JavaScript Contracts in the North of England

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 34 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 -4
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 222 351 576
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.78% 6.28% 8.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.66% 21.67% 25.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 255 416
10th Percentile £363 £363 £344
25th Percentile £409 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +17.28%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £600
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 16
10th Percentile - £49.20 -
25th Percentile £37.63 £50.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £54.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.48% +13.68% +48.44%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £62.81
90th Percentile - £75.20 £76.25
England median hourly rate £63.75 £67.50 £55.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +21.62% +5.71%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,190 1,620 2,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.63% 29.00% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1,190 1,727
10th Percentile £325 £362 £325
25th Percentile £403 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 28 51
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £43.57 £39.45 £21.64
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.29 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% +15.96% +63.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the North of England

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the North of England

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the North of England

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the North of England

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West -18 104 £463 -13.95% 195
Yorkshire -8 95 £575 +15.00% 99
North East +7 23 £466 -15.32% 34
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.15%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (3.15%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.35%) CMS
3 3 (1.35%) Drupal
3 3 (1.35%) IIS
3 3 (1.35%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.35%) nginx
4 2 (0.90%) Apache
4 2 (0.90%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.90%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.45%) Camunda
5 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.45%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 61 (27.48%) Chatbot
2 10 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Maximo
2 1 (0.45%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 40 (18.02%) AWS
2 26 (11.71%) Azure
3 17 (7.66%) GitHub
4 13 (5.86%) Serverless
5 9 (4.05%) GCP
6 8 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.15%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.25%) Azure Functions
8 5 (2.25%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.80%) BrowserStack
9 4 (1.80%) CloudBees
9 4 (1.80%) npm
9 4 (1.80%) Yarn
10 3 (1.35%) Apigee
10 3 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.35%) Figma
10 3 (1.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.70%) Wireless
2 5 (2.25%) Firewall
3 3 (1.35%) SSL
4 1 (0.45%) AMQP
4 1 (0.45%) DMZ
4 1 (0.45%) DNS
4 1 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.45%) Modbus
4 1 (0.45%) MQTT
4 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.66%) MySQL
2 16 (7.21%) MongoDB
2 16 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.50%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.60%) Metadata
5 7 (3.15%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.15%) PowerPivot
5 7 (3.15%) Redis
5 7 (3.15%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Power View
6 6 (2.70%) Power BI
7 3 (1.35%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.35%) GIS
7 3 (1.35%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (1.35%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.90%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.90%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (5.41%) Selenium
2 11 (4.95%) Git
3 9 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.15%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.25%) JIRA
5 5 (2.25%) Mocha
6 4 (1.80%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.80%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.80%) Maven
6 4 (1.80%) webpack
7 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.35%) GitLab
7 3 (1.35%) gulp
7 3 (1.35%) JMeter
7 3 (1.35%) Postman
8 2 (0.90%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.90%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.45%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.41%) Public Sector
3 8 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.15%) Finance
5 6 (2.70%) Publishing
6 4 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.80%) Legal
7 3 (1.35%) Banking
7 3 (1.35%) Retail
8 2 (0.90%) Advertising
9 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.45%) Retail Finance
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 142 (63.96%) Developer
2 66 (29.73%) Software Developer
3 18 (8.11%) Tester
4 14 (6.31%) Software Engineer
5 12 (5.41%) Senior
6 11 (4.95%) .NET Developer
7 10 (4.50%) Designer
7 10 (4.50%) Full Stack Developer
7 10 (4.50%) Full Stack Engineer
8 9 (4.05%) Automation Tester
8 9 (4.05%) JavaScript Developer
9 8 (3.60%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.15%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.15%) Lead
11 6 (2.70%) Architect
11 6 (2.70%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 6 (2.70%) Lead Developer
11 6 (2.70%) SharePoint Engineer
12 5 (2.25%) C# Developer
12 5 (2.25%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (50.90%) HTML
2 46 (20.72%) CSS
3 33 (14.86%) React
4 31 (13.96%) .NET
5 28 (12.61%) Node.js
6 24 (10.81%) AngularJS
7 14 (6.31%) .NET Framework
7 14 (6.31%) RESTful
8 13 (5.86%) Web Services
9 10 (4.50%) REST
9 10 (4.50%) XML
10 9 (4.05%) Kafka
10 9 (4.05%) Spring Boot
11 8 (3.60%) JSON
12 7 (3.15%) HTML5
13 6 (2.70%) Next.js
13 6 (2.70%) Spring
13 6 (2.70%) Vue
14 5 (2.25%) jQuery
14 5 (2.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.86%) Mobile App
2 10 (4.50%) Algorithms
3 6 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.70%) Operational Technology
4 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.80%) CMDB
5 4 (1.80%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.80%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.90%) IoT
7 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.45%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.45%) PKI
8 1 (0.45%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.50%) Linux
2 9 (4.05%) Android
2 9 (4.05%) Windows
3 8 (3.60%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (40.54%) Software Engineering
2 64 (28.83%) Artificial Intelligence
3 63 (28.38%) Agile
4 62 (27.93%) Code Quality
5 61 (27.48%) Conversational UI
6 32 (14.41%) Full Stack Development
7 31 (13.96%) CI/CD
7 31 (13.96%) Test Automation
8 26 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (10.36%) DevOps
10 19 (8.56%) Scrum
11 18 (8.11%) ITIL
12 15 (6.76%) Microservices
12 15 (6.76%) TDD
13 12 (5.41%) Computer Science
13 12 (5.41%) Design Patterns
13 12 (5.41%) SDLC
13 12 (5.41%) Software Architecture
14 11 (4.95%) BDD
14 11 (4.95%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 103 (46.40%) Python
2 95 (42.79%) C#
3 93 (41.89%) SQL
4 54 (24.32%) Java
5 21 (9.46%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.86%) PowerShell
7 10 (4.50%) C++
7 10 (4.50%) PHP
8 6 (2.70%) Groovy
9 5 (2.25%) C
9 5 (2.25%) Scala
10 4 (1.80%) Go
10 4 (1.80%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.80%) Ruby
10 4 (1.80%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.80%) VBA
11 3 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.90%) Bash
12 2 (0.90%) Delphi
12 2 (0.90%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 76 (34.23%) Degree
2 27 (12.16%) Security Cleared
3 23 (10.36%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.70%) CEH
5 6 (2.70%) CREST Certified
5 6 (2.70%) GIAC
5 6 (2.70%) GPEN
5 6 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (2.70%) OSCP
6 4 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.35%) PMP
8 1 (0.45%) CISM
8 1 (0.45%) CISSP
8 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.41%) QA
2 9 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.70%) NIST
4 4 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.90%) WCAG
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.45%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) GxP
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (4.50%) Docker
2 8 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.45%) ACF2
5 1 (0.45%) IAG
5 1 (0.45%) RACF
5 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (5.86%) Terraform
2 10 (4.50%) Ansible
3 9 (4.05%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.60%) Grafana
5 4 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 61 (27.48%) PayPal
2 14 (6.31%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.05%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.15%) VMware
5 6 (2.70%) Google
6 4 (1.80%) SAP
7 3 (1.35%) Adobe
7 3 (1.35%) IBM
7 3 (1.35%) Nintex
7 3 (1.35%) Pega
8 2 (0.90%) ESRI
9 1 (0.45%) Ariba
9 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.45%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.45%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.45%) F5
9 1 (0.45%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle
9 1 (0.45%) Zend