JavaScript Contracts in Glasgow

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 42 27
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 +1
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 58 27 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.35% 3.52% 6.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.57% 9.25% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 13 42
10th Percentile £411 £425 £389
25th Percentile £459 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £486 £480
Median % change year-on-year +8.02% +1.25% -0.98%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £533
90th Percentile £628 £532 £561
Scotland median daily rate £494 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +9.78% -5.26% -

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 398 292 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 50.44% 38.02% 35.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 201 198
10th Percentile £300 £333 £400
25th Percentile £395 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £521
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -13.67% +4.25%
75th Percentile £550 £513 £615
90th Percentile £582 £613 £738
Scotland median daily rate £475 £453 £488
% change year-on-year +4.86% -7.08% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile £22.57 £51.88 £51.99
25th Percentile £33.80 £52.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.58% +31.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.06
90th Percentile - - £67.66
Scotland median hourly rate £43.04 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.15% - +25.68%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Glasgow

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Glasgow

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Glasgow over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Glasgow

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Glasgow

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (3.45%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.72%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.86%) Cloud Computing
2 12 (20.69%) AWS
3 8 (13.79%) BlazeMeter
4 5 (8.62%) Azure
5 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.45%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (3.45%) Apigee
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.45%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.45%) Serverless
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.72%) Figma
7 1 (1.72%) GCP
7 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) HTTP
2 2 (3.45%) DHCP
2 2 (3.45%) DNS
2 2 (3.45%) Internet
2 2 (3.45%) SSL
2 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) NoSQL
2 8 (13.79%) Apache Cassandra
2 8 (13.79%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.90%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.45%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) JUnit
2 7 (12.07%) Git
3 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.17%) Selenium
5 2 (3.45%) webpack
6 1 (1.72%) Maven
6 1 (1.72%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.72%) Mockito
6 1 (1.72%) Subversion
6 1 (1.72%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (32.76%) Finance
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Banking
3 13 (22.41%) Investment Banking
4 10 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (17.24%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Back Office
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (70.69%) Developer
2 14 (24.14%) Java Developer
3 13 (22.41%) ServiceNow Developer
4 10 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) JavaScript Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) Python Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior
8 3 (5.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (5.17%) Lead
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Core Java Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Developer in Test
9 2 (3.45%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (41.38%) CSS
2 18 (31.03%) AngularJS
2 18 (31.03%) React
3 16 (27.59%) HTML
4 15 (25.86%) REST
5 14 (24.14%) Spring
6 12 (20.69%) SOAP
7 8 (13.79%) HTML5
7 8 (13.79%) RESTful
8 7 (12.07%) JSON
9 6 (10.34%) Node.js
10 5 (8.62%) jQuery
10 5 (8.62%) Spring Boot
10 5 (8.62%) Web Services
10 5 (8.62%) XML
11 3 (5.17%) J2EE
11 3 (5.17%) Kafka
12 2 (3.45%) .NET
12 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
12 2 (3.45%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (17.24%) Management Information System
3 8 (13.79%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.72%) CMDB
7 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) Agile
2 21 (36.21%) Artificial Intelligence
2 21 (36.21%) Machine Learning
3 20 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (32.76%) Community of Practice
4 19 (32.76%) Decision-Making
4 19 (32.76%) Microservices
5 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
6 14 (24.14%) Data Security
7 13 (22.41%) Critical Thinking
7 13 (22.41%) Data Science
7 13 (22.41%) Experimental Design
7 13 (22.41%) Front End Development
7 13 (22.41%) Natural Language Processing
7 13 (22.41%) Risk Management
7 13 (22.41%) Statistical Analysis
8 12 (20.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (18.97%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 11 (18.97%) SDLC
9 11 (18.97%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (60.34%) Java
2 27 (46.55%) TypeScript
3 19 (32.76%) Python
4 4 (6.90%) SQL
5 3 (5.17%) Bash
5 3 (5.17%) C#
5 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) Disclosure Scotland
1 5 (8.62%) GRC
2 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Grafana
2 5 (8.62%) Terraform
3 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) ServiceNow
2 8 (13.79%) Dynatrace
2 8 (13.79%) Splunk
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.90%) Snow
4 3 (5.17%) Adobe
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle
5 2 (3.45%) F5
5 2 (3.45%) Google
5 2 (3.45%) Infoblox
5 2 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.72%) IBM