JavaScript Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 40 24
Rank change year-on-year -23 -16 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,779 1,896 4,060
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.31% 5.47% 6.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.67% 22.49% 24.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,443 1,020 2,832
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,767 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%

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 12,130 8,430 16,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.77% 24.34% 27.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,805 5,349 11,201
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,565 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JavaScript
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

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 10 August 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
North of England -22 521 £55,000 -4.35% 191
South East -13 442 £55,000 +6.28% 208
North West -24 283 £55,000 -4.35% 114
South West -21 261 £50,000 -9.09% 107
Midlands -50 199 £55,000 - 100
Yorkshire -2 162 £57,500 -3.85% 55
East of England -24 153 £60,000 +9.09% 66
West Midlands -35 117 £56,250 +2.27% 52
Scotland -18 83 £55,000 -23.88% 56
East Midlands -51 82 £45,000 -21.74% 48
North East -8 76 £52,000 +4.00% 25
Wales -27 65 £55,000 -15.06% 19
Northern Ireland -32 52 £31,000 -61.25% 20
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33%
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 63 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 56 (3.15%) WordPress
3 34 (1.91%) CMS
4 27 (1.52%) Apache
5 24 (1.35%) Confluence
5 24 (1.35%) IIS
6 13 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.39%) JBoss
7 7 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.28%) nginx
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.22%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.11%) CICS
Applications
1 32 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.73%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.45%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.11%) Elementor
7 2 (0.11%) InDesign
8 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.056%) Sketch
8 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.12%) Shopify
3 8 (0.45%) Infor M3
3 8 (0.45%) Lawson
4 5 (0.28%) Magento
5 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.11%) Movex
6 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.056%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 673 (37.83%) Azure
2 580 (32.60%) AWS
3 192 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
4 171 (9.61%) SaaS
5 166 (9.33%) Power Platform
6 144 (8.09%) GitHub
7 119 (6.69%) Serverless
8 117 (6.58%) Power Automate
9 113 (6.35%) GCP
10 104 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
11 93 (5.23%) PowerApps
12 84 (4.72%) Azure AI
13 61 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
14 56 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
15 48 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
16 46 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
17 33 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
18 31 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
19 30 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 28 (1.57%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 92 (5.17%) Internet
2 12 (0.67%) Broadband
2 12 (0.67%) Firewall
2 12 (0.67%) VPN
3 11 (0.62%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.45%) WAN
5 7 (0.39%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.39%) MQTT
6 6 (0.34%) SNMP
6 6 (0.34%) SSL
6 6 (0.34%) Wireshark
7 5 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.28%) Ethernet
7 5 (0.28%) HTTP
7 5 (0.28%) Intranet
8 4 (0.22%) AMQP
9 3 (0.17%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.17%) Network Security
10 2 (0.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (12.14%) MongoDB
2 184 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 181 (10.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 156 (8.77%) MySQL
5 97 (5.45%) Relational Database
6 93 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
7 89 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
8 75 (4.22%) Power BI
9 47 (2.64%) NoSQL
10 41 (2.30%) Redis
11 24 (1.35%) MariaDB
12 21 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (0.79%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (0.51%) Big Data
15 9 (0.51%) GIS
16 7 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 361 (20.29%) Git
2 81 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 74 (4.16%) JIRA
4 69 (3.88%) GitLab
5 57 (3.20%) JUnit
6 42 (2.36%) Cypress.io
7 36 (2.02%) Maven
8 33 (1.85%) Subversion
9 27 (1.52%) Eclipse
10 25 (1.41%) Selenium
11 24 (1.35%) Cucumber
12 22 (1.24%) Mockito
13 17 (0.96%) Claude Code
14 16 (0.90%) Postman
15 15 (0.84%) Visual Studio
16 14 (0.79%) SonarQube
17 13 (0.73%) JMeter
18 11 (0.62%) Robot Framework
18 11 (0.62%) Spock
18 11 (0.62%) Storybook
General
1 487 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 173 (9.72%) Finance
3 140 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (6.46%) Public Sector
5 72 (4.05%) Legal
6 70 (3.93%) Marketing
7 58 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (3.15%) Law
9 54 (3.04%) Retail
10 50 (2.81%) Manufacturing
11 48 (2.70%) Multimedia
12 34 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.29%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (1.12%) Automotive
16 14 (0.79%) Banking
17 13 (0.73%) Games
18 11 (0.62%) Publishing
18 11 (0.62%) Telecoms
19 10 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,003 (56.38%) Developer
2 338 (19.00%) Senior
3 273 (15.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 263 (14.78%) Software Engineer
5 221 (12.42%) .NET Developer
6 216 (12.14%) Lead
7 184 (10.34%) Senior Developer
8 169 (9.50%) Software Developer
9 88 (4.95%) Lead Developer
10 82 (4.61%) Web Developer
11 81 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 76 (4.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 66 (3.71%) Java Developer
14 62 (3.49%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 56 (3.15%) Analyst
15 56 (3.15%) Lead Software Engineer
16 53 (2.98%) Senior Software Engineer
17 52 (2.92%) Junior
17 52 (2.92%) Senior Manager
17 52 (2.92%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 622 (34.96%) React
2 514 (28.89%) HTML
3 498 (27.99%) .NET
4 482 (27.09%) CSS
5 357 (20.07%) Node.js
6 258 (14.50%) .NET Core
7 257 (14.45%) ASP.NET
8 220 (12.37%) RESTful
9 202 (11.35%) ASP.NET Core
10 190 (10.68%) REST
11 168 (9.44%) Blazor
12 154 (8.66%) AngularJS
13 146 (8.21%) Vue
14 110 (6.18%) jQuery
15 107 (6.01%) ASP.NET Web API
16 103 (5.79%) .NET Framework
17 95 (5.34%) JSON
18 92 (5.17%) HTML5
19 82 (4.61%) Spring
20 81 (4.55%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 121 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 78 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
3 77 (4.33%) Product Ownership
4 71 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
5 63 (3.54%) Virtual Team
6 61 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
7 59 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
8 52 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 39 (2.19%) Mobile App
10 29 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.46%) Social Media
12 22 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 20 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.07%) Robotics
15 18 (1.01%) Private Cloud
16 17 (0.96%) BBC
16 17 (0.96%) iPhone
17 15 (0.84%) CMDB
18 14 (0.79%) AI Agents
18 14 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 125 (7.03%) Linux
2 66 (3.71%) Windows
3 22 (1.24%) Android
4 12 (0.67%) Unix
5 10 (0.56%) CentOS
6 9 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.39%) Debian
8 6 (0.34%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.17%) VMS
11 1 (0.056%) AIX
11 1 (0.056%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (42.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 725 (40.75%) Agile
3 504 (28.33%) Software Engineering
4 490 (27.54%) CI/CD
5 468 (26.31%) DevOps
6 415 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
7 368 (20.69%) AI
8 335 (18.83%) Mentoring
9 315 (17.71%) Microservices
10 309 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 279 (15.68%) Test Automation
12 223 (12.54%) Web Development
13 218 (12.25%) Scrum
14 178 (10.01%) Technical Leadership
15 175 (9.84%) Machine Learning
16 151 (8.49%) Containerisation
17 150 (8.43%) SDLC
18 149 (8.38%) Computer Science
19 148 (8.32%) Code Quality
20 147 (8.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 631 (35.47%) C#
2 593 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 537 (30.19%) SQL
4 524 (29.45%) Python
5 331 (18.61%) Java
6 173 (9.72%) PHP
7 118 (6.63%) C++
8 95 (5.34%) PowerShell
9 44 (2.47%) R
10 37 (2.08%) Go
11 35 (1.97%) Bash
12 28 (1.57%) Rust
13 27 (1.52%) C
14 25 (1.41%) Perl
15 23 (1.29%) Ruby
16 21 (1.18%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.84%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.67%) Apex Code
19 11 (0.62%) VB.NET
20 10 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 218 (12.25%) Degree
2 167 (9.39%) Security Cleared
3 122 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 104 (5.85%) SC Cleared
5 60 (3.37%) AWS Certification
6 56 (3.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 51 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 48 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 25 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 16 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.51%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.39%) PhD
14 4 (0.22%) HND
14 4 (0.22%) MBA
15 3 (0.17%) OCP
15 3 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (10.62%) QA
2 129 (7.25%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.69%) WCAG
4 24 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.73%) GDPR
7 11 (0.62%) SLA
8 9 (0.51%) NCSC
9 6 (0.34%) NIST
10 5 (0.28%) IEC 61131
10 5 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.11%) PMO
13 2 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.056%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.056%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 247 (13.88%) Docker
2 12 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 179 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 107 (6.01%) Terraform
3 30 (1.69%) Ansible
4 21 (1.18%) Kibana
5 18 (1.01%) Grafana
6 13 (0.73%) logstash
7 10 (0.56%) Puppet
8 9 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.34%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.28%) Podman
11 4 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.22%) Nagios
11 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.17%) Plesk
13 1 (0.056%) Argo
13 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
13 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 453 (25.46%) Microsoft
2 85 (4.78%) Google
3 46 (2.59%) Adobe
4 38 (2.14%) Oracle
5 32 (1.80%) Splunk
6 30 (1.69%) ServiceNow
7 22 (1.24%) Red Hat
8 17 (0.96%) Apple
8 17 (0.96%) Facebook
8 17 (0.96%) Sony
8 17 (0.96%) Yahoo!
9 16 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 14 (0.79%) HubSpot
11 13 (0.73%) AppDynamics
12 11 (0.62%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.56%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.56%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.45%) Infor
14 8 (0.45%) Pega
15 7 (0.39%) Sitecore