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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,844 5,996 7,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.01% 8.53% 11.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.93% 26.56% 29.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,431 4,574 3,952
10th Percentile £34,000 £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 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.75% -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 9,740 22,573 24,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.45% 32.11% 40.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,145 16,409 13,927
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +2.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 1 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 1 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 -22 480 £60,000 +4.35% 534
North of England -45 463 £56,500 +2.73% 459
North West -62 275 £57,500 +4.55% 282
East of England -11 239 £66,212 +26.12% 205
South West -9 235 £60,000 +14.29% 185
Midlands -56 226 £55,000 +10.00% 281
Scotland -5 163 £60,000 +9.09% 81
Yorkshire -14 157 £57,500 +4.55% 132
West Midlands -51 132 £52,500 - 152
East Midlands -46 94 £57,500 +15.00% 114
Wales -22 36 £50,000 - 34
North East -15 31 £48,750 -11.36% 49
Northern Ireland -9 12 £50,000 +11.11% 26
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 65 (3.52%) CMS
2 59 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.90%) Confluence
4 30 (1.63%) WordPress
5 28 (1.52%) Umbraco
6 23 (1.25%) Jupyter
7 21 (1.14%) IIS
8 17 (0.92%) Headless CMS
9 12 (0.65%) Apache
10 9 (0.49%) nginx
11 7 (0.38%) Camunda
12 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.27%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.22%) Joomla!
14 4 (0.22%) Strapi
14 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
15 3 (0.16%) Kentico
15 3 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 137 (7.43%) Chatbot
2 25 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.14%) Adobe XD
4 14 (0.76%) Sketch
5 7 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.16%) Notion
9 2 (0.11%) Moqups
9 2 (0.11%) Trello
10 1 (0.054%) InVision
10 1 (0.054%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.054%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 40 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.52%) NetSuite
3 18 (0.98%) Magento
4 17 (0.92%) Sage 200
4 17 (0.92%) Sage 50
5 13 (0.70%) Shopify
6 12 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite
9 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 2 (0.11%) Odoo
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 536 (29.07%) Azure
2 503 (27.28%) AWS
3 177 (9.60%) GCP
4 152 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
5 131 (7.10%) Serverless
6 130 (7.05%) SaaS
7 102 (5.53%) GitHub
8 82 (4.45%) Power Platform
9 73 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
10 64 (3.47%) Power Automate
11 63 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
12 62 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 60 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
14 51 (2.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 41 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
15 41 (2.22%) Figma
16 40 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (2.01%) Amazon S3
17 37 (2.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.96%) TCP/IP
2 68 (3.69%) VPN
3 22 (1.19%) Internet
4 12 (0.65%) HTTP
5 9 (0.49%) DNS
5 9 (0.49%) Firewall
6 6 (0.33%) Intranet
6 6 (0.33%) Network Security
7 5 (0.27%) SSL
8 4 (0.22%) DMARC
8 4 (0.22%) LAN
8 4 (0.22%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.22%) WAN
9 3 (0.16%) Multicast
10 2 (0.11%) MQTT
10 2 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.11%) SMS
10 2 (0.11%) VoIP
10 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (11.98%) MySQL
2 208 (11.28%) SQL Server
3 114 (6.18%) NoSQL
4 112 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
5 109 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
6 97 (5.26%) MongoDB
7 71 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 32 (1.74%) RDBMS
9 29 (1.57%) Big Data
10 16 (0.87%) BigQuery
10 16 (0.87%) Redis
11 15 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 14 (0.76%) Cloud Spanner
13 12 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.60%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.54%) Power BI
16 9 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
17 8 (0.43%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 431 (23.37%) Git
2 108 (5.86%) Jenkins
3 98 (5.31%) JIRA
4 94 (5.10%) Visual Studio
5 81 (4.39%) Cucumber
6 79 (4.28%) webpack
7 71 (3.85%) Robot Framework
8 54 (2.93%) GitLab
9 53 (2.87%) Cypress.io
9 53 (2.87%) Selenium
10 47 (2.55%) JUnit
11 42 (2.28%) Octopus Deploy
12 39 (2.11%) MSBuild
12 39 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
13 32 (1.74%) JMeter
14 27 (1.46%) Postman
15 24 (1.30%) TeamCity
16 23 (1.25%) Maven
17 22 (1.19%) gulp
18 21 (1.14%) Babel
General
1 434 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 263 (14.26%) Finance
3 175 (9.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 153 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 121 (6.56%) Retail
6 97 (5.26%) Banking
7 89 (4.83%) Games
8 71 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 69 (3.74%) Law
10 61 (3.31%) Marketing
11 50 (2.71%) Manufacturing
12 48 (2.60%) Public Sector
13 34 (1.84%) Legal
14 30 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (1.52%) Tech for Good
16 22 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.98%) Electronics
18 14 (0.76%) Automotive
19 13 (0.70%) Advertising
20 11 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 897 (48.64%) Developer
2 427 (23.16%) Senior
3 296 (16.05%) Software Engineer
4 235 (12.74%) Senior Developer
5 205 (11.12%) Lead
6 130 (7.05%) Full-Stack Developer
7 117 (6.34%) Software Developer
8 113 (6.13%) Trainer
9 104 (5.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 103 (5.59%) PHP Developer
11 98 (5.31%) .NET Developer
12 93 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
13 76 (4.12%) Test Engineer
14 72 (3.90%) Test Automation Engineer
15 71 (3.85%) Architect
16 66 (3.58%) C# Developer
17 65 (3.52%) Web Developer
18 62 (3.36%) JavaScript Developer
19 61 (3.31%) Junior
20 60 (3.25%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 803 (43.55%) HTML
2 657 (35.63%) CSS
3 580 (31.45%) React
4 499 (27.06%) .NET
5 318 (17.25%) Node.js
6 213 (11.55%) AngularJS
7 205 (11.12%) REST
8 163 (8.84%) ASP.NET
9 157 (8.51%) RESTful
10 137 (7.43%) HTML5
11 134 (7.27%) .NET Core
12 127 (6.89%) jQuery
13 125 (6.78%) JSON
14 123 (6.67%) Vue
15 121 (6.56%) Laravel
16 119 (6.45%) XML
17 116 (6.29%) .NET Framework
18 112 (6.07%) Web Services
19 90 (4.88%) Bootstrap
20 84 (4.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 134 (7.27%) Mobile App
2 71 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 65 (3.52%) Algorithms
4 62 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
5 60 (3.25%) Cyberattack
6 49 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 45 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
8 41 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.46%) Legacy Code
12 26 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 25 (1.36%) Learning Management System
14 24 (1.30%) Onboarding
15 23 (1.25%) Data Structures
16 22 (1.19%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.92%) Hackathon
18 16 (0.87%) Robotics
19 15 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 216 (11.71%) Linux
2 119 (6.45%) Windows
3 79 (4.28%) Android
4 27 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 27 (1.46%) Unix
5 11 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.54%) Rocky
7 4 (0.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.054%) CentOS
8 1 (0.054%) Debian
8 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.054%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (33.24%) Agile
2 591 (32.05%) Software Engineering
3 465 (25.22%) DevOps
4 464 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
5 362 (19.63%) CI/CD
6 319 (17.30%) Full-Stack Development
7 301 (16.32%) Artificial Intelligence
8 298 (16.16%) Mentoring
9 265 (14.37%) Microservices
10 237 (12.85%) Test Automation
11 235 (12.74%) Code Quality
12 230 (12.47%) User Experience
13 225 (12.20%) MVC
14 207 (11.23%) Front End Development
15 204 (11.06%) Web Development
16 177 (9.60%) E-Commerce
17 175 (9.49%) OOP
18 142 (7.70%) Coaching
19 141 (7.65%) Computer Science
20 138 (7.48%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 637 (34.54%) C#
2 565 (30.64%) SQL
3 519 (28.15%) Python
4 446 (24.19%) TypeScript
5 364 (19.74%) Java
6 269 (14.59%) PHP
7 179 (9.71%) C++
8 105 (5.69%) PowerShell
9 81 (4.39%) Bash
10 74 (4.01%) Go
11 46 (2.49%) Rust
12 33 (1.79%) Kotlin
13 31 (1.68%) C
14 29 (1.57%) T-SQL
15 27 (1.46%) Shell Script
16 25 (1.36%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.98%) VB.NET
18 13 (0.70%) Ruby
19 12 (0.65%) Delphi
20 11 (0.60%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 422 (22.89%) Degree
2 168 (9.11%) Security Cleared
3 105 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 90 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 64 (3.47%) SC Cleared
6 25 (1.36%) Master's Degree
7 21 (1.14%) PhD
8 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
11 6 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.22%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.22%) HND
13 2 (0.11%) ACCA
13 2 (0.11%) CISSP
13 2 (0.11%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.054%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.054%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (9.92%) QA
2 77 (4.18%) Accessibility
3 57 (3.09%) GDPR
4 28 (1.52%) WCAG
5 16 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.60%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.27%) HL7
8 4 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.11%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.11%) NIST
9 2 (0.11%) SLA
9 2 (0.11%) WAI
10 1 (0.054%) COBIT
10 1 (0.054%) GRC
10 1 (0.054%) PMO
10 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.054%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 337 (18.28%) Docker
2 6 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.11%) Firmware
4 1 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.054%) NDS
4 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.054%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 264 (14.32%) Kubernetes
2 107 (5.80%) Terraform
3 48 (2.60%) Ansible
4 27 (1.46%) Kibana
5 17 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.49%) Istio
6 9 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.43%) Grafana
7 8 (0.43%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.27%) CA Endevor
8 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.16%) Argo
9 3 (0.16%) Marathon
10 2 (0.11%) Control-M
11 1 (0.054%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.054%) cPanel
11 1 (0.054%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.054%) logstash
11 1 (0.054%) Puppet
11 1 (0.054%) SCCM
Vendors
1 246 (13.34%) Microsoft
2 123 (6.67%) PayPal
3 66 (3.58%) Google
4 53 (2.87%) Adobe
4 53 (2.87%) Oracle
5 31 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 28 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 26 (1.41%) IBM
8 25 (1.36%) Splunk
9 19 (1.03%) Red Hat
9 19 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.03%) Twitter
10 17 (0.92%) Sage
11 14 (0.76%) Cisco
12 13 (0.70%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.54%) New Relic
14 9 (0.49%) Optimizely
14 9 (0.49%) UiPath
15 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.38%) Xamarin