WebAssembly Job Trends in England

WebAssembly (Wasm)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring WebAssembly skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 669 633
Rank change year-on-year +80 -36 +346
Permanent jobs citing WebAssembly 11 7 33
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.021% 0.014% 0.073%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.066% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 14
10th Percentile £41,613 £62,750 £63,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £63,125 £63,699
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -10.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £56,938 £73,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £70,250 £74,250 £98,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% -6.90% +75.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

WebAssembly falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,200 10,662 11,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.92% 21.50% 24.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,766 6,326 9,477
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,013 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

WebAssembly
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

WebAssembly job vacancy trend in England

WebAssembly
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebAssembly.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebAssembly

WebAssembly
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebAssembly in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for WebAssembly in England

WebAssembly
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebAssembly within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands - 5 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £50,000 - 2
North of England - 3 £68,500 -
North East - 3 £68,500 -
London - 3 - - 1
WebAssembly
UK

WebAssembly
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Figma
1 5 (45.45%) GitHub
1 5 (45.45%) GitHub Copilot
1 5 (45.45%) SaaS
1 5 (45.45%) Serverless
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Cognito
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon EventBridge
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Visual Studio
2 3 (27.27%) ESLint
2 3 (27.27%) Git
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 5 (45.45%) Lead Developer
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Designer
3 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Node.js Developer
3 3 (27.27%) React Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Software Developer
3 3 (27.27%) UX Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Blazor Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) UX Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Junior
5 1 (9.09%) Junior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Junior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) .NET
1 8 (72.73%) Blazor
2 5 (45.45%) Material Design
3 4 (36.36%) React
4 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
4 3 (27.27%) CSS
4 3 (27.27%) Node.js
4 3 (27.27%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
5 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) AI
2 5 (45.45%) CRM
2 5 (45.45%) Data Integration
2 5 (45.45%) Front End Development
2 5 (45.45%) Interaction Design
2 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
2 5 (45.45%) Responsive Web Design
2 5 (45.45%) User Experience
2 5 (45.45%) User Stories
2 5 (45.45%) UX Design
2 5 (45.45%) Wireframes
3 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (27.27%) API Development
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven Programming
4 3 (27.27%) Generative AI
4 3 (27.27%) SOLID
4 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Accessibility
1 5 (45.45%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft