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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 31 20
Rank change year-on-year -37 -11 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,469 3,185 6,859
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.45% 6.48% 7.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.74% 22.20% 24.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,977 2,087 5,297
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,750
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £115,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,593
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.33% -4.38%

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 17,963 14,344 27,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.83% 29.20% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,792 9,520 20,263
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -36 2,149 £59,773 -9.72% 752
UK excluding London -29 1,685 £55,000 -4.35% 535
Work from Home -23 1,107 £57,500 -13.34% 327
London -49 622 £75,000 -11.76% 317
North of England -25 509 £55,000 -4.35% 140
South East -20 417 £55,000 +7.84% 163
North West -26 269 £55,000 -4.35% 78
South West -24 238 £50,000 -13.04% 78
Midlands -59 180 £55,000 - 75
Yorkshire +2 173 £57,500 -3.85% 43
East of England -27 144 £60,000 -9.37% 47
West Midlands -50 103 £55,000 - 48
Scotland -23 78 £55,000 -21.43% 28
East Midlands -58 77 £52,500 -12.50% 27
North East -11 67 £52,000 +4.00% 22
Wales -23 66 £55,000 -10.20% 11
Northern Ireland -36 50 £44,250 -34.44% 6
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 97 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 77 (3.12%) WordPress
3 58 (2.35%) CMS
4 36 (1.46%) Confluence
5 34 (1.38%) Apache
6 26 (1.05%) IIS
7 17 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.49%) JBoss
9 11 (0.45%) Umbraco
10 10 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.36%) Apache Spark
11 9 (0.36%) Drupal
12 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.28%) nginx
14 6 (0.24%) ColdFusion
14 6 (0.24%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
16 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.16%) Moodle
16 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 37 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.73%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 8 (0.32%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.12%) Blender
6 3 (0.12%) Maya
7 2 (0.081%) Elementor
7 2 (0.081%) InDesign
7 2 (0.081%) Sketch
8 1 (0.041%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.041%) InVision
8 1 (0.041%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 63 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.89%) Shopify
3 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.16%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.16%) Lawson
4 4 (0.16%) Magento
4 4 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.081%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.041%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.041%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.041%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 923 (37.38%) Azure
2 848 (34.35%) AWS
3 240 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
4 236 (9.56%) GCP
4 236 (9.56%) GitHub
5 226 (9.15%) Power Platform
6 205 (8.30%) SaaS
7 197 (7.98%) Serverless
8 151 (6.12%) Power Automate
9 135 (5.47%) PowerApps
10 122 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
11 93 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
12 85 (3.44%) Azure AI
13 81 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
14 79 (3.20%) Azure Logic Apps
15 73 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
16 69 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
17 55 (2.23%) Amazon S3
18 47 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
19 42 (1.70%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 108 (4.37%) Internet
2 27 (1.09%) Broadband
3 16 (0.65%) Firewall
4 13 (0.53%) VPN
5 10 (0.41%) Intranet
6 9 (0.36%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.32%) HTTP
7 8 (0.32%) WAN
8 7 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
8 7 (0.28%) SSH
9 6 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.24%) SSL
10 5 (0.20%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.20%) MQTT
10 5 (0.20%) SNMP
10 5 (0.20%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.16%) AMQP
11 4 (0.16%) DNS
12 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (11.30%) MongoDB
2 210 (8.51%) SQL Server
3 200 (8.10%) MySQL
4 190 (7.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 179 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
6 124 (5.02%) Relational Database
7 115 (4.66%) Power BI
8 98 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
9 91 (3.69%) NoSQL
10 44 (1.78%) Redis
11 28 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 25 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
12 25 (1.01%) MariaDB
13 20 (0.81%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.73%) Big Data
14 18 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
15 16 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
16 15 (0.61%) RDBMS
17 14 (0.57%) Tableau
18 12 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 437 (17.70%) Git
2 135 (5.47%) Jenkins
3 102 (4.13%) JIRA
4 84 (3.40%) GitLab
5 83 (3.36%) Cypress.io
6 48 (1.94%) JUnit
7 37 (1.50%) Maven
8 36 (1.46%) Selenium
9 29 (1.17%) Subversion
10 28 (1.13%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.93%) Eclipse
11 23 (0.93%) Postman
12 19 (0.77%) Mockito
13 18 (0.73%) TeamCity
14 16 (0.65%) Claude Code
14 16 (0.65%) Vite
15 15 (0.61%) CircleCI
15 15 (0.61%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.57%) Bitbucket
16 14 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 662 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 352 (14.26%) Finance
3 191 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 111 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 105 (4.25%) Law
7 100 (4.05%) Legal
8 95 (3.85%) Marketing
9 92 (3.73%) Retail
10 59 (2.39%) Front Office
10 59 (2.39%) Multimedia
11 54 (2.19%) Banking
12 47 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 44 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (1.05%) Legal Technology
15 25 (1.01%) Advertising
16 23 (0.93%) Aerospace
17 22 (0.89%) Automotive
17 22 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
18 21 (0.85%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,336 (54.11%) Developer
2 514 (20.82%) Senior
3 390 (15.80%) Software Engineer
4 344 (13.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 297 (12.03%) Lead
6 266 (10.77%) Senior Developer
7 234 (9.48%) .NET Developer
8 185 (7.49%) Software Developer
9 142 (5.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 137 (5.55%) Lead Developer
11 115 (4.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 102 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 96 (3.89%) Lead Software Engineer
14 87 (3.52%) Web Developer
15 80 (3.24%) Java Developer
16 78 (3.16%) JavaScript Developer
16 78 (3.16%) Lead Software Developer
16 78 (3.16%) React Developer
17 76 (3.08%) Architect
18 69 (2.79%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 916 (37.10%) React
2 685 (27.74%) HTML
3 651 (26.37%) CSS
4 627 (25.39%) .NET
5 556 (22.52%) Node.js
6 284 (11.50%) ASP.NET
7 271 (10.98%) REST
8 266 (10.77%) .NET Core
9 264 (10.69%) RESTful
10 224 (9.07%) AngularJS
11 222 (8.99%) ASP.NET Core
12 194 (7.86%) Vue
13 182 (7.37%) Blazor
14 129 (5.22%) .NET Framework
14 129 (5.22%) JSON
15 121 (4.90%) HTML5
16 115 (4.66%) ASP.NET Web API
17 114 (4.62%) Spring
18 108 (4.37%) jQuery
19 101 (4.09%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 196 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 104 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 87 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
4 87 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
5 81 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 75 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 75 (3.04%) Virtual Team
7 60 (2.43%) Mobile App
8 55 (2.23%) Fixed Income
9 45 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 30 (1.22%) Low-Code
12 28 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 28 (1.13%) Social Media
13 27 (1.09%) Management Information System
14 20 (0.81%) Robotics
15 19 (0.77%) IoT
15 19 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
16 18 (0.73%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 149 (6.03%) Linux
2 80 (3.24%) Windows
3 29 (1.17%) Android
4 22 (0.89%) Unix
5 13 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.49%) CentOS
7 9 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.24%) Debian
10 2 (0.081%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.081%) Rocky
10 2 (0.081%) VMS
11 1 (0.041%) AIX
11 1 (0.041%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.041%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,035 (41.92%) Agile
2 969 (39.25%) Full-Stack Development
3 696 (28.19%) CI/CD
4 686 (27.78%) Software Engineering
5 649 (26.29%) DevOps
6 576 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
7 498 (20.17%) AI
8 485 (19.64%) Mentoring
9 445 (18.02%) Microservices
10 399 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 369 (14.95%) Test Automation
12 268 (10.85%) Scrum
13 257 (10.41%) Web Development
14 246 (9.96%) Containerisation
15 236 (9.56%) Technical Leadership
15 236 (9.56%) User Experience
16 225 (9.11%) Machine Learning
17 216 (8.75%) Front End Development
18 213 (8.63%) Computer Science
19 192 (7.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 836 (33.86%) TypeScript
2 763 (30.90%) Python
3 759 (30.74%) C#
4 671 (27.18%) SQL
5 479 (19.40%) Java
6 213 (8.63%) PHP
7 130 (5.27%) C++
8 127 (5.14%) PowerShell
9 86 (3.48%) Go
10 57 (2.31%) R
10 57 (2.31%) Ruby
11 43 (1.74%) Bash
12 28 (1.13%) Rust
13 24 (0.97%) Perl
14 23 (0.93%) C
15 22 (0.89%) Bicep
16 21 (0.85%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.81%) Apex Code
18 19 (0.77%) Kotlin
19 16 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 322 (13.04%) Degree
2 252 (10.21%) Security Cleared
3 178 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 168 (6.80%) SC Cleared
5 79 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 77 (3.12%) AWS Certification
7 66 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 64 (2.59%) Azure Certification
9 38 (1.54%) DV Cleared
10 33 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
12 14 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (0.49%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.41%) DBS Check
17 8 (0.32%) PhD
18 5 (0.20%) HND
19 4 (0.16%) MBA
19 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (8.38%) QA
2 199 (8.06%) Accessibility
3 58 (2.35%) WCAG
4 42 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.09%) GDPR
6 22 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (0.89%) SLA
7 8 (0.32%) GRC
8 7 (0.28%) HL7
8 7 (0.28%) NCSC
8 7 (0.28%) PERC
9 6 (0.24%) NIST
9 6 (0.24%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.20%) IEC 61131
11 4 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.12%) PMO
13 2 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.081%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 340 (13.77%) Docker
2 16 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.41%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.20%) KVM
6 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 272 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 174 (7.05%) Terraform
3 48 (1.94%) Ansible
4 44 (1.78%) Grafana
5 23 (0.93%) Kibana
6 21 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.57%) logstash
7 14 (0.57%) Podman
8 9 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.32%) Puppet
10 6 (0.24%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.24%) Nagios
10 6 (0.24%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.12%) Plesk
12 3 (0.12%) WMI
13 2 (0.081%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.081%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.041%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 582 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 128 (5.18%) Google
3 60 (2.43%) Adobe
4 48 (1.94%) ServiceNow
5 47 (1.90%) Oracle
6 38 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 34 (1.38%) Splunk
8 23 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 19 (0.77%) Apple
9 19 (0.77%) OpenAI
10 18 (0.73%) Sony
11 17 (0.69%) Facebook
11 17 (0.69%) HubSpot
11 17 (0.69%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.65%) VMware
13 15 (0.61%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.61%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.53%) SAP
15 12 (0.49%) AppDynamics
16 11 (0.45%) Atlassian