JavaScript Contracts in Scotland

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 19 27
Rank change year-on-year -35 +8 -17
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 72 247 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.39% 9.10% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.84% 26.76% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 190 177
10th Percentile £413 £406 £400
25th Percentile £423 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £509 £523 £525
90th Percentile £625 £563 £578
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 608 923 979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.61% 34.02% 28.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 658 688
10th Percentile £356 £406 £373
25th Percentile £413 £433 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +1.98% +12.94%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £550
90th Percentile £650 £657 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

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 20 May 2024.

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 20 May 2024. 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 29 £498 +4.74% 26
Edinburgh -34 29 £450 -6.05% 36
Lanarkshire +1 1 £425 +13.33% 7
Midlothian - 1 £428 - 9
West Lothian - 1 £650 -
Aberdeen - 1 £425 - 8
Fife - 1 £428 -
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 (4.17%) GeoServer
1 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (15.28%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.78%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (2.78%) Camtasia
2 2 (2.78%) Lectora
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 31 (43.06%) AWS
2 23 (31.94%) Serverless
3 22 (30.56%) Amazon S3
4 19 (26.39%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (12.50%) OpenShift
7 8 (11.11%) Azure
8 6 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.17%) CloudFront
10 3 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (4.17%) npm
10 3 (4.17%) Power Automate
10 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.78%) GCP
11 2 (2.78%) IaaS
11 2 (2.78%) PaaS
11 2 (2.78%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (19.44%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (15.28%) Oracle Database
4 9 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (12.50%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.94%) MySQL
6 4 (5.56%) MariaDB
7 3 (4.17%) GIS
8 2 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.78%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.39%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (23.61%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.33%) webpack
3 5 (6.94%) Cucumber
3 5 (6.94%) Selenium
3 5 (6.94%) WebDriver
4 4 (5.56%) Git
4 4 (5.56%) JIRA
5 2 (2.78%) Capybara
5 2 (2.78%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.78%) Gradle
5 2 (2.78%) Maven
5 2 (2.78%) Subversion
5 2 (2.78%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.39%) Gatling
6 1 (1.39%) GitLab
6 1 (1.39%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.39%) JMeter
6 1 (1.39%) Mockito
6 1 (1.39%) Postman
General
1 30 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Finance
4 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.56%) Banking
5 3 (4.17%) Publishing
6 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (68.06%) Developer
2 17 (23.61%) Software Developer
3 11 (15.28%) Java Developer
4 5 (6.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (6.94%) Lead
4 5 (6.94%) Technical Leader
5 4 (5.56%) AWS Developer
5 4 (5.56%) Senior
6 3 (4.17%) Consultant
6 3 (4.17%) Service Manager
7 2 (2.78%) Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Architect
7 2 (2.78%) Developer in Test
7 2 (2.78%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (2.78%) Functional Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Functional Test Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Technologist
7 2 (2.78%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (58.33%) HTML
2 32 (44.44%) CSS
3 30 (41.67%) React
4 23 (31.94%) Node.js
5 20 (27.78%) AWS CDK
6 15 (20.83%) Spring Boot
7 12 (16.67%) Spring
8 10 (13.89%) REST
9 9 (12.50%) OAuth
10 8 (11.11%) RESTful
11 6 (8.33%) OAuth2
11 6 (8.33%) Spring Security
12 4 (5.56%) .NET
12 4 (5.56%) GraphQL
12 4 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (5.56%) Spring MVC
12 4 (5.56%) Spring Web Flow
12 4 (5.56%) Thymeleaf
12 4 (5.56%) XML
13 3 (4.17%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.78%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.78%) Learning Management System
4 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.39%) CMDB
5 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Android
2 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 27 (37.50%) Agile
3 23 (31.94%) Microservices
4 22 (30.56%) Code Quality
5 18 (25.00%) DevOps
6 15 (20.83%) Software Engineering
6 15 (20.83%) User Experience
7 14 (19.44%) Test Automation
8 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (16.67%) TDD
10 11 (15.28%) Artificial Intelligence
10 11 (15.28%) Conversational UI
10 11 (15.28%) Human-Centred Design
10 11 (15.28%) Pair Programming
11 10 (13.89%) Inclusive Design
12 9 (12.50%) Analytics
12 9 (12.50%) Data Protection
12 9 (12.50%) Unit Testing
13 8 (11.11%) Scrum
14 7 (9.72%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (44.44%) Java
2 29 (40.28%) TypeScript
3 23 (31.94%) SQL
4 22 (30.56%) Python
5 15 (20.83%) C#
6 13 (18.06%) Bash
7 12 (16.67%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.17%) Ruby
9 2 (2.78%) C
9 2 (2.78%) C++
9 2 (2.78%) Go
9 2 (2.78%) VBA
9 2 (2.78%) VBScript
10 1 (1.39%) Bicep
10 1 (1.39%) Elixir
10 1 (1.39%) Groovy
10 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Degree
2 3 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) ISEB
3 2 (2.78%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (26.39%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.72%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Grafana
2 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.94%) Kibana
4 3 (4.17%) Terraform
5 1 (1.39%) Istio
5 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.39%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Oracle
2 11 (15.28%) PayPal
3 3 (4.17%) Adobe
4 2 (2.78%) Confluent
4 2 (2.78%) Google
4 2 (2.78%) IBM
5 1 (1.39%) Commvault
5 1 (1.39%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.39%) Informatica
5 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.39%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.39%) Teradata
5 1 (1.39%) VMware