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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 31 19
Rank change year-on-year -38 -12 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,272 3,198 8,547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.39% 7.06% 7.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.33% 22.79% 25.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,850 2,103 6,843
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% +10.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £106,250
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 17,050 14,031 34,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 30.96% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12,090 9,275 25,736
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £98,750
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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -40 2,021 £60,000 -9.38% 677
UK excluding London -40 1,487 £55,000 -8.33% 580
Work from Home -26 931 £60,000 -9.56% 342
London -42 617 £75,000 -9.09% 235
North of England -27 482 £55,000 -8.18% 143
South East -27 364 £55,000 +1.38% 186
North West -25 255 £56,250 -6.25% 75
South West -31 207 £50,000 -13.04% 63
Midlands -55 182 £55,000 - 79
Yorkshire -3 177 £57,500 -11.54% 46
East of England -41 135 £60,000 -9.38% 56
West Midlands -49 103 £55,000 - 39
East Midlands -51 79 £52,500 -12.50% 40
Scotland -36 65 £50,000 -20.00% 39
North East -17 50 £52,000 +9.47% 23
Wales -28 47 £56,250 -6.25% 20
Northern Ireland -41 4 £57,500 +4.55% 6
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 81 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 74 (3.26%) WordPress
3 52 (2.29%) CMS
4 30 (1.32%) Apache
5 29 (1.28%) Confluence
6 21 (0.92%) IIS
7 13 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.44%) Umbraco
9 9 (0.40%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.40%) Drupal
9 9 (0.40%) JBoss
9 9 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
11 7 (0.31%) nginx
12 6 (0.26%) ColdFusion
12 6 (0.26%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.18%) Moodle
14 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.75%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.48%) Photoshop
5 10 (0.44%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.13%) Blender
8 3 (0.13%) Maya
8 3 (0.13%) Sketch
9 2 (0.088%) Elementor
9 2 (0.088%) InDesign
9 2 (0.088%) InVision
10 1 (0.044%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.01%) Shopify
3 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.18%) Magento
4 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.088%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.088%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.044%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.044%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.044%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 876 (38.56%) Azure
2 842 (37.06%) AWS
3 241 (10.61%) GitHub
4 229 (10.08%) GCP
5 217 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
6 204 (8.98%) Serverless
7 198 (8.71%) Power Platform
8 135 (5.94%) SaaS
9 129 (5.68%) Power Automate
10 115 (5.06%) PowerApps
11 105 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
12 89 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
13 86 (3.79%) Azure Logic Apps
14 78 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
15 69 (3.04%) Azure AI
16 67 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
17 65 (2.86%) Amazon S3
18 57 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
19 47 (2.07%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 133 (5.85%) Internet
2 39 (1.72%) Broadband
3 19 (0.84%) Firewall
4 15 (0.66%) VPN
5 10 (0.44%) Intranet
6 9 (0.40%) HTTP
7 8 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
7 8 (0.35%) WAN
8 7 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.22%) AMQP
10 5 (0.22%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.18%) DNS
11 4 (0.18%) MQTT
11 4 (0.18%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.13%) Network Security
13 2 (0.088%) Multicast
13 2 (0.088%) SSH
13 2 (0.088%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (10.17%) MongoDB
2 176 (7.75%) SQL Server
3 168 (7.39%) MySQL
4 158 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
5 151 (6.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 116 (5.11%) Relational Database
7 100 (4.40%) Power BI
8 99 (4.36%) NoSQL
9 81 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (1.28%) RDBMS
10 29 (1.28%) Redis
11 25 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (0.97%) MariaDB
14 17 (0.75%) Big Data
15 16 (0.70%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.66%) GIS
17 14 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
18 13 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
18 13 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 417 (18.35%) Git
2 119 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.61%) Cypress.io
3 82 (3.61%) JIRA
4 74 (3.26%) GitLab
5 36 (1.58%) JUnit
6 35 (1.54%) Selenium
7 30 (1.32%) Cucumber
7 30 (1.32%) Maven
8 27 (1.19%) Postman
9 22 (0.97%) Subversion
10 19 (0.84%) Eclipse
10 19 (0.84%) Vite
11 17 (0.75%) CircleCI
11 17 (0.75%) Mockito
11 17 (0.75%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.66%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.57%) JMeter
13 13 (0.57%) REST Assured
14 12 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 543 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 317 (13.95%) Finance
3 175 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 109 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (4.05%) Multimedia
7 86 (3.79%) Retail
8 79 (3.48%) Law
8 79 (3.48%) Marketing
9 63 (2.77%) Front Office
10 51 (2.24%) Legal
11 46 (2.02%) Banking
12 39 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 35 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.10%) Legal Technology
15 24 (1.06%) Advertising
16 23 (1.01%) Automotive
16 23 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.01%) Health Technology
17 20 (0.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,231 (54.18%) Developer
2 432 (19.01%) Senior
3 370 (16.29%) Software Engineer
4 313 (13.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 281 (12.37%) Lead
6 247 (10.87%) Senior Developer
7 184 (8.10%) Software Developer
8 179 (7.88%) .NET Developer
9 131 (5.77%) Lead Developer
10 129 (5.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 114 (5.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 96 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 95 (4.18%) JavaScript Developer
14 92 (4.05%) Trainee
15 88 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
16 86 (3.79%) React Developer
17 79 (3.48%) Java Developer
18 73 (3.21%) Architect
19 71 (3.13%) Lead Software Developer
20 65 (2.86%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 855 (37.63%) React
2 663 (29.18%) HTML
3 631 (27.77%) CSS
4 542 (23.86%) .NET
5 504 (22.18%) Node.js
6 260 (11.44%) REST
7 225 (9.90%) .NET Core
8 224 (9.86%) RESTful
9 218 (9.60%) ASP.NET
10 217 (9.55%) AngularJS
11 184 (8.10%) Vue
12 174 (7.66%) ASP.NET Core
13 144 (6.34%) Blazor
14 115 (5.06%) JSON
15 109 (4.80%) jQuery
16 106 (4.67%) HTML5
17 104 (4.58%) Spring
18 96 (4.23%) .NET Framework
19 91 (4.01%) Kafka
20 89 (3.92%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 168 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 101 (4.45%) Product Ownership
3 86 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 69 (3.04%) Onboarding
5 69 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
6 68 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 59 (2.60%) Fixed Income
8 53 (2.33%) Mobile App
9 42 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (1.63%) Low-Code
11 29 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 26 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 25 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (1.06%) e-Learning
15 20 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
15 20 (0.88%) Social Media
16 19 (0.84%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.75%) Derivative
17 17 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 139 (6.12%) Linux
2 69 (3.04%) Windows
3 33 (1.45%) Unix
4 25 (1.10%) Android
5 13 (0.57%) CentOS
6 12 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.22%) Debian
10 2 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.088%) Rocky
11 1 (0.044%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.044%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (40.98%) Agile
2 861 (37.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 622 (27.38%) CI/CD
4 583 (25.66%) Software Engineering
5 542 (23.86%) DevOps
6 533 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
7 442 (19.45%) Mentoring
8 415 (18.27%) AI
9 382 (16.81%) Microservices
10 314 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 282 (12.41%) Test Automation
12 237 (10.43%) Scrum
13 235 (10.34%) Containerisation
14 230 (10.12%) User Experience
15 224 (9.86%) Web Development
16 216 (9.51%) Front End Development
17 209 (9.20%) Computer Science
18 206 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
19 202 (8.89%) Machine Learning
20 181 (7.97%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 731 (32.17%) Python
2 723 (31.82%) TypeScript
3 613 (26.98%) C#
4 600 (26.41%) SQL
5 470 (20.69%) Java
6 203 (8.93%) PHP
7 107 (4.71%) C++
8 89 (3.92%) Go
9 78 (3.43%) PowerShell
10 72 (3.17%) R
11 53 (2.33%) Bash
12 44 (1.94%) Ruby
13 25 (1.10%) Rust
14 24 (1.06%) Apex Code
15 21 (0.92%) C
16 20 (0.88%) Perl
16 20 (0.88%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.79%) Bicep
18 17 (0.75%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 309 (13.60%) Degree
2 235 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 171 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 141 (6.21%) SC Cleared
5 123 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 114 (5.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 100 (4.40%) Azure Certification
8 98 (4.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 39 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
12 18 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.31%) PhD
18 5 (0.22%) HND
19 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
20 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (7.22%) Accessibility
2 136 (5.99%) QA
3 38 (1.67%) WCAG
4 32 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.10%) GDPR
6 21 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.88%) SLA
8 7 (0.31%) GRC
8 7 (0.31%) HL7
8 7 (0.31%) PERC
9 5 (0.22%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.18%) NIST
10 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.13%) NCSC
11 3 (0.13%) PMO
12 2 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 320 (14.08%) Docker
2 15 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 267 (11.75%) Kubernetes
2 186 (8.19%) Terraform
3 59 (2.60%) Ansible
4 47 (2.07%) Grafana
5 31 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.06%) Kibana
7 15 (0.66%) logstash
8 14 (0.62%) Argo
8 14 (0.62%) Podman
9 12 (0.53%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.26%) Puppet
11 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.22%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.13%) Nagios
13 3 (0.13%) Plesk
14 2 (0.088%) MOM
14 2 (0.088%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.088%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 527 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 114 (5.02%) Google
3 54 (2.38%) Adobe
4 44 (1.94%) Oracle
5 40 (1.76%) Salesforce
6 38 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 27 (1.19%) Splunk
8 23 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 20 (0.88%) HubSpot
9 20 (0.88%) Red Hat
10 19 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.66%) Apple
11 15 (0.66%) SAP
11 15 (0.66%) VMware
12 14 (0.62%) Atlassian
12 14 (0.62%) Dynatrace
13 13 (0.57%) Facebook
13 13 (0.57%) Sony
13 13 (0.57%) Yahoo!
14 12 (0.53%) Palo Alto