JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 8,224 12,515 27,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.35% 12.04% 17.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.71% 27.76% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,471 7,470 13,218
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +13.68%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,278 45,076 83,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.79% 43.37% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25,047 28,788 44,148
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.33% +7.50%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 -2 7,071 £60,000 -7.69% 1,831
UK excluding London -3 5,996 £55,000 - 1,242
Work from Home 0 3,968 £60,000 -4.00% 1,255
London -7 1,954 £82,500 +10.00% 677
North of England -4 1,497 £55,000 - 333
South East -2 1,440 £57,500 +0.88% 215
North West -5 896 £55,000 - 194
Midlands -1 843 £50,000 -9.09% 233
South West +1 839 £52,500 -4.55% 201
Scotland -20 663 £55,000 - 78
East of England +7 480 £52,500 -8.70% 131
Yorkshire -2 461 £55,000 -4.35% 103
West Midlands -11 443 £52,500 -4.55% 141
East Midlands 0 393 £50,000 -4.76% 90
Wales +6 160 £50,000 +7.76% 49
North East +1 140 £55,000 - 40
Northern Ireland -10 76 £45,000 -10.00% 23
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

JavaScript
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
1 348 (4.23%) ArcGIS
2 330 (4.01%) GeoServer
3 272 (3.31%) Apache
4 271 (3.30%) CMS
5 252 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
6 230 (2.80%) WordPress
7 151 (1.84%) SharePoint
8 134 (1.63%) IIS
9 94 (1.14%) Umbraco
10 88 (1.07%) nginx
11 85 (1.03%) Confluence
12 55 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
13 53 (0.64%) FileNet
14 50 (0.61%) Headless CMS
15 48 (0.58%) Drupal
16 47 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
17 44 (0.54%) Kentico
18 42 (0.51%) OpenStack
19 37 (0.45%) Camunda
20 30 (0.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 83 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 42 (0.51%) Adobe XD
5 23 (0.28%) Simulink
6 22 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 21 (0.26%) Sketch
8 20 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 11 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 11 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.11%) Trello
11 8 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
12 7 (0.085%) InfoPath
13 6 (0.073%) InVision
14 4 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
14 4 (0.049%) Maya
14 4 (0.049%) SPSS
15 2 (0.024%) FileZilla
16 1 (0.012%) UXPin
16 1 (0.012%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 127 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 66 (0.80%) Shopify
3 49 (0.60%) Magento
4 33 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 26 (0.32%) SDL Web 8
6 24 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 16 (0.19%) Fidessa
8 13 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
9 11 (0.13%) Maximo
9 11 (0.13%) Sage 200
10 9 (0.11%) Elite 3E
11 8 (0.097%) Siebel CRM
12 7 (0.085%) NetSuite
13 6 (0.073%) BusinessWorks
14 5 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
15 4 (0.049%) CiviCRM
16 3 (0.036%) Oracle Cash Management
16 3 (0.036%) R3 Corda
16 3 (0.036%) Sage 300 ERP
16 3 (0.036%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 3,309 (40.24%) Azure
2 2,523 (30.68%) AWS
3 704 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
4 534 (6.49%) GCP
5 506 (6.15%) Serverless
6 466 (5.67%) SaaS
7 364 (4.43%) Power Platform
8 311 (3.78%) GitHub
9 263 (3.20%) IBM Cloud
10 225 (2.74%) dbt
11 217 (2.64%) Snowflake
12 202 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
13 191 (2.32%) Azure Service Bus
14 176 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
14 176 (2.14%) PowerApps
15 174 (2.12%) Azure Functions
16 165 (2.01%) Power Automate
17 139 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
18 131 (1.59%) Azure API Management
19 107 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 183 (2.23%) Internet
2 76 (0.92%) HTTP
3 69 (0.84%) DNS
4 53 (0.64%) TCP/IP
5 37 (0.45%) MQTT
6 35 (0.43%) AMQP
7 33 (0.40%) DHCP
8 32 (0.39%) Firewall
9 29 (0.35%) SSL
10 27 (0.33%) LAN
10 27 (0.33%) WAN
11 25 (0.30%) Wireless
12 23 (0.28%) VPN
13 19 (0.23%) VoIP
13 19 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (0.21%) SSH
15 16 (0.19%) FIX Connectivity
15 16 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
15 16 (0.19%) Network Security
15 16 (0.19%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,680 (20.43%) SQL Server
2 904 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
3 694 (8.44%) NoSQL
4 685 (8.33%) MySQL
5 684 (8.32%) MongoDB
6 493 (5.99%) Relational Database
7 392 (4.77%) GIS
8 366 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
9 330 (4.01%) QGIS
10 237 (2.88%) DB2
11 223 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
11 223 (2.71%) Apache Arrow
11 223 (2.71%) Dremio
12 213 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 189 (2.30%) Data Lake
14 188 (2.29%) Apache Ignite
15 176 (2.14%) Power BI
16 118 (1.43%) Oracle Database
17 100 (1.22%) Big Data
18 94 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1,263 (15.36%) Git
2 340 (4.13%) JIRA
3 290 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 287 (3.49%) Cypress.io
5 250 (3.04%) Selenium
6 243 (2.95%) Visual Studio
7 193 (2.35%) JUnit
8 132 (1.61%) GitLab
9 127 (1.54%) Jasmine
10 108 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
11 98 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 95 (1.16%) TeamCity
13 84 (1.02%) WebDriver
14 80 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
15 75 (0.91%) Bitbucket
15 75 (0.91%) Maven
16 73 (0.89%) webpack
17 71 (0.86%) NUnit
17 71 (0.86%) Protractor
18 70 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,517 (18.45%) Finance
2 1,414 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 648 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 599 (7.28%) Marketing
5 519 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 513 (6.24%) Banking
7 474 (5.76%) Law
8 384 (4.67%) Front Office
9 376 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
10 318 (3.87%) Investment Banking
11 280 (3.40%) Retail
12 197 (2.40%) Games
13 143 (1.74%) Legal
14 128 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 103 (1.25%) Advertising
16 101 (1.23%) Tech for Good
17 93 (1.13%) Telecoms
18 78 (0.95%) Electronics
19 70 (0.85%) Aerospace
19 70 (0.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5,096 (61.96%) Developer
2 1,780 (21.64%) Senior
3 1,595 (19.39%) Software Engineer
4 1,514 (18.41%) .NET Developer
5 1,029 (12.51%) Senior Developer
6 944 (11.48%) Full Stack Developer
7 778 (9.46%) Lead
8 682 (8.29%) Software Developer
9 663 (8.06%) C# Developer
10 527 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 501 (6.09%) C# .NET Developer
12 417 (5.07%) PHP Developer
13 392 (4.77%) Full Stack Engineer
14 349 (4.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 293 (3.56%) Lead Developer
16 271 (3.30%) Java Developer
17 270 (3.28%) Web Developer
18 247 (3.00%) Lead Software Engineer
19 231 (2.81%) Architect
20 230 (2.80%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,470 (42.19%) HTML
2 3,451 (41.96%) CSS
3 3,430 (41.71%) .NET
4 3,412 (41.49%) React
5 2,397 (29.15%) AngularJS
6 1,689 (20.54%) ASP.NET
7 1,604 (19.50%) .NET Core
8 1,544 (18.77%) Node.js
9 1,285 (15.63%) Vue
10 980 (11.92%) .NET Framework
11 967 (11.76%) jQuery
12 958 (11.65%) HTML5
13 951 (11.56%) ASP.NET MVC
14 857 (10.42%) ASP.NET Web API
15 852 (10.36%) REST
16 832 (10.12%) Entity Framework
17 815 (9.91%) RESTful
18 759 (9.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 757 (9.20%) Web Services
20 540 (6.57%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 426 (5.18%) Algorithms
2 417 (5.07%) Greenfield Project
3 411 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 328 (3.99%) Fixed Income
5 325 (3.95%) Hedge funds
6 320 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 315 (3.83%) Cloud Native
8 284 (3.45%) Equities
9 278 (3.38%) Derivative
10 275 (3.34%) Blockchain
11 263 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 255 (3.10%) Mobile App
13 252 (3.06%) Product Ownership
14 156 (1.90%) e-Learning
15 136 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
16 127 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
17 122 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
18 98 (1.19%) IoT
19 88 (1.07%) Onboarding
20 86 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 757 (9.20%) Linux
2 503 (6.12%) Windows
3 401 (4.88%) Android
4 323 (3.93%) Apple iOS
5 115 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 63 (0.77%) Unix
7 61 (0.74%) CentOS
8 41 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 31 (0.38%) Windows Server
10 27 (0.33%) Debian
11 15 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
12 12 (0.15%) Solaris
13 8 (0.097%) VMS
14 6 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.061%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.049%) AIX
17 3 (0.036%) FreeBSD
17 3 (0.036%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.036%) Mac OS X
17 3 (0.036%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,855 (46.88%) Agile
2 2,825 (34.35%) Full Stack Development
3 2,313 (28.13%) Software Engineering
4 1,812 (22.03%) DevOps
5 1,663 (20.22%) MVC
6 1,420 (17.27%) Web Development
7 1,263 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
8 1,226 (14.91%) Microservices
9 1,001 (12.17%) TDD
10 974 (11.84%) CI/CD
11 936 (11.38%) User Experience
12 858 (10.43%) Scrum
13 849 (10.32%) Artificial Intelligence
14 826 (10.04%) Computer Science
15 752 (9.14%) Front End Development
16 727 (8.84%) Mentoring
17 726 (8.83%) OO
18 675 (8.21%) SDLC
19 639 (7.77%) BDD
20 586 (7.13%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3,537 (43.01%) C#
2 2,277 (27.69%) SQL
3 2,175 (26.45%) TypeScript
4 2,041 (24.82%) Python
5 1,700 (20.67%) Java
6 985 (11.98%) PHP
7 290 (3.53%) T-SQL
8 225 (2.74%) Go
9 191 (2.32%) C++
10 182 (2.21%) Ruby
11 162 (1.97%) PowerShell
12 125 (1.52%) C
13 115 (1.40%) Bash
14 110 (1.34%) VB.NET
15 102 (1.24%) VB
16 94 (1.14%) Kotlin
17 88 (1.07%) Perl
18 55 (0.67%) PL/SQL
19 45 (0.55%) Shell Script
20 42 (0.51%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1,194 (14.52%) Degree
2 804 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 617 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 473 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 101 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 78 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 70 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 60 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 49 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 37 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 23 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 21 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
13 17 (0.21%) PhD
14 12 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.13%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 10 (0.12%) CCNA
16 10 (0.12%) CCNP
16 10 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 524 (6.37%) QA
2 256 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 77 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 70 (0.85%) WCAG
5 47 (0.57%) GDPR
6 38 (0.46%) SLA
7 29 (0.35%) PMO
8 25 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.23%) WAI
10 13 (0.16%) GRC
11 11 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.13%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 5 (0.061%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.061%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.049%) HL7
15 3 (0.036%) ISO 9000
16 2 (0.024%) IEC 62304
17 1 (0.012%) EMIR
17 1 (0.012%) NIST
System Software
1 840 (10.21%) Docker
2 37 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 23 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.19%) Firmware
6 8 (0.097%) KVM
7 5 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.061%) vSphere
8 4 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.049%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.024%) OpenSIPS
11 1 (0.012%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.012%) IAG
11 1 (0.012%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.012%) Postfix
11 1 (0.012%) RACF
11 1 (0.012%) Varnish
11 1 (0.012%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 697 (8.48%) Kubernetes
2 291 (3.54%) Terraform
3 141 (1.71%) Ansible
4 55 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 44 (0.54%) Grafana
5 44 (0.54%) Puppet
6 32 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 28 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 13 (0.16%) Kibana
8 13 (0.16%) SCOM
8 13 (0.16%) WMI
9 11 (0.13%) MIIS
10 10 (0.12%) Rancher
11 8 (0.097%) HP UCMDB
12 7 (0.085%) cPanel
13 6 (0.073%) Argo
13 6 (0.073%) CloudHub
13 6 (0.073%) Istio
13 6 (0.073%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1,536 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 342 (4.16%) ESRI
3 335 (4.07%) Oracle
4 323 (3.93%) Red Hat
5 279 (3.39%) IBM
6 278 (3.38%) Google
7 140 (1.70%) Adobe
8 110 (1.34%) Facebook
9 109 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 71 (0.86%) Salesforce
11 67 (0.81%) Atlassian
11 67 (0.81%) Sitecore
12 61 (0.74%) SAP
13 53 (0.64%) HP
14 50 (0.61%) Apple
15 42 (0.51%) WSO2
16 39 (0.47%) Optimizely
16 39 (0.47%) Remedy
17 37 (0.45%) WooCommerce
17 37 (0.45%) Xamarin