JavaScript Jobs in the UK excluding London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,284 5,990 6,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.75% 8.39% 11.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.54% 26.68% 29.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 4,570 3,781
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £84,100
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,605 22,449 23,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.71% 31.44% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,059 16,330 13,299
10th Percentile £33,600 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
North of England -23 740 £57,500 +4.55% 567
North West -30 547 £57,500 +4.55% 339
South East -25 505 £56,250 +2.27% 391
Midlands -35 298 £55,000 +10.00% 251
East of England -15 286 £66,212 +26.12% 175
South West -13 227 £60,000 +14.29% 177
Scotland -5 197 £60,000 +9.09% 97
Yorkshire -18 160 £57,500 +4.55% 166
West Midlands -42 157 £53,000 +0.95% 140
East Midlands -41 141 £55,000 +10.00% 105
North East -20 33 £52,500 -4.55% 66
Wales -30 33 £50,000 - 49
Northern Ireland -9 9 £50,000 +11.11% 37
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 190 (8.32%) Confluence
2 61 (2.67%) CMS
3 56 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 30 (1.31%) WordPress
5 28 (1.23%) IIS
6 27 (1.18%) Umbraco
7 23 (1.01%) Jupyter
8 17 (0.74%) Headless CMS
9 8 (0.35%) Apache
9 8 (0.35%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Strapi
12 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.13%) ColdFusion
12 3 (0.13%) Drupal
12 3 (0.13%) Joomla!
12 3 (0.13%) Kentico
12 3 (0.13%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 144 (6.30%) Chatbot
2 28 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.70%) Adobe XD
4 10 (0.44%) Sketch
5 7 (0.31%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.088%) Notion
8 2 (0.088%) Trello
9 1 (0.044%) InVision
9 1 (0.044%) Moqups
9 1 (0.044%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.044%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 37 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.05%) NetSuite
3 19 (0.83%) Magento
4 15 (0.66%) Sage 200
4 15 (0.66%) Sage 50
5 13 (0.57%) Shopify
6 12 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
8 4 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.088%) Odoo
10 2 (0.088%) Oracle EBS R12
11 1 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.044%) Sage 1000
Cloud Services
1 951 (41.64%) AWS
2 915 (40.06%) Azure
3 491 (21.50%) GCP
4 144 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
5 122 (5.34%) SaaS
5 122 (5.34%) Serverless
6 93 (4.07%) GitHub
7 72 (3.15%) Power Automate
8 71 (3.11%) Power Platform
9 68 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
10 65 (2.85%) Pulumi
11 59 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
12 56 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 51 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
14 47 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 40 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
16 39 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
17 38 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
18 37 (1.62%) Amazon S3
19 36 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.11%) TCP/IP
2 70 (3.06%) Broadband
3 64 (2.80%) VPN
4 22 (0.96%) Internet
5 11 (0.48%) HTTP
6 9 (0.39%) SSL
7 8 (0.35%) DMARC
8 7 (0.31%) Network Security
9 6 (0.26%) DNS
9 6 (0.26%) Intranet
10 5 (0.22%) Firewall
11 4 (0.18%) LoRaWAN
12 2 (0.088%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.088%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.088%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.088%) LAN
12 2 (0.088%) SMS
12 2 (0.088%) WAN
12 2 (0.088%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.044%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 214 (9.37%) MySQL
3 171 (7.49%) NoSQL
4 132 (5.78%) Relational Database
5 106 (4.64%) Elasticsearch
6 105 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
7 92 (4.03%) RDBMS
8 88 (3.85%) MongoDB
9 29 (1.27%) Big Data
10 16 (0.70%) BigQuery
10 16 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (0.66%) DynamoDB
12 14 (0.61%) Cloud Spanner
13 13 (0.57%) Power BI
13 13 (0.57%) Redis
14 9 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (0.39%) OLTP
15 8 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 408 (17.86%) Git
2 344 (15.06%) JIRA
3 326 (14.27%) Cucumber
4 297 (13.00%) Selenium
5 291 (12.74%) GitLab
6 266 (11.65%) Maven
7 262 (11.47%) Bitbucket
7 262 (11.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 258 (11.30%) SonarQube
9 95 (4.16%) Jenkins
10 84 (3.68%) Visual Studio
11 70 (3.06%) webpack
12 67 (2.93%) Robot Framework
13 65 (2.85%) Jaeger
14 50 (2.19%) Cypress.io
15 42 (1.84%) JUnit
15 42 (1.84%) Octopus Deploy
16 37 (1.62%) Team Foundation Server
17 36 (1.58%) MSBuild
18 28 (1.23%) Postman
General
1 646 (28.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 483 (21.15%) Finance
3 413 (18.08%) Social Skills
4 327 (14.32%) Banking
5 204 (8.93%) Retail
6 137 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 90 (3.94%) Corporate Banking
7 90 (3.94%) Investment Banking
8 86 (3.77%) Games
9 72 (3.15%) Law
10 69 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 59 (2.58%) Marketing
12 48 (2.10%) Manufacturing
13 34 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (1.31%) Public Sector
15 27 (1.18%) Legal
15 27 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (1.09%) Tech for Good
17 20 (0.88%) Electronics
18 13 (0.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 871 (38.13%) Developer
2 692 (30.30%) Software Engineer
3 571 (25.00%) Senior
4 263 (11.51%) Lead
5 255 (11.16%) Senior Software Engineer
6 222 (9.72%) Senior Developer
7 134 (5.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 118 (5.17%) Software Developer
9 113 (4.95%) Trainer
10 101 (4.42%) PHP Developer
11 97 (4.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 89 (3.90%) Team Leader
13 88 (3.85%) .NET Developer
14 75 (3.28%) Test Engineer
15 72 (3.15%) Test Automation Engineer
16 68 (2.98%) Architect
17 64 (2.80%) C# Developer
18 60 (2.63%) Web Developer
19 58 (2.54%) JavaScript Developer
19 58 (2.54%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,039 (45.49%) HTML
2 850 (37.22%) CSS
3 798 (34.94%) React
4 646 (28.28%) .NET
5 472 (20.67%) Node.js
6 326 (14.27%) Spring Boot
7 313 (13.70%) Spring
8 301 (13.18%) Kafka
9 298 (13.05%) Redux
10 283 (12.39%) REST
11 247 (10.81%) JPA
12 245 (10.73%) RESTful
13 213 (9.33%) HTML5
14 202 (8.84%) AngularJS
15 183 (8.01%) Hibernate
16 160 (7.01%) Jest
17 153 (6.70%) CSS3
18 149 (6.52%) ASP.NET
19 134 (5.87%) Sass
20 130 (5.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 317 (13.88%) Product Ownership
2 286 (12.52%) Enterprise Software
3 234 (10.25%) Linux Command Line
4 232 (10.16%) Cyberattack
5 206 (9.02%) Self-Motivation
6 120 (5.25%) Mobile App
7 61 (2.67%) Algorithms
8 50 (2.19%) Cloud Native
9 49 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
10 40 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
11 34 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.18%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.01%) Onboarding
14 21 (0.92%) Legacy Code
14 21 (0.92%) Virtual Team
15 20 (0.88%) Data Structures
16 17 (0.74%) Learning Management System
17 15 (0.66%) Private Cloud
18 14 (0.61%) Robotics
19 12 (0.53%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 445 (19.48%) Linux
2 118 (5.17%) Windows
3 92 (4.03%) Unix
4 77 (3.37%) Android
5 26 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.26%) Rocky
8 2 (0.088%) VMS
9 1 (0.044%) CentOS
9 1 (0.044%) Debian
9 1 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.044%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,070 (46.85%) Agile
2 970 (42.47%) Software Engineering
3 744 (32.57%) DevOps
4 671 (29.38%) Microservices
5 606 (26.53%) Mentoring
6 605 (26.49%) CI/CD
7 543 (23.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 487 (21.32%) Test Automation
9 483 (21.15%) User Experience
10 441 (19.31%) Front End Development
11 435 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
12 418 (18.30%) Containerisation
13 386 (16.90%) Performance Optimisation
14 357 (15.63%) SDLC
15 324 (14.19%) Artificial Intelligence
16 303 (13.27%) Machine Learning
17 298 (13.05%) Scrum
18 276 (12.08%) TDD
19 243 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
20 235 (10.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 876 (38.35%) Java
2 834 (36.51%) SQL
3 773 (33.84%) Python
4 643 (28.15%) C#
5 559 (24.47%) TypeScript
6 395 (17.29%) C++
7 306 (13.40%) Go
7 306 (13.40%) PHP
8 267 (11.69%) Rust
9 137 (6.00%) Bash
10 99 (4.33%) PowerShell
11 75 (3.28%) C
12 58 (2.54%) Ruby
13 53 (2.32%) R
14 52 (2.28%) MATLAB
15 48 (2.10%) Dart
16 26 (1.14%) PL/SQL
17 25 (1.09%) Kotlin
18 20 (0.88%) Shell Script
18 20 (0.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 450 (19.70%) Degree
2 326 (14.27%) Security Cleared
3 260 (11.38%) DV Cleared
4 241 (10.55%) AWS Certification
5 172 (7.53%) AWS Certified Developer
5 172 (7.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 149 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (2.58%) SC Cleared
8 16 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (0.61%) PhD
10 13 (0.57%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.31%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.22%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.18%) HND
14 3 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.088%) ACCA
15 2 (0.088%) BPSS Clearance
16 1 (0.044%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 419 (18.35%) QA
2 163 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.45%) GDPR
4 26 (1.14%) WCAG
5 19 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.26%) HL7
8 2 (0.088%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.088%) SLA
8 2 (0.088%) WAI
9 1 (0.044%) COBIT
9 1 (0.044%) GRC
9 1 (0.044%) NIST
9 1 (0.044%) PMO
9 1 (0.044%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.044%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 632 (27.67%) Docker
2 10 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.044%) Firmware
3 1 (0.044%) NDS
3 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.044%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.044%) Xen
Systems Management
1 560 (24.52%) Kubernetes
2 170 (7.44%) Terraform
3 111 (4.86%) Ansible
4 73 (3.20%) Prometheus
5 71 (3.11%) Kustomize
6 66 (2.89%) Argo
7 22 (0.96%) Kibana
7 22 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.44%) Grafana
9 9 (0.39%) Istio
9 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.13%) CA Endevor
10 3 (0.13%) Marathon
11 2 (0.088%) Control-M
12 1 (0.044%) CA Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.044%) cPanel
12 1 (0.044%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.044%) logstash
12 1 (0.044%) Puppet
12 1 (0.044%) SCCM
Vendors
1 246 (10.77%) Solace
2 237 (10.38%) Microsoft
3 123 (5.39%) PayPal
4 122 (5.34%) Google
5 52 (2.28%) Oracle
6 47 (2.06%) Adobe
7 29 (1.27%) ServiceNow
8 21 (0.92%) Dynatrace
9 20 (0.88%) Splunk
10 19 (0.83%) Salesforce
11 16 (0.70%) Cisco
11 16 (0.70%) Sage
11 16 (0.70%) Twitter
12 14 (0.61%) IBM
13 13 (0.57%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.44%) New Relic
15 8 (0.35%) Optimizely
15 8 (0.35%) UiPath
16 7 (0.31%) Red Hat
17 6 (0.26%) HP