JavaScript Contracts in Scotland

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 20 22
Rank change year-on-year -31 +2 -12
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 78 243 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.64% 9.08% 7.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.81% 27.24% 26.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 185 203
10th Percentile £413 £413 £400
25th Percentile £418 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £503 £514 £531
90th Percentile £568 £553 £574
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% +14.74%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 609 892 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.42% 33.32% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 626 721
10th Percentile £350 £406 £381
25th Percentile £412 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.03% +14.71%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £550
90th Percentile £616 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £47.73 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +32.65% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.66 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh -28 35 £450 -6.05% 34
Glasgow -8 28 £497 +4.03% 18
Lanarkshire 0 1 £425 +3.03% 8
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 10
West Lothian - 1 £650 -
Fife - 1 £428 -
Aberdeen - 1 £425 - 3
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.85%) GeoServer
3 2 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.56%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (2.56%) Camtasia
2 2 (2.56%) Lectora
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 33 (42.31%) AWS
2 27 (34.62%) Serverless
3 24 (30.77%) Amazon S3
4 21 (26.92%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (21.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (15.38%) Azure
7 11 (14.10%) OpenShift
8 8 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (7.69%) Power Automate
9 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
10 5 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (5.13%) PaaS
12 3 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.85%) CloudFront
12 3 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.85%) npm
12 3 (3.85%) PowerApps
13 2 (2.56%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (20.51%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (14.10%) Oracle Database
4 9 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (10.26%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.13%) MariaDB
7 4 (5.13%) MySQL
8 3 (3.85%) GIS
8 3 (3.85%) Power BI
9 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (2.56%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.28%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.28%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.69%) Git
2 6 (7.69%) webpack
3 5 (6.41%) Cucumber
3 5 (6.41%) Selenium
3 5 (6.41%) WebDriver
4 4 (5.13%) JIRA
5 3 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.56%) Capybara
6 2 (2.56%) Gradle
6 2 (2.56%) Maven
6 2 (2.56%) Subversion
6 2 (2.56%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.28%) Gatling
7 1 (1.28%) GitLab
7 1 (1.28%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.28%) JMeter
7 1 (1.28%) Mockito
7 1 (1.28%) Postman
General
1 38 (48.72%) Public Sector
2 11 (14.10%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.41%) Finance
5 3 (3.85%) Publishing
6 2 (2.56%) Banking
6 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (73.08%) Developer
2 17 (21.79%) Software Developer
3 11 (14.10%) Java Developer
4 6 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (6.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (6.41%) Lead
5 5 (6.41%) Technical Leader
6 4 (5.13%) Senior
7 3 (3.85%) .NET Developer
7 3 (3.85%) AWS Developer
7 3 (3.85%) Consultant
7 3 (3.85%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (3.85%) Service Manager
8 2 (2.56%) Analyst
8 2 (2.56%) Developer in Test
8 2 (2.56%) Functional Analyst
8 2 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.56%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (2.56%) Technologist
8 2 (2.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (60.26%) HTML
2 39 (50.00%) CSS
3 36 (46.15%) React
4 23 (29.49%) Node.js
5 21 (26.92%) AWS CDK
6 17 (21.79%) Spring Boot
7 14 (17.95%) Spring
8 13 (16.67%) REST
9 12 (15.38%) OAuth
9 12 (15.38%) RESTful
10 9 (11.54%) .NET
10 9 (11.54%) OAuth2
11 7 (8.97%) Spring Security
12 5 (6.41%) Spring MVC
12 5 (6.41%) Spring Web Flow
12 5 (6.41%) Thymeleaf
13 4 (5.13%) GraphQL
13 4 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (5.13%) XML
14 3 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.51%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.56%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.56%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.56%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.56%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.28%) CMDB
5 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.59%) CI/CD
2 31 (39.74%) Agile
3 24 (30.77%) Code Quality
4 23 (29.49%) DevOps
4 23 (29.49%) Microservices
5 17 (21.79%) User Experience
6 16 (20.51%) Test Automation
7 15 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 14 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (17.95%) TDD
9 13 (16.67%) Human-Centred Design
9 13 (16.67%) Inclusive Design
9 13 (16.67%) Pair Programming
10 11 (14.10%) Analytics
10 11 (14.10%) Artificial Intelligence
10 11 (14.10%) Conversational UI
10 11 (14.10%) Unit Testing
11 10 (12.82%) Data Protection
11 10 (12.82%) Full Stack Development
11 10 (12.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (44.87%) Java
2 33 (42.31%) TypeScript
3 25 (32.05%) SQL
4 21 (26.92%) Python
5 17 (21.79%) C#
6 12 (15.38%) Bash
6 12 (15.38%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.56%) C
8 2 (2.56%) C++
8 2 (2.56%) Ruby
8 2 (2.56%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.56%) VBA
8 2 (2.56%) VBScript
9 1 (1.28%) Bicep
9 1 (1.28%) Groovy
9 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) ISEB
3 2 (2.56%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (26.92%) Accessibility
2 9 (11.54%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (17.95%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (12.82%) Grafana
2 5 (6.41%) Kibana
2 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.56%) Terraform
4 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.28%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Oracle
2 11 (14.10%) PayPal
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.56%) Adobe
5 1 (1.28%) Commvault
5 1 (1.28%) Confluent
5 1 (1.28%) IBM
5 1 (1.28%) Informatica
5 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.28%) StreamSets