JavaScript Contracts with Work from Home Options

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 25 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,007 1,799 4,040
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.79% 7.28% 9.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.07% 19.59% 24.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 1,329 3,061
10th Percentile £350 £383 £375
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £619
90th Percentile £850 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 40 37
10th Percentile £35.00 £44.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £37.63 £51.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £67.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +12.92% +17.07%
75th Percentile £51.50 £75.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £76.16
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £67.50 £57.25
% change year-on-year -7.41% +17.90% +20.53%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,018 9,183 16,711
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.84% 37.15% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,638 6,743 12,422
10th Percentile £351 £388 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 196 195
10th Percentile £33.13 £32.88 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.13 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.10
% change year-on-year - +24.75% +16.95%

JavaScript
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JavaScript trend for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript.

JavaScript daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

JavaScript daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JavaScript.

JavaScript hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

JavaScript hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 122 (12.12%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (10.13%) Apache
3 32 (3.18%) CMS
4 23 (2.28%) Confluence
5 19 (1.89%) nginx
5 19 (1.89%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.09%) WordPress
7 9 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.70%) Drupal
8 7 (0.70%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.50%) Kentico
9 5 (0.50%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.40%) SAS
10 4 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.30%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.20%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 122 (12.12%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.20%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.20%) Lectora
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.099%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.099%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.099%) Blender
7 1 (0.099%) InDesign
7 1 (0.099%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.50%) Shopify
4 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.20%) Endur
6 2 (0.20%) Magento
7 1 (0.099%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 340 (33.76%) AWS
2 164 (16.29%) Azure
3 129 (12.81%) GCP
4 107 (10.63%) dbt
5 88 (8.74%) Snowflake
6 65 (6.45%) GitHub
7 54 (5.36%) Serverless
8 52 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
10 36 (3.57%) Power Platform
11 28 (2.78%) Amazon S3
12 21 (2.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 19 (1.89%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.79%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.69%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
16 15 (1.49%) Azure Functions
17 14 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 14 (1.39%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.28%) HTTP
2 21 (2.09%) Intranet
3 9 (0.89%) Firewall
4 8 (0.79%) DNS
4 8 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.70%) Internet
6 3 (0.30%) BGP
6 3 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.30%) IOS XR
6 3 (0.30%) SSL
6 3 (0.30%) Wireless
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.20%) LAN
7 2 (0.20%) RTSP
7 2 (0.20%) WLAN
8 1 (0.099%) FTP
8 1 (0.099%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (10.82%) Amazon Athena
2 107 (10.63%) Apache Arrow
2 107 (10.63%) Dremio
3 95 (9.43%) Apache Ignite
4 88 (8.74%) Data Lake
5 74 (7.35%) SQL Server
6 56 (5.56%) MySQL
7 46 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (3.18%) NoSQL
9 29 (2.88%) Relational Database
10 24 (2.38%) MongoDB
11 23 (2.28%) Power BI
12 19 (1.89%) Big Data
13 17 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (1.29%) Redis
15 12 (1.19%) BigQuery
16 11 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
17 9 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
18 8 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 100 (9.93%) Git
2 74 (7.35%) JIRA
3 63 (6.26%) Jenkins
4 38 (3.77%) GitLab
5 24 (2.38%) Cypress.io
6 23 (2.28%) Selenium
7 19 (1.89%) Postman
8 18 (1.79%) webpack
9 17 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
10 15 (1.49%) JMeter
11 11 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.99%) git-flow
13 9 (0.89%) Maven
13 9 (0.89%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.89%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.79%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.79%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.70%) JUnit
15 7 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
16 6 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 250 (24.83%) Finance
2 148 (14.70%) Social Skills
3 134 (13.31%) Banking
3 134 (13.31%) Front Office
4 86 (8.54%) Investment Banking
5 78 (7.75%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (3.08%) Marketing
8 17 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 16 (1.59%) Retail
9 16 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 10 (0.99%) Tech for Good
11 9 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.70%) Advertising
12 7 (0.70%) Back Office
12 7 (0.70%) Publishing
13 6 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.40%) Automotive
15 4 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 631 (62.66%) Developer
2 180 (17.87%) Software Developer
3 129 (12.81%) Senior
4 127 (12.61%) Software Engineer
5 95 (9.43%) Full Stack Developer
6 70 (6.95%) Lead
6 70 (6.95%) Senior Developer
7 67 (6.65%) AWS Engineer
8 64 (6.36%) React Developer
9 62 (6.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 60 (5.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 55 (5.46%) Architect
12 52 (5.16%) Python Engineer
13 49 (4.87%) Python Software Engineer
14 45 (4.47%) JavaScript Developer
15 39 (3.87%) Java Developer
15 39 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
16 38 (3.77%) Java Engineer
16 38 (3.77%) Lead Developer
16 38 (3.77%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 426 (42.30%) HTML
2 295 (29.29%) CSS
3 256 (25.42%) React
4 167 (16.58%) Node.js
5 124 (12.31%) .NET
6 121 (12.02%) gRPC
6 121 (12.02%) Protocol Buffers
7 109 (10.82%) AngularJS
8 96 (9.53%) REST
9 94 (9.33%) Pandas
10 88 (8.74%) NumPy
10 88 (8.74%) SciPy
11 66 (6.55%) Web Services
12 59 (5.86%) XML
13 58 (5.76%) Vue
14 57 (5.66%) RESTful
15 54 (5.36%) jQuery
16 48 (4.77%) GraphQL
17 45 (4.47%) ASP.NET
18 44 (4.37%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 123 (12.21%) Fixed Income
2 102 (10.13%) Hedge funds
3 94 (9.33%) Derivative
4 92 (9.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 87 (8.64%) Equities
6 35 (3.48%) Product Ownership
7 27 (2.68%) Mobile App
8 19 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.69%) Clustering
10 17 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.29%) Cloud Native
13 13 (1.29%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.19%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.89%) Data Structures
16 8 (0.79%) Pricing Data
16 8 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
17 7 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.96%) Linux
2 29 (2.88%) Unix
3 19 (1.89%) Android
4 18 (1.79%) Apple iOS
4 18 (1.79%) Windows
5 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.099%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.099%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (35.65%) Software Engineering
2 319 (31.68%) Agile
3 179 (17.78%) Full Stack Development
4 157 (15.59%) Code Quality
5 155 (15.39%) DevOps
6 137 (13.60%) Asset Management
7 135 (13.41%) Artificial Intelligence
8 133 (13.21%) CI/CD
9 122 (12.12%) Conversational UI
10 113 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (11.12%) User Experience
12 104 (10.33%) Investment Management
13 103 (10.23%) Test Automation
14 97 (9.63%) Front End Development
15 84 (8.34%) Microservices
16 82 (8.14%) Web Development
17 79 (7.85%) TDD
18 60 (5.96%) Analytics
19 59 (5.86%) MVC
20 56 (5.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 401 (39.82%) Python
2 300 (29.79%) TypeScript
3 283 (28.10%) Java
4 280 (27.81%) SQL
5 265 (26.32%) C#
6 63 (6.26%) PHP
7 42 (4.17%) Go
8 36 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 31 (3.08%) Bash
10 25 (2.48%) Ruby
11 16 (1.59%) C++
12 14 (1.39%) Bicep
13 13 (1.29%) Apex Code
13 13 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.99%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.99%) Scala
15 9 (0.89%) C
15 9 (0.89%) SOQL
16 6 (0.60%) Groovy
16 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 186 (18.47%) Degree
2 102 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 74 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 37 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.30%) CEH
11 3 (0.30%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.30%) GIAC
11 3 (0.30%) GPEN
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.30%) OSCP
12 2 (0.20%) ISEB
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (7.25%) Accessibility
2 60 (5.96%) QA
3 37 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.89%) WCAG
5 6 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.40%) CDISC
6 4 (0.40%) NIST
7 3 (0.30%) GDPR
8 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 2 (0.20%) SLA
9 1 (0.099%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.099%) GxP
9 1 (0.099%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.099%) HL7
9 1 (0.099%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 78 (7.75%) Docker
2 35 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.69%) IAG
4 16 (1.59%) ACF2
4 16 (1.59%) RACF
5 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.30%) zsh
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.099%) Firmware
8 1 (0.099%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.099%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (8.94%) Kubernetes
2 53 (5.26%) Terraform
3 20 (1.99%) Prometheus
4 18 (1.79%) Ansible
5 11 (1.09%) Grafana
6 7 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.50%) Kibana
8 4 (0.40%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.20%) logstash
9 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.20%) Puppet
9 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.099%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.099%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.099%) vRealize
10 1 (0.099%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 121 (12.02%) PayPal
2 68 (6.75%) Microsoft
3 46 (4.57%) Oracle
4 36 (3.57%) Google
5 30 (2.98%) ServiceNow
6 26 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.28%) Adobe
8 22 (2.18%) SAP
9 16 (1.59%) Sybase
10 10 (0.99%) Splunk
11 9 (0.89%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.70%) Optimizely
13 6 (0.60%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.50%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.50%) Monetate
14 5 (0.50%) Tealium
15 4 (0.40%) Ensighten
15 4 (0.40%) Omniture
15 4 (0.40%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.40%) VMware