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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 684 872 866
Rank change year-on-year +188 -6 -44
Permanent jobs citing Babel 28 6 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.006% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.47% 0.063% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 22 6 15
10th Percentile £50,700 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £73,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +47.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £69,750 £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 6,011 9,505 14,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.91% 9.60% 14.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,707 6,682 8,851
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Babel in the UK

Babel
Top 11 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 14 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 +165 27 £57,500 -11.54% 8
UK excluding London +201 21 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Work from Home - 11 £60,000 - 7
North West - 10 £55,000 -
North of England - 10 £55,000 -
London - 6 £51,000 - 7
South East +103 5 £61,250 -5.77% 1
Midlands - 5 £65,000 -
East Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
South West +107 1 £55,000 -33.33%

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 (10.71%) nginx
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) npm
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) GitHub
4 3 (10.71%) Yarn
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.57%) ChatGPT
6 1 (3.57%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Metadata
1 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.14%) Big Data
2 2 (7.14%) MySQL
2 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (96.43%) webpack
2 12 (42.86%) Git
3 6 (21.43%) Mocha
4 3 (10.71%) gulp
4 3 (10.71%) Vite
5 2 (7.14%) JIRA
5 2 (7.14%) rollup.js
6 1 (3.57%) Ant
6 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.57%) Jasmine
6 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Law
3 3 (10.71%) Fire and Rescue
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Agriculture
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Developer
2 16 (57.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 13 (46.43%) React Developer
4 6 (21.43%) HTML CSS Developer
4 6 (21.43%) HTML Developer
4 6 (21.43%) JavaScript Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Senior
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
8 1 (3.57%) .NET Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Lead
8 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (3.57%) Senior React Developer
8 1 (3.57%) UI Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (100.00%) React
2 22 (78.57%) CSS
3 21 (75.00%) HTML
4 20 (71.43%) RESTful
5 14 (50.00%) HTML5
6 12 (42.86%) Redux
7 11 (39.29%) REST
8 10 (35.71%) .NET
9 9 (32.14%) Jest
10 7 (25.00%) JWT
10 7 (25.00%) Node.js
11 6 (21.43%) CSS3
11 6 (21.43%) Sass
12 5 (17.86%) DOM
12 5 (17.86%) JSON
12 5 (17.86%) OAuth
12 5 (17.86%) Vue
13 4 (14.29%) Enzyme
13 4 (14.29%) GraphQL
13 4 (14.29%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
1 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
1 3 (10.71%) Smart City
2 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.14%) Cybercrime
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) Front End Development
2 17 (60.71%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) Code Quality
3 11 (39.29%) User Experience
4 10 (35.71%) API Development
4 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 8 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 7 (25.00%) UX Design
7 5 (17.86%) B2B
7 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (17.86%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
7 5 (17.86%) Web Development
8 4 (14.29%) MVC
9 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (10.71%) Benchmarking
9 3 (10.71%) Facilities Management
9 3 (10.71%) Information Governance
9 3 (10.71%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) JavaScript
2 16 (57.14%) TypeScript
3 4 (14.29%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) R
5 1 (3.57%) Ada
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) PHP
5 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft