JavaScript Jobs in Scotland

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 25 7
Rank change year-on-year -13 -18 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 631 406 936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.16% 9.42% 14.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.60% 23.23% 33.31%
Number of salaries quoted 220 237 493
10th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,938 £43,750 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £69,750 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,585 1,748 2,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 52.07% 40.58% 44.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,161 995 1,603
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,449 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,200 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Scotland.

Salary trend for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

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 June 2024. 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 -20 410 £54,500 +3.81% 16
Edinburgh +6 143 £65,000 - 37
Aberdeen +9 37 £38,500 -9.41% 4
Dundee +4 20 £47,500 +14.46% 1
Fife -3 9 £40,000 -21.95%
Lanarkshire -8 3 - - 6
Stirling - 2 £50,000 - 2
Aberdeenshire - 2 £37,500 - 1
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £29,000 - 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 58 (9.19%) ArcGIS
1 58 (9.19%) GeoServer
2 53 (8.40%) FileNet
3 15 (2.38%) Cloud Foundry
3 15 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.11%) CMS
5 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.95%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.79%) WordPress
7 4 (0.63%) Confluence
8 2 (0.32%) Apache
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.48%) InVision
1 3 (0.48%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.16%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 282 (44.69%) AWS
2 125 (19.81%) Azure
3 57 (9.03%) Amazon S3
4 32 (5.07%) SaaS
5 30 (4.75%) GCP
6 17 (2.69%) Figma
7 15 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.90%) Serverless
9 11 (1.74%) SurveyMonkey
10 10 (1.58%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.43%) BlazeMeter
11 9 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (1.43%) GitHub
11 9 (1.43%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (0.79%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
16 3 (0.48%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.90%) Internet
2 7 (1.11%) HTTP
3 6 (0.95%) MQTT
4 4 (0.63%) Network Security
5 3 (0.48%) Intranet
6 2 (0.32%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.16%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (16.32%) NoSQL
2 86 (13.63%) Elasticsearch
3 75 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (9.67%) GIS
5 58 (9.19%) QGIS
5 58 (9.19%) Relational Database
6 54 (8.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 50 (7.92%) SQL Server
8 34 (5.39%) MySQL
9 26 (4.12%) MongoDB
10 15 (2.38%) Looker
11 8 (1.27%) Power BI
12 6 (0.95%) Big Data
12 6 (0.95%) Redis
13 4 (0.63%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.63%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.32%) SQLite
15 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 138 (21.87%) JUnit
2 91 (14.42%) Cypress.io
3 70 (11.09%) Jasmine
3 70 (11.09%) Karma Test Runner
4 64 (10.14%) Selenium
4 64 (10.14%) WebDriver
5 60 (9.51%) Protractor
6 56 (8.87%) Git
7 34 (5.39%) Maven
8 27 (4.28%) JIRA
9 26 (4.12%) Cucumber
10 25 (3.96%) Jenkins
11 13 (2.06%) webpack
12 10 (1.58%) Gradle
13 9 (1.43%) JMeter
13 9 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (1.27%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.95%) Moq
16 5 (0.79%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 333 (52.77%) Finance
2 331 (52.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 302 (47.86%) Law
4 152 (24.09%) Marketing
5 146 (23.14%) Banking
6 109 (17.27%) Investment Banking
7 58 (9.19%) Social Skills
8 42 (6.66%) Legal
9 22 (3.49%) Games
10 20 (3.17%) Financial Institution
11 18 (2.85%) Front Office
11 18 (2.85%) Private Banking
12 16 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
13 15 (2.38%) Publishing
14 8 (1.27%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.11%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.11%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.95%) Electronics
16 6 (0.95%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 370 (58.64%) Software Engineer
2 172 (27.26%) Developer
3 131 (20.76%) Lead
4 130 (20.60%) Senior
5 117 (18.54%) Lead Software Engineer
6 107 (16.96%) Java Engineer
7 105 (16.64%) Java Software Engineer
8 89 (14.10%) Full Stack Engineer
9 88 (13.95%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 70 (11.09%) Senior Software Engineer
11 62 (9.83%) Python Engineer
11 62 (9.83%) Python Software Engineer
12 45 (7.13%) AWS Engineer
13 42 (6.66%) AWS Software Engineer
14 38 (6.02%) UI Engineer
15 37 (5.86%) Lead Java Engineer
15 37 (5.86%) Senior Developer
16 34 (5.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 23 (3.65%) Software Developer
18 22 (3.49%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 419 (66.40%) React
2 354 (56.10%) CSS
3 293 (46.43%) HTML
4 252 (39.94%) AngularJS
5 209 (33.12%) Spring
6 203 (32.17%) Node.js
7 154 (24.41%) jQuery
8 150 (23.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 147 (23.30%) JSON
10 133 (21.08%) Hibernate
10 133 (21.08%) J2EE
11 132 (20.92%) JMS
12 129 (20.44%) .NET
13 91 (14.42%) .NET Core
14 80 (12.68%) Kafka
15 69 (10.94%) Spring Boot
16 64 (10.14%) Jest
17 59 (9.35%) Vue
18 58 (9.19%) OpenLayers
18 58 (9.19%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 141 (22.35%) Cloud Native
2 133 (21.08%) Algorithms
3 86 (13.63%) Data Structures
4 32 (5.07%) Public Cloud
5 30 (4.75%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.17%) Market Risk
8 18 (2.85%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
9 15 (2.38%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.38%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.11%) Credit Risk
11 6 (0.95%) Arduino
11 6 (0.95%) Augmented Reality
11 6 (0.95%) BBC
11 6 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.95%) IoT
11 6 (0.95%) Raspberry Pi
11 6 (0.95%) Social Media
11 6 (0.95%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.69%) Linux
2 11 (1.74%) Android
3 6 (0.95%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.32%) Unix
5 2 (0.32%) Windows
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (69.57%) Agile
2 402 (63.71%) Software Engineering
3 283 (44.85%) SDLC
4 282 (44.69%) CI/CD
5 248 (39.30%) Operational Stability
6 192 (30.43%) Community of Practice
7 190 (30.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 187 (29.64%) Machine Learning
9 170 (26.94%) Full Stack Development
10 142 (22.50%) Visualisation
11 134 (21.24%) Web Development
12 133 (21.08%) DevOps
13 131 (20.76%) Microservices
14 126 (19.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 125 (19.81%) TDD
16 85 (13.47%) BDD
17 83 (13.15%) Test Automation
18 81 (12.84%) User Experience
19 79 (12.52%) Multithreading
20 75 (11.89%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 243 (38.51%) Java
2 235 (37.24%) TypeScript
3 201 (31.85%) Python
4 178 (28.21%) SQL
5 122 (19.33%) C#
6 34 (5.39%) T-SQL
7 26 (4.12%) PHP
8 20 (3.17%) Groovy
9 8 (1.27%) C
10 7 (1.11%) C++
11 6 (0.95%) Go
11 6 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.63%) R
13 3 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.32%) Bash
14 2 (0.32%) Elixir
14 2 (0.32%) Perl
14 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.32%) Ruby
15 1 (0.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (9.67%) SC Cleared
1 61 (9.67%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.50%) Degree
3 18 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (0.79%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.63%) ISEB
5 4 (0.63%) ISTQB
5 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.32%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.16%) OCP
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (9.67%) Accessibility
2 49 (7.77%) QA
3 15 (2.38%) PMO
4 9 (1.43%) WAI
5 3 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (5.55%) Docker
2 6 (0.95%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 93 (14.74%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.85%) Terraform
3 7 (1.11%) Ansible
4 4 (0.63%) Istio
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
5 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (9.35%) Oracle
2 58 (9.19%) ESRI
3 46 (7.29%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.69%) Google
5 15 (2.38%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.43%) TOWER Software
7 6 (0.95%) Apple
7 6 (0.95%) Facebook
7 6 (0.95%) NVIDIA
7 6 (0.95%) SAP
7 6 (0.95%) Sony
7 6 (0.95%) Yahoo!
8 4 (0.63%) ForgeRock
8 4 (0.63%) Splunk
9 3 (0.48%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.48%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.32%) Black Duck
10 2 (0.32%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.16%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.16%) Vermilion