JavaScript Contracts

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 -6
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 2,130 3,661 7,150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.89% 6.13% 8.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.57% 17.52% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,471 2,682 5,385
10th Percentile £325 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £800 £749 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £479 £475
% change year-on-year -6.05% +0.84% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 54 70
10th Percentile £33.88 £36.16 £26.10
25th Percentile £41.55 £50.35 £35.52
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.94 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £71.50 £83.50 £75.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £67.50 £52.56
% change year-on-year -7.41% +28.44% +30.57%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,854 20,901 32,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.49% 35.02% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,130 15,092 23,463
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £760 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 471 514
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.52
% change year-on-year - +26.21% +16.52%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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 -6 1,781 £550 +2.33% 1,922
London -6 1,086 £600 +4.35% 701
Work from Home 0 1,011 £550 +7.32% 1,320
UK excluding London -16 763 £450 -6.05% 1,319
North of England -11 225 £475 -7.32% 355
South East -13 153 £423 -13.33% 231
South West +7 125 £500 -2.44% 210
North West -14 108 £463 -11.90% 208
Scotland -25 107 £475 - 87
Yorkshire -5 92 £550 +10.00% 108
Midlands -7 86 £419 -7.00% 245
East Midlands +4 45 £388 -3.13% 96
East of England -9 44 £438 -8.38% 138
West Midlands -3 41 £450 -10.00% 147
North East +7 25 £454 -17.45% 43
Wales -5 15 £406 -9.72% 52
Northern Ireland +13 9 - - 23

JavaScript
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
1 111 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (4.32%) Apache
3 60 (2.82%) CMS
4 57 (2.68%) Confluence
5 53 (2.49%) SharePoint
6 27 (1.27%) nginx
7 20 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 16 (0.75%) Drupal
8 16 (0.75%) WordPress
9 13 (0.61%) Headless CMS
10 12 (0.56%) IIS
11 11 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
12 8 (0.38%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.38%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.33%) Kentico
13 7 (0.33%) SharePoint 2010
13 7 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.33%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.28%) Tornado
14 6 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 123 (5.77%) Chatbot
2 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.42%) Sketch
6 8 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.28%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.14%) Simulink
10 2 (0.094%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.094%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.094%) InVision
10 2 (0.094%) Lectora
10 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.047%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.047%) Avocode
11 1 (0.047%) Blender
11 1 (0.047%) InDesign
11 1 (0.047%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 39 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.13%) Shopify
3 17 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
5 6 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
6 5 (0.23%) Endur
6 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.19%) Maximo
7 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.14%) Eloqua
9 2 (0.094%) Unica
9 2 (0.094%) WebTrends
9 2 (0.094%) Workfront
10 1 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.047%) Hyperion Planning
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Utilities
10 1 (0.047%) SAP CX
10 1 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 633 (29.72%) AWS
2 417 (19.58%) Azure
3 221 (10.38%) GCP
4 134 (6.29%) Serverless
5 125 (5.87%) GitHub
6 104 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (4.60%) Power Platform
8 94 (4.41%) dbt
9 88 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
10 77 (3.62%) Snowflake
11 61 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
12 54 (2.54%) Amazon S3
12 54 (2.54%) Power Automate
13 45 (2.11%) npm
13 45 (2.11%) PowerApps
14 38 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 37 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 37 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
16 35 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
17 29 (1.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.07%) HTTP
2 31 (1.46%) Intranet
3 24 (1.13%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.99%) Firewall
5 16 (0.75%) DNS
6 14 (0.66%) Software-Defined Radio
7 13 (0.61%) Internet
7 13 (0.61%) SNMP
7 13 (0.61%) SSL
8 11 (0.52%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.33%) Wireless
10 6 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (0.23%) MQTT
11 5 (0.23%) RTSP
11 5 (0.23%) VPN
12 4 (0.19%) AMQP
12 4 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.19%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.19%) NetScaler
13 3 (0.14%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (8.31%) SQL Server
2 127 (5.96%) MySQL
3 117 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
4 98 (4.60%) MongoDB
5 96 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
6 94 (4.41%) Apache Arrow
6 94 (4.41%) Dremio
7 86 (4.04%) NoSQL
8 84 (3.94%) Apache Ignite
9 74 (3.47%) Data Lake
10 62 (2.91%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.16%) Power BI
12 39 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
13 35 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
14 26 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
15 23 (1.08%) Redis
16 22 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
17 19 (0.89%) Big Data
17 19 (0.89%) Metadata
18 18 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 262 (12.30%) Git
2 157 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 146 (6.85%) JIRA
4 78 (3.66%) Cypress.io
5 69 (3.24%) GitLab
6 68 (3.19%) webpack
7 57 (2.68%) Selenium
8 40 (1.88%) Postman
9 33 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 31 (1.46%) Bitbucket
10 31 (1.46%) Eclipse
11 27 (1.27%) Visual Studio
12 26 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 21 (0.99%) JMeter
13 21 (0.99%) TeamCity
14 19 (0.89%) Maven
15 17 (0.80%) Robot Framework
16 14 (0.66%) GoogleTest
16 14 (0.66%) Mocha
17 12 (0.56%) JUnit
General
1 416 (19.53%) Finance
2 415 (19.48%) Social Skills
3 186 (8.73%) Front Office
4 182 (8.54%) Banking
5 179 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 157 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
7 90 (4.23%) Investment Banking
7 90 (4.23%) Marketing
8 34 (1.60%) Retail
9 33 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.50%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.22%) Advertising
14 19 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (0.85%) Back Office
16 15 (0.70%) Publishing
17 14 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.66%) Games
17 14 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,296 (60.85%) Developer
2 253 (11.88%) Senior
3 231 (10.85%) Full Stack Developer
4 222 (10.42%) Software Developer
5 209 (9.81%) Software Engineer
6 152 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 138 (6.48%) Lead
8 136 (6.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 124 (5.82%) React Developer
10 121 (5.68%) Architect
11 109 (5.12%) .NET Developer
12 102 (4.79%) JavaScript Developer
13 86 (4.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 78 (3.66%) Java Developer
15 74 (3.47%) Python Developer
16 65 (3.05%) C# Developer
17 61 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
18 54 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
19 53 (2.49%) Full Stack Engineer
20 51 (2.39%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 859 (40.33%) HTML
2 691 (32.44%) CSS
3 649 (30.47%) React
4 400 (18.78%) Node.js
5 315 (14.79%) .NET
6 287 (13.47%) AngularJS
7 235 (11.03%) REST
8 147 (6.90%) Web Services
9 139 (6.53%) XML
10 119 (5.59%) Vue
11 114 (5.35%) RESTful
12 112 (5.26%) ASP.NET
13 108 (5.07%) .NET Core
13 108 (5.07%) gRPC
14 107 (5.02%) HTML5
14 107 (5.02%) Protocol Buffers
15 103 (4.84%) Pandas
15 103 (4.84%) Redux
16 101 (4.74%) JSON
17 96 (4.51%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 162 (7.61%) Fixed Income
2 129 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 122 (5.73%) Hedge funds
4 120 (5.63%) Derivative
5 112 (5.26%) Equities
6 68 (3.19%) Product Ownership
7 54 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
7 54 (2.54%) Mobile App
8 45 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
9 44 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 42 (1.97%) Algorithms
11 36 (1.69%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.69%) Onboarding
12 35 (1.64%) Cloud Native
13 33 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
14 31 (1.46%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
17 14 (0.66%) Clustering
18 13 (0.61%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.04%) Linux
2 74 (3.47%) Windows
3 55 (2.58%) Unix
4 39 (1.83%) Android
5 34 (1.60%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.047%) CentOS
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.047%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (36.24%) Agile
2 569 (26.71%) Software Engineering
3 409 (19.20%) Full Stack Development
4 401 (18.83%) DevOps
5 354 (16.62%) CI/CD
6 292 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
7 252 (11.83%) Front End Development
8 247 (11.60%) Test Automation
9 217 (10.19%) TDD
10 212 (9.95%) Code Quality
11 203 (9.53%) User Experience
12 196 (9.20%) Microservices
13 181 (8.50%) Web Development
14 166 (7.79%) Asset Management
15 161 (7.56%) Scrum
16 157 (7.37%) Artificial Intelligence
17 133 (6.24%) MVC
18 125 (5.87%) Conversational UI
19 124 (5.82%) Analytics
20 122 (5.73%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 642 (30.14%) Python
2 575 (27.00%) TypeScript
3 554 (26.01%) Java
4 531 (24.93%) C#
5 509 (23.90%) SQL
6 132 (6.20%) PHP
7 88 (4.13%) PowerShell
8 72 (3.38%) C++
9 64 (3.00%) Go
10 61 (2.86%) Bash
11 41 (1.92%) Ruby
12 35 (1.64%) C
12 35 (1.64%) Kotlin
13 30 (1.41%) PL/SQL
14 29 (1.36%) Apex Code
15 26 (1.22%) Bicep
16 24 (1.13%) Groovy
16 24 (1.13%) T-SQL
17 21 (0.99%) Shell Script
18 20 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 306 (14.37%) Degree
2 271 (12.72%) Security Cleared
3 191 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 89 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.36%) Master's Degree
7 13 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 9 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.33%) CEH
10 7 (0.33%) CREST Certified
10 7 (0.33%) GIAC
10 7 (0.33%) GPEN
10 7 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (0.33%) OSCP
11 5 (0.23%) CISSP
11 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (7.04%) QA
2 139 (6.53%) Accessibility
3 43 (2.02%) WCAG
4 41 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 19 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 15 (0.70%) GDPR
7 12 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 10 (0.47%) NIST
9 7 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
9 7 (0.33%) GxP
9 7 (0.33%) SLA
10 5 (0.23%) GRC
11 4 (0.19%) CDISC
11 4 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.094%) MiFID
12 2 (0.094%) PMO
13 1 (0.047%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 149 (7.00%) Docker
2 85 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 46 (2.16%) IAG
4 41 (1.92%) ACF2
4 41 (1.92%) RACF
5 15 (0.70%) Firmware
6 11 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.19%) zsh
8 3 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.094%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.047%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.047%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.047%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 176 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 103 (4.84%) Terraform
3 57 (2.68%) Ansible
4 36 (1.69%) Grafana
5 34 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.85%) Kibana
6 18 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.42%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.23%) logstash
8 5 (0.23%) Puppet
9 4 (0.19%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.14%) Netcool
10 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.094%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.094%) Istio
11 2 (0.094%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.094%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.047%) MOM
12 1 (0.047%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 169 (7.93%) Microsoft
2 121 (5.68%) PayPal
3 117 (5.49%) Oracle
4 91 (4.27%) Google
5 88 (4.13%) ServiceNow
6 56 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 55 (2.58%) Adobe
8 43 (2.02%) SAP
9 32 (1.50%) Sybase
10 24 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 21 (0.99%) MuleSoft
12 17 (0.80%) Optimizely
12 17 (0.80%) Splunk
13 15 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 13 (0.61%) BeyondTrust
14 13 (0.61%) CyberArk
14 13 (0.61%) VMware
15 12 (0.56%) IBM
16 10 (0.47%) Confluent
16 10 (0.47%) Tealium