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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 15 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 8,202 12,684 27,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.35% 12.06% 17.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.71% 27.68% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6,464 7,532 13,250
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £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 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +13.68%

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 33,192 45,823 82,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.81% 43.57% 53.71%
Number of salaries quoted 25,038 29,105 44,126
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 7,050 £60,000 -7.69% 1,917
UK excluding London -3 5,987 £55,000 - 1,283
Work from Home 0 3,957 £60,000 -4.00% 1,249
London -7 1,944 £80,000 +6.67% 731
North of England -4 1,492 £55,000 - 350
South East -2 1,443 £57,500 +4.55% 241
North West -5 897 £55,000 - 204
Midlands -1 844 £50,000 -9.09% 223
South West +1 832 £52,500 -4.44% 197
Scotland -19 662 £55,000 - 92
East of England +6 479 £52,500 -8.70% 140
Yorkshire -1 457 £55,000 -4.35% 108
West Midlands -10 443 £52,500 -4.55% 131
East Midlands -1 394 £50,000 -4.76% 91
Wales +6 161 £50,000 +6.84% 45
North East +1 138 £55,000 - 42
Northern Ireland -11 76 £45,000 -10.00% 23
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 (4.24%) ArcGIS
2 330 (4.02%) GeoServer
3 270 (3.29%) CMS
4 256 (3.12%) Apache
5 234 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
6 231 (2.82%) WordPress
7 152 (1.85%) SharePoint
8 134 (1.63%) IIS
9 96 (1.17%) Umbraco
10 87 (1.06%) nginx
11 84 (1.02%) Confluence
12 55 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
13 52 (0.63%) FileNet
14 50 (0.61%) Headless CMS
15 48 (0.59%) Drupal
16 47 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
17 44 (0.54%) Kentico
18 43 (0.52%) OpenStack
19 37 (0.45%) Camunda
20 29 (0.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 83 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 42 (0.51%) Adobe XD
5 23 (0.28%) Simulink
6 22 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 21 (0.26%) Sketch
8 20 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 11 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 11 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 9 (0.11%) Trello
11 8 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
12 7 (0.085%) InfoPath
13 6 (0.073%) InVision
14 4 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
14 4 (0.049%) Maya
14 4 (0.049%) SPSS
15 2 (0.024%) FileZilla
16 1 (0.012%) Notion
16 1 (0.012%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 128 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 66 (0.80%) Shopify
3 49 (0.60%) Magento
4 33 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 26 (0.32%) SDL Web 8
6 24 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 16 (0.20%) Fidessa
8 13 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
9 12 (0.15%) Maximo
10 11 (0.13%) Sage 200
11 9 (0.11%) Elite 3E
12 8 (0.098%) Siebel CRM
13 7 (0.085%) NetSuite
14 6 (0.073%) BusinessWorks
15 5 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
16 4 (0.049%) CiviCRM
17 3 (0.037%) Oracle Cash Management
17 3 (0.037%) R3 Corda
17 3 (0.037%) Sage 300 ERP
17 3 (0.037%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 3,311 (40.37%) Azure
2 2,508 (30.58%) AWS
3 706 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
4 531 (6.47%) GCP
5 503 (6.13%) Serverless
6 466 (5.68%) SaaS
7 368 (4.49%) Power Platform
8 310 (3.78%) GitHub
9 259 (3.16%) IBM Cloud
10 205 (2.50%) dbt
11 202 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
12 195 (2.38%) Snowflake
13 189 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
14 177 (2.16%) PowerApps
15 173 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
16 172 (2.10%) Azure Functions
17 166 (2.02%) Power Automate
18 137 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
19 130 (1.58%) Azure API Management
20 107 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 183 (2.23%) Internet
2 76 (0.93%) HTTP
3 70 (0.85%) DNS
4 53 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 37 (0.45%) MQTT
6 34 (0.41%) AMQP
7 33 (0.40%) DHCP
8 32 (0.39%) Firewall
9 29 (0.35%) SSL
10 27 (0.33%) LAN
10 27 (0.33%) WAN
11 25 (0.30%) Wireless
12 23 (0.28%) VPN
13 19 (0.23%) VoIP
13 19 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (0.21%) SSH
15 16 (0.20%) FIX Connectivity
15 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
15 16 (0.20%) Network Security
15 16 (0.20%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,684 (20.53%) SQL Server
2 899 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
3 694 (8.46%) NoSQL
4 683 (8.33%) MySQL
5 679 (8.28%) MongoDB
6 495 (6.04%) Relational Database
7 393 (4.79%) GIS
8 363 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
9 330 (4.02%) QGIS
10 233 (2.84%) DB2
11 214 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 203 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
12 203 (2.48%) Apache Arrow
12 203 (2.48%) Dremio
13 178 (2.17%) Power BI
14 174 (2.12%) Apache Ignite
15 167 (2.04%) Data Lake
16 119 (1.45%) Oracle Database
17 95 (1.16%) Redis
18 94 (1.15%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1,267 (15.45%) Git
2 342 (4.17%) JIRA
3 293 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 292 (3.56%) Cypress.io
5 256 (3.12%) Selenium
6 245 (2.99%) Visual Studio
7 196 (2.39%) JUnit
8 131 (1.60%) GitLab
9 128 (1.56%) Jasmine
10 108 (1.32%) Karma Test Runner
11 98 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 97 (1.18%) TeamCity
13 85 (1.04%) WebDriver
14 83 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
15 76 (0.93%) Bitbucket
16 75 (0.91%) Maven
17 74 (0.90%) webpack
18 71 (0.87%) NUnit
18 71 (0.87%) Protractor
19 70 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,496 (18.24%) Finance
2 1,413 (17.23%) Social Skills
3 636 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 595 (7.25%) Marketing
5 516 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 495 (6.04%) Banking
7 464 (5.66%) Law
8 376 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
9 372 (4.54%) Front Office
10 298 (3.63%) Investment Banking
11 282 (3.44%) Retail
12 197 (2.40%) Games
13 140 (1.71%) Legal
14 130 (1.58%) Manufacturing
15 102 (1.24%) Advertising
16 101 (1.23%) Tech for Good
17 94 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 78 (0.95%) Electronics
19 73 (0.89%) Financial Institution
20 68 (0.83%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5,100 (62.18%) Developer
2 1,770 (21.58%) Senior
3 1,585 (19.32%) Software Engineer
4 1,515 (18.47%) .NET Developer
5 1,024 (12.48%) Senior Developer
6 944 (11.51%) Full Stack Developer
7 775 (9.45%) Lead
8 681 (8.30%) Software Developer
9 659 (8.03%) C# Developer
10 524 (6.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 499 (6.08%) C# .NET Developer
12 415 (5.06%) PHP Developer
13 390 (4.75%) Full Stack Engineer
14 354 (4.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 293 (3.57%) Lead Developer
16 272 (3.32%) Java Developer
17 265 (3.23%) Web Developer
18 243 (2.96%) Lead Software Engineer
19 232 (2.83%) React Developer
20 226 (2.76%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,453 (42.10%) HTML
2 3,434 (41.87%) CSS
3 3,425 (41.76%) .NET
4 3,404 (41.50%) React
5 2,401 (29.27%) AngularJS
6 1,681 (20.50%) ASP.NET
7 1,599 (19.50%) .NET Core
8 1,538 (18.75%) Node.js
9 1,285 (15.67%) Vue
10 976 (11.90%) .NET Framework
11 965 (11.77%) jQuery
12 958 (11.68%) HTML5
13 948 (11.56%) ASP.NET MVC
14 853 (10.40%) ASP.NET Web API
15 852 (10.39%) REST
16 830 (10.12%) Entity Framework
17 820 (10.00%) RESTful
18 755 (9.21%) Web Services
19 749 (9.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 541 (6.60%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 422 (5.15%) Algorithms
2 418 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
3 407 (4.96%) Data Structures
4 317 (3.86%) Fixed Income
5 311 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 306 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 302 (3.68%) Hedge funds
8 271 (3.30%) Equities
9 270 (3.29%) Blockchain
10 262 (3.19%) Derivative
11 259 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
12 253 (3.08%) Mobile App
13 244 (2.97%) Product Ownership
14 155 (1.89%) e-Learning
15 136 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
16 128 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
17 123 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
18 98 (1.19%) IoT
19 86 (1.05%) Virtual Team
20 85 (1.04%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 748 (9.12%) Linux
2 495 (6.04%) Windows
3 396 (4.83%) Android
4 319 (3.89%) Apple iOS
5 114 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 63 (0.77%) Unix
7 60 (0.73%) CentOS
8 40 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 29 (0.35%) Windows Server
10 26 (0.32%) Debian
11 15 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
12 12 (0.15%) Solaris
13 8 (0.098%) VMS
14 6 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.061%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.049%) AIX
17 3 (0.037%) FreeBSD
17 3 (0.037%) Mac OS X
17 3 (0.037%) Windows 10
17 3 (0.037%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,851 (46.95%) Agile
2 2,823 (34.42%) Full Stack Development
3 2,294 (27.97%) Software Engineering
4 1,805 (22.01%) DevOps
5 1,656 (20.19%) MVC
6 1,410 (17.19%) Web Development
7 1,255 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
8 1,229 (14.98%) Microservices
9 1,001 (12.20%) TDD
10 969 (11.81%) CI/CD
11 929 (11.33%) User Experience
12 858 (10.46%) Scrum
13 850 (10.36%) Artificial Intelligence
14 828 (10.10%) Computer Science
15 752 (9.17%) Front End Development
16 729 (8.89%) Mentoring
17 718 (8.75%) OO
18 670 (8.17%) SDLC
19 640 (7.80%) BDD
20 584 (7.12%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3,538 (43.14%) C#
2 2,275 (27.74%) SQL
3 2,169 (26.44%) TypeScript
4 2,021 (24.64%) Python
5 1,675 (20.42%) Java
6 990 (12.07%) PHP
7 287 (3.50%) T-SQL
8 221 (2.69%) Go
9 193 (2.35%) C++
10 184 (2.24%) Ruby
11 165 (2.01%) PowerShell
12 125 (1.52%) C
13 118 (1.44%) Bash
14 106 (1.29%) VB.NET
15 100 (1.22%) VB
16 97 (1.18%) Kotlin
17 88 (1.07%) Perl
18 55 (0.67%) PL/SQL
19 43 (0.52%) Shell Script
20 42 (0.51%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1,193 (14.55%) Degree
2 803 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 617 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 474 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 100 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 76 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 70 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 60 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 51 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 37 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 23 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 21 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
13 17 (0.21%) PhD
14 12 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (0.13%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 10 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
16 10 (0.12%) CCNA CyberOps
16 10 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 523 (6.38%) QA
2 251 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 73 (0.89%) WCAG
4 69 (0.84%) Data Quality
5 47 (0.57%) GDPR
6 39 (0.48%) SLA
7 30 (0.37%) PMO
8 26 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.23%) WAI
10 13 (0.16%) GRC
11 12 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 5 (0.061%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.061%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.049%) HL7
15 4 (0.049%) ISO 9000
16 2 (0.024%) IEC 62304
17 1 (0.012%) NIST
17 1 (0.012%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 851 (10.38%) Docker
2 37 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 33 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 23 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.20%) Firmware
6 8 (0.098%) KVM
7 5 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.061%) vSphere
8 4 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.049%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.024%) OpenSIPS
11 1 (0.012%) ACF2
11 1 (0.012%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.012%) IAG
11 1 (0.012%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.012%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.012%) Postfix
11 1 (0.012%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 704 (8.58%) Kubernetes
2 285 (3.47%) Terraform
3 142 (1.73%) Ansible
4 49 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 43 (0.52%) Puppet
6 42 (0.51%) Grafana
7 32 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 28 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.17%) Kibana
10 13 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (0.16%) SCOM
10 13 (0.16%) WMI
11 11 (0.13%) MIIS
12 10 (0.12%) Rancher
13 8 (0.098%) HP UCMDB
14 7 (0.085%) cPanel
14 7 (0.085%) Istio
15 6 (0.073%) Argo
15 6 (0.073%) CloudHub
15 6 (0.073%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1,539 (18.76%) Microsoft
2 342 (4.17%) ESRI
3 333 (4.06%) Oracle
4 318 (3.88%) Red Hat
5 277 (3.38%) IBM
6 273 (3.33%) Google
7 140 (1.71%) Adobe
8 110 (1.34%) Facebook
9 108 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 71 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 67 (0.82%) Atlassian
11 67 (0.82%) Sitecore
12 61 (0.74%) SAP
13 53 (0.65%) HP
14 51 (0.62%) Apple
15 43 (0.52%) WSO2
16 39 (0.48%) Remedy
17 38 (0.46%) Optimizely
18 37 (0.45%) WooCommerce
19 36 (0.44%) Xamarin