JavaScript Developer
UK

The median JavaScript Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 676 542 431
Rank change year-on-year -134 -111 -228
Permanent jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 221 501 1,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.48% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.52% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 195 439 937
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +13.40%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Developer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -115 186 £60,000 -14.29% 56
UK excluding London +38 162 £55,000 -4.35% 30
Work from Home -65 113 £60,000 -14.29% 38
London -97 71 £65,000 -12.16% 25
South East +31 55 £55,000 -5.98% 4
Midlands +27 31 £48,750 -2.50% 10
Scotland -44 27 £67,500 -3.57% 1
West Midlands +41 24 £65,000 +30.00% 5
North of England +36 24 £65,000 +18.18% 11
North West +8 19 £66,000 +46.67% 7
East of England +24 16 £70,750 +8.85% 2
South West -8 9 £45,000 -15.92%
East Midlands -10 7 £47,500 -5.00% 5
Yorkshire +88 5 £65,000 - 2

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, JavaScript Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 221 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 106 (47.96%) React
3 97 (43.89%) Full Stack Development
4 93 (42.08%) CSS
5 91 (41.18%) TypeScript
6 81 (36.65%) Node.js
7 80 (36.20%) HTML
8 65 (29.41%) Azure
9 64 (28.96%) Agile
10 57 (25.79%) C#
11 56 (25.34%) AWS
12 55 (24.89%) .NET
13 51 (23.08%) Social Skills
14 47 (21.27%) SQL Server
14 47 (21.27%) AngularJS
15 45 (20.36%) Web Development
16 42 (19.00%) Vue
17 40 (18.10%) DevOps
18 39 (17.65%) SQL
19 37 (16.74%) User Experience
20 36 (16.29%) Front End Development
21 35 (15.84%) MVC
22 29 (13.12%) .NET Framework
23 28 (12.67%) Microsoft
23 28 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
23 28 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
24 27 (12.22%) ASP.NET
24 27 (12.22%) UX Design
25 26 (11.76%) Java
26 25 (11.31%) Finance

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (4.98%) WordPress
2 9 (4.07%) CMS
3 6 (2.71%) Headless CMS
4 4 (1.81%) Apache
4 4 (1.81%) Drupal
4 4 (1.81%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.45%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.45%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.45%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 65 (29.41%) Azure
2 56 (25.34%) AWS
3 28 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (10.41%) GitHub
5 16 (7.24%) SaaS
6 8 (3.62%) Serverless
7 5 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.81%) TestFlight
9 3 (1.36%) AWS IoT
9 3 (1.36%) GCP
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (0.90%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (0.90%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.90%) Firebase
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.45%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.88%) HTTP
2 4 (1.81%) MQTT
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (21.27%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.14%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.17%) MySQL
5 6 (2.71%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.36%) GIS
8 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.45%) ArangoDB
9 1 (0.45%) DB2
9 1 (0.45%) Redis
9 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (11.31%) Git
2 15 (6.79%) webpack
3 14 (6.33%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.88%) gulp
5 8 (3.62%) Maven
6 7 (3.17%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.71%) Visual Studio
8 5 (2.26%) Bugzilla
8 5 (2.26%) Grunt
8 5 (2.26%) JIRA
8 5 (2.26%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.90%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.90%) Mocha
9 2 (0.90%) Moq
9 2 (0.90%) MSTest
9 2 (0.90%) Postman
9 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.90%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.45%) GitLab
General
1 51 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.31%) Finance
3 19 (8.60%) Marketing
4 13 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (4.98%) Retail
6 10 (4.52%) Banking
6 10 (4.52%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.07%) Multimedia
8 7 (3.17%) Legal
8 7 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.17%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.71%) Games
10 5 (2.26%) Law
11 4 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.81%) Electronics
11 4 (1.81%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.81%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.90%) Automotive
13 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (47.96%) React
2 93 (42.08%) CSS
3 81 (36.65%) Node.js
4 80 (36.20%) HTML
5 55 (24.89%) .NET
6 47 (21.27%) AngularJS
7 42 (19.00%) Vue
8 29 (13.12%) .NET Framework
9 27 (12.22%) ASP.NET
10 20 (9.05%) ASP.NET Web API
11 18 (8.14%) WebGL
12 17 (7.69%) Entity Framework
13 14 (6.33%) Laravel
14 13 (5.88%) Web Services
15 12 (5.43%) RESTful
16 11 (4.98%) ASP.NET MVC
16 11 (4.98%) HTML5
16 11 (4.98%) REST
16 11 (4.98%) Sass
16 11 (4.98%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.14%) Client/Server
2 17 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (4.98%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.07%) Augmented Reality
6 9 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.07%) Virtual Reality
7 7 (3.17%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.17%) IoT
7 7 (3.17%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.81%) Arduino
9 4 (1.81%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (1.81%) Online Gambling
9 4 (1.81%) Raspberry Pi
10 3 (1.36%) 3D Graphics
10 3 (1.36%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.07%) Windows
2 7 (3.17%) Linux
3 6 (2.71%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.81%) Android
5 3 (1.36%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (43.89%) Full Stack Development
2 64 (28.96%) Agile
3 45 (20.36%) Web Development
4 40 (18.10%) DevOps
5 37 (16.74%) User Experience
6 36 (16.29%) Front End Development
7 35 (15.84%) MVC
8 28 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (12.22%) UX Design
10 23 (10.41%) CI/CD
11 20 (9.05%) TDD
12 19 (8.60%) Computer Science
12 19 (8.60%) Microservices
13 18 (8.14%) Scrum
14 16 (7.24%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (7.24%) E-Commerce
15 15 (6.79%) ITIL
15 15 (6.79%) Service Delivery
16 14 (6.33%) Kanban
16 14 (6.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 221 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 91 (41.18%) TypeScript
3 57 (25.79%) C#
4 39 (17.65%) SQL
5 26 (11.76%) Java
6 22 (9.95%) Python
7 20 (9.05%) PHP
8 6 (2.71%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.81%) Objective-C
9 4 (1.81%) Swift
9 4 (1.81%) VBScript
10 2 (0.90%) Bash
11 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (9.05%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.60%) CTC Cleared
3 18 (8.14%) Degree
4 16 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.90%) OCP
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 19 (8.60%) Docker
2 4 (1.81%) Firmware
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.17%) Terraform
2 5 (2.26%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (1.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.88%) Oracle
3 7 (3.17%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.26%) HP
5 4 (1.81%) NVIDIA
5 4 (1.81%) SAP
5 4 (1.81%) Sitecore
6 3 (1.36%) Google
7 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.45%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.45%) YouTube