JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 8,197 12,220 27,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.32% 12.03% 17.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.81% 27.80% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,457 7,317 13,092
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,672 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year - +3.55% +11.81%

All Programming Languages
UK

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,037 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,871 28,012 43,733
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 -2 7,056 £60,000 -7.69% 1,894
UK excluding London -3 5,976 £55,000 - 1,295
Work from Home 0 3,967 £60,000 -2.83% 1,288
London -7 1,946 £82,500 +10.00% 690
North of England -3 1,506 £55,000 - 342
South East -3 1,431 £57,500 - 220
North West -6 900 £55,000 - 200
South West +2 835 £52,500 -4.55% 198
Midlands -5 834 £50,000 -9.09% 273
Scotland -18 653 £55,000 - 81
East of England +6 481 £52,500 -8.70% 129
Yorkshire -1 463 £55,000 -4.35% 109
West Midlands -11 449 £52,500 -4.55% 165
East Midlands -4 378 £50,000 -4.76% 107
Wales +4 162 £50,000 +11.11% 41
North East +2 143 £55,000 - 37
Northern Ireland -10 76 £45,000 -10.00% 29
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

JavaScript
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
1 348 (4.25%) ArcGIS
2 330 (4.03%) GeoServer
3 298 (3.64%) Apache
4 279 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
5 270 (3.29%) CMS
6 232 (2.83%) WordPress
7 144 (1.76%) SharePoint
8 132 (1.61%) IIS
9 92 (1.12%) Umbraco
10 88 (1.07%) nginx
11 81 (0.99%) Confluence
12 55 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
13 53 (0.65%) FileNet
14 50 (0.61%) Headless CMS
15 48 (0.59%) Drupal
16 47 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
17 44 (0.54%) Kentico
18 42 (0.51%) OpenStack
19 37 (0.45%) Camunda
20 32 (0.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 82 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 42 (0.51%) Adobe XD
5 25 (0.30%) Simulink
6 22 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 21 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 21 (0.26%) Sketch
8 11 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 9 (0.11%) Trello
11 8 (0.098%) InfoPath
12 6 (0.073%) InVision
13 4 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
13 4 (0.049%) Maya
13 4 (0.049%) SPSS
14 2 (0.024%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.012%) UXPin
15 1 (0.012%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 124 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 66 (0.81%) Shopify
3 50 (0.61%) Magento
4 31 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 26 (0.32%) SDL Web 8
6 23 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
7 15 (0.18%) Fidessa
8 13 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
9 11 (0.13%) Sage 200
10 10 (0.12%) Maximo
11 8 (0.098%) Elite 3E
11 8 (0.098%) Siebel CRM
12 7 (0.085%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
14 4 (0.049%) BusinessWorks
14 4 (0.049%) CiviCRM
15 3 (0.037%) Oracle Cash Management
15 3 (0.037%) Sage 300 ERP
15 3 (0.037%) SAP Business One
15 3 (0.037%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 3,325 (40.56%) Azure
2 2,533 (30.90%) AWS
3 695 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
4 532 (6.49%) GCP
5 506 (6.17%) Serverless
6 455 (5.55%) SaaS
7 359 (4.38%) Power Platform
8 302 (3.68%) GitHub
9 276 (3.37%) IBM Cloud
10 252 (3.07%) dbt
11 248 (3.03%) Snowflake
12 198 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
13 196 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
14 179 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
15 174 (2.12%) Azure Functions
15 174 (2.12%) PowerApps
16 168 (2.05%) Power Automate
17 141 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
18 136 (1.66%) Azure API Management
19 107 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 186 (2.27%) Internet
2 75 (0.91%) HTTP
3 68 (0.83%) DNS
4 52 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 36 (0.44%) AMQP
5 36 (0.44%) MQTT
6 32 (0.39%) DHCP
7 31 (0.38%) Firewall
8 28 (0.34%) SSL
9 25 (0.30%) Wireless
10 22 (0.27%) VPN
11 19 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (0.22%) Network Security
12 18 (0.22%) VoIP
13 17 (0.21%) SSH
14 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
14 16 (0.20%) RS-485
15 15 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
16 14 (0.17%) FTP
17 13 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,656 (20.20%) SQL Server
2 913 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
3 701 (8.55%) NoSQL
4 694 (8.47%) MongoDB
5 680 (8.30%) MySQL
6 497 (6.06%) Relational Database
7 390 (4.76%) GIS
8 367 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
9 330 (4.03%) QGIS
10 250 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
10 250 (3.05%) Apache Arrow
10 250 (3.05%) DB2
10 250 (3.05%) Dremio
11 221 (2.70%) Data Lake
12 214 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 211 (2.57%) Apache Ignite
14 176 (2.15%) Power BI
15 118 (1.44%) Oracle Database
16 108 (1.32%) Big Data
17 91 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1,255 (15.31%) Git
2 336 (4.10%) JIRA
3 277 (3.38%) Cypress.io
4 270 (3.29%) Jenkins
5 243 (2.96%) Selenium
6 240 (2.93%) Visual Studio
7 191 (2.33%) JUnit
8 130 (1.59%) GitLab
9 125 (1.52%) Jasmine
10 108 (1.32%) Karma Test Runner
11 90 (1.10%) Cucumber
11 90 (1.10%) TeamCity
12 84 (1.02%) WebDriver
13 79 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
14 75 (0.91%) webpack
15 72 (0.88%) Bitbucket
16 71 (0.87%) Protractor
17 70 (0.85%) Maven
17 70 (0.85%) NUnit
18 69 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,523 (18.58%) Finance
2 1,403 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 656 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 599 (7.31%) Marketing
5 528 (6.44%) Public Sector
6 524 (6.39%) Banking
7 476 (5.81%) Law
8 397 (4.84%) Front Office
9 367 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
10 336 (4.10%) Investment Banking
11 281 (3.43%) Retail
12 197 (2.40%) Games
13 139 (1.70%) Legal
14 125 (1.52%) Manufacturing
15 108 (1.32%) Advertising
16 98 (1.20%) Tech for Good
17 94 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 79 (0.96%) Electronics
19 73 (0.89%) Aerospace
20 67 (0.82%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5,047 (61.57%) Developer
2 1,782 (21.74%) Senior
3 1,601 (19.53%) Software Engineer
4 1,523 (18.58%) .NET Developer
5 1,022 (12.47%) Senior Developer
6 935 (11.41%) Full Stack Developer
7 789 (9.63%) Lead
8 673 (8.21%) C# Developer
9 656 (8.00%) Software Developer
10 537 (6.55%) Senior Software Engineer
11 507 (6.19%) C# .NET Developer
12 416 (5.08%) PHP Developer
13 393 (4.79%) Full Stack Engineer
14 348 (4.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 299 (3.65%) Lead Developer
16 268 (3.27%) Web Developer
17 261 (3.18%) Java Developer
18 250 (3.05%) Lead Software Engineer
19 238 (2.90%) Architect
20 228 (2.78%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,457 (42.17%) HTML
2 3,436 (41.92%) .NET
2 3,436 (41.92%) CSS
3 3,376 (41.19%) React
4 2,371 (28.93%) AngularJS
5 1,702 (20.76%) ASP.NET
6 1,608 (19.62%) .NET Core
7 1,526 (18.62%) Node.js
8 1,287 (15.70%) Vue
9 986 (12.03%) .NET Framework
10 980 (11.96%) jQuery
11 954 (11.64%) ASP.NET MVC
12 941 (11.48%) HTML5
13 871 (10.63%) ASP.NET Web API
14 847 (10.33%) REST
15 841 (10.26%) Entity Framework
16 818 (9.98%) RESTful
17 772 (9.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 760 (9.27%) Web Services
19 547 (6.67%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 438 (5.34%) Algorithms
2 423 (5.16%) Data Structures
3 417 (5.09%) Greenfield Project
4 353 (4.31%) Hedge funds
5 348 (4.25%) Fixed Income
6 342 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 312 (3.81%) Cloud Native
8 304 (3.71%) Equities
9 302 (3.68%) Derivative
10 288 (3.51%) Blockchain
11 276 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
12 251 (3.06%) Mobile App
13 250 (3.05%) Product Ownership
14 164 (2.00%) e-Learning
15 134 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
16 124 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
17 118 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
18 98 (1.20%) IoT
19 85 (1.04%) Client/Server
19 85 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 768 (9.37%) Linux
2 516 (6.29%) Windows
3 413 (5.04%) Android
4 333 (4.06%) Apple iOS
5 119 (1.45%) Ubuntu
6 64 (0.78%) CentOS
7 60 (0.73%) Unix
8 45 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 32 (0.39%) Windows Server
10 29 (0.35%) Debian
11 15 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
12 11 (0.13%) Solaris
13 8 (0.098%) VMS
14 6 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.049%) AIX
16 3 (0.037%) FreeBSD
16 3 (0.037%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.037%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.037%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.037%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,879 (47.32%) Agile
2 2,816 (34.35%) Full Stack Development
3 2,309 (28.17%) Software Engineering
4 1,802 (21.98%) DevOps
5 1,670 (20.37%) MVC
6 1,408 (17.18%) Web Development
7 1,260 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
8 1,223 (14.92%) Microservices
9 997 (12.16%) TDD
10 958 (11.69%) CI/CD
11 945 (11.53%) User Experience
12 859 (10.48%) Artificial Intelligence
13 858 (10.47%) Scrum
14 816 (9.95%) Computer Science
15 749 (9.14%) Front End Development
16 742 (9.05%) OO
17 736 (8.98%) Mentoring
18 677 (8.26%) SDLC
19 640 (7.81%) BDD
20 596 (7.27%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3,539 (43.17%) C#
2 2,243 (27.36%) SQL
3 2,179 (26.58%) TypeScript
4 2,038 (24.86%) Python
5 1,714 (20.91%) Java
6 953 (11.63%) PHP
7 282 (3.44%) T-SQL
8 228 (2.78%) Go
9 186 (2.27%) C++
10 181 (2.21%) Ruby
11 161 (1.96%) PowerShell
12 127 (1.55%) C
13 114 (1.39%) Bash
14 111 (1.35%) VB.NET
15 96 (1.17%) Kotlin
16 86 (1.05%) Perl
17 79 (0.96%) VB
18 53 (0.65%) PL/SQL
19 46 (0.56%) Shell Script
20 42 (0.51%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1,154 (14.08%) Degree
2 806 (9.83%) Security Cleared
3 614 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 466 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 107 (1.31%) DV Cleared
6 77 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 70 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 55 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 37 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 22 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 21 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
13 17 (0.21%) PhD
14 13 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.13%) ISTQB
17 10 (0.12%) CCNA
17 10 (0.12%) CCNP
17 10 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (6.19%) QA
2 255 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 89 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 67 (0.82%) WCAG
5 47 (0.57%) GDPR
6 39 (0.48%) SLA
7 29 (0.35%) PMO
8 25 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.22%) WAI
10 13 (0.16%) GRC
11 11 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.13%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 5 (0.061%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.061%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.049%) HL7
15 3 (0.037%) ISO 9000
16 2 (0.024%) IEC 62304
17 1 (0.012%) EMIR
17 1 (0.012%) NIST
System Software
1 818 (9.98%) Docker
2 36 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 23 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.18%) Firmware
6 8 (0.098%) KVM
7 5 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.061%) vSphere
8 4 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.049%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.049%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.012%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.012%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.012%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.012%) OpenSIPS
10 1 (0.012%) Postfix
10 1 (0.012%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 685 (8.36%) Kubernetes
2 299 (3.65%) Terraform
3 144 (1.76%) Ansible
4 62 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 46 (0.56%) Grafana
6 45 (0.55%) Puppet
7 32 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 28 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 13 (0.16%) Kibana
9 13 (0.16%) SCOM
9 13 (0.16%) WMI
10 11 (0.13%) MIIS
11 10 (0.12%) Rancher
12 7 (0.085%) cPanel
12 7 (0.085%) HP UCMDB
13 6 (0.073%) Argo
13 6 (0.073%) CloudHub
13 6 (0.073%) Istio
13 6 (0.073%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1,519 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 342 (4.17%) ESRI
3 336 (4.10%) Red Hat
4 329 (4.01%) Oracle
5 290 (3.54%) IBM
6 281 (3.43%) Google
7 139 (1.70%) Adobe
8 111 (1.35%) Facebook
9 107 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 71 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 67 (0.82%) Sitecore
12 66 (0.81%) Atlassian
13 61 (0.74%) SAP
14 51 (0.62%) HP
15 50 (0.61%) Apple
16 42 (0.51%) WSO2
17 39 (0.48%) Optimizely
18 37 (0.45%) Remedy
19 36 (0.44%) Sony
19 36 (0.44%) Yahoo!