JavaScript Contracts

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 29 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 2,100 3,476 7,028
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.93% 6.10% 8.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.51% 17.64% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 2,542 5,294
10th Percentile £325 £388 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
75th Percentile £686 £638 £650
90th Percentile £844 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -6.15% +0.95% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 50 67
10th Percentile £35.26 £35.90 £27.45
25th Percentile £46.18 £48.89 £36.03
Median hourly rate £62.50 £66.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +16.67% +23.24%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £66.27
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.00 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year -0.76% +15.93% +39.51%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,717 19,709 31,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 34.61% 36.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,044 14,221 23,079
10th Percentile £350 £389 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 440 503
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.05 £19.60
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +23.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £72.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England -6 1,791 £550 - 1,826
London -2 1,104 £600 +4.35% 691
Work from Home -2 1,007 £550 +6.80% 1,410
UK excluding London -16 719 £450 -6.15% 1,336
North of England -8 223 £475 -9.09% 335
South East -10 146 £400 -20.00% 326
South West +2 121 £500 - 161
North West -15 105 £463 -13.95% 194
Yorkshire -9 95 £575 +15.00% 110
Midlands -2 90 £425 -5.56% 255
Scotland -33 72 £463 -2.63% 80
East Midlands 0 46 £388 -6.63% 101
East of England -12 45 £425 -10.99% 132
West Midlands +3 43 £475 -5.00% 153
North East +9 23 £466 -15.32% 33
Wales +1 14 £413 -8.33% 41
Northern Ireland +10 9 - - 26

JavaScript
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
1 138 (6.57%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (6.00%) Apache
3 60 (2.86%) Confluence
4 53 (2.52%) CMS
4 53 (2.52%) SharePoint
5 32 (1.52%) nginx
6 19 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 14 (0.67%) Drupal
7 14 (0.67%) Headless CMS
7 14 (0.67%) WordPress
8 12 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
9 11 (0.52%) IIS
10 8 (0.38%) SharePoint 2010
10 8 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
11 7 (0.33%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.33%) Kentico
12 6 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 6 (0.29%) Tornado
12 6 (0.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 123 (5.86%) Chatbot
2 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.43%) Sketch
6 8 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.29%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.14%) Simulink
10 2 (0.095%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.095%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.095%) InfoPath
10 2 (0.095%) Lectora
10 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.048%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.048%) Blender
11 1 (0.048%) InDesign
11 1 (0.048%) InVision
11 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 38 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.05%) Shopify
3 21 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.24%) Endur
4 5 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
5 4 (0.19%) Magento
5 4 (0.19%) Maximo
5 4 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.14%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.095%) Unica
7 2 (0.095%) WebTrends
7 2 (0.095%) Workfront
8 1 (0.048%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Utilities
8 1 (0.048%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 640 (30.48%) AWS
2 420 (20.00%) Azure
3 233 (11.10%) GCP
4 132 (6.29%) Serverless
5 121 (5.76%) GitHub
6 120 (5.71%) dbt
7 115 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
8 102 (4.86%) Snowflake
9 98 (4.67%) Power Platform
10 87 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
11 67 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
12 55 (2.62%) Power Automate
13 49 (2.33%) Amazon S3
13 49 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
14 46 (2.19%) PowerApps
15 41 (1.95%) npm
16 37 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 34 (1.62%) Entra ID
18 33 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
19 32 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.10%) HTTP
2 31 (1.48%) Intranet
3 22 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.81%) Firewall
5 16 (0.76%) Software-Defined Radio
6 15 (0.71%) DNS
6 15 (0.71%) SNMP
7 14 (0.67%) Ethernet
8 11 (0.52%) Internet
9 8 (0.38%) SSL
10 7 (0.33%) Wireless
11 5 (0.24%) VoIP
11 5 (0.24%) VPN
12 4 (0.19%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.19%) RTSP
13 3 (0.14%) AMQP
13 3 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (0.14%) DHCP
13 3 (0.14%) IOS XR
13 3 (0.14%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (8.52%) SQL Server
2 133 (6.33%) MySQL
3 123 (5.86%) Amazon Athena
4 120 (5.71%) Apache Arrow
4 120 (5.71%) Dremio
5 112 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
6 108 (5.14%) Apache Ignite
7 101 (4.81%) Data Lake
8 91 (4.33%) MongoDB
9 89 (4.24%) NoSQL
10 70 (3.33%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.48%) Power BI
12 40 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
13 30 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
13 30 (1.43%) Redis
14 26 (1.24%) Big Data
15 22 (1.05%) DynamoDB
16 21 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
17 19 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
17 19 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 253 (12.05%) Git
2 148 (7.05%) JIRA
3 142 (6.76%) Jenkins
4 79 (3.76%) GitLab
5 70 (3.33%) Cypress.io
6 62 (2.95%) webpack
7 60 (2.86%) Selenium
8 38 (1.81%) Postman
9 35 (1.67%) Eclipse
10 34 (1.62%) Bitbucket
11 31 (1.48%) Cucumber
12 29 (1.38%) Visual Studio
13 27 (1.29%) JMeter
14 26 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
15 19 (0.90%) Maven
15 19 (0.90%) Robot Framework
15 19 (0.90%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.71%) Appium
16 15 (0.71%) GoogleTest
17 14 (0.67%) Mocha
General
1 434 (20.67%) Finance
2 399 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 208 (9.90%) Banking
4 198 (9.43%) Front Office
5 166 (7.90%) Public Sector
6 152 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (5.19%) Investment Banking
8 83 (3.95%) Marketing
9 39 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 34 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (1.57%) Retail
12 29 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 27 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.24%) Advertising
15 19 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 18 (0.86%) Back Office
17 15 (0.71%) Publishing
18 14 (0.67%) Military
18 14 (0.67%) Tech for Good
19 12 (0.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,247 (59.38%) Developer
2 267 (12.71%) Senior
3 230 (10.95%) Software Engineer
4 223 (10.62%) Software Developer
5 217 (10.33%) Full Stack Developer
6 153 (7.29%) Senior Developer
7 135 (6.43%) Lead
8 130 (6.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 125 (5.95%) Architect
10 115 (5.48%) React Developer
11 100 (4.76%) .NET Developer
12 94 (4.48%) JavaScript Developer
13 85 (4.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 82 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
15 74 (3.52%) Java Developer
16 67 (3.19%) Python Developer
17 64 (3.05%) C# Developer
18 60 (2.86%) Python Engineer
19 57 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
19 57 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 858 (40.86%) HTML
2 703 (33.48%) CSS
3 619 (29.48%) React
4 385 (18.33%) Node.js
5 323 (15.38%) .NET
6 283 (13.48%) AngularJS
7 227 (10.81%) REST
8 153 (7.29%) XML
9 142 (6.76%) Web Services
10 136 (6.48%) gRPC
11 134 (6.38%) Protocol Buffers
12 121 (5.76%) Pandas
13 120 (5.71%) .NET Core
14 118 (5.62%) RESTful
15 114 (5.43%) Vue
16 111 (5.29%) ASP.NET
16 111 (5.29%) NumPy
17 105 (5.00%) SciPy
18 103 (4.90%) Redux
19 98 (4.67%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 182 (8.67%) Fixed Income
2 147 (7.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 146 (6.95%) Hedge funds
4 140 (6.67%) Derivative
5 130 (6.19%) Equities
6 74 (3.52%) Product Ownership
7 52 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (2.48%) Mobile App
8 47 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 46 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
10 39 (1.86%) Algorithms
11 37 (1.76%) Cloud Native
12 34 (1.62%) Data Structures
12 34 (1.62%) Management Information System
13 30 (1.43%) Onboarding
14 29 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (0.86%) Clustering
17 17 (0.81%) CMDB
18 14 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 153 (7.29%) Linux
2 70 (3.33%) Windows
3 52 (2.48%) Unix
4 35 (1.67%) Android
5 30 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.095%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.048%) CentOS
8 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.048%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.048%) VMS
8 1 (0.048%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (36.90%) Agile
2 599 (28.52%) Software Engineering
3 405 (19.29%) DevOps
4 386 (18.38%) Full Stack Development
5 373 (17.76%) CI/CD
6 278 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
7 237 (11.29%) Front End Development
8 234 (11.14%) Test Automation
9 217 (10.33%) TDD
10 207 (9.86%) Code Quality
11 202 (9.62%) User Experience
12 189 (9.00%) Asset Management
12 189 (9.00%) Microservices
13 182 (8.67%) Web Development
14 167 (7.95%) Scrum
15 160 (7.62%) Artificial Intelligence
16 139 (6.62%) Investment Management
17 126 (6.00%) Computer Science
18 125 (5.95%) Conversational UI
18 125 (5.95%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 645 (30.71%) Python
2 589 (28.05%) TypeScript
3 558 (26.57%) Java
4 534 (25.43%) C#
5 509 (24.24%) SQL
6 118 (5.62%) PHP
7 91 (4.33%) PowerShell
8 83 (3.95%) Go
9 82 (3.90%) C++
10 56 (2.67%) Bash
11 41 (1.95%) Ruby
12 37 (1.76%) Kotlin
13 36 (1.71%) Bicep
14 35 (1.67%) C
15 31 (1.48%) PL/SQL
16 29 (1.38%) Apex Code
17 27 (1.29%) T-SQL
18 24 (1.14%) Groovy
19 19 (0.90%) Shell Script
20 17 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 308 (14.67%) Degree
2 275 (13.10%) Security Cleared
3 204 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 94 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 30 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.43%) ISTQB
9 9 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.38%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.33%) CEH
11 7 (0.33%) CREST Certified
11 7 (0.33%) GIAC
11 7 (0.33%) GPEN
11 7 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (0.33%) OSCP
11 7 (0.33%) PMP
12 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.00%) QA
2 128 (6.10%) Accessibility
3 51 (2.43%) Data Quality
4 42 (2.00%) WCAG
5 20 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 15 (0.71%) GDPR
7 10 (0.48%) NIST
8 7 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
8 7 (0.33%) GxP
8 7 (0.33%) SLA
9 5 (0.24%) GRC
10 4 (0.19%) CDISC
10 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.095%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.095%) MiFID
12 2 (0.095%) PMO
System Software
1 149 (7.10%) Docker
2 92 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.90%) IAG
4 38 (1.81%) ACF2
4 38 (1.81%) RACF
5 16 (0.76%) Firmware
6 11 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.19%) zsh
8 3 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.095%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.048%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.048%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.048%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 188 (8.95%) Kubernetes
2 109 (5.19%) Terraform
3 53 (2.52%) Ansible
4 35 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
5 32 (1.52%) Grafana
6 23 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.71%) Kibana
8 9 (0.43%) PingFederate
9 5 (0.24%) logstash
9 5 (0.24%) Puppet
10 4 (0.19%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.14%) Netcool
11 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.095%) Istio
12 2 (0.095%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.048%) Argo
13 1 (0.048%) Packer
13 1 (0.048%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 1 (0.048%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 183 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 121 (5.76%) PayPal
3 111 (5.29%) Oracle
4 94 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 92 (4.38%) Google
6 56 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 52 (2.48%) Adobe
8 42 (2.00%) SAP
9 27 (1.29%) Sybase
10 26 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 23 (1.10%) Splunk
12 19 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 15 (0.71%) Optimizely
14 13 (0.62%) BeyondTrust
14 13 (0.62%) CyberArk
14 13 (0.62%) VMware
15 12 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 11 (0.52%) IBM
17 10 (0.48%) Confluent
18 9 (0.43%) Tealium