JavaScript Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median JavaScript Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 363 399
Rank change year-on-year +15 +36 -56
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 21 50 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.25% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 47 85
10th Percentile £363 £384 £375
25th Percentile £375 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £683 £625 £615
90th Percentile £713 - £648
UK median daily rate £500 £571 £600
% change year-on-year -12.47% -4.79% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £65.63
90th Percentile - - £66.75
UK median hourly rate - - £63.75
% change year-on-year - - +9.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
South West +29 8 £570 +14.00% 1
Midlands +10 7 £663 +65.63% 3
West Midlands - 7 £663 - 2
North West +21 3 £438 -7.89% 5
North of England +9 3 £438 -27.08% 6
South East +37 2 £278 -12.60% 7
Scotland +19 1 £400 -12.33%
JavaScript Developer
UK

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, JavaScript Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 19 (90.48%) React
3 14 (66.67%) Git
4 13 (61.90%) Linux
5 12 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (47.62%) Node.js
7 9 (42.86%) Front End Development
7 9 (42.86%) TypeScript
7 9 (42.86%) Docker
7 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
8 8 (38.10%) DevOps
8 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
8 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
8 8 (38.10%) MongoDB
8 8 (38.10%) Web Development
8 8 (38.10%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (38.10%) Java
9 7 (33.33%) Unix
9 7 (33.33%) OOD
9 7 (33.33%) OO
9 7 (33.33%) Python
9 7 (33.33%) Oracle
9 7 (33.33%) DB2
9 7 (33.33%) Hibernate
9 7 (33.33%) Spring
9 7 (33.33%) DV Cleared
9 7 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
9 7 (33.33%) AngularJS
9 7 (33.33%) Elastic Stack

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (4.76%) Camunda
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.76%) Figma
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) MongoDB
2 7 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 7 (33.33%) DB2
3 6 (28.57%) Big Data
4 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.76%) MySQL
5 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (66.67%) Git
2 6 (28.57%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) Mocha
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 5 (23.81%) Banking
1 5 (23.81%) Investment Banking
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (90.48%) React
2 10 (47.62%) Node.js
3 7 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 7 (33.33%) Dropwizard
3 7 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 7 (33.33%) Spring
4 2 (9.52%) CSS
4 2 (9.52%) HTML
5 1 (4.76%) CSS3
5 1 (4.76%) Express.js
5 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.76%) HTML5
5 1 (4.76%) Jest
5 1 (4.76%) MERN Stack
5 1 (4.76%) PySpark
5 1 (4.76%) Redux
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Code
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (42.86%) Front End Development
3 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Web Development
4 7 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 7 (33.33%) OO
4 7 (33.33%) OOD
5 4 (19.05%) User Experience
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
7 2 (9.52%) Analytics
7 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
8 1 (4.76%) Computer Vision
8 1 (4.76%) Containerisation
8 1 (4.76%) Data Interpretation
8 1 (4.76%) Data Pipeline
8 1 (4.76%) Data Science
8 1 (4.76%) End-to-End Testing
8 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 8 (38.10%) Java
4 7 (33.33%) Python
5 6 (28.57%) Bash
5 6 (28.57%) Ruby
6 1 (4.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (28.57%) Rancher
3 2 (9.52%) Kibana
3 2 (9.52%) logstash
4 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.76%) Google