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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 18 35
Rank change year-on-year -54 +17 -21
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 67 238 272
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.46% 8.92% 9.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.09% 24.82% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41 136 192
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £39,325
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.04% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £39,750 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £80,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% -3.85%

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 604 959 1,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.17% 35.96% 50.45%
Number of salaries quoted 261 499 805
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - -7.60% +3.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,648 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -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 3 January 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 3 January 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
Edinburgh -41 49 £30,500 -49.17% 38
Glasgow -13 12 £30,500 -41.90% 27
Aberdeen -7 5 £30,000 -50.00% 22
Scottish Borders - 1 £39,594 - 1
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 (2.99%) WordPress
2 1 (1.49%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (86.57%) Azure
2 39 (58.21%) GitHub
3 35 (52.24%) AWS
4 14 (20.90%) Datadog
4 14 (20.90%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (14.93%) SaaS
6 9 (13.43%) Boomi
7 8 (11.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.48%) GCP
9 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.99%) Siteimprove
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.49%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (44.78%) Internet
2 1 (1.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (38.81%) Git
2 8 (11.94%) JIRA
General
1 30 (44.78%) Multimedia
2 22 (32.84%) Finance
3 19 (28.36%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Police
6 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (44.78%) Trainee
2 18 (26.87%) Developer
2 18 (26.87%) Senior
3 16 (23.88%) Trainee Developer
4 14 (20.90%) Development Engineer
5 12 (17.91%) Software Developer
6 11 (16.42%) Trainee Software Developer
7 8 (11.94%) Senior Development Engineer
8 7 (10.45%) Software Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Trainee Web Developer
9 5 (7.46%) Web Developer
10 2 (2.99%) Administrator
10 2 (2.99%) Trainee Administrator
10 2 (2.99%) Web Administrator
11 1 (1.49%) Consultant
11 1 (1.49%) Senior Developer
11 1 (1.49%) Senior Software Developer
11 1 (1.49%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (1.49%) Solutions Consultant
11 1 (1.49%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (53.73%) HTML
2 35 (52.24%) CSS
3 17 (25.37%) .NET
4 14 (20.90%) ADO
5 13 (19.40%) React
6 9 (13.43%) REST
6 9 (13.43%) SOAP
6 9 (13.43%) Web Services
7 8 (11.94%) SAML
8 5 (7.46%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.48%) Kafka
10 2 (2.99%) .NET Core
10 2 (2.99%) Next.js
10 2 (2.99%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.99%) XML
11 1 (1.49%) AWS CDK
11 1 (1.49%) Hugging Face
11 1 (1.49%) JMS
11 1 (1.49%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.84%) Product Ownership
2 14 (20.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.49%) NHS
4 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (53.73%) Mentoring
2 28 (41.79%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (32.84%) Asset Management
3 22 (32.84%) Coaching
4 19 (28.36%) DevOps
4 19 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (25.37%) CI/CD
6 16 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (22.39%) Containerisation
8 14 (20.90%) Brown Bag Session
8 14 (20.90%) Code Quality
8 14 (20.90%) Observability
8 14 (20.90%) Platform Engineering
8 14 (20.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 13 (19.40%) Agile
10 10 (14.93%) Roadmaps
11 8 (11.94%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 8 (11.94%) Data Privacy
12 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
12 7 (10.45%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (80.60%) Python
2 14 (20.90%) R
3 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.46%) Java
5 3 (4.48%) C#
5 3 (4.48%) SQL
5 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 31 (46.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (44.78%) AWS Certification
2 30 (44.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 30 (44.78%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.99%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.90%) QA
2 8 (11.94%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (25.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (23.88%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.90%) Grafana
2 14 (20.90%) Prometheus
2 14 (20.90%) Terraform
3 8 (11.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (49.25%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.43%) MuleSoft
3 8 (11.94%) ServiceNow
3 8 (11.94%) Workday
4 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.49%) Remedy
4 1 (1.49%) Xamarin