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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 18 28
Rank change year-on-year -54 +10 -12
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 74 253 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.72% 7.73% 8.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.21% 23.13% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 34 134 181
10th Percentile - £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £56,438 £71,825 £72,500
90th Percentile £69,250 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%

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 660 1,094 957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.29% 33.45% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 261 585 764
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,498 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,859 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 26 November 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 26 November 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 -33 39 £30,500 -52.16% 25
Glasgow -17 31 £36,750 -33.18% 16
Aberdeen +2 3 £30,000 -45.45% 8
Scottish Borders - 1 £39,594 -
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 2 (2.70%) WordPress
2 1 (1.35%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.81%) Azure
2 32 (43.24%) AWS
3 29 (39.19%) GitHub
4 11 (14.86%) SaaS
5 9 (12.16%) Boomi
5 9 (12.16%) Datadog
5 9 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (6.76%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.76%) npm
7 5 (6.76%) Serverless
7 5 (6.76%) Yarn
8 4 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.41%) GCP
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (29.73%) Internet
2 2 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (4.05%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (33.78%) Git
2 9 (12.16%) JIRA
3 6 (8.11%) Cypress.io
3 6 (8.11%) webpack
4 5 (6.76%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.76%) Maven
4 5 (6.76%) Vite
5 2 (2.70%) JUnit
6 1 (1.35%) Ant
6 1 (1.35%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.35%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.35%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.35%) Protractor
6 1 (1.35%) Selenium
6 1 (1.35%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (48.65%) Finance
2 21 (28.38%) Multimedia
3 20 (27.03%) Social Skills
4 19 (25.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (25.68%) Law
5 10 (13.51%) Banking
5 10 (13.51%) Marketing
6 5 (6.76%) Tech for Good
7 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.41%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.35%) Police
9 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (35.14%) Software Engineer
2 21 (28.38%) Trainee
3 16 (21.62%) Developer
4 13 (17.57%) Senior
4 13 (17.57%) Software Developer
5 10 (13.51%) Trainee Developer
6 9 (12.16%) Development Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) Java Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) Trainee Software Developer
7 8 (10.81%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (9.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (9.46%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 7 (9.46%) Lead
9 6 (8.11%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Java Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 3 (4.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 3 (4.05%) Java Software Developer
11 3 (4.05%) React Developer
11 3 (4.05%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (50.00%) HTML
2 34 (45.95%) CSS
3 24 (32.43%) React
4 13 (17.57%) Web Services
5 12 (16.22%) .NET
5 12 (16.22%) Spring
6 11 (14.86%) REST
7 9 (12.16%) ADO
7 9 (12.16%) SOAP
7 9 (12.16%) Spring Boot
8 8 (10.81%) AngularJS
8 8 (10.81%) Kafka
8 8 (10.81%) SAML
9 5 (6.76%) Jest
10 4 (5.41%) jQuery
11 3 (4.05%) JSON
12 2 (2.70%) .NET Framework
12 2 (2.70%) JMS
12 2 (2.70%) Next.js
12 2 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.97%) Product Ownership
2 13 (17.57%) Algorithms
3 9 (12.16%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.05%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.35%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.35%) NHS
7 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.95%) Agile
2 31 (41.89%) Mentoring
3 30 (40.54%) CI/CD
4 26 (35.14%) Software Engineering
5 24 (32.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (25.68%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (25.68%) DevOps
7 18 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (22.97%) Asset Management
8 17 (22.97%) Coaching
9 16 (21.62%) Community of Practice
10 15 (20.27%) Operational Stability
11 14 (18.92%) Code Quality
11 14 (18.92%) SDLC
12 13 (17.57%) Visualisation
13 11 (14.86%) Containerisation
14 10 (13.51%) Observability
14 10 (13.51%) Roadmaps
15 9 (12.16%) Full-Stack Development
15 9 (12.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (58.11%) Python
2 23 (31.08%) Java
3 14 (18.92%) TypeScript
4 11 (14.86%) R
5 8 (10.81%) PowerShell
5 8 (10.81%) SQL
6 3 (4.05%) C#
7 1 (1.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (28.38%) AWS Certification
2 21 (28.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 21 (28.38%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.05%) Degree
4 2 (2.70%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.16%) QA
2 8 (10.81%) GDPR
3 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (17.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.51%) Grafana
3 9 (12.16%) Prometheus
3 9 (12.16%) Terraform
4 8 (10.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (36.49%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.16%) MuleSoft
3 8 (10.81%) ServiceNow
3 8 (10.81%) Workday
4 4 (5.41%) Oracle
5 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.35%) IBM
5 1 (1.35%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.35%) Remedy
5 1 (1.35%) Splunk