JavaScript Contracts in the UK excluding London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 50 39 31
Rank change year-on-year -11 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 739 1,172 1,872
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.54% 5.11% 6.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.96% 18.27% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 874 1,308
10th Percentile £300 £363 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £631
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 27 39
10th Percentile £36.84 £51.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £43.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% +23.66%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.48
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.40 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,941 6,414 8,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.70% 27.99% 28.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,307 4,495 6,145
10th Percentile £319 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.68%
75th Percentile £583 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 322 321
10th Percentile £37.55 £26.48 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.19 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £67.36
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England -7 233 £500 -4.76% 338
South East -16 149 £400 -20.00% 240
South West +4 119 £500 - 145
North West -11 107 £475 -13.64% 207
Yorkshire -4 102 £575 +13.86% 96
Midlands -3 95 £425 -8.80% 223
Scotland -31 78 £459 -3.37% 68
East of England -7 48 £423 -11.52% 126
East Midlands -3 47 £394 -5.12% 84
West Midlands -9 47 £475 -5.00% 139
North East +14 24 £466 -15.32% 36
Wales +6 12 £425 -8.11% 33
Northern Ireland +6 6 - - 20
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 38 (5.14%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.87%) Confluence
3 13 (1.76%) Drupal
4 12 (1.62%) CMS
5 11 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (1.22%) Apache
7 8 (1.08%) SharePoint 2010
7 8 (1.08%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.81%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.68%) IIS
9 5 (0.68%) WordPress
10 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.41%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.41%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.41%) Moodle
11 3 (0.41%) nginx
11 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.27%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 108 (14.61%) Chatbot
2 14 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.81%) Sketch
5 5 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.68%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.27%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.27%) InfoPath
7 2 (0.27%) Lectora
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.27%) Trello
8 1 (0.14%) InVision
8 1 (0.14%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.14%) Simulink
8 1 (0.14%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 6 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.41%) Maximo
3 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.27%) Magento
4 2 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.14%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.14%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 145 (19.62%) AWS
2 118 (15.97%) Azure
3 56 (7.58%) Serverless
4 51 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 36 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (4.33%) Power Automate
7 31 (4.19%) GitHub
8 28 (3.79%) Amazon S3
8 28 (3.79%) GCP
9 23 (3.11%) OpenShift
9 23 (3.11%) PowerApps
10 19 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (1.49%) SaaS
14 10 (1.35%) Azure Functions
14 10 (1.35%) npm
15 9 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.22%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.30%) Software-Defined Radio
2 16 (2.17%) SNMP
3 15 (2.03%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.89%) Ethernet
5 12 (1.62%) HTTP
6 6 (0.81%) Firewall
6 6 (0.81%) Intranet
6 6 (0.81%) Wireless
7 4 (0.54%) DNS
7 4 (0.54%) Internet
7 4 (0.54%) RTSP
8 3 (0.41%) BGP
8 3 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.41%) IOS XR
8 3 (0.41%) SSL
9 1 (0.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.14%) Modbus
9 1 (0.14%) MQTT
9 1 (0.14%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (7.44%) MySQL
2 51 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (6.63%) SQL Server
4 39 (5.28%) MongoDB
5 32 (4.33%) Relational Database
6 24 (3.25%) Power BI
7 19 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (1.89%) Metadata
11 13 (1.76%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (1.08%) Redis
14 7 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (0.95%) PowerPivot
14 7 (0.95%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (0.81%) GIS
15 6 (0.81%) MariaDB
15 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Power View
Development Applications
1 78 (10.55%) Git
2 53 (7.17%) JIRA
3 46 (6.22%) Jenkins
4 34 (4.60%) Eclipse
5 28 (3.79%) Bitbucket
5 28 (3.79%) Selenium
6 20 (2.71%) GitLab
6 20 (2.71%) Visual Studio
7 18 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.30%) Robot Framework
9 16 (2.17%) GoogleTest
10 15 (2.03%) webpack
11 13 (1.76%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.49%) Maven
13 9 (1.22%) JMeter
13 9 (1.22%) Postman
14 7 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
14 7 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.81%) PyCharm
15 6 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 142 (19.22%) Social Skills
2 77 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 46 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (5.01%) Finance
5 17 (2.30%) Manufacturing
5 17 (2.30%) Telecoms
6 16 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (1.89%) Marketing
8 12 (1.62%) Military
9 10 (1.35%) Billing
9 10 (1.35%) Publishing
9 10 (1.35%) Retail
10 9 (1.22%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.22%) Legal
10 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (0.95%) Tech for Good
12 6 (0.81%) Banking
12 6 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.81%) Multimedia
13 5 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 467 (63.19%) Developer
2 147 (19.89%) Software Developer
3 67 (9.07%) Software Engineer
4 63 (8.53%) Full Stack Developer
5 40 (5.41%) Senior
6 35 (4.74%) Java Developer
7 30 (4.06%) Lead
8 29 (3.92%) .NET Developer
9 27 (3.65%) React Developer
10 23 (3.11%) C++ Software Engineer
11 21 (2.84%) Analyst
11 21 (2.84%) JavaScript Developer
11 21 (2.84%) Senior Developer
12 19 (2.57%) Architect
12 19 (2.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 18 (2.44%) Designer
13 18 (2.44%) Full Stack Engineer
13 18 (2.44%) Tester
14 17 (2.30%) Applications Developer
15 14 (1.89%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (51.01%) HTML
2 258 (34.91%) CSS
3 180 (24.36%) React
4 146 (19.76%) Node.js
5 97 (13.13%) AngularJS
6 93 (12.58%) .NET
7 78 (10.55%) REST
8 54 (7.31%) RESTful
9 50 (6.77%) Spring
10 45 (6.09%) Spring Boot
11 44 (5.95%) Web Services
12 43 (5.82%) XML
13 30 (4.06%) HTML5
14 29 (3.92%) JSON
15 28 (3.79%) Kafka
16 26 (3.52%) .NET Framework
16 26 (3.52%) ASP.NET
16 26 (3.52%) GraphQL
17 25 (3.38%) Vue
18 23 (3.11%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 20 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
1 20 (2.71%) Product Ownership
2 19 (2.57%) Mobile App
3 17 (2.30%) Algorithms
4 13 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 11 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (0.95%) CMDB
9 7 (0.95%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.81%) Operational Technology
10 6 (0.81%) Social Media
11 5 (0.68%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.68%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.54%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.54%) IoT
12 4 (0.54%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.41%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 73 (9.88%) Linux
2 40 (5.41%) Windows
3 12 (1.62%) Android
3 12 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.08%) Unix
5 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (32.48%) Agile
2 220 (29.77%) Software Engineering
3 132 (17.86%) Code Quality
4 118 (15.97%) CI/CD
5 117 (15.83%) Artificial Intelligence
5 117 (15.83%) Full Stack Development
6 108 (14.61%) Conversational UI
7 105 (14.21%) DevOps
8 85 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (11.23%) Scrum
10 79 (10.69%) Test Automation
11 75 (10.15%) TDD
12 64 (8.66%) Microservices
13 47 (6.36%) MVC
14 45 (6.09%) Front End Development
15 41 (5.55%) User Experience
16 40 (5.41%) Unit Testing
17 38 (5.14%) Computer Science
17 38 (5.14%) Continuous Integration
18 37 (5.01%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 236 (31.94%) Python
2 235 (31.80%) C#
3 214 (28.96%) SQL
4 181 (24.49%) Java
5 117 (15.83%) TypeScript
6 51 (6.90%) C++
7 38 (5.14%) PHP
8 30 (4.06%) Bash
9 25 (3.38%) PowerShell
10 24 (3.25%) C
11 16 (2.17%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.76%) Groovy
13 10 (1.35%) Ruby
14 9 (1.22%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.08%) Apex Code
15 8 (1.08%) Scala
15 8 (1.08%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.95%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.95%) VBA
17 6 (0.81%) Go
Qualifications
1 160 (21.65%) Degree
2 101 (13.67%) Security Cleared
3 75 (10.15%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.22%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.22%) PMP
8 7 (0.95%) CEH
9 6 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.81%) CREST Certified
9 6 (0.81%) GIAC
9 6 (0.81%) GPEN
9 6 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (0.81%) OSCP
10 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.54%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.27%) ISEB
13 2 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.14%) Accessibility
2 33 (4.47%) QA
3 12 (1.62%) GDPR
4 9 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 8 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.81%) Good Clinical Practice
6 6 (0.81%) GxP
6 6 (0.81%) NIST
6 6 (0.81%) WCAG
7 3 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.27%) GRC
8 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) MISRA
9 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 54 (7.31%) Docker
2 17 (2.30%) Firmware
3 10 (1.35%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) zsh
6 3 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.27%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.14%) ACF2
8 1 (0.14%) IAG
8 1 (0.14%) RACF
8 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.98%) Terraform
3 19 (2.57%) Grafana
4 18 (2.44%) Ansible
5 10 (1.35%) Kibana
5 10 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.41%) logstash
6 3 (0.41%) Rancher
7 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.14%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 108 (14.61%) PayPal
2 60 (8.12%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.74%) Google
4 31 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 28 (3.79%) Oracle
6 22 (2.98%) Atlassian
7 16 (2.17%) Adobe
8 14 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.89%) SAP
9 11 (1.49%) VMware
10 6 (0.81%) IBM
11 4 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.41%) Cisco
12 3 (0.41%) Confluent
12 3 (0.41%) Nintex
12 3 (0.41%) NVIDIA
12 3 (0.41%) Pega
12 3 (0.41%) Splunk
12 3 (0.41%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.27%) ESRI