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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -22 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,196 6,089 6,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.58% 8.17% 11.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.05% 26.63% 28.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 4,614 3,714
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
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 10,434 22,861 22,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.50% 30.66% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,760 16,543 13,080
10th Percentile £32,500 £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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,307 £67,500 £71,194
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
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 30 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 30 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 -25 691 £57,500 +4.55% 2,257
North West -24 526 £58,000 +5.45% 1,096
South East -28 493 £55,000 - 2,751
East of England -14 288 £66,212 +26.12% 1,487
Midlands -36 284 £55,000 +10.00% 1,887
South West -12 227 £60,000 +14.29% 1,160
Scotland -10 180 £60,000 +9.09% 421
West Midlands -40 151 £55,000 +4.76% 997
Yorkshire -28 139 £60,000 +11.63% 903
East Midlands -35 133 £55,000 +10.00% 772
Wales -29 34 £52,500 +5.00% 270
North East -17 26 £50,000 -9.09% 266
Northern Ireland -10 9 £50,000 +11.11% 145
Isle of Man +13 1 £52,500 +45.83% 1
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
1 185 (8.42%) Confluence
2 64 (2.91%) CMS
3 49 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 35 (1.59%) IIS
4 35 (1.59%) WordPress
5 31 (1.41%) Umbraco
6 23 (1.05%) Jupyter
7 16 (0.73%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.36%) Apache
10 6 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.23%) Drupal
12 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.14%) ColdFusion
13 3 (0.14%) Sitefinity
13 3 (0.14%) Strapi
14 2 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.091%) Mendix
14 2 (0.091%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 145 (6.60%) Chatbot
2 24 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.50%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.41%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (0.18%) Sketch
8 2 (0.091%) Elementor
8 2 (0.091%) Trello
9 1 (0.046%) InVision
9 1 (0.046%) Moqups
9 1 (0.046%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.046%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 45 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.05%) NetSuite
3 22 (1.00%) Magento
4 15 (0.68%) Shopify
5 13 (0.59%) Sage 200
5 13 (0.59%) Sage 50
6 12 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
7 4 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.091%) MFGPRO
9 2 (0.091%) Odoo
9 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.091%) Sage 1000
10 1 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.046%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (0.046%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 937 (42.67%) AWS
2 870 (39.62%) Azure
3 478 (21.77%) GCP
4 135 (6.15%) Serverless
5 123 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (4.69%) SaaS
7 79 (3.60%) GitHub
8 69 (3.14%) Power Automate
9 65 (2.96%) Pulumi
10 64 (2.91%) Power Platform
11 63 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
13 56 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
14 55 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
15 49 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
16 46 (2.09%) Amazon S3
17 43 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 40 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
19 35 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
20 33 (1.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 88 (4.01%) Broadband
2 69 (3.14%) TCP/IP
3 62 (2.82%) VPN
4 25 (1.14%) Internet
5 11 (0.50%) HTTP
6 10 (0.46%) SSL
7 9 (0.41%) DMARC
8 7 (0.32%) Network Security
9 6 (0.27%) DNS
9 6 (0.27%) Intranet
10 4 (0.18%) LoRaWAN
11 2 (0.091%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.091%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.091%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.091%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.091%) Modbus
11 2 (0.091%) MQTT
11 2 (0.091%) SMS
11 2 (0.091%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.046%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 431 (19.63%) SQL Server
2 206 (9.38%) MySQL
3 158 (7.19%) NoSQL
4 132 (6.01%) Relational Database
5 119 (5.42%) Elasticsearch
6 112 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
7 90 (4.10%) RDBMS
8 83 (3.78%) MongoDB
9 31 (1.41%) DynamoDB
10 30 (1.37%) Big Data
11 17 (0.77%) Power BI
11 17 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (0.73%) Redis
13 15 (0.68%) BigQuery
13 15 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.64%) Cloud Spanner
15 11 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (0.41%) OLTP
17 7 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
17 7 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 375 (17.08%) Git
2 338 (15.39%) JIRA
3 328 (14.94%) Cucumber
4 292 (13.30%) Selenium
5 280 (12.75%) GitLab
6 270 (12.30%) Maven
7 261 (11.89%) Bitbucket
8 260 (11.84%) Sonatype Nexus
9 257 (11.70%) SonarQube
10 89 (4.05%) Jenkins
11 77 (3.51%) Visual Studio
12 65 (2.96%) Jaeger
13 64 (2.91%) Robot Framework
14 62 (2.82%) webpack
15 50 (2.28%) Cypress.io
16 41 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
17 40 (1.82%) JUnit
18 34 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
19 32 (1.46%) MSBuild
20 30 (1.37%) TeamCity
General
1 659 (30.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 477 (21.72%) Finance
3 403 (18.35%) Social Skills
4 327 (14.89%) Banking
5 199 (9.06%) Retail
6 137 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
7 92 (4.19%) Investment Banking
8 90 (4.10%) Corporate Banking
9 85 (3.87%) Law
10 76 (3.46%) Games
11 70 (3.19%) Telecoms
12 62 (2.82%) Marketing
13 48 (2.19%) Manufacturing
14 38 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (1.41%) Public Sector
16 30 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (1.09%) Tech for Good
18 20 (0.91%) Legal
19 17 (0.77%) Electronics
20 13 (0.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 868 (39.53%) Developer
2 666 (30.33%) Software Engineer
3 544 (24.77%) Senior
4 260 (11.84%) Lead
5 238 (10.84%) Senior Software Engineer
6 230 (10.47%) Senior Developer
7 149 (6.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 120 (5.46%) Software Developer
9 113 (5.15%) Trainer
10 94 (4.28%) PHP Developer
11 88 (4.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 85 (3.87%) Team Leader
13 76 (3.46%) .NET Developer
14 72 (3.28%) Test Engineer
15 70 (3.19%) Test Automation Engineer
16 63 (2.87%) Junior
17 62 (2.82%) Architect
18 61 (2.78%) Lead Developer
18 61 (2.78%) Web Developer
19 59 (2.69%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 990 (45.08%) HTML
2 799 (36.38%) CSS
3 771 (35.11%) React
4 603 (27.46%) .NET
5 454 (20.67%) Node.js
6 335 (15.26%) Spring Boot
7 324 (14.75%) Spring
8 300 (13.66%) Kafka
9 288 (13.11%) Redux
10 274 (12.48%) REST
11 247 (11.25%) JPA
12 229 (10.43%) RESTful
13 210 (9.56%) HTML5
14 195 (8.88%) AngularJS
15 185 (8.42%) Hibernate
16 162 (7.38%) Jest
17 152 (6.92%) CSS3
18 139 (6.33%) ASP.NET
19 131 (5.97%) Sass
20 125 (5.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 317 (14.44%) Product Ownership
2 280 (12.75%) Enterprise Software
3 236 (10.75%) Linux Command Line
4 232 (10.56%) Cyberattack
5 215 (9.79%) Self-Motivation
6 106 (4.83%) Mobile App
7 67 (3.05%) Algorithms
8 57 (2.60%) Cloud Native
9 48 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
10 35 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 28 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 20 (0.91%) Data Structures
13 19 (0.87%) Onboarding
14 17 (0.77%) Virtual Team
15 16 (0.73%) Legacy Code
16 14 (0.64%) Private Cloud
16 14 (0.64%) Robotics
17 13 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
18 11 (0.50%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 443 (20.17%) Linux
2 110 (5.01%) Windows
3 89 (4.05%) Unix
4 76 (3.46%) Android
5 26 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.14%) Rocky
8 1 (0.046%) CentOS
8 1 (0.046%) Debian
8 1 (0.046%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,070 (48.72%) Agile
2 921 (41.94%) Software Engineering
3 704 (32.06%) DevOps
4 657 (29.92%) Microservices
5 635 (28.92%) CI/CD
6 614 (27.96%) Mentoring
7 540 (24.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 486 (22.13%) Test Automation
9 470 (21.40%) User Experience
10 420 (19.13%) Front End Development
11 412 (18.76%) Problem-Solving
12 408 (18.58%) Containerisation
13 381 (17.35%) Performance Optimisation
14 360 (16.39%) SDLC
15 327 (14.89%) Artificial Intelligence
16 303 (13.80%) Machine Learning
17 294 (13.39%) Scrum
18 268 (12.20%) TDD
19 262 (11.93%) Clean Code
20 249 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 866 (39.44%) Java
2 816 (37.16%) SQL
3 780 (35.52%) Python
4 592 (26.96%) C#
5 544 (24.77%) TypeScript
6 392 (17.85%) C++
7 299 (13.62%) Go
8 289 (13.16%) PHP
9 269 (12.25%) Rust
10 133 (6.06%) Bash
11 92 (4.19%) PowerShell
12 72 (3.28%) C
13 59 (2.69%) Ruby
14 52 (2.37%) MATLAB
14 52 (2.37%) R
15 48 (2.19%) Dart
16 23 (1.05%) PL/SQL
17 21 (0.96%) VB.NET
18 18 (0.82%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 435 (19.81%) Degree
2 323 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 261 (11.89%) AWS Certification
4 257 (11.70%) DV Cleared
5 174 (7.92%) AWS Certified Developer
6 172 (7.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 149 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (2.55%) SC Cleared
9 13 (0.59%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.36%) PhD
12 7 (0.32%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.091%) ACCA
15 2 (0.091%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.091%) HNC
15 2 (0.091%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 412 (18.76%) QA
2 160 (7.29%) Accessibility
3 51 (2.32%) GDPR
4 22 (1.00%) WCAG
5 19 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.27%) HL7
8 2 (0.091%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.091%) WAI
9 1 (0.046%) COBIT
9 1 (0.046%) GRC
9 1 (0.046%) PMO
9 1 (0.046%) SLA
9 1 (0.046%) SOC 2
System Software
1 618 (28.14%) Docker
2 10 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.14%) Firmware
3 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.046%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.046%) NDS
5 1 (0.046%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.046%) Xen
Systems Management
1 538 (24.50%) Kubernetes
2 169 (7.70%) Terraform
3 110 (5.01%) Ansible
4 73 (3.32%) Prometheus
5 67 (3.05%) Kustomize
6 65 (2.96%) Argo
7 23 (1.05%) Kibana
7 23 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.46%) Grafana
9 9 (0.41%) Istio
9 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.091%) Control-M
10 2 (0.091%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.046%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.046%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.046%) logstash
11 1 (0.046%) Marathon
11 1 (0.046%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.046%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.046%) Puppet
Vendors
1 246 (11.20%) Solace
2 222 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 123 (5.60%) PayPal
4 120 (5.46%) Google
5 61 (2.78%) Oracle
6 42 (1.91%) Adobe
7 27 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 20 (0.91%) Salesforce
8 20 (0.91%) Splunk
9 19 (0.87%) Dynatrace
10 15 (0.68%) Cisco
10 15 (0.68%) Sage
11 13 (0.59%) Atlassian
11 13 (0.59%) Twitter
12 11 (0.50%) Rollbar
13 10 (0.46%) New Relic
14 8 (0.36%) IBM
14 8 (0.36%) Optimizely
14 8 (0.36%) UiPath
15 7 (0.32%) HubSpot