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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 8,229 12,220 27,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.30% 12.03% 17.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.76% 27.80% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,479 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 33,235 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,988 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 8 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 8 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 7,081 £60,000 -7.69% 1,753
UK excluding London -3 5,992 £55,000 - 1,210
Work from Home 0 3,976 £60,000 -2.83% 1,214
London -7 1,960 £82,500 +10.00% 635
North of England -4 1,508 £55,000 - 327
South East -3 1,435 £57,500 - 204
North West -6 901 £55,000 - 185
South West +2 836 £52,500 -4.55% 189
Midlands -6 836 £50,000 -9.09% 248
Scotland -18 657 £55,000 - 79
East of England +7 482 £52,500 -8.70% 114
Yorkshire 0 464 £55,000 -4.35% 112
West Midlands -9 450 £52,500 -4.55% 145
East Midlands -3 379 £50,000 -4.76% 102
Wales +4 163 £50,000 +11.11% 41
North East +2 143 £55,000 - 34
Northern Ireland -10 77 £45,000 -10.00% 25
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 (4.23%) ArcGIS
2 330 (4.01%) GeoServer
3 299 (3.63%) Apache
4 279 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
5 272 (3.31%) CMS
6 232 (2.82%) WordPress
7 144 (1.75%) SharePoint
8 132 (1.60%) IIS
9 92 (1.12%) Umbraco
10 89 (1.08%) nginx
11 82 (1.00%) Confluence
12 55 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
13 53 (0.64%) FileNet
14 50 (0.61%) Headless CMS
15 49 (0.60%) Drupal
16 47 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
17 44 (0.53%) 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 (0.097%) 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%) Notion
15 1 (0.012%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 125 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 66 (0.80%) 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 (0.097%) Elite 3E
11 8 (0.097%) 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 (0.036%) Dynamics NAV
15 3 (0.036%) Sage 300 ERP
15 3 (0.036%) SAP Business One
15 3 (0.036%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 3,335 (40.53%) Azure
2 2,543 (30.90%) AWS
3 697 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
4 534 (6.49%) GCP
5 508 (6.17%) Serverless
6 455 (5.53%) SaaS
7 360 (4.37%) Power Platform
8 302 (3.67%) GitHub
9 276 (3.35%) IBM Cloud
10 252 (3.06%) dbt
11 249 (3.03%) Snowflake
12 200 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
13 196 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
14 179 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
15 175 (2.13%) PowerApps
16 174 (2.11%) Azure Functions
17 169 (2.05%) Power Automate
18 143 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
19 136 (1.65%) Azure API Management
20 107 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 187 (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 29 (0.35%) 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 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
14 16 (0.19%) RS-485
15 15 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
16 14 (0.17%) FTP
17 13 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,662 (20.20%) SQL Server
2 914 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 704 (8.56%) NoSQL
4 695 (8.45%) MongoDB
5 683 (8.30%) MySQL
6 497 (6.04%) Relational Database
7 390 (4.74%) GIS
8 368 (4.47%) Elasticsearch
9 330 (4.01%) QGIS
10 250 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
10 250 (3.04%) Apache Arrow
10 250 (3.04%) DB2
10 250 (3.04%) Dremio
11 222 (2.70%) Data Lake
12 214 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
13 211 (2.56%) Apache Ignite
14 177 (2.15%) Power BI
15 118 (1.43%) Oracle Database
16 108 (1.31%) Big Data
17 91 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1,261 (15.32%) Git
2 337 (4.10%) JIRA
3 280 (3.40%) Cypress.io
4 273 (3.32%) Jenkins
5 244 (2.97%) Selenium
6 241 (2.93%) Visual Studio
7 191 (2.32%) JUnit
8 131 (1.59%) GitLab
9 125 (1.52%) Jasmine
10 108 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
11 91 (1.11%) TeamCity
12 90 (1.09%) Cucumber
13 84 (1.02%) WebDriver
14 79 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
15 78 (0.95%) webpack
16 73 (0.89%) Bitbucket
17 71 (0.86%) Protractor
18 70 (0.85%) Maven
18 70 (0.85%) NUnit
19 69 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,527 (18.56%) Finance
2 1,408 (17.11%) Social Skills
3 661 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 601 (7.30%) Marketing
5 529 (6.43%) Banking
6 528 (6.42%) Public Sector
7 480 (5.83%) Law
8 401 (4.87%) Front Office
9 368 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
10 339 (4.12%) Investment Banking
11 281 (3.41%) Retail
12 198 (2.41%) Games
13 140 (1.70%) Legal
14 125 (1.52%) Manufacturing
15 108 (1.31%) Advertising
16 98 (1.19%) Tech for Good
17 94 (1.14%) Telecoms
18 79 (0.96%) Electronics
19 74 (0.90%) Aerospace
20 67 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5,068 (61.59%) Developer
2 1,796 (21.83%) Senior
3 1,607 (19.53%) Software Engineer
4 1,529 (18.58%) .NET Developer
5 1,029 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 936 (11.37%) Full Stack Developer
7 790 (9.60%) Lead
8 676 (8.21%) C# Developer
9 659 (8.01%) Software Developer
10 541 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 509 (6.19%) C# .NET Developer
12 418 (5.08%) PHP Developer
13 394 (4.79%) Full Stack Engineer
14 351 (4.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 299 (3.63%) Lead Developer
16 268 (3.26%) Web Developer
17 261 (3.17%) Java Developer
18 250 (3.04%) Lead Software Engineer
19 238 (2.89%) Architect
20 231 (2.81%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,470 (42.17%) HTML
2 3,449 (41.91%) .NET
3 3,448 (41.90%) CSS
4 3,393 (41.23%) React
5 2,382 (28.95%) AngularJS
6 1,708 (20.76%) ASP.NET
7 1,615 (19.63%) .NET Core
8 1,530 (18.59%) Node.js
9 1,288 (15.65%) Vue
10 993 (12.07%) .NET Framework
11 982 (11.93%) jQuery
12 959 (11.65%) ASP.NET MVC
13 945 (11.48%) HTML5
14 876 (10.65%) ASP.NET Web API
15 849 (10.32%) REST
16 845 (10.27%) Entity Framework
17 823 (10.00%) RESTful
18 774 (9.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 763 (9.27%) Web Services
20 550 (6.68%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 438 (5.32%) Algorithms
2 423 (5.14%) Data Structures
3 419 (5.09%) Greenfield Project
4 355 (4.31%) Hedge funds
5 348 (4.23%) Fixed Income
6 342 (4.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 312 (3.79%) Cloud Native
8 306 (3.72%) Equities
9 305 (3.71%) Derivative
10 288 (3.50%) Blockchain
11 276 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
12 254 (3.09%) Product Ownership
13 251 (3.05%) Mobile App
14 164 (1.99%) e-Learning
15 136 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
16 124 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
17 119 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
18 98 (1.19%) IoT
19 85 (1.03%) Client/Server
19 85 (1.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 769 (9.34%) Linux
2 517 (6.28%) Windows
3 413 (5.02%) Android
4 333 (4.05%) Apple iOS
5 119 (1.45%) Ubuntu
6 64 (0.78%) CentOS
7 60 (0.73%) Unix
8 46 (0.56%) 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 (0.097%) VMS
14 6 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.049%) AIX
16 3 (0.036%) FreeBSD
16 3 (0.036%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.036%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.036%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.036%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,894 (47.32%) Agile
2 2,823 (34.31%) Full Stack Development
3 2,319 (28.18%) Software Engineering
4 1,805 (21.93%) DevOps
5 1,677 (20.38%) MVC
6 1,409 (17.12%) Web Development
7 1,263 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
8 1,230 (14.95%) Microservices
9 1,003 (12.19%) TDD
10 963 (11.70%) CI/CD
11 951 (11.56%) User Experience
12 866 (10.52%) Scrum
13 860 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence
14 817 (9.93%) Computer Science
15 753 (9.15%) Front End Development
16 746 (9.07%) OO
17 737 (8.96%) Mentoring
18 682 (8.29%) SDLC
19 644 (7.83%) BDD
20 597 (7.25%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3,552 (43.16%) C#
2 2,252 (27.37%) SQL
3 2,193 (26.65%) TypeScript
4 2,048 (24.89%) Python
5 1,720 (20.90%) Java
6 957 (11.63%) PHP
7 282 (3.43%) T-SQL
8 228 (2.77%) Go
9 186 (2.26%) C++
10 181 (2.20%) Ruby
11 161 (1.96%) PowerShell
12 128 (1.56%) C
13 115 (1.40%) Bash
14 111 (1.35%) VB.NET
15 96 (1.17%) Kotlin
16 86 (1.05%) Perl
17 79 (0.96%) VB
18 54 (0.66%) PL/SQL
19 46 (0.56%) Shell Script
20 42 (0.51%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1,156 (14.05%) Degree
2 808 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 614 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 466 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 108 (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 (0.58%) 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%) CCNA CyberOps
17 10 (0.12%) CCNP
17 10 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 509 (6.19%) QA
2 256 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 89 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 67 (0.81%) WCAG
5 47 (0.57%) GDPR
6 39 (0.47%) 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 (0.036%) ISO 9000
16 2 (0.024%) IEC 62304
17 1 (0.012%) NIST
17 1 (0.012%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 821 (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 (0.097%) KVM
7 5 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.061%) vSphere
8 4 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.049%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.049%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.049%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.012%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.012%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.012%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.012%) OpenSIPS
9 1 (0.012%) Postfix
9 1 (0.012%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 687 (8.35%) Kubernetes
2 300 (3.65%) Terraform
3 145 (1.76%) Ansible
4 62 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 46 (0.56%) Grafana
5 46 (0.56%) Puppet
6 33 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 29 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.17%) 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 1,524 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 342 (4.16%) ESRI
3 337 (4.10%) Red Hat
4 329 (4.00%) Oracle
5 290 (3.52%) IBM
6 283 (3.44%) Google
7 139 (1.69%) Adobe
8 111 (1.35%) Facebook
9 108 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 71 (0.86%) Salesforce
11 67 (0.81%) Atlassian
11 67 (0.81%) Sitecore
12 61 (0.74%) SAP
13 51 (0.62%) HP
14 50 (0.61%) Apple
15 42 (0.51%) WSO2
16 40 (0.49%) Optimizely
17 37 (0.45%) Remedy
18 36 (0.44%) Sony
18 36 (0.44%) Xamarin