JavaScript Contracts in Scotland

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 62 15
Rank change year-on-year +25 -47 +2
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 98 58 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.64% 3.04% 9.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.85% 11.65% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 43 200
10th Percentile £423 £411 £400
25th Percentile £456 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £565 £498 £525
90th Percentile £578 £670 £545
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 660 498 818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.00% 26.10% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 347 542
10th Percentile £312 £333 £400
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.74% -1.03%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £541
90th Percentile £588 £613 £613
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 13
10th Percentile £41.28 £31.68 £42.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £44.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £58.75 £53.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% -6.52% +20.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £60.55
90th Percentile £67.25 - £65.75
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +10.09%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +15 59 £525 +9.03% 20
Edinburgh +13 33 £475 +7.95% 26
Argyll and Bute - 1 £475 -
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (3.06%) Apache
1 3 (3.06%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.04%) CMS
2 2 (2.04%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.02%) IIS
3 1 (1.02%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.02%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.02%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.65%) AWS
2 15 (15.31%) Amazon S3
3 14 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (14.29%) Azure
3 14 (14.29%) Serverless
4 11 (11.22%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (9.18%) BlazeMeter
5 9 (9.18%) Power Platform
6 8 (8.16%) PowerApps
7 7 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (7.14%) GitHub
7 7 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.12%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.12%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.08%) Apigee
9 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.06%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (3.06%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (3.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.10%) HTTP
2 4 (4.08%) DHCP
2 4 (4.08%) DNS
2 4 (4.08%) SSL
2 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.04%) Internet
4 1 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (10.20%) MongoDB
3 10 (10.20%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.18%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (6.12%) Power BI
5 6 (6.12%) Relational Database
6 5 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (5.10%) MySQL
7 3 (3.06%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.06%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.04%) GIS
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.02%) Metadata
9 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (18.37%) Git
1 18 (18.37%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.31%) Cypress.io
3 11 (11.22%) JUnit
4 8 (8.16%) webpack
5 5 (5.10%) JIRA
5 5 (5.10%) Selenium
6 4 (4.08%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.08%) Subversion
7 3 (3.06%) Newman
7 3 (3.06%) Postman
7 3 (3.06%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.04%) Storybook
8 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.02%) Capybara
9 1 (1.02%) Maven
9 1 (1.02%) Mockito
9 1 (1.02%) MSTest
9 1 (1.02%) NUnit
9 1 (1.02%) Ranorex
General
1 38 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 37 (37.76%) Public Sector
3 19 (19.39%) Finance
4 14 (14.29%) Banking
5 12 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (12.24%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Back Office
8 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (62.24%) Developer
2 14 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 13 (13.27%) ServiceNow Developer
4 10 (10.20%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (9.18%) JavaScript Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Lead
5 9 (9.18%) Python Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Software Developer
6 8 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (4.08%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.08%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.08%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.06%) Architect
9 3 (3.06%) Java Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) QA Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Senior
9 3 (3.06%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.04%) Power Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (39.80%) CSS
2 38 (38.78%) React
3 30 (30.61%) HTML
4 27 (27.55%) AngularJS
5 19 (19.39%) Spring
6 17 (17.35%) Node.js
6 17 (17.35%) REST
7 16 (16.33%) RESTful
8 15 (15.31%) SOAP
9 14 (14.29%) AWS CDK
9 14 (14.29%) Spring Boot
10 13 (13.27%) HTML5
11 11 (11.22%) .NET
12 8 (8.16%) JSON
12 8 (8.16%) XML
13 7 (7.14%) .NET Framework
13 7 (7.14%) CSS3
13 7 (7.14%) Redux
14 6 (6.12%) Jest
15 5 (5.10%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Algorithms
1 9 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.16%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.10%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.10%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.06%) CMDB
5 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.04%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.22%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Unix
3 3 (3.06%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) Agile
2 38 (38.78%) CI/CD
3 32 (32.65%) Microservices
4 26 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (22.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (19.39%) Artificial Intelligence
6 19 (19.39%) Community of Practice
6 19 (19.39%) Front End Development
7 18 (18.37%) Continuous Delivery
7 18 (18.37%) DevOps
7 18 (18.37%) Machine Learning
8 16 (16.33%) Software Engineering
9 15 (15.31%) Decision-Making
10 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (14.29%) SDLC
11 13 (13.27%) Test Automation
11 13 (13.27%) Unit Testing
11 13 (13.27%) User Experience
12 12 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (12.24%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (52.04%) Java
2 47 (47.96%) TypeScript
3 22 (22.45%) Python
4 14 (14.29%) SQL
5 13 (13.27%) C#
6 7 (7.14%) Bash
6 7 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 7 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.10%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.08%) Perl
9 2 (2.04%) C++
9 2 (2.04%) VBA
9 2 (2.04%) VBScript
10 1 (1.02%) Ruby
10 1 (1.02%) VB
10 1 (1.02%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (4.08%) Degree
2 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) ISEB
3 2 (2.04%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (10.20%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.10%) GRC
4 4 (4.08%) QA
5 3 (3.06%) NCSC
6 2 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.14%) Docker
2 4 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (15.31%) Grafana
2 8 (8.16%) Terraform
3 4 (4.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (13.27%) Microsoft
1 13 (13.27%) ServiceNow
2 9 (9.18%) Dynatrace
2 9 (9.18%) Splunk
3 8 (8.16%) Oracle
4 4 (4.08%) F5
4 4 (4.08%) Infoblox
4 4 (4.08%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.08%) Snow
5 3 (3.06%) Adobe
5 3 (3.06%) VMware
6 2 (2.04%) Google
6 2 (2.04%) Workday
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco
7 1 (1.02%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.02%) IBM
7 1 (1.02%) Kronos
7 1 (1.02%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.02%) SAP