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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 20 20
Rank change year-on-year -30 0 -10
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 76 248 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.55% 9.22% 8.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.44% 27.56% 27.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 189 219
10th Percentile £413 £413 £411
25th Percentile £416 £438 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £499 £513 £530
90th Percentile £573 £551 £571
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 611 900 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.56% 33.46% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 630 744
10th Percentile £350 £400 £388
25th Percentile £410 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.03% +14.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £613 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 14
10th Percentile £29.60 £47.73 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £29.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +29.03% -0.54%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.66 £55.39
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £56.98
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £62.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -0.40% +21.36% +16.65%

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 6 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 6 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 -29 34 £450 -6.05% 40
Glasgow -15 28 £497 +3.49% 19
Lanarkshire +1 1 £425 +3.03% 7
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 12
West Lothian - 1 £650 -
Fife - 1 £428 -
Aberdeen - 1 £425 - 6
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 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.95%) GeoServer
3 2 (2.63%) Confluence
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.63%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (2.63%) Camtasia
2 2 (2.63%) Lectora
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.11%) AWS
2 26 (34.21%) Serverless
3 23 (30.26%) Amazon S3
4 20 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (14.47%) Azure
6 11 (14.47%) OpenShift
7 7 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (7.89%) Power Automate
8 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.26%) PaaS
10 3 (3.95%) CloudFront
10 3 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.95%) npm
10 3 (3.95%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.63%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (21.05%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (13.16%) Oracle Database
4 9 (11.84%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (10.53%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.26%) MariaDB
6 4 (5.26%) MySQL
7 3 (3.95%) GIS
7 3 (3.95%) Power BI
8 2 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.63%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.32%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.89%) Git
2 6 (7.89%) webpack
3 5 (6.58%) Cucumber
3 5 (6.58%) Selenium
3 5 (6.58%) WebDriver
4 4 (5.26%) JIRA
5 3 (3.95%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.63%) Capybara
6 2 (2.63%) Gradle
6 2 (2.63%) Maven
6 2 (2.63%) Subversion
6 2 (2.63%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.32%) Gatling
7 1 (1.32%) GitLab
7 1 (1.32%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.32%) JMeter
7 1 (1.32%) Mockito
7 1 (1.32%) Postman
General
1 38 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Finance
5 3 (3.95%) Publishing
6 2 (2.63%) Banking
6 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (75.00%) Developer
2 17 (22.37%) Software Developer
3 11 (14.47%) Java Developer
4 6 (7.89%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (6.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (6.58%) Lead
5 5 (6.58%) Technical Leader
6 4 (5.26%) Senior
7 3 (3.95%) .NET Developer
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Consultant
7 3 (3.95%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Service Manager
8 2 (2.63%) Analyst
8 2 (2.63%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 2 (2.63%) Functional Analyst
8 2 (2.63%) Learning Technologist
8 2 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.63%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (2.63%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (60.53%) HTML
2 38 (50.00%) CSS
3 36 (47.37%) React
4 23 (30.26%) Node.js
5 20 (26.32%) AWS CDK
6 17 (22.37%) Spring Boot
7 14 (18.42%) Spring
8 13 (17.11%) REST
9 12 (15.79%) OAuth
9 12 (15.79%) RESTful
10 9 (11.84%) OAuth2
11 8 (10.53%) .NET
12 7 (9.21%) Spring Security
13 5 (6.58%) Spring MVC
13 5 (6.58%) Spring Web Flow
13 5 (6.58%) Thymeleaf
14 4 (5.26%) GraphQL
14 4 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
14 4 (5.26%) XML
15 3 (3.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.05%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.63%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.63%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.63%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.32%) CMDB
5 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (43.42%) CI/CD
2 30 (39.47%) Agile
3 24 (31.58%) Code Quality
4 23 (30.26%) Microservices
5 22 (28.95%) DevOps
6 17 (22.37%) User Experience
7 16 (21.05%) Test Automation
8 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
9 14 (18.42%) TDD
10 13 (17.11%) Human-Centred Design
10 13 (17.11%) Inclusive Design
10 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (17.11%) Pair Programming
11 11 (14.47%) Analytics
11 11 (14.47%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (14.47%) Conversational UI
11 11 (14.47%) Unit Testing
12 10 (13.16%) Full Stack Development
13 9 (11.84%) Data Protection
13 9 (11.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.05%) Java
2 32 (42.11%) TypeScript
3 24 (31.58%) SQL
4 21 (27.63%) Python
5 16 (21.05%) C#
6 12 (15.79%) Bash
6 12 (15.79%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.63%) C++
7 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.63%) Ruby
7 2 (2.63%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.63%) VBA
7 2 (2.63%) VBScript
8 1 (1.32%) C
8 1 (1.32%) Groovy
8 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (17.11%) Degree
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) ISEB
3 2 (2.63%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (27.63%) Accessibility
2 9 (11.84%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.32%) GDPR
4 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (18.42%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (11.84%) Grafana
2 5 (6.58%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.26%) Kibana
4 2 (2.63%) Terraform
5 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.32%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) Oracle
2 11 (14.47%) PayPal
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.63%) Adobe
5 1 (1.32%) Confluent
5 1 (1.32%) IBM
5 1 (1.32%) Informatica
5 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.32%) StreamSets