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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 20 33
Rank change year-on-year -57 +13 -17
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 68 251 214
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.46% 8.21% 8.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.17% 23.75% 19.78%
Number of salaries quoted 36 139 182
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £47,250 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £79,655 £91,146
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +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 609 1,057 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.05% 34.58% 43.51%
Number of salaries quoted 252 564 770
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,050 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,625 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £78,760 £69,850 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,624 £82,505
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 10 December 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 10 December 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 -40 42 £30,500 -49.17% 23
Glasgow -17 20 £30,500 -44.55% 18
Aberdeen -5 5 £30,000 -50.00% 8
Scottish Borders - 1 £39,594 -
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 (2.94%) WordPress
2 1 (1.47%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (75.00%) Azure
2 33 (48.53%) AWS
3 32 (47.06%) GitHub
4 12 (17.65%) Datadog
4 12 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (16.18%) SaaS
6 9 (13.24%) Boomi
7 8 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (5.88%) GCP
9 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.41%) Serverless
10 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.94%) npm
10 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.94%) Siteimprove
10 2 (2.94%) Yarn
11 1 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (36.76%) Internet
2 1 (1.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.47%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (33.82%) Git
2 9 (13.24%) JIRA
3 3 (4.41%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.41%) webpack
4 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.94%) Maven
4 2 (2.94%) Vite
5 1 (1.47%) Ant
5 1 (1.47%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.47%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.47%) JUnit
5 1 (1.47%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.47%) Protractor
5 1 (1.47%) Selenium
5 1 (1.47%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (41.18%) Finance
2 24 (35.29%) Multimedia
3 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (11.76%) Law
5 5 (7.35%) Marketing
5 5 (7.35%) Tech for Good
6 3 (4.41%) Banking
7 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.47%) Police
8 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (35.29%) Trainee
2 16 (23.53%) Developer
2 16 (23.53%) Senior
3 15 (22.06%) Software Engineer
4 13 (19.12%) Trainee Developer
5 12 (17.65%) Development Engineer
6 11 (16.18%) Software Developer
7 9 (13.24%) Trainee Software Developer
8 6 (8.82%) Senior Development Engineer
9 5 (7.35%) Java Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Trainee Web Developer
10 4 (5.88%) Web Developer
11 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) Lead
12 2 (2.94%) Administrator
12 2 (2.94%) Lead Software Engineer
12 2 (2.94%) Trainee Administrator
12 2 (2.94%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (50.00%) HTML
2 33 (48.53%) CSS
3 18 (26.47%) React
4 15 (22.06%) .NET
5 12 (17.65%) ADO
6 11 (16.18%) Web Services
7 10 (14.71%) REST
8 9 (13.24%) SOAP
9 8 (11.76%) SAML
10 6 (8.82%) AngularJS
11 5 (7.35%) Kafka
11 5 (7.35%) Spring
12 4 (5.88%) Spring Boot
12 4 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
13 2 (2.94%) .NET Core
13 2 (2.94%) .NET Framework
13 2 (2.94%) Jest
13 2 (2.94%) Next.js
13 2 (2.94%) Node.js
13 2 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 12 (17.65%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.82%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.47%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.47%) NHS
6 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) Mentoring
2 23 (33.82%) CI/CD
3 22 (32.35%) Agile
3 22 (32.35%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (29.41%) Asset Management
4 20 (29.41%) Coaching
5 19 (27.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (27.94%) DevOps
5 19 (27.94%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (22.06%) Software Engineering
7 14 (20.59%) Code Quality
7 14 (20.59%) Containerisation
8 13 (19.12%) Observability
9 12 (17.65%) Brown Bag Session
9 12 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (14.71%) Roadmaps
11 8 (11.76%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 8 (11.76%) Data Privacy
12 7 (10.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 47 (69.12%) Python
2 13 (19.12%) Java
3 11 (16.18%) R
4 9 (13.24%) TypeScript
5 8 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.35%) SQL
7 3 (4.41%) C#
8 1 (1.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (36.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 24 (35.29%) AWS Certification
2 24 (35.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 24 (35.29%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.94%) CCA
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.65%) QA
2 8 (11.76%) GDPR
3 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (23.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (22.06%) Kubernetes
2 13 (19.12%) Grafana
3 12 (17.65%) Prometheus
3 12 (17.65%) Terraform
4 8 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (39.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.24%) MuleSoft
3 8 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 8 (11.76%) Workday
4 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle
4 1 (1.47%) Remedy
4 1 (1.47%) Splunk