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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 21 38
Rank change year-on-year -59 +17 -20
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 67 166 587
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.11% 8.61% 9.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.09% 26.73% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 46 136 255
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £34,400
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £51,563 £84,063 £68,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.88% +10.00% -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 664 621 3,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 20.96% 32.19% 59.21%
Number of salaries quoted 292 451 1,132
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,938 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,360 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,225 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -33 39 £30,500 -57.34% 7
Glasgow -28 9 £30,500 -44.55% 11
Aberdeen -13 7 £30,000 -40.00% 2
South Lanarkshire - 6 £60,000 - 2
North Lanarkshire - 2 - - 1
Lanarkshire 0 1 - - 7
Fife -2 1 - -
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 5 (7.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 48 (71.64%) Azure
2 39 (58.21%) AWS
3 35 (52.24%) GitHub
4 10 (14.93%) Datadog
4 10 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.48%) GCP
5 3 (4.48%) SaaS
6 2 (2.99%) Siteimprove
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.49%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (46.27%) Internet
2 7 (10.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (38.81%) Git
General
1 31 (46.27%) Multimedia
2 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.42%) Finance
4 7 (10.45%) Games
5 4 (5.97%) Local Government
6 3 (4.48%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.49%) Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Police
7 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (46.27%) Trainee
2 24 (35.82%) Developer
3 16 (23.88%) Trainee Developer
4 15 (22.39%) Senior
5 11 (16.42%) Software Developer
6 10 (14.93%) Development Engineer
6 10 (14.93%) Trainee Software Developer
7 9 (13.43%) Administrator
8 8 (11.94%) Senior Development Engineer
9 7 (10.45%) Software Engineer
10 6 (8.96%) Trainee Web Developer
10 6 (8.96%) Web Developer
11 5 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (7.46%) Trainee Administrator
11 5 (7.46%) Web Administrator
12 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow Administrator
13 3 (4.48%) Lead
14 2 (2.99%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
15 1 (1.49%) Senior Developer
15 1 (1.49%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (50.75%) CSS
1 34 (50.75%) HTML
2 21 (31.34%) React
3 15 (22.39%) .NET
4 10 (14.93%) ADO
5 7 (10.45%) Node.js
6 6 (8.96%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (7.46%) AWS CDK
8 4 (5.97%) React Native
9 3 (4.48%) .NET Core
9 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET
9 3 (4.48%) Vue
10 2 (2.99%) .NET Framework
10 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (2.99%) Entity Framework
10 2 (2.99%) LangChain
10 2 (2.99%) Next.js
11 1 (1.49%) Hugging Face
11 1 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Product Ownership
2 10 (14.93%) Onboarding
3 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
4 7 (10.45%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (10.45%) Cyberattack
5 5 (7.46%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.49%) BBC
6 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.49%) NHS
6 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.75%) Mentoring
2 33 (49.25%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (26.87%) CI/CD
5 16 (23.88%) DevOps
6 15 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (16.42%) Code Quality
7 11 (16.42%) Containerisation
7 11 (16.42%) Observability
7 11 (16.42%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
7 11 (16.42%) Web Development
8 10 (14.93%) Asset Management
8 10 (14.93%) Brown Bag Session
8 10 (14.93%) Coaching
8 10 (14.93%) Microservices
8 10 (14.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (13.43%) Agile
9 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (11.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (67.16%) Python
2 15 (22.39%) R
3 9 (13.43%) TypeScript
4 7 (10.45%) Java
5 4 (5.97%) SQL
6 2 (2.99%) C#
7 1 (1.49%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 31 (46.27%) AWS Certification
1 31 (46.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 31 (46.27%) Azure Certification
1 31 (46.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (10.45%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (5.97%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.99%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.93%) Grafana
2 10 (14.93%) Prometheus
2 10 (14.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (53.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.49%) Apple
3 1 (1.49%) Facebook
3 1 (1.49%) Google
3 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.49%) Remedy
3 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.49%) Sony
3 1 (1.49%) Xamarin
3 1 (1.49%) Yahoo!