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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 30 24
Rank change year-on-year -19 -6 -11
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 124 351 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.94% 7.96% 8.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.25% 18.40% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 29 119 197
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £84,250 £72,433 £72,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £78,000 £76,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.69% -5.38% +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 644 1,908 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.68% 43.27% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 226 702 842
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,733
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £75,050 £67,991 £72,200
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,375
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

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

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -3 38 £68,500 +24.55% 23
Edinburgh -21 35 £60,000 -7.69% 19
Lanarkshire -6 18 - - 9
Renfrewshire -4 4 - - 4
Fife - 4 £45,000 - 4
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling -2 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire -1 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 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 49 (39.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.81%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Workday HCM
2 3 (2.42%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 69 (55.65%) AWS
2 68 (54.84%) Azure
3 58 (46.77%) GCP
4 8 (6.45%) GitHub
4 8 (6.45%) SaaS
5 7 (5.65%) npm
5 7 (5.65%) Yarn
6 6 (4.84%) Amazon S3
6 6 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (4.84%) Boomi
6 6 (4.84%) Serverless
7 5 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.03%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (3.23%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (3.23%) BlazeMeter
8 4 (3.23%) Datadog
8 4 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.03%) Internet
2 2 (1.61%) HTTP
3 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.81%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (41.94%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.06%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (3.23%) Electronic Patient Records
4 4 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.61%) Tableau
6 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.81%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 57 (45.97%) Maven
2 55 (44.35%) JIRA
3 51 (41.13%) Selenium
3 51 (41.13%) SonarQube
3 51 (41.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 49 (39.52%) Bitbucket
4 49 (39.52%) Cucumber
4 49 (39.52%) GitLab
5 11 (8.87%) Cypress.io
5 11 (8.87%) Git
6 9 (7.26%) Jenkins
6 9 (7.26%) webpack
7 7 (5.65%) JUnit
7 7 (5.65%) Vite
8 2 (1.61%) Postman
8 2 (1.61%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.81%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.81%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.81%) Protractor
9 1 (0.81%) WebDriver
General
1 89 (71.77%) Finance
2 85 (68.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 67 (54.03%) Banking
4 25 (20.16%) Law
5 17 (13.71%) Social Skills
6 13 (10.48%) Marketing
7 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.03%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.23%) Multimedia
10 3 (2.42%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.61%) Electronics
11 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.81%) Advertising
12 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 82 (66.13%) Software Engineer
2 22 (17.74%) Developer
3 16 (12.90%) Senior
4 12 (9.68%) Java Developer
5 11 (8.87%) Java Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Lead
6 10 (8.06%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Software Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Development Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 4 (3.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (3.23%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
11 4 (3.23%) Java Software Developer
11 4 (3.23%) React Developer
11 4 (3.23%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (64.52%) React
2 70 (56.45%) CSS
3 69 (55.65%) HTML
3 69 (55.65%) Spring
4 60 (48.39%) Spring Boot
5 56 (45.16%) Kafka
6 52 (41.94%) Hibernate
7 50 (40.32%) Redux
8 49 (39.52%) JPA
9 16 (12.90%) REST
10 15 (12.10%) AngularJS
11 11 (8.87%) Web Services
12 10 (8.06%) .NET
13 8 (6.45%) Jest
14 7 (5.65%) SAML
14 7 (5.65%) SOAP
15 6 (4.84%) jQuery
16 5 (4.03%) JSON
16 5 (4.03%) Middleware
17 4 (3.23%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 58 (46.77%) Product Ownership
2 49 (39.52%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (18.55%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.84%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.03%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.23%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.81%) PKI
9 1 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.84%) Linux
2 2 (1.61%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (74.19%) Agile
2 88 (70.97%) Software Engineering
3 84 (67.74%) CI/CD
4 74 (59.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (55.65%) SDLC
6 66 (53.23%) DevOps
7 65 (52.42%) Test Automation
8 63 (50.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 63 (50.81%) Microservices
9 62 (50.00%) TDD
10 58 (46.77%) Clean Code
11 57 (45.97%) Front End Development
12 54 (43.55%) Containerisation
13 49 (39.52%) Performance Optimisation
14 23 (18.55%) Community of Practice
14 23 (18.55%) Operational Stability
15 20 (16.13%) Visualisation
16 16 (12.90%) Mentoring
16 16 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
17 12 (9.68%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 90 (72.58%) Java
2 65 (52.42%) SQL
3 27 (21.77%) Python
4 21 (16.94%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.84%) C#
6 5 (4.03%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.23%) C
7 4 (3.23%) C++
8 2 (1.61%) Go
8 2 (1.61%) Groovy
8 2 (1.61%) R
9 1 (0.81%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 4 (3.23%) AWS Certification
1 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 4 (3.23%) Azure Certification
1 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (3.23%) Degree
1 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (43.55%) QA
2 5 (4.03%) GDPR
3 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 60 (48.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (50.81%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.45%) Grafana
3 7 (5.65%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (4.84%) Terraform
5 4 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.61%) Istio
7 1 (0.81%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 49 (39.52%) Solace
2 12 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.84%) MuleSoft
4 5 (4.03%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.03%) Oracle
4 5 (4.03%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.03%) Splunk
4 5 (4.03%) Workday
5 3 (2.42%) IBM
6 2 (1.61%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.81%) Adobe
7 1 (0.81%) Google
7 1 (0.81%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.81%) Tealium