WebAssembly Job Trends

WebAssembly (Wasm)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring WebAssembly skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 681 623 829
Rank change year-on-year -58 +206 +122
Permanent jobs citing WebAssembly 12 9 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.022% 0.017%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.10% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 14
10th Percentile - £63,000 £55,725
25th Percentile £47,500 £63,750 £63,362
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - +64.71%
75th Percentile £52,500 £85,000 £143,125
90th Percentile £53,600 £91,000 £157,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £90,000 £65,799
% change year-on-year -44.44% +36.78% +54.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WebAssembly falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,188 8,812 19,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.55% 21.71% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,001 6,569 15,409
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

WebAssembly
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WebAssembly job vacancy trend in the UK

WebAssembly
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebAssembly.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebAssembly

WebAssembly
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebAssembly within the UK over the 6 months to 27 March 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
Work from Home +13 12 £50,000 -28.57%
England -47 12 £50,000 -28.57% 2
UK excluding London -42 9 £50,000 -44.44%
West Midlands -1 8 £50,000 -
Midlands -22 8 £50,000 -
London - 3 - - 2
North West - 1 £56,000 -
North of England - 1 £56,000 -

WebAssembly
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Figma
1 8 (66.67%) GitHub
1 8 (66.67%) GitHub Copilot
1 8 (66.67%) SaaS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (25.00%) ESLint
2 3 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Designer
1 6 (50.00%) UX Designer
2 5 (41.67%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
3 3 (25.00%) React Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Blazor Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (16.67%) UX Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) Blazor
2 8 (66.67%) .NET
2 8 (66.67%) Material Design
3 3 (25.00%) CSS
3 3 (25.00%) Node.js
3 3 (25.00%) React
3 3 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) AI
2 8 (66.67%) CRM
2 8 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 8 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 8 (66.67%) Interaction Design
2 8 (66.67%) Responsive Web Design
2 8 (66.67%) User Experience
2 8 (66.67%) User Stories
2 8 (66.67%) UX Design
2 8 (66.67%) Wireframes
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) API Development
4 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Programming
4 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 8 (66.67%) WCAG