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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 28 19
Rank change year-on-year -45 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 2,178 3,222 8,145
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.35% 7.36% 7.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.34% 23.36% 24.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,764 2,129 6,622
10th Percentile £31,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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 16,326 13,790 33,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.62% 31.48% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,405 9,166 25,247
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 5 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 5 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 -47 1,958 £60,000 -9.23% 1,015
UK excluding London -53 1,393 £55,000 -8.33% 744
Work from Home -28 823 £60,000 -9.47% 1,008
London -34 618 £75,000 -6.83% 389
North of England -40 482 £55,000 -4.35% 199
South East -39 320 £55,000 - 214
North West -38 241 £57,500 -4.17% 121
South West -33 195 £50,000 -13.04% 90
Yorkshire -7 194 £58,750 -4.08% 57
Midlands -55 185 £55,000 - 83
East of England -50 123 £60,000 -9.38% 78
West Midlands -53 110 £57,500 +4.55% 41
East Midlands -46 75 £55,000 - 42
Scotland -54 49 £48,750 -18.75% 40
North East -23 47 £52,000 +1.46% 21
Wales -40 34 £55,000 +2.33% 23
Northern Ireland -41 4 £57,500 +15.00% 31
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 71 (3.26%) WordPress
2 69 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 51 (2.34%) CMS
4 29 (1.33%) Apache
5 28 (1.29%) Confluence
6 17 (0.78%) IIS
7 11 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.41%) Drupal
8 9 (0.41%) JBoss
8 9 (0.41%) nginx
8 9 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.37%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
9 8 (0.37%) Umbraco
10 6 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.18%) Moodle
11 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.14%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 22 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.69%) Chatbot
4 12 (0.55%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.46%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.18%) Sketch
7 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.14%) Blender
8 3 (0.14%) InVision
8 3 (0.14%) Maya
9 2 (0.092%) InDesign
9 2 (0.092%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.092%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.046%) Elementor
10 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.046%) Trello
10 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 46 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.01%) Shopify
3 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.18%) Magento
5 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.092%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.092%) 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
7 1 (0.046%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 852 (39.12%) AWS
2 825 (37.88%) Azure
3 271 (12.44%) GitHub
4 219 (10.06%) GCP
5 212 (9.73%) Serverless
6 179 (8.22%) Power Platform
7 174 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (5.74%) SaaS
9 113 (5.19%) Power Automate
10 101 (4.64%) PowerApps
11 97 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
12 96 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
13 85 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
14 71 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
15 69 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
16 67 (3.08%) Amazon S3
17 56 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
18 45 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
19 43 (1.97%) Azure Functions
20 42 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 158 (7.25%) Internet
2 40 (1.84%) Broadband
3 18 (0.83%) Firewall
4 16 (0.73%) VPN
5 10 (0.46%) HTTP
6 8 (0.37%) WAN
7 7 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (0.23%) AMQP
9 5 (0.23%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.23%) Intranet
10 4 (0.18%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.14%) DNS
11 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
11 3 (0.14%) MQTT
11 3 (0.14%) Network Security
11 3 (0.14%) SSL
12 2 (0.092%) Multicast
12 2 (0.092%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (7.62%) MongoDB
2 162 (7.44%) MySQL
3 161 (7.39%) SQL Server
4 160 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
5 119 (5.46%) Relational Database
6 105 (4.82%) NoSQL
7 95 (4.36%) Power BI
8 94 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
10 41 (1.88%) RDBMS
11 23 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.96%) MariaDB
13 20 (0.92%) Redis
14 19 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 17 (0.78%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.73%) GIS
17 15 (0.69%) Big Data
18 14 (0.64%) DynamoDB
19 12 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
19 12 (0.55%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 439 (20.16%) Git
2 120 (5.51%) Jenkins
3 78 (3.58%) Cypress.io
4 76 (3.49%) JIRA
5 69 (3.17%) GitLab
6 36 (1.65%) Selenium
7 33 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.47%) JUnit
9 28 (1.29%) Maven
10 25 (1.15%) Postman
11 19 (0.87%) TeamCity
12 18 (0.83%) Jaeger
13 17 (0.78%) CircleCI
13 17 (0.78%) Mockito
13 17 (0.78%) Subversion
13 17 (0.78%) Vite
14 15 (0.69%) webpack
15 14 (0.64%) SonarQube
16 13 (0.60%) Balsamiq
16 13 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 523 (24.01%) Social Skills
2 301 (13.82%) Finance
3 174 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 131 (6.01%) Multimedia
6 114 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 85 (3.90%) Law
8 76 (3.49%) Retail
9 73 (3.35%) Marketing
10 60 (2.75%) Front Office
11 48 (2.20%) Legal
12 46 (2.11%) Banking
13 39 (1.79%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.10%) Automotive
16 23 (1.06%) Telecoms
17 22 (1.01%) Health Technology
18 21 (0.96%) Aerospace
18 21 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
19 20 (0.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,160 (53.26%) Developer
2 421 (19.33%) Senior
3 354 (16.25%) Software Engineer
4 303 (13.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 271 (12.44%) Lead
6 252 (11.57%) Senior Developer
7 194 (8.91%) Software Developer
8 131 (6.01%) Trainee
9 126 (5.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 119 (5.46%) Lead Developer
11 114 (5.23%) .NET Developer
12 109 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 103 (4.73%) JavaScript Developer
14 89 (4.09%) Senior Software Engineer
15 88 (4.04%) React Developer
16 86 (3.95%) Lead Software Engineer
17 81 (3.72%) Java Developer
18 69 (3.17%) Architect
19 63 (2.89%) Lead Software Developer
20 58 (2.66%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 789 (36.23%) React
2 683 (31.36%) HTML
3 660 (30.30%) CSS
4 474 (21.76%) Node.js
5 471 (21.63%) .NET
6 256 (11.75%) REST
7 219 (10.06%) AngularJS
8 183 (8.40%) RESTful
9 171 (7.85%) Vue
10 161 (7.39%) .NET Core
11 147 (6.75%) ASP.NET
12 109 (5.00%) JSON
12 109 (5.00%) Spring
13 106 (4.87%) HTML5
14 103 (4.73%) ASP.NET Core
15 100 (4.59%) jQuery
16 91 (4.18%) Spring Boot
17 90 (4.13%) CSS3
17 90 (4.13%) Kafka
18 85 (3.90%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 145 (6.66%) Cloud Native
2 102 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 77 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 69 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 60 (2.75%) Fixed Income
7 59 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
8 56 (2.57%) Onboarding
9 44 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (2.02%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.65%) Low-Code
11 28 (1.29%) e-Learning
11 28 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 24 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 20 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (0.83%) Derivative
15 16 (0.73%) Equities
15 16 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (0.69%) Algorithms
16 15 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (5.97%) Linux
2 52 (2.39%) Windows
3 35 (1.61%) Unix
4 20 (0.92%) Android
5 12 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.51%) CentOS
6 11 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.23%) Debian
9 2 (0.092%) Rocky
10 1 (0.046%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.046%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (38.43%) Agile
2 768 (35.26%) Full-Stack Development
3 589 (27.04%) CI/CD
4 548 (25.16%) Software Engineering
5 508 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
6 481 (22.08%) DevOps
7 477 (21.90%) Mentoring
8 353 (16.21%) AI
9 339 (15.56%) Microservices
10 284 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 268 (12.30%) Test Automation
12 242 (11.11%) User Experience
13 239 (10.97%) Containerisation
14 227 (10.42%) Scrum
15 213 (9.78%) Front End Development
16 210 (9.64%) Web Development
17 189 (8.68%) Technical Leadership
18 188 (8.63%) Computer Science
19 171 (7.85%) Infrastructure as Code
20 170 (7.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 752 (34.53%) Python
2 680 (31.22%) TypeScript
3 528 (24.24%) C#
4 521 (23.92%) SQL
5 474 (21.76%) Java
6 193 (8.86%) PHP
7 95 (4.36%) R
8 88 (4.04%) Go
9 86 (3.95%) C++
10 74 (3.40%) PowerShell
11 53 (2.43%) Bash
12 37 (1.70%) Ruby
13 26 (1.19%) Apex Code
14 22 (1.01%) C
14 22 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 22 (1.01%) Rust
15 17 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 15 (0.69%) Perl
17 14 (0.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 283 (12.99%) Degree
2 231 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 171 (7.85%) AWS Certification
4 158 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 149 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 142 (6.52%) Azure Certification
7 136 (6.24%) SC Cleared
8 135 (6.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 47 (2.16%) DV Cleared
10 20 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.87%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.64%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
17 9 (0.41%) PhD
18 6 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
19 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
20 3 (0.14%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (7.07%) Accessibility
2 134 (6.15%) QA
3 36 (1.65%) WCAG
4 31 (1.42%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.10%) GDPR
6 20 (0.92%) SLA
7 12 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.37%) 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 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.092%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.092%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.046%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 316 (14.51%) Docker
2 13 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 272 (12.49%) Kubernetes
2 185 (8.49%) Terraform
3 59 (2.71%) Ansible
4 45 (2.07%) Grafana
5 35 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.01%) Argo
7 20 (0.92%) Kibana
8 18 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 14 (0.64%) Podman
10 11 (0.51%) logstash
11 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.28%) Puppet
13 4 (0.18%) HP Fortify
13 4 (0.18%) Nagios
13 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.14%) Plesk
14 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.092%) MOM
15 2 (0.092%) Proxmox
15 2 (0.092%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 483 (22.18%) Microsoft
2 108 (4.96%) Google
3 53 (2.43%) Adobe
4 50 (2.30%) Oracle
5 47 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.70%) ServiceNow
7 24 (1.10%) HubSpot
7 24 (1.10%) Splunk
8 22 (1.01%) MuleSoft
9 20 (0.92%) OpenAI
10 19 (0.87%) Red Hat
11 18 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 16 (0.73%) SAP
13 14 (0.64%) Palo Alto
14 13 (0.60%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.55%) Pega
15 12 (0.55%) VMware
16 9 (0.41%) Apple
16 9 (0.41%) Databricks
17 7 (0.32%) Cisco