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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 34 16 11
Rank change year-on-year -18 -5 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 242 749 694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.24% 14.99% 15.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.80% 31.08% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 182 436 500
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £91,146 £78,232 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +5.50%

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 1,222 2,410 2,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 41.62% 48.25% 50.89%
Number of salaries quoted 770 1,490 1,578
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £72,433 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,505 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%

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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 -5 144 £69,447 +20.78% 39
Glasgow -24 65 £50,000 +5.26% 28
Aberdeen -3 14 £40,000 - 13
Dundee -6 5 £50,000 +11.11% 7
South Ayrshire - 3 £55,000 -
Aberdeenshire +4 2 £40,000 - 3
Stirling - 2 £47,500 -
South Lanarkshire +1 1 £29,000 -
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 17 (7.02%) Confluence
2 9 (3.72%) CMS
3 5 (2.07%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.83%) Jetty
4 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.83%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.41%) Drupal
5 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 10 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (26.45%) AWS
2 43 (17.77%) Azure
3 34 (14.05%) SaaS
4 26 (10.74%) GitHub
5 20 (8.26%) Serverless
6 18 (7.44%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.79%) GCP
9 11 (4.55%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.24%) Adobe Analytics
12 3 (1.24%) Apigee
12 3 (1.24%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (1.24%) Cloud Composer
12 3 (1.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.24%) npm
13 2 (0.83%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.07%) HTTP
2 4 (1.65%) Internet
3 3 (1.24%) MQTT
4 1 (0.41%) RTMP
4 1 (0.41%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (18.60%) MySQL
2 27 (11.16%) Relational Database
3 20 (8.26%) RDBMS
3 20 (8.26%) SQL Server
4 19 (7.85%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (7.02%) Oracle Database
6 15 (6.20%) MongoDB
7 14 (5.79%) NoSQL
8 12 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (4.13%) Power BI
10 6 (2.48%) Big Data
11 4 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.24%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.24%) Looker
12 3 (1.24%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.83%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.41%) GIS
Development Applications
1 80 (33.06%) Git
2 40 (16.53%) Jenkins
3 24 (9.92%) Maven
4 20 (8.26%) JIRA
5 18 (7.44%) IntelliJ
6 12 (4.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (4.13%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.13%) Postman
8 9 (3.72%) Selenium
9 7 (2.89%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.48%) JDeveloper
11 5 (2.07%) Jasmine
11 5 (2.07%) NUnit
11 5 (2.07%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (1.65%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.65%) JUnit
12 4 (1.65%) Karma Test Runner
12 4 (1.65%) Subversion
13 3 (1.24%) Spinnaker
14 2 (0.83%) Gatling
General
1 63 (26.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 62 (25.62%) Finance
3 59 (24.38%) Social Skills
4 43 (17.77%) Banking
5 15 (6.20%) Marketing
6 12 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.96%) Law
7 10 (4.13%) Games
8 9 (3.72%) Police
9 7 (2.89%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.89%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.07%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.65%) Private Banking
11 4 (1.65%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.24%) Automotive
12 3 (1.24%) Electronics
12 3 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.24%) Legal
12 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (53.31%) Developer
2 66 (27.27%) Senior
3 59 (24.38%) Software Engineer
4 42 (17.36%) Senior Developer
5 36 (14.88%) JavaScript Developer
6 33 (13.64%) React Developer
7 27 (11.16%) Java Developer
8 23 (9.50%) Senior Java Developer
9 22 (9.09%) Senior JavaScript Developer
9 22 (9.09%) Senior React Developer
10 20 (8.26%) Software Developer
11 18 (7.44%) J2EE Developer
11 18 (7.44%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 18 (7.44%) Senior J2EE Developer
11 18 (7.44%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
12 15 (6.20%) Lead
12 15 (6.20%) Ruby Engineer
13 14 (5.79%) Full Stack Developer
14 11 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.55%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (52.89%) React
2 102 (42.15%) CSS
3 92 (38.02%) HTML
4 63 (26.03%) Node.js
5 55 (22.73%) .NET
6 52 (21.49%) AngularJS
7 30 (12.40%) React Native
8 24 (9.92%) RESTful
9 20 (8.26%) J2EE
10 19 (7.85%) ASP.NET
10 19 (7.85%) Redux
11 18 (7.44%) jOOQ
12 17 (7.02%) .NET Framework
13 16 (6.61%) .NET Core
14 15 (6.20%) Spring Boot
15 14 (5.79%) ASP.NET Web API
15 14 (5.79%) jQuery
15 14 (5.79%) REST
16 13 (5.37%) Express.js
16 13 (5.37%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.26%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (5.79%) Algorithms
3 13 (5.37%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.13%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.31%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.89%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.48%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.65%) Mobile Games
9 4 (1.65%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.24%) Arduino
10 3 (1.24%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.24%) Raspberry Pi
10 3 (1.24%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.83%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.44%) Mac OS
2 11 (4.55%) Linux
3 3 (1.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (40.50%) Agile
2 86 (35.54%) DevOps
3 82 (33.88%) Software Engineering
4 78 (32.23%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (17.36%) Microservices
6 39 (16.12%) Full Stack Development
7 34 (14.05%) Front End Development
8 33 (13.64%) Computer Science
8 33 (13.64%) SDLC
9 31 (12.81%) Actionable Insight
10 30 (12.40%) Continuous Integration
10 30 (12.40%) Test Automation
11 29 (11.98%) CI/CD
11 29 (11.98%) Design Patterns
12 26 (10.74%) MVC
12 26 (10.74%) Open Source
13 24 (9.92%) Containerisation
13 24 (9.92%) Scrum
13 24 (9.92%) User Experience
14 21 (8.68%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 86 (35.54%) Java
2 85 (35.12%) Python
3 58 (23.97%) C#
4 54 (22.31%) SQL
5 44 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 41 (16.94%) Bash
7 18 (7.44%) Go
8 16 (6.61%) Ruby
9 15 (6.20%) Perl
10 11 (4.55%) PHP
11 10 (4.13%) T-SQL
12 8 (3.31%) VBA
13 7 (2.89%) Scala
14 5 (2.07%) C++
14 5 (2.07%) Groovy
14 5 (2.07%) PowerShell
15 3 (1.24%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.83%) ABAP
16 2 (0.83%) C
16 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (14.88%) Degree
2 29 (11.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.72%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.72%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.48%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.24%) OCP
5 3 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.33%) QA
2 10 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.24%) PMO
3 3 (1.24%) WAI
4 1 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 37 (15.29%) Docker
2 3 (1.24%) Firmware
3 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.83%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) Istio
4 2 (0.83%) MIIS
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.68%) Oracle
3 7 (2.89%) Dynatrace
3 7 (2.89%) SAP
4 4 (1.65%) Splunk
5 3 (1.24%) Adobe
5 3 (1.24%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.24%) Google
5 3 (1.24%) NVIDIA
5 3 (1.24%) Rollbar
6 2 (0.83%) Ariba
6 2 (0.83%) ESRI
6 2 (0.83%) IBM
6 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.83%) Veracode
7 1 (0.41%) Sitecore