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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 30 19
Rank change year-on-year -40 -11 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,264 3,196 8,581
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.39% 7.08% 7.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.33% 22.83% 25.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,838 2,100 6,856
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.01% +10.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £105,000
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 16,983 14,001 34,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.93% 31.00% 31.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,023 9,255 25,887
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £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 £111,250 £98,474
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 23 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 23 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 2,016 £60,000 -9.37% 701
UK excluding London -40 1,479 £55,000 -8.33% 617
Work from Home -26 929 £60,000 -9.50% 331
London -40 616 £75,000 -9.09% 236
North of England -27 483 £55,000 -5.17% 154
South East -22 358 £55,000 +2.80% 191
North West -23 254 £57,500 -4.17% 85
South West -28 209 £50,000 -13.04% 61
Midlands -60 182 £55,000 - 81
Yorkshire +1 180 £56,250 -10.00% 45
East of England -40 134 £60,000 -9.38% 63
West Midlands -51 101 £57,500 +4.55% 38
East Midlands -40 81 £52,500 -12.50% 43
Scotland -35 63 £50,000 -20.00% 39
North East -23 49 £52,000 +9.47% 25
Wales -30 45 £57,500 -4.17% 22
Northern Ireland -42 4 £57,500 +4.55% 18
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 80 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 73 (3.22%) WordPress
3 52 (2.30%) CMS
4 30 (1.33%) Apache
5 29 (1.28%) Confluence
6 21 (0.93%) 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 7 (0.31%) nginx
12 6 (0.27%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.22%) ColdFusion
13 5 (0.22%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.18%) Moodle
14 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 11 (0.49%) Photoshop
5 10 (0.44%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.13%) Blender
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%) Elementor
10 1 (0.044%) Trello
Business Applications
1 51 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.02%) 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
6 2 (0.088%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
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
1 872 (38.52%) Azure
2 844 (37.28%) AWS
3 239 (10.56%) GitHub
4 229 (10.11%) GCP
5 215 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
6 208 (9.19%) Serverless
7 195 (8.61%) Power Platform
8 131 (5.79%) SaaS
9 127 (5.61%) Power Automate
10 114 (5.04%) PowerApps
11 106 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
12 90 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
13 86 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
14 75 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
15 69 (3.05%) Azure AI
16 66 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
17 64 (2.83%) Amazon S3
18 54 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (2.08%) Azure Functions
20 46 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 132 (5.83%) Internet
2 45 (1.99%) Broadband
3 19 (0.84%) Firewall
4 15 (0.66%) VPN
5 9 (0.40%) HTTP
5 9 (0.40%) Intranet
6 8 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
6 8 (0.35%) WAN
7 7 (0.31%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (0.22%) AMQP
9 5 (0.22%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.18%) DNS
10 4 (0.18%) MQTT
10 4 (0.18%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.13%) Network Security
12 2 (0.088%) SSH
12 2 (0.088%) SSL
12 2 (0.088%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (10.25%) MongoDB
2 174 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 166 (7.33%) MySQL
4 154 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
5 152 (6.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 120 (5.30%) Relational Database
7 106 (4.68%) NoSQL
8 99 (4.37%) Power BI
9 81 (3.58%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (1.55%) RDBMS
11 27 (1.19%) Redis
12 24 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 22 (0.97%) MariaDB
15 17 (0.75%) Big Data
16 15 (0.66%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.66%) GIS
17 14 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
18 13 (0.57%) BigQuery
18 13 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 418 (18.46%) Git
2 119 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.62%) JIRA
4 80 (3.53%) Cypress.io
5 74 (3.27%) GitLab
6 35 (1.55%) JUnit
7 34 (1.50%) Selenium
8 30 (1.33%) Cucumber
8 30 (1.33%) Maven
9 26 (1.15%) Postman
10 21 (0.93%) Subversion
11 19 (0.84%) Vite
12 18 (0.80%) Eclipse
12 18 (0.80%) Jaeger
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
General
1 542 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 316 (13.96%) Finance
3 175 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 116 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (4.06%) Multimedia
7 86 (3.80%) Retail
8 81 (3.58%) Marketing
9 79 (3.49%) Law
10 64 (2.83%) Front Office
11 51 (2.25%) Legal
12 44 (1.94%) Banking
13 40 (1.77%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.10%) Legal Technology
16 23 (1.02%) Advertising
16 23 (1.02%) Automotive
16 23 (1.02%) Health Technology
17 22 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (0.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,227 (54.20%) Developer
2 424 (18.73%) Senior
3 364 (16.08%) Software Engineer
4 307 (13.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 283 (12.50%) Lead
6 247 (10.91%) Senior Developer
7 183 (8.08%) Software Developer
8 179 (7.91%) .NET Developer
9 128 (5.65%) Lead Developer
10 127 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 114 (5.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 97 (4.28%) JavaScript Developer
13 92 (4.06%) Trainee
14 90 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
15 89 (3.93%) React Developer
16 88 (3.89%) Lead Software Engineer
17 77 (3.40%) Java Developer
18 75 (3.31%) Architect
19 68 (3.00%) Lead Software Developer
20 63 (2.78%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 847 (37.41%) React
2 660 (29.15%) HTML
3 627 (27.69%) CSS
4 541 (23.90%) .NET
5 498 (22.00%) Node.js
6 260 (11.48%) REST
7 225 (9.94%) .NET Core
8 224 (9.89%) RESTful
9 219 (9.67%) ASP.NET
10 217 (9.58%) AngularJS
11 183 (8.08%) Vue
12 175 (7.73%) ASP.NET Core
13 144 (6.36%) Blazor
14 115 (5.08%) JSON
15 106 (4.68%) HTML5
15 106 (4.68%) jQuery
16 103 (4.55%) Spring
17 97 (4.28%) .NET Framework
18 90 (3.98%) Kafka
19 89 (3.93%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 162 (7.16%) Cloud Native
2 102 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 84 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
4 70 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
5 69 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 68 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
7 60 (2.65%) Fixed Income
8 53 (2.34%) Mobile App
9 44 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.59%) Low-Code
11 29 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 24 (1.06%) e-Learning
13 24 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 20 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
14 20 (0.88%) Social Media
15 17 (0.75%) Algorithms
15 17 (0.75%) Derivative
15 17 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.32%) Linux
2 67 (2.96%) Windows
3 39 (1.72%) Unix
4 25 (1.10%) Android
5 13 (0.57%) CentOS
6 12 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.22%) 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
1 929 (41.03%) Agile
2 853 (37.68%) Full-Stack Development
3 616 (27.21%) CI/CD
4 577 (25.49%) Software Engineering
5 542 (23.94%) DevOps
6 530 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
7 448 (19.79%) Mentoring
8 411 (18.15%) AI
9 383 (16.92%) Microservices
10 313 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 279 (12.32%) Test Automation
12 244 (10.78%) Containerisation
13 239 (10.56%) Scrum
14 229 (10.11%) User Experience
15 222 (9.81%) Web Development
16 215 (9.50%) Front End Development
17 208 (9.19%) Computer Science
18 205 (9.05%) Technical Leadership
19 201 (8.88%) Machine Learning
20 183 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 737 (32.55%) Python
2 714 (31.54%) TypeScript
3 611 (26.99%) C#
4 598 (26.41%) SQL
5 474 (20.94%) Java
6 200 (8.83%) PHP
7 105 (4.64%) C++
8 95 (4.20%) Go
9 79 (3.49%) PowerShell
10 72 (3.18%) R
11 59 (2.61%) Bash
12 43 (1.90%) Ruby
13 25 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 25 (1.10%) Rust
14 21 (0.93%) C
14 21 (0.93%) PL/SQL
15 19 (0.84%) Perl
16 18 (0.80%) Bicep
17 17 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 306 (13.52%) Degree
2 234 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 170 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 140 (6.18%) SC Cleared
5 131 (5.79%) AWS Certification
6 115 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 101 (4.46%) Azure Certification
8 98 (4.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 39 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
12 18 (0.80%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.31%) PhD
17 5 (0.22%) HND
18 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 4 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (7.20%) Accessibility
2 133 (5.87%) QA
3 38 (1.68%) WCAG
4 32 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.10%) GDPR
6 20 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.88%) SLA
7 7 (0.31%) GRC
7 7 (0.31%) HL7
7 7 (0.31%) PERC
8 5 (0.22%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.18%) NIST
9 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.13%) NCSC
10 3 (0.13%) PMO
11 2 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 327 (14.44%) Docker
2 15 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.27%) KVM
Systems Management
1 272 (12.01%) Kubernetes
2 190 (8.39%) Terraform
3 65 (2.87%) Ansible
4 47 (2.08%) Grafana
5 37 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.06%) Kibana
7 20 (0.88%) Argo
8 18 (0.80%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.66%) logstash
10 14 (0.62%) Podman
11 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.27%) Puppet
12 6 (0.27%) 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
1 525 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 121 (5.34%) Google
3 54 (2.39%) Adobe
4 45 (1.99%) Oracle
5 41 (1.81%) Salesforce
6 38 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 27 (1.19%) Splunk
8 23 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 20 (0.88%) HubSpot
9 20 (0.88%) Red Hat
10 19 (0.84%) MuleSoft
11 16 (0.71%) SAP
12 15 (0.66%) Apple
12 15 (0.66%) VMware
13 14 (0.62%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.62%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.57%) Facebook
14 13 (0.57%) Sony
14 13 (0.57%) Yahoo!
15 12 (0.53%) Palo Alto