JavaScript Contracts in the South West

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 48 52 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 -2
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 122 141 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.87% 4.06% 5.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.37% 14.04% 19.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 112 149
10th Percentile £314 £375 £375
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.96%
75th Percentile £575 £628 £575
90th Percentile £704 £723 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile - - £47.99
25th Percentile - - £49.28
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.05 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -12.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile - - £63.60
90th Percentile £70.00 - £65.25
England median hourly rate £63.75 £67.50 £55.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +21.62% +5.71%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 630 1,004 1,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.99% 28.93% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 716 757
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 70
10th Percentile £49.80 £49.56 £46.66
25th Percentile £61.25 £55.58 £53.81
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +6.12% +34.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.55 £75.75 £69.65
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the South West.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the South West 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
Bristol +12 58 £475 +5.56% 64
Gloucestershire -6 31 £550 -18.52% 29
Devon +8 13 £500 +11.11% 35
Wiltshire -4 10 £450 - 14
Dorset +7 5 £175 -62.16% 12
Somerset +5 5 £450 - 15
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 11 (9.02%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.10%) Apache
2 5 (4.10%) Umbraco
3 4 (3.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (2.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.82%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.82%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.82%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.82%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.82%) Magento
2 1 (0.82%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 37 (30.33%) AWS
2 32 (26.23%) Azure
3 14 (11.48%) Power Platform
4 12 (9.84%) Power Automate
5 8 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.74%) GitHub
6 7 (5.74%) PowerApps
7 6 (4.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (4.92%) Azure Storage
8 5 (4.10%) Amazon Cognito
8 5 (4.10%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.64%) Firebase
10 2 (1.64%) npm
10 2 (1.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.64%) Serverless
10 2 (1.64%) Sumo Logic
11 1 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.56%) Ethernet
2 5 (4.10%) HTTP
2 5 (4.10%) Intranet
2 5 (4.10%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.46%) Internet
3 3 (2.46%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.74%) MySQL
2 5 (4.10%) Triplestore
3 4 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.46%) Power BI
5 2 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.82%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.82%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.56%) GitLab
1 8 (6.56%) Visual Studio
2 7 (5.74%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.74%) JIRA
3 6 (4.92%) Selenium
4 5 (4.10%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.10%) Eclipse
4 5 (4.10%) Git
5 3 (2.46%) Postman
6 2 (1.64%) JUnit
6 2 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.64%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.64%) webpack
7 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.82%) JMeter
7 1 (0.82%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.82%) Subversion
General
1 21 (17.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.20%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.56%) Military
4 7 (5.74%) Finance
4 7 (5.74%) Tech for Good
5 6 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Automotive
7 3 (2.46%) Legal
7 3 (2.46%) Marketing
7 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Law
8 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 78 (63.93%) Developer
2 25 (20.49%) Software Developer
3 15 (12.30%) Software Engineer
4 10 (8.20%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (4.92%) Applications Developer
5 6 (4.92%) React Developer
5 6 (4.92%) SharePoint Developer
5 6 (4.92%) Test Engineer
6 5 (4.10%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (4.10%) C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.10%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (4.10%) Senior
7 4 (3.28%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (3.28%) Power Apps Developer
7 4 (3.28%) Power Platform Developer
7 4 (3.28%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (2.46%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (2.46%) 1st/2nd Line Technical Support
8 3 (2.46%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (32.79%) HTML
2 34 (27.87%) React
3 32 (26.23%) CSS
4 25 (20.49%) Node.js
5 17 (13.93%) REST
6 12 (9.84%) .NET
7 11 (9.02%) AngularJS
7 11 (9.02%) Spring
8 8 (6.56%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.92%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (4.92%) Flask
9 6 (4.92%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.92%) Kafka
9 6 (4.92%) RESTful
9 6 (4.92%) SPFx
10 5 (4.10%) Apache Jena
10 5 (4.10%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (4.10%) jQuery
10 5 (4.10%) PostGIS
10 5 (4.10%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.92%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.46%) CUDA
4 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.82%) IoT
5 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.82%) Robotics
5 1 (0.82%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.66%) Linux
2 6 (4.92%) Windows
3 2 (1.64%) Android
3 2 (1.64%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.05%) Agile
2 31 (25.41%) Software Engineering
3 19 (15.57%) DevOps
3 19 (15.57%) Full Stack Development
4 16 (13.11%) CI/CD
5 14 (11.48%) Project Management
6 13 (10.66%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (10.66%) Code Quality
6 13 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (9.84%) Conversational UI
7 12 (9.84%) Unit Testing
8 11 (9.02%) Front End Development
9 9 (7.38%) Clean Code
9 9 (7.38%) MVC
9 9 (7.38%) TDD
10 8 (6.56%) OO
10 8 (6.56%) Secure Coding
10 8 (6.56%) Visualisation
11 7 (5.74%) Containerisation
11 7 (5.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.61%) C#
2 39 (31.97%) Python
3 26 (21.31%) SQL
4 25 (20.49%) TypeScript
5 20 (16.39%) Java
6 11 (9.02%) C
7 9 (7.38%) C++
8 5 (4.10%) SPARQL
9 4 (3.28%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.28%) PHP
10 3 (2.46%) Embedded C++
11 2 (1.64%) Dart
11 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.64%) SOQL
12 1 (0.82%) Bash
Qualifications
1 40 (32.79%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.11%) Degree
4 13 (10.66%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.10%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.64%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) QA
2 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.64%) WCAG
4 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (9.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.46%) Ansible
3 2 (1.64%) Terraform
4 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (9.84%) PayPal
2 11 (9.02%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.92%) Adobe
3 6 (4.92%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.46%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.64%) Google
5 2 (1.64%) VMware
5 2 (1.64%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.82%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.82%) Marketo
6 1 (0.82%) Pardot
6 1 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.82%) Splunk