Hybrid/Remote JavaScript Job Trends

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring JavaScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,603 2,585 3,138
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.88% 11.03% 12.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.43% 28.61% 26.14%
Number of salaries quoted 954 1,970 2,856
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,794
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,375 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

JavaScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,100 9,034 12,005
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.43% 38.55% 47.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,456 6,322 10,375
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +4.00%

JavaScript
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JavaScript trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

JavaScript
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

JavaScript salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 186 (11.60%) Apache Airflow
2 169 (10.54%) Confluence
3 91 (5.68%) Apache
4 33 (2.06%) CMS
5 28 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 25 (1.56%) IIS
7 19 (1.19%) WordPress
8 12 (0.75%) Apache Solr
9 11 (0.69%) Headless CMS
10 9 (0.56%) Drupal
10 9 (0.56%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.50%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.31%) nginx
13 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
14 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.12%) Mendix
14 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.12%) Solana
15 1 (0.062%) ColdFusion
15 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (1.00%) Adobe XD
2 13 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.50%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.19%) Sketch
8 2 (0.12%) Elementor
9 1 (0.062%) InVision
9 1 (0.062%) Simulink
9 1 (0.062%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.50%) Shopify
3 18 (1.12%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.81%) Magento
5 9 (0.56%) Infor CloudSuite
5 9 (0.56%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 5 (0.31%) JDE OneWorld
6 5 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.25%) Sage 1000
8 3 (0.19%) PlanetPress Connect
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
10 1 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.062%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 949 (59.20%) AWS
2 841 (52.46%) Azure
3 540 (33.69%) GCP
4 186 (11.60%) dbt
5 92 (5.74%) Snowflake
6 90 (5.61%) SaaS
7 87 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 59 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 56 (3.49%) Power Automate
11 51 (3.18%) Serverless
12 50 (3.12%) Amazon EKS
13 48 (2.99%) GitHub
14 46 (2.87%) PowerApps
15 45 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
16 38 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
17 35 (2.18%) Azure Service Bus
18 34 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
19 31 (1.93%) Figma
20 28 (1.75%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.69%) Broadband
2 10 (0.62%) SSL
3 9 (0.56%) DMARC
4 7 (0.44%) Firewall
5 5 (0.31%) HTTP
6 2 (0.12%) AMQP
7 1 (0.062%) DNS
7 1 (0.062%) Network Security
7 1 (0.062%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.062%) VPN
7 1 (0.062%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (23.77%) SQL Server
2 185 (11.54%) Amazon Athena
2 185 (11.54%) Apache Arrow
2 185 (11.54%) Apache Iceberg
2 185 (11.54%) Dremio
3 172 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
4 125 (7.80%) Elasticsearch
5 95 (5.93%) MySQL
6 88 (5.49%) Apache Ignite
6 88 (5.49%) Data Lake
7 84 (5.24%) MongoDB
8 52 (3.24%) NoSQL
9 48 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (2.00%) Power BI
11 28 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 24 (1.50%) Relational Database
13 20 (1.25%) Redis
13 20 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.56%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 293 (18.28%) JIRA
2 269 (16.78%) Selenium
3 264 (16.47%) SonarQube
4 261 (16.28%) Maven
5 259 (16.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 258 (16.09%) GitLab
7 250 (15.60%) Bitbucket
8 249 (15.53%) Cucumber
9 192 (11.98%) Git
10 36 (2.25%) Cypress.io
11 32 (2.00%) Jenkins
12 28 (1.75%) webpack
13 22 (1.37%) Visual Studio
14 20 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
15 17 (1.06%) JUnit
15 17 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
16 16 (1.00%) MSBuild
17 14 (0.87%) TeamCity
18 11 (0.69%) Balsamiq
18 11 (0.69%) Jasmine
General
1 627 (39.11%) Finance
2 514 (32.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 379 (23.64%) Banking
4 242 (15.10%) Front Office
5 218 (13.60%) Social Skills
6 179 (11.17%) Investment Banking
7 125 (7.80%) Retail
8 105 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
9 90 (5.61%) Corporate Banking
10 82 (5.12%) Law
11 49 (3.06%) Marketing
12 33 (2.06%) Public Sector
13 27 (1.68%) Games
14 19 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.81%) Advertising
15 13 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.69%) iGaming
17 9 (0.56%) Czech Language
17 9 (0.56%) Legal
18 8 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 730 (45.54%) Software Engineer
2 701 (43.73%) Developer
3 452 (28.20%) Senior
4 295 (18.40%) Senior Software Engineer
5 193 (12.04%) AWS Engineer
6 185 (11.54%) AWS Software Engineer
7 163 (10.17%) Python Engineer
8 161 (10.04%) Python Software Engineer
9 150 (9.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 128 (7.99%) Java Engineer
11 123 (7.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 123 (7.67%) Software Developer
12 117 (7.30%) Senior Developer
13 116 (7.24%) Full-Stack Developer
14 107 (6.67%) .NET Developer
14 107 (6.67%) AWS Developer
15 95 (5.93%) Lead
16 89 (5.55%) Senior Java Engineer
17 88 (5.49%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 80 (4.99%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 693 (43.23%) React
2 636 (39.68%) HTML
3 545 (34.00%) CSS
4 504 (31.44%) Node.js
5 491 (30.63%) .NET
6 322 (20.09%) Redux
7 284 (17.72%) Kafka
8 282 (17.59%) Spring
8 282 (17.59%) Spring Boot
9 249 (15.53%) JPA
10 247 (15.41%) AngularJS
11 241 (15.03%) Pandas
12 213 (13.29%) Vue
13 208 (12.98%) REST
14 202 (12.60%) RESTful
15 187 (11.67%) NumPy
16 185 (11.54%) SciPy
17 178 (11.10%) HTML5
18 177 (11.04%) Hibernate
19 153 (9.54%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 307 (19.15%) Product Ownership
2 268 (16.72%) Enterprise Software
3 238 (14.85%) Fixed Income
4 227 (14.16%) Cyberattack
5 206 (12.85%) Equities
5 206 (12.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 197 (12.29%) Self-Motivation
7 185 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
8 102 (6.36%) Hedge funds
9 89 (5.55%) Derivative
10 88 (5.49%) Pricing Data
11 36 (2.25%) Cloud Native
12 28 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
13 20 (1.25%) Mobile App
14 15 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 15 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.75%) Algorithms
15 12 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (0.69%) Data Centre
16 11 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 316 (19.71%) Linux
2 61 (3.81%) Android
3 41 (2.56%) Windows
4 33 (2.06%) Unix
5 19 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.062%) CentOS
10 1 (0.062%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,102 (68.75%) Agile
2 907 (56.58%) Software Engineering
3 593 (36.99%) Microservices
4 496 (30.94%) CI/CD
5 495 (30.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 437 (27.26%) User Experience
7 430 (26.82%) DevOps
8 394 (24.58%) Mentoring
9 365 (22.77%) Front End Development
10 356 (22.21%) Test Automation
11 348 (21.71%) Containerisation
12 319 (19.90%) SDLC
13 287 (17.90%) Performance Optimisation
13 287 (17.90%) Scrum
14 248 (15.47%) TDD
15 243 (15.16%) Machine Learning
16 240 (14.97%) Clean Code
17 238 (14.85%) Investment Management
18 233 (14.54%) Asset Management
19 221 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 783 (48.85%) Java
2 657 (40.99%) Python
3 641 (39.99%) TypeScript
4 554 (34.56%) SQL
5 333 (20.77%) C#
6 289 (18.03%) C++
7 280 (17.47%) Go
8 279 (17.40%) Rust
9 135 (8.42%) PHP
10 58 (3.62%) C
11 55 (3.43%) R
11 55 (3.43%) Ruby
12 53 (3.31%) MATLAB
13 49 (3.06%) Dart
14 43 (2.68%) PowerShell
15 19 (1.19%) VB.NET
16 18 (1.12%) T-SQL
17 16 (1.00%) VBA
18 11 (0.69%) Bash
19 7 (0.44%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 280 (17.47%) Security Cleared
2 230 (14.35%) DV Cleared
3 192 (11.98%) AWS Certification
4 181 (11.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 178 (11.10%) AWS Certified Developer
6 154 (9.61%) Degree
7 101 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (3.06%) SC Cleared
9 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.37%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.37%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.25%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.12%) ACCA
14 2 (0.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.062%) Linux+ Certification
15 1 (0.062%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 327 (20.40%) QA
2 154 (9.61%) Accessibility
3 32 (2.00%) GDPR
4 20 (1.25%) WCAG
5 16 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.19%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.062%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.062%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.062%) HL7
7 1 (0.062%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.062%) SLA
System Software
1 419 (26.14%) Docker
2 11 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.062%) HDFS
3 1 (0.062%) KVM
3 1 (0.062%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 373 (23.27%) Kubernetes
2 100 (6.24%) Terraform
3 62 (3.87%) Ansible
4 19 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.87%) Grafana
6 12 (0.75%) Istio
7 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.19%) Argo
8 3 (0.19%) Kibana
9 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.062%) HP UCMDB
10 1 (0.062%) Marathon
10 1 (0.062%) Matomo
10 1 (0.062%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.062%) Puppet
Vendors
1 247 (15.41%) Solace
2 233 (14.54%) Microsoft
3 43 (2.68%) ServiceNow
4 34 (2.12%) Adobe
5 32 (2.00%) Google
6 21 (1.31%) Oracle
6 21 (1.31%) Salesforce
7 14 (0.87%) MuleSoft
8 13 (0.81%) DevExpress
9 10 (0.62%) Rollbar
10 9 (0.56%) HubSpot
10 9 (0.56%) Infor
11 8 (0.50%) Apple
11 8 (0.50%) Cisco
12 7 (0.44%) Facebook
12 7 (0.44%) YouTube
13 6 (0.37%) Dell
13 6 (0.37%) Guidewire
14 5 (0.31%) Sage
14 5 (0.31%) Workday