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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 17 31
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 -22
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 104 273 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.79% 9.72% 6.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.95% 27.97% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 210 160
10th Percentile £413 £407 £399
25th Percentile £436 £438 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year - +0.53% +11.18%
75th Percentile £522 £525 £525
90th Percentile £625 £556 £610
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £40.95
25th Percentile - - £42.39
Median hourly rate - - £44.77
75th Percentile - - £47.16
90th Percentile - - £48.59
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £66.50 £55.50
% change year-on-year -6.02% +19.82% +16.84%

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 652 976 965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.02% 34.75% 27.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 710 662
10th Percentile £363 £407 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +4.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £577 £562 £550
90th Percentile £650 £673 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.43 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £51.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +25.60% +8.05%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.75 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +14.94%

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 5 May 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 5 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
Edinburgh -19 42 £450 -6.05% 38
Glasgow -9 39 £498 +4.19% 25
West Lothian - 7 £585 -
Lanarkshire -1 1 £425 +13.33% 4
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 6
Fife - 1 £428 -
Aberdeen - 1 £425 - 7
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 (5.77%) Confluence
2 3 (2.88%) CMS
2 3 (2.88%) GeoServer
2 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.96%) FileNet
3 1 (0.96%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (10.58%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.92%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (1.92%) Camtasia
2 2 (1.92%) Lectora
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.38%) AWS
2 31 (29.81%) Serverless
3 29 (27.88%) Amazon S3
4 25 (24.04%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (20.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (14.42%) OpenShift
7 9 (8.65%) Azure
8 7 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.85%) npm
11 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.88%) CloudFront
11 3 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.88%) IaaS
11 3 (2.88%) iPaaS
11 3 (2.88%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.92%) PaaS
12 2 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.77%) HTTP
2 5 (4.81%) SSL
2 5 (4.81%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (3.85%) NetScaler
4 2 (1.92%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (19.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (10.58%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (10.58%) Oracle Database
4 10 (9.62%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.77%) MySQL
6 5 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.81%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.88%) GIS
7 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.92%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.96%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.96%) DB2
9 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.96%) Redis
9 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (28.85%) Jenkins
2 14 (13.46%) Git
3 11 (10.58%) Cypress.io
3 11 (10.58%) JIRA
4 6 (5.77%) Cucumber
4 6 (5.77%) Selenium
4 6 (5.77%) webpack
5 5 (4.81%) GitLab
5 5 (4.81%) IntelliJ
5 5 (4.81%) Postman
5 5 (4.81%) WebDriver
6 3 (2.88%) Gradle
6 3 (2.88%) Maven
6 3 (2.88%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.92%) Capybara
7 2 (1.92%) Subversion
8 1 (0.96%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.96%) gulp
8 1 (0.96%) JMeter
8 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 40 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 23 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.62%) Finance
4 5 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Publishing
6 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (66.35%) Developer
2 19 (18.27%) Software Developer
3 14 (13.46%) Java Developer
4 9 (8.65%) Lead
4 9 (8.65%) Senior
4 9 (8.65%) Technical Leader
5 8 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
6 6 (5.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (3.85%) AWS Developer
7 4 (3.85%) Python Developer
8 3 (2.88%) Consultant
8 3 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 3 (2.88%) Pega Developer
8 3 (2.88%) React Developer
8 3 (2.88%) Service Manager
9 2 (1.92%) Developer in Test
9 2 (1.92%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 2 (1.92%) Python Engineer
9 2 (1.92%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (56.73%) HTML
2 48 (46.15%) CSS
3 46 (44.23%) React
4 27 (25.96%) AWS CDK
4 27 (25.96%) Node.js
5 23 (22.12%) REST
6 18 (17.31%) Spring Boot
7 16 (15.38%) Spring
8 13 (12.50%) OAuth
9 10 (9.62%) AngularJS
10 9 (8.65%) OAuth2
10 9 (8.65%) Spring Security
11 8 (7.69%) GraphQL
11 8 (7.69%) RESTful
12 7 (6.73%) Spring MVC
12 7 (6.73%) Spring Web Flow
12 7 (6.73%) Thymeleaf
13 5 (4.81%) .NET
13 5 (4.81%) JSON
13 5 (4.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.31%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.65%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.81%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.92%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.92%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.92%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Video Editing
6 1 (0.96%) CMDB
6 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.96%) Replication
6 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.54%) Linux
2 5 (4.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.96%) Android
3 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (44.23%) Agile
2 39 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 31 (29.81%) Microservices
4 30 (28.85%) Code Quality
5 26 (25.00%) DevOps
6 25 (24.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (22.12%) Human-Centred Design
7 23 (22.12%) Test Automation
8 22 (21.15%) Inclusive Design
9 20 (19.23%) User Experience
10 19 (18.27%) Unit Testing
11 17 (16.35%) Analytics
11 17 (16.35%) Data Protection
11 17 (16.35%) Pair Programming
11 17 (16.35%) Software Engineering
12 16 (15.38%) TDD
13 15 (14.42%) Full Stack Development
14 13 (12.50%) Migration
15 12 (11.54%) Roadmaps
16 11 (10.58%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 49 (47.12%) Java
2 40 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 35 (33.65%) Python
4 31 (29.81%) SQL
5 19 (18.27%) Bash
6 17 (16.35%) C#
7 12 (11.54%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.77%) PHP
9 5 (4.81%) Perl
10 4 (3.85%) Ruby
11 3 (2.88%) Go
12 2 (1.92%) C
12 2 (1.92%) C++
12 2 (1.92%) Groovy
12 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.92%) VBA
12 2 (1.92%) VBScript
13 1 (0.96%) Bicep
13 1 (0.96%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 14 (13.46%) Degree
2 3 (2.88%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.92%) ISEB
3 2 (1.92%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (28.85%) Accessibility
2 12 (11.54%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) QA
4 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (20.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (14.42%) Grafana
2 10 (9.62%) Kibana
3 6 (5.77%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.85%) Terraform
5 1 (0.96%) Ansible
5 1 (0.96%) Istio
5 1 (0.96%) logstash
5 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (16.35%) Oracle
2 11 (10.58%) PayPal
3 4 (3.85%) F5
4 3 (2.88%) Adobe
4 3 (2.88%) Pega
5 2 (1.92%) Confluent
5 2 (1.92%) Google
5 2 (1.92%) IBM
6 1 (0.96%) Commvault
6 1 (0.96%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.96%) Genesys
6 1 (0.96%) Informatica
6 1 (0.96%) KANA
6 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.96%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.96%) Teradata
6 1 (0.96%) VMware