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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 51 29
Rank change year-on-year +23 -22 -3
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 63 20 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.72% 2.60% 6.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.18% 6.94% 19.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 16 45
10th Percentile £413 £425 £388
25th Percentile £456 £453 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £491 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% +3.37% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £516 £525
90th Percentile £625 £644 £545
Scotland median daily rate £492 £454 £475
% change year-on-year +8.43% -4.47% -

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 415 288 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 50.86% 37.50% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 207 198
10th Percentile £300 £338 £400
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £502
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -10.27% +0.30%
75th Percentile £550 £513 £600
90th Percentile £600 £628 £727
Scotland median daily rate £472 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +4.94% -6.25% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
10th Percentile £22.57 £37.52 £51.99
25th Percentile £33.80 £51.88 £56.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -6.82% +31.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.06
90th Percentile - - £67.66
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £58.27
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.60% +23.97%

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 16 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 (3.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (3.17%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.59%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.81%) Cloud Computing
2 12 (19.05%) AWS
3 9 (14.29%) BlazeMeter
4 5 (7.94%) Azure
5 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.17%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (3.17%) Apigee
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.17%) GitHub
6 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.17%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.17%) Serverless
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.59%) Figma
7 1 (1.59%) GCP
7 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) HTTP
2 2 (3.17%) DHCP
2 2 (3.17%) DNS
2 2 (3.17%) Internet
2 2 (3.17%) SSL
2 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) NoSQL
2 9 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.35%) MySQL
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.17%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) JUnit
2 8 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.11%) Git
4 5 (7.94%) webpack
5 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.76%) Selenium
6 1 (1.59%) Maven
6 1 (1.59%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.59%) Mockito
6 1 (1.59%) Subversion
6 1 (1.59%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (31.75%) Finance
1 20 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.22%) Banking
3 13 (20.63%) Investment Banking
4 12 (19.05%) Public Sector
5 11 (17.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Back Office
7 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (69.84%) Developer
2 14 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 13 (20.63%) ServiceNow Developer
4 11 (17.46%) Python Engineer
5 10 (15.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 10 (15.87%) JavaScript Engineer
6 8 (12.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (9.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (9.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (7.94%) Senior
9 3 (4.76%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Lead
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Developer in Test
10 2 (3.17%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (44.44%) CSS
2 22 (34.92%) React
3 19 (30.16%) AngularJS
3 19 (30.16%) HTML
4 15 (23.81%) REST
4 15 (23.81%) Spring
5 12 (19.05%) SOAP
6 11 (17.46%) HTML5
6 11 (17.46%) RESTful
7 9 (14.29%) Node.js
8 7 (11.11%) JSON
9 5 (7.94%) CSS3
9 5 (7.94%) jQuery
9 5 (7.94%) Redux
9 5 (7.94%) Spring Boot
9 5 (7.94%) Web Services
9 5 (7.94%) XML
10 4 (6.35%) Kafka
11 3 (4.76%) J2EE
12 2 (3.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (15.87%) Management Information System
3 9 (14.29%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.59%) CMDB
7 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Agile
1 23 (36.51%) Artificial Intelligence
1 23 (36.51%) CI/CD
1 23 (36.51%) Microservices
2 22 (34.92%) Machine Learning
3 21 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (31.75%) Community of Practice
5 19 (30.16%) Decision-Making
6 17 (26.98%) Front End Development
7 14 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
7 14 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
7 14 (22.22%) Data Security
8 13 (20.63%) Data Science
8 13 (20.63%) Experimental Design
8 13 (20.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (20.63%) Natural Language Processing
8 13 (20.63%) Risk Management
8 13 (20.63%) Statistical Analysis
9 12 (19.05%) SDLC
9 12 (19.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (58.73%) Java
2 32 (50.79%) TypeScript
3 20 (31.75%) Python
4 4 (6.35%) SQL
5 3 (4.76%) Bash
5 3 (4.76%) C#
5 3 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (3.17%) Degree
1 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (7.94%) GRC
3 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) Grafana
2 5 (7.94%) Terraform
3 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (20.63%) ServiceNow
2 9 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 9 (14.29%) Splunk
3 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.35%) Snow
4 3 (4.76%) Adobe
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle
5 2 (3.17%) F5
5 2 (3.17%) Google
5 2 (3.17%) Infoblox
5 2 (3.17%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.59%) IBM