Babel JavaScript Compiler
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Babel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Babel over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 900 878
Rank change year-on-year +222 -22 -68
Permanent jobs citing Babel 24 7 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.007% 0.094%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.40% 0.074% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19 6 11
10th Percentile £50,400 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.03% -1.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,625 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -9.09%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Babel falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,028 9,520 13,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 9.18% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,562 6,582 8,354
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%

Babel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Babel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Babel in the UK

Babel
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Babel.

Salary trend for Babel in the UK

Babel
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Babel over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Babel in the UK

Babel
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Babel within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England +188 22 £55,000 -15.38% 9
UK excluding London +192 13 £57,500 -11.54% 4
London +113 9 £53,000 - 7
Work from Home - 9 £70,000 - 4
North of England - 7 £55,000 -
North West - 7 £55,000 -
South East +79 4 £61,250 -5.77%
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
Midlands - 2 £60,000 -

Babel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
1 7 (29.17%) npm
2 6 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Metadata
2 2 (8.33%) Big Data
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (100.00%) webpack
2 12 (50.00%) Git
3 4 (16.67%) Mocha
4 3 (12.50%) gulp
5 2 (8.33%) JIRA
5 2 (8.33%) rollup.js
5 2 (8.33%) Vite
6 1 (4.17%) Jasmine
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Law
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Developer
2 15 (62.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 10 (41.67%) React Developer
4 6 (25.00%) HTML CSS Developer
4 6 (25.00%) HTML Developer
4 6 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 6 (25.00%) Senior
5 5 (20.83%) Senior Developer
5 5 (20.83%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 4 (16.67%) Software Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (8.33%) UI Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Web Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (4.17%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (100.00%) React
2 20 (83.33%) CSS
3 17 (70.83%) HTML
4 14 (58.33%) RESTful
5 11 (45.83%) HTML5
6 9 (37.50%) REST
7 8 (33.33%) Jest
8 7 (29.17%) .NET
8 7 (29.17%) Redux
8 7 (29.17%) Sass
9 5 (20.83%) CSS3
9 5 (20.83%) JWT
9 5 (20.83%) Node.js
9 5 (20.83%) OAuth
9 5 (20.83%) Vue
10 3 (12.50%) DOM
10 3 (12.50%) JSON
10 3 (12.50%) Svelte
11 2 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (8.33%) MobX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (12.50%) Smart City
2 2 (8.33%) Cybercrime
2 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Front End Development
2 15 (62.50%) Agile
3 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (33.33%) API Development
4 8 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 8 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 8 (33.33%) User Experience
5 6 (25.00%) Clean Code
6 5 (20.83%) B2B
6 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) Benchmarking
7 4 (16.67%) UX Design
8 3 (12.50%) Data Science
8 3 (12.50%) DevOps
8 3 (12.50%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
8 3 (12.50%) Facilities Management
8 3 (12.50%) Information Governance
8 3 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) JavaScript
2 14 (58.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (12.50%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) R
4 1 (4.17%) Ada
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft