JavaScript Contracts in England

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 29 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,819 2,867 5,690
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.93% 6.04% 8.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.34% 17.54% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,288 2,123 4,351
10th Percentile £350 £385 £383
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.11%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £650
90th Percentile £850 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 40 61
10th Percentile £37.36 £35.90 £25.50
25th Percentile £49.05 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.00 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -7.14% +24.44% +12.50%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,129 16,345 25,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.16% 34.43% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,036 11,979 19,056
10th Percentile £350 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 395 437
10th Percentile £35.50 £26.48 £20.14
25th Percentile £48.84 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London -2 1,115 £600 +4.35% 583
North of England -9 233 £500 -4.76% 319
South East -19 149 £400 -20.00% 223
South West +6 119 £500 - 135
North West -12 107 £475 -13.64% 196
Yorkshire -5 102 £575 +13.86% 91
Midlands -5 95 £425 -8.80% 219
East of England -11 48 £423 -11.52% 114
East Midlands -4 47 £394 -5.12% 84
West Midlands -9 47 £475 -5.00% 135
North East +14 24 £466 -15.32% 33
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 158 (8.69%) Apache Airflow
2 145 (7.97%) Apache
3 57 (3.13%) Confluence
4 47 (2.58%) SharePoint
5 46 (2.53%) CMS
6 22 (1.21%) nginx
7 18 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 17 (0.93%) WordPress
9 14 (0.77%) Drupal
10 12 (0.66%) IIS
11 10 (0.55%) Headless CMS
12 9 (0.49%) BizTalk Server
13 8 (0.44%) SharePoint 2010
13 8 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.38%) Jupyter
15 5 (0.27%) Apache Spark
15 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
15 5 (0.27%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.27%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 111 (6.10%) Chatbot
2 20 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.60%) Sketch
5 8 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.38%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.33%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.16%) Simulink
10 2 (0.11%) InVision
10 2 (0.11%) Trello
11 1 (0.055%) Elementor
11 1 (0.055%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.055%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.055%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 29 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.66%) Shopify
4 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.27%) Endur
5 5 (0.27%) Magento
5 5 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.22%) Maximo
7 3 (0.16%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.11%) WebTrends
8 2 (0.11%) Workfront
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle Utilities
9 1 (0.055%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.055%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 558 (30.68%) AWS
2 366 (20.12%) Azure
3 224 (12.31%) GCP
4 139 (7.64%) dbt
5 122 (6.71%) Snowflake
6 103 (5.66%) Serverless
7 102 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (5.33%) Power Platform
9 96 (5.28%) GitHub
10 60 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
12 51 (2.80%) Power Automate
13 48 (2.64%) PowerApps
14 46 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 36 (1.98%) Entra ID
15 36 (1.98%) npm
16 31 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 28 (1.54%) Figma
17 28 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
18 27 (1.48%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.76%) HTTP
2 17 (0.93%) Software-Defined Radio
3 16 (0.88%) SNMP
4 15 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 14 (0.77%) Ethernet
6 12 (0.66%) Firewall
7 10 (0.55%) Intranet
8 8 (0.44%) DNS
8 8 (0.44%) Internet
9 6 (0.33%) Wireless
10 4 (0.22%) AMQP
10 4 (0.22%) RTSP
10 4 (0.22%) SSL
10 4 (0.22%) VoIP
11 3 (0.16%) BGP
11 3 (0.16%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.16%) DHCP
11 3 (0.16%) IOS XR
11 3 (0.16%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (8.30%) SQL Server
2 141 (7.75%) Amazon Athena
3 139 (7.64%) Apache Arrow
3 139 (7.64%) Dremio
4 127 (6.98%) Apache Ignite
5 121 (6.65%) Data Lake
6 103 (5.66%) MySQL
7 85 (4.67%) NoSQL
7 85 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
8 76 (4.18%) MongoDB
9 71 (3.90%) Relational Database
10 51 (2.80%) Power BI
11 33 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.65%) Big Data
13 29 (1.59%) Redis
14 22 (1.21%) DynamoDB
15 21 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
16 20 (1.10%) Metadata
17 16 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
18 15 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 216 (11.87%) Git
2 114 (6.27%) JIRA
3 107 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 66 (3.63%) GitLab
5 59 (3.24%) Cypress.io
6 50 (2.75%) Selenium
7 45 (2.47%) webpack
8 37 (2.03%) Bitbucket
8 37 (2.03%) Eclipse
9 31 (1.70%) Postman
10 29 (1.59%) Visual Studio
11 28 (1.54%) JMeter
12 27 (1.48%) Cucumber
13 20 (1.10%) Maven
13 20 (1.10%) Robot Framework
14 18 (0.99%) TeamCity
15 16 (0.88%) GoogleTest
16 14 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
17 13 (0.71%) git-flow
18 12 (0.66%) Jasmine
General
1 404 (22.21%) Finance
2 335 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 211 (11.60%) Front Office
4 207 (11.38%) Banking
5 132 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
6 128 (7.04%) Investment Banking
7 119 (6.54%) Public Sector
8 68 (3.74%) Marketing
9 33 (1.81%) Retail
10 28 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.37%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.32%) Advertising
13 22 (1.21%) Manufacturing
14 18 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 17 (0.93%) Back Office
15 17 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (0.71%) Military
17 12 (0.66%) Billing
17 12 (0.66%) Legal
17 12 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,056 (58.05%) Developer
2 264 (14.51%) Senior
3 237 (13.03%) Software Engineer
4 207 (11.38%) Software Developer
5 177 (9.73%) Full Stack Developer
6 150 (8.25%) Senior Developer
7 133 (7.31%) Lead
8 110 (6.05%) Architect
9 105 (5.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 101 (5.55%) React Developer
11 86 (4.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 85 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
13 80 (4.40%) JavaScript Developer
14 76 (4.18%) .NET Developer
15 66 (3.63%) Java Developer
16 64 (3.52%) Python Engineer
17 63 (3.46%) Python Developer
17 63 (3.46%) Senior Software Engineer
18 62 (3.41%) C# Developer
19 61 (3.35%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 728 (40.02%) HTML
2 590 (32.44%) CSS
3 522 (28.70%) React
4 324 (17.81%) Node.js
5 284 (15.61%) .NET
6 255 (14.02%) AngularJS
7 202 (11.11%) REST
8 158 (8.69%) gRPC
9 155 (8.52%) Protocol Buffers
10 132 (7.26%) Pandas
11 127 (6.98%) NumPy
12 122 (6.71%) SciPy
13 121 (6.65%) Web Services
14 120 (6.60%) XML
15 106 (5.83%) RESTful
16 105 (5.77%) .NET Core
17 97 (5.33%) Redux
18 96 (5.28%) ASP.NET
19 83 (4.56%) Vue
20 82 (4.51%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 202 (11.11%) Fixed Income
2 163 (8.96%) Hedge funds
3 162 (8.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 156 (8.58%) Derivative
5 145 (7.97%) Equities
6 67 (3.68%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 41 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 40 (2.20%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.98%) Algorithms
11 32 (1.76%) Data Structures
11 32 (1.76%) Management Information System
12 28 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (1.37%) Cloud Native
14 24 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
14 24 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.10%) Clustering
15 20 (1.10%) Onboarding
16 14 (0.77%) Pricing Data
17 13 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 129 (7.09%) Linux
2 63 (3.46%) Windows
3 41 (2.25%) Unix
4 28 (1.54%) Android
5 25 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.055%) CentOS
7 1 (0.055%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.055%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.055%) VMS
7 1 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 715 (39.31%) Agile
2 570 (31.34%) Software Engineering
3 356 (19.57%) DevOps
4 327 (17.98%) Full Stack Development
5 304 (16.71%) CI/CD
6 220 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
7 202 (11.11%) Asset Management
8 194 (10.67%) Front End Development
9 186 (10.23%) TDD
10 185 (10.17%) Test Automation
11 173 (9.51%) Code Quality
12 154 (8.47%) Scrum
13 152 (8.36%) Artificial Intelligence
14 151 (8.30%) Investment Management
15 148 (8.14%) Microservices
16 142 (7.81%) Web Development
17 136 (7.48%) User Experience
18 113 (6.21%) Computer Science
18 113 (6.21%) Conversational UI
19 112 (6.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 605 (33.26%) Python
2 528 (29.03%) TypeScript
3 512 (28.15%) Java
4 483 (26.55%) C#
5 453 (24.90%) SQL
6 94 (5.17%) PHP
7 87 (4.78%) PowerShell
8 78 (4.29%) Go
9 77 (4.23%) C++
10 43 (2.36%) Bash
11 36 (1.98%) Kotlin
11 36 (1.98%) Ruby
12 35 (1.92%) Bicep
13 33 (1.81%) C
14 29 (1.59%) PL/SQL
15 26 (1.43%) Groovy
16 25 (1.37%) T-SQL
17 23 (1.26%) Apex Code
18 15 (0.82%) Scala
19 13 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 279 (15.34%) Degree
2 242 (13.30%) Security Cleared
3 182 (10.01%) SC Cleared
4 83 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 32 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 11 (0.60%) PMP
9 9 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (0.49%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.38%) CEH
11 7 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.33%) CREST Certified
12 6 (0.33%) GIAC
12 6 (0.33%) GPEN
12 6 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.33%) OSCP
13 5 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (6.60%) QA
2 79 (4.34%) Accessibility
3 56 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 35 (1.92%) WCAG
5 17 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.66%) GDPR
7 9 (0.49%) NIST
8 7 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
8 7 (0.38%) GxP
8 7 (0.38%) SLA
9 6 (0.33%) GRC
10 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.11%) MiFID
12 2 (0.11%) PMO
13 1 (0.055%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.055%) MISRA C
System Software
1 137 (7.53%) Docker
2 77 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.43%) IAG
4 25 (1.37%) ACF2
4 25 (1.37%) RACF
5 17 (0.93%) Firmware
6 10 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.22%) zsh
8 3 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.055%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.055%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 172 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 96 (5.28%) Terraform
3 49 (2.69%) Ansible
4 29 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
5 26 (1.43%) Grafana
6 23 (1.26%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.60%) Kibana
8 8 (0.44%) logstash
8 8 (0.44%) PingFederate
9 5 (0.27%) Puppet
10 3 (0.16%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.16%) Netcool
10 3 (0.16%) Opsgenie
10 3 (0.16%) Rancher
11 1 (0.055%) Argo
11 1 (0.055%) Istio
11 1 (0.055%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.055%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.055%) vRealize
11 1 (0.055%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 161 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.05%) PayPal
3 86 (4.73%) Google
4 82 (4.51%) Oracle
5 74 (4.07%) ServiceNow
6 46 (2.53%) Adobe
7 45 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 28 (1.54%) Atlassian
9 26 (1.43%) SAP
10 24 (1.32%) Splunk
11 19 (1.04%) MuleSoft
11 19 (1.04%) Sybase
12 15 (0.82%) Optimizely
13 12 (0.66%) VMware
14 10 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 9 (0.49%) IBM
15 9 (0.49%) Tealium
16 8 (0.44%) BeyondTrust
16 8 (0.44%) CyberArk
17 7 (0.38%) Palantir