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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 29 20
Rank change year-on-year -40 -9 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,197 3,221 8,310
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.38% 7.29% 7.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.27% 23.05% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,779 2,117 6,699
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,250 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,924
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.27% -1.96%

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 16,555 13,971 33,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 31.60% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11,594 9,186 25,567
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,625 £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 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 11 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 11 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 -37 1,971 £60,000 -9.37% 680
UK excluding London -42 1,415 £55,000 -8.33% 594
Work from Home -28 855 £60,000 -9.47% 395
London -39 617 £75,000 -9.09% 218
North of England -27 481 £55,000 -5.98% 159
South East -34 329 £55,000 - 186
North West -29 247 £57,500 -4.17% 99
South West -35 198 £50,000 -13.04% 71
Midlands -53 187 £55,000 - 69
Yorkshire -8 186 £57,500 -8.00% 46
East of England -44 123 £60,000 -9.38% 54
West Midlands -42 108 £56,250 +2.27% 31
East Midlands -38 79 £53,750 -2.27% 38
Scotland -46 52 £50,000 -16.67% 36
North East -17 48 £52,000 +4.00% 14
Wales -35 40 £57,500 +4.55% 19
Northern Ireland -39 4 £57,500 +15.00% 15
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 72 (3.28%) SharePoint
1 72 (3.28%) WordPress
2 50 (2.28%) CMS
3 29 (1.32%) Apache
4 26 (1.18%) Confluence
5 17 (0.77%) IIS
6 11 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (0.41%) Drupal
7 9 (0.41%) JBoss
7 9 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.36%) nginx
8 8 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
9 6 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.18%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.18%) Moodle
11 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.50%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.46%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Blender
8 3 (0.14%) Maya
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
9 2 (0.091%) InDesign
9 2 (0.091%) InVision
10 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.046%) Elementor
10 1 (0.046%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.046%) Trello
10 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.00%) Shopify
3 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.18%) Magento
4 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.091%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.046%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.046%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.046%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 848 (38.60%) AWS
2 844 (38.42%) Azure
3 259 (11.79%) GitHub
4 218 (9.92%) GCP
5 204 (9.29%) Serverless
6 186 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
7 185 (8.42%) Power Platform
8 126 (5.74%) SaaS
9 117 (5.33%) Power Automate
10 105 (4.78%) PowerApps
11 100 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
12 92 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
13 86 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
14 68 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
14 68 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
15 66 (3.00%) Amazon S3
16 52 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
17 50 (2.28%) Azure AI
18 45 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
19 44 (2.00%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 152 (6.92%) Internet
2 40 (1.82%) Broadband
3 18 (0.82%) Firewall
4 17 (0.77%) VPN
5 10 (0.46%) HTTP
6 8 (0.36%) WAN
7 7 (0.32%) Intranet
7 7 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (0.23%) AMQP
9 5 (0.23%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
10 4 (0.18%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.14%) DNS
11 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.14%) MQTT
11 3 (0.14%) SSL
12 2 (0.091%) Multicast
12 2 (0.091%) Network Security
12 2 (0.091%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (8.74%) MongoDB
2 168 (7.65%) SQL Server
3 160 (7.28%) MySQL
4 157 (7.15%) PostgreSQL
5 121 (5.51%) Relational Database
6 112 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 105 (4.78%) NoSQL
8 97 (4.42%) Power BI
9 63 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (1.78%) RDBMS
11 24 (1.09%) Redis
12 23 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.96%) MariaDB
14 20 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (0.73%) GIS
16 15 (0.68%) Big Data
16 15 (0.68%) DynamoDB
17 14 (0.64%) BigQuery
18 13 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
19 12 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 431 (19.62%) Git
2 116 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 77 (3.50%) Cypress.io
4 76 (3.46%) JIRA
5 71 (3.23%) GitLab
6 33 (1.50%) Selenium
7 32 (1.46%) JUnit
8 31 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 29 (1.32%) Maven
10 24 (1.09%) Postman
11 20 (0.91%) Vite
12 19 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 18 (0.82%) Jaeger
13 18 (0.82%) Subversion
14 17 (0.77%) Mockito
15 15 (0.68%) CircleCI
16 14 (0.64%) Eclipse
16 14 (0.64%) SonarQube
17 13 (0.59%) Balsamiq
17 13 (0.59%) JMeter
General
1 527 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 305 (13.88%) Finance
3 173 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 119 (5.42%) Multimedia
6 117 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 82 (3.73%) Law
8 78 (3.55%) Retail
9 75 (3.41%) Marketing
10 64 (2.91%) Front Office
11 49 (2.23%) Banking
11 49 (2.23%) Legal
12 39 (1.78%) Manufacturing
13 29 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.09%) Automotive
15 23 (1.05%) Legal Technology
15 23 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.00%) Health Technology
17 21 (0.96%) Advertising
17 21 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,174 (53.44%) Developer
2 422 (19.21%) Senior
3 360 (16.39%) Software Engineer
4 303 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 279 (12.70%) Lead
6 251 (11.42%) Senior Developer
7 192 (8.74%) Software Developer
8 136 (6.19%) .NET Developer
9 129 (5.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 123 (5.60%) Lead Developer
11 119 (5.42%) Trainee
12 108 (4.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 100 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
14 88 (4.01%) Lead Software Engineer
14 88 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
15 87 (3.96%) React Developer
16 78 (3.55%) Java Developer
17 70 (3.19%) Architect
18 65 (2.96%) Lead Software Developer
19 59 (2.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 809 (36.82%) React
2 670 (30.50%) HTML
3 643 (29.27%) CSS
4 495 (22.53%) .NET
5 479 (21.80%) Node.js
6 258 (11.74%) REST
7 219 (9.97%) AngularJS
8 192 (8.74%) RESTful
9 181 (8.24%) .NET Core
10 178 (8.10%) Vue
11 170 (7.74%) ASP.NET
12 127 (5.78%) ASP.NET Core
13 111 (5.05%) JSON
14 106 (4.82%) Spring
15 105 (4.78%) Blazor
15 105 (4.78%) HTML5
16 100 (4.55%) jQuery
17 89 (4.05%) CSS3
17 89 (4.05%) Kafka
18 88 (4.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 155 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 102 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 76 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 62 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
7 61 (2.78%) Fixed Income
8 58 (2.64%) Onboarding
9 47 (2.14%) Mobile App
10 45 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 29 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 27 (1.23%) e-Learning
14 22 (1.00%) Data Structures
15 20 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
16 19 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (0.82%) Derivative
18 16 (0.73%) Equities
18 16 (0.73%) Virtual Team
19 15 (0.68%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 131 (5.96%) Linux
2 53 (2.41%) Windows
3 36 (1.64%) Unix
4 20 (0.91%) Android
5 11 (0.50%) CentOS
5 11 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.23%) Debian
10 2 (0.091%) Rocky
11 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 861 (39.19%) Agile
2 798 (36.32%) Full-Stack Development
3 595 (27.08%) CI/CD
4 560 (25.49%) Software Engineering
5 507 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 498 (22.67%) DevOps
7 468 (21.30%) Mentoring
8 379 (17.25%) AI
9 350 (15.93%) Microservices
10 287 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 265 (12.06%) Test Automation
12 244 (11.11%) Containerisation
13 239 (10.88%) User Experience
14 228 (10.38%) Scrum
15 215 (9.79%) Web Development
16 211 (9.60%) Front End Development
17 198 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
18 195 (8.88%) Computer Science
19 180 (8.19%) Machine Learning
20 174 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 749 (34.09%) Python
2 687 (31.27%) TypeScript
3 554 (25.22%) C#
4 550 (25.03%) SQL
5 472 (21.48%) Java
6 195 (8.88%) PHP
7 90 (4.10%) C++
8 89 (4.05%) Go
8 89 (4.05%) R
9 73 (3.32%) PowerShell
10 53 (2.41%) Bash
11 38 (1.73%) Ruby
12 24 (1.09%) Apex Code
13 23 (1.05%) PL/SQL
14 22 (1.00%) Rust
15 21 (0.96%) C
16 17 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.73%) Bicep
17 16 (0.73%) Perl
17 16 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 290 (13.20%) Degree
2 229 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 159 (7.24%) AWS Certification
4 157 (7.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 146 (6.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 134 (6.10%) SC Cleared
7 130 (5.92%) Azure Certification
8 123 (5.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 48 (2.18%) DV Cleared
10 23 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.36%) PhD
17 6 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 3 (0.14%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (7.01%) Accessibility
2 136 (6.19%) QA
3 35 (1.59%) WCAG
4 31 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.09%) GDPR
6 20 (0.91%) SLA
7 13 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.36%) HL7
9 7 (0.32%) GRC
9 7 (0.32%) PERC
10 5 (0.23%) IEC 61131
11 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.14%) NIST
12 3 (0.14%) PMO
13 2 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.091%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.091%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.046%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.046%) NCSC
System Software
1 313 (14.25%) Docker
2 13 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.27%) KVM
Systems Management
1 271 (12.34%) Kubernetes
2 185 (8.42%) Terraform
3 59 (2.69%) Ansible
4 46 (2.09%) Grafana
5 36 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.91%) Argo
6 20 (0.91%) Kibana
7 18 (0.82%) Kustomize
8 14 (0.64%) Podman
9 11 (0.50%) logstash
10 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.27%) Puppet
12 4 (0.18%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.18%) Nagios
12 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.14%) Plesk
13 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.091%) MOM
14 2 (0.091%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.091%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 497 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 110 (5.01%) Google
3 52 (2.37%) Adobe
4 49 (2.23%) Oracle
5 42 (1.91%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 24 (1.09%) OpenAI
7 24 (1.09%) Splunk
8 22 (1.00%) HubSpot
9 20 (0.91%) MuleSoft
10 19 (0.86%) Red Hat
11 16 (0.73%) SAP
12 15 (0.68%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.64%) Palo Alto
14 13 (0.59%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.55%) Pega
15 12 (0.55%) VMware
16 10 (0.46%) Apple
17 9 (0.41%) Databricks
18 8 (0.36%) Sony