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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 10 40
Rank change year-on-year -17 +30 -33
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 46 172 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.60% 13.33% 5.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.44% 35.76% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 141 79
10th Percentile £413 £406 £400
25th Percentile £438 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £455
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +5.27% +7.06%
75th Percentile £484 £530 £491
90th Percentile £581 £574 £583
Scotland median daily rate £468 £475 £455
% change year-on-year -1.58% +4.40% +7.06%

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 205 481 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 24.94% 37.29% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 380 355
10th Percentile £400 £403 £400
25th Percentile £421 £436 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +1.00% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £550
90th Percentile £634 £588 £650
Scotland median daily rate £483 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 10
10th Percentile £33.20 £43.90 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £51.25 £26.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £52.50 £45.56
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% +15.23% -5.08%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - - £54.45
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
% change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%

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 26 April 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 (4.35%) CMS
1 2 (4.35%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (50.00%) AWS
2 17 (36.96%) Serverless
3 15 (32.61%) Amazon S3
4 12 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (23.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (19.57%) OpenShift
7 5 (10.87%) Azure
8 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.52%) iPaaS
10 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
10 2 (4.35%) IaaS
10 2 (4.35%) PaaS
10 2 (4.35%) SaaS
11 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
11 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
11 1 (2.17%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (15.22%) MongoDB
4 6 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (13.04%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.35%) GIS
5 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.17%) MySQL
6 1 (2.17%) Redis
6 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 7 (15.22%) Cypress.io
3 4 (8.70%) GitLab
4 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.52%) Git
4 3 (6.52%) JIRA
4 3 (6.52%) Selenium
4 3 (6.52%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.35%) Gradle
5 2 (4.35%) Maven
5 2 (4.35%) Subversion
5 2 (4.35%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.17%) Capybara
6 1 (2.17%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.17%) gulp
6 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.17%) Travis CI
General
1 24 (52.17%) Public Sector
2 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Publishing
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (69.57%) Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Java Developer
3 7 (15.22%) Full Stack Developer
4 6 (13.04%) AWS Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) Service Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Django Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Functional Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Functional Test Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Pega Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.35%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (50.00%) React
2 20 (43.48%) CSS
2 20 (43.48%) HTML
3 15 (32.61%) AWS CDK
4 13 (28.26%) Node.js
5 11 (23.91%) REST
5 11 (23.91%) Spring Boot
6 9 (19.57%) Spring
7 6 (13.04%) OAuth
8 5 (10.87%) .NET
8 5 (10.87%) OAuth2
8 5 (10.87%) Spring Security
8 5 (10.87%) XML
9 4 (8.70%) JSON
9 4 (8.70%) Spring MVC
9 4 (8.70%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (8.70%) Thymeleaf
10 3 (6.52%) Django
10 3 (6.52%) Laravel
10 3 (6.52%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) CMDB
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) Agile
2 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 18 (39.13%) Microservices
4 13 (28.26%) DevOps
5 11 (23.91%) Test Automation
6 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (17.39%) Full Stack Development
7 8 (17.39%) Human-Centred Design
7 8 (17.39%) Inclusive Design
7 8 (17.39%) Pair Programming
7 8 (17.39%) TDD
8 6 (13.04%) Analytics
8 6 (13.04%) Data Protection
8 6 (13.04%) Migration
8 6 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 6 (13.04%) Unit Testing
8 6 (13.04%) User Experience
9 5 (10.87%) API Development
9 5 (10.87%) Architecture Roadmap
9 5 (10.87%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Java
2 19 (41.30%) TypeScript
3 17 (36.96%) Python
4 9 (19.57%) SQL
5 8 (17.39%) Bash
5 8 (17.39%) Shell Script
6 5 (10.87%) C#
7 4 (8.70%) PHP
8 2 (4.35%) C++
8 2 (4.35%) Go
8 2 (4.35%) Groovy
8 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.35%) Ruby
8 2 (4.35%) VBA
8 2 (4.35%) VBScript
9 1 (2.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) ISEB
1 2 (4.35%) ISTQB
1 2 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) Accessibility
2 8 (17.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Grafana
2 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Istio
3 1 (2.17%) Kibana
3 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle
2 2 (4.35%) Confluent
2 2 (4.35%) IBM
2 2 (4.35%) Pega
3 1 (2.17%) Adobe
3 1 (2.17%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.17%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) Informatica
3 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.17%) StreamSets
3 1 (2.17%) Teradata