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 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 36 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 -21 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 224 225 765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.28% 7.63% 14.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.12% 20.55% 29.94%
Number of salaries quoted 102 180 474
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £80,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - +7.44% +10.00%

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 1,236 1,095 2,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.60% 37.14% 47.53%
Number of salaries quoted 606 771 1,611
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% +13.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,433 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,759 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +4.00% +4.17%

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 26 October 2024.

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 October 2024. 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 +2 104 £65,000 -0.54% 12
Glasgow +7 58 £51,250 +2.50% 25
Dundee +11 22 £32,500 -35.00%
Aberdeen +3 13 £60,000 +50.00% 2
Renfrewshire - 8 £47,250 -
Lanarkshire - 6 - - 5
Stirling -12 3 £50,000 +5.26%
West Lothian - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire -4 1 £35,000 +20.69%
Aberdeenshire -6 1 - - 1
Dunbartonshire - 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 23 (10.27%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.13%) Umbraco
3 5 (2.23%) CMS
4 2 (0.89%) Apache
4 2 (0.89%) WordPress
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.45%) FileNet
5 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.45%) Solana
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.89%) Photoshop
1 2 (0.89%) Trello
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (8.48%) Sage 200
1 19 (8.48%) Sage 50
2 9 (4.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 87 (38.84%) AWS
2 72 (32.14%) Azure
3 36 (16.07%) GCP
4 34 (15.18%) GitHub
5 32 (14.29%) SaaS
6 13 (5.80%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.57%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (3.13%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.23%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.34%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.34%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.34%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 3 (1.34%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (0.89%) AWS CodeStar
13 2 (0.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.57%) Network Security
2 3 (1.34%) Internet
3 2 (0.89%) Broadband
3 2 (0.89%) SSL
4 1 (0.45%) Firewall
4 1 (0.45%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.04%) MySQL
3 14 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.91%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.91%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.91%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.02%) Power BI
6 8 (3.57%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.34%) DB2
9 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.89%) GIS
9 2 (0.89%) SQLite
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.45%) Informix
10 1 (0.45%) Looker
Development Applications
1 31 (13.84%) Jenkins
2 29 (12.95%) Git
3 20 (8.93%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.23%) webpack
6 3 (1.34%) Mocha
7 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.89%) GitLab
7 2 (0.89%) JIRA
7 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.89%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.45%) Maven
8 1 (0.45%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.45%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.45%) Postman
8 1 (0.45%) Selenium
8 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.45%) Vite
General
1 51 (22.77%) Finance
2 31 (13.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (11.61%) Manufacturing
4 24 (10.71%) Social Skills
5 16 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.36%) Banking
7 9 (4.02%) Multimedia
8 7 (3.13%) Marketing
9 6 (2.68%) Advertising
10 5 (2.23%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.79%) Legal
12 3 (1.34%) Law
13 2 (0.89%) Back Office
13 2 (0.89%) Games
13 2 (0.89%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.45%) French Language
14 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (52.23%) Developer
2 60 (26.79%) Software Engineer
3 44 (19.64%) Senior
4 26 (11.61%) .NET Developer
5 24 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 21 (9.38%) .NET Software Developer
7 19 (8.48%) Lead
7 19 (8.48%) Web Developer
8 17 (7.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 17 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (6.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 11 (4.91%) PHP Developer
11 10 (4.46%) Software Developer
12 9 (4.02%) Trainee Developer
12 9 (4.02%) Trainee Web Developer
13 7 (3.13%) Data Engineer
14 6 (2.68%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 6 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (2.68%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 6 (2.68%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (49.11%) CSS
2 108 (48.21%) HTML
3 100 (44.64%) React
4 71 (31.70%) .NET
5 56 (25.00%) .NET Core
6 53 (23.66%) AngularJS
7 42 (18.75%) .NET Framework
7 42 (18.75%) HTML5
8 36 (16.07%) Node.js
9 32 (14.29%) Vue
10 27 (12.05%) jQuery
11 26 (11.61%) ASP.NET
12 24 (10.71%) RESTful
13 23 (10.27%) React Native
14 15 (6.70%) Kafka
15 14 (6.25%) Razor View Engine
15 14 (6.25%) Spring
16 13 (5.80%) ASP.NET Web API
16 13 (5.80%) Laravel
17 11 (4.91%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.02%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.68%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (1.79%) Online Banking
6 3 (1.34%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.34%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.34%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (1.34%) PropTech
6 3 (1.34%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.89%) NHS
7 2 (0.89%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.91%) Linux
2 8 (3.57%) Android
3 4 (1.79%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.89%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (39.29%) Software Engineering
2 71 (31.70%) Agile
3 53 (23.66%) Full-Stack Development
4 37 (16.52%) TDD
5 36 (16.07%) Microservices
6 35 (15.63%) Web Development
7 33 (14.73%) Test Automation
8 32 (14.29%) DevOps
8 32 (14.29%) MVC
9 31 (13.84%) Front End Development
10 28 (12.50%) Fintech
11 26 (11.61%) User Experience
12 25 (11.16%) CI/CD
13 24 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (9.38%) Analytics
14 21 (9.38%) Mentoring
15 20 (8.93%) E-Commerce
16 19 (8.48%) Biometrics
16 19 (8.48%) Design Patterns
17 18 (8.04%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 72 (32.14%) TypeScript
2 68 (30.36%) C#
3 65 (29.02%) SQL
4 45 (20.09%) Java
5 42 (18.75%) Python
6 19 (8.48%) PHP
7 8 (3.57%) Ruby
8 6 (2.68%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.23%) C
9 5 (2.23%) C++
9 5 (2.23%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.79%) Groovy
10 4 (1.79%) Rust
11 3 (1.34%) VB
12 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.89%) Elixir
12 2 (0.89%) Perl
12 2 (0.89%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.89%) R
13 1 (0.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (4.02%) Degree
2 5 (2.23%) ACCA
2 5 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.79%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.34%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.89%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.04%) QA
2 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.45%) GDPR
3 1 (0.45%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 21 (9.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.34%) Ansible
3 2 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.48%) Sage
3 10 (4.46%) Oracle
4 9 (4.02%) Google
5 8 (3.57%) Splunk
6 5 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.89%) Adobe
7 2 (0.89%) Black Duck
7 2 (0.89%) Netlify
8 1 (0.45%) Apple
8 1 (0.45%) Facebook
8 1 (0.45%) Minitab
8 1 (0.45%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.45%) Planview
8 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.45%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.45%) Yahoo!