JavaScript Job Trends in England

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 20 19
Rank change year-on-year -43 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,900 3,855 5,138
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.45% 8.07% 8.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.03% 23.91% 23.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 2,340 4,588
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,163 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,500 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,536 16,126 21,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.15% 33.74% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7,894 9,474 18,529
10th Percentile £33,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in England

JavaScript
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in England over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in England

JavaScript
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the England region over the 6 months to 24 January 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
London -27 690 £75,000 -11.76% 328
North of England -16 454 £47,500 -13.64% 393
South East -56 261 £55,000 -8.33% 576
Yorkshire +4 222 £45,000 -14.29% 168
Midlands -47 214 £47,500 -13.64% 246
North West -29 179 £52,500 -4.55% 169
South West -36 150 £52,500 -8.70% 285
West Midlands -34 136 £45,000 -14.29% 78
East of England -50 91 £55,000 -15.38% 302
East Midlands -40 79 £55,000 -4.35% 164
North East -17 53 £47,500 - 58
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 52 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (2.53%) Apache
3 45 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 45 (2.37%) WordPress
4 42 (2.21%) CMS
5 26 (1.37%) Confluence
6 20 (1.05%) IIS
7 13 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.53%) nginx
10 9 (0.47%) Apache Spark
11 8 (0.42%) Apache Solr
12 7 (0.37%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.37%) Appian
12 7 (0.37%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.32%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.16%) Liferay
15 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
15 3 (0.16%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 27 (1.42%) Adobe XD
2 24 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.58%) Sketch
6 10 (0.53%) InVision
6 10 (0.53%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 8 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.16%) InDesign
11 3 (0.16%) Simulink
12 2 (0.11%) Windchill
13 1 (0.053%) Elementor
13 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.053%) Notion
13 1 (0.053%) Siemens NX
13 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 27 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.05%) Shopify
3 11 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.16%) Maximo
5 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) Primavera
5 3 (0.16%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.053%) Magento
7 1 (0.053%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 853 (44.89%) AWS
2 771 (40.58%) Azure
3 372 (19.58%) GitHub
4 199 (10.47%) Serverless
5 147 (7.74%) GCP
6 124 (6.53%) SaaS
7 121 (6.37%) Power Platform
8 93 (4.89%) Power Automate
9 86 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
11 71 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
12 69 (3.63%) PowerApps
13 59 (3.11%) Figma
14 56 (2.95%) Amazon S3
15 51 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
16 50 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
17 48 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
18 47 (2.47%) dbt
19 45 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
20 44 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 244 (12.84%) Internet
2 26 (1.37%) Broadband
3 11 (0.58%) HTTP
4 7 (0.37%) AMQP
5 6 (0.32%) VPN
5 6 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.26%) Intranet
7 4 (0.21%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.21%) SSH
8 2 (0.11%) Firewall
8 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 2 (0.11%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.053%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.053%) DNS
9 1 (0.053%) FTP
9 1 (0.053%) Hyperconnected
9 1 (0.053%) MQTT
9 1 (0.053%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.053%) SSL
9 1 (0.053%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (7.68%) SQL Server
2 121 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
3 115 (6.05%) Relational Database
4 103 (5.42%) MySQL
5 88 (4.63%) NoSQL
6 82 (4.32%) MongoDB
7 63 (3.32%) Power BI
8 59 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
9 44 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
9 44 (2.32%) RDBMS
10 43 (2.26%) Apache Arrow
10 43 (2.26%) Apache Iceberg
10 43 (2.26%) Dremio
11 41 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 24 (1.26%) Data Lake
13 23 (1.21%) Apache Ignite
14 20 (1.05%) DynamoDB
15 17 (0.89%) Neo4j
16 14 (0.74%) DB2
17 13 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 466 (24.53%) Git
2 111 (5.84%) Jenkins
3 93 (4.89%) JIRA
4 60 (3.16%) Cypress.io
5 43 (2.26%) Selenium
6 39 (2.05%) GitLab
7 35 (1.84%) JUnit
8 28 (1.47%) Cucumber
8 28 (1.47%) TeamCity
9 26 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 25 (1.32%) JMeter
11 23 (1.21%) Axure RP
11 23 (1.21%) Postman
11 23 (1.21%) webpack
12 19 (1.00%) Jaeger
12 19 (1.00%) Mockito
12 19 (1.00%) Vite
13 16 (0.84%) Visual Studio
14 14 (0.74%) Balsamiq
15 11 (0.58%) CircleCI
General
1 491 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 255 (13.42%) Finance
3 241 (12.68%) Multimedia
4 137 (7.21%) Law
5 130 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 117 (6.16%) Public Sector
7 87 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 76 (4.00%) Front Office
9 69 (3.63%) Banking
10 67 (3.53%) Marketing
11 45 (2.37%) Retail
12 31 (1.63%) Legal
13 28 (1.47%) Investment Banking
14 21 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 16 (0.84%) Advertising
16 16 (0.84%) Games
17 15 (0.79%) Health Technology
18 13 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,018 (53.58%) Developer
2 323 (17.00%) Senior
3 239 (12.58%) Trainee
4 234 (12.32%) Software Developer
5 221 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 196 (10.32%) Full-Stack Developer
7 183 (9.63%) Senior Developer
8 165 (8.68%) Lead
9 124 (6.53%) .NET Developer
10 113 (5.95%) Trainee Developer
11 109 (5.74%) Trainee Software Developer
12 74 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 72 (3.79%) Java Developer
14 71 (3.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 70 (3.68%) React Developer
16 58 (3.05%) Python Developer
17 57 (3.00%) Senior Software Engineer
18 54 (2.84%) C# Developer
19 51 (2.68%) Architect
20 49 (2.58%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 789 (41.53%) HTML
2 737 (38.79%) CSS
3 640 (33.68%) React
4 380 (20.00%) .NET
5 313 (16.47%) Node.js
6 247 (13.00%) AngularJS
7 240 (12.63%) REST
8 165 (8.68%) Vue
9 126 (6.63%) .NET Core
10 122 (6.42%) RESTful
11 112 (5.89%) ASP.NET
12 104 (5.47%) Spring
13 92 (4.84%) HTML5
13 92 (4.84%) Spring Boot
14 90 (4.74%) JSON
15 83 (4.37%) .NET Framework
16 69 (3.63%) CSS3
17 68 (3.58%) XML
18 62 (3.26%) jQuery
18 62 (3.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.05%) Cloud Native
2 91 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 69 (3.63%) Fixed Income
4 54 (2.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 54 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
5 49 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.53%) Low-Code
7 46 (2.42%) Equities
8 45 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 42 (2.21%) Mobile App
10 40 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
11 34 (1.79%) Data Structures
12 31 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (1.53%) Derivative
14 23 (1.21%) Hedge funds
14 23 (1.21%) Pricing Data
15 22 (1.16%) Onboarding
16 19 (1.00%) CMDB
16 19 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
17 17 (0.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 120 (6.32%) Linux
2 42 (2.21%) Unix
3 37 (1.95%) Windows
4 24 (1.26%) Android
5 23 (1.21%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.53%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.32%) CentOS
9 5 (0.26%) Debian
9 5 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (37.00%) Agile
2 493 (25.95%) Mentoring
3 468 (24.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 446 (23.47%) CI/CD
5 421 (22.16%) Software Engineering
6 401 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
7 305 (16.05%) DevOps
8 273 (14.37%) Cybersecurity
9 261 (13.74%) User Experience
10 233 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 233 (12.26%) Microservices
11 222 (11.68%) AI
12 203 (10.68%) Computer Science
13 188 (9.89%) Front End Development
14 176 (9.26%) Test Automation
15 174 (9.16%) Scrum
16 155 (8.16%) SDLC
17 146 (7.68%) Roadmaps
18 145 (7.63%) Containerisation
19 126 (6.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 735 (38.68%) Python
2 521 (27.42%) TypeScript
3 410 (21.58%) C#
4 395 (20.79%) Java
5 368 (19.37%) SQL
6 140 (7.37%) PHP
7 136 (7.16%) R
8 52 (2.74%) PowerShell
9 42 (2.21%) Go
10 35 (1.84%) Bash
11 26 (1.37%) C
11 26 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 21 (1.11%) Shell Script
13 18 (0.95%) C++
14 16 (0.84%) Apex Code
15 15 (0.79%) Ruby
15 15 (0.79%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.58%) VBA
18 10 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 298 (15.68%) AWS Certification
2 294 (15.47%) Microsoft Certification
3 288 (15.16%) Degree
4 266 (14.00%) Azure Certification
5 240 (12.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 219 (11.53%) Security Cleared
7 124 (6.53%) SC Cleared
8 121 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (3.16%) DV Cleared
10 32 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 31 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (1.26%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 21 (1.11%) DBS Check
15 17 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (0.74%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
18 5 (0.26%) PhD
19 4 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 4 (0.21%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (5.89%) QA
2 108 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.00%) WCAG
4 29 (1.53%) GDPR
5 15 (0.79%) SLA
6 9 (0.47%) HL7
7 6 (0.32%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.26%) PERC
9 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.11%) PSD2
10 2 (0.11%) Section 508
11 1 (0.053%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.053%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.053%) PMO
System Software
1 239 (12.58%) Docker
2 24 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.11%) KVM
7 1 (0.053%) Firmware
7 1 (0.053%) HDFS
7 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 203 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 136 (7.16%) Terraform
3 57 (3.00%) Ansible
4 29 (1.53%) Argo
5 23 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.11%) Kibana
7 20 (1.05%) Grafana
8 19 (1.00%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.26%) Puppet
12 4 (0.21%) logstash
13 3 (0.16%) cPanel
13 3 (0.16%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.16%) Plesk
14 2 (0.11%) Control-M
14 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
14 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 511 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 92 (4.84%) Oracle
3 78 (4.11%) Google
4 53 (2.79%) Atlassian
5 52 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 48 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 46 (2.42%) Adobe
8 25 (1.32%) MuleSoft
9 23 (1.21%) HubSpot
10 22 (1.16%) SAP
11 20 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 19 (1.00%) Splunk
13 16 (0.84%) IBM
14 15 (0.79%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.74%) Databricks
16 11 (0.58%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.53%) VMware
18 9 (0.47%) Apple
19 8 (0.42%) IFS
20 7 (0.37%) Pega