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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 31 18
Rank change year-on-year -36 -13 0
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,358 3,241 8,221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.42% 6.75% 7.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.50% 22.62% 24.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,921 2,142 6,544
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £42,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,687 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% +10.34% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 17,468 14,328 33,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 29.86% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12,425 9,537 24,909
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,440 £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 6 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 6 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 -38 2,084 £60,000 -9.39% 941
UK excluding London -37 1,565 £55,000 -8.33% 737
Work from Home -25 1,013 £60,000 -9.57% 531
London -43 616 £75,000 -9.09% 347
North of England -28 499 £55,000 -4.35% 180
South East -26 391 £55,000 +4.76% 224
North West -26 267 £56,250 -5.06% 100
South West -30 216 £50,000 -13.04% 88
Midlands -60 180 £55,000 - 105
Yorkshire +1 176 £57,500 -6.12% 59
East of England -36 141 £60,000 -9.37% 67
West Midlands -47 99 £55,000 - 54
East Midlands -47 81 £52,500 -16.00% 51
Scotland -30 68 £55,000 -18.52% 44
North East -15 56 £52,000 +4.00% 23
Wales -27 54 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Northern Ireland -46 13 £57,500 -14.81% 24
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 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 75 (3.18%) WordPress
3 52 (2.21%) CMS
4 32 (1.36%) Apache
5 31 (1.31%) Confluence
6 22 (0.93%) IIS
7 13 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.47%) Umbraco
9 10 (0.42%) Apache Spark
9 10 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 9 (0.38%) Drupal
10 9 (0.38%) JBoss
11 8 (0.34%) 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 32 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.72%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.38%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.13%) Blender
7 3 (0.13%) Elementor
7 3 (0.13%) Maya
8 2 (0.085%) InDesign
8 2 (0.085%) 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 59 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.89%) 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 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.085%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.085%) 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
1 924 (39.19%) Azure
2 855 (36.26%) AWS
3 242 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
4 238 (10.09%) GCP
5 223 (9.46%) GitHub
6 212 (8.99%) Power Platform
7 206 (8.74%) Serverless
8 156 (6.62%) SaaS
9 140 (5.94%) Power Automate
10 126 (5.34%) PowerApps
11 112 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
12 88 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 87 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
14 86 (3.65%) Azure AI
14 86 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
15 68 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
16 63 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
17 62 (2.63%) Amazon S3
18 49 (2.08%) Azure Functions
19 47 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 111 (4.71%) Internet
2 39 (1.65%) Broadband
3 19 (0.81%) Firewall
4 13 (0.55%) VPN
5 10 (0.42%) Intranet
6 9 (0.38%) HTTP
7 8 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
7 8 (0.34%) WAN
8 7 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.25%) AMQP
9 6 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.21%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.17%) DNS
11 4 (0.17%) MQTT
11 4 (0.17%) SSH
11 4 (0.17%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.13%) Network Security
13 2 (0.085%) SSL
13 2 (0.085%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (11.62%) MongoDB
2 188 (7.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 186 (7.89%) SQL Server
4 178 (7.55%) MySQL
5 163 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
6 122 (5.17%) Relational Database
7 104 (4.41%) Power BI
8 101 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
8 101 (4.28%) NoSQL
9 32 (1.36%) Redis
10 29 (1.23%) RDBMS
11 26 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 24 (1.02%) MariaDB
13 22 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.81%) Big Data
15 16 (0.68%) DynamoDB
15 16 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
16 15 (0.64%) GIS
17 13 (0.55%) Tableau
18 12 (0.51%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 395 (16.75%) Git
2 123 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 88 (3.73%) JIRA
4 81 (3.44%) Cypress.io
5 76 (3.22%) GitLab
6 39 (1.65%) JUnit
7 35 (1.48%) Selenium
8 31 (1.31%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.31%) Maven
9 25 (1.06%) Postman
10 23 (0.98%) Subversion
11 20 (0.85%) Eclipse
12 17 (0.72%) CircleCI
12 17 (0.72%) Mockito
12 17 (0.72%) TeamCity
12 17 (0.72%) Vite
13 15 (0.64%) SonarQube
14 14 (0.59%) REST Assured
15 13 (0.55%) JMeter
16 12 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 569 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 332 (14.08%) Finance
3 175 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (6.83%) Public Sector
5 106 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (3.90%) Retail
7 87 (3.69%) Marketing
8 86 (3.65%) Law
9 65 (2.76%) Multimedia
10 62 (2.63%) Front Office
10 62 (2.63%) Legal
11 46 (1.95%) Banking
12 41 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 37 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (1.10%) Legal Technology
15 24 (1.02%) Advertising
15 24 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (0.98%) Automotive
16 23 (0.98%) Health Technology
17 21 (0.89%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,289 (54.66%) Developer
2 452 (19.17%) Senior
3 385 (16.33%) Software Engineer
4 326 (13.83%) Full-Stack Developer
5 304 (12.89%) Lead
6 253 (10.73%) Senior Developer
7 224 (9.50%) .NET Developer
8 172 (7.29%) Software Developer
9 138 (5.85%) Lead Developer
10 133 (5.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 117 (4.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 100 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
13 95 (4.03%) Lead Software Engineer
14 89 (3.77%) JavaScript Developer
15 82 (3.48%) React Developer
16 78 (3.31%) Java Developer
17 75 (3.18%) Architect
18 74 (3.14%) Lead Software Developer
19 70 (2.97%) Web Developer
20 65 (2.76%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 913 (38.72%) React
2 649 (27.52%) HTML
3 617 (26.17%) CSS
4 602 (25.53%) .NET
5 544 (23.07%) Node.js
6 266 (11.28%) ASP.NET
7 264 (11.20%) REST
8 263 (11.15%) .NET Core
9 245 (10.39%) RESTful
10 230 (9.75%) AngularJS
11 218 (9.25%) ASP.NET Core
12 196 (8.31%) Vue
13 182 (7.72%) Blazor
14 118 (5.00%) JSON
15 110 (4.66%) .NET Framework
15 110 (4.66%) ASP.NET Web API
16 109 (4.62%) HTML5
16 109 (4.62%) jQuery
17 105 (4.45%) Spring
18 92 (3.90%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 179 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 98 (4.16%) Product Ownership
3 92 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 79 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
5 75 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
6 74 (3.14%) Onboarding
7 71 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
8 58 (2.46%) Fixed Income
9 56 (2.37%) Mobile App
10 41 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.57%) Low-Code
12 30 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 29 (1.23%) Management Information System
14 28 (1.19%) Data Structures
15 27 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 24 (1.02%) Social Media
17 23 (0.98%) e-Learning
18 19 (0.81%) Algorithms
18 19 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
19 18 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.06%) Linux
2 73 (3.10%) Windows
3 35 (1.48%) Unix
4 28 (1.19%) Android
5 14 (0.59%) CentOS
6 13 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.34%) Debian
8 8 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.085%) Rocky
9 2 (0.085%) VMS
10 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.042%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 997 (42.28%) Agile
2 938 (39.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 642 (27.23%) CI/CD
4 617 (26.17%) Software Engineering
5 597 (25.32%) DevOps
6 544 (23.07%) Problem-Solving
7 459 (19.47%) AI
8 440 (18.66%) Mentoring
9 422 (17.90%) Microservices
10 333 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 307 (13.02%) Test Automation
12 255 (10.81%) Scrum
13 245 (10.39%) Containerisation
14 235 (9.97%) Web Development
15 227 (9.63%) User Experience
16 223 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
17 220 (9.33%) Machine Learning
18 219 (9.29%) Front End Development
19 212 (8.99%) Computer Science
20 195 (8.27%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 762 (32.32%) TypeScript
2 732 (31.04%) Python
3 688 (29.18%) C#
4 651 (27.61%) SQL
5 482 (20.44%) Java
6 207 (8.78%) PHP
7 114 (4.83%) C++
8 94 (3.99%) Go
9 87 (3.69%) PowerShell
10 57 (2.42%) R
11 53 (2.25%) Bash
12 45 (1.91%) Ruby
13 25 (1.06%) Rust
14 24 (1.02%) C
15 23 (0.98%) Apex Code
16 21 (0.89%) Perl
17 19 (0.81%) Bicep
17 19 (0.81%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.72%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 314 (13.32%) Degree
2 244 (10.35%) Security Cleared
3 177 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 147 (6.23%) SC Cleared
5 94 (3.99%) AWS Certification
6 84 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 71 (3.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 71 (3.01%) Azure Certification
8 42 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 30 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
11 17 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.64%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
15 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.30%) PhD
17 6 (0.25%) HND
18 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 3 (0.13%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (7.17%) Accessibility
2 147 (6.23%) QA
3 40 (1.70%) WCAG
4 34 (1.44%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.06%) GDPR
6 22 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (0.89%) SLA
8 7 (0.30%) GRC
8 7 (0.30%) HL7
8 7 (0.30%) PERC
9 6 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (0.21%) IEC 61131
11 4 (0.17%) NCSC
11 4 (0.17%) NIST
12 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.13%) PMO
13 2 (0.085%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.085%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 330 (13.99%) Docker
2 15 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.25%) KVM
Systems Management
1 275 (11.66%) Kubernetes
2 197 (8.35%) Terraform
3 60 (2.54%) Ansible
4 49 (2.08%) Grafana
5 33 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.02%) Kibana
7 15 (0.64%) logstash
8 14 (0.59%) Argo
8 14 (0.59%) Podman
9 12 (0.51%) Kustomize
10 9 (0.38%) Puppet
11 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.25%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.13%) Nagios
13 3 (0.13%) Plesk
13 3 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.085%) MOM
14 2 (0.085%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.085%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 556 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 126 (5.34%) Google
3 52 (2.21%) Adobe
4 41 (1.74%) Oracle
5 39 (1.65%) Salesforce
5 39 (1.65%) ServiceNow
6 29 (1.23%) Splunk
7 22 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 21 (0.89%) Red Hat
9 19 (0.81%) Apple
10 18 (0.76%) HubSpot
10 18 (0.76%) MuleSoft
11 17 (0.72%) Facebook
11 17 (0.72%) Sony
11 17 (0.72%) Yahoo!
12 15 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 15 (0.64%) VMware
13 14 (0.59%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.59%) SAP
14 11 (0.47%) Pega