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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 38 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -20 -12
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 163 663 548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.78% 9.84% 11.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.62% 17.43% 26.72%
Number of salaries quoted 135 242 280
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £38,200
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £85,253 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £81,800 £84,100
UK median annual salary £65,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.75% -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 925 3,804 2,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 32.82% 56.47% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 738 1,148 1,156
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £43,750 £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 £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 1 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 1 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 0 115 £70,000 +7.69% 26
Glasgow +10 21 £55,000 +3.77% 29
Dundee +2 17 £32,500 -31.58%
Aberdeen 0 6 £50,000 +29.87% 6
Fife -11 3 £45,000 +12.50% 2
Lanarkshire +2 1 £39,000 - 5
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 20 (12.27%) SharePoint
2 16 (9.82%) Umbraco
3 5 (3.07%) CMS
4 3 (1.84%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.84%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.61%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.61%) Notion
1 1 (0.61%) Sketch
1 1 (0.61%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 17 (10.43%) Sage 200
1 17 (10.43%) Sage 50
2 3 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.84%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 52 (31.90%) Azure
2 47 (28.83%) GCP
3 45 (27.61%) AWS
4 26 (15.95%) GitHub
5 13 (7.98%) SaaS
6 6 (3.68%) Google Analytics
7 5 (3.07%) Adobe Analytics
7 5 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (3.07%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.84%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.84%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.84%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.23%) Apigee
10 2 (1.23%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.23%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.52%) Internet
2 2 (1.23%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.23%) Firewall
2 2 (1.23%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.61%) BGP
3 1 (0.61%) DHCP
3 1 (0.61%) DNS
3 1 (0.61%) Multicast
3 1 (0.61%) OSPF
3 1 (0.61%) RTP
3 1 (0.61%) RTSP
3 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.98%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.36%) MySQL
2 12 (7.36%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.75%) BigQuery
4 9 (5.52%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.84%) Power BI
7 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.84%) Tableau
8 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (23.31%) Jenkins
2 24 (14.72%) Git
3 22 (13.50%) Visual Studio
4 12 (7.36%) webpack
5 10 (6.13%) Maven
6 8 (4.91%) JUnit
7 7 (4.29%) Cypress.io
8 5 (3.07%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (2.45%) Postman
9 4 (2.45%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.84%) GitLab
10 3 (1.84%) MSBuild
10 3 (1.84%) Selenium
10 3 (1.84%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.84%) TestNG
11 2 (1.23%) Fiddler
11 2 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (1.23%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (46.63%) Finance
2 41 (25.15%) Banking
3 20 (12.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (11.04%) Manufacturing
5 16 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (8.59%) Social Skills
7 11 (6.75%) Games
8 6 (3.68%) Legal
8 6 (3.68%) Marketing
8 6 (3.68%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.23%) Advertising
10 2 (1.23%) Electronics
11 1 (0.61%) Back Office
11 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.61%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.61%) Military
11 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 71 (43.56%) Developer
2 50 (30.67%) Senior
3 34 (20.86%) Software Engineer
4 29 (17.79%) Lead
5 27 (16.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 24 (14.72%) .NET Developer
7 20 (12.27%) .NET Software Developer
8 13 (7.98%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.36%) Architect
10 11 (6.75%) Lead Architect
10 11 (6.75%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 11 (6.75%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.91%) Android Engineer
12 8 (4.91%) Java Developer
12 8 (4.91%) Web Developer
13 7 (4.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 6 (3.68%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 6 (3.68%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 6 (3.68%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (54.60%) CSS
2 67 (41.10%) HTML
3 61 (37.42%) React
4 46 (28.22%) .NET
5 32 (19.63%) jQuery
6 29 (17.79%) .NET Core
7 26 (15.95%) RESTful
8 24 (14.72%) HTML5
9 23 (14.11%) .NET Framework
9 23 (14.11%) React Native
10 19 (11.66%) AngularJS
11 16 (9.82%) REST
12 13 (7.98%) ASP.NET
12 13 (7.98%) OAuth
12 13 (7.98%) OpenID
12 13 (7.98%) Redux
12 13 (7.98%) SAML
13 12 (7.36%) Laravel
14 11 (6.75%) Ajax
14 11 (6.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.63%) Mobile App
2 10 (6.13%) Algorithms
2 10 (6.13%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.13%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.91%) Online Banking
3 8 (4.91%) Virtual Team
4 7 (4.29%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.07%) Hackathon
5 5 (3.07%) Learning Management System
5 5 (3.07%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.23%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.23%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) PCIe
7 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.27%) Linux
2 11 (6.75%) Android
3 7 (4.29%) Unix
4 3 (1.84%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.84%) Windows
5 2 (1.23%) VMS
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Rocky
6 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (34.36%) Software Engineering
2 40 (24.54%) CI/CD
3 38 (23.31%) Agile
3 38 (23.31%) DevOps
4 34 (20.86%) Microservices
5 33 (20.25%) Web Development
6 29 (17.79%) MVC
7 27 (16.56%) E-Commerce
8 26 (15.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (15.34%) User Experience
10 24 (14.72%) TDD
11 23 (14.11%) Test Automation
12 22 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (12.88%) SDLC
14 20 (12.27%) Analytics
14 20 (12.27%) Mentoring
15 19 (11.66%) Unit Testing
16 17 (10.43%) Biometrics
16 17 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
16 17 (10.43%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 52 (31.90%) C#
2 45 (27.61%) Java
3 42 (25.77%) SQL
4 35 (21.47%) TypeScript
5 25 (15.34%) Python
6 15 (9.20%) Kotlin
7 11 (6.75%) PHP
8 8 (4.91%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.68%) C
9 6 (3.68%) C++
9 6 (3.68%) Go
9 6 (3.68%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.07%) Bash
10 5 (3.07%) JCL
11 2 (1.23%) Groovy
11 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (8.59%) Degree
2 6 (3.68%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.07%) PhD
4 2 (1.23%) ACCA
5 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.29%) QA
2 3 (1.84%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (12.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.61%) NDS
2 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (22.09%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.75%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (6.75%) Terraform
3 5 (3.07%) CA Endevor
4 3 (1.84%) Grafana
5 2 (1.23%) Istio
6 1 (0.61%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.61%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.61%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.43%) Sage
3 13 (7.98%) Google
4 6 (3.68%) Adobe
5 5 (3.07%) IBM
6 4 (2.45%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.45%) Splunk
6 4 (2.45%) Tealium
7 3 (1.84%) Optimizely
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle
7 3 (1.84%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.84%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.23%) Cisco
8 2 (1.23%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.23%) Twitter
9 1 (0.61%) Apple
9 1 (0.61%) Medallia
9 1 (0.61%) Okta
9 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.61%) YouTube