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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 31 18
Rank change year-on-year -37 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,278 3,193 8,356
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.39% 7.01% 7.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.33% 22.76% 24.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,860 2,098 6,670
10th Percentile £33,125 £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 £78,138
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 17,088 14,028 33,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 30.80% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,120 9,259 25,320
10th Percentile £36,795 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.39% -0.39%

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 27 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 27 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 -40 2,026 £60,000 -9.38% 701
UK excluding London -40 1,497 £55,000 -8.33% 610
Work from Home -24 944 £60,000 -9.56% 362
London -44 613 £75,000 -9.09% 238
North of England -28 490 £55,000 -8.33% 140
South East -28 367 £55,000 +3.77% 200
North West -22 257 £55,000 -8.33% 77
South West -31 207 £50,000 -13.04% 71
Midlands -61 181 £55,000 - 84
Yorkshire -3 178 £57,500 -8.00% 46
East of England -37 132 £60,000 -9.38% 58
West Midlands -47 101 £55,000 - 43
East Midlands -46 80 £52,500 -16.00% 41
Scotland -31 65 £55,000 -12.00% 35
North East -6 55 £52,000 +1.46% 18
Wales -29 49 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Northern Ireland -38 4 £57,500 +4.55% 14
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 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 75 (3.29%) WordPress
3 51 (2.24%) CMS
4 30 (1.32%) Apache
5 29 (1.27%) Confluence
6 21 (0.92%) IIS
7 13 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.44%) Umbraco
9 9 (0.40%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.40%) Drupal
9 9 (0.40%) JBoss
9 9 (0.40%) 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 (0.18%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.18%) Moodle
12 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.75%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.44%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.40%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.13%) Blender
8 3 (0.13%) Elementor
8 3 (0.13%) Maya
8 3 (0.13%) Sketch
9 2 (0.088%) InDesign
9 2 (0.088%) InVision
10 1 (0.044%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 55 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.97%) Shopify
3 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.18%) Magento
4 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.088%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.088%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.044%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.044%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.044%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 878 (38.54%) Azure
2 843 (37.01%) AWS
3 237 (10.40%) GitHub
4 229 (10.05%) GCP
5 221 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
6 205 (9.00%) Serverless
7 202 (8.87%) Power Platform
8 139 (6.10%) SaaS
9 133 (5.84%) Power Automate
10 118 (5.18%) PowerApps
11 106 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
12 89 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
13 86 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
14 81 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
15 69 (3.03%) Azure AI
16 68 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
17 65 (2.85%) Amazon S3
18 59 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
19 47 (2.06%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 128 (5.62%) Internet
2 39 (1.71%) Broadband
3 19 (0.83%) Firewall
4 14 (0.61%) VPN
5 10 (0.44%) Intranet
6 9 (0.40%) HTTP
7 8 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
7 8 (0.35%) WAN
8 7 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.22%) AMQP
10 5 (0.22%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.18%) DNS
11 4 (0.18%) MQTT
11 4 (0.18%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.13%) Network Security
13 2 (0.088%) Multicast
13 2 (0.088%) SSH
13 2 (0.088%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (10.18%) MongoDB
2 179 (7.86%) SQL Server
3 170 (7.46%) MySQL
4 156 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
5 152 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 116 (5.09%) Relational Database
7 101 (4.43%) Power BI
8 100 (4.39%) NoSQL
9 81 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (1.32%) Redis
11 29 (1.27%) RDBMS
12 26 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 23 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.01%) MariaDB
14 17 (0.75%) Big Data
15 16 (0.70%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.66%) GIS
17 14 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
18 13 (0.57%) Tableau
19 12 (0.53%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 412 (18.09%) Git
2 120 (5.27%) Jenkins
3 83 (3.64%) JIRA
4 81 (3.56%) Cypress.io
5 74 (3.25%) GitLab
6 36 (1.58%) JUnit
7 35 (1.54%) Selenium
8 30 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 30 (1.32%) Maven
9 26 (1.14%) Postman
10 22 (0.97%) Subversion
11 19 (0.83%) Eclipse
12 18 (0.79%) Vite
13 17 (0.75%) CircleCI
13 17 (0.75%) Mockito
13 17 (0.75%) TeamCity
14 15 (0.66%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.57%) JMeter
15 13 (0.57%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.53%) Jaeger
General
1 550 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 323 (14.18%) Finance
3 177 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 108 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 86 (3.78%) Multimedia
6 86 (3.78%) Retail
7 79 (3.47%) Marketing
8 78 (3.42%) Law
9 63 (2.77%) Front Office
10 51 (2.24%) Legal
11 46 (2.02%) Banking
12 39 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 35 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.10%) Legal Technology
15 24 (1.05%) Advertising
16 23 (1.01%) Automotive
16 23 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.01%) Health Technology
17 20 (0.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,241 (54.48%) Developer
2 433 (19.01%) Senior
3 369 (16.20%) Software Engineer
4 317 (13.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 286 (12.55%) Lead
6 249 (10.93%) Senior Developer
7 183 (8.03%) Software Developer
8 181 (7.95%) .NET Developer
9 135 (5.93%) Lead Developer
10 128 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 116 (5.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 95 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
13 92 (4.04%) JavaScript Developer
14 87 (3.82%) Lead Software Engineer
15 86 (3.78%) React Developer
15 86 (3.78%) Trainee
16 78 (3.42%) Java Developer
17 73 (3.20%) Lead Software Developer
18 72 (3.16%) Architect
19 65 (2.85%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 857 (37.62%) React
2 666 (29.24%) HTML
3 633 (27.79%) CSS
4 546 (23.97%) .NET
5 509 (22.34%) Node.js
6 259 (11.37%) REST
7 225 (9.88%) RESTful
8 224 (9.83%) .NET Core
9 220 (9.66%) ASP.NET
10 216 (9.48%) AngularJS
11 184 (8.08%) Vue
12 176 (7.73%) ASP.NET Core
13 146 (6.41%) Blazor
14 114 (5.00%) JSON
15 109 (4.78%) jQuery
16 108 (4.74%) HTML5
17 103 (4.52%) Spring
18 98 (4.30%) .NET Framework
19 91 (3.99%) CSS3
20 90 (3.95%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 173 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 98 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 87 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
5 69 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 69 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 67 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 59 (2.59%) Fixed Income
8 53 (2.33%) Mobile App
9 44 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (1.62%) Low-Code
11 29 (1.27%) Management Information System
12 26 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 26 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 23 (1.01%) e-Learning
14 20 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
14 20 (0.88%) Social Media
15 19 (0.83%) Algorithms
15 19 (0.83%) Virtual Team
16 17 (0.75%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 138 (6.06%) Linux
2 69 (3.03%) Windows
3 33 (1.45%) Unix
4 25 (1.10%) Android
5 13 (0.57%) CentOS
6 12 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.26%) Debian
10 2 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.088%) Rocky
11 1 (0.044%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.044%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 937 (41.13%) Agile
2 870 (38.19%) Full-Stack Development
3 631 (27.70%) CI/CD
4 584 (25.64%) Software Engineering
5 552 (24.23%) DevOps
6 535 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
7 439 (19.27%) Mentoring
8 427 (18.74%) AI
9 383 (16.81%) Microservices
10 314 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 285 (12.51%) Test Automation
12 238 (10.45%) Containerisation
13 237 (10.40%) Scrum
14 225 (9.88%) User Experience
14 225 (9.88%) Web Development
15 217 (9.53%) Front End Development
16 211 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
17 210 (9.22%) Computer Science
18 201 (8.82%) Machine Learning
19 184 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 727 (31.91%) Python
1 727 (31.91%) TypeScript
2 621 (27.26%) C#
3 607 (26.65%) SQL
4 468 (20.54%) Java
5 205 (9.00%) PHP
6 108 (4.74%) C++
7 93 (4.08%) Go
8 77 (3.38%) PowerShell
9 68 (2.99%) R
10 52 (2.28%) Bash
11 44 (1.93%) Ruby
12 25 (1.10%) Rust
13 24 (1.05%) Apex Code
14 21 (0.92%) C
15 20 (0.88%) Perl
15 20 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.79%) Bicep
17 17 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 311 (13.65%) Degree
2 237 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 173 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 143 (6.28%) SC Cleared
5 117 (5.14%) AWS Certification
6 107 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 94 (4.13%) Azure Certification
8 92 (4.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 39 (1.71%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.31%) PhD
18 5 (0.22%) HND
19 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
20 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (7.29%) Accessibility
2 135 (5.93%) QA
3 38 (1.67%) WCAG
4 33 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.10%) GDPR
6 21 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.88%) SLA
8 7 (0.31%) GRC
8 7 (0.31%) HL7
8 7 (0.31%) PERC
9 5 (0.22%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.18%) NIST
11 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.13%) NCSC
11 3 (0.13%) PMO
12 2 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 319 (14.00%) Docker
2 15 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 268 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 190 (8.34%) Terraform
3 59 (2.59%) Ansible
4 47 (2.06%) Grafana
5 31 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.05%) Kibana
7 15 (0.66%) logstash
8 14 (0.61%) Argo
8 14 (0.61%) Podman
9 12 (0.53%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.31%) Puppet
12 6 (0.26%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.22%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.13%) Nagios
14 3 (0.13%) Plesk
15 2 (0.088%) MOM
15 2 (0.088%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.088%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 524 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 113 (4.96%) Google
3 53 (2.33%) Adobe
4 44 (1.93%) Oracle
5 40 (1.76%) Salesforce
6 38 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 27 (1.19%) Splunk
8 22 (0.97%) OpenAI
9 20 (0.88%) Red Hat
10 19 (0.83%) HubSpot
10 19 (0.83%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.66%) Apple
11 15 (0.66%) SAP
11 15 (0.66%) VMware
12 14 (0.61%) Atlassian
12 14 (0.61%) Dynatrace
13 13 (0.57%) Facebook
13 13 (0.57%) Sony
13 13 (0.57%) Yahoo!
14 11 (0.48%) Pega