Lightning Web Components Job Trends in Scotland

Salesforce Lightning Web Components (LWC)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Lightning Web Components skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 142 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Permanent jobs citing Lightning Web Components 23 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.65% 0.12% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.09% 0.76% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £57,000 - -
25th Percentile £75,000 £31,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £32,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +238.46% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £33,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% -12.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Lightning Web Components falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 228 395 1,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.41% 15.86% 28.48%
Number of salaries quoted 157 125 490
10th Percentile £44,000 £32,050 £37,618
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -1.23%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,500 £94,511 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Lightning Web Components
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Lightning Web Components relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Lightning Web Components job vacancy trend in Scotland

Lightning Web Components
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Lightning Web Components.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Lightning Web Components

Lightning Web Components
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lightning Web Components in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Lightning Web Components in Scotland

Lightning Web Components
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lightning Web Components within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Fife - 6 - -
Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 4 - -
West Lothian +7 3 - -
North Lanarkshire - 2 - -
Edinburgh - 2 £110,000 -
Glasgow - 1 £50,000 -
Midlothian - 1 - -
Lightning Web Components
UK

Lightning Web Components
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:

Communications & Networking
1 20 (86.96%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 21 (91.30%) GitLab
1 21 (91.30%) Jenkins
2 19 (82.61%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (91.30%) Marketing
2 20 (86.96%) Games
3 19 (82.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (91.30%) Architect
1 21 (91.30%) Salesforce Architect
2 11 (47.83%) Salesforce Technical Architect
2 11 (47.83%) Technical Architect
3 8 (34.78%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 8 (34.78%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (95.65%) REST
2 21 (91.30%) SOAP
3 19 (82.61%) Visualforce
4 1 (4.35%) Node.js
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (91.30%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) CI/CD
1 22 (95.65%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 21 (91.30%) Agile
2 21 (91.30%) DevOps
3 20 (86.96%) Roadmaps
3 20 (86.96%) Technology Roadmap
4 19 (82.61%) Community of Practice
4 19 (82.61%) Continuous Delivery
4 19 (82.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (82.61%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (82.61%) Design Patterns
4 19 (82.61%) Event-Driven
4 19 (82.61%) OO
4 19 (82.61%) PLM
4 19 (82.61%) Scrum
4 19 (82.61%) Static Code Analysis
4 19 (82.61%) Technical Analysis
4 19 (82.61%) TOGAF
5 3 (13.04%) Order Management
6 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 20 (86.96%) SOQL
3 19 (82.61%) SOSL
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 19 (82.61%) Splunk