JavaScript Job Trends

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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -36 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,206 5,242 5,010
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.19% 7.76% 9.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.45% 24.56% 23.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,691 3,207 4,419
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £104,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 11,955 21,341 21,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.71% 31.57% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,541 12,628 17,628
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,281
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,068
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £109,125 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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 -32 2,000 £60,000 -7.69% 2,236
UK excluding London -51 1,268 £52,500 -4.55% 1,590
Work from Home -22 971 £65,000 -10.34% 1,167
London -23 822 £85,000 -5.56% 896
North of England -31 387 £50,500 -3.81% 425
South East -65 277 £55,000 -5.17% 458
Midlands -32 222 £48,500 -7.62% 237
Yorkshire -9 178 £49,500 -10.00% 121
North West -34 167 £55,000 +4.76% 263
South West -31 159 £48,250 -12.27% 181
West Midlands -31 135 £46,500 -11.43% 150
East of England -52 109 £55,000 -8.33% 145
East Midlands -27 88 £55,000 +8.91% 87
Scotland -49 78 £30,500 -44.55% 60
North East -19 44 £47,500 -20.83% 44
Wales -34 33 £60,000 +84.62% 69
Northern Ireland -26 6 £71,250 +50.00% 34
Isle of Man +9 1 £52,500 -

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
1 124 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (3.90%) Apache
3 67 (3.04%) CMS
4 62 (2.81%) SharePoint
5 61 (2.77%) WordPress
6 38 (1.72%) IIS
7 31 (1.41%) Confluence
8 16 (0.73%) Headless CMS
9 14 (0.63%) Apache Solr
10 12 (0.54%) Umbraco
11 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
12 8 (0.36%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.32%) Drupal
14 6 (0.27%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.23%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
15 5 (0.23%) nginx
15 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.23%) Tomcat
16 4 (0.18%) Appian
Applications
1 28 (1.27%) Adobe XD
2 27 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 14 (0.63%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.54%) Photoshop
7 11 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 11 (0.50%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.45%) Sketch
9 7 (0.32%) MadCap Flare
10 6 (0.27%) InVision
11 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.14%) Elementor
12 3 (0.14%) InDesign
12 3 (0.14%) Simulink
13 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.045%) Notion
13 1 (0.045%) Trello
13 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.31%) Shopify
3 20 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.54%) Sprinklr
5 10 (0.45%) Magento
6 8 (0.36%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite
7 6 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 5 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.23%) PlanetPress Connect
9 4 (0.18%) Sage 1000
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.14%) Primavera
10 3 (0.14%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.091%) Maximo
11 2 (0.091%) MFGPRO
11 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
12 1 (0.045%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 853 (38.67%) AWS
2 757 (34.32%) Azure
3 293 (13.28%) GitHub
4 205 (9.29%) Serverless
5 199 (9.02%) GCP
6 142 (6.44%) SaaS
7 132 (5.98%) Power Platform
8 127 (5.76%) dbt
9 115 (5.21%) Power Automate
10 102 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
11 88 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
12 85 (3.85%) PowerApps
13 71 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (3.22%) Figma
14 69 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
15 65 (2.95%) Snowflake
16 62 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
17 59 (2.67%) Amazon S3
17 59 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
18 47 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 157 (7.12%) Internet
2 16 (0.73%) HTTP
3 13 (0.59%) Broadband
4 9 (0.41%) MQTT
5 8 (0.36%) WPA
6 7 (0.32%) SSH
7 6 (0.27%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.27%) Firewall
7 6 (0.27%) Modbus
7 6 (0.27%) VPN
7 6 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.23%) AMQP
9 4 (0.18%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.14%) DNS
10 3 (0.14%) Intranet
10 3 (0.14%) Network Security
11 2 (0.091%) DMARC
11 2 (0.091%) SMS
11 2 (0.091%) SSL
12 1 (0.045%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (9.97%) SQL Server
2 187 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
3 180 (8.16%) MySQL
4 130 (5.89%) Amazon Athena
5 125 (5.67%) Apache Iceberg
6 121 (5.49%) Apache Arrow
6 121 (5.49%) Dremio
6 121 (5.49%) MongoDB
7 107 (4.85%) Relational Database
8 96 (4.35%) NoSQL
9 80 (3.63%) Power BI
10 78 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
11 61 (2.77%) Apache Ignite
11 61 (2.77%) Data Lake
12 48 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (1.27%) DynamoDB
14 27 (1.22%) RDBMS
15 24 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 23 (1.04%) Redis
16 23 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 510 (23.12%) Git
2 136 (6.17%) JIRA
3 99 (4.49%) Jenkins
4 85 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 55 (2.49%) webpack
6 51 (2.31%) JUnit
7 46 (2.09%) Selenium
8 40 (1.81%) GitLab
9 38 (1.72%) JMeter
10 31 (1.41%) Vite
11 30 (1.36%) Mockito
12 29 (1.31%) Bitbucket
12 29 (1.31%) Postman
13 28 (1.27%) Visual Studio
14 27 (1.22%) TeamCity
15 24 (1.09%) Maven
16 21 (0.95%) Cucumber
17 18 (0.82%) Axure RP
18 16 (0.73%) Babel
19 14 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 603 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 495 (22.44%) Finance
3 240 (10.88%) Law
4 184 (8.34%) Front Office
5 177 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
6 153 (6.94%) Multimedia
7 139 (6.30%) Banking
8 134 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 130 (5.89%) Marketing
10 127 (5.76%) Public Sector
11 77 (3.49%) Investment Banking
12 56 (2.54%) Retail
13 46 (2.09%) Legal
13 46 (2.09%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.13%) Advertising
15 25 (1.13%) Games
16 16 (0.73%) Electronics
17 14 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.63%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,203 (54.53%) Developer
2 439 (19.90%) Senior
3 362 (16.41%) Software Engineer
4 246 (11.15%) Senior Developer
5 233 (10.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 208 (9.43%) Lead
7 204 (9.25%) Software Developer
8 148 (6.71%) Trainee
9 147 (6.66%) .NET Developer
10 132 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
11 124 (5.62%) Python Engineer
12 121 (5.49%) AWS Software Engineer
13 116 (5.26%) Python Software Engineer
14 111 (5.03%) Java Engineer
15 109 (4.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 105 (4.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 101 (4.58%) Java Software Engineer
18 96 (4.35%) Java Developer
19 95 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
20 85 (3.85%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 960 (43.52%) HTML
2 830 (37.62%) CSS
3 776 (35.18%) React
4 481 (21.80%) .NET
5 384 (17.41%) Node.js
6 324 (14.69%) AngularJS
7 259 (11.74%) REST
8 246 (11.15%) Vue
9 187 (8.48%) RESTful
10 163 (7.39%) HTML5
11 155 (7.03%) ASP.NET
12 146 (6.62%) JSON
13 129 (5.85%) .NET Core
14 125 (5.67%) Pandas
15 123 (5.58%) NumPy
15 123 (5.58%) Spring
16 122 (5.53%) GraphQL
17 121 (5.49%) SciPy
18 118 (5.35%) .NET Framework
19 111 (5.03%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 179 (8.11%) Fixed Income
2 139 (6.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 136 (6.17%) Cloud Native
4 135 (6.12%) Equities
5 97 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 68 (3.08%) Hedge funds
7 66 (2.99%) Derivative
8 62 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
9 61 (2.77%) Pricing Data
10 59 (2.67%) Mobile App
11 50 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
12 40 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
13 39 (1.77%) Algorithms
13 39 (1.77%) Data Structures
14 36 (1.63%) Low-Code
15 26 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
15 26 (1.18%) Onboarding
16 25 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
16 25 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
17 22 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 144 (6.53%) Linux
2 62 (2.81%) Windows
3 32 (1.45%) Unix
4 28 (1.27%) Android
5 26 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.091%) CentOS
8 2 (0.091%) Debian
8 2 (0.091%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.091%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.091%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,002 (45.42%) Agile
2 575 (26.07%) Software Engineering
3 501 (22.71%) CI/CD
4 499 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
5 490 (22.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 428 (19.40%) Mentoring
7 361 (16.36%) DevOps
8 353 (16.00%) User Experience
9 271 (12.28%) AI
10 259 (11.74%) Microservices
11 258 (11.70%) Computer Science
12 256 (11.60%) Front End Development
13 237 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 215 (9.75%) SDLC
14 215 (9.75%) Test Automation
15 212 (9.61%) Scrum
16 199 (9.02%) Asset Management
17 177 (8.02%) Clean Code
18 173 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
19 168 (7.62%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 778 (35.27%) Python
2 754 (34.18%) TypeScript
3 551 (24.98%) C#
3 551 (24.98%) SQL
4 504 (22.85%) Java
5 204 (9.25%) PHP
6 135 (6.12%) R
7 80 (3.63%) C++
8 69 (3.13%) C
8 69 (3.13%) Ruby
9 59 (2.67%) PowerShell
10 55 (2.49%) Rust
11 53 (2.40%) Go
12 52 (2.36%) MATLAB
13 49 (2.22%) Dart
14 34 (1.54%) PL/SQL
15 33 (1.50%) Shell Script
16 30 (1.36%) VB.NET
17 27 (1.22%) T-SQL
18 18 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 346 (15.68%) Degree
2 198 (8.98%) Security Cleared
3 197 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 192 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 178 (8.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 171 (7.75%) Azure Certification
7 148 (6.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 116 (5.26%) SC Cleared
9 54 (2.45%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
14 18 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.50%) DBS Check
17 8 (0.36%) ISTQB
18 7 (0.32%) HNC
18 7 (0.32%) HND
19 6 (0.27%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (7.48%) QA
2 146 (6.62%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.58%) GDPR
4 40 (1.81%) WCAG
5 12 (0.54%) SLA
6 10 (0.45%) HL7
7 6 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.23%) PERC
9 4 (0.18%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.091%) PSD2
10 2 (0.091%) Section 508
11 1 (0.045%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.045%) DICOM
11 1 (0.045%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.045%) PMO
System Software
1 242 (10.97%) Docker
2 23 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) Firmware
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
7 2 (0.091%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.045%) HDFS
8 1 (0.045%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 187 (8.48%) Kubernetes
2 115 (5.21%) Terraform
3 31 (1.41%) Ansible
3 31 (1.41%) Grafana
3 31 (1.41%) Kibana
4 18 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.27%) Functional Safety
7 6 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.18%) Argo
9 3 (0.14%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.14%) Puppet
10 2 (0.091%) Control-M
10 2 (0.091%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.091%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.045%) cPanel
11 1 (0.045%) vRealize
Vendors
1 479 (21.71%) Microsoft
2 119 (5.39%) Oracle
3 69 (3.13%) Google
4 63 (2.86%) Adobe
5 62 (2.81%) ServiceNow
6 42 (1.90%) Atlassian
7 41 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 30 (1.36%) Splunk
9 27 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 25 (1.13%) MuleSoft
11 20 (0.91%) SAP
12 17 (0.77%) HubSpot
13 16 (0.73%) Apple
14 15 (0.68%) Cisco
14 15 (0.68%) IBM
14 15 (0.68%) VMware
15 13 (0.59%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.59%) Workday
16 12 (0.54%) DevExpress
17 11 (0.50%) Infor