WebAssembly (Wasm)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WebAssembly skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WebAssembly over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 890 895 1122
Rank change year-on-year +5 +227 -215
Permanent jobs citing WebAssembly 8 85 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.084% 0.050%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.038% 0.28% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 13
10th Percentile £60,025 £37,000 -
25th Percentile £66,438 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £117,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% +40.00% -47.37%
75th Percentile £157,500 £76,250 £90,000
90th Percentile - £91,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,500 £70,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.43% +64.71% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WebAssembly is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,074 30,426 64,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.24% 30.12% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 15,767 18,780 29,905
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,853 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,563
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.89% +13.75%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

WebAssembly
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WebAssembly in the UK

WebAssembly
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for WebAssembly in the UK

WebAssembly
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebAssembly over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WebAssembly in the UK

WebAssembly
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebAssembly within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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 +52 7 £155,000 +121.43% 3
Work from Home +67 6 £155,000 +93.75%
London +108 5 £155,000 +138.46% 1
UK excluding London -79 3 £65,500 -6.43% 1
Wales -9 1 £55,000 -
South East -12 1 £65,500 -6.43%
North West - 1 £70,000 - 1
North of England - 1 £70,000 - 1

WebAssembly
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) Discord
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Advertising
1 1 (12.50%) Back Office
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Rust Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Ember.js
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) Blazor
3 2 (25.00%) React
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) OpenID
4 1 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Blog
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
2 1 (12.50%) CQRS
2 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) ERP
2 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
2 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Line Management
2 1 (12.50%) Microservices
2 1 (12.50%) OOD
2 1 (12.50%) SOA
2 1 (12.50%) SOLID
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) User Experience
2 1 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) Go
2 4 (50.00%) Rust
2 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (37.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes