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 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 34 39 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -25 +14
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 100 106 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.15% 4.78% 9.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.20% 15.87% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 73 219
10th Percentile £400 £413 £410
25th Percentile £450 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £525
90th Percentile £622 £620 £557
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%

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 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +13 56 £535 +7.54% 27
Edinburgh -3 35 £480 +6.67% 25
Lanarkshire +1 1 £525 +23.53% 5
Perthshire - 1 - -
Stirling - 1 £513 -
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 2 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (2.00%) CMS
1 2 (2.00%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.00%) Apache
2 1 (1.00%) IIS
2 1 (1.00%) nginx
2 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.00%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.00%) AWS
2 22 (22.00%) Azure
3 15 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 13 (13.00%) Amazon S3
4 13 (13.00%) Serverless
5 12 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (11.00%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (9.00%) PowerApps
8 8 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (8.00%) Power Automate
9 7 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (7.00%) PaaS
9 7 (7.00%) SaaS
10 6 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) Firewall
1 2 (2.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.00%) MySQL
2 8 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.00%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 5 (5.00%) Power BI
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.00%) MariaDB
6 4 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.00%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.00%) GIS
9 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (23.00%) Git
2 10 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.00%) Cypress.io
4 5 (5.00%) Selenium
5 4 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.00%) JIRA
5 4 (4.00%) JUnit
5 4 (4.00%) Postman
5 4 (4.00%) Subversion
6 3 (3.00%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (3.00%) TeamCity
6 3 (3.00%) WebDriver
6 3 (3.00%) webpack
7 2 (2.00%) GitLab
8 1 (1.00%) JMeter
8 1 (1.00%) Mercurial
8 1 (1.00%) MSTest
8 1 (1.00%) NUnit
8 1 (1.00%) Ranorex
8 1 (1.00%) Storybook
General
1 46 (46.00%) Public Sector
2 40 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.00%) Finance
4 10 (10.00%) Banking
5 9 (9.00%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.00%) Back Office
7 4 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (64.00%) Developer
2 20 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 9 (9.00%) Python Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) JavaScript Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) Senior
5 7 (7.00%) Lead
6 6 (6.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (6.00%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.00%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.00%) QA Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Architect
9 3 (3.00%) AWS Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Consultant
9 3 (3.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (39.00%) CSS
2 35 (35.00%) HTML
3 28 (28.00%) React
4 23 (23.00%) AngularJS
5 20 (20.00%) REST
6 17 (17.00%) Spring
7 16 (16.00%) JSON
7 16 (16.00%) Spring Boot
8 15 (15.00%) Node.js
9 14 (14.00%) XML
10 12 (12.00%) .NET
10 12 (12.00%) AWS CDK
11 11 (11.00%) SOAP
12 10 (10.00%) HTML5
13 7 (7.00%) RESTful
14 5 (5.00%) .NET Framework
14 5 (5.00%) jQuery
14 5 (5.00%) Web Services
15 4 (4.00%) CSS3
15 4 (4.00%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (9.00%) Public Cloud
3 8 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.00%) CMDB
5 4 (4.00%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.00%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.00%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (49.00%) Agile
2 27 (27.00%) CI/CD
3 24 (24.00%) Microservices
4 23 (23.00%) DevOps
4 23 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.00%) TDD
6 16 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 16 (16.00%) Machine Learning
7 14 (14.00%) Community of Practice
8 13 (13.00%) Data Security
8 13 (13.00%) Decision-Making
8 13 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (13.00%) Mentoring
8 13 (13.00%) Risk Management
9 12 (12.00%) Coaching
9 12 (12.00%) Front End Development
9 12 (12.00%) Natural Language Processing
10 11 (11.00%) Data Science
10 11 (11.00%) Experimental Design
10 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 45 (45.00%) Java
2 41 (41.00%) TypeScript
3 26 (26.00%) Python
4 17 (17.00%) SQL
5 16 (16.00%) C#
6 11 (11.00%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.00%) Bash
7 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.00%) C++
8 4 (4.00%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.00%) VBA
9 3 (3.00%) VBScript
10 1 (1.00%) CoffeeScript
10 1 (1.00%) Ruby
10 1 (1.00%) VB
10 1 (1.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (5.00%) Degree
2 3 (3.00%) ISEB
2 3 (3.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (3.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (9.00%) Accessibility
3 8 (8.00%) GRC
4 4 (4.00%) QA
5 2 (2.00%) NCSC
6 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (10.00%) Terraform
2 7 (7.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (21.00%) ServiceNow
2 11 (11.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.00%) Oracle
3 4 (4.00%) Snow
4 3 (3.00%) Adobe
4 3 (3.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.00%) Splunk
5 2 (2.00%) Google
5 2 (2.00%) VMware
6 1 (1.00%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.00%) Imperva
6 1 (1.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.00%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.00%) Workday