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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 36 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 -20 -9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 213 659 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.31% 9.78% 11.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.24% 17.36% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 135 238 276
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £37,625
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £87,626 £67,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £98,474 £80,600 £84,100
UK median annual salary £65,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.58% -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 3,797 2,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 34.41% 56.38% 43.02%
Number of salaries quoted 749 1,145 1,139
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 £85,000
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 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 6 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 -1 116 £70,000 +7.69% 25
Glasgow +11 22 £55,000 +3.77% 29
Lanarkshire +5 19 £39,000 - 4
Dundee +2 17 £32,500 -31.58% 1
Aberdeen +2 6 £50,000 +29.87% 8
Fife -9 5 £45,000 +12.50% 2
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 14
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire -1 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - - 1
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - - 1
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Falkirk - 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 (23.00%) Confluence
2 20 (9.39%) SharePoint
3 16 (7.51%) Umbraco
4 5 (2.35%) CMS
5 3 (1.41%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.41%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.47%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.47%) Notion
1 1 (0.47%) Sketch
1 1 (0.47%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 17 (7.98%) Sage 200
1 17 (7.98%) Sage 50
2 3 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 101 (47.42%) Azure
2 97 (45.54%) GCP
3 95 (44.60%) AWS
4 26 (12.21%) GitHub
5 13 (6.10%) SaaS
6 6 (2.82%) Google Analytics
7 5 (2.35%) Adobe Analytics
7 5 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (2.35%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.41%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (1.41%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.41%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.94%) Apigee
10 2 (0.94%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.94%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.23%) Internet
2 2 (0.94%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.94%) Firewall
2 2 (0.94%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.47%) BGP
3 1 (0.47%) DHCP
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.47%) Multicast
3 1 (0.47%) OSPF
3 1 (0.47%) RTP
3 1 (0.47%) RTSP
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (29.11%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.63%) MySQL
2 12 (5.63%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.16%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.41%) Power BI
7 3 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.41%) Tableau
8 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.47%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (27.70%) Maven
2 52 (24.41%) GitLab
2 52 (24.41%) Selenium
2 52 (24.41%) SonarQube
2 52 (24.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 50 (23.47%) JIRA
4 49 (23.00%) Bitbucket
4 49 (23.00%) Cucumber
5 38 (17.84%) Jenkins
6 24 (11.27%) Git
7 22 (10.33%) Visual Studio
8 12 (5.63%) webpack
9 8 (3.76%) JUnit
10 7 (3.29%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.35%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.88%) Postman
12 4 (1.88%) TeamCity
13 3 (1.41%) MSBuild
13 3 (1.41%) TestNG
14 2 (0.94%) Fiddler
General
1 125 (58.69%) Finance
2 90 (42.25%) Banking
3 68 (31.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (8.45%) Manufacturing
5 15 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.04%) Social Skills
6 11 (5.16%) Games
7 6 (2.82%) Legal
7 6 (2.82%) Marketing
7 6 (2.82%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Advertising
9 2 (0.94%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) Back Office
10 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.47%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.47%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 84 (39.44%) Software Engineer
2 71 (33.33%) Developer
3 50 (23.47%) Senior
4 29 (13.62%) Lead
5 28 (13.15%) Senior Software Engineer
6 24 (11.27%) .NET Developer
7 20 (9.39%) .NET Software Developer
8 12 (5.63%) Architect
8 12 (5.63%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.16%) Lead Architect
9 11 (5.16%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 11 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.76%) Android Engineer
11 8 (3.76%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (3.29%) Web Developer
13 6 (2.82%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 6 (2.82%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 6 (2.82%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (64.32%) CSS
2 115 (53.99%) HTML
3 109 (51.17%) React
4 62 (29.11%) Redux
5 59 (27.70%) Spring
6 57 (26.76%) Spring Boot
7 55 (25.82%) Kafka
8 51 (23.94%) Hibernate
9 49 (23.00%) JPA
10 45 (21.13%) .NET
11 32 (15.02%) jQuery
12 29 (13.62%) .NET Core
13 26 (12.21%) RESTful
14 24 (11.27%) HTML5
15 23 (10.80%) React Native
16 22 (10.33%) .NET Framework
17 18 (8.45%) AngularJS
18 17 (7.98%) REST
19 14 (6.57%) OAuth
19 14 (6.57%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 59 (27.70%) Product Ownership
2 49 (23.00%) Enterprise Software
3 32 (15.02%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.16%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.69%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.76%) Online Banking
6 8 (3.76%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.29%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.35%) Hackathon
8 5 (2.35%) Learning Management System
8 5 (2.35%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.94%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.94%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.47%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.47%) PCIe
10 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.39%) Linux
2 11 (5.16%) Android
3 7 (3.29%) Unix
4 3 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.41%) Windows
5 2 (0.94%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Rocky
6 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (49.77%) Software Engineering
2 89 (41.78%) CI/CD
3 87 (40.85%) Agile
3 87 (40.85%) DevOps
4 83 (38.97%) Microservices
5 75 (35.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 73 (34.27%) TDD
7 72 (33.80%) Test Automation
8 70 (32.86%) SDLC
9 66 (30.99%) Containerisation
10 65 (30.52%) Front End Development
11 53 (24.88%) Clean Code
11 53 (24.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (24.88%) Performance Optimisation
12 32 (15.02%) Web Development
13 29 (13.62%) MVC
14 27 (12.68%) E-Commerce
15 24 (11.27%) User Experience
16 22 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (9.39%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 95 (44.60%) Java
2 91 (42.72%) SQL
3 51 (23.94%) C#
4 35 (16.43%) TypeScript
5 26 (12.21%) Python
6 15 (7.04%) Kotlin
7 11 (5.16%) PHP
8 8 (3.76%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.82%) C
9 6 (2.82%) C++
9 6 (2.82%) Go
9 6 (2.82%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.35%) Bash
10 5 (2.35%) JCL
11 2 (0.94%) Groovy
11 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Cypher
12 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (6.10%) Degree
2 6 (2.82%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.35%) PhD
4 2 (0.94%) ACCA
5 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (26.29%) QA
2 3 (1.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 70 (32.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) NDS
2 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 85 (39.91%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (5.16%) Terraform
4 5 (2.35%) CA Endevor
5 3 (1.41%) Grafana
6 2 (0.94%) Istio
7 1 (0.47%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.47%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (23.00%) Solace
2 26 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.98%) Sage
4 13 (6.10%) Google
5 6 (2.82%) Adobe
6 5 (2.35%) IBM
7 4 (1.88%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.88%) Splunk
7 4 (1.88%) Tealium
8 3 (1.41%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.41%) Optimizely
8 3 (1.41%) Oracle
8 3 (1.41%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.41%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.94%) Cisco
9 2 (0.94%) Twitter
10 1 (0.47%) Medallia
10 1 (0.47%) Okta
10 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.47%) YouTube