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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 20 17
Rank change year-on-year -38 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,868 3,908 4,409
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.53% 8.12% 8.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.17% 23.97% 23.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,546 2,374 3,912
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £39,788
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +4.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,688 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,575 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +7.44% -4.72%

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 10,278 16,307 18,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.45% 33.88% 38.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,772 9,582 15,892
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,500 £38,130
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,250 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,125 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 14 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 14 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 -27 689 £75,000 -11.76% 297
North of England -15 452 £49,000 -10.91% 310
South East -63 250 £55,000 -8.33% 446
Yorkshire +8 228 £47,436 -9.65% 120
Midlands -44 211 £45,000 -18.18% 171
North West -33 171 £52,500 -4.55% 148
South West -36 142 £52,500 -8.70% 203
West Midlands -36 136 £44,250 -15.71% 61
East of England -51 90 £55,000 -8.33% 211
East Midlands -39 76 £55,000 -4.35% 107
North East -7 55 £47,500 - 43
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 61 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (2.73%) Apache
3 48 (2.57%) WordPress
4 46 (2.46%) SharePoint
5 43 (2.30%) CMS
6 29 (1.55%) Confluence
7 20 (1.07%) IIS
8 13 (0.70%) OpenStack
9 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.48%) nginx
11 8 (0.43%) Apache Solr
11 8 (0.43%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.37%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.37%) Apache Spark
12 7 (0.37%) Appian
12 7 (0.37%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.16%) Liferay
14 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
14 3 (0.16%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 28 (1.50%) Adobe XD
2 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.59%) Sketch
5 10 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (0.54%) InVision
5 10 (0.54%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.16%) InDesign
9 3 (0.16%) Simulink
10 2 (0.11%) Windchill
11 1 (0.054%) MadCap Flare
11 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.054%) Notion
11 1 (0.054%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.02%) Shopify
3 11 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.27%) 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%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.054%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.054%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.054%) Magento
7 1 (0.054%) Odoo
7 1 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 822 (44.00%) AWS
2 751 (40.20%) Azure
3 372 (19.91%) GitHub
4 196 (10.49%) Serverless
5 139 (7.44%) GCP
6 122 (6.53%) SaaS
7 113 (6.05%) Power Platform
8 91 (4.87%) Power Automate
9 82 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
11 68 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
12 67 (3.59%) PowerApps
13 61 (3.27%) Figma
14 56 (3.00%) dbt
15 52 (2.78%) Amazon S3
16 46 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
17 45 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
17 45 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
18 44 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
19 41 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 243 (13.01%) Internet
2 21 (1.12%) Broadband
3 11 (0.59%) HTTP
4 7 (0.37%) AMQP
5 6 (0.32%) VPN
5 6 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.27%) Intranet
7 4 (0.21%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.21%) SSH
8 2 (0.11%) DNS
8 2 (0.11%) Firewall
8 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 2 (0.11%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.054%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.054%) FTP
9 1 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
9 1 (0.054%) MQTT
9 1 (0.054%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.054%) SSL
9 1 (0.054%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (7.98%) SQL Server
2 128 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (5.89%) Relational Database
4 107 (5.73%) MySQL
5 92 (4.93%) MongoDB
6 89 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 60 (3.21%) Power BI
8 58 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
9 53 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
10 52 (2.78%) Apache Arrow
10 52 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
10 52 (2.78%) Dremio
11 48 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (1.93%) RDBMS
13 30 (1.61%) Data Lake
14 29 (1.55%) Apache Ignite
15 21 (1.12%) DynamoDB
16 14 (0.75%) DB2
16 14 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (0.70%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 474 (25.37%) Git
2 114 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 98 (5.25%) JIRA
4 60 (3.21%) Cypress.io
5 48 (2.57%) Selenium
6 39 (2.09%) GitLab
7 37 (1.98%) JUnit
8 28 (1.50%) JMeter
9 27 (1.45%) Bitbucket
9 27 (1.45%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.45%) webpack
10 26 (1.39%) Postman
11 25 (1.34%) TeamCity
12 23 (1.23%) Axure RP
13 19 (1.02%) Mockito
14 18 (0.96%) Vite
15 17 (0.91%) Visual Studio
16 14 (0.75%) Balsamiq
17 13 (0.70%) Jaeger
18 12 (0.64%) CircleCI
General
1 487 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 259 (13.87%) Finance
3 241 (12.90%) Multimedia
4 137 (7.33%) Law
5 122 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
6 112 (6.00%) Public Sector
7 83 (4.44%) Front Office
8 76 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (3.96%) Banking
10 67 (3.59%) Marketing
11 43 (2.30%) Retail
12 35 (1.87%) Investment Banking
13 34 (1.82%) Legal
14 22 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
16 18 (0.96%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.91%) Advertising
17 17 (0.91%) Games
18 13 (0.70%) Electronics
19 12 (0.64%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,010 (54.07%) Developer
2 332 (17.77%) Senior
3 239 (12.79%) Trainee
4 237 (12.69%) Software Developer
5 217 (11.62%) Software Engineer
6 190 (10.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 184 (9.85%) Senior Developer
8 153 (8.19%) Lead
9 127 (6.80%) .NET Developer
10 113 (6.05%) Trainee Developer
11 109 (5.84%) Trainee Software Developer
12 74 (3.96%) Java Developer
13 68 (3.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 68 (3.64%) React Developer
14 67 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 61 (3.27%) Python Developer
15 61 (3.27%) Senior Software Engineer
16 57 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
17 56 (3.00%) Python Engineer
18 54 (2.89%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 798 (42.72%) HTML
2 739 (39.56%) CSS
3 621 (33.24%) React
4 383 (20.50%) .NET
5 307 (16.43%) Node.js
6 250 (13.38%) AngularJS
7 231 (12.37%) REST
8 167 (8.94%) Vue
9 131 (7.01%) .NET Core
10 126 (6.75%) RESTful
11 120 (6.42%) ASP.NET
12 107 (5.73%) Spring
13 99 (5.30%) JSON
14 96 (5.14%) HTML5
15 95 (5.09%) Spring Boot
16 90 (4.82%) .NET Framework
17 71 (3.80%) XML
18 70 (3.75%) CSS3
19 65 (3.48%) GraphQL
20 64 (3.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 85 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 76 (4.07%) Fixed Income
4 62 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 55 (2.94%) Equities
5 55 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 49 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 47 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (2.41%) Mobile App
9 42 (2.25%) Low-Code
10 38 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
11 35 (1.87%) Derivative
12 33 (1.77%) Data Structures
13 30 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
14 29 (1.55%) Hedge funds
14 29 (1.55%) Pricing Data
15 19 (1.02%) CMDB
15 19 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (0.96%) Onboarding
17 16 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 112 (6.00%) Linux
2 36 (1.93%) Unix
3 34 (1.82%) Windows
4 23 (1.23%) Android
5 22 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.54%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.16%) CentOS
8 3 (0.16%) Debian
8 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (37.96%) Agile
2 489 (26.18%) Mentoring
3 452 (24.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 435 (23.29%) CI/CD
5 412 (22.06%) Software Engineering
6 380 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
7 299 (16.01%) DevOps
8 261 (13.97%) User Experience
9 259 (13.87%) Cybersecurity
10 236 (12.63%) Microservices
11 227 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 215 (11.51%) AI
13 195 (10.44%) Computer Science
14 191 (10.22%) Front End Development
15 178 (9.53%) Scrum
16 168 (8.99%) Test Automation
17 162 (8.67%) SDLC
18 140 (7.49%) Containerisation
18 140 (7.49%) Roadmaps
19 126 (6.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 709 (37.96%) Python
2 518 (27.73%) TypeScript
3 413 (22.11%) C#
4 387 (20.72%) Java
5 371 (19.86%) SQL
6 136 (7.28%) R
7 134 (7.17%) PHP
8 50 (2.68%) PowerShell
9 35 (1.87%) Go
10 29 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 25 (1.34%) Bash
12 22 (1.18%) C
13 21 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 16 (0.86%) C++
15 16 (0.86%) Ruby
16 12 (0.64%) Apex Code
16 12 (0.64%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.48%) Perl
17 9 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 295 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 291 (15.58%) AWS Certification
3 275 (14.72%) Degree
4 266 (14.24%) Azure Certification
5 239 (12.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 201 (10.76%) Security Cleared
7 120 (6.42%) SC Cleared
8 114 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (3.05%) DV Cleared
10 31 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 31 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 26 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 16 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.75%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.27%) PhD
17 4 (0.21%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (6.32%) QA
2 108 (5.78%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.03%) WCAG
4 31 (1.66%) GDPR
5 14 (0.75%) SLA
6 9 (0.48%) HL7
7 5 (0.27%) PERC
8 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.16%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.11%) PSD2
10 2 (0.11%) Section 508
11 1 (0.054%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.054%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.054%) PMO
System Software
1 224 (11.99%) Docker
2 22 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.054%) Firmware
5 1 (0.054%) HDFS
5 1 (0.054%) KVM
5 1 (0.054%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 185 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 117 (6.26%) Terraform
3 46 (2.46%) Ansible
4 23 (1.23%) Argo
5 20 (1.07%) Kibana
6 17 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.75%) Grafana
8 13 (0.70%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.16%) cPanel
12 3 (0.16%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.16%) Plesk
12 3 (0.16%) Puppet
13 2 (0.11%) Control-M
13 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
13 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 510 (27.30%) Microsoft
2 98 (5.25%) Oracle
3 71 (3.80%) Google
4 51 (2.73%) ServiceNow
5 49 (2.62%) Adobe
5 49 (2.62%) Atlassian
6 47 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.23%) HubSpot
8 21 (1.12%) MuleSoft
8 21 (1.12%) SAP
9 19 (1.02%) OpenAI
10 18 (0.96%) Splunk
11 16 (0.86%) Dynatrace
11 16 (0.86%) IBM
12 14 (0.75%) Databricks
13 9 (0.48%) Apple
13 9 (0.48%) Cisco
14 8 (0.43%) IFS
14 8 (0.43%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.43%) VMware