JavaScript Job Trends in Central London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 55 19
Rank change year-on-year -23 -36 +2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 59 95 311
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 2.15% 5.03% 9.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.82% 12.53% 21.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50 83 225
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +18.52% -18.18%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,250 £120,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £73,750 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -18.06% - +12.50%

All Programming Languages
Central London

JavaScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 601 758 1,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 21.93% 40.11% 45.59%
Number of salaries quoted 495 639 1,002
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,750 £61,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £130,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Central London

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Central London over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Central London

JavaScript
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
City of London -19 49 £75,000 - 71
Southwark -11 5 £55,000 +77.42% 2
City of Westminster +14 4 £58,000 -37.30% 6
Lambeth - 1 - -
West End of London - 1 £50,000 - 1
JavaScript
London

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.08%) WordPress
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Chatbot
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.39%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.69%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.98%) Azure
2 20 (33.90%) AWS
3 14 (23.73%) Power Platform
4 9 (15.25%) Power Automate
4 9 (15.25%) PowerApps
5 8 (13.56%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (11.86%) GCP
6 7 (11.86%) GitHub
6 7 (11.86%) Serverless
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Functions
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (8.47%) SaaS
8 4 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.78%) Snowflake
9 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (3.39%) Datadog
10 2 (3.39%) Figma
10 2 (3.39%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Intranet
2 1 (1.69%) Broadband
2 1 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.47%) Power BI
3 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.39%) MySQL
4 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.69%) Chroma
5 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.69%) Metadata
5 1 (1.69%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.69%) Redis
5 1 (1.69%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) Git
2 5 (8.47%) GitLab
2 5 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.39%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) Snyk
3 2 (3.39%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.69%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.69%) Appium
4 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.69%) Gatling
4 1 (1.69%) Plastic SCM
4 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.69%) Selenium
4 1 (1.69%) Vite
4 1 (1.69%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.69%) Xcode
General
1 18 (30.51%) Finance
1 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Marketing
3 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (10.17%) Law
5 5 (8.47%) Banking
6 4 (6.78%) Advertising
7 3 (5.08%) Legal
8 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.39%) Legal Technology
8 2 (3.39%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.69%) Front Office
9 1 (1.69%) Games
9 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Developer
2 10 (16.95%) Senior
3 6 (10.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 6 (10.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Junior
4 5 (8.47%) Lead
4 5 (8.47%) Systems Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Systems Architect
6 3 (5.08%) Consultant
6 3 (5.08%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Backend Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Business Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Mobile Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (40.68%) React
2 11 (18.64%) HTML
3 10 (16.95%) .NET
3 10 (16.95%) CSS
4 9 (15.25%) REST
5 6 (10.17%) RESTful
6 5 (8.47%) HTML5 Canvas
6 5 (8.47%) Next.js
6 5 (8.47%) Node.js
6 5 (8.47%) Redux
7 4 (6.78%) CSS3
7 4 (6.78%) HTML5
7 4 (6.78%) Kafka
7 4 (6.78%) LangChain
7 4 (6.78%) Middleware
7 4 (6.78%) Playwright
8 3 (5.08%) .NET Framework
8 3 (5.08%) Django
8 3 (5.08%) Spring
8 3 (5.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) AI Agents
2 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (5.08%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.08%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.69%) CMDB
6 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.69%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.69%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.69%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Android
1 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.07%) Agile
2 18 (30.51%) CI/CD
2 18 (30.51%) Software Engineering
3 15 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (22.03%) DevOps
5 12 (20.34%) AI
5 12 (20.34%) Front End Development
6 11 (18.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (18.64%) Microservices
6 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (16.95%) Mentoring
7 10 (16.95%) Requirements Gathering
7 10 (16.95%) Test Automation
8 9 (15.25%) SDLC
9 8 (13.56%) Containerisation
9 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (13.56%) Roadmaps
10 7 (11.86%) Clean Code
10 7 (11.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) TypeScript
2 19 (32.20%) Python
3 17 (28.81%) C#
4 11 (18.64%) SQL
5 10 (16.95%) Java
6 2 (3.39%) Bash
6 2 (3.39%) PHP
6 2 (3.39%) VBA
7 1 (1.69%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.69%) C++
7 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.69%) R
7 1 (1.69%) Scala
7 1 (1.69%) SOQL
7 1 (1.69%) Swift
7 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.08%) Degree
2 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.08%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (16.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Ansible
2 1 (1.69%) Argo
2 1 (1.69%) Grafana
2 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Google
3 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.08%) Adobe
4 3 (5.08%) Alteryx
4 3 (5.08%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.39%) Checkmarx
5 2 (3.39%) Marketo
5 2 (3.39%) Oracle
5 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.39%) Sony
5 2 (3.39%) Veracode
6 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.69%) Databricks
6 1 (1.69%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.69%) Mistral
6 1 (1.69%) Samsung
6 1 (1.69%) WooCommerce
6 1 (1.69%) Zoho