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 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 25 25 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,023 1,725 4,058
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.99% 7.16% 9.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.46% 19.58% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 1,298 3,071
10th Percentile £359 £375 £380
25th Percentile £450 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £778 £625 £625
90th Percentile £850 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 35 36
10th Percentile £35.00 £45.00 £33.13
25th Percentile £37.63 £51.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £70.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% +23.89% +2.73%
75th Percentile £51.50 £75.00 £67.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.40 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -7.14% +24.44% +12.50%

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 4,999 8,808 16,823
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.15% 36.55% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 6,506 12,548
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 184 184
10th Percentile £27.75 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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
1 143 (13.98%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (11.73%) Apache
3 32 (3.13%) CMS
4 25 (2.44%) Confluence
4 25 (2.44%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.47%) nginx
6 13 (1.27%) WordPress
7 9 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.78%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.59%) Drupal
10 5 (0.49%) Kentico
10 5 (0.49%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.39%) SAS
12 3 (0.29%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.29%) SharePoint 2010
12 3 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.20%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 122 (11.93%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.20%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.20%) Lectora
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.098%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.098%) Blender
7 1 (0.098%) Elementor
7 1 (0.098%) InDesign
7 1 (0.098%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.49%) Shopify
4 3 (0.29%) Magento
4 3 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
4 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.20%) Endur
6 1 (0.098%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 350 (34.21%) AWS
2 164 (16.03%) Azure
3 132 (12.90%) GCP
4 126 (12.32%) dbt
5 108 (10.56%) Snowflake
6 60 (5.87%) GitHub
7 58 (5.67%) Serverless
8 53 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (4.20%) Power Platform
10 40 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
12 31 (3.03%) Amazon S3
13 25 (2.44%) Power Automate
14 24 (2.35%) PowerApps
15 21 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (1.56%) Azure Functions
17 16 (1.56%) Entra ID
18 14 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
18 14 (1.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.25%) HTTP
2 21 (2.05%) Intranet
3 9 (0.88%) DNS
4 8 (0.78%) Firewall
4 8 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.59%) Internet
6 3 (0.29%) BGP
6 3 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.29%) DHCP
6 3 (0.29%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.29%) IOS XR
6 3 (0.29%) 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%) SSL
7 2 (0.20%) WLAN
8 1 (0.098%) FTP
8 1 (0.098%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (12.51%) Amazon Athena
2 126 (12.32%) Apache Arrow
2 126 (12.32%) Dremio
3 114 (11.14%) Apache Ignite
4 108 (10.56%) Data Lake
5 76 (7.43%) SQL Server
6 55 (5.38%) MySQL
7 47 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (3.32%) Relational Database
9 32 (3.13%) NoSQL
10 27 (2.64%) Power BI
11 21 (2.05%) MongoDB
12 20 (1.96%) Big Data
13 17 (1.66%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (1.17%) BigQuery
16 12 (1.17%) Redis
17 9 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
18 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 97 (9.48%) Git
2 70 (6.84%) JIRA
3 57 (5.57%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.93%) GitLab
5 23 (2.25%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.15%) Selenium
7 18 (1.76%) JMeter
7 18 (1.76%) webpack
8 17 (1.66%) Postman
9 13 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 11 (1.08%) git-flow
12 10 (0.98%) Maven
13 9 (0.88%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.78%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.78%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.78%) JUnit
14 8 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
14 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.68%) Appium
General
1 268 (26.20%) Finance
2 151 (14.76%) Front Office
3 150 (14.66%) Banking
3 150 (14.66%) Social Skills
4 101 (9.87%) Investment Banking
5 80 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (2.74%) Marketing
8 17 (1.66%) Financial Institution
8 17 (1.66%) Retail
9 15 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 10 (0.98%) Tech for Good
11 9 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.68%) Advertising
12 7 (0.68%) Back Office
12 7 (0.68%) Publishing
13 6 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.49%) Automotive
14 5 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 631 (61.68%) Developer
2 182 (17.79%) Software Developer
3 146 (14.27%) Senior
4 139 (13.59%) Software Engineer
5 89 (8.70%) Full Stack Developer
6 78 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
7 76 (7.43%) Senior Developer
8 74 (7.23%) Lead
9 63 (6.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 63 (6.16%) React Developer
10 62 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 62 (6.06%) Python Engineer
11 59 (5.77%) Python Software Engineer
12 57 (5.57%) Architect
13 50 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 47 (4.59%) Java Engineer
15 45 (4.40%) AWS Software Engineer
15 45 (4.40%) JavaScript Developer
16 43 (4.20%) Java Developer
17 42 (4.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (42.52%) HTML
2 305 (29.81%) CSS
3 257 (25.12%) React
4 168 (16.42%) Node.js
5 142 (13.88%) gRPC
5 142 (13.88%) Protocol Buffers
6 125 (12.22%) .NET
7 111 (10.85%) AngularJS
7 111 (10.85%) Pandas
8 108 (10.56%) REST
9 105 (10.26%) NumPy
9 105 (10.26%) SciPy
10 66 (6.45%) Web Services
11 63 (6.16%) RESTful
12 61 (5.96%) Vue
13 59 (5.77%) XML
14 53 (5.18%) jQuery
15 47 (4.59%) GraphQL
15 47 (4.59%) Redux
16 44 (4.30%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 144 (14.08%) Fixed Income
2 122 (11.93%) Hedge funds
3 112 (10.95%) Derivative
4 110 (10.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 105 (10.26%) Equities
6 33 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 28 (2.74%) Mobile App
8 19 (1.86%) Clustering
8 19 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.37%) Pricing Data
12 13 (1.27%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.98%) Cloud Native
14 10 (0.98%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.78%) Blockchain
15 8 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (4.99%) Linux
2 24 (2.35%) Unix
3 18 (1.76%) Android
3 18 (1.76%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.56%) Windows
5 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.098%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (36.56%) Software Engineering
2 336 (32.84%) Agile
3 175 (17.11%) Full Stack Development
4 160 (15.64%) Code Quality
4 160 (15.64%) DevOps
5 155 (15.15%) Asset Management
6 137 (13.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 128 (12.51%) CI/CD
8 122 (11.93%) Conversational UI
9 120 (11.73%) Investment Management
10 116 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
11 114 (11.14%) User Experience
12 98 (9.58%) Front End Development
13 95 (9.29%) Test Automation
14 82 (8.02%) Microservices
14 82 (8.02%) Web Development
15 77 (7.53%) TDD
16 59 (5.77%) MVC
17 58 (5.67%) Analytics
18 57 (5.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 413 (40.37%) Python
2 313 (30.60%) TypeScript
3 299 (29.23%) Java
4 286 (27.96%) SQL
5 263 (25.71%) C#
6 60 (5.87%) PHP
7 44 (4.30%) Go
8 35 (3.42%) PowerShell
9 27 (2.64%) Bash
10 24 (2.35%) Ruby
11 18 (1.76%) C++
12 14 (1.37%) Bicep
12 14 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.88%) C
14 9 (0.88%) Scala
15 8 (0.78%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.59%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 189 (18.48%) Degree
2 97 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 71 (6.94%) SC Cleared
4 41 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.59%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.29%) CEH
10 3 (0.29%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.29%) GIAC
10 3 (0.29%) GPEN
10 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.29%) OSCP
11 2 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.20%) ISEB
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.94%) Accessibility
2 64 (6.26%) QA
3 43 (4.20%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.05%) WCAG
5 6 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.39%) CDISC
6 4 (0.39%) NIST
7 3 (0.29%) GDPR
8 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.20%) PMO
8 2 (0.20%) SLA
9 1 (0.098%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.098%) GxP
9 1 (0.098%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.098%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 82 (8.02%) Docker
2 36 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.66%) IAG
4 16 (1.56%) ACF2
4 16 (1.56%) RACF
5 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.29%) zsh
7 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.098%) Firmware
8 1 (0.098%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 53 (5.18%) Terraform
3 21 (2.05%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.47%) Ansible
5 13 (1.27%) Grafana
6 6 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.49%) Kibana
8 3 (0.29%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.20%) logstash
9 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.20%) Puppet
9 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.098%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.098%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.098%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.098%) vRealize
10 1 (0.098%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 121 (11.83%) PayPal
2 72 (7.04%) Microsoft
3 47 (4.59%) Oracle
4 37 (3.62%) Google
5 31 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.44%) Adobe
7 24 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.76%) SAP
9 16 (1.56%) Sybase
10 13 (1.27%) Splunk
11 11 (1.08%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.68%) Optimizely
13 6 (0.59%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.49%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.49%) Monetate
14 5 (0.49%) Tealium
15 4 (0.39%) Ensighten
15 4 (0.39%) Omniture
15 4 (0.39%) VMware
15 4 (0.39%) Xamarin