JavaScript Job Trends in Glasgow

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 30 30
Rank change year-on-year -22 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 37 54 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 4.42% 5.66% 6.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.09% 17.94% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10 27 34
10th Percentile £28,175 £38,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.18% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £56,813 £71,250 £62,188
90th Percentile £67,500 £76,500 £65,000
Scotland median annual salary £30,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -44.55% -4.35% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

JavaScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 306 301 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 36.52% 31.55% 41.13%
Number of salaries quoted 84 146 218
10th Percentile £35,900 £24,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £50,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -7.83% +3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £76,500 £70,375
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.52%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Glasgow

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Glasgow over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Glasgow

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.70%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) npm
2 7 (18.92%) Yarn
3 6 (16.22%) Amazon S3
3 6 (16.22%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (16.22%) Serverless
4 5 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (10.81%) GitHub
5 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.70%) GCP
7 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) Internet
2 2 (5.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (13.51%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (10.81%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Git
1 8 (21.62%) webpack
2 7 (18.92%) Cypress.io
2 7 (18.92%) Vite
3 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (16.22%) Maven
4 2 (5.41%) JUnit
5 1 (2.70%) Ant
5 1 (2.70%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.70%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.70%) JIRA
5 1 (2.70%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (2.70%) Protractor
5 1 (2.70%) Selenium
5 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (67.57%) Finance
1 25 (67.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 25 (67.57%) Law
2 13 (35.14%) Banking
2 13 (35.14%) Marketing
3 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Investment Banking
4 5 (13.51%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (67.57%) Software Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Java Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Java Software Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Lead
4 8 (21.62%) Lead Software Engineer
5 7 (18.92%) Software Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Java Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Trainee
7 4 (10.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (10.81%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (10.81%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
7 4 (10.81%) Java Software Developer
7 4 (10.81%) React Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Trainee Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Trainee Software Developer
10 1 (2.70%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (62.16%) React
2 19 (51.35%) HTML
3 15 (40.54%) CSS
3 15 (40.54%) Spring
4 9 (24.32%) Spring Boot
5 7 (18.92%) AngularJS
5 7 (18.92%) Jest
6 6 (16.22%) Kafka
6 6 (16.22%) Web Services
7 5 (13.51%) jQuery
8 3 (8.11%) JSON
8 3 (8.11%) REST
9 2 (5.41%) J2EE
9 2 (5.41%) JMS
9 2 (5.41%) Node.js
9 2 (5.41%) XML
10 1 (2.70%) .NET
10 1 (2.70%) Bootstrap
10 1 (2.70%) HTML5
10 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (45.95%) Algorithms
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.81%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) Agile
2 25 (67.57%) Software Engineering
3 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
4 21 (56.76%) Community of Practice
5 20 (54.05%) Operational Stability
6 19 (51.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (48.65%) SDLC
8 17 (45.95%) Visualisation
9 10 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (24.32%) Mentoring
11 8 (21.62%) Clean Code
11 8 (21.62%) DevOps
12 7 (18.92%) Async-Await
12 7 (18.92%) Code Quality
12 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (18.92%) Regtech
12 7 (18.92%) Scrum
12 7 (18.92%) TDD
13 6 (16.22%) AI
13 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) Java
2 14 (37.84%) TypeScript
3 10 (27.03%) Python
4 7 (18.92%) SQL
5 2 (5.41%) C#
5 2 (5.41%) R
6 1 (2.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (13.51%) AWS Certification
2 5 (13.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 5 (13.51%) Azure Certification
3 4 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.81%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.70%) IBM
3 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk