JavaScript Contracts in Edinburgh

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 30 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 -20 +32
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 35 43 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.60% 5.28% 13.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.41% 21.61% 35.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 34 142
10th Percentile £405 £413 £407
25th Percentile £450 £424 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.05% +5.27%
75th Percentile £500 £501 £529
90th Percentile £545 £591 £572
Scotland median daily rate £496 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +4.42% - +4.40%

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 201 199 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.16% 24.42% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 384
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £420 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £536
90th Percentile £550 £631 £589
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £42.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £48.19
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +15.23%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £57.19
90th Percentile £63.00 - £63.38
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

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 1 May 2025.

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 (5.71%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
2 1 (2.86%) nginx
2 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.71%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) AWS
1 10 (28.57%) Power Platform
1 10 (28.57%) Serverless
2 9 (25.71%) Amazon S3
2 9 (25.71%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (25.71%) Azure
3 8 (22.86%) PowerApps
4 7 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (14.29%) PaaS
5 5 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 5 (14.29%) SaaS
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (8.57%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.57%) IaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.71%) GitHub
7 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (14.29%) Power BI
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database
4 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.71%) GIS
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.86%) Metadata
6 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Git
2 8 (22.86%) Cypress.io
3 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
4 4 (11.43%) JIRA
4 4 (11.43%) Postman
4 4 (11.43%) Selenium
5 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
5 3 (8.57%) Subversion
5 3 (8.57%) TeamCity
5 3 (8.57%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.86%) GitLab
6 1 (2.86%) JUnit
6 1 (2.86%) MSTest
6 1 (2.86%) NUnit
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (2.86%) Ranorex
6 1 (2.86%) Storybook
General
1 23 (65.71%) Public Sector
2 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Back Office
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (54.29%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) ServiceNow Developer
3 4 (11.43%) QA Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Software Developer
5 2 (5.71%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Angular Developer
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (2.86%) IAM Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Power Platform Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) React Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) CSS
1 12 (34.29%) React
2 11 (31.43%) HTML
3 9 (25.71%) AWS CDK
4 8 (22.86%) .NET
4 8 (22.86%) JSON
4 8 (22.86%) XML
5 6 (17.14%) Spring Boot
6 5 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 5 (14.29%) Node.js
7 4 (11.43%) REST
8 3 (8.57%) .NET Framework
8 3 (8.57%) Next.js
8 3 (8.57%) Spring
9 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
9 2 (5.71%) Ajax
9 2 (5.71%) Entity Framework
9 2 (5.71%) Playwright
9 2 (5.71%) PostGIS
9 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.57%) Client/Server
3 3 (8.57%) CMDB
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) AIX
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (82.86%) Agile
2 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
3 10 (28.57%) DevOps
3 10 (28.57%) Kanban
4 8 (22.86%) Coaching
4 8 (22.86%) Scrum
4 8 (22.86%) TDD
4 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
5 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 6 (17.14%) Microservices
6 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
7 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (14.29%) CRM
7 5 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
7 5 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
7 5 (14.29%) Migration
7 5 (14.29%) Pair Programming
7 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.43%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Java
2 11 (31.43%) TypeScript
3 10 (28.57%) C#
4 9 (25.71%) SQL
5 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
5 6 (17.14%) Python
6 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
7 3 (8.57%) Bash
7 3 (8.57%) C++
7 3 (8.57%) PL/SQL
7 3 (8.57%) VBA
7 3 (8.57%) VBScript
8 1 (2.86%) VB
8 1 (2.86%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) ISEB
1 3 (8.57%) ISTQB
1 3 (8.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.43%) QA
3 2 (5.71%) GRC
3 2 (5.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
1 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Grafana
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.86%) Ping Identity