JavaScript Contracts in the UK excluding London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 53 38 31
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 -12
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 724 1,196 1,834
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.57% 5.20% 6.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.13% 18.03% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 886 1,280
10th Percentile £300 £363 £352
25th Percentile £375 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +0.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £631
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 29 38
10th Percentile £35.00 £49.74 £14.25
25th Percentile £46.18 £52.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +15.93% +39.51%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £65.38
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.20 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £68.75 £57.25
% change year-on-year -9.09% +20.09% +20.53%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,786 6,635 8,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.59% 28.84% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,218 4,688 6,111
10th Percentile £315 £350 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 329 336
10th Percentile £37.96 £23.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £27.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.38
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
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 within the UK excluding 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
North of England -8 222 £475 -9.52% 329
South East -14 147 £400 -20.00% 214
South West +4 122 £500 - 180
North West -18 104 £463 -13.95% 197
Yorkshire -8 95 £575 +15.00% 101
Midlands +5 90 £425 -1.45% 243
Scotland -34 76 £466 -1.89% 76
East Midlands 0 46 £388 -3.13% 103
East of England -8 45 £425 -10.99% 117
West Midlands +9 43 £475 - 139
North East +7 23 £466 -15.32% 33
Wales +1 14 £413 -8.33% 43
Northern Ireland +11 9 - - 26
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
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 37 (5.11%) SharePoint
2 34 (4.70%) Confluence
3 14 (1.93%) CMS
4 13 (1.80%) Drupal
5 10 (1.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 10 (1.38%) Apache
6 8 (1.10%) SharePoint 2010
6 8 (1.10%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.83%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.69%) IIS
9 4 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.55%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.55%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.55%) WordPress
10 3 (0.41%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.41%) Moodle
10 3 (0.41%) nginx
10 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 108 (14.92%) Chatbot
2 15 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.83%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.55%) Sketch
7 2 (0.28%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.28%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.28%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.28%) InfoPath
7 2 (0.28%) Lectora
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.14%) Simulink
8 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.41%) Magento
3 3 (0.41%) Maximo
4 2 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.14%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.14%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 142 (19.61%) AWS
2 110 (15.19%) Azure
3 52 (7.18%) Serverless
4 41 (5.66%) Power Platform
5 36 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (4.28%) GitHub
7 29 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (3.87%) Power Automate
9 27 (3.73%) GCP
10 26 (3.59%) Amazon S3
11 16 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (2.21%) OpenShift
11 16 (2.21%) PowerApps
12 15 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.66%) SaaS
14 11 (1.52%) npm
15 9 (1.24%) Azure Functions
15 9 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.10%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.21%) Software-Defined Radio
3 15 (2.07%) SNMP
4 14 (1.93%) Ethernet
4 14 (1.93%) HTTP
5 8 (1.10%) Intranet
6 6 (0.83%) DNS
6 6 (0.83%) Firewall
6 6 (0.83%) Wireless
7 4 (0.55%) RTSP
8 3 (0.41%) BGP
8 3 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.41%) Internet
8 3 (0.41%) IOS XR
8 3 (0.41%) Skype
8 3 (0.41%) SSL
9 1 (0.14%) 5G
9 1 (0.14%) DMZ
9 1 (0.14%) DVB
9 1 (0.14%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (7.73%) MySQL
2 50 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (6.49%) SQL Server
4 39 (5.39%) MongoDB
5 27 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.35%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.35%) Power BI
7 14 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (1.93%) Metadata
7 14 (1.93%) Oracle Database
8 12 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.24%) Redis
9 9 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (0.97%) GIS
11 7 (0.97%) MariaDB
11 7 (0.97%) PowerPivot
12 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Power View
13 5 (0.69%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 76 (10.50%) Git
2 52 (7.18%) JIRA
3 49 (6.77%) Jenkins
4 33 (4.56%) Eclipse
5 25 (3.45%) Selenium
6 23 (3.18%) Bitbucket
7 20 (2.76%) GitLab
7 20 (2.76%) Visual Studio
8 16 (2.21%) Cypress.io
8 16 (2.21%) Robot Framework
9 15 (2.07%) GoogleTest
9 15 (2.07%) webpack
10 12 (1.66%) Postman
11 9 (1.24%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.10%) Maven
13 7 (0.97%) Oracle APEX
14 6 (0.83%) JMeter
14 6 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (0.83%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 140 (19.34%) Social Skills
2 69 (9.53%) Public Sector
3 43 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (5.52%) Finance
5 20 (2.76%) Telecoms
6 18 (2.49%) Manufacturing
7 16 (2.21%) Marketing
7 16 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.93%) Military
9 10 (1.38%) Billing
9 10 (1.38%) Publishing
10 9 (1.24%) Retail
11 8 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.10%) Banking
11 8 (1.10%) Legal
11 8 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.97%) Tech for Good
13 6 (0.83%) Electronics
13 6 (0.83%) Multimedia
14 5 (0.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 461 (63.67%) Developer
2 147 (20.30%) Software Developer
3 62 (8.56%) Software Engineer
4 60 (8.29%) Full Stack Developer
5 36 (4.97%) Senior
6 33 (4.56%) Java Developer
7 29 (4.01%) Lead
8 28 (3.87%) .NET Developer
9 26 (3.59%) React Developer
10 23 (3.18%) JavaScript Developer
11 21 (2.90%) C++ Software Engineer
12 20 (2.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 19 (2.62%) Architect
13 19 (2.62%) Senior Developer
13 19 (2.62%) Tester
14 18 (2.49%) Analyst
15 17 (2.35%) Designer
15 17 (2.35%) Full Stack Engineer
16 13 (1.80%) Applications Developer
17 12 (1.66%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 365 (50.41%) HTML
2 248 (34.25%) CSS
3 172 (23.76%) React
4 143 (19.75%) Node.js
5 92 (12.71%) AngularJS
6 88 (12.15%) .NET
7 68 (9.39%) REST
8 49 (6.77%) RESTful
9 48 (6.63%) Spring
10 45 (6.22%) XML
11 44 (6.08%) Spring Boot
12 42 (5.80%) Web Services
13 30 (4.14%) HTML5
14 29 (4.01%) GraphQL
14 29 (4.01%) JSON
15 28 (3.87%) ASP.NET
16 27 (3.73%) Kafka
17 26 (3.59%) Vue
18 24 (3.31%) .NET Framework
19 23 (3.18%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 21 (2.90%) Product Ownership
2 20 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (2.62%) Mobile App
4 17 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 13 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.38%) Data Structures
6 10 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (0.97%) CMDB
10 6 (0.83%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.83%) Operational Technology
10 6 (0.83%) Social Media
11 5 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.69%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.69%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.55%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.55%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 68 (9.39%) Linux
2 40 (5.52%) Windows
3 14 (1.93%) Android
4 13 (1.80%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.83%) Unix
6 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (30.94%) Agile
2 217 (29.97%) Software Engineering
3 133 (18.37%) Code Quality
4 117 (16.16%) Artificial Intelligence
5 115 (15.88%) Full Stack Development
6 110 (15.19%) CI/CD
7 108 (14.92%) Conversational UI
8 98 (13.54%) DevOps
9 80 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
10 78 (10.77%) Scrum
11 74 (10.22%) Test Automation
12 70 (9.67%) TDD
13 60 (8.29%) Microservices
14 49 (6.77%) Front End Development
15 47 (6.49%) MVC
16 42 (5.80%) Unit Testing
17 40 (5.52%) User Experience
18 37 (5.11%) Continuous Integration
18 37 (5.11%) Mentoring
19 36 (4.97%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 234 (32.32%) C#
2 231 (31.91%) Python
3 206 (28.45%) SQL
4 171 (23.62%) Java
5 114 (15.75%) TypeScript
6 49 (6.77%) C++
7 40 (5.52%) PHP
8 26 (3.59%) Bash
9 23 (3.18%) C
10 22 (3.04%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.21%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.93%) Groovy
13 11 (1.52%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.24%) Go
14 9 (1.24%) PL/SQL
14 9 (1.24%) Ruby
15 8 (1.10%) Scala
16 7 (0.97%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.97%) VBA
17 6 (0.83%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 156 (21.55%) Degree
2 99 (13.67%) Security Cleared
3 78 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.83%) CEH
7 6 (0.83%) CREST Certified
7 6 (0.83%) GIAC
7 6 (0.83%) GPEN
7 6 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.83%) OSCP
8 5 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.69%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.69%) PMP
9 4 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.28%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.39%) Accessibility
2 36 (4.97%) QA
3 12 (1.66%) GDPR
4 8 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (0.83%) Good Clinical Practice
5 6 (0.83%) GxP
5 6 (0.83%) NIST
5 6 (0.83%) WCAG
6 3 (0.41%) SLA
7 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) GRC
8 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.14%) HL7
8 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.14%) MISRA
8 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 48 (6.63%) Docker
2 16 (2.21%) Firmware
3 10 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.55%) zsh
5 3 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.28%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.14%) ACF2
7 1 (0.14%) IAG
7 1 (0.14%) RACF
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.18%) Terraform
3 18 (2.49%) Ansible
4 17 (2.35%) Grafana
5 10 (1.38%) Kibana
5 10 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) Istio
7 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.14%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 108 (14.92%) PayPal
2 58 (8.01%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.11%) Google
4 30 (4.14%) Oracle
5 28 (3.87%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.49%) Atlassian
7 16 (2.21%) Adobe
7 16 (2.21%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.21%) SAP
8 12 (1.66%) VMware
9 7 (0.97%) IBM
10 4 (0.55%) Confluent
10 4 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.41%) Cisco
11 3 (0.41%) ESRI
11 3 (0.41%) Nintex
11 3 (0.41%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.41%) Pega
11 3 (0.41%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.28%) Red Hat