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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 31 18
Rank change year-on-year -36 -13 0
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,400 3,245 8,126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.46% 6.74% 7.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.67% 22.61% 24.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,946 2,143 6,450
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £42,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +10.34% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £111,250
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 17,559 14,353 32,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.01% 29.82% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,476 9,554 24,537
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 8 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 8 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 -37 2,107 £60,000 -9.39% 858
UK excluding London -35 1,602 £55,000 -8.33% 748
Work from Home -24 1,048 £60,000 -9.57% 555
London -40 621 £75,000 -9.09% 269
North of England -27 500 £55,000 -4.35% 170
South East -20 400 £55,000 +4.76% 216
North West -28 266 £55,000 -7.17% 91
South West -27 224 £50,000 -13.04% 83
Midlands -61 178 £55,000 - 114
Yorkshire -1 177 £57,500 -6.12% 55
East of England -43 143 £60,000 -9.37% 71
West Midlands -45 99 £55,000 - 52
East Midlands -50 79 £52,500 -16.00% 61
Scotland -33 70 £55,000 -15.38% 53
North East -13 57 £52,000 +4.00% 26
Wales -26 57 £55,000 -8.33% 24
Northern Ireland -43 27 £57,500 -14.81% 28
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 85 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 76 (3.17%) WordPress
3 54 (2.25%) CMS
4 33 (1.38%) Apache
5 31 (1.29%) Confluence
6 22 (0.92%) IIS
7 13 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.46%) Umbraco
9 10 (0.42%) Apache Spark
9 10 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 9 (0.38%) Drupal
10 9 (0.38%) JBoss
11 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
12 6 (0.25%) ColdFusion
12 6 (0.25%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.21%) nginx
14 4 (0.17%) Moodle
14 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.38%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.29%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.13%) Blender
7 3 (0.13%) Elementor
7 3 (0.13%) Maya
8 2 (0.083%) InDesign
8 2 (0.083%) Sketch
9 1 (0.042%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.042%) InVision
9 1 (0.042%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.88%) Shopify
3 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.17%) Magento
4 4 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.083%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.083%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.042%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.042%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.042%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 936 (39.00%) Azure
2 861 (35.88%) AWS
3 245 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
4 242 (10.08%) GCP
5 226 (9.42%) GitHub
6 214 (8.92%) Power Platform
7 204 (8.50%) Serverless
8 175 (7.29%) SaaS
9 141 (5.88%) Power Automate
10 127 (5.29%) PowerApps
11 113 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
12 89 (3.71%) Azure AI
12 89 (3.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 87 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
14 83 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
15 68 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
16 64 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
17 59 (2.46%) Amazon S3
18 49 (2.04%) Azure Functions
19 48 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 112 (4.67%) Internet
2 39 (1.63%) Broadband
3 19 (0.79%) Firewall
4 13 (0.54%) VPN
5 10 (0.42%) Intranet
6 9 (0.38%) HTTP
7 8 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
7 8 (0.33%) WAN
8 7 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.25%) AMQP
9 6 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.21%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.21%) MQTT
11 4 (0.17%) DNS
11 4 (0.17%) SSH
11 4 (0.17%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.13%) Network Security
12 3 (0.13%) SSL
13 2 (0.083%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (11.67%) MongoDB
2 194 (8.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 192 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 180 (7.50%) MySQL
5 164 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
6 122 (5.08%) Relational Database
7 105 (4.38%) Power BI
8 104 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
9 101 (4.21%) NoSQL
10 33 (1.38%) Redis
11 29 (1.21%) RDBMS
12 26 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 24 (1.00%) MariaDB
14 22 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.79%) Big Data
16 17 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
17 16 (0.67%) DynamoDB
18 15 (0.63%) GIS
19 13 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
19 13 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 399 (16.63%) Git
2 124 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 90 (3.75%) JIRA
4 81 (3.38%) Cypress.io
5 77 (3.21%) GitLab
6 39 (1.63%) JUnit
7 35 (1.46%) Selenium
8 31 (1.29%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.29%) Maven
9 25 (1.04%) Postman
10 23 (0.96%) Subversion
11 20 (0.83%) Eclipse
12 17 (0.71%) CircleCI
12 17 (0.71%) Mockito
12 17 (0.71%) TeamCity
12 17 (0.71%) Vite
13 15 (0.63%) SonarQube
14 14 (0.58%) REST Assured
15 13 (0.54%) JMeter
16 12 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 594 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 336 (14.00%) Finance
3 175 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 106 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 101 (4.21%) Law
7 94 (3.92%) Retail
8 89 (3.71%) Marketing
9 77 (3.21%) Legal
10 65 (2.71%) Multimedia
11 62 (2.58%) Front Office
12 46 (1.92%) Banking
13 41 (1.71%) Manufacturing
14 39 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (1.08%) Legal Technology
16 24 (1.00%) Advertising
16 24 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
17 23 (0.96%) Automotive
17 23 (0.96%) Health Technology
18 21 (0.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,305 (54.38%) Developer
2 469 (19.54%) Senior
3 389 (16.21%) Software Engineer
4 328 (13.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 303 (12.63%) Lead
6 256 (10.67%) Senior Developer
7 232 (9.67%) .NET Developer
8 173 (7.21%) Software Developer
9 137 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 134 (5.58%) Lead Developer
11 117 (4.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 99 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 97 (4.04%) Lead Software Engineer
14 88 (3.67%) JavaScript Developer
15 81 (3.38%) React Developer
16 78 (3.25%) Java Developer
17 77 (3.21%) Architect
18 75 (3.13%) Web Developer
19 73 (3.04%) Lead Software Developer
20 65 (2.71%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 917 (38.21%) React
2 653 (27.21%) HTML
3 622 (25.92%) CSS
4 613 (25.54%) .NET
5 546 (22.75%) Node.js
6 275 (11.46%) ASP.NET
7 270 (11.25%) .NET Core
8 266 (11.08%) REST
9 249 (10.38%) RESTful
10 229 (9.54%) AngularJS
11 224 (9.33%) ASP.NET Core
12 195 (8.13%) Vue
13 189 (7.88%) Blazor
14 123 (5.13%) JSON
15 115 (4.79%) .NET Framework
16 113 (4.71%) ASP.NET Web API
17 110 (4.58%) jQuery
18 109 (4.54%) HTML5
19 107 (4.46%) Spring
20 92 (3.83%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 181 (7.54%) Cloud Native
2 98 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 93 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 82 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
5 76 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 76 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 71 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 58 (2.42%) Fixed Income
8 57 (2.38%) Mobile App
9 45 (1.88%) Virtual Team
10 41 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.54%) Low-Code
12 29 (1.21%) Management Information System
13 28 (1.17%) Data Structures
14 27 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (1.04%) Social Media
16 23 (0.96%) e-Learning
17 19 (0.79%) Algorithms
17 19 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
17 19 (0.79%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 147 (6.13%) Linux
2 75 (3.13%) Windows
3 35 (1.46%) Unix
4 29 (1.21%) Android
5 14 (0.58%) CentOS
6 13 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.33%) Debian
9 8 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.083%) Rocky
10 2 (0.083%) VMS
11 1 (0.042%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.042%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,014 (42.25%) Agile
2 951 (39.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 651 (27.13%) CI/CD
4 637 (26.54%) Software Engineering
5 620 (25.83%) DevOps
6 551 (22.96%) Problem-Solving
7 467 (19.46%) AI
8 457 (19.04%) Mentoring
9 432 (18.00%) Microservices
10 352 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 325 (13.54%) Test Automation
12 258 (10.75%) Scrum
13 249 (10.38%) Containerisation
14 241 (10.04%) Web Development
15 230 (9.58%) User Experience
16 225 (9.38%) Machine Learning
16 225 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
17 220 (9.17%) Front End Development
18 212 (8.83%) Computer Science
19 198 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 784 (32.67%) TypeScript
2 754 (31.42%) Python
3 717 (29.88%) C#
4 659 (27.46%) SQL
5 487 (20.29%) Java
6 210 (8.75%) PHP
7 116 (4.83%) C++
8 102 (4.25%) PowerShell
9 94 (3.92%) Go
10 57 (2.38%) R
11 54 (2.25%) Bash
12 47 (1.96%) Ruby
13 26 (1.08%) Rust
14 24 (1.00%) Apex Code
14 24 (1.00%) C
15 21 (0.88%) Perl
16 19 (0.79%) Bicep
16 19 (0.79%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.71%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 316 (13.17%) Degree
2 245 (10.21%) Security Cleared
3 177 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 148 (6.17%) SC Cleared
5 94 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 84 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 71 (2.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 71 (2.96%) Azure Certification
8 42 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 30 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
11 17 (0.71%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.58%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
15 9 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.29%) PhD
17 6 (0.25%) HND
18 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 3 (0.13%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (7.08%) Accessibility
2 162 (6.75%) QA
3 41 (1.71%) WCAG
4 35 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.04%) GDPR
6 22 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (0.88%) SLA
8 7 (0.29%) GRC
8 7 (0.29%) HL7
8 7 (0.29%) PERC
9 6 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (0.21%) IEC 61131
11 4 (0.17%) NCSC
11 4 (0.17%) NIST
12 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.13%) PMO
13 2 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 335 (13.96%) Docker
2 15 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.25%) KVM
Systems Management
1 280 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 198 (8.25%) Terraform
3 61 (2.54%) Ansible
4 49 (2.04%) Grafana
5 33 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.00%) Kibana
7 15 (0.63%) logstash
8 14 (0.58%) Argo
8 14 (0.58%) Podman
9 12 (0.50%) Kustomize
10 9 (0.38%) Puppet
11 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.25%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.13%) Nagios
13 3 (0.13%) Plesk
13 3 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.083%) MOM
14 2 (0.083%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.083%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 569 (23.71%) Microsoft
2 133 (5.54%) Google
3 52 (2.17%) Adobe
4 41 (1.71%) Oracle
4 41 (1.71%) Salesforce
4 41 (1.71%) ServiceNow
5 29 (1.21%) Splunk
6 22 (0.92%) OpenAI
7 21 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 20 (0.83%) Apple
9 19 (0.79%) HubSpot
9 19 (0.79%) MuleSoft
10 18 (0.75%) Facebook
10 18 (0.75%) Sony
10 18 (0.75%) Yahoo!
11 15 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 15 (0.63%) SAP
11 15 (0.63%) VMware
12 14 (0.58%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.46%) Pega