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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -46 -10 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,394 2,106 5,884
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.09% 7.11% 7.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.59% 25.60% 25.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,185 1,228 4,655
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,574 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £85,000 £79,500
UK median annual salary £59,773 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.04% +8.33% -4.00%

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 10,255 8,228 22,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.37% 27.77% 30.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,240 5,247 16,776
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,100 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -29 481 £55,000 -4.35% 212
South East -37 320 £55,000 - 209
North West -37 242 £57,500 -4.17% 127
South West -34 195 £50,000 -13.04% 80
Yorkshire -8 192 £60,000 -4.00% 64
Midlands -62 185 £55,000 - 84
East of England -48 124 £60,000 -9.38% 77
West Midlands -46 110 £57,500 +4.55% 44
East Midlands -45 75 £55,000 - 40
Scotland -56 50 £47,500 -20.83% 39
North East -17 47 £52,000 +4.00% 21
Wales -40 34 £55,000 - 23
Northern Ireland -39 4 £57,500 +15.00% 31
Isle of Man +3 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 48 (3.44%) WordPress
2 38 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 33 (2.37%) CMS
4 21 (1.51%) Apache
5 14 (1.00%) Confluence
6 10 (0.72%) IIS
7 8 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.50%) nginx
8 7 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.36%) JBoss
11 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.29%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.14%) CICS
13 2 (0.14%) Drupal
13 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 16 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.72%) Photoshop
4 6 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.14%) InDesign
7 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.072%) Elementor
7 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.072%) Sketch
7 1 (0.072%) Trello
7 1 (0.072%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 28 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.29%) Shopify
3 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.29%) Magento
4 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.14%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.072%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.072%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.072%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 538 (38.59%) Azure
2 525 (37.66%) AWS
3 173 (12.41%) GitHub
4 132 (9.47%) Serverless
5 122 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
6 114 (8.18%) Power Platform
7 91 (6.53%) SaaS
8 77 (5.52%) GCP
9 75 (5.38%) Power Automate
10 68 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
11 61 (4.38%) PowerApps
12 59 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
12 59 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
13 45 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
14 39 (2.80%) Amazon S3
15 36 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
16 35 (2.51%) Azure AI
17 27 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
19 21 (1.51%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 130 (9.33%) Internet
2 14 (1.00%) Broadband
3 9 (0.65%) Firewall
3 9 (0.65%) VPN
4 8 (0.57%) WAN
5 7 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.36%) AMQP
6 5 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.36%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.29%) HTTP
7 4 (0.29%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
8 3 (0.22%) MQTT
8 3 (0.22%) Network Security
8 3 (0.22%) SSL
9 1 (0.072%) DNS
9 1 (0.072%) FTP
9 1 (0.072%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (9.11%) SQL Server
2 124 (8.90%) MySQL
3 104 (7.46%) MongoDB
4 87 (6.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 74 (5.31%) Relational Database
6 73 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (4.45%) Power BI
8 51 (3.66%) NoSQL
9 47 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (1.36%) MariaDB
11 18 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (1.08%) Redis
14 14 (1.00%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.86%) Big Data
16 10 (0.72%) DynamoDB
16 10 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (0.57%) GIS
18 7 (0.50%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 305 (21.88%) Git
2 65 (4.66%) Jenkins
3 47 (3.37%) JIRA
4 41 (2.94%) GitLab
5 30 (2.15%) JUnit
6 27 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 23 (1.65%) Cucumber
8 22 (1.58%) Maven
9 17 (1.22%) Selenium
10 16 (1.15%) Mockito
10 16 (1.15%) Subversion
11 12 (0.86%) Eclipse
11 12 (0.86%) JMeter
12 11 (0.79%) Postman
13 10 (0.72%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.57%) PHPUnit
14 8 (0.57%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.43%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.43%) Storybook
15 6 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 317 (22.74%) Social Skills
2 124 (8.90%) Finance
3 105 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (7.53%) Multimedia
4 84 (6.03%) Public Sector
5 46 (3.30%) Marketing
6 35 (2.51%) Retail
7 33 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 27 (1.94%) Law
9 24 (1.72%) Automotive
10 23 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (1.29%) Aerospace
13 15 (1.08%) Games
13 15 (1.08%) Legal
14 14 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.93%) Banking
16 10 (0.72%) Advertising
17 8 (0.57%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 771 (55.31%) Developer
2 248 (17.79%) Senior
3 233 (16.71%) Software Engineer
4 214 (15.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 168 (12.05%) Lead
6 160 (11.48%) Software Developer
7 149 (10.69%) Senior Developer
8 105 (7.53%) Trainee
9 99 (7.10%) .NET Developer
10 71 (5.09%) JavaScript Developer
11 65 (4.66%) Lead Developer
12 63 (4.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 60 (4.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 57 (4.09%) Senior Software Engineer
15 52 (3.73%) Java Developer
15 52 (3.73%) Lead Software Engineer
16 46 (3.30%) Web Developer
17 43 (3.08%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
17 43 (3.08%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 42 (3.01%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 476 (34.15%) HTML
2 459 (32.93%) React
3 450 (32.28%) CSS
4 328 (23.53%) .NET
5 263 (18.87%) Node.js
6 160 (11.48%) REST
7 145 (10.40%) AngularJS
8 143 (10.26%) .NET Core
9 128 (9.18%) RESTful
10 120 (8.61%) Vue
11 116 (8.32%) ASP.NET
12 93 (6.67%) jQuery
13 85 (6.10%) ASP.NET Core
14 73 (5.24%) JSON
15 72 (5.16%) Blazor
16 68 (4.88%) HTML5
17 67 (4.81%) Spring
18 62 (4.45%) Laravel
19 59 (4.23%) Web Services
20 54 (3.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 71 (5.09%) Cloud Native
2 67 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
5 47 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 45 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (2.08%) Low-Code
8 29 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 28 (2.01%) Mobile App
10 20 (1.43%) e-Learning
11 17 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 13 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (0.86%) Robotics
13 12 (0.86%) Social Media
14 11 (0.79%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.79%) Client/Server
14 11 (0.79%) Management Information System
14 11 (0.79%) Sports Betting
15 10 (0.72%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 80 (5.74%) Linux
2 38 (2.73%) Windows
3 11 (0.79%) Android
3 11 (0.79%) Unix
4 9 (0.65%) CentOS
5 8 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.36%) Debian
7 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.072%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.072%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (37.73%) Full-Stack Development
2 500 (35.87%) Agile
3 360 (25.82%) CI/CD
4 359 (25.75%) Software Engineering
5 309 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
6 298 (21.38%) Mentoring
7 279 (20.01%) DevOps
8 209 (14.99%) AI
9 197 (14.13%) Microservices
10 166 (11.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 165 (11.84%) Scrum
11 165 (11.84%) Web Development
12 151 (10.83%) Test Automation
13 141 (10.11%) User Experience
14 126 (9.04%) Front End Development
15 124 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
16 122 (8.75%) Containerisation
17 121 (8.68%) TDD
18 117 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
19 116 (8.32%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 472 (33.86%) Python
2 403 (28.91%) TypeScript
3 390 (27.98%) SQL
4 372 (26.69%) C#
5 280 (20.09%) Java
6 152 (10.90%) PHP
7 72 (5.16%) R
8 58 (4.16%) C++
9 36 (2.58%) PowerShell
10 31 (2.22%) Go
11 26 (1.87%) Bash
12 22 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 20 (1.43%) C
14 16 (1.15%) Rust
15 10 (0.72%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.72%) Perl
15 10 (0.72%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.72%) VBA
16 9 (0.65%) Ruby
16 9 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 162 (11.62%) Degree
2 121 (8.68%) AWS Certification
3 114 (8.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 111 (7.96%) Azure Certification
5 109 (7.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 102 (7.32%) Security Cleared
7 90 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (3.59%) SC Cleared
9 22 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 17 (1.22%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.65%) PhD
14 7 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.36%) ISTQB
17 3 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
17 3 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.74%) QA
2 76 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.93%) GDPR
5 11 (0.79%) SLA
6 7 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.50%) WCAG
7 5 (0.36%) IEC 61131
8 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.22%) PMO
10 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.072%) HL7
11 1 (0.072%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 184 (13.20%) Docker
2 10 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.36%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 132 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 90 (6.46%) Terraform
3 27 (1.94%) Ansible
4 18 (1.29%) Kibana
5 14 (1.00%) Grafana
6 10 (0.72%) logstash
7 6 (0.43%) Puppet
8 5 (0.36%) Podman
8 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.29%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.29%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.22%) Plesk
10 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.14%) Argo
11 2 (0.14%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.14%) Nagios
12 1 (0.072%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 332 (23.82%) Microsoft
2 39 (2.80%) Adobe
3 37 (2.65%) Google
3 37 (2.65%) Oracle
4 22 (1.58%) Splunk
5 21 (1.51%) ServiceNow
6 20 (1.43%) HubSpot
7 17 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.15%) Red Hat
9 12 (0.86%) Pega
10 11 (0.79%) Atlassian
10 11 (0.79%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.57%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.57%) SAP
12 7 (0.50%) Apple
12 7 (0.50%) Facebook
12 7 (0.50%) Sony
12 7 (0.50%) Yahoo!
13 6 (0.43%) Siemens
13 6 (0.43%) Sitecore