JavaScript Engineer Job Trends in London

JavaScript Engineer
England > London

The median JavaScript Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	448	368	427
Rank change year-on-year	-80	+59	-24
Permanent JavaScript Engineer jobs	11	4	18
As % of all permanent jobs in London	0.042%	0.034%	0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.045%	0.037%	0.11%
Number of salaries quoted	11	4	16
10^th Percentile	-	£61,625	£44,375
25^th Percentile	-	£62,188	£52,188
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£80,000	£72,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+10.34%	+11.54%	-18.75%
75^th Percentile	£85,000	£86,875	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£97,500	£94,750	£82,500
England median annual salary	£80,000	£72,500	£53,750
% change year-on-year	+10.34%	+34.88%	-30.65%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job adverts in London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in London matching a recognised job title	24,191	10,745	16,768
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title	92.40%	90.81%	95.20%
Number of salaries quoted	15,915	6,996	10,415
10^th Percentile	£40,000	£36,250	£40,000
25^th Percentile	£55,000	£51,250	£53,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£75,000	£72,500	£75,000
Median % change year-on-year	+3.45%	-3.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,000	£95,000
90^th Percentile	-	£120,000	£118,750
England median annual salary	£59,999	£54,000	£57,500
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-6.09%	-4.17%

JavaScript Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

JavaScript Engineer Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for JavaScript Engineer job vacancies in London.

JavaScript Engineer Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for JavaScript Engineer jobs in London over the 6 months to 23 October 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript Engineer in London

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 23 October 2026, JavaScript Engineer job ads cited the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent JavaScript Engineer job ads across the London region.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	JavaScript	100.0%	11
2	TypeScript	90.9%	10
3	AI	72.7%	8
3	Biometrics	72.7%	8
3	Computer Vision	72.7%	8
6	Application Security	27.3%	3
6	AWS	27.3%	3
6	Full-Stack Development	27.3%	3
9	Algolia	18.2%	2
9	AWS Lambda	18.2%	2
9	CI/CD	18.2%	2
9	Code Quality	18.2%	2
9	Mentoring	18.2%	2
9	Next.js	18.2%	2
9	Node.js	18.2%	2
9	Observability	18.2%	2
9	React	18.2%	2
9	Serverless	18.2%	2
9	Software Engineering	18.2%	2
9	SQL Server	18.2%	2
9	TeamCity	18.2%	2
9	User Experience	18.2%	2
9	Vercel	18.2%	2
24	Java	9.1%	1
24	Ruby	9.1%	1

JavaScript Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

Rank	Job Title	Share	Job Ads
1	Security Engineer	72.7%	8
2	Web Engineer	45.5%	5
3	Applications Engineer	27.3%	3
4	Senior Software Engineer	18.2%	2
5	Full-Stack Engineer	9.1%	1
5	Java Engineer	9.1%	1