JavaScript Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median JavaScript Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, 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 354 403 472
Rank change year-on-year +49 +69 +13
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Engineer 15 10 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.090% 0.048% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.051% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 11
10th Percentile £163 £459 £390
25th Percentile £267 £483 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -8.42%
75th Percentile £531 £594 £519
90th Percentile £653 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £588 £588 £563
% change year-on-year - +4.44% +2.27%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Engineer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Engineer
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 Engineer 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 East +45 6 £363 -25.64% 4
South West +30 5 £588 +11.90% 1
North of England +29 2 £500 -4.76% 2
North West +25 2 £500 -4.76% 1
East Midlands - 2 £386 -
Midlands - 2 £386 - 1
JavaScript Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, JavaScript Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (40.00%) HTML
4 6 (40.00%) CSS
5 5 (33.33%) SQL
5 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 5 (33.33%) React
6 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
6 4 (26.67%) OO
6 4 (26.67%) Linux
7 3 (20.00%) Workflow
7 3 (20.00%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) Python
7 3 (20.00%) XML
7 3 (20.00%) Java
7 3 (20.00%) MySQL
7 3 (20.00%) Oracle
7 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (20.00%) Firebug
7 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
7 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (20.00%) MariaDB
7 3 (20.00%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
8 2 (13.33%) Health Technology
8 2 (13.33%) Distributed Architecture

JavaScript Engineer 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
2 1 (6.67%) Boomi
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (20.00%) Firebug
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (6.67%) Postman
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Health Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) CSS
1 6 (40.00%) HTML
2 5 (33.33%) React
3 3 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
4 2 (13.33%) Node.js
4 2 (13.33%) Pandas
4 2 (13.33%) React Native
4 2 (13.33%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (13.33%) Vue
5 1 (6.67%) .NET
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.67%) CSS3
5 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (6.67%) HTML5
5 1 (6.67%) jQuery
5 1 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) OO
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (20.00%) Workflow
4 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (6.67%) BDD
5 1 (6.67%) ETL
5 1 (6.67%) MVC
5 1 (6.67%) OOP
5 1 (6.67%) Software Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) ISO 9001
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kibana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) logstash
1 1 (6.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) Intapp
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow