JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 18 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 4,958 16,943 22,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.21% 13.41% 17.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.67% 29.11% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,211 9,784 14,117
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +5.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%

All Programming Languages
UK

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,870 58,197 67,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.61% 46.05% 52.22%
Number of salaries quoted 17,139 36,667 45,610
10th Percentile £39,788 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,140 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JavaScript.

Salary trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Top 17 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 30 November 2023. 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 -3 4,411 £65,000 +4.00% 2,347
UK excluding London -8 2,905 £55,000 - 1,634
Work from Home -8 2,595 £62,968 +4.95% 1,657
London 0 1,763 £80,000 +6.67% 968
South East -3 836 £57,500 - 492
North of England -9 728 £55,000 - 473
South West -15 429 £55,000 +4.76% 179
Midlands -4 418 £55,000 - 206
North West -10 391 £55,000 -4.35% 275
Yorkshire -9 301 £56,318 +2.40% 143
Scotland -18 234 £57,500 +4.55% 108
West Midlands -12 220 £55,000 - 127
East Midlands -3 197 £55,000 +4.76% 79
East of England -6 148 £60,000 +9.09% 130
Wales -25 79 £47,500 -13.64% 56
Northern Ireland -20 44 £45,000 -21.74% 29
North East -12 36 £52,500 +5.00% 64

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 130 (2.62%) CMS
2 125 (2.52%) Apache
3 124 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 110 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
5 100 (2.02%) WordPress
6 81 (1.63%) Confluence
7 62 (1.25%) IIS
8 48 (0.97%) Umbraco
9 47 (0.95%) Tomcat
10 29 (0.58%) Drupal
11 25 (0.50%) Jetty
12 18 (0.36%) nginx
13 14 (0.28%) Kentico
13 14 (0.28%) OpenStack
14 13 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 13 (0.26%) Headless CMS
15 12 (0.24%) Apache Spark
15 12 (0.24%) JBoss
15 12 (0.24%) Jupyter
15 12 (0.24%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 32 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.42%) Photoshop
3 16 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
4 14 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 13 (0.26%) Adobe XD
5 13 (0.26%) Sketch
6 5 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
7 4 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.081%) InVision
7 4 (0.081%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.081%) Simulink
7 4 (0.081%) Trello
8 3 (0.061%) FileZilla
8 3 (0.061%) InDesign
8 3 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.040%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.040%) Fireworks
9 2 (0.040%) Mathcad
9 2 (0.040%) RoboHelp
Business Applications
1 189 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
3 25 (0.50%) Magento
4 20 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.40%) Shopify
5 19 (0.38%) Elite 3E
6 16 (0.32%) Maximo
7 13 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.24%) Fidessa
9 11 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
10 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
11 5 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
11 5 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.081%) Salesforce CRM
13 3 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
14 2 (0.040%) Adobe Campaign
14 2 (0.040%) JDE EnterpriseOne
14 2 (0.040%) Oracle Cash Management
14 2 (0.040%) SAP ERP
14 2 (0.040%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,556 (31.38%) Azure
2 1,317 (26.56%) AWS
3 473 (9.54%) GCP
4 441 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
5 368 (7.42%) SaaS
6 311 (6.27%) Power Platform
7 301 (6.07%) Serverless
8 268 (5.41%) GitHub
9 218 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
10 137 (2.76%) PowerApps
11 92 (1.86%) Power Automate
12 89 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
13 72 (1.45%) Figma
14 71 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
15 68 (1.37%) npm
16 66 (1.33%) OpenShift
17 64 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
18 61 (1.23%) PaaS
19 60 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
20 52 (1.05%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 95 (1.92%) Internet
2 44 (0.89%) HTTP
3 34 (0.69%) SSL
4 31 (0.63%) LAN
5 28 (0.56%) Firewall
5 28 (0.56%) VPN
5 28 (0.56%) WAN
6 26 (0.52%) DNS
7 19 (0.38%) AMQP
8 18 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.26%) DHCP
9 13 (0.26%) SSH
10 12 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
10 12 (0.24%) VoIP
11 11 (0.22%) Intranet
12 7 (0.14%) Bluetooth
13 6 (0.12%) Network Security
13 6 (0.12%) PuTTY
13 6 (0.12%) WinSCP
14 4 (0.081%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 804 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 396 (7.99%) MySQL
3 309 (6.23%) Relational Database
4 267 (5.39%) NoSQL
5 231 (4.66%) MongoDB
6 224 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
7 209 (4.22%) Power BI
8 117 (2.36%) RDBMS
9 115 (2.32%) Oracle Database
10 108 (2.18%) Big Data
11 102 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
12 87 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 85 (1.71%) Apache Ignite
14 76 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 67 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
16 58 (1.17%) Redis
17 55 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
18 53 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
19 50 (1.01%) Apache Arrow
19 50 (1.01%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 955 (19.26%) Git
2 378 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 256 (5.16%) Selenium
4 251 (5.06%) Cypress.io
5 238 (4.80%) JIRA
6 171 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 136 (2.74%) Visual Studio
8 122 (2.46%) Maven
9 97 (1.96%) Postman
10 87 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
11 73 (1.47%) GitLab
12 62 (1.25%) SoapUI
13 59 (1.19%) JUnit
14 57 (1.15%) IntelliJ
15 53 (1.07%) Subversion
15 53 (1.07%) webpack
16 49 (0.99%) Jasmine
16 49 (0.99%) TeamCity
17 45 (0.91%) Bitbucket
18 44 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,001 (20.19%) Finance
2 961 (19.38%) Social Skills
3 321 (6.47%) Banking
4 300 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
5 262 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 241 (4.86%) Front Office
7 212 (4.28%) Retail
8 173 (3.49%) Marketing
9 130 (2.62%) Public Sector
10 101 (2.04%) Legal
11 86 (1.73%) Law
12 78 (1.57%) Games
13 69 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 67 (1.35%) Investment Banking
15 58 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 53 (1.07%) Aerospace
17 52 (1.05%) Automotive
18 51 (1.03%) Police
19 49 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
20 44 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3,024 (60.99%) Developer
2 1,137 (22.93%) Senior
3 807 (16.28%) Software Engineer
4 699 (14.10%) Senior Developer
5 550 (11.09%) Full Stack Developer
6 518 (10.45%) Lead
7 513 (10.35%) .NET Developer
8 454 (9.16%) Software Developer
9 312 (6.29%) C# Developer
10 309 (6.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 280 (5.65%) React Developer
12 250 (5.04%) Lead Developer
13 225 (4.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 207 (4.18%) Java Developer
15 184 (3.71%) JavaScript Developer
16 182 (3.67%) PHP Developer
17 164 (3.31%) Architect
18 156 (3.15%) Web Developer
19 153 (3.09%) Python Developer
20 147 (2.96%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,997 (40.28%) HTML
2 1,887 (38.06%) CSS
3 1,804 (36.39%) React
4 1,691 (34.11%) .NET
5 1,084 (21.86%) AngularJS
6 846 (17.06%) Node.js
7 665 (13.41%) ASP.NET
8 522 (10.53%) .NET Core
9 520 (10.49%) Vue
10 470 (9.48%) REST
11 464 (9.36%) RESTful
12 463 (9.34%) Web Services
13 460 (9.28%) HTML5
14 444 (8.96%) .NET Framework
15 411 (8.29%) jQuery
16 363 (7.32%) JSON
17 313 (6.31%) XML
18 261 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
19 259 (5.22%) Redux
20 240 (4.84%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 197 (3.97%) Mobile App
2 177 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 177 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 172 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
4 154 (3.11%) Fixed Income
5 107 (2.16%) Cloud Native
6 103 (2.08%) Derivative
7 98 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 96 (1.94%) Equities
9 92 (1.86%) Hedge funds
10 90 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 85 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 77 (1.55%) Algorithms
13 76 (1.53%) Management Information System
13 76 (1.53%) Public Cloud
14 68 (1.37%) Virtual Team
15 65 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
16 62 (1.25%) Cyberattack
17 52 (1.05%) Data Structures
18 49 (0.99%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 285 (5.75%) Linux
2 195 (3.93%) Windows
3 132 (2.66%) Android
4 95 (1.92%) Apple iOS
5 44 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 44 (0.89%) Unix
6 30 (0.61%) CentOS
7 25 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.26%) VMS
9 12 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.24%) Solaris
10 7 (0.14%) Debian
11 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.081%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.020%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.020%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,073 (41.81%) Agile
2 1,365 (27.53%) Software Engineering
3 1,307 (26.36%) DevOps
4 1,129 (22.77%) Full Stack Development
5 906 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
6 688 (13.88%) CI/CD
6 688 (13.88%) Microservices
7 653 (13.17%) MVC
8 562 (11.34%) Mentoring
9 541 (10.91%) Front End Development
10 536 (10.81%) Web Development
11 535 (10.79%) Computer Science
12 523 (10.55%) User Experience
13 521 (10.51%) TDD
14 509 (10.27%) Scrum
15 478 (9.64%) Test Automation
16 387 (7.81%) SDLC
17 370 (7.46%) Design Patterns
18 344 (6.94%) Continuous Integration
19 343 (6.92%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,844 (37.19%) C#
2 1,451 (29.27%) SQL
3 1,222 (24.65%) Java
4 1,202 (24.24%) Python
5 1,176 (23.72%) TypeScript
6 559 (11.27%) PHP
7 228 (4.60%) Go
7 228 (4.60%) Ruby
7 228 (4.60%) T-SQL
8 215 (4.34%) Bash
9 151 (3.05%) C++
10 141 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 120 (2.42%) Perl
12 81 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 60 (1.21%) Scala
14 53 (1.07%) PL/SQL
15 52 (1.05%) VB.NET
16 51 (1.03%) C
17 48 (0.97%) Rust
18 39 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 797 (16.08%) Degree
2 435 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 346 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 266 (5.37%) SC Cleared
5 108 (2.18%) DV Cleared
6 63 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 56 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 53 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 52 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
11 24 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 23 (0.46%) Azure Certification
13 19 (0.38%) ISTQB
14 18 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.28%) MBA
16 8 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 6 (0.12%) APMP
17 6 (0.12%) MCPD
17 6 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (8.67%) QA
2 121 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 43 (0.87%) WCAG
4 42 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 18 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.20%) NIST
7 10 (0.20%) PMO
8 9 (0.18%) NCSC
8 9 (0.18%) SLA
9 7 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.12%) GDPR
10 6 (0.12%) ISO 9000
11 5 (0.10%) HL7
11 5 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 4 (0.081%) GRC
13 3 (0.061%) WAI
14 2 (0.040%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.040%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.040%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 670 (13.51%) Docker
2 32 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.46%) Firmware
4 15 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.24%) LXC
6 11 (0.22%) OpenSIPS
7 9 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.081%) FreeRADIUS
10 4 (0.081%) VMware Infrastructure
11 2 (0.040%) ACF2
11 2 (0.040%) Ceph
11 2 (0.040%) IAG
11 2 (0.040%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.040%) NFS
11 2 (0.040%) RACF
12 1 (0.020%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.020%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.020%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 521 (10.51%) Kubernetes
2 149 (3.01%) Terraform
3 78 (1.57%) Ansible
4 28 (0.56%) Kibana
5 26 (0.52%) Grafana
5 26 (0.52%) Progress Chef
6 25 (0.50%) HP UCMDB
7 24 (0.48%) SCCM
8 15 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
9 14 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
9 14 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (0.26%) Istio
11 12 (0.24%) Nagios
11 12 (0.24%) systemd
12 11 (0.22%) Puppet
13 8 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.081%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.081%) Salt
15 3 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 728 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 234 (4.72%) Oracle
3 169 (3.41%) Google
4 122 (2.46%) ServiceNow
5 72 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 70 (1.41%) Xamarin
7 61 (1.23%) Adobe
8 59 (1.19%) HP
8 59 (1.19%) IBM
9 56 (1.13%) Remedy
10 44 (0.89%) BMC
11 30 (0.61%) Splunk
12 28 (0.56%) SAP
13 20 (0.40%) ESRI
13 20 (0.40%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.28%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.28%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.28%) Rollbar
14 14 (0.28%) Veracode
14 14 (0.28%) WSO2