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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 29 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,799 2,879 5,721
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.94% 6.02% 8.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.39% 17.31% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,274 2,120 4,371
10th Percentile £346 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.24%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £650
90th Percentile £850 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 43 61
10th Percentile £37.10 £36.11 £25.50
25th Percentile £48.09 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +21.62% +0.91%
75th Percentile £68.13 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.80 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £67.50 £57.25
% change year-on-year -7.41% +17.90% +17.44%

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 10,977 16,629 25,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.14% 34.75% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,983 12,152 18,995
10th Percentile £350 £382 £383
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
75th Percentile £651 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 404 443
10th Percentile £37.51 £26.09 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.36% +20.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.38
90th Percentile £79.09 £78.83 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.51%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 1,100 £600 +4.35% 637
North of England -11 226 £475 -9.52% 353
South East -14 151 £400 -20.00% 229
South West +7 124 £500 - 148
North West -17 105 £475 -11.63% 212
Yorkshire -4 97 £565 +12.90% 108
Midlands 0 91 £425 -5.56% 277
East Midlands -1 47 £388 -6.63% 111
East of England -7 45 £425 -10.99% 120
West Midlands -5 43 £475 - 166
North East +10 24 £466 -15.32% 36
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
1 150 (8.34%) Apache Airflow
2 137 (7.62%) Apache
3 55 (3.06%) Confluence
4 48 (2.67%) CMS
4 48 (2.67%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.50%) nginx
6 18 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 15 (0.83%) WordPress
8 14 (0.78%) Drupal
9 11 (0.61%) IIS
10 10 (0.56%) Headless CMS
11 9 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
12 8 (0.44%) SharePoint 2010
12 8 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
13 6 (0.33%) Apache Spark
13 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.33%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.33%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.28%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.22%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 111 (6.17%) Chatbot
2 20 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.56%) Sketch
5 8 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.39%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.17%) Simulink
10 2 (0.11%) InVision
11 1 (0.056%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.056%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.056%) Trello
11 1 (0.056%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 26 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.67%) Shopify
4 5 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.28%) Endur
4 5 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.22%) Magento
5 4 (0.22%) Maximo
5 4 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.17%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Unica
7 2 (0.11%) WebTrends
7 2 (0.11%) Workfront
8 1 (0.056%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.056%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.056%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 556 (30.91%) AWS
2 369 (20.51%) Azure
3 222 (12.34%) GCP
4 132 (7.34%) dbt
5 113 (6.28%) Snowflake
6 102 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (5.67%) Serverless
7 99 (5.50%) GitHub
8 89 (4.95%) Power Platform
9 60 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
10 51 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
11 50 (2.78%) Power Automate
12 45 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
13 44 (2.45%) PowerApps
14 36 (2.00%) npm
15 34 (1.89%) Entra ID
16 31 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 28 (1.56%) Azure Functions
18 27 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
19 24 (1.33%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.78%) HTTP
2 17 (0.94%) Software-Defined Radio
3 16 (0.89%) SNMP
4 15 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 14 (0.78%) Ethernet
6 13 (0.72%) Firewall
6 13 (0.72%) Intranet
7 7 (0.39%) DNS
7 7 (0.39%) Internet
8 6 (0.33%) SSL
8 6 (0.33%) Wireless
9 4 (0.22%) RTSP
9 4 (0.22%) VoIP
10 3 (0.17%) AMQP
10 3 (0.17%) BGP
10 3 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.17%) DHCP
10 3 (0.17%) IOS XR
10 3 (0.17%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (8.28%) SQL Server
2 134 (7.45%) Amazon Athena
3 132 (7.34%) Apache Arrow
3 132 (7.34%) Dremio
4 119 (6.61%) Apache Ignite
5 112 (6.23%) Data Lake
6 102 (5.67%) MySQL
7 86 (4.78%) NoSQL
8 85 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
9 75 (4.17%) MongoDB
10 64 (3.56%) Relational Database
11 46 (2.56%) Power BI
12 35 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
13 29 (1.61%) Redis
14 28 (1.56%) Big Data
15 23 (1.28%) DynamoDB
16 21 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
17 19 (1.06%) Metadata
18 15 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
18 15 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 217 (12.06%) Git
2 114 (6.34%) JIRA
3 111 (6.17%) Jenkins
4 66 (3.67%) GitLab
5 64 (3.56%) Cypress.io
6 50 (2.78%) Selenium
7 47 (2.61%) webpack
8 36 (2.00%) Eclipse
9 33 (1.83%) Bitbucket
10 31 (1.72%) Postman
11 29 (1.61%) Cucumber
11 29 (1.61%) Visual Studio
12 28 (1.56%) JMeter
13 21 (1.17%) Maven
14 20 (1.11%) Robot Framework
15 16 (0.89%) GoogleTest
15 16 (0.89%) TeamCity
15 16 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
16 13 (0.72%) Appium
16 13 (0.72%) git-flow
General
1 400 (22.23%) Finance
2 337 (18.73%) Social Skills
3 206 (11.45%) Front Office
4 192 (10.67%) Banking
5 135 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 119 (6.61%) Investment Banking
7 117 (6.50%) Public Sector
8 76 (4.22%) Marketing
9 33 (1.83%) Retail
10 28 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.39%) Advertising
13 23 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 18 (1.00%) Back Office
15 18 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (0.78%) Military
17 12 (0.67%) Billing
17 12 (0.67%) Legal
18 11 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,057 (58.75%) Developer
2 250 (13.90%) Senior
3 232 (12.90%) Software Engineer
4 205 (11.40%) Software Developer
5 189 (10.51%) Full Stack Developer
6 138 (7.67%) Senior Developer
7 126 (7.00%) Lead
8 108 (6.00%) Architect
9 106 (5.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 98 (5.45%) React Developer
11 87 (4.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 83 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
13 81 (4.50%) .NET Developer
13 81 (4.50%) JavaScript Developer
14 62 (3.45%) C# Developer
15 61 (3.39%) Java Developer
15 61 (3.39%) Python Developer
15 61 (3.39%) Python Engineer
16 60 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
17 57 (3.17%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 725 (40.30%) HTML
2 587 (32.63%) CSS
3 517 (28.74%) React
4 319 (17.73%) Node.js
5 286 (15.90%) .NET
6 247 (13.73%) AngularJS
7 191 (10.62%) REST
8 149 (8.28%) gRPC
9 147 (8.17%) Protocol Buffers
10 125 (6.95%) Pandas
11 121 (6.73%) NumPy
11 121 (6.73%) Web Services
12 120 (6.67%) XML
13 115 (6.39%) SciPy
14 107 (5.95%) .NET Core
15 104 (5.78%) RESTful
16 101 (5.61%) ASP.NET
17 96 (5.34%) Redux
18 87 (4.84%) Vue
19 82 (4.56%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 193 (10.73%) Fixed Income
2 155 (8.62%) Hedge funds
3 154 (8.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 148 (8.23%) Derivative
5 137 (7.62%) Equities
6 67 (3.72%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
8 42 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 39 (2.17%) Mobile App
10 36 (2.00%) Algorithms
11 32 (1.78%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 28 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
14 26 (1.45%) Cloud Native
15 24 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
17 20 (1.11%) Clustering
17 20 (1.11%) Onboarding
18 12 (0.67%) CMDB
18 12 (0.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 136 (7.56%) Linux
2 65 (3.61%) Windows
3 49 (2.72%) Unix
4 27 (1.50%) Android
5 24 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.056%) CentOS
7 1 (0.056%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.056%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.056%) VMS
7 1 (0.056%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (38.91%) Agile
2 563 (31.30%) Software Engineering
3 348 (19.34%) DevOps
4 339 (18.84%) Full Stack Development
5 310 (17.23%) CI/CD
6 221 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
7 198 (11.01%) Front End Development
8 194 (10.78%) Asset Management
9 193 (10.73%) Test Automation
10 192 (10.67%) TDD
11 173 (9.62%) Code Quality
12 151 (8.39%) Microservices
13 150 (8.34%) Scrum
14 148 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence
15 146 (8.12%) Investment Management
16 144 (8.00%) Web Development
17 138 (7.67%) User Experience
18 113 (6.28%) Conversational UI
19 111 (6.17%) SDLC
20 107 (5.95%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 594 (33.02%) Python
2 519 (28.85%) TypeScript
3 497 (27.63%) Java
4 484 (26.90%) C#
5 443 (24.62%) SQL
6 98 (5.45%) PHP
7 83 (4.61%) PowerShell
8 77 (4.28%) Go
9 74 (4.11%) C++
10 41 (2.28%) Bash
11 35 (1.95%) Bicep
11 35 (1.95%) Kotlin
12 33 (1.83%) Ruby
13 32 (1.78%) C
14 28 (1.56%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.28%) T-SQL
16 22 (1.22%) Apex Code
16 22 (1.22%) Groovy
17 16 (0.89%) Scala
18 14 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 273 (15.18%) Degree
2 241 (13.40%) Security Cleared
3 183 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 11 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (0.39%) PMP
11 6 (0.33%) CEH
11 6 (0.33%) CREST Certified
11 6 (0.33%) GIAC
11 6 (0.33%) GPEN
11 6 (0.33%) OSCP
11 6 (0.33%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (6.61%) QA
2 87 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 52 (2.89%) Data Quality
4 34 (1.89%) WCAG
5 17 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.67%) GDPR
7 9 (0.50%) NIST
8 7 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
8 7 (0.39%) GxP
8 7 (0.39%) SLA
9 5 (0.28%) GRC
10 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.11%) MiFID
12 2 (0.11%) PMO
13 1 (0.056%) MISRA
13 1 (0.056%) MISRA C
System Software
1 126 (7.00%) Docker
2 77 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.45%) IAG
4 25 (1.39%) ACF2
4 25 (1.39%) RACF
5 17 (0.94%) Firmware
6 10 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.22%) zsh
8 3 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.056%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.056%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 164 (9.12%) Kubernetes
2 97 (5.39%) Terraform
3 48 (2.67%) Ansible
4 31 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (1.28%) Grafana
6 22 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.44%) Kibana
7 8 (0.44%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.28%) logstash
8 5 (0.28%) Puppet
9 3 (0.17%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.17%) Netcool
9 3 (0.17%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.056%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.056%) Argo
10 1 (0.056%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.056%) Istio
10 1 (0.056%) Podman
10 1 (0.056%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.056%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 161 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.11%) PayPal
3 87 (4.84%) Google
4 77 (4.28%) Oracle
5 72 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 45 (2.50%) Adobe
6 45 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 28 (1.56%) SAP
8 25 (1.39%) Atlassian
9 21 (1.17%) Splunk
10 18 (1.00%) Sybase
11 17 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.83%) Optimizely
13 12 (0.67%) VMware
14 11 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 9 (0.50%) IBM
16 8 (0.44%) BeyondTrust
16 8 (0.44%) CyberArk
16 8 (0.44%) ESRI
16 8 (0.44%) Tealium