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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -33 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,196 5,231 4,934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.15% 7.80% 9.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.29% 24.46% 23.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,734 3,186 4,366
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £122,500 £103,750
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 12,008 21,385 21,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 31.88% 40.90%
Number of salaries quoted 8,605 12,654 17,511
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,613
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £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 19 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 19 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 -32 1,985 £60,000 -11.11% 2,212
UK excluding London -50 1,256 £52,500 -4.55% 1,534
Work from Home -22 923 £65,000 -10.34% 1,232
London -22 819 £85,000 -4.49% 932
North of England -30 382 £50,000 -4.76% 395
South East -64 266 £55,000 -8.33% 452
Midlands -35 217 £50,000 -4.76% 226
Yorkshire -8 176 £48,250 -12.27% 107
South West -30 166 £50,000 -9.09% 173
North West -38 161 £55,000 +4.76% 253
West Midlands -35 132 £47,500 -9.52% 141
East of England -50 106 £55,000 -8.33% 143
East Midlands -19 86 £58,750 +12.98% 84
Scotland -51 79 £30,500 -44.55% 66
North East -19 47 £47,500 -20.83% 38
Wales -34 35 £60,000 +84.62% 66
Northern Ireland -23 8 £78,750 +65.79% 33
Isle of Man +10 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
1 122 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (3.96%) Apache
3 68 (3.10%) CMS
4 62 (2.82%) SharePoint
5 60 (2.73%) WordPress
6 36 (1.64%) IIS
7 30 (1.37%) Confluence
8 16 (0.73%) Headless CMS
9 14 (0.64%) Apache Solr
10 12 (0.55%) Umbraco
11 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
12 8 (0.36%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.32%) Drupal
14 6 (0.27%) Apache Spark
14 6 (0.27%) nginx
14 6 (0.27%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.23%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 4 (0.18%) Appian
16 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (1.32%) Adobe XD
2 26 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 13 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 12 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
6 12 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.50%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.46%) Sketch
9 7 (0.32%) MadCap Flare
10 6 (0.27%) InVision
11 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 3 (0.14%) Elementor
12 3 (0.14%) InDesign
12 3 (0.14%) Simulink
13 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.046%) Notion
13 1 (0.046%) Trello
13 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.37%) Shopify
3 20 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.55%) Sprinklr
5 9 (0.41%) Magento
6 8 (0.36%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite
7 5 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 5 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.23%) PlanetPress Connect
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.14%) Primavera
8 3 (0.14%) Sage 1000
8 3 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.091%) Maximo
9 2 (0.091%) MFGPRO
9 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.046%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 879 (40.03%) AWS
2 787 (35.84%) Azure
3 313 (14.25%) GitHub
4 211 (9.61%) Serverless
5 193 (8.79%) GCP
6 146 (6.65%) SaaS
7 133 (6.06%) Power Platform
8 125 (5.69%) dbt
9 110 (5.01%) Power Automate
10 107 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
11 89 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
12 83 (3.78%) PowerApps
13 75 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
14 73 (3.32%) Figma
15 65 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
15 65 (2.96%) Snowflake
16 62 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
17 61 (2.78%) Amazon S3
18 57 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
19 47 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 171 (7.79%) Internet
2 15 (0.68%) HTTP
3 13 (0.59%) Broadband
4 8 (0.36%) MQTT
4 8 (0.36%) SSH
4 8 (0.36%) WPA
5 6 (0.27%) Ethernet
5 6 (0.27%) Modbus
5 6 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.23%) AMQP
6 5 (0.23%) VPN
7 4 (0.18%) Firewall
7 4 (0.18%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.14%) DNS
8 3 (0.14%) Intranet
9 2 (0.091%) Network Security
9 2 (0.091%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.091%) SSL
10 1 (0.046%) 2G
10 1 (0.046%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (9.93%) SQL Server
2 186 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
3 177 (8.06%) MySQL
4 125 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
5 120 (5.46%) Apache Iceberg
6 119 (5.42%) MongoDB
7 116 (5.28%) Apache Arrow
7 116 (5.28%) Dremio
8 113 (5.15%) Relational Database
9 94 (4.28%) NoSQL
10 80 (3.64%) Power BI
11 74 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
12 62 (2.82%) Data Lake
13 61 (2.78%) Apache Ignite
14 49 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
15 28 (1.28%) DynamoDB
16 27 (1.23%) RDBMS
17 25 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 21 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
18 21 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 526 (23.95%) Git
2 134 (6.10%) JIRA
3 104 (4.74%) Jenkins
4 88 (4.01%) Cypress.io
5 55 (2.50%) webpack
6 50 (2.28%) JUnit
7 47 (2.14%) Selenium
8 41 (1.87%) GitLab
9 38 (1.73%) JMeter
10 31 (1.41%) Vite
11 30 (1.37%) Mockito
12 29 (1.32%) Bitbucket
12 29 (1.32%) Postman
13 27 (1.23%) Visual Studio
14 26 (1.18%) TeamCity
15 24 (1.09%) Maven
16 21 (0.96%) Cucumber
17 18 (0.82%) Axure RP
18 17 (0.77%) Babel
19 14 (0.64%) SonarQube
General
1 605 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 489 (22.27%) Finance
3 245 (11.16%) Law
4 178 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (8.11%) Front Office
5 166 (7.56%) Multimedia
6 138 (6.28%) Banking
6 138 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 129 (5.87%) Marketing
8 126 (5.74%) Public Sector
9 77 (3.51%) Investment Banking
10 55 (2.50%) Retail
11 46 (2.09%) Legal
12 45 (2.05%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.05%) Advertising
14 23 (1.05%) Games
15 17 (0.77%) Electronics
16 15 (0.68%) Health Technology
17 14 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,216 (55.37%) Developer
2 451 (20.54%) Senior
3 363 (16.53%) Software Engineer
4 255 (11.61%) Senior Developer
5 243 (11.07%) Full-Stack Developer
6 210 (9.56%) Lead
7 209 (9.52%) Software Developer
8 162 (7.38%) Trainee
9 150 (6.83%) .NET Developer
10 127 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
11 121 (5.51%) Python Engineer
12 116 (5.28%) AWS Software Engineer
13 113 (5.15%) Python Software Engineer
14 109 (4.96%) Java Engineer
15 106 (4.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 99 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
17 97 (4.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 96 (4.37%) Java Developer
19 95 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
20 88 (4.01%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 930 (42.35%) HTML
2 847 (38.57%) CSS
3 784 (35.70%) React
4 483 (21.99%) .NET
5 391 (17.81%) Node.js
6 326 (14.85%) AngularJS
7 258 (11.75%) REST
8 243 (11.07%) Vue
9 180 (8.20%) RESTful
10 161 (7.33%) HTML5
11 156 (7.10%) ASP.NET
12 144 (6.56%) JSON
13 138 (6.28%) .NET Core
14 123 (5.60%) Spring
15 120 (5.46%) Pandas
16 119 (5.42%) GraphQL
17 118 (5.37%) NumPy
18 116 (5.28%) SciPy
19 115 (5.24%) .NET Framework
20 110 (5.01%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 173 (7.88%) Fixed Income
2 141 (6.42%) Cloud Native
3 132 (6.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 128 (5.83%) Equities
5 100 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 67 (3.05%) Hedge funds
7 66 (3.01%) Derivative
8 63 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
9 61 (2.78%) Pricing Data
10 60 (2.73%) Mobile App
11 49 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
12 41 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
13 40 (1.82%) Data Structures
14 39 (1.78%) Algorithms
15 37 (1.68%) Low-Code
16 28 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (1.28%) Onboarding
17 27 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
18 25 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
19 22 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.38%) Linux
2 58 (2.64%) Windows
3 31 (1.41%) Unix
4 30 (1.37%) Android
5 28 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.091%) CentOS
9 2 (0.091%) Debian
9 2 (0.091%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.091%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.091%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 996 (45.36%) Agile
2 577 (26.28%) Software Engineering
3 518 (23.59%) CI/CD
4 515 (23.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 499 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
6 449 (20.45%) Mentoring
7 369 (16.80%) DevOps
8 346 (15.76%) User Experience
9 256 (11.66%) Microservices
10 254 (11.57%) Front End Development
11 243 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 230 (10.47%) AI
13 220 (10.02%) Test Automation
14 219 (9.97%) Computer Science
15 214 (9.74%) SDLC
16 210 (9.56%) Scrum
17 195 (8.88%) Asset Management
18 186 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
19 179 (8.15%) Clean Code
20 161 (7.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 752 (34.24%) Python
2 706 (32.15%) TypeScript
3 509 (23.18%) C#
4 495 (22.54%) SQL
5 461 (20.99%) Java
6 158 (7.19%) PHP
7 95 (4.33%) R
8 59 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 55 (2.50%) Go
10 35 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 33 (1.50%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.37%) C++
13 27 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 25 (1.14%) T-SQL
15 24 (1.09%) Ruby
16 20 (0.91%) C
17 17 (0.77%) Bash
17 17 (0.77%) Kotlin
18 16 (0.73%) VBA
19 11 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 307 (13.98%) Degree
2 214 (9.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 209 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 207 (9.43%) AWS Certification
5 187 (8.52%) Azure Certification
6 162 (7.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 137 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 127 (5.78%) SC Cleared
9 54 (2.46%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 21 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 17 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
15 11 (0.50%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.46%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.32%) HNC
17 7 (0.32%) HND
18 6 (0.27%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (7.74%) QA
2 150 (6.83%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.55%) GDPR
4 40 (1.82%) WCAG
5 12 (0.55%) SLA
6 11 (0.50%) HL7
7 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.23%) PERC
8 4 (0.18%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.091%) PSD2
9 2 (0.091%) Section 508
10 1 (0.046%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.046%) DICOM
10 1 (0.046%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.046%) PMO
System Software
1 249 (11.34%) Docker
2 23 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) Firmware
7 2 (0.091%) KVM
7 2 (0.091%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.046%) HDFS
8 1 (0.046%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 193 (8.79%) Kubernetes
2 120 (5.46%) Terraform
3 32 (1.46%) Ansible
3 32 (1.46%) Grafana
4 31 (1.41%) Kibana
5 18 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.41%) Argo
8 6 (0.27%) Functional Safety
8 6 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.14%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.091%) Control-M
10 2 (0.091%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.091%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.091%) Puppet
10 2 (0.091%) vRealize
11 1 (0.046%) cPanel
Vendors
1 490 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 119 (5.42%) Oracle
3 69 (3.14%) Google
4 65 (2.96%) Adobe
5 64 (2.91%) ServiceNow
6 42 (1.91%) Atlassian
7 41 (1.87%) Salesforce
8 30 (1.37%) Splunk
9 27 (1.23%) Dynatrace
10 25 (1.14%) MuleSoft
11 19 (0.87%) SAP
12 18 (0.82%) HubSpot
13 16 (0.73%) Apple
14 15 (0.68%) VMware
15 13 (0.59%) IBM
15 13 (0.59%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.59%) Workday
16 12 (0.55%) Cisco
17 11 (0.50%) Databricks
17 11 (0.50%) DevExpress