%) Ansible
4 30 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (1.23%) Grafana
6 20 (1.12%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.45%) Kibana
7 8 (0.45%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.28%) logstash
8 5 (0.28%) Puppet
9 4 (0.22%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.17%) Netcool
10 3 (0.17%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.056%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.056%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.056%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.056%) Istio
11 1 (0.056%) Packer
11 1 (0.056%) Podman
11 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 157 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.16%) PayPal
3 84 (4.70%) Google
4 82 (4.59%) Oracle
5 72 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 46 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 44 (2.46%) Adobe
8 28 (1.57%) SAP
9 24 (1.34%) Atlassian
10 21 (1.18%) Splunk
11 19 (1.06%) MuleSoft
12 18 (1.01%) Sybase
13 15 (0.84%) Optimizely
14 12 (0.67%) VMware
15 11 (0.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 9 (0.50%) IBM
17 8 (0.45%) CyberArk
17 8 (0.45%) ESRI
17 8 (0.45%) Foundry
17 8 (0.45%) Tealium