JavaScript Developer Jobs

JavaScript Developer
UK

The median JavaScript Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 687 556
Rank change year-on-year +104 -131 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 108 215 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.22% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.23% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 99 189 428
10th Percentile £27,500 £39,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 46,967 93,227 95,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,330 66,890 59,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Top 13 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 2 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
England +83 95 £60,000 - 52
UK excluding London +117 62 £40,000 -27.27% 34
London +76 36 £75,000 +15.38% 26
Work from Home +103 33 £55,000 -8.33% 35
South East +85 29 £30,000 -45.45% 13
North of England +90 21 £55,000 -15.38% 10
North West +20 18 £55,000 -16.67% 7
Midlands +39 6 £37,500 -23.08% 5
West Midlands +31 5 £37,500 -42.31% 4
East of England +44 3 £67,500 -3.57% 4
North East - 3 £42,500 - 3
Wales - 3 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands +47 1 £37,500 -21.05% 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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.

1 108 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 59 (54.63%) Node.js
3 57 (52.78%) Agile
4 54 (50.00%) HTML
5 49 (45.37%) TypeScript
6 47 (43.52%) React
6 47 (43.52%) Git
7 44 (40.74%) CSS
8 34 (31.48%) Games
9 31 (28.70%) AWS
9 31 (28.70%) Social Skills
9 31 (28.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (27.78%) Pixi.js
11 29 (26.85%) HTML5
12 28 (25.93%) Front End Development
13 27 (25.00%) webpack
14 26 (24.07%) Code Quality
15 23 (21.30%) CI/CD
16 21 (19.44%) User Experience
16 21 (19.44%) AngularJS
17 19 (17.59%) Azure
17 19 (17.59%) gulp
18 18 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
18 18 (16.67%) Spine.js
18 18 (16.67%) WebGL
19 17 (15.74%) DevOps
19 17 (15.74%) Docker
20 16 (14.81%) REST
21 15 (13.89%) GraphQL
21 15 (13.89%) Mentoring

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 8 (7.41%) CMS
1 8 (7.41%) Headless CMS
2 6 (5.56%) nginx
3 3 (2.78%) Confluence
4 2 (1.85%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.70%) AWS
2 19 (17.59%) Azure
3 11 (10.19%) SaaS
4 9 (8.33%) GCP
4 9 (8.33%) GitHub
5 8 (7.41%) Contentful
5 8 (7.41%) Serverless
6 5 (4.63%) Figma
7 3 (2.78%) npm
8 2 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.93%) Twilio
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.85%) MQTT
2 1 (0.93%) SMS
2 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.41%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.41%) MySQL
3 5 (4.63%) GIS
3 5 (4.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.93%) Hazelcast
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Redis
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (43.52%) Git
2 27 (25.00%) webpack
3 19 (17.59%) gulp
4 6 (5.56%) Babel
5 5 (4.63%) JIRA
5 5 (4.63%) Storybook
6 4 (3.70%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.78%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.78%) GitLab
7 3 (2.78%) Selenium
8 2 (1.85%) Vite
9 1 (0.93%) git-flow
9 1 (0.93%) Mocha
9 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 34 (31.48%) Games
2 31 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.33%) iGaming
3 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.56%) Finance
5 4 (3.70%) Advertising
6 3 (2.78%) Banking
6 3 (2.78%) Front Office
6 3 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (54.63%) Node.js
2 54 (50.00%) HTML
3 47 (43.52%) React
4 44 (40.74%) CSS
5 30 (27.78%) Pixi.js
6 29 (26.85%) HTML5
7 21 (19.44%) AngularJS
8 18 (16.67%) Spine.js
8 18 (16.67%) WebGL
9 16 (14.81%) REST
10 15 (13.89%) GraphQL
11 14 (12.96%) RESTful
11 14 (12.96%) Vue
12 13 (12.04%) .NET
12 13 (12.04%) JSON
12 13 (12.04%) React Native
12 13 (12.04%) Svelte
13 10 (9.26%) Express.js
14 9 (8.33%) hapi
14 9 (8.33%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Mobile App
2 13 (12.04%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.33%) Mobile Games
4 6 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.85%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.93%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (52.78%) Agile
2 31 (28.70%) Full-Stack Development
3 28 (25.93%) Front End Development
4 26 (24.07%) Code Quality
5 23 (21.30%) CI/CD
6 21 (19.44%) User Experience
7 18 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (15.74%) DevOps
9 15 (13.89%) Mentoring
10 14 (12.96%) Software Engineering
11 13 (12.04%) API Development
11 13 (12.04%) Clean Code
11 13 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (12.04%) Microservices
11 13 (12.04%) Test Automation
11 13 (12.04%) Unit Testing
12 11 (10.19%) Computer Science
12 11 (10.19%) Mobile Application Development
13 10 (9.26%) UX Design
13 10 (9.26%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 108 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 49 (45.37%) TypeScript
3 11 (10.19%) C#
4 8 (7.41%) PHP
5 7 (6.48%) Python
6 6 (5.56%) SQL
7 3 (2.78%) C
7 3 (2.78%) Java
8 1 (0.93%) ReasonML
Qualifications
1 13 (12.04%) Degree
2 12 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 12 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.93%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (15.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.78%) Ansible
1 3 (2.78%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 11 (10.19%) Google
2 8 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.93%) Mapbox