Mocha Job Trends

Mocha
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Mocha skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 688 663
Rank change year-on-year +42 -25 +127
Permanent jobs citing Mocha 5 23 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.042% 0.097%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.14% 0.41% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 38
10th Percentile - £51,250 £56,250
25th Percentile - £52,813 £65,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £91,934
90th Percentile - £91,250 £92,854
UK excluding London median annual salary - £56,250 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -20.30% +8.58%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Mocha falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,631 5,666 6,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 10.26% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,383 3,295 5,088
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -6.36% -7.56% +8.18%

Mocha
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Mocha relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Mocha job vacancy trend in the UK

Mocha
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mocha.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mocha

Mocha
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mocha within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 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 +62 5 £75,000 - 2
London +29 5 £75,000 -13.04% 1
Work from Home +75 3 - -

Mocha
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 2 (40.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) npm
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Yarn
4 1 (20.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Broadband
2 2 (40.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 5 (100.00%) webpack
2 3 (60.00%) CircleCI
2 3 (60.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Node.js
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) D3.js
2 3 (60.00%) Redux
2 3 (60.00%) Svelte
3 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) Express.js
3 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) Jest
3 2 (40.00%) Kafka
3 2 (40.00%) MEAN Stack
3 2 (40.00%) MERN Stack
3 2 (40.00%) Mongoose
3 2 (40.00%) NestJS
3 2 (40.00%) OAuth
3 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Social Media
2 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Storytelling
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Natural Language Understanding
3 2 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) R
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google