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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -40 -10 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,197 3,217 8,448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.37% 7.24% 7.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.28% 23.03% 24.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,785 2,108 6,742
10th Percentile £31,550 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £104,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.60% -1.36%

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 16,544 13,968 34,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.45% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,653 9,191 25,656
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,250 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 13 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 13 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 -39 1,974 £60,000 -9.37% 655
UK excluding London -41 1,425 £55,000 -8.33% 539
Work from Home -28 867 £60,000 -9.47% 385
London -39 611 £75,000 -7.38% 237
North of England -28 481 £55,000 -4.35% 150
South East -34 333 £55,000 - 170
North West -25 249 £57,500 -4.17% 89
South West -35 199 £50,000 -13.04% 65
Yorkshire -7 186 £57,500 -8.00% 45
Midlands -49 186 £55,000 - 58
East of England -36 129 £62,500 -5.61% 44
West Midlands -48 107 £55,000 - 28
East Midlands -37 79 £55,000 - 30
Scotland -49 53 £50,000 -16.67% 36
North East -15 46 £52,000 +4.00% 16
Wales -37 39 £57,500 -4.17% 15
Northern Ireland -35 4 £57,500 +15.00% 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 74 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 73 (3.32%) WordPress
3 51 (2.32%) CMS
4 29 (1.32%) Apache
5 26 (1.18%) Confluence
6 17 (0.77%) IIS
7 11 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.41%) Drupal
8 9 (0.41%) JBoss
8 9 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 8 (0.36%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.36%) nginx
9 8 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.18%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.18%) Moodle
11 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.50%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.46%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Blender
8 3 (0.14%) Maya
8 3 (0.14%) Sketch
9 2 (0.091%) InDesign
9 2 (0.091%) InVision
10 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.046%) Elementor
10 1 (0.046%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.00%) Shopify
3 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.18%) Magento
4 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.091%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.046%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.046%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.046%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 845 (38.46%) AWS
2 842 (38.32%) Azure
3 253 (11.52%) GitHub
4 216 (9.83%) GCP
5 205 (9.33%) Serverless
6 191 (8.69%) Azure DevOps
7 186 (8.47%) Power Platform
8 126 (5.74%) SaaS
9 118 (5.37%) Power Automate
10 105 (4.78%) PowerApps
11 102 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
12 92 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
13 87 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 69 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
15 68 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
16 66 (3.00%) Amazon S3
17 54 (2.46%) Azure AI
18 52 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
19 45 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
19 45 (2.05%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 146 (6.65%) Internet
2 40 (1.82%) Broadband
3 19 (0.86%) Firewall
4 16 (0.73%) VPN
5 10 (0.46%) HTTP
6 8 (0.36%) WAN
7 7 (0.32%) Intranet
7 7 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
9 5 (0.23%) AMQP
9 5 (0.23%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.18%) DNS
10 4 (0.18%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.14%) MQTT
11 3 (0.14%) SSL
12 2 (0.091%) Multicast
12 2 (0.091%) Network Security
12 2 (0.091%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (9.06%) MongoDB
2 167 (7.60%) SQL Server
3 162 (7.37%) MySQL
4 156 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
5 122 (5.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 119 (5.42%) Relational Database
7 105 (4.78%) NoSQL
8 95 (4.32%) Power BI
9 68 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
10 37 (1.68%) RDBMS
11 25 (1.14%) Redis
12 23 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (0.96%) MariaDB
14 20 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (0.73%) GIS
16 15 (0.68%) Big Data
16 15 (0.68%) DynamoDB
17 13 (0.59%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
17 13 (0.59%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 425 (19.34%) Git
2 116 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 79 (3.60%) Cypress.io
4 75 (3.41%) JIRA
5 71 (3.23%) GitLab
6 34 (1.55%) Selenium
7 32 (1.46%) JUnit
8 30 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 29 (1.32%) Maven
10 24 (1.09%) Postman
11 19 (0.86%) Subversion
11 19 (0.86%) Vite
12 18 (0.82%) Jaeger
13 17 (0.77%) Mockito
13 17 (0.77%) TeamCity
14 15 (0.68%) CircleCI
14 15 (0.68%) Eclipse
15 14 (0.64%) SonarQube
16 13 (0.59%) Balsamiq
16 13 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 524 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 304 (13.84%) Finance
3 173 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (6.74%) Public Sector
5 114 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 112 (5.10%) Multimedia
7 81 (3.69%) Law
8 79 (3.60%) Retail
9 77 (3.50%) Marketing
10 63 (2.87%) Front Office
11 49 (2.23%) Legal
12 47 (2.14%) Banking
13 39 (1.78%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.09%) Automotive
16 23 (1.05%) Legal Technology
17 22 (1.00%) Advertising
17 22 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
17 22 (1.00%) Health Technology
17 22 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,185 (53.94%) Developer
2 416 (18.93%) Senior
3 358 (16.29%) Software Engineer
4 303 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 279 (12.70%) Lead
6 248 (11.29%) Senior Developer
7 192 (8.74%) Software Developer
8 145 (6.60%) .NET Developer
9 125 (5.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 122 (5.55%) Lead Developer
11 112 (5.10%) Trainee
12 108 (4.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 100 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
14 89 (4.05%) Lead Software Engineer
15 87 (3.96%) React Developer
15 87 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
16 78 (3.55%) Java Developer
17 70 (3.19%) Architect
18 65 (2.96%) Lead Software Developer
19 59 (2.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 816 (37.14%) React
2 664 (30.22%) HTML
3 636 (28.95%) CSS
4 499 (22.71%) .NET
5 483 (21.98%) Node.js
6 260 (11.83%) REST
7 218 (9.92%) AngularJS
8 198 (9.01%) RESTful
9 190 (8.65%) .NET Core
10 180 (8.19%) ASP.NET
11 177 (8.06%) Vue
12 137 (6.24%) ASP.NET Core
13 116 (5.28%) Blazor
14 112 (5.10%) JSON
15 105 (4.78%) HTML5
15 105 (4.78%) Spring
16 100 (4.55%) jQuery
17 90 (4.10%) Kafka
18 89 (4.05%) .NET Framework
18 89 (4.05%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 155 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 102 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 77 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 64 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
7 60 (2.73%) Fixed Income
8 59 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 47 (2.14%) Mobile App
10 44 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 29 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 26 (1.18%) e-Learning
14 23 (1.05%) Data Structures
15 20 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 20 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
16 17 (0.77%) Derivative
16 17 (0.77%) Social Media
17 16 (0.73%) Equities
17 16 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.01%) Linux
2 55 (2.50%) Windows
3 36 (1.64%) Unix
4 20 (0.91%) Android
5 12 (0.55%) CentOS
6 11 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.23%) Debian
10 2 (0.091%) Rocky
11 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 872 (39.69%) Agile
2 807 (36.73%) Full-Stack Development
3 596 (27.13%) CI/CD
4 561 (25.53%) Software Engineering
5 508 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
6 502 (22.85%) DevOps
7 458 (20.85%) Mentoring
8 384 (17.48%) AI
9 355 (16.16%) Microservices
10 291 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 267 (12.15%) Test Automation
12 240 (10.92%) Containerisation
13 239 (10.88%) User Experience
14 230 (10.47%) Scrum
15 216 (9.83%) Web Development
16 210 (9.56%) Front End Development
17 197 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
18 196 (8.92%) Computer Science
19 184 (8.38%) Machine Learning
20 175 (7.97%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 742 (33.77%) Python
2 690 (31.41%) TypeScript
3 560 (25.49%) C#
4 559 (25.44%) SQL
5 466 (21.21%) Java
6 195 (8.88%) PHP
7 91 (4.14%) C++
8 88 (4.01%) Go
9 82 (3.73%) R
10 74 (3.37%) PowerShell
11 55 (2.50%) Bash
12 39 (1.78%) Ruby
13 24 (1.09%) Apex Code
14 22 (1.00%) C
14 22 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 22 (1.00%) Rust
15 16 (0.73%) Bicep
15 16 (0.73%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.73%) Perl
15 16 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 292 (13.29%) Degree
2 229 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 158 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 151 (6.87%) AWS Certification
5 137 (6.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 133 (6.05%) SC Cleared
7 122 (5.55%) Azure Certification
8 117 (5.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 47 (2.14%) DV Cleared
10 22 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (0.36%) PhD
17 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
18 4 (0.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (7.01%) Accessibility
2 131 (5.96%) QA
3 35 (1.59%) WCAG
4 30 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.09%) GDPR
6 20 (0.91%) SLA
7 14 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.36%) HL7
9 7 (0.32%) GRC
9 7 (0.32%) PERC
10 5 (0.23%) IEC 61131
11 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.14%) NIST
12 3 (0.14%) PMO
13 2 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.091%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.091%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.046%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.046%) NCSC
System Software
1 316 (14.38%) Docker
2 13 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.23%) KVM
Systems Management
1 269 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 183 (8.33%) Terraform
3 61 (2.78%) Ansible
4 44 (2.00%) Grafana
5 36 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.96%) Kibana
7 20 (0.91%) Argo
8 18 (0.82%) Kustomize
9 14 (0.64%) Podman
10 12 (0.55%) logstash
11 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.27%) Puppet
13 5 (0.23%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.18%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.18%) Nagios
15 3 (0.14%) Plesk
15 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
16 2 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 2 (0.091%) Proxmox
16 2 (0.091%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 500 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 112 (5.10%) Google
3 52 (2.37%) Adobe
4 46 (2.09%) Oracle
5 42 (1.91%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 25 (1.14%) Splunk
8 22 (1.00%) OpenAI
9 21 (0.96%) HubSpot
10 20 (0.91%) MuleSoft
10 20 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 16 (0.73%) Atlassian
11 16 (0.73%) SAP
12 13 (0.59%) Apple
12 13 (0.59%) Dynatrace
12 13 (0.59%) Palo Alto
13 12 (0.55%) Pega
13 12 (0.55%) VMware
14 11 (0.50%) Facebook
14 11 (0.50%) Yahoo!