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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 19 38
Rank change year-on-year -64 +19 -21
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 65 219 426
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.18% 9.66% 9.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.83% 27.65% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 43 147 244
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £34,300
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 £42,750 £72,875 £69,063
90th Percentile £66,250 £93,778 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.23% +10.17% -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 661 792 2,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.14% 34.94% 56.63%
Number of salaries quoted 276 459 1,028
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £34,350
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,318 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +2.40% -7.60%
75th Percentile £73,829 £72,500 £68,750
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 1 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 1 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 -38 46 £30,500 -53.08% 24
Glasgow -16 10 £30,500 -41.90% 18
Aberdeen -13 5 £30,000 -45.45% 13
Lanarkshire +3 1 - - 9
Scottish Borders - 1 £39,594 -
Fife - 1 - - 3
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 (3.08%) WordPress
2 1 (1.54%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (83.08%) Azure
2 35 (53.85%) GitHub
3 34 (52.31%) AWS
4 11 (16.92%) Datadog
4 11 (16.92%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (12.31%) SaaS
6 6 (9.23%) Boomi
7 5 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (6.15%) GCP
9 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.08%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.08%) Siteimprove
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.54%) Azure AI
10 1 (1.54%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (44.62%) Internet
2 3 (4.62%) Broadband
3 1 (1.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (38.46%) Git
2 5 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 29 (44.62%) Multimedia
2 16 (24.62%) Finance
3 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Tech for Good
5 3 (4.62%) Games
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.54%) Police
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (44.62%) Trainee
2 19 (29.23%) Developer
3 18 (27.69%) Senior
4 16 (24.62%) Trainee Developer
5 12 (18.46%) Software Developer
6 11 (16.92%) Development Engineer
6 11 (16.92%) Trainee Software Developer
7 9 (13.85%) Software Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Senior Development Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) Trainee Web Developer
9 5 (7.69%) Web Developer
10 4 (6.15%) Administrator
11 2 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow Administrator
11 2 (3.08%) Trainee Administrator
11 2 (3.08%) Web Administrator
12 1 (1.54%) Integration Developer
12 1 (1.54%) Lead
12 1 (1.54%) Platform Specialist
12 1 (1.54%) Power Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (53.85%) HTML
2 34 (52.31%) CSS
3 17 (26.15%) .NET
4 16 (24.62%) React
5 11 (16.92%) ADO
6 6 (9.23%) REST
6 6 (9.23%) SOAP
6 6 (9.23%) Web Services
7 5 (7.69%) SAML
7 5 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (6.15%) .NET Core
8 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET
9 3 (4.62%) Kafka
10 2 (3.08%) .NET Framework
10 2 (3.08%) Entity Framework
10 2 (3.08%) Node.js
10 2 (3.08%) RESTful
10 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
10 2 (3.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.62%) Product Ownership
2 11 (16.92%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.62%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.62%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.54%) BBC
4 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.54%) NHS
4 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (53.85%) Mentoring
2 30 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (27.69%) DevOps
3 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (24.62%) Asset Management
4 16 (24.62%) Coaching
5 14 (21.54%) CI/CD
6 13 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (18.46%) Agile
7 12 (18.46%) Containerisation
8 11 (16.92%) Brown Bag Session
8 11 (16.92%) Code Quality
8 11 (16.92%) Observability
8 11 (16.92%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (16.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (13.85%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.77%) Microservices
10 7 (10.77%) Roadmaps
10 7 (10.77%) Web Development
11 5 (7.69%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (72.31%) Python
2 13 (20.00%) R
3 5 (7.69%) Java
3 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.69%) SQL
4 4 (6.15%) C#
4 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.54%) Groovy
5 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 30 (46.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (44.62%) AWS Certification
2 29 (44.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 29 (44.62%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.08%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) QA
2 5 (7.69%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (21.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (21.54%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.92%) Grafana
2 11 (16.92%) Prometheus
2 11 (16.92%) Terraform
3 5 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) ServiceNow
3 6 (9.23%) MuleSoft
4 5 (7.69%) Workday
5 1 (1.54%) Apple
5 1 (1.54%) Facebook
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.54%) Remedy
5 1 (1.54%) Sony
5 1 (1.54%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.54%) Yahoo!