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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -35 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,167 5,240 5,031
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.14% 7.78% 9.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.34% 24.43% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,709 3,194 4,448
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 £88,044 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £122,500 £103,750
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 11,814 21,452 21,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.56% 31.87% 41.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,485 12,708 17,794
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,439 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £108,750 £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 17 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 17 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 -34 1,960 £60,000 -10.45% 2,240
UK excluding London -48 1,238 £52,500 -4.55% 1,569
Work from Home -22 917 £65,000 -10.34% 1,192
London -21 813 £85,000 -5.56% 925
North of England -29 379 £50,000 -4.76% 412
South East -71 261 £55,000 -6.98% 451
Midlands -26 212 £50,000 -4.76% 237
Yorkshire -9 176 £48,250 -12.27% 110
South West -32 164 £50,000 -9.09% 171
North West -35 160 £55,000 +4.76% 264
West Midlands -32 132 £47,500 -9.52% 143
East of England -51 105 £55,000 -8.33% 146
East Midlands -28 81 £57,500 +10.58% 94
Scotland -49 79 £30,500 -44.55% 65
North East -20 45 £47,500 -20.83% 41
Wales -33 34 £60,000 +84.62% 70
Northern Ireland -20 7 £80,000 +68.42% 38
Isle of Man +10 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
1 121 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (3.97%) Apache
3 68 (3.14%) CMS
4 62 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 60 (2.77%) WordPress
6 36 (1.66%) IIS
7 30 (1.38%) Confluence
8 16 (0.74%) Headless CMS
9 14 (0.65%) Apache Solr
10 12 (0.55%) Umbraco
11 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
12 8 (0.37%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.32%) Drupal
14 6 (0.28%) nginx
14 6 (0.28%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.23%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
15 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 4 (0.18%) Appian
16 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (1.29%) Adobe XD
2 26 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 13 (0.60%) Photoshop
6 12 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
6 12 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.51%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.42%) Sketch
9 7 (0.32%) MadCap Flare
10 5 (0.23%) InVision
10 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.14%) Elementor
11 3 (0.14%) InDesign
11 3 (0.14%) Simulink
12 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.046%) Notion
12 1 (0.046%) Trello
12 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.38%) Shopify
3 20 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.55%) Sprinklr
5 9 (0.42%) Magento
6 8 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite
7 5 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 5 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.23%) PlanetPress Connect
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.14%) Primavera
8 3 (0.14%) Sage 1000
8 3 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.092%) Maximo
9 2 (0.092%) MFGPRO
9 2 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.046%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 868 (40.06%) AWS
2 775 (35.76%) Azure
3 310 (14.31%) GitHub
4 209 (9.64%) Serverless
5 191 (8.81%) GCP
6 144 (6.65%) SaaS
7 133 (6.14%) Power Platform
8 124 (5.72%) dbt
9 110 (5.08%) Power Automate
10 102 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
11 89 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
12 83 (3.83%) PowerApps
13 73 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
14 72 (3.32%) Figma
15 65 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
15 65 (3.00%) Snowflake
16 61 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
17 59 (2.72%) Amazon S3
18 57 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
19 47 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 170 (7.84%) Internet
2 15 (0.69%) HTTP
3 13 (0.60%) Broadband
4 8 (0.37%) MQTT
4 8 (0.37%) SSH
4 8 (0.37%) WPA
5 6 (0.28%) Ethernet
5 6 (0.28%) Modbus
5 6 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.23%) AMQP
6 5 (0.23%) VPN
7 4 (0.18%) Firewall
7 4 (0.18%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.14%) DNS
8 3 (0.14%) Intranet
9 2 (0.092%) Network Security
9 2 (0.092%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.092%) SSL
10 1 (0.046%) 2G
10 1 (0.046%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (9.97%) SQL Server
2 184 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
3 178 (8.21%) MySQL
4 125 (5.77%) Amazon Athena
5 120 (5.54%) Apache Iceberg
6 118 (5.45%) MongoDB
7 116 (5.35%) Apache Arrow
7 116 (5.35%) Dremio
8 110 (5.08%) Relational Database
9 94 (4.34%) NoSQL
10 80 (3.69%) Power BI
11 74 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
12 61 (2.81%) Apache Ignite
12 61 (2.81%) Data Lake
13 48 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 28 (1.29%) DynamoDB
15 27 (1.25%) RDBMS
16 25 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 21 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
17 21 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 520 (24.00%) Git
2 133 (6.14%) JIRA
3 101 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 85 (3.92%) Cypress.io
5 55 (2.54%) webpack
6 50 (2.31%) JUnit
7 46 (2.12%) Selenium
8 41 (1.89%) GitLab
9 38 (1.75%) JMeter
10 31 (1.43%) Vite
11 30 (1.38%) Mockito
12 29 (1.34%) Postman
13 28 (1.29%) Bitbucket
14 27 (1.25%) Visual Studio
15 26 (1.20%) TeamCity
16 24 (1.11%) Maven
17 21 (0.97%) Cucumber
18 18 (0.83%) Axure RP
19 17 (0.78%) Babel
20 14 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 597 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 485 (22.38%) Finance
3 244 (11.26%) Law
4 177 (8.17%) Front Office
5 175 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 165 (7.61%) Multimedia
7 138 (6.37%) Banking
8 137 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 129 (5.95%) Marketing
10 126 (5.81%) Public Sector
11 77 (3.55%) Investment Banking
12 55 (2.54%) Retail
13 46 (2.12%) Legal
14 45 (2.08%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (1.06%) Advertising
16 23 (1.06%) Games
17 17 (0.78%) Electronics
18 15 (0.69%) Health Technology
19 14 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,200 (55.38%) Developer
2 443 (20.44%) Senior
3 359 (16.57%) Software Engineer
4 248 (11.44%) Senior Developer
5 237 (10.94%) Full-Stack Developer
6 207 (9.55%) Lead
6 207 (9.55%) Software Developer
7 161 (7.43%) Trainee
8 148 (6.83%) .NET Developer
9 127 (5.86%) AWS Engineer
10 121 (5.58%) Python Engineer
11 116 (5.35%) AWS Software Engineer
12 113 (5.21%) Python Software Engineer
13 110 (5.08%) Java Engineer
14 106 (4.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 99 (4.57%) Java Software Engineer
16 97 (4.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 96 (4.43%) Java Developer
18 94 (4.34%) Senior Software Engineer
19 84 (3.88%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 916 (42.27%) HTML
2 835 (38.53%) CSS
3 774 (35.72%) React
4 474 (21.87%) .NET
5 381 (17.58%) Node.js
6 322 (14.86%) AngularJS
7 257 (11.86%) REST
8 241 (11.12%) Vue
9 179 (8.26%) RESTful
10 160 (7.38%) HTML5
11 152 (7.01%) ASP.NET
12 143 (6.60%) JSON
13 132 (6.09%) .NET Core
14 124 (5.72%) Spring
15 120 (5.54%) Pandas
16 119 (5.49%) GraphQL
17 118 (5.45%) NumPy
18 116 (5.35%) SciPy
19 114 (5.26%) .NET Framework
20 110 (5.08%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 172 (7.94%) Fixed Income
2 139 (6.41%) Cloud Native
3 132 (6.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 128 (5.91%) Equities
5 100 (4.61%) Product Ownership
6 67 (3.09%) Hedge funds
7 66 (3.05%) Derivative
8 61 (2.81%) Pricing Data
8 61 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
9 59 (2.72%) Mobile App
10 49 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
11 41 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
12 40 (1.85%) Data Structures
13 39 (1.80%) Algorithms
14 37 (1.71%) Low-Code
15 28 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
16 27 (1.25%) Onboarding
17 25 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
18 22 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.46%) Linux
2 57 (2.63%) Windows
3 31 (1.43%) Unix
4 29 (1.34%) Android
5 27 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.092%) CentOS
9 2 (0.092%) Debian
9 2 (0.092%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.092%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.092%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 990 (45.69%) Agile
2 570 (26.30%) Software Engineering
3 508 (23.44%) CI/CD
4 503 (23.21%) Full-Stack Development
5 494 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
6 444 (20.49%) Mentoring
7 363 (16.75%) DevOps
8 346 (15.97%) User Experience
9 254 (11.72%) Microservices
10 253 (11.68%) Front End Development
11 240 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 226 (10.43%) AI
13 217 (10.01%) Computer Science
14 214 (9.88%) Test Automation
15 213 (9.83%) SDLC
16 207 (9.55%) Scrum
17 194 (8.95%) Asset Management
18 185 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
19 175 (8.08%) Clean Code
20 160 (7.38%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 744 (34.33%) Python
2 700 (32.30%) TypeScript
3 503 (23.21%) C#
4 488 (22.52%) SQL
5 458 (21.14%) Java
6 157 (7.25%) PHP
7 94 (4.34%) R
8 59 (2.72%) PowerShell
9 55 (2.54%) Go
10 34 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 33 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.38%) C++
13 27 (1.25%) VB.NET
14 25 (1.15%) T-SQL
15 22 (1.02%) Ruby
16 20 (0.92%) C
17 17 (0.78%) Bash
18 16 (0.74%) Kotlin
18 16 (0.74%) VBA
19 11 (0.51%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 305 (14.07%) Degree
2 213 (9.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 206 (9.51%) AWS Certification
4 205 (9.46%) Security Cleared
5 186 (8.58%) Azure Certification
6 161 (7.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 136 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 124 (5.72%) SC Cleared
9 53 (2.45%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 21 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 17 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.51%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.42%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.32%) HNC
17 7 (0.32%) HND
18 6 (0.28%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (7.75%) QA
2 149 (6.88%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.58%) GDPR
4 40 (1.85%) WCAG
5 12 (0.55%) SLA
6 10 (0.46%) HL7
7 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.23%) PERC
8 3 (0.14%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.092%) PSD2
9 2 (0.092%) Section 508
10 1 (0.046%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.046%) DICOM
10 1 (0.046%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.046%) PMO
System Software
1 247 (11.40%) Docker
2 23 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) Firmware
7 2 (0.092%) KVM
7 2 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.046%) HDFS
8 1 (0.046%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 191 (8.81%) Kubernetes
2 119 (5.49%) Terraform
3 32 (1.48%) Grafana
4 31 (1.43%) Ansible
4 31 (1.43%) Kibana
5 18 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.37%) Argo
8 6 (0.28%) Functional Safety
8 6 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.14%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.092%) Control-M
10 2 (0.092%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.092%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.092%) Puppet
10 2 (0.092%) vRealize
11 1 (0.046%) cPanel
Vendors
1 485 (22.38%) Microsoft
2 118 (5.45%) Oracle
3 69 (3.18%) Google
4 63 (2.91%) Adobe
4 63 (2.91%) ServiceNow
5 42 (1.94%) Atlassian
6 40 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 30 (1.38%) Splunk
8 27 (1.25%) Dynatrace
9 25 (1.15%) MuleSoft
10 19 (0.88%) SAP
11 18 (0.83%) HubSpot
12 16 (0.74%) Apple
13 15 (0.69%) VMware
14 13 (0.60%) IBM
14 13 (0.60%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.60%) Workday
15 12 (0.55%) Cisco
16 11 (0.51%) Databricks
16 11 (0.51%) DevExpress