JavaScript Jobs in Scotland

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 19 6
Rank change year-on-year -19 -13 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 661 554 878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.85% 11.70% 15.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.46% 26.89% 33.64%
Number of salaries quoted 243 280 491
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,200 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.24%
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,400 £84,100 £71,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,786 2,060 2,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.39% 43.49% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,162 1,553
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -28 422 £53,000 +0.95% 27
Edinburgh +2 160 £65,000 - 38
Aberdeen +7 41 £38,500 -9.41% 7
Dundee +4 22 £47,500 +11.76% 3
Fife -4 9 £40,000 -21.95%
Aberdeenshire +8 2 £37,500 - 1
South Lanarkshire 0 1 £29,000 -
Lanarkshire -12 1 - - 3
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 60 (9.08%) ArcGIS
1 60 (9.08%) GeoServer
2 52 (7.87%) FileNet
3 15 (2.27%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.12%) Cloud Foundry
5 11 (1.66%) Confluence
6 7 (1.06%) CMS
6 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.61%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.61%) WordPress
8 2 (0.30%) Apache
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) InVision
1 3 (0.45%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 293 (44.33%) AWS
2 124 (18.76%) Azure
3 56 (8.47%) Amazon S3
4 31 (4.69%) SaaS
5 27 (4.08%) GCP
6 20 (3.03%) Serverless
7 16 (2.42%) Figma
8 14 (2.12%) GitHub
9 13 (1.97%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.66%) SurveyMonkey
11 10 (1.51%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.36%) BlazeMeter
12 9 (1.36%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
16 5 (0.76%) ChatGPT
17 4 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.66%) Internet
2 9 (1.36%) HTTP
3 8 (1.21%) MQTT
4 3 (0.45%) Intranet
5 2 (0.30%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (16.64%) NoSQL
2 86 (13.01%) Elasticsearch
3 78 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
4 68 (10.29%) Relational Database
5 61 (9.23%) GIS
6 60 (9.08%) QGIS
7 53 (8.02%) Apache Cassandra
7 53 (8.02%) SQL Server
8 36 (5.45%) MySQL
9 25 (3.78%) MongoDB
10 20 (3.03%) Looker
11 8 (1.21%) Big Data
11 8 (1.21%) Power BI
12 7 (1.06%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.06%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.06%) Redis
13 4 (0.61%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.30%) MariaDB
16 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 137 (20.73%) JUnit
2 92 (13.92%) Cypress.io
3 76 (11.50%) Git
3 76 (11.50%) Jasmine
3 76 (11.50%) Karma Test Runner
4 65 (9.83%) Selenium
5 64 (9.68%) WebDriver
6 61 (9.23%) Protractor
7 37 (5.60%) Maven
8 32 (4.84%) JIRA
9 27 (4.08%) Cucumber
10 26 (3.93%) Jenkins
11 15 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (1.51%) Gradle
13 9 (1.36%) JMeter
13 9 (1.36%) webpack
14 8 (1.21%) Visual Studio
15 7 (1.06%) Moq
16 6 (0.91%) JDeveloper
17 5 (0.76%) Eclipse
General
1 362 (54.77%) Finance
2 359 (54.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 318 (48.11%) Law
4 165 (24.96%) Banking
5 163 (24.66%) Marketing
6 113 (17.10%) Investment Banking
7 60 (9.08%) Social Skills
8 41 (6.20%) Legal
9 25 (3.78%) Financial Institution
9 25 (3.78%) Private Banking
10 22 (3.33%) Games
11 19 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
12 18 (2.72%) Front Office
13 15 (2.27%) Publishing
14 9 (1.36%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.36%) Multimedia
14 9 (1.36%) Public Sector
15 8 (1.21%) Electronics
15 8 (1.21%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 391 (59.15%) Software Engineer
2 176 (26.63%) Developer
3 137 (20.73%) Lead
4 134 (20.27%) Senior
5 126 (19.06%) Lead Software Engineer
6 105 (15.89%) Java Engineer
7 103 (15.58%) Java Software Engineer
8 90 (13.62%) Full Stack Engineer
9 86 (13.01%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 73 (11.04%) Senior Software Engineer
11 69 (10.44%) Python Engineer
11 69 (10.44%) Python Software Engineer
12 57 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
13 49 (7.41%) AWS Software Engineer
14 43 (6.51%) UI Engineer
15 36 (5.45%) Lead Java Engineer
16 34 (5.14%) Senior Developer
17 28 (4.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 27 (4.08%) JavaScript Developer
19 22 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 440 (66.57%) React
2 371 (56.13%) CSS
3 307 (46.44%) HTML
4 258 (39.03%) AngularJS
5 216 (32.68%) Node.js
6 207 (31.32%) Spring
7 158 (23.90%) jQuery
8 148 (22.39%) JSON
9 146 (22.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 134 (20.27%) Hibernate
11 133 (20.12%) J2EE
12 131 (19.82%) .NET
12 131 (19.82%) JMS
13 89 (13.46%) .NET Core
14 78 (11.80%) Kafka
15 72 (10.89%) Spring Boot
16 62 (9.38%) Jest
17 60 (9.08%) Leaflet
17 60 (9.08%) OpenLayers
17 60 (9.08%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 154 (23.30%) Cloud Native
2 139 (21.03%) Algorithms
3 89 (13.46%) Data Structures
4 36 (5.45%) Public Cloud
5 33 (4.99%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.63%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.03%) Market Risk
8 16 (2.42%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
9 15 (2.27%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.12%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.36%) Augmented Reality
11 9 (1.36%) Virtual Reality
12 8 (1.21%) Arduino
12 8 (1.21%) Raspberry Pi
13 7 (1.06%) IoT
14 6 (0.91%) BBC
14 6 (0.91%) Credit Risk
14 6 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.57%) Linux
2 10 (1.51%) Android
3 9 (1.36%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.30%) Windows
5 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (69.89%) Agile
2 425 (64.30%) Software Engineering
3 299 (45.23%) SDLC
4 287 (43.42%) CI/CD
5 259 (39.18%) Operational Stability
6 201 (30.41%) Artificial Intelligence
7 199 (30.11%) Machine Learning
8 197 (29.80%) Community of Practice
9 171 (25.87%) Full Stack Development
10 154 (23.30%) DevOps
11 142 (21.48%) Visualisation
12 140 (21.18%) Microservices
13 134 (20.27%) Web Development
14 126 (19.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 124 (18.76%) TDD
16 91 (13.77%) Test Automation
17 85 (12.86%) Architectural Design
17 85 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
18 84 (12.71%) User Experience
19 80 (12.10%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 256 (38.73%) Java
2 240 (36.31%) TypeScript
3 218 (32.98%) Python
4 185 (27.99%) SQL
5 130 (19.67%) C#
6 42 (6.35%) T-SQL
7 23 (3.48%) PHP
8 20 (3.03%) Groovy
9 12 (1.82%) Go
10 11 (1.66%) Bash
11 10 (1.51%) C++
12 8 (1.21%) C
13 7 (1.06%) Perl
13 7 (1.06%) Ruby
14 5 (0.76%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.45%) VBA
17 2 (0.30%) R
18 1 (0.15%) Elixir
18 1 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (9.23%) SC Cleared
1 61 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 43 (6.51%) Degree
3 20 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (0.76%) ISTQB
4 5 (0.76%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.61%) ISEB
6 3 (0.45%) OCP
6 3 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.04%) Accessibility
2 52 (7.87%) QA
3 20 (3.03%) PMO
4 15 (2.27%) WAI
5 3 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (5.75%) Docker
2 8 (1.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 96 (14.52%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.03%) Terraform
3 6 (0.91%) Ansible
4 4 (0.61%) Istio
5 2 (0.30%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 65 (9.83%) Oracle
2 60 (9.08%) ESRI
3 43 (6.51%) Microsoft
4 20 (3.03%) Atlassian
5 14 (2.12%) Google
6 9 (1.36%) TOWER Software
7 8 (1.21%) NVIDIA
7 8 (1.21%) SAP
8 6 (0.91%) Apple
8 6 (0.91%) Facebook
8 6 (0.91%) Sony
8 6 (0.91%) Yahoo!
9 5 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.61%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.30%) Rollbar
11 2 (0.30%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.15%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.15%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.15%) Vermilion
12 1 (0.15%) VMware