JavaScript Engineer Contracts

JavaScript Engineer
UK

The median JavaScript Engineer daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 618 746
Rank change year-on-year +82 +128 -126
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Engineer 43 66 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.100% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 34 80
10th Percentile £413 £425 £448
25th Percentile £483 £477 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -8.70% +21.05%
75th Percentile £819 £688 £688
90th Percentile £1,000 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £430
% change year-on-year - +16.28% +6.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

JavaScript Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript Engineer.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 June 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
England +76 40 £700 +33.33% 19
London +90 32 £700 +16.67% 12
Work from Home +98 24 £700 +33.33% 11
UK excluding London +38 8 £500 - 10
East of England +9 4 £550 +10.00%
North of England +23 2 £400 -21.95% 1
Yorkshire +17 2 £400 -
South West +10 1 £525 - 3
South East +6 1 - - 6

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 featuring JavaScript Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 32 (74.42%) TypeScript
3 30 (69.77%) React
4 26 (60.47%) CSS
5 24 (55.81%) Software Engineering
6 22 (51.16%) Node.js
7 17 (39.53%) Redux
7 17 (39.53%) Jest
8 15 (34.88%) Marketing
8 15 (34.88%) HTML
9 14 (32.56%) Git
10 13 (30.23%) Sass
10 13 (30.23%) Java
10 13 (30.23%) Agile
10 13 (30.23%) Full Stack Development
11 12 (27.91%) User Experience
12 10 (23.26%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (23.26%) LESS
12 10 (23.26%) WebSockets
12 10 (23.26%) git-flow
12 10 (23.26%) SDLC
12 10 (23.26%) Electronic Trading
12 10 (23.26%) TDD
12 10 (23.26%) Fixed Income
12 10 (23.26%) Customer Experience
12 10 (23.26%) Clean Code
12 10 (23.26%) Post-Production
12 10 (23.26%) Tailwind CSS
12 10 (23.26%) OpenFin
12 10 (23.26%) Material-UI

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (6.98%) CMS
1 3 (6.98%) WordPress
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.63%) AWS
1 5 (11.63%) Azure
2 3 (6.98%) GCP
2 3 (6.98%) GitHub
2 3 (6.98%) SaaS
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Firewall
1 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) MySQL
1 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.33%) CouchDB
2 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (32.56%) Git
2 10 (23.26%) git-flow
3 7 (16.28%) Cypress.io
4 3 (6.98%) webpack
5 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.65%) Selenium
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.33%) JIRA
6 1 (2.33%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (2.33%) Postman
6 1 (2.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (34.88%) Marketing
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 7 (16.28%) Advertising
3 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (69.77%) React
2 26 (60.47%) CSS
3 22 (51.16%) Node.js
4 17 (39.53%) Jest
4 17 (39.53%) Redux
5 15 (34.88%) HTML
6 13 (30.23%) Sass
7 10 (23.26%) LESS
7 10 (23.26%) Material-UI
7 10 (23.26%) OpenFin
7 10 (23.26%) Tailwind CSS
7 10 (23.26%) WebSockets
8 7 (16.28%) Express.js
8 7 (16.28%) HTML5
9 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
9 3 (6.98%) Laravel
9 3 (6.98%) Twig
10 2 (4.65%) .NET Core
10 2 (4.65%) Next.js
10 2 (4.65%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (23.26%) Fixed Income
2 6 (13.95%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.65%) Blockchain
3 2 (4.65%) NFT
3 2 (4.65%) Web3
4 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.33%) Genomics
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) Software Engineering
2 13 (30.23%) Agile
2 13 (30.23%) Full Stack Development
3 12 (27.91%) User Experience
4 10 (23.26%) Clean Code
4 10 (23.26%) Customer Experience
4 10 (23.26%) Electronic Trading
4 10 (23.26%) Post-Production
4 10 (23.26%) SDLC
4 10 (23.26%) TDD
5 9 (20.93%) Pair Programming
6 8 (18.60%) Kanban
6 8 (18.60%) Software Architecture
7 6 (13.95%) Prototyping
8 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
9 4 (9.30%) Web Development
10 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence
10 3 (6.98%) BEM - Block Element Modifier
10 3 (6.98%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (6.98%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 32 (74.42%) TypeScript
3 13 (30.23%) Java
4 3 (6.98%) Bash
4 3 (6.98%) C#
4 3 (6.98%) SQL
5 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.33%) C++
6 1 (2.33%) PHP
6 1 (2.33%) Python
6 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) zsh
2 1 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.33%) VirtualBox
2 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Google
1 3 (6.98%) WooCommerce
2 1 (2.33%) Compaq
2 1 (2.33%) VMware