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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 31 18
Rank change year-on-year -36 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,299 3,192 8,367
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.41% 6.90% 7.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.39% 22.73% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,877 2,099 6,680
10th Percentile £33,750 £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 £86,250 £77,660
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £108,750
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 17,170 14,043 33,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.98% 30.37% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 12,189 9,299 25,323
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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 £77,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 28 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 28 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 -38 2,041 £60,000 -9.39% 726
UK excluding London -38 1,512 £55,000 -8.33% 639
Work from Home -24 968 £60,000 -9.56% 361
London -43 613 £75,000 -9.09% 242
North of England -25 491 £55,000 -5.98% 144
South East -26 374 £55,000 +4.76% 209
North West -25 257 £57,500 -4.17% 80
South West -34 207 £50,000 -13.04% 76
Midlands -62 183 £55,000 - 88
Yorkshire -1 180 £57,500 -8.00% 47
East of England -35 136 £60,000 -9.38% 58
West Midlands -46 102 £55,000 - 46
East Midlands -42 81 £53,750 -17.31% 42
Scotland -32 64 £55,000 -12.00% 38
North East -13 54 £52,000 +1.46% 18
Wales -19 51 £55,000 -8.33% 21
Northern Ireland -38 4 £57,500 +4.55% 17
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 82 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 75 (3.26%) WordPress
3 52 (2.26%) CMS
4 31 (1.35%) Apache
5 30 (1.30%) Confluence
6 21 (0.91%) IIS
7 13 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.43%) Umbraco
9 9 (0.39%) Drupal
9 9 (0.39%) JBoss
9 9 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (0.26%) ColdFusion
11 6 (0.26%) Headless CMS
11 6 (0.26%) nginx
12 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.17%) Moodle
12 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.43%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.39%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.13%) Blender
8 3 (0.13%) Elementor
8 3 (0.13%) Maya
8 3 (0.13%) Sketch
9 2 (0.087%) InDesign
9 2 (0.087%) InVision
10 1 (0.043%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.043%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.96%) Shopify
3 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.17%) Magento
4 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.087%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.087%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.043%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.043%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.043%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 895 (38.93%) Azure
2 844 (36.71%) AWS
3 231 (10.05%) GCP
4 229 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
4 229 (9.96%) GitHub
5 207 (9.00%) Serverless
6 205 (8.92%) Power Platform
7 140 (6.09%) SaaS
8 135 (5.87%) Power Automate
9 121 (5.26%) PowerApps
10 106 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
11 90 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
12 88 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 82 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
14 76 (3.31%) Azure AI
15 69 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
16 66 (2.87%) Amazon S3
17 61 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
18 48 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
18 48 (2.09%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 118 (5.13%) Internet
2 39 (1.70%) Broadband
3 19 (0.83%) Firewall
4 14 (0.61%) VPN
5 10 (0.43%) Intranet
6 9 (0.39%) HTTP
7 8 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
7 8 (0.35%) WAN
8 7 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.26%) AMQP
9 6 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.22%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.17%) DNS
11 4 (0.17%) MQTT
11 4 (0.17%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.13%) Network Security
13 2 (0.087%) Multicast
13 2 (0.087%) SSH
13 2 (0.087%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (10.96%) MongoDB
2 180 (7.83%) SQL Server
3 173 (7.53%) MySQL
4 169 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 161 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
6 120 (5.22%) Relational Database
7 102 (4.44%) Power BI
8 100 (4.35%) NoSQL
9 91 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
10 31 (1.35%) Redis
11 29 (1.26%) RDBMS
12 26 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 23 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.00%) MariaDB
14 18 (0.78%) Big Data
15 16 (0.70%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.65%) GIS
17 14 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
18 13 (0.57%) Tableau
19 12 (0.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 404 (17.57%) Git
2 123 (5.35%) Jenkins
3 85 (3.70%) JIRA
4 81 (3.52%) Cypress.io
5 74 (3.22%) GitLab
6 36 (1.57%) JUnit
7 35 (1.52%) Selenium
8 30 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 30 (1.30%) Maven
9 26 (1.13%) Postman
10 22 (0.96%) Subversion
11 19 (0.83%) Eclipse
12 18 (0.78%) Vite
13 17 (0.74%) CircleCI
13 17 (0.74%) Mockito
13 17 (0.74%) TeamCity
14 15 (0.65%) SonarQube
15 14 (0.61%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.57%) JMeter
17 12 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 551 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 329 (14.31%) Finance
3 177 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (6.92%) Public Sector
5 108 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 90 (3.91%) Retail
7 82 (3.57%) Marketing
8 78 (3.39%) Law
9 75 (3.26%) Multimedia
10 63 (2.74%) Front Office
11 51 (2.22%) Legal
12 46 (2.00%) Banking
13 40 (1.74%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.09%) Legal Technology
16 24 (1.04%) Advertising
17 23 (1.00%) Automotive
17 23 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
17 23 (1.00%) Health Technology
18 21 (0.91%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,259 (54.76%) Developer
2 434 (18.88%) Senior
3 374 (16.27%) Software Engineer
4 318 (13.83%) Full-Stack Developer
5 291 (12.66%) Lead
6 250 (10.87%) Senior Developer
7 200 (8.70%) .NET Developer
8 179 (7.79%) Software Developer
9 135 (5.87%) Lead Developer
10 129 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 116 (5.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 95 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 92 (4.00%) JavaScript Developer
14 91 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
15 86 (3.74%) React Developer
16 78 (3.39%) Java Developer
17 75 (3.26%) Trainee
18 73 (3.18%) Lead Software Developer
19 72 (3.13%) Architect
20 65 (2.83%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 878 (38.19%) React
2 658 (28.62%) HTML
3 625 (27.19%) CSS
4 569 (24.75%) .NET
5 525 (22.84%) Node.js
6 261 (11.35%) REST
7 243 (10.57%) .NET Core
8 240 (10.44%) ASP.NET
9 233 (10.13%) RESTful
10 222 (9.66%) AngularJS
11 195 (8.48%) ASP.NET Core
12 187 (8.13%) Vue
13 163 (7.09%) Blazor
14 115 (5.00%) JSON
15 109 (4.74%) jQuery
16 108 (4.70%) HTML5
17 104 (4.52%) Spring
18 103 (4.48%) .NET Framework
19 99 (4.31%) ASP.NET Web API
20 91 (3.96%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 174 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 98 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 87 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 73 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
5 71 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 69 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 69 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
7 59 (2.57%) Fixed Income
8 54 (2.35%) Mobile App
9 44 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.65%) Low-Code
11 29 (1.26%) Management Information System
12 26 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 26 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 23 (1.00%) e-Learning
14 22 (0.96%) Social Media
15 20 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
16 19 (0.83%) Algorithms
16 19 (0.83%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.74%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.09%) Linux
2 70 (3.04%) Windows
3 33 (1.44%) Unix
4 26 (1.13%) Android
5 14 (0.61%) CentOS
6 12 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.30%) Debian
10 2 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.087%) Rocky
11 1 (0.043%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.043%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.043%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 961 (41.80%) Agile
2 892 (38.80%) Full-Stack Development
3 635 (27.62%) CI/CD
4 591 (25.71%) Software Engineering
5 563 (24.49%) DevOps
6 538 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
7 437 (19.01%) AI
8 432 (18.79%) Mentoring
9 402 (17.49%) Microservices
10 317 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 288 (12.53%) Test Automation
12 245 (10.66%) Scrum
13 240 (10.44%) Containerisation
14 226 (9.83%) User Experience
15 225 (9.79%) Web Development
16 217 (9.44%) Front End Development
17 212 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
18 210 (9.13%) Computer Science
19 208 (9.05%) Machine Learning
20 186 (8.09%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 733 (31.88%) TypeScript
2 721 (31.36%) Python
3 644 (28.01%) C#
4 625 (27.19%) SQL
5 475 (20.66%) Java
6 205 (8.92%) PHP
7 109 (4.74%) C++
8 94 (4.09%) Go
9 77 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 64 (2.78%) R
11 52 (2.26%) Bash
12 45 (1.96%) Ruby
13 25 (1.09%) Rust
14 24 (1.04%) Apex Code
15 21 (0.91%) C
16 20 (0.87%) Perl
16 20 (0.87%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.78%) Bicep
18 17 (0.74%) Kotlin
18 17 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 312 (13.57%) Degree
2 240 (10.44%) Security Cleared
3 173 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 144 (6.26%) SC Cleared
5 106 (4.61%) AWS Certification
6 97 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 83 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 81 (3.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 40 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.30%) PhD
18 5 (0.22%) HND
19 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
20 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (7.31%) Accessibility
2 135 (5.87%) QA
3 39 (1.70%) WCAG
4 33 (1.44%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.09%) GDPR
6 22 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.87%) SLA
8 7 (0.30%) GRC
8 7 (0.30%) HL7
8 7 (0.30%) PERC
9 5 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.22%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.17%) NIST
11 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.13%) NCSC
11 3 (0.13%) PMO
12 2 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 321 (13.96%) Docker
2 15 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 271 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 192 (8.35%) Terraform
3 60 (2.61%) Ansible
4 47 (2.04%) Grafana
5 31 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.04%) Kibana
7 15 (0.65%) logstash
8 14 (0.61%) Argo
8 14 (0.61%) Podman
9 12 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.35%) Puppet
11 6 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.13%) Nagios
12 3 (0.13%) Plesk
13 2 (0.087%) MOM
13 2 (0.087%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.087%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 534 (23.23%) Microsoft
2 118 (5.13%) Google
3 53 (2.31%) Adobe
4 44 (1.91%) Oracle
5 40 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 38 (1.65%) ServiceNow
7 27 (1.17%) Splunk
8 22 (0.96%) OpenAI
9 21 (0.91%) Red Hat
10 19 (0.83%) HubSpot
10 19 (0.83%) MuleSoft
11 17 (0.74%) Apple
12 15 (0.65%) Dynatrace
12 15 (0.65%) Facebook
12 15 (0.65%) SAP
12 15 (0.65%) Sony
12 15 (0.65%) VMware
12 15 (0.65%) Yahoo!
13 14 (0.61%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.48%) Pega