Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Babel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Babel over the 6 months to 11 August 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Babel JavaScript Compiler
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
11 Aug 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 609 471 274
Rank change year-on-year -138 -197 0
Permanent jobs citing Babel 278 171 32
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.42% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.49% 1.79% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 57 53 26
10th Percentile £47,100 £33,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -18.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.48% -11.54% +4.00%

Babel is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 18,670 9,559 1,937
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.62% 23.46% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,475 6,992 1,702
10th Percentile £39,740 £36,250 £34,476
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £41,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

Babel
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Babel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Babel trend for jobs with a WFH option

Babel
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Babel.

Babel salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Babel
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Babel over the 6 months to 11 August 2022.

Babel salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 11 August 2022, Babel job roles required the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Babel.

1 220 (79.14%) React
2 195 (70.14%) JavaScript
3 182 (65.47%) webpack
4 178 (64.03%) Docker
5 158 (56.83%) Agile
6 143 (51.44%) Kubernetes
7 138 (49.64%) Finance
8 130 (46.76%) PostgreSQL
8 130 (46.76%) Node.js
9 124 (44.60%) Java
10 118 (42.45%) React Native
11 117 (42.09%) CSS
11 117 (42.09%) HTML
12 112 (40.29%) Software Engineering
12 112 (40.29%) Kafka
12 112 (40.29%) Test Automation
12 112 (40.29%) CI/CD
13 107 (38.49%) TypeScript
14 105 (37.77%) Cypress.io
15 104 (37.41%) Microservices
16 102 (36.69%) Jenkins
17 100 (35.97%) Zopa
18 98 (35.25%) Peer-to-Peer Lending
19 97 (34.89%) Jest
20 89 (32.01%) Kotlin
20 89 (32.01%) RabbitMQ
20 89 (32.01%) Amazon Aurora
21 88 (31.65%) Git (software)
22 86 (30.94%) SQL
23 73 (26.26%) Front End Development

Babel
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 21 (7.55%) CMS
2 16 (5.76%) WordPress
3 13 (4.68%) Ethereum
4 11 (3.96%) Drupal
5 9 (3.24%) GeoServer
6 8 (2.88%) Apache
6 8 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (3.60%) Photoshop
2 9 (3.24%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.44%) FileZilla
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 67 (24.10%) AWS
2 65 (23.38%) npm
3 45 (16.19%) GCP
4 34 (12.23%) BrowserStack
5 28 (10.07%) Serverless
6 27 (9.71%) Azure
7 26 (9.35%) GitHub
8 25 (8.99%) Sauce Labs
9 21 (7.55%) Yarn
10 18 (6.47%) Google Data Studio
11 16 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (3.96%) Google Ads
13 11 (3.96%) Google Tag Manager
14 10 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (2.88%) SaaS
16 6 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (2.16%) Amazon S3
16 6 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.52%) HTTP
2 4 (1.44%) Firewall
2 4 (1.44%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (46.76%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (32.01%) Amazon Aurora
3 50 (17.99%) MySQL
4 43 (15.47%) Relational Database
5 23 (8.27%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (7.55%) MongoDB
7 18 (6.47%) BigQuery
7 18 (6.47%) Redis
8 13 (4.68%) RDBMS
9 12 (4.32%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.88%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.44%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.08%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.72%) CouchDB
14 1 (0.36%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 182 (65.47%) webpack
2 105 (37.77%) Cypress.io
3 102 (36.69%) Jenkins
4 88 (31.65%) Git (software)
5 54 (19.42%) Selenium
6 44 (15.83%) Postman
7 25 (8.99%) Appium
8 23 (8.27%) ESLint
9 22 (7.91%) Grunt
10 16 (5.76%) Mocha
11 14 (5.04%) Cucumber
11 14 (5.04%) JIRA
11 14 (5.04%) Visual Studio Code
12 13 (4.68%) GitLab
13 11 (3.96%) CircleCI
13 11 (3.96%) Lerna
13 11 (3.96%) Maven
14 10 (3.60%) Eclipse
14 10 (3.60%) Gradle
14 10 (3.60%) IntelliJ
General
1 138 (49.64%) Finance
2 52 (18.71%) Banking
3 48 (17.27%) Social Skills
4 32 (11.51%) Billing
5 29 (10.43%) Advertising
6 23 (8.27%) Games
6 23 (8.27%) Public Sector
7 22 (7.91%) Retail
8 17 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (5.40%) Publishing
10 12 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (3.24%) Marketing
13 1 (0.36%) Automotive
13 1 (0.36%) Law
13 1 (0.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 111 (39.93%) Developer
2 97 (34.89%) Software Engineer
3 65 (23.38%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 51 (18.35%) Senior Developer
5 46 (16.55%) Senior Software Engineer
6 44 (15.83%) QA Engineer
7 24 (8.63%) React Developer
8 22 (7.91%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 21 (7.55%) Full Stack Developer
9 21 (7.55%) Mobile Engineer
10 16 (5.76%) Lead Software Engineer
11 14 (5.04%) JavaScript Developer
12 12 (4.32%) Web Developer
13 11 (3.96%) .NET Software Engineer
13 11 (3.96%) C# Software Engineer
13 11 (3.96%) Front End Web Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 11 (3.96%) Java Engineer
13 11 (3.96%) Java Software Engineer
13 11 (3.96%) Senior Java Engineer
13 11 (3.96%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (79.14%) React
2 130 (46.76%) Node.js
3 118 (42.45%) React Native
4 117 (42.09%) CSS
4 117 (42.09%) HTML
5 112 (40.29%) Kafka
6 97 (34.89%) Jest
7 89 (32.01%) RabbitMQ
8 71 (25.54%) Sass
9 69 (24.82%) Redux
10 60 (21.58%) GraphQL
11 52 (18.71%) HTML5
12 43 (15.47%) Samza
13 39 (14.03%) CSS3
14 38 (13.67%) Vue.js
15 35 (12.59%) Next.js
16 32 (11.51%) Express
17 31 (11.15%) Enzyme
18 29 (10.43%) JWT
19 25 (8.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.71%) User Experience
2 42 (15.11%) Mobile App
3 32 (11.51%) Credit Risk
4 16 (5.76%) Data Structures
5 15 (5.40%) Cloud Native
6 14 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (4.68%) Blockchain
8 11 (3.96%) BBC
8 11 (3.96%) Sports Betting
9 10 (3.60%) Clustering
9 10 (3.60%) Graphic Design
10 9 (3.24%) Virtual Team
11 6 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
13 2 (0.72%) Animation
13 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.72%) Mobile Games
13 2 (0.72%) Online Games
13 2 (0.72%) Vector Graphics
14 1 (0.36%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.91%) Windows
2 11 (3.96%) Linux
3 4 (1.44%) Debian
4 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (56.83%) Agile
2 112 (40.29%) CI/CD
2 112 (40.29%) Software Engineering
2 112 (40.29%) Test Automation
3 104 (37.41%) Microservices
4 98 (35.25%) Peer-to-Peer Lending
5 73 (26.26%) Front End Development
6 60 (21.58%) TDD
7 58 (20.86%) SDLC
8 53 (19.06%) Scrum
9 46 (16.55%) Refactoring
10 44 (15.83%) API Testing
11 43 (15.47%) BDD
12 42 (15.11%) Unit Testing
13 39 (14.03%) DevOps
14 38 (13.67%) Pair Programming
15 37 (13.31%) Full Stack Development
16 35 (12.59%) SOLID
17 34 (12.23%) UX Design
18 32 (11.51%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 195 (70.14%) JavaScript
2 124 (44.60%) Java
3 107 (38.49%) TypeScript
4 89 (32.01%) Kotlin
5 86 (30.94%) SQL
6 66 (23.74%) Python
7 57 (20.50%) ES6
8 35 (12.59%) PHP
9 15 (5.40%) C#
10 13 (4.68%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.80%) Perl
11 5 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.44%) Bash
12 4 (1.44%) Go
12 4 (1.44%) Ruby
13 3 (1.08%) JSX
13 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (7.91%) Degree
2 11 (3.96%) Master's Degree
3 9 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.88%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.52%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.36%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (24.46%) QA
2 49 (17.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 178 (64.03%) Docker
2 4 (1.44%) iptables
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 143 (51.44%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.32%) Terraform
3 11 (3.96%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 100 (35.97%) Zopa
2 42 (15.11%) Google
3 9 (3.24%) Adobe
3 9 (3.24%) Sencha
3 9 (3.24%) Zend
4 4 (1.44%) Marketo
4 4 (1.44%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (0.36%) Amplitude