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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 21 41
Rank change year-on-year -58 +20 -23
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 67 204 446
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.22% 9.64% 9.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.09% 28.22% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42 149 245
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £34,400
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% - -
75th Percentile £41,167 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £66,875 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 664 723 2,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.01% 34.15% 56.22%
Number of salaries quoted 279 471 1,068
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,375 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,318 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +2.40% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,533 £73,250 £67,625
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -40 45 £30,500 -53.08% 21
Glasgow -23 9 £30,500 -37.11% 15
Aberdeen -12 6 £30,000 -40.00% 7
North Lanarkshire - 2 - - 2
Fife +4 1 - - 4
Lanarkshire +3 1 - - 15
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 2
Scottish Borders - 1 £39,594 - 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 2 (2.99%) WordPress
2 1 (1.49%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (79.10%) Azure
2 34 (50.75%) AWS
2 34 (50.75%) GitHub
3 10 (14.93%) Datadog
3 10 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (11.94%) SaaS
5 5 (7.46%) GCP
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (5.97%) Boomi
7 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.99%) Siteimprove
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.49%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.49%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (43.28%) Internet
2 7 (10.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (37.31%) Git
2 4 (5.97%) JIRA
General
1 29 (43.28%) Multimedia
2 14 (20.90%) Finance
2 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Games
4 4 (5.97%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Police
6 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (43.28%) Trainee
2 20 (29.85%) Senior
3 19 (28.36%) Developer
4 16 (23.88%) Trainee Developer
5 12 (17.91%) Software Developer
6 11 (16.42%) Trainee Software Developer
7 10 (14.93%) Development Engineer
8 9 (13.43%) Software Engineer
9 8 (11.94%) Senior Development Engineer
10 6 (8.96%) Administrator
11 5 (7.46%) Trainee Web Developer
11 5 (7.46%) Web Developer
12 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow Administrator
13 2 (2.99%) Lead
13 2 (2.99%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 2 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
13 2 (2.99%) Trainee Administrator
13 2 (2.99%) Web Administrator
14 1 (1.49%) Senior Software Developer
14 1 (1.49%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (52.24%) HTML
2 34 (50.75%) CSS
3 17 (25.37%) React
4 16 (23.88%) .NET
5 10 (14.93%) ADO
6 5 (7.46%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (5.97%) .NET Core
7 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.97%) REST
7 4 (5.97%) SAML
7 4 (5.97%) SOAP
7 4 (5.97%) Web Services
8 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET
8 3 (4.48%) Kafka
9 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (2.99%) Entity Framework
9 2 (2.99%) Node.js
9 2 (2.99%) RESTful
9 2 (2.99%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Product Ownership
2 10 (14.93%) Onboarding
3 7 (10.45%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (10.45%) Cyberattack
4 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.49%) BBC
5 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) NHS
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (56.72%) Mentoring
2 34 (50.75%) Cybersecurity
3 21 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (25.37%) DevOps
5 14 (20.90%) Asset Management
5 14 (20.90%) Coaching
6 13 (19.40%) CI/CD
7 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (16.42%) Containerisation
8 11 (16.42%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (14.93%) Agile
9 10 (14.93%) Brown Bag Session
9 10 (14.93%) Code Quality
9 10 (14.93%) Observability
9 10 (14.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (13.43%) Software Engineering
11 8 (11.94%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (10.45%) Programme Delivery
12 7 (10.45%) Roadmaps
12 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (68.66%) Python
2 13 (19.40%) R
3 4 (5.97%) C#
3 4 (5.97%) Java
3 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.97%) SQL
3 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 30 (44.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (43.28%) AWS Certification
2 29 (43.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 29 (43.28%) Azure Certification
3 7 (10.45%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.99%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (19.40%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.93%) Grafana
2 10 (14.93%) Prometheus
2 10 (14.93%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (52.24%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.42%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.97%) MuleSoft
3 4 (5.97%) Workday
4 1 (1.49%) Apple
4 1 (1.49%) Facebook
4 1 (1.49%) Google
4 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.49%) Remedy
4 1 (1.49%) Sony
4 1 (1.49%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.49%) Yahoo!