JavaScript Jobs

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 18 18
Rank change year-on-year -22 0 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 3,534 8,531 8,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.92% 8.01% 9.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.93% 25.34% 23.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,152 6,544 6,787
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,533 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £101,185
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 16,887 33,660 36,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.30% 31.62% 41.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10,812 24,916 25,870
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 -18 3,218 £66,215 +10.36% 2,827
Work from Home -5 2,193 £66,500 +10.83% 1,468
UK excluding London -22 2,179 £60,000 +14.29% 1,986
London -12 1,108 £82,500 -5.71% 1,128
North of England -26 691 £57,500 +4.55% 618
North West -22 531 £58,000 +5.45% 369
South East -32 461 £52,500 -4.55% 448
East of England -16 301 £66,206 +26.11% 251
Midlands -29 297 £55,000 +10.00% 273
South West -15 226 £57,500 +9.52% 197
Scotland -16 172 £67,500 +23.85% 111
West Midlands -37 154 £55,000 +4.76% 158
East Midlands -28 143 £62,500 +30.21% 115
Yorkshire -41 135 £61,250 +16.67% 196
Wales -35 32 £60,000 +20.00% 71
North East -25 25 £50,000 -9.09% 61
Northern Ireland -4 11 £67,500 +50.00% 49
Isle of Man +13 1 £52,500 +45.83% 1

JavaScript
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
1 216 (6.11%) Confluence
2 160 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 107 (3.03%) CMS
4 90 (2.55%) Apache
5 84 (2.38%) SharePoint
6 59 (1.67%) WordPress
7 42 (1.19%) IIS
8 31 (0.88%) Umbraco
9 28 (0.79%) Headless CMS
10 23 (0.65%) Jupyter
11 18 (0.51%) nginx
12 17 (0.48%) Drupal
13 13 (0.37%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.20%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.17%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.14%) Liferay
16 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
16 5 (0.14%) OpenEdge
17 3 (0.085%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 139 (3.93%) Chatbot
2 34 (0.96%) Adobe XD
3 31 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.48%) Sketch
5 14 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
5 14 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.23%) InVision
8 4 (0.11%) MadCap Flare
9 3 (0.085%) Elementor
9 3 (0.085%) Trello
10 2 (0.057%) MS Visio
11 1 (0.028%) Moqups
11 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.028%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 97 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.13%) NetSuite
3 27 (0.76%) Shopify
4 23 (0.65%) Magento
5 12 (0.34%) Sprinklr
6 11 (0.31%) JDE OneWorld
7 8 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.23%) Sage 200
7 8 (0.23%) Sage 50
8 7 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
8 7 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.11%) Sage 1000
10 2 (0.057%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.057%) MFGPRO
10 2 (0.057%) Odoo
11 1 (0.028%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.028%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.028%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,632 (46.18%) AWS
2 1,178 (33.33%) Azure
3 674 (19.07%) GCP
4 283 (8.01%) Serverless
5 216 (6.11%) Pulumi
6 178 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
7 166 (4.70%) Power Platform
8 159 (4.50%) dbt
9 144 (4.07%) SaaS
10 141 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
10 141 (3.99%) GitHub
11 130 (3.68%) Amazon S3
12 124 (3.51%) Power Automate
13 122 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
14 107 (3.03%) PowerApps
15 96 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
16 80 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
17 79 (2.24%) Azure Service Bus
18 78 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
18 78 (2.21%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 292 (8.26%) Broadband
2 72 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 69 (1.95%) VPN
4 33 (0.93%) HTTP
5 22 (0.62%) Internet
6 11 (0.31%) SSL
7 10 (0.28%) Firewall
7 10 (0.28%) MQTT
8 9 (0.25%) DMARC
8 9 (0.25%) DNS
9 8 (0.23%) WPA
10 6 (0.17%) Ethernet
10 6 (0.17%) Modbus
10 6 (0.17%) SMS
11 5 (0.14%) Intranet
11 5 (0.14%) Network Security
12 4 (0.11%) LoRaWAN
12 4 (0.11%) Multicast
13 3 (0.085%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.085%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 530 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 353 (9.99%) NoSQL
3 319 (9.03%) Relational Database
4 282 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
5 263 (7.44%) MySQL
6 246 (6.96%) RDBMS
7 216 (6.11%) Elasticsearch
8 168 (4.75%) MongoDB
9 162 (4.58%) Amazon Athena
10 158 (4.47%) Apache Iceberg
11 154 (4.36%) Apache Arrow
11 154 (4.36%) Dremio
12 89 (2.52%) DynamoDB
13 80 (2.26%) Power BI
14 78 (2.21%) Data Lake
15 75 (2.12%) Apache Ignite
16 45 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
17 44 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 39 (1.10%) Big Data
19 35 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 534 (15.11%) Git
2 425 (12.03%) JIRA
3 332 (9.39%) Cucumber
4 315 (8.91%) Selenium
5 301 (8.52%) Maven
6 291 (8.23%) GitLab
7 280 (7.92%) SonarQube
8 277 (7.84%) Sonatype Nexus
9 270 (7.64%) Bitbucket
10 215 (6.08%) Jaeger
11 141 (3.99%) Jenkins
12 81 (2.29%) Cypress.io
13 80 (2.26%) webpack
14 69 (1.95%) Visual Studio
15 64 (1.81%) Robot Framework
16 60 (1.70%) JUnit
17 46 (1.30%) TeamCity
18 42 (1.19%) JMeter
19 40 (1.13%) Postman
20 39 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 962 (27.22%) Finance
2 934 (26.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 694 (19.64%) Social Skills
4 490 (13.87%) Banking
5 283 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
6 237 (6.71%) Front Office
7 219 (6.20%) Retail
8 190 (5.38%) Investment Banking
9 168 (4.75%) Law
10 135 (3.82%) Marketing
11 100 (2.83%) Public Sector
12 90 (2.55%) Corporate Banking
13 89 (2.52%) Games
14 73 (2.07%) Telecoms
15 59 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 40 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 37 (1.05%) Legal
18 34 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
19 30 (0.85%) Advertising
20 22 (0.62%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,546 (43.75%) Developer
2 982 (27.79%) Software Engineer
3 823 (23.29%) Senior
4 564 (15.96%) Lead
5 371 (10.50%) Senior Developer
6 332 (9.39%) Senior Software Engineer
7 261 (7.39%) Full-Stack Developer
8 238 (6.73%) Team Leader
9 176 (4.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 168 (4.75%) AWS Developer
10 168 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
11 165 (4.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 158 (4.47%) AWS Software Engineer
13 151 (4.27%) Software Developer
14 146 (4.13%) Java Engineer
15 137 (3.88%) Python Engineer
16 133 (3.76%) Lead Developer
17 128 (3.62%) Java Software Engineer
18 126 (3.57%) .NET Developer
19 124 (3.51%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,376 (38.94%) HTML
2 1,316 (37.24%) React
3 1,146 (32.43%) CSS
4 799 (22.61%) .NET
5 742 (21.00%) Node.js
6 479 (13.55%) AngularJS
7 377 (10.67%) Redux
8 370 (10.47%) REST
9 367 (10.38%) Spring
10 363 (10.27%) Spring Boot
11 353 (9.99%) RESTful
12 340 (9.62%) Kafka
13 315 (8.91%) HTML5
14 311 (8.80%) Vue
15 252 (7.13%) JPA
16 233 (6.59%) CSS3
17 232 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
18 220 (6.23%) OpenTelemetry
19 219 (6.20%) Hibernate
20 216 (6.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 370 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 290 (8.21%) Enterprise Software
3 251 (7.10%) Cyberattack
3 251 (7.10%) Linux Command Line
4 243 (6.88%) Self-Motivation
5 231 (6.54%) Fixed Income
6 178 (5.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 172 (4.87%) Equities
8 134 (3.79%) Mobile App
9 127 (3.59%) Cloud Native
10 95 (2.69%) Hedge funds
11 83 (2.35%) Algorithms
12 75 (2.12%) Derivative
13 65 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
14 60 (1.70%) Pricing Data
15 57 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
16 42 (1.19%) Public Cloud
17 37 (1.05%) Data Structures
17 37 (1.05%) Virtual Team
18 31 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 678 (19.19%) Linux
2 250 (7.07%) Unix
3 136 (3.85%) Windows
4 105 (2.97%) Android
5 43 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.11%) CentOS
8 4 (0.11%) Rocky
9 3 (0.085%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.028%) Debian
10 1 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,917 (54.24%) Agile
2 1,308 (37.01%) Software Engineering
3 1,039 (29.40%) DevOps
4 975 (27.59%) Mentoring
5 930 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 806 (22.81%) Microservices
7 782 (22.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 679 (19.21%) User Experience
9 655 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
10 635 (17.97%) Containerisation
11 605 (17.12%) Test Automation
12 560 (15.85%) Performance Optimisation
13 555 (15.70%) Front End Development
14 444 (12.56%) SDLC
15 431 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence
16 414 (11.71%) Continuous Integration
17 400 (11.32%) Scrum
18 399 (11.29%) Clean Code
19 377 (10.67%) TDD
20 358 (10.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,408 (39.84%) Python
2 1,317 (37.27%) Java
3 1,102 (31.18%) SQL
4 1,093 (30.93%) TypeScript
5 823 (23.29%) C#
6 512 (14.49%) Go
7 428 (12.11%) C++
8 325 (9.20%) PHP
9 299 (8.46%) Bash
10 295 (8.35%) Rust
11 124 (3.51%) PowerShell
12 78 (2.21%) C
13 72 (2.04%) Ruby
14 60 (1.70%) R
15 53 (1.50%) MATLAB
16 50 (1.41%) Dart
17 32 (0.91%) PL/SQL
18 30 (0.85%) VB.NET
19 29 (0.82%) T-SQL
20 27 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 585 (16.55%) Degree
2 485 (13.72%) AWS Certification
3 424 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 284 (8.04%) DV Cleared
5 215 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 185 (5.23%) AWS Certified Developer
7 182 (5.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 120 (3.40%) SC Cleared
9 35 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (0.65%) ISTQB
11 17 (0.48%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.42%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
14 9 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.17%) Chartered Engineer
16 6 (0.17%) HNC
16 6 (0.17%) HND
17 5 (0.14%) PhD
18 4 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 498 (14.09%) QA
2 246 (6.96%) Accessibility
3 57 (1.61%) GDPR
4 44 (1.25%) WCAG
5 27 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.28%) HL7
8 8 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (0.085%) GRC
9 3 (0.085%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.057%) NCSC
10 2 (0.057%) WAI
11 1 (0.028%) COBIT
11 1 (0.028%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.028%) DICOM
11 1 (0.028%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.028%) NIST
11 1 (0.028%) PMO
11 1 (0.028%) SLA
11 1 (0.028%) SOC 2
System Software
1 890 (25.18%) Docker
2 17 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.085%) Firmware
5 3 (0.085%) Samba
6 1 (0.028%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.028%) KVM
6 1 (0.028%) NDS
6 1 (0.028%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.028%) Xen
Systems Management
1 786 (22.24%) Kubernetes
2 377 (10.67%) Terraform
3 287 (8.12%) Ansible
4 234 (6.62%) Prometheus
5 219 (6.20%) Kustomize
6 216 (6.11%) Argo
7 35 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (0.88%) Kibana
9 27 (0.76%) Grafana
10 12 (0.34%) Istio
11 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.17%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.11%) Nagios
14 3 (0.085%) HP Quality Center
14 3 (0.085%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.085%) Puppet
14 3 (0.085%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.057%) Control-M
15 2 (0.057%) logstash
15 2 (0.057%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 405 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 301 (8.52%) Google
3 247 (6.99%) Solace
4 123 (3.48%) PayPal
5 99 (2.80%) Oracle
6 88 (2.49%) Adobe
7 76 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 42 (1.19%) Salesforce
9 35 (0.99%) Splunk
10 29 (0.82%) Dynatrace
11 19 (0.54%) Cisco
12 15 (0.42%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.40%) Dell
13 14 (0.40%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.34%) IBM
14 12 (0.34%) Rollbar
14 12 (0.34%) Sage
14 12 (0.34%) Twitter
15 11 (0.31%) VMware
16 10 (0.28%) Apple