JavaScript Engineer Contracts

JavaScript Engineer
UK

The median JavaScript Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 635 748
Rank change year-on-year +96 +113 -133
Contract jobs requiring a JavaScript Engineer 45 62 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 34 82
10th Percentile £403 £425 £453
25th Percentile £463 £477 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% +21.05%
75th Percentile £950 £644 £684
90th Percentile £1,000 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -1.50% +16.28% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

JavaScript Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured JavaScript Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +70 42 £700 +27.27% 17
London +77 35 £700 +16.67% 5
Work from Home +107 25 £700 +33.33% 16
UK excluding London +18 7 £493 -1.50% 12
East of England +4 3 £500 -6.98% 2
North of England +12 2 £400 -21.95% 2
Yorkshire +11 2 £400 - 1
South East +11 1 - - 4
South West +2 1 £525 - 3

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, JavaScript Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring JavaScript Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 32 (71.11%) TypeScript
3 29 (64.44%) React
4 27 (60.00%) CSS
5 25 (55.56%) Software Engineering
6 23 (51.11%) Node.js
7 18 (40.00%) Redux
7 18 (40.00%) Jest
8 15 (33.33%) Marketing
8 15 (33.33%) HTML
9 14 (31.11%) Java
9 14 (31.11%) Git
9 14 (31.11%) Sass
10 13 (28.89%) User Experience
10 13 (28.89%) Agile
10 13 (28.89%) Full Stack Development
11 11 (24.44%) OpenFin
11 11 (24.44%) Tailwind CSS
11 11 (24.44%) Material-UI
11 11 (24.44%) Customer Experience
11 11 (24.44%) SDLC
11 11 (24.44%) git-flow
11 11 (24.44%) Post-Production
11 11 (24.44%) Fixed Income
11 11 (24.44%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (24.44%) LESS
11 11 (24.44%) WebSockets
11 11 (24.44%) Electronic Trading
12 9 (20.00%) Clean Code
12 9 (20.00%) TDD

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (6.67%) CMS
1 3 (6.67%) WordPress
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) AWS
2 4 (8.89%) Azure
3 3 (6.67%) SaaS
4 2 (4.44%) GCP
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Firewall
1 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) MySQL
1 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.22%) CouchDB
2 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (31.11%) Git
2 11 (24.44%) git-flow
3 7 (15.56%) Cypress.io
4 3 (6.67%) webpack
5 2 (4.44%) Selenium
6 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.22%) JIRA
6 1 (2.22%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (2.22%) Postman
6 1 (2.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (33.33%) Marketing
2 7 (15.56%) Advertising
2 7 (15.56%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Games
5 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (64.44%) React
2 27 (60.00%) CSS
3 23 (51.11%) Node.js
4 18 (40.00%) Jest
4 18 (40.00%) Redux
5 15 (33.33%) HTML
6 14 (31.11%) Sass
7 11 (24.44%) LESS
7 11 (24.44%) Material-UI
7 11 (24.44%) OpenFin
7 11 (24.44%) Tailwind CSS
7 11 (24.44%) WebSockets
8 7 (15.56%) Express.js
9 6 (13.33%) HTML5
10 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
10 3 (6.67%) Laravel
10 3 (6.67%) Twig
10 3 (6.67%) web3js
11 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
11 2 (4.44%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Enterprise Software
1 11 (24.44%) Fixed Income
2 5 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (6.67%) Blockchain
3 3 (6.67%) NFT
3 3 (6.67%) Web3
4 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) Genomics
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 13 (28.89%) Agile
2 13 (28.89%) Full Stack Development
2 13 (28.89%) User Experience
3 11 (24.44%) Customer Experience
3 11 (24.44%) Electronic Trading
3 11 (24.44%) Post-Production
3 11 (24.44%) SDLC
4 9 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 9 (20.00%) TDD
5 8 (17.78%) Kanban
5 8 (17.78%) Pair Programming
5 8 (17.78%) Software Architecture
6 5 (11.11%) Prototyping
6 5 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 5 (11.11%) Web Development
7 4 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (8.89%) Machine Learning
8 3 (6.67%) BEM - Block Element Modifier
8 3 (6.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 45 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 32 (71.11%) TypeScript
3 14 (31.11%) Java
4 3 (6.67%) C#
4 3 (6.67%) SQL
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) Python
5 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.22%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) PHP
6 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
1 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.22%) VirtualBox
1 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.22%) zsh
Vendors
1 3 (6.67%) WooCommerce
2 2 (4.44%) Google
3 1 (2.22%) Compaq
3 1 (2.22%) VMware
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