JavaScript Contracts in London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 1,115 1,804 3,629
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.36% 7.05% 9.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.08% 17.63% 22.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 877 1,339 2,893
10th Percentile £400 £413 £419
25th Percentile £475 £475 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% +12.38%
75th Percentile £800 £700 £688
90th Percentile £850 £788 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 21
10th Percentile £41.68 £35.10 -
25th Percentile £43.06 £36.41 £35.00
Median hourly rate £45.75 £58.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.13% +23.68% -13.64%
75th Percentile £48.06 £74.06 £67.50
90th Percentile £49.23 £75.00 £75.39
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £53.78
% change year-on-year -7.14% +30.17% -2.22%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,527 10,232 16,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.24% 39.99% 41.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,976 7,713 12,451
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 103
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.75 £31.05
25th Percentile £33.07 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +23.71% +2.11%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £76.77
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in London

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London -21 109 £538 -2.27% 82
West London +13 30 £500 -16.67% 7
East London +3 17 £540 -13.60% 11
South London +12 16 £450 - 9
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 155 (13.90%) Apache Airflow
2 136 (12.20%) Apache
3 31 (2.78%) CMS
4 18 (1.61%) Confluence
5 17 (1.52%) nginx
5 17 (1.52%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.08%) WordPress
7 9 (0.81%) BizTalk Server
8 7 (0.63%) Headless CMS
8 7 (0.63%) IIS
9 6 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.27%) ThingWorx
11 3 (0.27%) WildFly
12 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.18%) JBoss
12 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 14 (1.26%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.45%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.45%) Sketch
5 2 (0.18%) Simulink
6 1 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.090%) Elementor
6 1 (0.090%) InVision
6 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.99%) Shopify
3 8 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.45%) Endur
5 3 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.27%) Magento
6 2 (0.18%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.18%) WebTrends
7 1 (0.090%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.090%) Maximo
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.090%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.090%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.090%) Unica
7 1 (0.090%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 436 (39.10%) AWS
2 248 (22.24%) Azure
3 190 (17.04%) GCP
4 139 (12.47%) dbt
5 121 (10.85%) Snowflake
6 71 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (6.37%) Serverless
7 59 (5.29%) GitHub
8 50 (4.48%) Power Platform
9 48 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
11 40 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (2.96%) Entra ID
13 28 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 27 (2.42%) npm
14 27 (2.42%) PowerApps
15 24 (2.15%) Power Automate
16 20 (1.79%) Amazon S3
16 20 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (1.70%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.61%) HTTP
2 7 (0.63%) DNS
3 6 (0.54%) Firewall
4 4 (0.36%) Intranet
4 4 (0.36%) VoIP
5 3 (0.27%) AMQP
5 3 (0.27%) DHCP
5 3 (0.27%) Internet
5 3 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.18%) LAN
6 2 (0.18%) MQTT
6 2 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.18%) SMS
6 2 (0.18%) WLAN
7 1 (0.090%) FTP
7 1 (0.090%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.090%) Network Security
7 1 (0.090%) SSH
7 1 (0.090%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (12.56%) Amazon Athena
2 139 (12.47%) Apache Arrow
2 139 (12.47%) Dremio
3 127 (11.39%) Apache Ignite
4 121 (10.85%) Data Lake
5 101 (9.06%) SQL Server
6 64 (5.74%) NoSQL
7 51 (4.57%) MySQL
8 48 (4.30%) MongoDB
8 48 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
9 40 (3.59%) Relational Database
10 29 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
10 29 (2.60%) Power BI
11 25 (2.24%) Big Data
12 20 (1.79%) DynamoDB
13 19 (1.70%) Redis
14 17 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.90%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 142 (12.74%) Git
2 77 (6.91%) Jenkins
3 57 (5.11%) JIRA
4 41 (3.68%) Cypress.io
5 39 (3.50%) GitLab
6 35 (3.14%) webpack
7 26 (2.33%) Selenium
8 21 (1.88%) Postman
9 17 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.52%) JMeter
10 15 (1.35%) TeamCity
11 12 (1.08%) git-flow
12 10 (0.90%) Maven
12 10 (0.90%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.81%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.81%) Visual Studio
14 8 (0.72%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.72%) NUnit
15 7 (0.63%) Appium
15 7 (0.63%) Jasmine
General
1 367 (32.91%) Finance
2 211 (18.92%) Front Office
3 202 (18.12%) Banking
4 196 (17.58%) Social Skills
5 128 (11.48%) Investment Banking
6 86 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (6.64%) Public Sector
8 53 (4.75%) Marketing
9 22 (1.97%) Retail
10 18 (1.61%) Advertising
11 17 (1.52%) Back Office
12 13 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (0.90%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.54%) Automotive
17 5 (0.45%) Law
18 4 (0.36%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 621 (55.70%) Developer
2 222 (19.91%) Senior
3 167 (14.98%) Software Engineer
4 124 (11.12%) Senior Developer
5 113 (10.13%) Full Stack Developer
6 106 (9.51%) Lead
7 89 (7.98%) Architect
8 86 (7.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 83 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
10 81 (7.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 79 (7.09%) Software Developer
12 77 (6.91%) React Developer
13 61 (5.47%) Python Engineer
14 59 (5.29%) JavaScript Developer
14 59 (5.29%) Python Developer
14 59 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
15 58 (5.20%) Python Software Engineer
16 52 (4.66%) .NET Developer
16 52 (4.66%) AWS Software Engineer
17 51 (4.57%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (34.80%) HTML
2 372 (33.36%) React
3 360 (32.29%) CSS
4 198 (17.76%) .NET
5 188 (16.86%) Node.js
6 157 (14.08%) AngularJS
6 157 (14.08%) gRPC
7 154 (13.81%) Protocol Buffers
8 130 (11.66%) REST
9 126 (11.30%) Pandas
10 121 (10.85%) NumPy
11 118 (10.58%) SciPy
12 93 (8.34%) .NET Core
13 82 (7.35%) Redux
14 79 (7.09%) Web Services
14 79 (7.09%) XML
15 68 (6.10%) ASP.NET
16 63 (5.65%) jQuery
17 60 (5.38%) RESTful
18 57 (5.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 202 (18.12%) Fixed Income
2 162 (14.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 162 (14.53%) Hedge funds
3 156 (13.99%) Derivative
4 145 (13.00%) Equities
5 44 (3.95%) Product Ownership
6 35 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 24 (2.15%) Mobile App
9 23 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.97%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.88%) Cloud Native
12 20 (1.79%) Clustering
13 19 (1.70%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.52%) Onboarding
15 16 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
16 14 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (1.26%) Pricing Data
17 7 (0.63%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.38%) Linux
2 30 (2.69%) Unix
3 23 (2.06%) Windows
4 14 (1.26%) Android
5 11 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.090%) CentOS
6 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.090%) VMS
6 1 (0.090%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (44.13%) Agile
2 358 (32.11%) Software Engineering
3 264 (23.68%) DevOps
4 209 (18.74%) CI/CD
4 209 (18.74%) Full Stack Development
5 197 (17.67%) Asset Management
6 151 (13.54%) Investment Management
7 150 (13.45%) Front End Development
8 138 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (11.12%) TDD
10 110 (9.87%) Test Automation
11 106 (9.51%) User Experience
12 105 (9.42%) Microservices
13 100 (8.97%) Web Development
14 82 (7.35%) Scrum
15 81 (7.26%) Analytics
15 81 (7.26%) Design Patterns
16 76 (6.82%) SDLC
17 71 (6.37%) Computer Science
18 63 (5.65%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 430 (38.57%) TypeScript
2 375 (33.63%) Python
3 356 (31.93%) Java
4 262 (23.50%) C#
5 254 (22.78%) SQL
6 70 (6.28%) Go
7 61 (5.47%) PowerShell
8 55 (4.93%) PHP
9 35 (3.14%) Bicep
10 31 (2.78%) Kotlin
11 28 (2.51%) Ruby
12 27 (2.42%) C++
13 23 (2.06%) Bash
14 19 (1.70%) T-SQL
15 18 (1.61%) PL/SQL
16 13 (1.17%) Apex Code
16 13 (1.17%) Groovy
17 10 (0.90%) C
18 9 (0.81%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 134 (12.02%) Security Cleared
2 130 (11.66%) Degree
3 100 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 53 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.45%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.18%) CISA
12 2 (0.18%) CRISC
12 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.18%) PMP
13 1 (0.090%) ISEB
13 1 (0.090%) SANS
13 1 (0.090%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (7.26%) QA
2 57 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.30%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.60%) WCAG
5 17 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.36%) GRC
6 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.36%) SLA
7 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.18%) MiFID
9 1 (0.090%) GDPR
9 1 (0.090%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.090%) GxP
System Software
1 98 (8.79%) Docker
2 66 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.06%) IAG
4 22 (1.97%) ACF2
4 22 (1.97%) RACF
5 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.090%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.090%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 127 (11.39%) Kubernetes
2 69 (6.19%) Terraform
3 29 (2.60%) Ansible
4 23 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (1.52%) Grafana
7 7 (0.63%) Kibana
8 5 (0.45%) logstash
8 5 (0.45%) PingFederate
8 5 (0.45%) Puppet
9 3 (0.27%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.27%) Netcool
10 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.090%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.090%) Argo
11 1 (0.090%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.090%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.090%) Istio
11 1 (0.090%) Podman
11 1 (0.090%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 101 (9.06%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.83%) Oracle
3 46 (4.13%) Google
4 41 (3.68%) ServiceNow
5 31 (2.78%) Adobe
6 29 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.88%) Splunk
8 17 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 17 (1.52%) Sybase
9 14 (1.26%) Optimizely
10 13 (1.17%) PayPal
11 11 (0.99%) SAP
12 9 (0.81%) Tealium
13 7 (0.63%) BeyondTrust
13 7 (0.63%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.63%) Foundry
13 7 (0.63%) Palantir
14 6 (0.54%) Ensighten
14 6 (0.54%) Monetate
14 6 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud