JavaScript Jobs

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 4,124 6,809 13,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.88% 8.84% 12.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.32% 23.85% 27.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,675 5,722 8,136
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,100 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - +4.76%

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 18,475 28,549 49,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.83% 37.06% 45.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,198 22,650 31,697
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 19 February 2025.

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 19 February 2025. 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 -5 3,705 £66,253 +10.42% 1,502
UK excluding London -11 2,674 £58,500 +6.36% 1,086
Work from Home -4 2,025 £66,340 +10.57% 1,057
London -3 1,330 £85,000 +9.68% 601
South East -6 696 £60,000 +4.35% 335
North of England -18 580 £55,000 - 261
South West -6 383 £60,000 +14.29% 123
Midlands -24 358 £55,000 +4.76% 161
East of England -3 326 £66,214 +20.39% 129
North West -32 320 £55,000 +4.76% 148
Scotland -18 239 £55,000 - 62
West Midlands -19 236 £53,000 -3.64% 103
Yorkshire -6 183 £52,500 -4.55% 82
East Midlands -28 122 £57,500 +15.00% 52
Wales +9 84 £32,500 -35.00% 30
North East +4 77 £46,250 -7.50% 36
Northern Ireland -17 12 £50,000 +11.11% 6
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 167 (4.05%) Apache
2 143 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 141 (3.42%) CMS
4 122 (2.96%) Confluence
5 116 (2.81%) SharePoint
6 98 (2.38%) WordPress
7 58 (1.41%) nginx
8 40 (0.97%) Umbraco
9 24 (0.58%) WinCC
10 23 (0.56%) Jupyter
11 22 (0.53%) Drupal
12 14 (0.34%) Headless CMS
12 14 (0.34%) IIS
13 12 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
14 11 (0.27%) Apache Solr
15 10 (0.24%) OpenEdge
15 10 (0.24%) Tomcat
16 9 (0.22%) OpenStack
17 8 (0.19%) Camunda
18 7 (0.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 133 (3.23%) Chatbot
2 69 (1.67%) Photoshop
3 47 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
5 41 (0.99%) Adobe XD
6 32 (0.78%) Sketch
7 24 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
8 17 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 12 (0.29%) MS Visio
10 9 (0.22%) Acrobat
10 9 (0.22%) Fireworks
10 9 (0.22%) RoboHelp
10 9 (0.22%) Trello
11 8 (0.19%) InVision
12 5 (0.12%) Elementor
13 4 (0.097%) Zeplin
14 3 (0.073%) Notion
15 2 (0.048%) InDesign
15 2 (0.048%) Moqups
15 2 (0.048%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 124 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (1.26%) NetSuite
3 28 (0.68%) Shopify
4 27 (0.65%) Sage 200
4 27 (0.65%) Sage 50
5 25 (0.61%) Magento
6 10 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 9 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
8 6 (0.15%) Fidessa
9 3 (0.073%) JDE OneWorld
10 2 (0.048%) FLEXCUBE
10 2 (0.048%) Oracle BPM
10 2 (0.048%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
10 2 (0.048%) Sage X3
11 1 (0.024%) Odoo
11 1 (0.024%) ReMetrica
11 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.024%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,177 (28.54%) AWS
2 1,102 (26.72%) Azure
3 441 (10.69%) GCP
4 367 (8.90%) GitHub
5 295 (7.15%) Azure DevOps
6 265 (6.43%) Serverless
7 259 (6.28%) SaaS
8 229 (5.55%) Power Platform
9 164 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
10 142 (3.44%) Power Automate
11 119 (2.89%) dbt
12 117 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
12 117 (2.84%) PowerApps
13 115 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
14 106 (2.57%) Amazon S3
15 93 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
16 91 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
17 90 (2.18%) Figma
18 86 (2.09%) Snowflake
19 82 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.07%) Internet
2 39 (0.95%) Broadband
3 38 (0.92%) Wireshark
4 26 (0.63%) Firewall
4 26 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 23 (0.56%) DNS
6 20 (0.48%) HTTP
7 17 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (0.36%) MQTT
9 10 (0.24%) VPN
10 9 (0.22%) DHCP
11 8 (0.19%) Bluetooth
12 6 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
12 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.15%) Network Security
12 6 (0.15%) SMS
12 6 (0.15%) SSL
13 5 (0.12%) Multicast
14 4 (0.097%) LAN
14 4 (0.097%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 518 (12.56%) SQL Server
2 423 (10.26%) MySQL
3 267 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
4 229 (5.55%) MongoDB
5 210 (5.09%) NoSQL
6 170 (4.12%) Relational Database
7 130 (3.15%) Apache Ignite
8 120 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
9 118 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
10 117 (2.84%) Apache Iceberg
10 117 (2.84%) Dremio
11 115 (2.79%) Apache Arrow
12 81 (1.96%) Power BI
13 77 (1.87%) Data Lake
14 74 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
15 51 (1.24%) Redis
16 50 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
16 50 (1.21%) Big Data
16 50 (1.21%) Tableau
17 41 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 806 (19.54%) Git
2 215 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 209 (5.07%) JIRA
4 154 (3.73%) Visual Studio
5 149 (3.61%) webpack
6 120 (2.91%) Cypress.io
7 99 (2.40%) Selenium
8 75 (1.82%) GitLab
9 70 (1.70%) Bitbucket
10 60 (1.45%) TeamCity
11 59 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
12 54 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
13 52 (1.26%) Maven
14 51 (1.24%) MSBuild
15 45 (1.09%) gulp
16 41 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
17 38 (0.92%) Fiddler
18 37 (0.90%) Ant
18 37 (0.90%) Cucumber
18 37 (0.90%) Grunt
General
1 946 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 756 (18.33%) Finance
3 360 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (6.86%) Banking
5 275 (6.67%) Front Office
6 213 (5.16%) Marketing
7 159 (3.86%) Retail
8 149 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 148 (3.59%) Multimedia
10 137 (3.32%) Games
11 135 (3.27%) Public Sector
12 104 (2.52%) Law
13 96 (2.33%) Advertising
14 93 (2.26%) Investment Banking
15 83 (2.01%) Legal
16 73 (1.77%) Manufacturing
17 47 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
18 39 (0.95%) Automotive
19 29 (0.70%) Tech for Good
20 27 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2,219 (53.81%) Developer
2 971 (23.55%) Senior
3 752 (18.23%) Software Engineer
4 533 (12.92%) Senior Developer
5 337 (8.17%) Lead
6 307 (7.44%) Web Developer
7 265 (6.43%) Full-Stack Developer
8 263 (6.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 243 (5.89%) .NET Developer
10 206 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 205 (4.97%) Software Developer
12 204 (4.95%) React Developer
13 189 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
14 186 (4.51%) PHP Developer
15 171 (4.15%) Architect
16 167 (4.05%) Python Engineer
17 147 (3.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 145 (3.52%) Trainee Developer
18 145 (3.52%) Trainee Web Developer
19 127 (3.08%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,935 (46.92%) HTML
2 1,646 (39.91%) CSS
3 1,470 (35.65%) React
4 1,055 (25.58%) .NET
5 736 (17.85%) Node.js
6 683 (16.56%) AngularJS
7 507 (12.29%) HTML5
8 379 (9.19%) CSS3
9 375 (9.09%) ASP.NET
10 368 (8.92%) REST
11 350 (8.49%) RESTful
11 350 (8.49%) Vue
12 332 (8.05%) .NET Framework
13 284 (6.89%) .NET Core
14 272 (6.60%) Web Services
15 261 (6.33%) XML
16 249 (6.04%) jQuery
17 227 (5.50%) JSON
17 227 (5.50%) Redux
18 199 (4.83%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 243 (5.89%) Mobile App
2 205 (4.97%) Fixed Income
3 132 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 125 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 96 (2.33%) Hedge funds
6 89 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 88 (2.13%) Algorithms
8 87 (2.11%) Cloud Native
8 87 (2.11%) Derivative
9 81 (1.96%) Equities
10 79 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 75 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 60 (1.45%) Legacy Code
13 56 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
14 55 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 52 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
16 51 (1.24%) Robotics
16 51 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
16 51 (1.24%) Social Media
17 48 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 271 (6.57%) Linux
2 117 (2.84%) Windows
3 110 (2.67%) Android
4 62 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 40 (0.97%) Unix
6 23 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.41%) CentOS
8 16 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 15 (0.36%) Rocky
10 6 (0.15%) Solaris
10 6 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.097%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.097%) VMS
12 2 (0.048%) Fedora
12 2 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.024%) Debian
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,407 (34.12%) Agile
2 1,271 (30.82%) Software Engineering
3 886 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
4 869 (21.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 763 (18.50%) DevOps
6 589 (14.28%) Web Development
7 583 (14.14%) CI/CD
8 483 (11.71%) User Experience
9 478 (11.59%) Front End Development
10 470 (11.40%) Microservices
11 453 (10.98%) Artificial Intelligence
12 420 (10.18%) Mentoring
13 419 (10.16%) MVC
14 402 (9.75%) Computer Science
15 337 (8.17%) Fintech
16 332 (8.05%) Test Automation
17 317 (7.69%) Code Quality
18 315 (7.64%) Scrum
19 274 (6.64%) Asset Management
20 271 (6.57%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1,297 (31.45%) C#
2 1,197 (29.03%) TypeScript
3 1,189 (28.83%) Python
4 1,163 (28.20%) SQL
5 656 (15.91%) Java
6 502 (12.17%) PHP
7 265 (6.43%) C++
8 104 (2.52%) T-SQL
9 93 (2.26%) C
10 91 (2.21%) PowerShell
11 67 (1.62%) Ruby
12 63 (1.53%) Kotlin
13 62 (1.50%) Go
14 56 (1.36%) VB
15 54 (1.31%) Bash
16 37 (0.90%) R
17 32 (0.78%) Objective-C
18 31 (0.75%) Rust
19 30 (0.73%) PL/SQL
20 28 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 785 (19.03%) Degree
2 288 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 231 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 149 (3.61%) SC Cleared
5 110 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 63 (1.53%) Master's Degree
7 50 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
9 22 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (0.53%) PhD
10 21 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 15 (0.36%) ISTQB
12 14 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 11 (0.27%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.19%) HND
15 7 (0.17%) CISSP
16 6 (0.15%) ACCA
16 6 (0.15%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.15%) CSSLP
16 6 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (6.23%) QA
2 137 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 63 (1.53%) GDPR
4 45 (1.09%) WCAG
5 30 (0.73%) SLA
6 20 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.36%) WAI
8 11 (0.27%) Data Quality
8 11 (0.27%) GRC
9 10 (0.24%) PMO
10 9 (0.22%) HL7
11 8 (0.19%) IEC 61131
12 6 (0.15%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.15%) NIST
13 4 (0.097%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.097%) IEC 61508
13 4 (0.097%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.097%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.073%) NCSC
15 2 (0.048%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 600 (14.55%) Docker
2 16 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.12%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.073%) Samba
6 2 (0.048%) Firmware
7 1 (0.024%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.024%) Varnish
7 1 (0.024%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.024%) Xen
Systems Management
1 444 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 154 (3.73%) Terraform
3 51 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 30 (0.73%) Ansible
5 27 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.58%) Kibana
7 21 (0.51%) Grafana
8 9 (0.22%) Istio
8 9 (0.22%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.17%) cPanel
10 6 (0.15%) Rundeck
11 5 (0.12%) CA Endevor
12 4 (0.097%) Argo
12 4 (0.097%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.073%) HP Quality Center
13 3 (0.073%) Nagios
13 3 (0.073%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.048%) Control-M
14 2 (0.048%) logstash
14 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 602 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 187 (4.53%) Google
3 122 (2.96%) PayPal
3 122 (2.96%) ServiceNow
4 97 (2.35%) Adobe
5 95 (2.30%) Oracle
6 48 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 42 (1.02%) Xamarin
8 40 (0.97%) IBM
9 35 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 33 (0.80%) Sage
11 31 (0.75%) Citrix
12 30 (0.73%) Siemens
13 25 (0.61%) OpenAI
14 20 (0.48%) Twitter
15 18 (0.44%) Dynatrace
16 17 (0.41%) Atlassian
16 17 (0.41%) Splunk
16 17 (0.41%) VMware
17 10 (0.24%) F5