Senior JavaScript Developer Jobs

Senior JavaScript Developer
UK

The median Senior JavaScript Developer salary in the UK is £73,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 693 823 846
Rank change year-on-year +130 +23 +114
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior JavaScript Developer 19 55 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.056% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.059% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 18 47 102
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,750
25th Percentile £62,813 £61,750 £67,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% -6.45% +19.23%
75th Percentile £81,875 £93,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,575 £95,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +17.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,912 93,707 92,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,050 67,086 58,518
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

Senior JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior JavaScript Developer in the UK

Senior JavaScript Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior JavaScript Developer in the UK

Senior JavaScript Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior JavaScript Developer over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior JavaScript Developer in the UK

Senior JavaScript Developer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior JavaScript Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 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 +107 18 £75,000 +3.45% 13
UK excluding London +166 9 £70,000 - 9
Work from Home +105 8 £73,000 +2.10% 14
London +95 8 £92,500 +2.78% 6
South East +92 6 £70,500 +17.50% 2
East of England +40 3 £67,500 -5.59% 3

Senior JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Senior JavaScript Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 14 (73.68%) React
3 10 (52.63%) Node.js
4 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
5 8 (42.11%) TypeScript
6 7 (36.84%) GitHub
6 7 (36.84%) AWS
6 7 (36.84%) Agile
6 7 (36.84%) Clean Code
7 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (31.58%) GraphQL
7 6 (31.58%) Python
7 6 (31.58%) Mobile App
8 5 (26.32%) User Experience
8 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
8 5 (26.32%) Front End Development
9 4 (21.05%) Vue
9 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
9 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
9 4 (21.05%) Web Development
9 4 (21.05%) .NET
9 4 (21.05%) Microservices
9 4 (21.05%) Docker
9 4 (21.05%) Azure
9 4 (21.05%) UX Design
9 4 (21.05%) Cypress.io
10 3 (15.79%) Portfolio Management
10 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (15.79%) Web Application Development
10 3 (15.79%) Selenium

Senior JavaScript Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
1 7 (36.84%) GitHub
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Cypress.io
2 3 (15.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (15.79%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Selenium
3 1 (5.26%) gulp
3 1 (5.26%) Mocha
3 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 3 (15.79%) Banking
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
1 3 (15.79%) Front Office
1 3 (15.79%) Investment Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Retail
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Games
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) React
2 10 (52.63%) Node.js
3 6 (31.58%) GraphQL
4 4 (21.05%) .NET
4 4 (21.05%) Vue
5 3 (15.79%) CSS
5 3 (15.79%) HTML
5 3 (15.79%) React Native
6 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
6 2 (10.53%) Express.js
6 2 (10.53%) HTML5
6 2 (10.53%) REST
7 1 (5.26%) CSS3
7 1 (5.26%) Jest
7 1 (5.26%) MEAN Stack
7 1 (5.26%) Nunjucks
7 1 (5.26%) RESTful
7 1 (5.26%) Sass
7 1 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (5.26%) Vuetify.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Mobile App
2 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
3 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Clean Code
3 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (26.32%) Front End Development
4 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) User Experience
5 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
5 4 (21.05%) Microservices
5 4 (21.05%) UX Design
5 4 (21.05%) Web Development
6 3 (15.79%) API Integration
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.79%) DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Investment Management
6 3 (15.79%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (15.79%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (15.79%) SOLID
6 3 (15.79%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (42.11%) TypeScript
3 6 (31.58%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) PHP
6 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) RSA Archer