JavaScript Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median JavaScript Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 614 625
Rank change year-on-year +114 +11 -228
Permanent jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 62 156 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.23% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 55 141 115
10th Percentile - £40,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £63,125 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 34,463 66,724 54,732
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.80% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,670 47,232 31,095
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for JavaScript Developer in the UK excluding London

JavaScript Developer
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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East +72 29 £30,000 -45.45% 4
North of England +62 21 £55,000 -15.38% 9
North West +13 18 £55,000 -16.67% 7
Midlands +30 6 £37,500 -23.08% 5
West Midlands +31 5 £37,500 -42.31% 5
East of England +34 3 £67,500 -3.57% 4
Wales - 3 £70,000 -
North East - 3 £42,500 - 3
East Midlands +38 1 £37,500 -21.05%
JavaScript Developer
UK

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, JavaScript Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 38 (61.29%) TypeScript
3 36 (58.06%) Node.js
4 27 (43.55%) Git
5 26 (41.94%) Agile
6 25 (40.32%) HTML
6 25 (40.32%) webpack
7 24 (38.71%) Games
8 23 (37.10%) React
9 22 (35.48%) Pixi.js
10 21 (33.87%) CSS
11 20 (32.26%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (30.65%) gulp
13 18 (29.03%) WebGL
13 18 (29.03%) Spine.js
14 16 (25.81%) Front End Development
15 14 (22.58%) Azure
16 13 (20.97%) AWS
16 13 (20.97%) HTML5
16 13 (20.97%) User Experience
17 12 (19.35%) REST
18 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
19 10 (16.13%) Mobile App
19 10 (16.13%) API Development
20 9 (14.52%) .NET
20 9 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
20 9 (14.52%) React Native
20 9 (14.52%) Vue
21 8 (12.90%) Code Quality
22 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
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 5 (8.06%) CMS
1 5 (8.06%) Headless CMS
2 3 (4.84%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.58%) Azure
2 13 (20.97%) AWS
3 5 (8.06%) Contentful
3 5 (8.06%) GCP
3 5 (8.06%) Serverless
4 4 (6.45%) GitHub
5 2 (3.23%) Figma
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.61%) npm
6 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.29%) MySQL
3 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.61%) GIS
5 1 (1.61%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.61%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) Redis
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (43.55%) Git
2 25 (40.32%) webpack
3 19 (30.65%) gulp
4 6 (9.68%) Babel
5 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.84%) GitLab
5 3 (4.84%) JIRA
6 2 (3.23%) Storybook
7 1 (1.61%) git-flow
General
1 24 (38.71%) Games
2 7 (11.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.84%) Advertising
3 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.23%) Finance
5 1 (1.61%) Agriculture
5 1 (1.61%) iGaming
5 1 (1.61%) Law
5 1 (1.61%) Legal
5 1 (1.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (58.06%) Node.js
2 25 (40.32%) HTML
3 23 (37.10%) React
4 22 (35.48%) Pixi.js
5 21 (33.87%) CSS
6 18 (29.03%) Spine.js
6 18 (29.03%) WebGL
7 13 (20.97%) HTML5
8 12 (19.35%) REST
9 9 (14.52%) .NET
9 9 (14.52%) React Native
9 9 (14.52%) Vue
10 7 (11.29%) GraphQL
10 7 (11.29%) Middleware
10 7 (11.29%) Svelte
11 6 (9.68%) RESTful
12 5 (8.06%) AngularJS
12 5 (8.06%) Express.js
12 5 (8.06%) hapi
12 5 (8.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.61%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.94%) Agile
2 20 (32.26%) Full-Stack Development
3 16 (25.81%) Front End Development
4 13 (20.97%) User Experience
5 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
6 10 (16.13%) API Development
7 8 (12.90%) Code Quality
8 7 (11.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
8 7 (11.29%) Mobile Application Development
8 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.29%) Secure Coding
9 6 (9.68%) Microservices
9 6 (9.68%) Software Engineering
10 5 (8.06%) Analytics
10 5 (8.06%) B2B
10 5 (8.06%) Sprint Planning
10 5 (8.06%) Sprint Retrospective
10 5 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (8.06%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 38 (61.29%) TypeScript
3 6 (9.68%) PHP
4 5 (8.06%) C#
5 3 (4.84%) C
6 2 (3.23%) SQL
7 1 (1.61%) ReasonML
Qualifications
1 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Ansible
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.06%) Google
3 3 (4.84%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.61%) Mapbox