JavaScript Job Trends in Scotland

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -24 -1 -17
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 84 133 383
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.36% 5.34% 7.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.90% 20.59% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 68 40 119
10th Percentile £31,500 £39,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,438 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £94,708 £73,886
90th Percentile £77,500 £98,501 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%

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 497 646 2,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.98% 25.93% 47.49%
Number of salaries quoted 294 262 827
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,150 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Scotland

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

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 August 2026. 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 +6 35 £67,500 +8.00% 10
South Lanarkshire +5 17 £60,000 -
Aberdeenshire - 12 £45,000 - 3
Edinburgh -29 10 £46,250 -41.31% 12
Lanarkshire +3 2 £100,000 - 10
North Lanarkshire -4 2 - -
Fife -11 2 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Aberdeen - 2 £37,500 - 2
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (4.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (39.29%) AWS
2 28 (33.33%) Azure
3 9 (10.71%) SaaS
4 8 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (8.33%) GCP
6 6 (7.14%) Azure AI
7 5 (5.95%) Serverless
8 4 (4.76%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.76%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.57%) GitHub
10 2 (2.38%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) Broadband
2 4 (4.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.95%) Power BI
4 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.19%) MySQL
5 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Git
2 6 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.38%) Maven
4 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.19%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.19%) Selenium
4 1 (1.19%) Subversion
4 1 (1.19%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.19%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.67%) Finance
3 9 (10.71%) Banking
4 7 (8.33%) Games
5 4 (4.76%) Local Government
5 4 (4.76%) Multimedia
5 4 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (46.43%) Developer
2 20 (23.81%) Lead
3 19 (22.62%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (20.24%) Technical Leader
5 11 (13.10%) Senior
6 9 (10.71%) .NET Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Software Engineer
8 7 (8.33%) Administrator
9 4 (4.76%) Analyst
9 4 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.76%) Service Analyst
9 4 (4.76%) Service Desk Analyst
9 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow Administrator
9 4 (4.76%) Trainee
10 3 (3.57%) Trainee Administrator
10 3 (3.57%) Web Administrator
11 2 (2.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 2 (2.38%) Test Engineer
11 2 (2.38%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (52.38%) React
2 20 (23.81%) .NET
3 12 (14.29%) AWS CDK
4 10 (11.90%) .NET Core
4 10 (11.90%) ASP.NET
4 10 (11.90%) HTML
4 10 (11.90%) Next.js
5 9 (10.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (10.71%) Blazor
5 9 (10.71%) CSS
5 9 (10.71%) Jakarta EE
5 9 (10.71%) JSP
6 8 (9.52%) Node.js
6 8 (9.52%) RESTful
7 6 (7.14%) ML.NET
8 5 (5.95%) React Native
9 4 (4.76%) HTML5
10 3 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (3.57%) LINQ
10 3 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 12 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (8.33%) Cyberattack
4 6 (7.14%) BBC
4 6 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (7.14%) Social Media
5 5 (5.95%) Mobile App
5 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.19%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (48.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 37 (44.05%) Agile
3 30 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 28 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 26 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (29.76%) DevOps
7 24 (28.57%) Software Engineering
8 20 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (22.62%) Code Quality
10 18 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (20.24%) Microservices
12 16 (19.05%) Test Automation
13 12 (14.29%) ITIL
14 10 (11.90%) AI
14 10 (11.90%) Deployment Automation
14 10 (11.90%) Observability
15 9 (10.71%) CRM
15 9 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
15 9 (10.71%) SDLC
15 9 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 20 (23.81%) Java
3 17 (20.24%) C#
4 12 (14.29%) Python
5 11 (13.10%) SQL
6 3 (3.57%) R
7 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.19%) PHP
7 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 4 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 4 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
2 4 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.19%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.10%) QA
2 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.14%) Apple
3 6 (7.14%) Facebook
3 6 (7.14%) Google
3 6 (7.14%) Sony
3 6 (7.14%) Yahoo!
4 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.19%) Salesforce