JavaScript Developer
UK

The median JavaScript Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 561 536 371
Rank change year-on-year -25 -165 -177
Permanent jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 182 665 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.54% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.56% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 172 527 965
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £52,305 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,625 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% +2.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,797 118,142 122,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 95.32% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,144 73,821 84,079
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Developer over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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 -56 133 £65,000 -3.70% 84
Work from Home +26 127 £70,000 +3.70% 68
UK excluding London +93 103 £65,000 +13.04% 59
London +12 71 £85,000 +6.25% 38
Scotland +89 36 £70,000 +47.37% 8
South East +96 24 £65,000 +8.33% 23
North of England +91 15 £57,500 +4.55% 14
East of England +112 14 £75,000 +50.00% 1
North West +77 9 £50,000 -13.04% 11
Midlands +94 7 £49,000 -16.60% 6
West Midlands +109 5 £47,500 -20.83% 4
South West +52 5 £50,000 -4.76% 6
North East +43 5 £57,500 +15.00% 1
East Midlands +37 2 £58,250 -0.85% 2
Wales +17 2 £35,313 -43.50% 2
Yorkshire +67 1 £77,500 +40.91% 2

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 December 2023, JavaScript Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 182 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 115 (63.19%) React
3 92 (50.55%) CSS
4 83 (45.60%) HTML
5 66 (36.26%) AWS
6 61 (33.52%) AngularJS
7 58 (31.87%) Node.js
7 58 (31.87%) Git
7 58 (31.87%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (30.77%) Social Skills
9 51 (28.02%) Full Stack Development
10 49 (26.92%) TypeScript
11 48 (26.37%) Agile
12 47 (25.82%) C#
12 47 (25.82%) Azure
13 45 (24.73%) Java
14 44 (24.18%) Python
15 43 (23.63%) SQL
16 39 (21.43%) Docker
17 38 (20.88%) Front End Development
18 37 (20.33%) Degree
19 35 (19.23%) Finance
19 35 (19.23%) Computer Science
19 35 (19.23%) User Experience
20 34 (18.68%) .NET
20 34 (18.68%) MySQL
21 33 (18.13%) Self-Motivation
22 32 (17.58%) Maven
23 31 (17.03%) SaaS
23 31 (17.03%) Computer Science Degree

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
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 12 (6.59%) Apache
1 12 (6.59%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.40%) WordPress
3 4 (2.20%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.10%) CMS
5 1 (0.55%) Confluence
5 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.55%) Mendix
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (36.26%) AWS
2 47 (25.82%) Azure
3 31 (17.03%) SaaS
4 28 (15.38%) GitHub
5 26 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (7.69%) GCP
8 8 (4.40%) Serverless
9 4 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.65%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (1.10%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.10%) npm
11 2 (1.10%) TestFlight
11 2 (1.10%) Yarn
12 1 (0.55%) Amazon ELB
12 1 (0.55%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.55%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.65%) Internet
2 1 (0.55%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (18.68%) MySQL
2 25 (13.74%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (8.79%) NoSQL
4 16 (8.79%) Relational Database
5 13 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 12 (6.59%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (6.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (6.59%) Apache Ignite
7 9 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (4.40%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.20%) GIS
9 4 (2.20%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.55%) ArangoDB
10 1 (0.55%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.55%) Power BI
10 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (31.87%) Git
2 32 (17.58%) Maven
3 30 (16.48%) IntelliJ
3 30 (16.48%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.95%) Jasmine
5 8 (4.40%) Selenium
5 8 (4.40%) Visual Studio
6 7 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.85%) Mocha
7 5 (2.75%) Eclipse
7 5 (2.75%) Mockito
7 5 (2.75%) Postman
7 5 (2.75%) Subversion
8 4 (2.20%) GitLab
8 4 (2.20%) gulp
8 4 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.65%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.65%) webpack
General
1 56 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.23%) Finance
3 16 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (6.59%) Front Office
5 6 (3.30%) Banking
5 6 (3.30%) Games
6 4 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.20%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.20%) Retail
7 3 (1.65%) Law
7 3 (1.65%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.10%) Marketing
8 2 (1.10%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.55%) Local Government
9 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (63.19%) React
2 92 (50.55%) CSS
3 83 (45.60%) HTML
4 61 (33.52%) AngularJS
5 58 (31.87%) Node.js
6 34 (18.68%) .NET
7 28 (15.38%) Redux
8 26 (14.29%) React Native
8 26 (14.29%) Vue
9 25 (13.74%) ASP.NET
9 25 (13.74%) J2EE
9 25 (13.74%) jOOQ
10 24 (13.19%) HTML5
11 18 (9.89%) REST
12 16 (8.79%) JSON
13 13 (7.14%) RESTful
14 12 (6.59%) CSS3
14 12 (6.59%) gRPC
14 12 (6.59%) Protocol Buffers
15 11 (6.04%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.13%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.59%) Derivative
3 10 (5.49%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.75%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.20%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (2.20%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.20%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.20%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.65%) IoT
7 3 (1.65%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.10%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.10%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.55%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 18 (9.89%) Windows
3 4 (2.20%) Linux
4 2 (1.10%) Android
4 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.87%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (28.02%) Full Stack Development
3 48 (26.37%) Agile
4 38 (20.88%) Front End Development
5 35 (19.23%) Computer Science
5 35 (19.23%) User Experience
6 28 (15.38%) Mathematics
7 26 (14.29%) Microservices
7 26 (14.29%) UX Design
8 25 (13.74%) Customer Service
8 25 (13.74%) DevOps
8 25 (13.74%) Prototyping
8 25 (13.74%) Translating Business Requirements
9 24 (13.19%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.09%) MVC
11 19 (10.44%) Multithreading
12 16 (8.79%) TDD
12 16 (8.79%) Web Development
13 15 (8.24%) Concurrent Programming
14 12 (6.59%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 182 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 49 (26.92%) TypeScript
3 47 (25.82%) C#
4 45 (24.73%) Java
5 44 (24.18%) Python
6 43 (23.63%) SQL
7 25 (13.74%) Bash
8 6 (3.30%) PHP
8 6 (3.30%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.65%) Ruby
10 2 (1.10%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.10%) Swift
10 2 (1.10%) VBScript
11 1 (0.55%) C++
11 1 (0.55%) Dart
11 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.55%) XPath
11 1 (0.55%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 37 (20.33%) Degree
2 31 (17.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.95%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.20%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.65%) OCP
6 3 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.30%) QA
System Software
1 39 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.20%) Terraform
3 1 (0.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.75%) IBM
3 4 (2.20%) ESRI
3 4 (2.20%) Oracle
3 4 (2.20%) Rollbar
4 1 (0.55%) Google
4 1 (0.55%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.55%) Roku