JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 43 38
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 -22
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 27 25 38
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.99% 4.07% 4.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.17% 11.74% 18.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 24
10th Percentile £413 £448 £411
25th Percentile £427 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £546 £480
90th Percentile £554 £588 £494
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -4.61%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

JavaScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 167 213 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 24.70% 34.69% 25.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 118 115
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £421 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% -5.15%
75th Percentile £525 £559 £533
90th Percentile £600 £625 £608
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -7.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +42.86%
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.61 £19.59
% change year-on-year -42.26% +209.41% -66.81%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Edinburgh

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) JBoss
1 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) Amazon S3
3 9 (33.33%) Serverless
4 8 (29.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (29.63%) OpenShift
5 7 (25.93%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (3.70%) Azure
7 1 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) HTTP
1 1 (3.70%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (18.52%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) Db2
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.93%) Cypress.io
3 5 (18.52%) GitLab
4 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.70%) Git
5 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 13 (48.15%) Public Sector
2 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Lead
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Leader
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
4 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Software Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) REST
2 10 (37.04%) React
3 9 (33.33%) HTML
4 8 (29.63%) AWS CDK
4 8 (29.63%) Spring
4 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
5 6 (22.22%) CSS
5 6 (22.22%) Next.js
5 6 (22.22%) Node.js
6 5 (18.52%) OAuth
6 5 (18.52%) OAuth2
7 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
7 4 (14.81%) Spring Security
7 4 (14.81%) Vue
8 3 (11.11%) .NET
8 3 (11.11%) Playwright
8 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (11.11%) SOAP
8 3 (11.11%) Spring MVC
9 2 (7.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (7.41%) CMDB
5 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) Agile
2 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (40.74%) Microservices
3 10 (37.04%) Kanban
3 10 (37.04%) Pair Programming
4 9 (33.33%) DevOps
4 9 (33.33%) TDD
5 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (25.93%) Human-Centred Design
5 7 (25.93%) Inclusive Design
5 7 (25.93%) Scrum
5 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
6 6 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 6 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 6 (22.22%) Observability
7 5 (18.52%) Coaching
7 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
7 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 11 (40.74%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 2 (7.41%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.70%) CCA
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 4 (14.81%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) GRC
4 1 (3.70%) NIST
4 1 (3.70%) QA
4 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Grafana
2 3 (11.11%) Kibana
2 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) EnterpriseDB
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat