Grunt
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Grunt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Grunt over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 880 925
Rank change year-on-year +209 +45 -60
Permanent jobs citing Grunt 21 16 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.016% 0.062%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.38% 0.17% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 15 14 45
10th Percentile - £32,325 £51,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% -25.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £55,625 £74,688 £95,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £76,250 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £45,000 £63,250
% change year-on-year -27.78% -28.85% +26.50%

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 5,477 9,582 15,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.52% 9.73% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,790 6,757 9,176
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £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%

Grunt
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Grunt in the UK

Grunt
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Grunt in the UK

Grunt
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Grunt over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Grunt in the UK

Grunt
Top 5 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 1 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
Work from Home +204 15 £32,500 -27.78% 3
UK excluding London +210 10 £32,500 -27.78% 3
England +171 10 £70,000 +12.00% 5
Wales +53 10 £32,500 -27.78%
London +111 8 £70,000 -3.45% 2

Grunt
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 11 (52.38%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) EPiServer
2 1 (4.76%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) npm
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (95.24%) webpack
2 11 (52.38%) Git
3 6 (28.57%) Jasmine
3 6 (28.57%) Mocha
4 5 (23.81%) gulp
5 1 (4.76%) Subversion
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (28.57%) Banking
3 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (28.57%) Retail Banking
4 5 (23.81%) Retail
5 4 (19.05%) Games
5 4 (19.05%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 21 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (42.86%) PHP Developer
3 8 (38.10%) Lead
3 8 (38.10%) Lead Developer
4 6 (28.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (28.57%) React Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Games Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Web Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) Sass
1 17 (80.95%) Vue
2 14 (66.67%) HTML
3 11 (52.38%) CSS
4 10 (47.62%) Symfony
5 9 (42.86%) CakePHP
5 9 (42.86%) Doctrine
5 9 (42.86%) Pyjs
6 7 (33.33%) AngularJS
6 7 (33.33%) OAuth
6 7 (33.33%) OAuth2
6 7 (33.33%) React
7 6 (28.57%) Ajax
7 6 (28.57%) Enzyme
7 6 (28.57%) Jest
7 6 (28.57%) JWT
7 6 (28.57%) Material-UI
7 6 (28.57%) MobX
7 6 (28.57%) Next.js
7 6 (28.57%) Semantic UI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Legacy Code
2 4 (19.05%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Mentoring
2 9 (42.86%) B2B
2 9 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (42.86%) CRM
2 9 (42.86%) OO
2 9 (42.86%) OO PHP
3 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 7 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (33.33%) Coaching
4 7 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (28.57%) Asset Management
5 6 (28.57%) Business Case
5 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 6 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 6 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 6 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
5 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 6 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
5 6 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (42.86%) PHP
3 7 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
System Software
1 16 (76.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Optimizely