JavaScript Contracts in the Home Counties

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank - 4 12
Rank change year-on-year - +8 0
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 0 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Home Counties - 7.14% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 25.00% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 -
South East median daily rate £400 £409 £500
% change year-on-year -2.14% -18.25% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1 4 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 25.00% 28.57% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - £438 £475
25th Percentile £225 £456 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £513 £613
Median % change year-on-year -51.22% -16.33% +11.36%
75th Percentile £275 £569 £666
90th Percentile - £588 £685
South East median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the Home Counties

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the Home Counties.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the Home Counties