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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -29 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,268 5,233 5,115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.52% 7.73% 9.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.67% 24.48% 23.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,661 3,208 4,529
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +5.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £105,750
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 12,150 21,377 21,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.24% 31.58% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,380 12,693 17,852
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,511
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 6 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 6 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 -27 2,068 £60,000 -7.69% 2,986
UK excluding London -38 1,326 £52,500 -4.55% 2,391
Work from Home -18 1,086 £65,000 -9.72% 1,557
London -19 827 £85,000 -5.56% 1,251
North of England -15 453 £52,250 -0.48% 525
South East -56 276 £55,000 -4.35% 987
North West -26 246 £55,000 +4.76% 344
Midlands -37 223 £50,000 -4.76% 262
Yorkshire -12 166 £50,500 -8.18% 138
South West -29 155 £45,500 -17.27% 222
West Midlands -23 137 £47,500 -13.47% 145
East of England -38 108 £55,000 -8.33% 173
East Midlands -24 87 £55,000 +10.00% 112
Scotland -48 74 £30,500 -44.55% 79
North East -24 43 £47,500 -20.83% 47
Wales -32 34 £60,000 +84.62% 73
Northern Ireland -26 6 £71,250 +50.00% 36
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
1 131 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (3.84%) Apache
3 66 (2.91%) CMS
4 60 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 60 (2.65%) WordPress
5 40 (1.76%) IIS
6 29 (1.28%) Confluence
7 15 (0.66%) Headless CMS
8 14 (0.62%) Apache Solr
9 12 (0.53%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.35%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.35%) Drupal
12 7 (0.31%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.26%) nginx
13 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.22%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.18%) Apache Spark
15 4 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.13%) Appian
Applications
1 29 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.19%) Adobe XD
3 24 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 16 (0.71%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.53%) Photoshop
7 11 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.40%) Sketch
9 7 (0.31%) MadCap Flare
10 5 (0.22%) InVision
11 3 (0.13%) Elementor
11 3 (0.13%) InDesign
11 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.13%) Simulink
12 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.044%) Trello
12 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 50 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.32%) Shopify
3 20 (0.88%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.53%) Sprinklr
5 11 (0.49%) Magento
6 8 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
7 6 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 5 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.22%) PlanetPress Connect
9 4 (0.18%) Sage 1000
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.13%) Primavera
10 3 (0.13%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.088%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.088%) Maximo
11 2 (0.088%) MFGPRO
11 2 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
12 1 (0.044%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 930 (41.01%) AWS
2 827 (36.46%) Azure
3 270 (11.90%) GCP
4 269 (11.86%) GitHub
5 201 (8.86%) Serverless
6 145 (6.39%) SaaS
7 135 (5.95%) dbt
8 133 (5.86%) Power Platform
9 116 (5.11%) Power Automate
10 102 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
11 89 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
12 85 (3.75%) PowerApps
13 69 (3.04%) Snowflake
14 68 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
14 68 (3.00%) Figma
15 67 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
16 64 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
17 59 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
18 58 (2.56%) Amazon S3
19 47 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 132 (5.82%) Internet
2 18 (0.79%) Broadband
3 15 (0.66%) HTTP
4 9 (0.40%) MQTT
5 8 (0.35%) WPA
6 7 (0.31%) Firewall
6 7 (0.31%) VPN
7 6 (0.26%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.26%) Modbus
7 6 (0.26%) SSH
7 6 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.22%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.18%) AMQP
9 4 (0.18%) DMARC
9 4 (0.18%) SSL
10 3 (0.13%) DNS
10 3 (0.13%) Intranet
10 3 (0.13%) Network Security
10 3 (0.13%) SMS
11 1 (0.044%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (11.33%) SQL Server
2 194 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
3 179 (7.89%) MySQL
4 138 (6.08%) Amazon Athena
5 134 (5.91%) Apache Iceberg
6 130 (5.73%) Apache Arrow
6 130 (5.73%) Dremio
7 122 (5.38%) MongoDB
8 109 (4.81%) Relational Database
9 96 (4.23%) NoSQL
10 78 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
10 78 (3.44%) Power BI
11 65 (2.87%) Apache Ignite
11 65 (2.87%) Data Lake
12 48 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 29 (1.28%) RDBMS
14 28 (1.23%) DynamoDB
15 24 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 24 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 23 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 482 (21.25%) Git
2 165 (7.28%) JIRA
3 101 (4.45%) Jenkins
4 84 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 79 (3.48%) Selenium
6 75 (3.31%) GitLab
7 63 (2.78%) Bitbucket
8 59 (2.60%) Maven
9 57 (2.51%) webpack
10 54 (2.38%) Cucumber
11 51 (2.25%) JUnit
12 49 (2.16%) SonarQube
13 41 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
14 39 (1.72%) JMeter
15 31 (1.37%) Vite
16 30 (1.32%) Mockito
17 28 (1.23%) Postman
18 27 (1.19%) Visual Studio
19 26 (1.15%) TeamCity
20 17 (0.75%) Axure RP
General
1 584 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 534 (23.54%) Finance
3 239 (10.54%) Law
4 232 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 193 (8.51%) Front Office
6 177 (7.80%) Banking
7 175 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
8 130 (5.73%) Marketing
9 128 (5.64%) Multimedia
10 126 (5.56%) Public Sector
11 117 (5.16%) Investment Banking
12 91 (4.01%) Retail
13 46 (2.03%) Manufacturing
14 45 (1.98%) Legal
15 36 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
16 27 (1.19%) Games
16 27 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.10%) Advertising
18 16 (0.71%) Electronics
19 14 (0.62%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,176 (51.85%) Developer
2 513 (22.62%) Senior
3 467 (20.59%) Software Engineer
4 246 (10.85%) Senior Developer
5 232 (10.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 206 (9.08%) Lead
7 187 (8.25%) Software Developer
8 164 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 148 (6.53%) .NET Developer
10 142 (6.26%) AWS Engineer
11 130 (5.73%) AWS Software Engineer
11 130 (5.73%) Python Engineer
12 123 (5.42%) Python Software Engineer
12 123 (5.42%) Trainee
13 119 (5.25%) Java Engineer
14 112 (4.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 109 (4.81%) Java Software Engineer
16 108 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 93 (4.10%) Java Developer
18 83 (3.66%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 958 (42.24%) HTML
2 830 (36.60%) CSS
3 803 (35.41%) React
4 541 (23.85%) .NET
5 447 (19.71%) Node.js
6 326 (14.37%) AngularJS
7 295 (13.01%) REST
8 251 (11.07%) Vue
9 221 (9.74%) RESTful
10 196 (8.64%) HTML5
11 158 (6.97%) Spring
12 155 (6.83%) ASP.NET
13 146 (6.44%) JSON
14 144 (6.35%) CSS3
15 137 (6.04%) Spring Boot
16 134 (5.91%) Pandas
17 132 (5.82%) NumPy
18 130 (5.73%) SciPy
19 129 (5.69%) .NET Core
20 118 (5.20%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 187 (8.25%) Fixed Income
2 148 (6.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 145 (6.39%) Equities
4 133 (5.86%) Cloud Native
5 129 (5.69%) Product Ownership
6 126 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
7 85 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
8 76 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
9 73 (3.22%) Hedge funds
10 69 (3.04%) Derivative
11 65 (2.87%) Pricing Data
12 63 (2.78%) Cyberattack
13 59 (2.60%) Mobile App
14 51 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
15 39 (1.72%) Algorithms
16 38 (1.68%) Data Structures
16 38 (1.68%) Low-Code
17 25 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
17 25 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
17 25 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 210 (9.26%) Linux
2 62 (2.73%) Windows
3 36 (1.59%) Unix
4 28 (1.23%) Android
5 26 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 26 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.088%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.088%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.088%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.044%) CentOS
9 1 (0.044%) Debian
9 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,103 (48.63%) Agile
2 681 (30.03%) Software Engineering
3 533 (23.50%) CI/CD
4 526 (23.19%) Full-Stack Development
5 501 (22.09%) Mentoring
6 485 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
7 444 (19.58%) User Experience
8 399 (17.59%) DevOps
9 352 (15.52%) Microservices
10 291 (12.83%) Front End Development
11 270 (11.90%) Scrum
12 269 (11.86%) AI
13 255 (11.24%) Computer Science
14 253 (11.16%) SDLC
14 253 (11.16%) Test Automation
15 224 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 204 (8.99%) Asset Management
17 187 (8.25%) Machine Learning
18 179 (7.89%) Investment Management
19 175 (7.72%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 811 (35.76%) Python
2 798 (35.19%) TypeScript
3 598 (26.37%) Java
4 586 (25.84%) SQL
5 553 (24.38%) C#
6 205 (9.04%) PHP
7 144 (6.35%) C++
8 125 (5.51%) R
9 119 (5.25%) Rust
10 118 (5.20%) Go
11 69 (3.04%) Ruby
12 67 (2.95%) C
13 57 (2.51%) PowerShell
14 52 (2.29%) MATLAB
15 49 (2.16%) Dart
16 34 (1.50%) Shell Script
17 32 (1.41%) PL/SQL
18 30 (1.32%) VB.NET
19 27 (1.19%) T-SQL
20 20 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 343 (15.12%) Degree
2 255 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 229 (10.10%) AWS Certification
4 179 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 171 (7.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 144 (6.35%) Azure Certification
7 123 (5.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 119 (5.25%) SC Cleared
9 109 (4.81%) DV Cleared
10 84 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 75 (3.31%) AWS Certified Developer
12 25 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
14 16 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (0.44%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.35%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.31%) HNC
17 7 (0.31%) HND
18 6 (0.26%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (8.64%) QA
2 175 (7.72%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.47%) GDPR
4 39 (1.72%) WCAG
5 11 (0.49%) SLA
6 10 (0.44%) HL7
7 8 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.18%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.18%) PERC
9 2 (0.088%) PMO
9 2 (0.088%) PSD2
9 2 (0.088%) Section 508
10 1 (0.044%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.044%) DICOM
10 1 (0.044%) HIPAA
System Software
1 277 (12.21%) Docker
2 25 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.088%) Firmware
6 2 (0.088%) KVM
7 1 (0.044%) HDFS
7 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 217 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 115 (5.07%) Terraform
3 31 (1.37%) Ansible
3 31 (1.37%) Kibana
4 30 (1.32%) Grafana
5 21 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.26%) Functional Safety
8 6 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.22%) Argo
10 4 (0.18%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.088%) Control-M
12 2 (0.088%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.088%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.088%) Puppet
13 1 (0.044%) cPanel
13 1 (0.044%) Plesk
Vendors
1 454 (20.02%) Microsoft
2 120 (5.29%) Oracle
3 68 (3.00%) Google
4 62 (2.73%) ServiceNow
5 61 (2.69%) Adobe
6 40 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 36 (1.59%) Solace
8 34 (1.50%) Atlassian
9 31 (1.37%) Splunk
10 28 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.06%) MuleSoft
12 20 (0.88%) SAP
13 16 (0.71%) HubSpot
13 16 (0.71%) IBM
14 15 (0.66%) Apple
14 15 (0.66%) Cisco
15 14 (0.62%) VMware
16 13 (0.57%) Workday
17 12 (0.53%) DevExpress
17 12 (0.53%) OpenAI