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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -25 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,491 5,398 5,339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.06% 7.81% 9.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.59% 24.70% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,568 3,344 4,732
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,250 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £122,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 12,096 21,855 22,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.56% 31.62% 40.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,055 13,085 18,572
10th Percentile £32,694 £37,500 £39,303
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -22 2,248 £62,500 -3.85% 2,136
UK excluding London -24 1,558 £55,000 - 1,787
Work from Home -10 1,423 £65,000 -10.34% 1,149
London -19 820 £85,750 -4.72% 792
North of England -3 601 £53,500 -2.73% 430
North West +2 421 £57,500 +9.52% 258
South East -70 275 £57,500 - 676
Midlands -25 267 £50,000 -4.76% 228
West Midlands -21 146 £47,500 -13.64% 132
Yorkshire -22 144 £53,000 -3.64% 119
South West -32 141 £47,500 -13.64% 178
East Midlands -20 122 £55,000 +15.79% 93
Scotland -32 122 £44,000 -20.00% 68
East of England -49 121 £55,000 -8.33% 152
North East -21 38 £50,000 -16.67% 58
Wales -37 29 £60,000 +77.78% 58
Northern Ireland -17 6 £71,250 +54.05% 14
Isle of Man +9 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
1 187 (7.51%) Confluence
2 149 (5.98%) Apache Airflow
3 95 (3.81%) Apache
4 63 (2.53%) CMS
5 59 (2.37%) SharePoint
6 47 (1.89%) IIS
7 46 (1.85%) WordPress
8 14 (0.56%) Apache Solr
8 14 (0.56%) Headless CMS
9 12 (0.48%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.36%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.32%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.32%) Drupal
12 8 (0.32%) nginx
13 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.20%) Apache Spark
15 4 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
16 3 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 34 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.00%) Adobe XD
3 23 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.76%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 11 (0.44%) Photoshop
7 10 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.40%) Sketch
8 8 (0.32%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.28%) MadCap Flare
10 6 (0.24%) InVision
11 3 (0.12%) Elementor
11 3 (0.12%) Simulink
12 2 (0.080%) InDesign
12 2 (0.080%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 53 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.04%) Shopify
3 20 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.48%) Sprinklr
5 10 (0.40%) Magento
6 8 (0.32%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite
7 7 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.20%) PlanetPress Connect
9 4 (0.16%) Sage 1000
10 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.080%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.080%) Maximo
11 2 (0.080%) MFGPRO
11 2 (0.080%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.080%) Primavera
11 2 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
12 1 (0.040%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,196 (48.01%) AWS
2 1,075 (43.16%) Azure
3 554 (22.24%) GCP
4 203 (8.15%) GitHub
5 191 (7.67%) Serverless
6 153 (6.14%) dbt
7 144 (5.78%) SaaS
8 132 (5.30%) Power Platform
9 119 (4.78%) Power Automate
10 101 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
11 88 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
12 86 (3.45%) PowerApps
13 77 (3.09%) Snowflake
14 71 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
15 65 (2.61%) Figma
16 63 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
16 63 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
17 61 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
18 55 (2.21%) Amazon S3
19 50 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.09%) Internet
2 17 (0.68%) HTTP
3 15 (0.60%) Broadband
4 9 (0.36%) MQTT
5 8 (0.32%) WPA
6 7 (0.28%) DMARC
6 7 (0.28%) HTTPS
6 7 (0.28%) SSL
7 6 (0.24%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.24%) Firewall
7 6 (0.24%) Modbus
7 6 (0.24%) VPN
7 6 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.20%) SSH
9 4 (0.16%) AMQP
10 3 (0.12%) DNS
10 3 (0.12%) Intranet
10 3 (0.12%) Network Security
10 3 (0.12%) SMS
11 1 (0.040%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (19.03%) SQL Server
2 208 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
3 179 (7.19%) MySQL
4 156 (6.26%) Amazon Athena
5 152 (6.10%) Apache Iceberg
6 148 (5.94%) Apache Arrow
6 148 (5.94%) Dremio
7 127 (5.10%) MongoDB
8 108 (4.34%) Relational Database
9 97 (3.89%) NoSQL
10 81 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
11 76 (3.05%) Power BI
12 73 (2.93%) Apache Ignite
12 73 (2.93%) Data Lake
13 48 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (1.28%) RDBMS
15 30 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 25 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 24 (0.96%) Redis
18 23 (0.92%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 428 (17.18%) Git
2 376 (15.09%) JIRA
3 292 (11.72%) Selenium
4 285 (11.44%) GitLab
5 273 (10.96%) Bitbucket
6 268 (10.76%) Maven
7 261 (10.48%) Cucumber
8 260 (10.44%) SonarQube
9 252 (10.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 106 (4.26%) Jenkins
11 77 (3.09%) Cypress.io
12 59 (2.37%) webpack
13 52 (2.09%) JUnit
14 42 (1.69%) JMeter
15 32 (1.28%) Vite
16 30 (1.20%) Mockito
17 28 (1.12%) Postman
17 28 (1.12%) TeamCity
18 27 (1.08%) Visual Studio
19 18 (0.72%) Axure RP
General
1 767 (30.79%) Finance
2 553 (22.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 540 (21.68%) Social Skills
4 400 (16.06%) Banking
5 233 (9.35%) Law
6 206 (8.27%) Front Office
7 178 (7.15%) Investment Banking
8 165 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
9 144 (5.78%) Retail
10 124 (4.98%) Marketing
11 119 (4.78%) Public Sector
12 90 (3.61%) Corporate Banking
13 74 (2.97%) Multimedia
14 46 (1.85%) Manufacturing
15 42 (1.69%) Legal
16 29 (1.16%) Games
17 27 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (1.04%) Advertising
19 18 (0.72%) Electronics
20 16 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,130 (45.36%) Developer
2 802 (32.20%) Software Engineer
3 613 (24.61%) Senior
4 287 (11.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 235 (9.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 232 (9.31%) Senior Developer
7 199 (7.99%) Lead
8 159 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
8 159 (6.38%) Software Developer
9 148 (5.94%) AWS Software Engineer
10 144 (5.78%) Python Engineer
11 143 (5.74%) .NET Developer
12 137 (5.50%) Python Software Engineer
13 129 (5.18%) Java Engineer
14 125 (5.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 121 (4.86%) Java Software Engineer
16 105 (4.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 91 (3.65%) Java Developer
18 88 (3.53%) AWS Developer
19 85 (3.41%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,091 (43.80%) HTML
2 994 (39.90%) React
3 966 (38.78%) CSS
4 637 (25.57%) .NET
5 565 (22.68%) Node.js
6 362 (14.53%) Spring
7 359 (14.41%) REST
8 346 (13.89%) Spring Boot
9 320 (12.85%) AngularJS
10 317 (12.73%) Redux
11 316 (12.69%) Kafka
12 277 (11.12%) RESTful
13 253 (10.16%) HTML5
13 253 (10.16%) Vue
14 251 (10.08%) JPA
15 202 (8.11%) CSS3
15 202 (8.11%) Hibernate
16 169 (6.78%) Jest
17 158 (6.34%) ASP.NET
18 153 (6.14%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 336 (13.49%) Product Ownership
2 285 (11.44%) Enterprise Software
3 243 (9.76%) Self-Motivation
4 203 (8.15%) Fixed Income
5 199 (7.99%) Linux Command Line
6 178 (7.15%) Cyberattack
7 169 (6.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 165 (6.62%) Equities
9 126 (5.06%) Cloud Native
10 81 (3.25%) Hedge funds
11 75 (3.01%) Derivative
12 73 (2.93%) Pricing Data
13 57 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
14 55 (2.21%) Mobile App
15 36 (1.45%) Algorithms
16 34 (1.36%) Low-Code
17 28 (1.12%) Data Structures
18 24 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
19 22 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
19 22 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 325 (13.05%) Linux
2 67 (2.69%) Windows
3 35 (1.41%) Unix
4 27 (1.08%) Android
5 26 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.080%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.080%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.040%) CentOS
11 1 (0.040%) Debian
11 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,430 (57.41%) Agile
2 1,001 (40.18%) Software Engineering
3 725 (29.10%) CI/CD
4 721 (28.94%) Full-Stack Development
5 683 (27.42%) Microservices
6 605 (24.29%) User Experience
7 601 (24.13%) DevOps
8 600 (24.09%) Mentoring
9 489 (19.63%) Front End Development
10 463 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
11 462 (18.55%) SDLC
12 456 (18.31%) Test Automation
13 383 (15.38%) Scrum
14 380 (15.25%) Containerisation
15 359 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 328 (13.17%) Clean Code
17 327 (13.13%) Performance Optimisation
18 313 (12.57%) TDD
19 301 (12.08%) Machine Learning
20 260 (10.44%) AI
Programming Languages
1 921 (36.97%) Java
2 861 (34.56%) Python
3 848 (34.04%) TypeScript
4 790 (31.71%) SQL
5 536 (21.52%) C#
6 260 (10.44%) C++
7 233 (9.35%) Rust
8 230 (9.23%) Go
9 199 (7.99%) PHP
10 93 (3.73%) R
11 67 (2.69%) Ruby
12 63 (2.53%) C
12 63 (2.53%) PowerShell
13 52 (2.09%) MATLAB
14 49 (1.97%) Dart
15 33 (1.32%) VB.NET
16 32 (1.28%) Shell Script
17 30 (1.20%) PL/SQL
18 29 (1.16%) T-SQL
19 23 (0.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 355 (14.25%) Security Cleared
2 327 (13.13%) Degree
3 285 (11.44%) AWS Certification
4 218 (8.75%) DV Cleared
5 197 (7.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 190 (7.63%) AWS Certified Developer
7 169 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 116 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 112 (4.50%) SC Cleared
10 87 (3.49%) Azure Certification
11 68 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 26 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 16 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
14 14 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.40%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.28%) HNC
16 7 (0.28%) HND
16 7 (0.28%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.24%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 401 (16.10%) QA
2 224 (8.99%) Accessibility
3 55 (2.21%) GDPR
4 40 (1.61%) WCAG
5 13 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.44%) HL7
7 10 (0.40%) SLA
8 5 (0.20%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.080%) PERC
9 2 (0.080%) PMO
9 2 (0.080%) PSD2
9 2 (0.080%) Section 508
10 1 (0.040%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.040%) DICOM
10 1 (0.040%) HIPAA
System Software
1 479 (19.23%) Docker
2 27 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.080%) Firmware
6 2 (0.080%) KVM
7 1 (0.040%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 417 (16.74%) Kubernetes
2 106 (4.26%) Terraform
3 34 (1.36%) Ansible
4 33 (1.32%) Kibana
5 28 (1.12%) Grafana
6 27 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.72%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.24%) Functional Safety
9 6 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.20%) Argo
11 4 (0.16%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.16%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.080%) Control-M
12 2 (0.080%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.080%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.080%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.080%) Puppet
13 1 (0.040%) Istio
13 1 (0.040%) Nagios
Vendors
1 412 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 247 (9.92%) Solace
3 119 (4.78%) Oracle
4 67 (2.69%) ServiceNow
5 62 (2.49%) Google
6 60 (2.41%) Adobe
7 39 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 33 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 33 (1.32%) Splunk
9 29 (1.16%) Dynatrace
10 21 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 18 (0.72%) SAP
12 17 (0.68%) Cisco
12 17 (0.68%) HubSpot
13 15 (0.60%) Apple
14 14 (0.56%) VMware
15 13 (0.52%) DevExpress
15 13 (0.52%) IBM
16 12 (0.48%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.44%) Rollbar