JavaScript Contracts in Edinburgh

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 10 24
Rank change year-on-year -31 +14 -17
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 35 141 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.05% 11.98% 8.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.23% 34.64% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 112 121
10th Percentile £413 £418 £413
25th Percentile £415 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +0.84% +8.57%
75th Percentile £473 £518 £538
90th Percentile £510 £572 £568
Scotland median daily rate £459 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.37% - +11.76%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 192 407 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.20% 34.58% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 314 419
10th Percentile £369 £410 £406
25th Percentile £415 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -0.51% +15.29%
75th Percentile £550 £537 £550
90th Percentile £603 £589 £650
Scotland median daily rate £463 £493 £488
% change year-on-year -6.09% +1.03% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £33.20 £40.23 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £42.06 £19.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £46.25 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.81% +56.78% -38.54%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.56 £49.86
90th Percentile - £52.48 £55.03
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £44.50
% change year-on-year -2.59% +32.65% -2.20%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Edinburgh

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Edinburgh

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Edinburgh

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Edinburgh

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) GeoServer
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.86%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Serverless
2 15 (42.86%) AWS
3 13 (37.14%) Amazon S3
4 10 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (22.86%) Azure
7 6 (17.14%) OpenShift
8 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (11.43%) PaaS
10 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
10 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
10 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
10 3 (8.57%) PowerApps
11 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
11 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (5.71%) GitHub
11 2 (5.71%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (17.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (17.14%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (17.14%) MongoDB
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.57%) Power BI
4 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.71%) GIS
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.43%) Git
3 3 (8.57%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.71%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) Selenium
4 2 (5.71%) Subversion
4 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.71%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.86%) Capybara
5 1 (2.86%) GitLab
5 1 (2.86%) Gradle
5 1 (2.86%) Maven
General
1 23 (65.71%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Publishing
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (74.29%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Power Platform Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.71%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Functional Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Functional Test Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Test Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Lead
6 1 (2.86%) React Developer
6 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (57.14%) CSS
2 18 (51.43%) HTML
2 18 (51.43%) React
3 11 (31.43%) AWS CDK
4 10 (28.57%) Node.js
4 10 (28.57%) Spring Boot
5 8 (22.86%) .NET
5 8 (22.86%) Spring
6 6 (17.14%) OAuth
6 6 (17.14%) OAuth2
6 6 (17.14%) REST
7 5 (14.29%) RESTful
8 4 (11.43%) Spring Security
8 4 (11.43%) XML
9 3 (8.57%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (8.57%) Spring MVC
9 3 (8.57%) Spring Web Flow
9 3 (8.57%) Thymeleaf
10 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
10 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.71%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) CMDB
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
2 14 (40.00%) DevOps
3 13 (37.14%) Agile
4 12 (34.29%) Microservices
5 7 (20.00%) TDD
6 6 (17.14%) Data Management
6 6 (17.14%) Migration
6 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
7 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (14.29%) MVC
7 5 (14.29%) Pair Programming
8 4 (11.43%) Data Migration
8 4 (11.43%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (11.43%) Inclusive Design
8 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
8 4 (11.43%) User Experience
9 3 (8.57%) Code Quality
9 3 (8.57%) Customer Experience
9 3 (8.57%) Human-Centred Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) Java
2 18 (51.43%) TypeScript
3 8 (22.86%) Python
3 8 (22.86%) Shell Script
3 8 (22.86%) SQL
4 7 (20.00%) Bash
5 5 (14.29%) C#
6 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.71%) C++
7 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.71%) VBA
7 2 (5.71%) VBScript
8 1 (2.86%) Bicep
8 1 (2.86%) Groovy
8 1 (2.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.71%) ISEB
2 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) Accessibility
2 6 (17.14%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Grafana
2 1 (2.86%) Kibana
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Oracle
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Confluent
3 1 (2.86%) IBM
3 1 (2.86%) Informatica
3 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.86%) StreamSets