JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -37 -10 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,402 3,251 7,952
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.45% 6.64% 7.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.63% 22.55% 24.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,942 2,147 6,288
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +10.34% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,125 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
UK

JavaScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 17,623 14,419 32,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.00% 29.46% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,522 9,595 24,220
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the UK

JavaScript
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the UK over the 6 months to 10 July 2026. 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 -37 2,110 £60,000 -9.39% 726
UK excluding London -37 1,605 £55,000 -8.33% 602
Work from Home -24 1,050 £60,000 -9.67% 338
London -45 622 £75,000 -9.37% 262
North of England -25 497 £55,000 -4.35% 133
South East -20 402 £55,000 +4.76% 187
North West -27 267 £57,500 -4.17% 75
South West -26 226 £50,000 -13.04% 74
Midlands -60 180 £55,000 - 91
Yorkshire -1 174 £57,500 -4.01% 44
East of England -34 142 £60,000 -9.37% 58
West Midlands -42 99 £55,000 - 45
East Midlands -45 81 £52,500 -19.23% 46
Scotland -31 71 £55,000 -15.38% 35
Wales -22 58 £55,000 -8.33% 19
North East -15 56 £52,000 +4.00% 15
Northern Ireland -46 26 £44,250 -34.44% 17
Isle of Man +3 3 £35,000 -33.33%

JavaScript
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 85 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 77 (3.21%) WordPress
3 55 (2.29%) CMS
4 36 (1.50%) Apache
5 32 (1.33%) Confluence
6 21 (0.87%) IIS
7 13 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.46%) Umbraco
9 10 (0.42%) Apache Spark
9 10 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 9 (0.37%) Drupal
10 9 (0.37%) JBoss
11 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
12 6 (0.25%) ColdFusion
12 6 (0.25%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.21%) nginx
14 4 (0.17%) Moodle
14 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.37%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.29%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.12%) Blender
7 3 (0.12%) Elementor
7 3 (0.12%) Maya
8 2 (0.083%) InDesign
8 2 (0.083%) Sketch
9 1 (0.042%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.042%) InVision
9 1 (0.042%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 60 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.87%) Shopify
3 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.17%) Magento
4 4 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.083%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.083%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.042%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.042%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.042%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 929 (38.68%) Azure
2 862 (35.89%) AWS
3 240 (9.99%) Azure DevOps
3 240 (9.99%) GCP
4 226 (9.41%) GitHub
5 213 (8.87%) Power Platform
6 204 (8.49%) Serverless
7 175 (7.29%) SaaS
8 142 (5.91%) Power Automate
9 128 (5.33%) PowerApps
10 115 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
11 88 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
12 87 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
13 85 (3.54%) Azure AI
14 80 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
15 67 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
16 62 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
17 58 (2.41%) Amazon S3
18 49 (2.04%) Azure Functions
19 47 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 112 (4.66%) Internet
2 38 (1.58%) Broadband
3 19 (0.79%) Firewall
4 13 (0.54%) VPN
5 10 (0.42%) Intranet
6 9 (0.37%) HTTP
7 8 (0.33%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.33%) WAN
8 7 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.25%) AMQP
9 6 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.21%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.21%) MQTT
10 5 (0.21%) SSH
10 5 (0.21%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.17%) DNS
12 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.12%) Network Security
12 3 (0.12%) SSL
13 2 (0.083%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (11.49%) MongoDB
2 196 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 189 (7.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 184 (7.66%) MySQL
5 164 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
6 122 (5.08%) Relational Database
7 105 (4.37%) Power BI
8 104 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
9 101 (4.20%) NoSQL
10 34 (1.42%) Redis
11 28 (1.17%) RDBMS
12 26 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 24 (1.00%) MariaDB
14 21 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
15 20 (0.83%) Big Data
16 17 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
17 16 (0.67%) DynamoDB
18 15 (0.62%) GIS
19 13 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
19 13 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 401 (16.69%) Git
2 124 (5.16%) Jenkins
3 92 (3.83%) JIRA
4 81 (3.37%) Cypress.io
5 80 (3.33%) GitLab
6 40 (1.67%) JUnit
7 36 (1.50%) Selenium
8 32 (1.33%) Cucumber
9 31 (1.29%) Maven
10 24 (1.00%) Postman
10 24 (1.00%) Subversion
11 21 (0.87%) Eclipse
12 19 (0.79%) TeamCity
13 18 (0.75%) Vite
14 17 (0.71%) CircleCI
14 17 (0.71%) Mockito
15 16 (0.67%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.58%) REST Assured
17 13 (0.54%) Claude Code
17 13 (0.54%) webpack
General
1 590 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 337 (14.03%) Finance
3 176 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 106 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 102 (4.25%) Law
7 94 (3.91%) Retail
8 90 (3.75%) Marketing
9 76 (3.16%) Legal
10 65 (2.71%) Multimedia
11 62 (2.58%) Front Office
12 47 (1.96%) Banking
13 41 (1.71%) Manufacturing
14 40 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (1.08%) Legal Technology
16 24 (1.00%) Advertising
16 24 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
17 23 (0.96%) Automotive
17 23 (0.96%) Health Technology
18 21 (0.87%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,301 (54.16%) Developer
2 470 (19.57%) Senior
3 391 (16.28%) Software Engineer
4 333 (13.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 301 (12.53%) Lead
6 256 (10.66%) Senior Developer
7 231 (9.62%) .NET Developer
8 174 (7.24%) Software Developer
9 136 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 135 (5.62%) Lead Developer
11 115 (4.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 99 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
13 96 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
14 84 (3.50%) JavaScript Developer
15 80 (3.33%) React Developer
16 79 (3.29%) Java Developer
16 79 (3.29%) Web Developer
17 78 (3.25%) Architect
18 74 (3.08%) Lead Software Developer
19 65 (2.71%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 909 (37.84%) React
2 655 (27.27%) HTML
3 624 (25.98%) CSS
4 611 (25.44%) .NET
5 545 (22.69%) Node.js
6 273 (11.37%) ASP.NET
7 264 (10.99%) .NET Core
7 264 (10.99%) REST
8 244 (10.16%) RESTful
9 227 (9.45%) AngularJS
10 219 (9.12%) ASP.NET Core
11 196 (8.16%) Vue
12 183 (7.62%) Blazor
13 126 (5.25%) JSON
14 118 (4.91%) .NET Framework
15 112 (4.66%) ASP.NET Web API
16 110 (4.58%) HTML5
17 108 (4.50%) jQuery
18 106 (4.41%) Spring
19 93 (3.87%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 182 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 99 (4.12%) Product Ownership
3 93 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 85 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
5 77 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 75 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
7 70 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
8 58 (2.41%) Fixed Income
9 56 (2.33%) Mobile App
10 45 (1.87%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 34 (1.42%) Low-Code
13 28 (1.17%) Data Structures
13 28 (1.17%) Management Information System
14 27 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 24 (1.00%) Social Media
16 22 (0.92%) e-Learning
17 19 (0.79%) Algorithms
17 19 (0.79%) IoT
17 19 (0.79%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 151 (6.29%) Linux
2 80 (3.33%) Windows
3 34 (1.42%) Unix
4 28 (1.17%) Android
5 15 (0.62%) CentOS
6 13 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.33%) Debian
9 8 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.083%) Rocky
10 2 (0.083%) VMS
11 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.042%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,007 (41.92%) Agile
2 952 (39.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 647 (26.94%) CI/CD
4 641 (26.69%) Software Engineering
5 611 (25.44%) DevOps
6 550 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
7 467 (19.44%) AI
8 452 (18.82%) Mentoring
9 431 (17.94%) Microservices
10 347 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 330 (13.74%) Test Automation
12 257 (10.70%) Scrum
13 250 (10.41%) Containerisation
14 244 (10.16%) Web Development
15 226 (9.41%) User Experience
16 225 (9.37%) Technical Leadership
17 224 (9.33%) Machine Learning
18 219 (9.12%) Front End Development
19 214 (8.91%) Computer Science
20 199 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 784 (32.64%) TypeScript
2 756 (31.47%) Python
3 716 (29.81%) C#
4 658 (27.39%) SQL
5 486 (20.23%) Java
6 211 (8.78%) PHP
7 121 (5.04%) C++
8 103 (4.29%) PowerShell
9 95 (3.96%) Go
10 57 (2.37%) R
11 55 (2.29%) Bash
12 47 (1.96%) Ruby
13 27 (1.12%) Rust
14 24 (1.00%) Apex Code
14 24 (1.00%) C
15 22 (0.92%) Perl
16 19 (0.79%) Bicep
16 19 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.75%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 318 (13.24%) Degree
2 249 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 179 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 148 (6.16%) SC Cleared
5 95 (3.96%) AWS Certification
6 84 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 72 (3.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 71 (2.96%) Azure Certification
9 42 (1.75%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
12 16 (0.67%) DBS Check
13 14 (0.58%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
14 13 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.29%) PhD
17 6 (0.25%) HND
18 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 3 (0.12%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (7.12%) Accessibility
2 162 (6.74%) QA
3 41 (1.71%) WCAG
4 36 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.04%) GDPR
6 23 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (0.87%) SLA
8 7 (0.29%) GRC
8 7 (0.29%) HL7
8 7 (0.29%) PERC
9 6 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 6 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.21%) IEC 61131
11 4 (0.17%) NCSC
11 4 (0.17%) NIST
12 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.12%) PMO
13 2 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 334 (13.91%) Docker
2 18 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.29%) KVM
5 7 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 280 (11.66%) Kubernetes
2 200 (8.33%) Terraform
3 62 (2.58%) Ansible
4 53 (2.21%) Grafana
5 33 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.08%) Kibana
7 17 (0.71%) logstash
8 14 (0.58%) Podman
9 13 (0.54%) Argo
10 11 (0.46%) Kustomize
11 9 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.37%) Puppet
12 7 (0.29%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.25%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.12%) Nagios
14 3 (0.12%) Plesk
14 3 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.083%) MOM
15 2 (0.083%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.083%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 567 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 134 (5.58%) Google
3 52 (2.16%) Adobe
4 42 (1.75%) ServiceNow
5 41 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 40 (1.67%) Oracle
7 30 (1.25%) Splunk
8 22 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 22 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 19 (0.79%) Apple
9 19 (0.79%) HubSpot
9 19 (0.79%) MuleSoft
10 18 (0.75%) VMware
11 17 (0.71%) Facebook
11 17 (0.71%) Sony
11 17 (0.71%) Yahoo!
12 15 (0.62%) Atlassian
12 15 (0.62%) Dynatrace
12 15 (0.62%) SAP
13 11 (0.46%) Pega