JavaScript Jobs in Scotland

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 38 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -20 -10
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 197 650 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.47% 9.69% 11.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.88% 17.39% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 121 228 261
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £93,778 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £75,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 991 3,738 1,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 32.57% 55.74% 42.76%
Number of salaries quoted 726 1,130 1,078
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £43,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £80,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 18 May 2025.

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 18 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh -2 104 £70,000 +12.00% 26
Glasgow +8 21 £55,000 +3.77% 36
Lanarkshire +4 19 £39,000 - 2
Dundee +2 15 £32,500 -31.58% 4
Aberdeen +4 5 £50,000 +29.87% 5
Fife -14 5 £45,000 +12.50% 2
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 17
North Lanarkshire - 4 - - 2
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire -2 1 - - 3
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - - 1
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - - 2
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
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 49 (24.87%) Confluence
2 18 (9.14%) SharePoint
3 15 (7.61%) Umbraco
4 4 (2.03%) CMS
5 2 (1.02%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.51%) Solana
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Notion
2 1 (0.51%) Sketch
2 1 (0.51%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 15 (7.61%) Sage 200
1 15 (7.61%) Sage 50
2 3 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.52%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 93 (47.21%) GCP
2 92 (46.70%) Azure
3 90 (45.69%) AWS
4 22 (11.17%) GitHub
5 11 (5.58%) SaaS
6 6 (3.05%) Google Analytics
7 5 (2.54%) Adobe Analytics
7 5 (2.54%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.52%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.52%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.52%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.52%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.02%) Apigee
10 2 (1.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.02%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.57%) Internet
2 2 (1.02%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.02%) Firewall
2 2 (1.02%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.51%) BGP
3 1 (0.51%) DHCP
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.51%) Multicast
3 1 (0.51%) OSPF
3 1 (0.51%) RTP
3 1 (0.51%) RTSP
3 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (30.46%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.09%) MySQL
2 12 (6.09%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.58%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.52%) Power BI
6 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.52%) Tableau
7 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (29.95%) Maven
2 52 (26.40%) GitLab
2 52 (26.40%) Selenium
2 52 (26.40%) SonarQube
2 52 (26.40%) Sonatype Nexus
3 50 (25.38%) JIRA
4 49 (24.87%) Bitbucket
4 49 (24.87%) Cucumber
5 34 (17.26%) Jenkins
6 24 (12.18%) Git
7 19 (9.64%) Visual Studio
8 9 (4.57%) webpack
9 8 (4.06%) JUnit
10 6 (3.05%) Cypress.io
11 4 (2.03%) Postman
11 4 (2.03%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.52%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (1.52%) TestNG
13 2 (1.02%) Fiddler
13 2 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
General
1 115 (58.38%) Finance
2 83 (42.13%) Banking
3 68 (34.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (8.12%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.60%) Social Skills
6 12 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (5.58%) Games
8 6 (3.05%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.54%) Marketing
10 4 (2.03%) Legal
11 3 (1.52%) Electronics
11 3 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.02%) Advertising
13 1 (0.51%) Back Office
13 1 (0.51%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.51%) Military
13 1 (0.51%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 78 (39.59%) Software Engineer
2 64 (32.49%) Developer
3 41 (20.81%) Senior
4 29 (14.72%) Lead
5 23 (11.68%) Senior Software Engineer
6 22 (11.17%) .NET Developer
7 18 (9.14%) .NET Software Developer
8 12 (6.09%) Architect
9 11 (5.58%) Lead Architect
9 11 (5.58%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 11 (5.58%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.06%) Android Engineer
10 8 (4.06%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (3.05%) PHP Developer
12 6 (3.05%) Senior PHP Developer
13 5 (2.54%) React Developer
13 5 (2.54%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (62.44%) CSS
2 103 (52.28%) HTML
2 103 (52.28%) React
3 59 (29.95%) Redux
4 57 (28.93%) Spring
5 55 (27.92%) Spring Boot
6 54 (27.41%) Kafka
7 51 (25.89%) Hibernate
8 49 (24.87%) JPA
9 38 (19.29%) .NET
10 29 (14.72%) jQuery
11 26 (13.20%) .NET Core
12 24 (12.18%) RESTful
13 22 (11.17%) HTML5
14 21 (10.66%) React Native
15 19 (9.64%) .NET Framework
16 17 (8.63%) AngularJS
17 16 (8.12%) REST
18 14 (7.11%) OAuth
18 14 (7.11%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 59 (29.95%) Product Ownership
2 49 (24.87%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (15.23%) Mobile App
4 10 (5.08%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.08%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.06%) Online Banking
5 8 (4.06%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.05%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.52%) Hackathon
8 3 (1.52%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.52%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.02%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.02%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.02%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.51%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.51%) PCIe
10 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.14%) Linux
2 11 (5.58%) Android
3 5 (2.54%) Unix
4 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.52%) Windows
5 2 (1.02%) VMS
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.51%) Rocky
6 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (49.24%) Software Engineering
2 89 (45.18%) CI/CD
3 84 (42.64%) DevOps
4 82 (41.62%) Agile
5 79 (40.10%) Microservices
6 74 (37.56%) Test Automation
7 71 (36.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 71 (36.04%) TDD
8 64 (32.49%) Containerisation
9 63 (31.98%) Front End Development
9 63 (31.98%) SDLC
10 54 (27.41%) Clean Code
11 53 (26.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (26.90%) Performance Optimisation
12 30 (15.23%) Web Development
13 29 (14.72%) MVC
14 25 (12.69%) E-Commerce
15 23 (11.68%) User Experience
16 20 (10.15%) Analytics
17 19 (9.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 90 (45.69%) Java
2 87 (44.16%) SQL
3 42 (21.32%) C#
4 31 (15.74%) TypeScript
5 25 (12.69%) Python
6 13 (6.60%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.58%) PHP
8 6 (3.05%) C
8 6 (3.05%) C++
8 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.03%) Go
9 4 (2.03%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.52%) Bash
10 3 (1.52%) JCL
11 2 (1.02%) Groovy
11 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.51%) Cypher
12 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (5.08%) Degree
2 4 (2.03%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.52%) PhD
4 2 (1.02%) ACCA
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (27.41%) QA
2 3 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 70 (35.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) NDS
2 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (42.13%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.09%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (5.58%) Terraform
4 3 (1.52%) CA Endevor
4 3 (1.52%) Grafana
5 2 (1.02%) Istio
6 1 (0.51%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.51%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.51%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (24.87%) Solace
2 24 (12.18%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.61%) Sage
4 11 (5.58%) Google
5 6 (3.05%) Adobe
6 5 (2.54%) IBM
7 4 (2.03%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.03%) Splunk
7 4 (2.03%) Tealium
8 3 (1.52%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.52%) Oracle
8 3 (1.52%) Ping Identity
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco
9 2 (1.02%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.02%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.02%) Twitter
10 1 (0.51%) Maxymiser
10 1 (0.51%) Medallia
10 1 (0.51%) Okta
10 1 (0.51%) YouTube