JavaScript Engineer
UK

The median JavaScript Engineer salary in the UK is £69,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 840 800 731
Rank change year-on-year -40 -69 -184
Permanent jobs requiring a JavaScript Engineer 54 191 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.18% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.20% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 45 155 317
10th Percentile £41,500 £47,250 £43,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.15% +13.04% +15.00%

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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

JavaScript Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for JavaScript Engineer in the UK

JavaScript Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Engineer 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 -28 39 £70,000 - 16
UK excluding London -22 37 £69,000 +6.15% 7
Work from Home +2 20 £65,000 -7.14% 16
South West -9 15 £70,000 +27.27% 2
London +30 11 £80,000 +4.92% 9
East of England +30 8 £52,500 -3.23% 1
Scotland -56 6 £69,000 -1.43% 1
Wales - 3 £45,000 - 1
South East +9 2 £45,000 -29.41%
Midlands +7 2 £55,000 +10.00%
Yorkshire +59 1 £72,500 +1.40% 1
North of England +6 1 £72,500 +11.54% 3
East Midlands -17 1 £50,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, JavaScript Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 32 (59.26%) Software Engineering
3 24 (44.44%) Node.js
3 24 (44.44%) React
4 20 (37.04%) TypeScript
4 20 (37.04%) Agile
5 18 (33.33%) Python
6 15 (27.78%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (25.93%) Scrum
8 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
9 12 (22.22%) CI/CD
9 12 (22.22%) CSS
9 12 (22.22%) AWS
10 11 (20.37%) Jenkins
10 11 (20.37%) DevOps
10 11 (20.37%) HTML
11 10 (18.52%) JIRA
11 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
12 9 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 9 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (16.67%) Vue
13 8 (14.81%) Git
13 8 (14.81%) Mobile App
14 7 (12.96%) Bitbucket
14 7 (12.96%) Docker
14 7 (12.96%) gulp
14 7 (12.96%) Confluence
14 7 (12.96%) Process Improvement
14 7 (12.96%) Atlassian

JavaScript Engineer 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 7 (12.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) AWS
2 3 (5.56%) Azure
2 3 (5.56%) SaaS
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.85%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.85%) GitHub
4 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) MySQL
1 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.52%) JIRA
3 8 (14.81%) Git
4 7 (12.96%) Bitbucket
4 7 (12.96%) gulp
5 3 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.56%) GitLab
6 2 (3.70%) JUnit
6 2 (3.70%) Selenium
6 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.70%) TestNG
General
1 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Finance
4 2 (3.70%) Banking
4 2 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.85%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.85%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (44.44%) Node.js
1 24 (44.44%) React
2 12 (22.22%) CSS
3 11 (20.37%) HTML
4 9 (16.67%) Vue
5 7 (12.96%) Jest
6 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
6 4 (7.41%) React Native
7 3 (5.56%) Laravel
8 2 (3.70%) .NET
8 2 (3.70%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.70%) Django
8 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.70%) JSON
8 2 (3.70%) REST
8 2 (3.70%) RESTful
8 2 (3.70%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.85%) HTML5
9 1 (1.85%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (14.81%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.70%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (1.85%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) Software Engineering
2 20 (37.04%) Agile
3 15 (27.78%) Full Stack Development
4 14 (25.93%) Scrum
5 12 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 11 (20.37%) DevOps
7 9 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 7 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (12.96%) Clean Code
8 7 (12.96%) E-Commerce
8 7 (12.96%) Fintech
8 7 (12.96%) Front End Development
8 7 (12.96%) Process Improvement
9 5 (9.26%) Computer Science
9 5 (9.26%) Test Automation
10 4 (7.41%) Containerisation
10 4 (7.41%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (7.41%) Microservices
10 4 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 20 (37.04%) TypeScript
3 18 (33.33%) Python
4 6 (11.11%) Java
5 4 (7.41%) PHP
6 2 (3.70%) C#
6 2 (3.70%) SQL
7 1 (1.85%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) DV Cleared
1 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.56%) Degree
2 3 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.70%) Zoho