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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 19 7
Rank change year-on-year -18 -12 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 653 527 867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.77% 11.38% 14.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.39% 26.54% 33.12%
Number of salaries quoted 231 267 485
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,650 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £73,750
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 3,754 1,986 2,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.14% 42.88% 45.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,140 1,111 1,557
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 £87,000 £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 7 May 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 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -27 424 £51,500 -1.90% 28
Edinburgh 0 152 £65,000 - 36
Aberdeen +4 40 £38,500 -9.41% 8
Dundee +4 21 £47,500 -1.55% 2
Fife -4 9 £40,000 -21.95%
Aberdeenshire - 2 £37,500 - 2
South Lanarkshire +2 1 £29,000 -
Lanarkshire -9 1 - - 4
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 (9.19%) ArcGIS
1 60 (9.19%) GeoServer
2 53 (8.12%) FileNet
3 15 (2.30%) Cloud Foundry
3 15 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.23%) Confluence
5 7 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.92%) CMS
7 4 (0.61%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.61%) WordPress
8 2 (0.31%) Apache
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) InVision
1 3 (0.46%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 292 (44.72%) AWS
2 122 (18.68%) Azure
3 57 (8.73%) Amazon S3
4 30 (4.59%) SaaS
5 28 (4.29%) GCP
6 20 (3.06%) Serverless
7 17 (2.60%) Figma
8 13 (1.99%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.68%) GitHub
9 11 (1.68%) SurveyMonkey
10 10 (1.53%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.38%) BlazeMeter
11 9 (1.38%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.77%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (0.77%) ChatGPT
15 4 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.68%) Internet
2 8 (1.23%) HTTP
3 7 (1.07%) MQTT
4 3 (0.46%) Intranet
5 2 (0.31%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (17.00%) NoSQL
2 88 (13.48%) Elasticsearch
3 76 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
4 69 (10.57%) Relational Database
5 61 (9.34%) GIS
6 60 (9.19%) QGIS
7 54 (8.27%) Apache Cassandra
7 54 (8.27%) SQL Server
8 32 (4.90%) MySQL
9 24 (3.68%) MongoDB
10 20 (3.06%) Looker
11 8 (1.23%) Big Data
11 8 (1.23%) Power BI
12 7 (1.07%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.07%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.07%) Redis
13 4 (0.61%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 138 (21.13%) JUnit
2 91 (13.94%) Cypress.io
3 76 (11.64%) Jasmine
3 76 (11.64%) Karma Test Runner
4 71 (10.87%) Git
5 65 (9.95%) Selenium
6 64 (9.80%) WebDriver
7 61 (9.34%) Protractor
8 34 (5.21%) Maven
9 29 (4.44%) JIRA
10 26 (3.98%) Cucumber
11 21 (3.22%) Jenkins
12 15 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
13 11 (1.68%) webpack
14 10 (1.53%) Gradle
15 9 (1.38%) JMeter
16 8 (1.23%) Visual Studio
17 7 (1.07%) Moq
18 6 (0.92%) JDeveloper
19 5 (0.77%) Eclipse
General
1 359 (54.98%) Finance
2 358 (54.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 321 (49.16%) Law
4 163 (24.96%) Marketing
5 160 (24.50%) Banking
6 114 (17.46%) Investment Banking
7 56 (8.58%) Social Skills
8 42 (6.43%) Legal
9 25 (3.83%) Financial Institution
9 25 (3.83%) Private Banking
10 22 (3.37%) Games
11 18 (2.76%) Front Office
12 16 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
13 15 (2.30%) Publishing
14 8 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.23%) Multimedia
14 8 (1.23%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.07%) Electronics
15 7 (1.07%) Tech for Good
15 7 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 391 (59.88%) Software Engineer
2 171 (26.19%) Developer
3 138 (21.13%) Lead
4 130 (19.91%) Senior
5 127 (19.45%) Lead Software Engineer
6 107 (16.39%) Java Engineer
7 105 (16.08%) Java Software Engineer
8 90 (13.78%) Full Stack Engineer
9 88 (13.48%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 73 (11.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 69 (10.57%) Python Engineer
11 69 (10.57%) Python Software Engineer
12 56 (8.58%) AWS Engineer
13 49 (7.50%) AWS Software Engineer
14 43 (6.58%) UI Engineer
15 37 (5.67%) Lead Java Engineer
16 32 (4.90%) Senior Developer
17 29 (4.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 22 (3.37%) JavaScript Developer
18 22 (3.37%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (66.31%) React
2 368 (56.36%) CSS
3 305 (46.71%) HTML
4 253 (38.74%) AngularJS
5 208 (31.85%) Node.js
5 208 (31.85%) Spring
6 159 (24.35%) jQuery
7 147 (22.51%) JSON
7 147 (22.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 133 (20.37%) Hibernate
8 133 (20.37%) J2EE
9 132 (20.21%) JMS
10 130 (19.91%) .NET
11 89 (13.63%) .NET Core
12 81 (12.40%) Kafka
13 68 (10.41%) Spring Boot
14 61 (9.34%) ASP.NET
14 61 (9.34%) Jest
15 60 (9.19%) OpenLayers
15 60 (9.19%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 155 (23.74%) Cloud Native
2 140 (21.44%) Algorithms
3 88 (13.48%) Data Structures
4 35 (5.36%) Public Cloud
5 32 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.68%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.06%) Market Risk
8 16 (2.45%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.30%) Distributed Applications
9 15 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.30%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.23%) Augmented Reality
10 8 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
11 7 (1.07%) Arduino
11 7 (1.07%) Credit Risk
11 7 (1.07%) IoT
11 7 (1.07%) Raspberry Pi
12 6 (0.92%) BBC
12 6 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.60%) Linux
2 10 (1.53%) Android
3 9 (1.38%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.31%) Windows
5 1 (0.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (70.14%) Agile
2 423 (64.78%) Software Engineering
3 299 (45.79%) SDLC
4 290 (44.41%) CI/CD
5 261 (39.97%) Operational Stability
6 200 (30.63%) Artificial Intelligence
7 199 (30.47%) Community of Practice
8 198 (30.32%) Machine Learning
9 169 (25.88%) Full Stack Development
10 150 (22.97%) DevOps
11 143 (21.90%) Visualisation
12 136 (20.83%) Microservices
13 133 (20.37%) Web Development
14 127 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 126 (19.30%) TDD
16 89 (13.63%) Test Automation
17 85 (13.02%) Architectural Design
18 82 (12.56%) User Experience
19 81 (12.40%) BDD
19 81 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 251 (38.44%) Java
2 241 (36.91%) TypeScript
3 215 (32.92%) Python
4 185 (28.33%) SQL
5 129 (19.75%) C#
6 41 (6.28%) T-SQL
7 22 (3.37%) PHP
8 20 (3.06%) Groovy
9 12 (1.84%) Go
10 10 (1.53%) Bash
10 10 (1.53%) C++
11 8 (1.23%) C
12 7 (1.07%) Perl
12 7 (1.07%) Ruby
13 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.31%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.31%) R
16 1 (0.15%) Elixir
16 1 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (9.34%) SC Cleared
1 61 (9.34%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.28%) Degree
3 18 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (0.77%) ISTQB
4 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.61%) ISEB
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.15%) OCP
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.18%) Accessibility
2 52 (7.96%) QA
3 20 (3.06%) PMO
4 15 (2.30%) WAI
5 3 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (5.05%) Docker
2 7 (1.07%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 93 (14.24%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.76%) Terraform
3 6 (0.92%) Ansible
4 4 (0.61%) Istio
5 2 (0.31%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 65 (9.95%) Oracle
2 60 (9.19%) ESRI
3 43 (6.58%) Microsoft
4 20 (3.06%) Atlassian
5 15 (2.30%) Google
6 9 (1.38%) TOWER Software
7 7 (1.07%) NVIDIA
7 7 (1.07%) SAP
8 6 (0.92%) Apple
8 6 (0.92%) Facebook
8 6 (0.92%) Sony
8 6 (0.92%) Yahoo!
9 5 (0.77%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.61%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.31%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.15%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.15%) Rollbar
12 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.15%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.15%) Vermilion