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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 32 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -21 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 465 279 909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.16% 7.35% 14.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.09% 19.58% 33.05%
Number of salaries quoted 144 210 536
10th Percentile £34,125 £35,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £71,000 £67,070 £69,035
90th Percentile £76,500 £76,375 £79,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,845 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.53% +4.74% +9.09%

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 2,721 1,425 2,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.75% 37.56% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 927 928 1,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68,114 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -10 315 £55,000 +4.76% 16
Edinburgh +8 99 £65,000 +8.33% 16
Dundee +9 16 £32,500 -21.69%
Aberdeen -4 13 £40,000 -5.88% 2
Fife -2 6 £40,000 -20.00%
Lanarkshire -7 4 - - 9
Stirling - 3 £50,000 -
South Lanarkshire +2 2 £32,000 +10.34% 1
Dunbartonshire - 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 53 (11.40%) FileNet
2 38 (8.17%) ArcGIS
2 38 (8.17%) GeoServer
3 15 (3.23%) Cloud Foundry
4 14 (3.01%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.94%) CMS
5 9 (1.94%) Umbraco
6 6 (1.29%) WordPress
7 4 (0.86%) Confluence
8 2 (0.43%) Apache
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.65%) InVision
1 3 (0.65%) Sketch
2 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.29%) Sage 200
1 6 (1.29%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 201 (43.23%) AWS
2 82 (17.63%) Azure
3 54 (11.61%) Amazon S3
4 22 (4.73%) GCP
5 19 (4.09%) SaaS
6 17 (3.66%) Figma
7 12 (2.58%) GitHub
8 11 (2.37%) SurveyMonkey
9 9 (1.94%) BlazeMeter
9 9 (1.94%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.51%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.08%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.08%) Serverless
13 4 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.65%) OpenShift
15 2 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.29%) Network Security
2 5 (1.08%) Internet
3 2 (0.43%) Intranet
4 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.22%) HTTP
4 1 (0.22%) MQTT
4 1 (0.22%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (17.20%) NoSQL
2 73 (15.70%) Elasticsearch
3 55 (11.83%) Apache Cassandra
4 50 (10.75%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (9.25%) Relational Database
6 41 (8.82%) GIS
7 38 (8.17%) QGIS
8 29 (6.24%) MySQL
9 25 (5.38%) SQL Server
10 23 (4.95%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.29%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.08%) Power BI
13 2 (0.43%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.43%) SQLite
14 1 (0.22%) DynamoDB
14 1 (0.22%) Looker
14 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 135 (29.03%) JUnit
2 89 (19.14%) Cypress.io
3 62 (13.33%) Selenium
4 61 (13.12%) Jasmine
4 61 (13.12%) Karma Test Runner
4 61 (13.12%) WebDriver
5 60 (12.90%) Protractor
6 35 (7.53%) Maven
7 29 (6.24%) Jenkins
8 27 (5.81%) Git
8 27 (5.81%) JIRA
9 25 (5.38%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.15%) Gradle
11 9 (1.94%) JMeter
11 9 (1.94%) Visual Studio
12 7 (1.51%) webpack
13 5 (1.08%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.43%) Postman
14 2 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.43%) Terragrunt
General
1 253 (54.41%) Finance
2 249 (53.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 231 (49.68%) Law
4 105 (22.58%) Banking
5 97 (20.86%) Marketing
6 96 (20.65%) Investment Banking
7 44 (9.46%) Legal
8 41 (8.82%) Social Skills
9 17 (3.66%) Games
10 16 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (3.23%) Publishing
12 10 (2.15%) Front Office
13 8 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.08%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.65%) Polish Language
16 3 (0.65%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.43%) Advertising
17 2 (0.43%) Public Sector
18 1 (0.22%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 276 (59.35%) Software Engineer
2 113 (24.30%) Developer
3 107 (23.01%) Java Engineer
4 105 (22.58%) Java Software Engineer
5 100 (21.51%) Lead
6 90 (19.35%) Lead Software Engineer
6 90 (19.35%) Senior
7 78 (16.77%) Full Stack Engineer
7 78 (16.77%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 42 (9.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (7.96%) Lead Java Engineer
10 26 (5.59%) Senior Developer
11 25 (5.38%) Python Engineer
11 25 (5.38%) Python Software Engineer
12 20 (4.30%) Software Developer
13 19 (4.09%) QA Engineer
14 17 (3.66%) .NET Developer
15 16 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (3.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 15 (3.23%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (72.26%) React
2 284 (61.08%) CSS
3 237 (50.97%) HTML
4 203 (43.66%) AngularJS
5 202 (43.44%) Spring
6 186 (40.00%) Node.js
7 144 (30.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 142 (30.54%) JSON
9 141 (30.32%) jQuery
10 134 (28.82%) J2EE
11 133 (28.60%) Hibernate
12 132 (28.39%) JMS
13 85 (18.28%) .NET
14 78 (16.77%) Kafka
15 64 (13.76%) Jest
15 64 (13.76%) Spring Boot
16 63 (13.55%) .NET Core
17 55 (11.83%) GraphQL
18 53 (11.40%) Spring Integration
19 42 (9.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 96 (20.65%) Cloud Native
2 94 (20.22%) Algorithms
3 83 (17.85%) Data Structures
4 20 (4.30%) Market Risk
5 16 (3.44%) Mobile App
6 15 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
6 15 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.23%) Private Cloud
7 14 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.51%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.86%) Augmented Reality
12 4 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.86%) Virtual Reality
13 3 (0.65%) Graphic Design
13 3 (0.65%) Mobile Banking
13 3 (0.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.80%) Linux
2 7 (1.51%) Android
3 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.65%) Windows
5 2 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (70.97%) Agile
2 300 (64.52%) Software Engineering
3 220 (47.31%) CI/CD
4 216 (46.45%) SDLC
5 188 (40.43%) Operational Stability
6 154 (33.12%) Artificial Intelligence
7 153 (32.90%) Community of Practice
8 152 (32.69%) Machine Learning
9 129 (27.74%) Full Stack Development
10 119 (25.59%) Web Development
11 117 (25.16%) Visualisation
12 105 (22.58%) Microservices
13 103 (22.15%) TDD
14 101 (21.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 80 (17.20%) BDD
16 79 (16.99%) Multithreading
17 78 (16.77%) DevOps
18 63 (13.55%) Test Automation
19 62 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
20 55 (11.83%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 215 (46.24%) Java
2 203 (43.66%) TypeScript
3 148 (31.83%) SQL
4 126 (27.10%) Python
5 76 (16.34%) C#
6 20 (4.30%) PHP
7 19 (4.09%) T-SQL
8 17 (3.66%) Groovy
9 7 (1.51%) C++
10 6 (1.29%) C
11 5 (1.08%) Go
12 4 (0.86%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.86%) R
13 3 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.65%) Ruby
14 2 (0.43%) Bash
14 2 (0.43%) Elixir
14 2 (0.43%) Perl
15 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (8.60%) SC Cleared
1 40 (8.60%) Security Cleared
2 29 (6.24%) Degree
3 9 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.22%) ISEB
7 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.22%) OCP
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.22%) PMP
7 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.03%) QA
2 39 (8.39%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.65%) WCAG
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 25 (5.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 85 (18.28%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.87%) Terraform
3 4 (0.86%) Ansible
3 4 (0.86%) Istio
4 1 (0.22%) Grafana
4 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (12.90%) Oracle
2 38 (8.17%) ESRI
3 23 (4.95%) Microsoft
4 9 (1.94%) Google
4 9 (1.94%) TOWER Software
5 6 (1.29%) Sage
5 6 (1.29%) Splunk
6 5 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.65%) Facebook
8 2 (0.43%) Adobe
8 2 (0.43%) Apple
8 2 (0.43%) Black Duck
8 2 (0.43%) Netlify
8 2 (0.43%) Sony
8 2 (0.43%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.43%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.22%) SAP
9 1 (0.22%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.22%) VMware