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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 38 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -17 -11
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 28 41 87
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.55% 5.13% 8.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.61% 20.00% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 68
10th Percentile - £412 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £556 £480 £508
90th Percentile £588 £494 £555
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £458
% change year-on-year +5.56% -1.64% -3.68%

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 222 205 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.10% 25.66% 27.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 116 188
10th Percentile £406 £375 £386
25th Percentile £450 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £484
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -3.46% +0.99%
75th Percentile £560 £535 £538
90th Percentile £625 £606 £575
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £57.13 - £44.25
25th Percentile £62.19 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £53.10
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +41.24% +134.08%
75th Percentile £73.13 - £55.94
90th Percentile £74.25 - £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £60.61 £19.59 £59.03
% change year-on-year +209.41% -66.81% +38.08%

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 18 October 2025.

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 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 6 (21.43%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) Power Automate
3 6 (21.43%) PowerApps
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon S3
4 5 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (17.86%) Serverless
5 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (7.14%) CloudFront
6 2 (7.14%) GitHub
6 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.14%) npm
6 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
1 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Power BI
2 5 (17.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
2 7 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.14%) JIRA
4 2 (7.14%) Storybook
4 2 (7.14%) Subversion
4 2 (7.14%) webpack
5 1 (3.57%) Capybara
5 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.57%) Maven
5 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Back Office
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Leader
5 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Software Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Angular Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Integration Developer
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Platform Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) React
2 8 (28.57%) CSS
3 6 (21.43%) HTML
3 6 (21.43%) RESTful
3 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 5 (17.86%) AWS CDK
4 5 (17.86%) Spring
5 4 (14.29%) Jest
6 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
6 3 (10.71%) REST
6 3 (10.71%) SOAP
6 3 (10.71%) Web Services
7 2 (7.14%) .NET
7 2 (7.14%) Express.js
7 2 (7.14%) Next.js
7 2 (7.14%) Node.js
7 2 (7.14%) Spring Security
7 2 (7.14%) Spring Web Flow
7 2 (7.14%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) AIX
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Agile
2 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
2 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (28.57%) Microservices
4 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (21.43%) CRM
5 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 4 (14.29%) Refactoring
7 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
8 3 (10.71%) Coaching
8 3 (10.71%) Code Quality
8 3 (10.71%) OWASP
8 3 (10.71%) Service Design
8 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) TypeScript
2 7 (25.00%) Java
2 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (21.43%) C#
3 6 (21.43%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Groovy
5 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Accessibility
2 4 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) NCSC
3 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) vRealize
3 1 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce