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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 37 39
Rank change year-on-year -31 +2 -18
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 68 170 527
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.05% 7.27% 8.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.60% 24.32% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 56 75 208
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £33,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.68% -0.91%
75th Percentile £62,500 £98,474 £67,531
90th Percentile £73,750 £116,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.14% +10.33% -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 500 699 3,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.04% 29.88% 51.26%
Number of salaries quoted 267 312 1,131
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +5.51% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,375 £79,063 £66,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -4 21 £55,000 -6.38% 14
South Lanarkshire +5 16 £60,000 - 1
Edinburgh -25 14 £37,500 -53.13% 12
Aberdeenshire - 8 £45,000 - 4
North Lanarkshire -8 2 - -
Fife -10 2 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Aberdeen -16 2 £37,500 -25.00% 2
Lanarkshire +3 1 - - 11
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 (5.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.18%) Azure
2 26 (38.24%) AWS
3 7 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.29%) SaaS
4 6 (8.82%) Azure AI
4 6 (8.82%) GitHub
5 5 (7.35%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.88%) GCP
6 4 (5.88%) Serverless
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.41%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) Broadband
1 7 (10.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (8.82%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.41%) Power BI
3 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (13.24%) Git
2 5 (7.35%) JIRA
3 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.47%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.47%) Maven
3 1 (1.47%) Selenium
3 1 (1.47%) Subversion
3 1 (1.47%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.47%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Finance
3 9 (13.24%) Banking
4 7 (10.29%) Games
4 7 (10.29%) Multimedia
5 4 (5.88%) Local Government
6 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (50.00%) Developer
2 15 (22.06%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (20.59%) Lead
4 12 (17.65%) Senior
4 12 (17.65%) Technical Leader
5 9 (13.24%) .NET Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Administrator
6 7 (10.29%) Trainee
7 4 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow Administrator
7 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Service Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Trainee Administrator
8 3 (4.41%) Trainee Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Web Administrator
9 2 (2.94%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (51.47%) React
2 20 (29.41%) .NET
3 12 (17.65%) AWS CDK
4 11 (16.18%) .NET Core
4 11 (16.18%) ASP.NET
5 10 (14.71%) CSS
5 10 (14.71%) HTML
6 9 (13.24%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (13.24%) Blazor
7 8 (11.76%) Node.js
8 6 (8.82%) ML.NET
8 6 (8.82%) RESTful
9 5 (7.35%) Next.js
9 5 (7.35%) React Native
10 4 (5.88%) JSP
11 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET Web API
11 3 (4.41%) J2EE
11 3 (4.41%) LINQ
11 3 (4.41%) Vue
12 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (10.29%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (10.29%) Cyberattack
4 6 (8.82%) BBC
4 6 (8.82%) Mobile App
4 6 (8.82%) Social Media
5 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
6 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.47%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) Full-Stack Development
2 28 (41.18%) Agile
3 25 (36.76%) Mentoring
4 23 (33.82%) CI/CD
5 21 (30.88%) DevOps
5 21 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (26.47%) Microservices
7 16 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (22.06%) Software Engineering
9 14 (20.59%) Test Automation
10 12 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (16.18%) Code Quality
11 11 (16.18%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (16.18%) ITIL
12 10 (14.71%) Observability
13 9 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (11.76%) AI
15 7 (10.29%) CRM
15 7 (10.29%) Performance Optimisation
15 7 (10.29%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (45.59%) TypeScript
2 16 (23.53%) C#
3 13 (19.12%) SQL
4 11 (16.18%) Python
5 10 (14.71%) Java
6 4 (5.88%) R
7 1 (1.47%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.47%) PHP
7 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (10.29%) AWS Certification
2 7 (10.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 7 (10.29%) Azure Certification
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Degree
4 1 (1.47%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.82%) Apple
3 6 (8.82%) Facebook
3 6 (8.82%) Google
3 6 (8.82%) Sony
3 6 (8.82%) Yahoo!
4 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.47%) Xamarin