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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 35 29
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 -18
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 172 576 321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.25% 8.87% 7.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.15% 17.94% 19.84%
Number of salaries quoted 77 202 225
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,775 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% -0.91% -
75th Percentile £98,474 £67,594 £67,070
90th Percentile £133,520 £75,000 £77,542
UK median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -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 1,003 3,210 1,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 30.63% 49.43% 39.43%
Number of salaries quoted 569 1,105 972
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £36,275
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £71,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,840 £83,655
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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -9 68 £80,000 +28.00% 55
Glasgow -4 43 £58,750 +6.82% 57
Lanarkshire -2 18 - - 13
Dundee +1 8 £32,500 -31.58% 7
Fife -8 5 £45,000 +12.50% 1
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 - - 1
Stirling -4 3 - - 2
West Lothian - 2 - - 3
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Aberdeen +5 1 £50,000 +29.87% 9
South Lanarkshire -2 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - - 1
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - - 2
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 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 (28.49%) Confluence
2 13 (7.56%) Umbraco
3 9 (5.23%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.16%) CMS
5 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.58%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (4.65%) Sage 200
1 8 (4.65%) Sage 50
2 3 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.74%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 80 (46.51%) AWS
2 79 (45.93%) GCP
3 77 (44.77%) Azure
4 10 (5.81%) GitHub
5 8 (4.65%) npm
6 7 (4.07%) Yarn
7 6 (3.49%) Google Analytics
7 6 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.49%) SaaS
8 5 (2.91%) Adobe Analytics
8 5 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.91%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.91%) Serverless
9 4 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (2.33%) BlazeMeter
9 4 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.23%) Internet
2 2 (1.16%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.58%) BGP
3 1 (0.58%) DHCP
3 1 (0.58%) DNS
3 1 (0.58%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.58%) Multicast
3 1 (0.58%) OSPF
3 1 (0.58%) RTP
3 1 (0.58%) RTSP
3 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (33.72%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.14%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.40%) BigQuery
4 8 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.49%) MySQL
6 5 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.74%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.74%) Tableau
9 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.16%) Power BI
9 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.58%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (37.79%) Maven
2 52 (30.23%) GitLab
3 51 (29.65%) JIRA
3 51 (29.65%) Selenium
3 51 (29.65%) SonarQube
3 51 (29.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 49 (28.49%) Bitbucket
4 49 (28.49%) Cucumber
5 30 (17.44%) Jenkins
6 17 (9.88%) Git
7 13 (7.56%) webpack
8 12 (6.98%) Cypress.io
9 10 (5.81%) Visual Studio
10 8 (4.65%) Vite
11 7 (4.07%) JUnit
12 4 (2.33%) Postman
13 2 (1.16%) Fiddler
13 2 (1.16%) SoapUI
13 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.58%) Mocha
General
1 116 (67.44%) Finance
2 88 (51.16%) Banking
3 86 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (14.53%) Law
5 17 (9.88%) Social Skills
6 15 (8.72%) Marketing
7 11 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (5.23%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.91%) Games
9 5 (2.91%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.91%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.74%) Electronics
10 3 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 89 (51.74%) Software Engineer
2 46 (26.74%) Developer
3 33 (19.19%) Lead
4 23 (13.37%) Senior
5 13 (7.56%) Java Developer
5 13 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 12 (6.98%) .NET Developer
6 12 (6.98%) Architect
7 11 (6.40%) Java Engineer
7 11 (6.40%) Lead Architect
7 11 (6.40%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 11 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (5.81%) .NET Software Developer
8 10 (5.81%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Android Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 8 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (4.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (63.95%) React
2 101 (58.72%) CSS
3 89 (51.74%) HTML
4 69 (40.12%) Spring
5 61 (35.47%) Spring Boot
6 57 (33.14%) Kafka
7 55 (31.98%) Redux
8 52 (30.23%) Hibernate
9 49 (28.49%) JPA
10 26 (15.12%) jQuery
11 22 (12.79%) .NET
12 19 (11.05%) AngularJS
13 17 (9.88%) RESTful
14 15 (8.72%) .NET Core
14 15 (8.72%) HTML5
14 15 (8.72%) REST
15 14 (8.14%) OAuth
15 14 (8.14%) OpenID
16 13 (7.56%) SAML
17 12 (6.98%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 58 (33.72%) Product Ownership
2 49 (28.49%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (14.53%) Algorithms
4 16 (9.30%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.65%) Online Banking
5 8 (4.65%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.49%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.49%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.33%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.16%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.58%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.58%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.58%) PCIe
10 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.81%) Linux
2 9 (5.23%) Android
3 2 (1.16%) Unix
3 2 (1.16%) Windows
4 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (59.30%) CI/CD
2 100 (58.14%) Software Engineering
3 97 (56.40%) Agile
4 78 (45.35%) DevOps
4 78 (45.35%) Test Automation
5 75 (43.60%) Full-Stack Development
5 75 (43.60%) Microservices
6 74 (43.02%) TDD
7 71 (41.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 70 (40.70%) SDLC
9 61 (35.47%) Clean Code
9 61 (35.47%) Containerisation
10 60 (34.88%) Front End Development
11 52 (30.23%) Performance Optimisation
12 23 (13.37%) Community of Practice
12 23 (13.37%) Operational Stability
13 22 (12.79%) MVC
13 22 (12.79%) Web Development
14 21 (12.21%) User Experience
14 21 (12.21%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 96 (55.81%) Java
2 78 (45.35%) SQL
3 34 (19.77%) TypeScript
4 22 (12.79%) C#
5 18 (10.47%) Python
6 10 (5.81%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.49%) C
7 6 (3.49%) C++
7 6 (3.49%) PHP
8 2 (1.16%) Go
8 2 (1.16%) Groovy
8 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.58%) Cypher
9 1 (0.58%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (4.07%) Degree
2 5 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.16%) ACCA
4 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (29.65%) QA
2 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 68 (39.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) NDS
2 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 75 (43.60%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.98%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (5.81%) Terraform
4 4 (2.33%) Grafana
5 2 (1.16%) Istio
6 1 (0.58%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.58%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.58%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 49 (28.49%) Solace
2 22 (12.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.65%) Sage
4 7 (4.07%) Google
5 5 (2.91%) Adobe
5 5 (2.91%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.91%) Oracle
5 5 (2.91%) Splunk
6 4 (2.33%) Tealium
7 3 (1.74%) ForgeRock
7 3 (1.74%) IBM
8 2 (1.16%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.58%) Cisco
9 1 (0.58%) Maxymiser
9 1 (0.58%) Medallia
9 1 (0.58%) NetIQ
9 1 (0.58%) Okta
9 1 (0.58%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.58%) Twitter
9 1 (0.58%) VMware