JavaScript Contracts in Kent

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 26 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 4 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.90% 3.83% 6.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.67% 20.00% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 15
10th Percentile £510 £528 -
25th Percentile £525 £559 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £433
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +44.51% +23.57%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £606
90th Percentile £590 - £638
South East median daily rate £400 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -20.00% +9.89% +7.06%

All Programming Languages
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 24 40 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 11.37% 19.14% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 60
10th Percentile £325 £371 £357
25th Percentile £363 £411 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +21.02%
75th Percentile £575 £721 £578
90th Percentile £598 £784 £638
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £51.98 £46.94 -
25th Percentile £53.82 £50.38 £49.25
Median hourly rate £58.91 £56.24 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +11.36% +26.25%
75th Percentile £63.98 £56.41 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £56.45 -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -18.24%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Kent

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Kent

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Kent

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Kent region over the 6 months to 31 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
Gravesend - 2 - -
Canterbury -3 1 £600 - 2
Faversham - 1 £500 -
JavaScript
South East

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared