JavaScript Contracts in Edinburgh

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 12 33
Rank change year-on-year -28 +21 -27
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 34 160 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.12% 12.72% 6.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.38% 35.24% 23.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 127 96
10th Percentile £413 £409 -
25th Percentile £421 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £473
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +1.38% +11.18%
75th Percentile £483 £525 £514
90th Percentile £613 £574 £560
Scotland median daily rate £472 £475 £473
% change year-on-year -0.58% +0.53% +11.18%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 185 454 553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.40% 36.09% 28.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 350 384
10th Percentile £364 £406 £400
25th Percentile £416 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +1.00% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £550
90th Percentile £625 £590 £668
Scotland median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £33.20 £41.45 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £45.13 £25.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% +31.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile £60.75 £60.63 £53.75
90th Percentile - £64.75 £54.60
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Edinburgh

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Edinburgh

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Edinburgh

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Edinburgh

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (5.88%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
2 1 (2.94%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) AWS
1 13 (38.24%) Serverless
2 12 (35.29%) Amazon S3
3 9 (26.47%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (14.71%) OpenShift
6 4 (11.76%) Azure
6 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.82%) iPaaS
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.88%) IaaS
8 2 (5.88%) PaaS
8 2 (5.88%) SaaS
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.94%) Apigee
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.94%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (20.59%) MongoDB
3 6 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (17.65%) Oracle Database
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (5.88%) GIS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.94%) MySQL
6 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.82%) Cypress.io
2 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 3 (8.82%) TeamCity
3 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.88%) Git
3 2 (5.88%) GitLab
3 2 (5.88%) Gradle
3 2 (5.88%) Maven
3 2 (5.88%) Selenium
3 2 (5.88%) Subversion
3 2 (5.88%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.94%) Capybara
4 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.94%) gulp
4 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.94%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (55.88%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Publishing
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (67.65%) Developer
2 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Developer
3 3 (8.82%) Service Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Django Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Senior
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Test Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Technical Leader
5 1 (2.94%) Test Automation Specialist
5 1 (2.94%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) CSS
1 17 (50.00%) HTML
2 13 (38.24%) React
3 11 (32.35%) AWS CDK
4 10 (29.41%) Node.js
5 8 (23.53%) Spring Boot
6 7 (20.59%) REST
7 6 (17.65%) Spring
8 4 (11.76%) XML
9 3 (8.82%) .NET
9 3 (8.82%) Django
9 3 (8.82%) Laravel
9 3 (8.82%) OAuth
9 3 (8.82%) OAuth2
9 3 (8.82%) OpenAPI
9 3 (8.82%) Spring Security
9 3 (8.82%) Swagger
9 3 (8.82%) Yii
10 2 (5.88%) Spring Web Flow
10 2 (5.88%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (11.76%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.88%) Client/Server
4 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) CMDB
5 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Android
2 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) CI/CD
1 13 (38.24%) Microservices
2 11 (32.35%) Agile
3 10 (29.41%) DevOps
4 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (17.65%) TDD
5 6 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 5 (14.71%) Migration
6 5 (14.71%) Pair Programming
7 4 (11.76%) Analytics
7 4 (11.76%) Kanban
8 3 (8.82%) Data Migration
8 3 (8.82%) Human-Centred Design
8 3 (8.82%) Inclusive Design
8 3 (8.82%) Integration Patterns
8 3 (8.82%) Mentoring
8 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.82%) Roadmaps
8 3 (8.82%) Software Delivery
8 3 (8.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Java
2 16 (47.06%) TypeScript
3 12 (35.29%) Python
4 8 (23.53%) Bash
4 8 (23.53%) Shell Script
5 7 (20.59%) SQL
6 4 (11.76%) C#
6 4 (11.76%) PHP
7 2 (5.88%) C++
7 2 (5.88%) Go
7 2 (5.88%) Groovy
7 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.88%) Ruby
7 2 (5.88%) VBA
7 2 (5.88%) VBScript
8 1 (2.94%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) ISEB
1 2 (5.88%) ISTQB
1 2 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Accessibility
2 6 (17.65%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Grafana
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Istio
2 1 (2.94%) Kibana
2 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) Confluent
2 2 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (2.94%) Adobe
3 1 (2.94%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) Informatica
3 1 (2.94%) Pega
3 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.94%) StreamSets
3 1 (2.94%) Teradata