Grunt Job Trends

Grunt
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Grunt skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 660 720 694
Rank change year-on-year +60 -26 +250
Permanent jobs citing Grunt 3 34 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.050% 0.030%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.081% 0.57% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 22 11
10th Percentile - - £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £32,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -50.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £43,750 £33,750 £81,250
90th Percentile - - £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £32,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year - -46.94% -2.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Grunt 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 3,722 5,990 6,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.03% 8.81% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,380 3,333 5,559
10th Percentile £30,225 £37,574 £42,431
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.17% +5.45%

Grunt
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Grunt relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Grunt job vacancy trend in the UK

Grunt
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Grunt.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Grunt

Grunt
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Grunt within the UK over the 6 months to 14 November 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 +94 3 £42,500 -22.73%
UK excluding London +65 2 - -
Work from Home +48 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
London +54 1 £42,500 -22.73%

Grunt
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) CMS
1 2 (66.67%) Drupal
1 2 (66.67%) EPiServer
1 2 (66.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Figma
2 2 (66.67%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) gulp
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) webpack
3 1 (33.33%) Mocha
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) Sass
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) Redux
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Chai
3 1 (33.33%) LESS
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) SEO
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility