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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 26 25
Rank change year-on-year -25 -1 -10
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 125 225 220
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.78% 6.73% 8.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.57% 19.62% 21.83%
Number of salaries quoted 32 103 194
10th Percentile - £31,250 £37,650
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,416 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,875 £76,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% - +8.33%

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 673 1,147 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.73% 34.29% 40.19%
Number of salaries quoted 222 584 818
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,325 £35,733
25th Percentile £40,313 £40,000 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,906 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,375 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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
Glasgow -12 38 £47,750 -6.83% 15
Edinburgh -26 35 £55,750 -14.23% 25
Lanarkshire -5 18 - - 10
Renfrewshire -12 4 - - 1
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling -4 3 - -
Fife - 3 £45,000 - 2
Aberdeen +6 2 £30,000 -50.00% 11
West Lothian - 2 - - 2
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire -7 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 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 49 (39.20%) Confluence
2 2 (1.60%) WordPress
3 1 (0.80%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (64.80%) Azure
2 78 (62.40%) AWS
3 57 (45.60%) GCP
4 16 (12.80%) GitHub
5 12 (9.60%) SaaS
6 9 (7.20%) Boomi
7 8 (6.40%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (5.60%) npm
8 7 (5.60%) Yarn
9 6 (4.80%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.80%) Serverless
10 5 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.20%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (3.20%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.20%) Datadog
11 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.40%) Internet
2 2 (1.60%) HTTP
3 1 (0.80%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (41.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.20%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.80%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.80%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (46.40%) JIRA
2 55 (44.00%) Maven
3 51 (40.80%) Selenium
4 49 (39.20%) Bitbucket
4 49 (39.20%) Cucumber
4 49 (39.20%) GitLab
4 49 (39.20%) SonarQube
4 49 (39.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 17 (13.60%) Git
6 11 (8.80%) Cypress.io
7 8 (6.40%) webpack
8 7 (5.60%) Vite
9 6 (4.80%) Jenkins
10 2 (1.60%) JUnit
10 2 (1.60%) Postman
10 2 (1.60%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.80%) Ant
11 1 (0.80%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.80%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.80%) WebDriver
General
1 87 (69.60%) Finance
2 77 (61.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (50.40%) Banking
4 25 (20.00%) Law
5 18 (14.40%) Social Skills
6 13 (10.40%) Marketing
7 12 (9.60%) Multimedia
8 7 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
9 5 (4.00%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.80%) Electronics
10 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 82 (65.60%) Software Engineer
2 16 (12.80%) Developer
3 13 (10.40%) Senior
4 12 (9.60%) Trainee
5 11 (8.80%) Java Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Lead
6 10 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) Software Developer
7 9 (7.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Development Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Trainee Developer
11 5 (4.00%) Trainee Software Developer
12 4 (3.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
12 4 (3.20%) Java Software Developer
12 4 (3.20%) React Developer
12 4 (3.20%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (64.00%) HTML
2 76 (60.80%) CSS
2 76 (60.80%) React
3 64 (51.20%) Spring
4 60 (48.00%) Spring Boot
5 59 (47.20%) Kafka
6 50 (40.00%) Hibernate
7 49 (39.20%) JPA
7 49 (39.20%) Redux
8 14 (11.20%) REST
8 14 (11.20%) Web Services
9 11 (8.80%) AngularJS
10 10 (8.00%) SOAP
11 9 (7.20%) .NET
12 8 (6.40%) SAML
13 7 (5.60%) Jest
14 5 (4.00%) jQuery
15 4 (3.20%) ADO
15 4 (3.20%) JSON
15 4 (3.20%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 61 (48.80%) Product Ownership
2 50 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (15.20%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.60%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.20%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.80%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.80%) PKI
8 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (76.00%) Agile
2 84 (67.20%) Software Engineering
3 79 (63.20%) CI/CD
4 73 (58.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 67 (53.60%) DevOps
5 67 (53.60%) SDLC
6 62 (49.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 62 (49.60%) TDD
6 62 (49.60%) Test Automation
7 59 (47.20%) Microservices
8 58 (46.40%) Clean Code
9 56 (44.80%) Front End Development
10 54 (43.20%) Containerisation
11 50 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
12 25 (20.00%) Mentoring
13 21 (16.80%) Community of Practice
14 20 (16.00%) Operational Stability
15 18 (14.40%) Visualisation
16 16 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
17 12 (9.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 82 (65.60%) Java
2 61 (48.80%) SQL
3 34 (27.20%) Python
4 20 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.40%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.60%) R
7 5 (4.00%) C#
8 2 (1.60%) C
8 2 (1.60%) C++
9 1 (0.80%) Cypher
9 1 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (10.40%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (9.60%) AWS Certification
2 12 (9.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 12 (9.60%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.20%) Degree
4 1 (0.80%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (43.20%) QA
2 8 (6.40%) GDPR
3 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (46.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (46.40%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.20%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (4.00%) Grafana
4 4 (3.20%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.20%) Terraform
5 1 (0.80%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 49 (39.20%) Solace
2 20 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.20%) MuleSoft
4 8 (6.40%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.40%) Workday
5 5 (4.00%) Oracle
6 3 (2.40%) IBM
7 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.60%) Splunk
8 1 (0.80%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.80%) OpenAI