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 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 30 43 35
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 -11
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 56 39 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.02% 4.45% 5.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.46% 11.05% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 38
10th Percentile £363 £329 £412
25th Percentile £450 £471 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £498 £484
Median % change year-on-year +7.54% +2.84% +2.93%
75th Percentile £580 £523 £538
90th Percentile £661 £597 £589
Scotland median daily rate £496 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +4.42% - +4.40%

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 416 353 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 52.13% 40.25% 37.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 225 232
10th Percentile £313 £367 £410
25th Percentile £400 £413 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -11.36% +14.46%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £675
90th Percentile £581 £691 £750
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £51.88 £51.99
25th Percentile - £52.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -2.58% +31.17%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £65.06
90th Percentile - - £67.66
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 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 1 May 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 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.79%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) AWS
2 11 (19.64%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (14.29%) Azure
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (5.36%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.57%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.57%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.79%) Figma
6 1 (1.79%) GCP
6 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) MySQL
2 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.14%) MariaDB
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.36%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.57%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.36%) JUnit
3 3 (5.36%) webpack
4 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.79%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.79%) Selenium
4 1 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 17 (30.36%) Public Sector
3 15 (26.79%) Finance
4 10 (17.86%) Banking
5 9 (16.07%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.57%) Back Office
8 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (69.64%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) ServiceNow Developer
3 9 (16.07%) Python Engineer
4 8 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (14.29%) JavaScript Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 6 (10.71%) Java Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Lead
6 5 (8.93%) Senior
7 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Lead Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Team Leader
9 2 (3.57%) Angular Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Applications Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Head of Engineering
10 1 (1.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (42.86%) CSS
2 21 (37.50%) HTML
3 15 (26.79%) AngularJS
4 14 (25.00%) REST
4 14 (25.00%) Spring
5 13 (23.21%) React
6 10 (17.86%) HTML5
6 10 (17.86%) SOAP
6 10 (17.86%) Spring Boot
7 8 (14.29%) Node.js
8 7 (12.50%) RESTful
9 6 (10.71%) JSON
10 5 (8.93%) jQuery
10 5 (8.93%) Web Services
10 5 (8.93%) XML
11 4 (7.14%) CSS3
12 3 (5.36%) Express.js
12 3 (5.36%) Redux
13 2 (3.57%) .NET
13 2 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (16.07%) Public Cloud
3 8 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 5 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.36%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.79%) CMDB
7 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Microservices
2 16 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (25.00%) Agile
3 14 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 14 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 13 (23.21%) Decision-Making
5 12 (21.43%) Community of Practice
5 12 (21.43%) Data Security
5 12 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
6 11 (19.64%) Critical Thinking
6 11 (19.64%) Data Science
6 11 (19.64%) Experimental Design
6 11 (19.64%) Natural Language Processing
6 11 (19.64%) Risk Management
6 11 (19.64%) Statistical Analysis
7 10 (17.86%) TDD
8 9 (16.07%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 9 (16.07%) Knowledge Transfer
8 9 (16.07%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (53.57%) Java
2 29 (51.79%) TypeScript
3 16 (28.57%) Python
4 7 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 4 (7.14%) C#
6 3 (5.36%) SQL
7 1 (1.79%) Bash
7 1 (1.79%) C++
7 1 (1.79%) CoffeeScript
7 1 (1.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) Accessibility
1 5 (8.93%) Disclosure Scotland
1 5 (8.93%) GRC
2 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) Terraform
2 3 (5.36%) Grafana
3 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) ServiceNow
2 4 (7.14%) Snow
3 3 (5.36%) Adobe
3 3 (5.36%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) Splunk
4 2 (3.57%) Google
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft