JavaScript Contracts in London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,098 1,792 3,622
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.29% 6.93% 9.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.17% 17.17% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 1,321 2,882
10th Percentile £412 £419 £420
25th Percentile £475 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £779 £695 £679
90th Percentile £850 £788 £763
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 24
10th Percentile £41.68 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £43.06 £36.14 £35.00
Median hourly rate £45.75 £56.25 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +5.14% -2.73%
75th Percentile £48.06 £73.44 £75.39
90th Percentile £49.23 £75.00 £80.20
England median hourly rate £63.75 £67.50 £55.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +21.62% +5.71%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,395 10,434 16,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.63% 40.32% 41.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,885 7,812 12,407
10th Percentile £381 £413 £416
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £835 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 80 113
10th Percentile £23.80 £30.30 £31.05
25th Percentile £40.77 £49.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64.02 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the London 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
Central London -16 114 £525 -0.94% 84
West London +6 25 £575 -4.17% 26
East London +5 17 £540 +8.00% 33
South London +12 15 £450 - 18
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 134 (12.20%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (10.56%) Apache
3 29 (2.64%) CMS
4 22 (2.00%) nginx
5 19 (1.73%) Confluence
6 16 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 12 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
8 10 (0.91%) WordPress
9 6 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.55%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.55%) IIS
9 6 (0.55%) Tornado
10 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.27%) ThingWorx
12 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.18%) JBoss
12 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 14 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.46%) Sketch
4 4 (0.36%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.18%) Simulink
6 1 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.091%) InVision
6 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.09%) Shopify
3 9 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.46%) Endur
5 4 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.18%) Unica
6 2 (0.18%) WebTrends
7 1 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.091%) Magento
7 1 (0.091%) Maximo
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.091%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.091%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.091%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 424 (38.62%) AWS
2 255 (23.22%) Azure
3 184 (16.76%) GCP
4 120 (10.93%) dbt
5 101 (9.20%) Snowflake
6 73 (6.65%) Serverless
7 67 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (5.19%) GitHub
9 50 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (4.55%) Power Platform
10 38 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
11 37 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
12 30 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 30 (2.73%) Entra ID
13 28 (2.55%) npm
14 27 (2.46%) PowerApps
15 25 (2.28%) Power Automate
16 21 (1.91%) Amazon S3
17 19 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
18 18 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.73%) HTTP
2 8 (0.73%) Firewall
3 7 (0.64%) DNS
4 5 (0.46%) Intranet
5 4 (0.36%) Internet
6 3 (0.27%) DHCP
6 3 (0.27%) SSL
6 3 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.27%) VoIP
6 3 (0.27%) VPN
7 2 (0.18%) AMQP
7 2 (0.18%) LAN
7 2 (0.18%) MQTT
7 2 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.18%) SMS
7 2 (0.18%) WLAN
8 1 (0.091%) FTP
8 1 (0.091%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.091%) Network Security
8 1 (0.091%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (11.02%) Amazon Athena
2 120 (10.93%) Apache Arrow
2 120 (10.93%) Dremio
3 108 (9.84%) Apache Ignite
4 106 (9.65%) SQL Server
5 101 (9.20%) Data Lake
6 63 (5.74%) NoSQL
7 51 (4.64%) MongoDB
8 48 (4.37%) MySQL
9 46 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (3.10%) Relational Database
11 29 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (2.55%) Power BI
13 26 (2.37%) Big Data
14 20 (1.82%) DynamoDB
15 18 (1.64%) Redis
16 17 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
18 9 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
18 9 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 143 (13.02%) Git
2 81 (7.38%) Jenkins
3 59 (5.37%) JIRA
4 40 (3.64%) Cypress.io
5 39 (3.55%) webpack
6 38 (3.46%) GitLab
7 25 (2.28%) Selenium
8 22 (2.00%) Postman
9 19 (1.73%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.46%) JMeter
11 14 (1.28%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.00%) git-flow
13 10 (0.91%) Maven
13 10 (0.91%) NUnit
14 9 (0.82%) Appium
14 9 (0.82%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.73%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.73%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.73%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
General
1 348 (31.69%) Finance
2 199 (18.12%) Social Skills
3 198 (18.03%) Front Office
4 181 (16.48%) Banking
5 109 (9.93%) Investment Banking
6 90 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
7 71 (6.47%) Public Sector
8 58 (5.28%) Marketing
9 22 (2.00%) Retail
10 20 (1.82%) Advertising
11 18 (1.64%) Back Office
12 16 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.55%) Automotive
18 5 (0.46%) Law
19 4 (0.36%) Manufacturing
19 4 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 625 (56.92%) Developer
2 211 (19.22%) Senior
3 157 (14.30%) Software Engineer
4 125 (11.38%) Full Stack Developer
5 116 (10.56%) Senior Developer
6 97 (8.83%) Lead
7 88 (8.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 86 (7.83%) Architect
9 80 (7.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 75 (6.83%) React Developer
11 74 (6.74%) Software Developer
12 73 (6.65%) AWS Engineer
13 61 (5.56%) Python Developer
14 57 (5.19%) .NET Developer
14 57 (5.19%) JavaScript Developer
15 53 (4.83%) C# Developer
15 53 (4.83%) Python Engineer
15 53 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
16 49 (4.46%) Python Software Engineer
17 46 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (34.97%) HTML
2 375 (34.15%) React
3 354 (32.24%) CSS
4 202 (18.40%) .NET
5 194 (17.67%) Node.js
6 152 (13.84%) AngularJS
7 135 (12.30%) gRPC
8 133 (12.11%) Protocol Buffers
9 127 (11.57%) REST
10 115 (10.47%) Pandas
11 105 (9.56%) NumPy
12 101 (9.20%) SciPy
13 96 (8.74%) .NET Core
14 83 (7.56%) Redux
15 79 (7.19%) Web Services
16 74 (6.74%) XML
17 71 (6.47%) ASP.NET
18 64 (5.83%) jQuery
19 60 (5.46%) Vue
20 57 (5.19%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 182 (16.58%) Fixed Income
2 147 (13.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 145 (13.21%) Hedge funds
4 140 (12.75%) Derivative
5 130 (11.84%) Equities
6 41 (3.73%) Product Ownership
7 35 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (2.28%) Cloud Native
10 24 (2.19%) Management Information System
10 24 (2.19%) Mobile App
11 21 (1.91%) Algorithms
11 21 (1.91%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.64%) Clustering
13 17 (1.55%) Onboarding
14 15 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.91%) Pricing Data
17 9 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 70 (6.38%) Linux
2 38 (3.46%) Unix
3 25 (2.28%) Windows
4 15 (1.37%) Android
5 12 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.091%) CentOS
6 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.091%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (43.44%) Agile
2 351 (31.97%) Software Engineering
3 258 (23.50%) DevOps
4 221 (20.13%) Full Stack Development
5 220 (20.04%) CI/CD
6 178 (16.21%) Asset Management
7 161 (14.66%) Front End Development
8 139 (12.66%) Investment Management
8 139 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
9 131 (11.93%) TDD
10 118 (10.75%) Test Automation
11 109 (9.93%) Microservices
12 105 (9.56%) Web Development
13 103 (9.38%) User Experience
14 84 (7.65%) Design Patterns
15 79 (7.19%) Scrum
16 78 (7.10%) Analytics
16 78 (7.10%) SDLC
17 67 (6.10%) Computer Science
18 64 (5.83%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 418 (38.07%) TypeScript
2 362 (32.97%) Python
3 324 (29.51%) Java
4 264 (24.04%) C#
5 253 (23.04%) SQL
6 68 (6.19%) Go
7 60 (5.46%) PowerShell
8 59 (5.37%) PHP
9 34 (3.10%) Bicep
10 30 (2.73%) Kotlin
11 28 (2.55%) Ruby
12 26 (2.37%) Bash
12 26 (2.37%) C++
13 21 (1.91%) T-SQL
14 20 (1.82%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.91%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.82%) C
16 9 (0.82%) Groovy
16 9 (0.82%) Perl
16 9 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 137 (12.48%) Security Cleared
2 128 (11.66%) Degree
3 100 (9.11%) SC Cleared
4 49 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.18%) PMP
13 1 (0.091%) CISSP
13 1 (0.091%) ISEB
13 1 (0.091%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.091%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (7.19%) QA
2 59 (5.37%) Accessibility
3 41 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 27 (2.46%) WCAG
5 17 (1.55%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.36%) GRC
6 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.36%) SLA
7 3 (0.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.18%) MiFID
9 1 (0.091%) GDPR
9 1 (0.091%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.091%) GxP
System Software
1 90 (8.20%) Docker
2 63 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.09%) IAG
4 22 (2.00%) ACF2
4 22 (2.00%) RACF
5 1 (0.091%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.091%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.091%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.091%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 127 (11.57%) Kubernetes
2 70 (6.38%) Terraform
3 31 (2.82%) Ansible
4 20 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 20 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.28%) Grafana
6 7 (0.64%) Kibana
7 5 (0.46%) logstash
7 5 (0.46%) PingFederate
7 5 (0.46%) Puppet
8 4 (0.36%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.27%) Netcool
10 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.091%) Argo
11 1 (0.091%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.091%) Istio
11 1 (0.091%) Packer
11 1 (0.091%) Podman
11 1 (0.091%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 98 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.83%) Oracle
3 44 (4.01%) Google
4 42 (3.83%) ServiceNow
5 30 (2.73%) Adobe
6 28 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.73%) Splunk
8 18 (1.64%) MuleSoft
9 16 (1.46%) Sybase
10 14 (1.28%) Optimizely
11 13 (1.18%) PayPal
12 12 (1.09%) SAP
13 8 (0.73%) Databricks
13 8 (0.73%) Foundry
13 8 (0.73%) Tealium
14 7 (0.64%) BeyondTrust
14 7 (0.64%) CyberArk
14 7 (0.64%) Palantir
14 7 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 6 (0.55%) Monetate