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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,147 1,687 2,710
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.95% 10.19% 10.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.83% 31.72% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 933 1,024 2,237
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%

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 6,092 5,318 9,485
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.31% 32.13% 38.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,588 3,662 7,158
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JavaScript and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

JavaScript job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

JavaScript
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

JavaScript salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 60 (5.23%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.57%) CMS
3 14 (1.22%) WordPress
4 11 (0.96%) Confluence
5 8 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.35%) Apache
7 4 (0.35%) IIS
7 4 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.26%) DNN
8 3 (0.26%) EPiServer
8 3 (0.26%) Immediacy CMS
8 3 (0.26%) Kentico
8 3 (0.26%) Sitefinity
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.087%) Moodle
10 1 (0.087%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.70%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.26%) Blender
5 3 (0.26%) Maya
6 2 (0.17%) Elementor
7 1 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.087%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.087%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.61%) Infor M3
2 7 (0.61%) Lawson
2 7 (0.61%) Shopify
3 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.087%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 460 (40.10%) Azure
2 390 (34.00%) AWS
3 164 (14.30%) SaaS
4 134 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
5 116 (10.11%) Power Platform
6 96 (8.37%) GCP
7 91 (7.93%) Power Automate
8 88 (7.67%) Serverless
9 84 (7.32%) PowerApps
10 82 (7.15%) Azure AI
11 76 (6.63%) GitHub
12 59 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
13 56 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
15 41 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
16 39 (3.40%) Amazon S3
16 39 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
18 33 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
19 29 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.01%) Broadband
2 18 (1.57%) Internet
3 7 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.52%) Firewall
5 5 (0.44%) Intranet
6 4 (0.35%) SSH
7 3 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.26%) HTTP
7 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.17%) SSL
9 1 (0.087%) DNS
9 1 (0.087%) Network Security
9 1 (0.087%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.087%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (20.49%) MongoDB
2 188 (16.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 103 (8.98%) SQL Server
4 99 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
5 84 (7.32%) MySQL
6 82 (7.15%) Elasticsearch
7 56 (4.88%) Power BI
7 56 (4.88%) Relational Database
8 42 (3.66%) NoSQL
9 25 (2.18%) Redis
10 15 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.13%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.70%) MariaDB
14 8 (0.70%) Metadata
15 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 141 (12.29%) Git
2 48 (4.18%) Cypress.io
3 44 (3.84%) JIRA
4 29 (2.53%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.57%) JUnit
6 14 (1.22%) GitLab
6 14 (1.22%) Maven
6 14 (1.22%) Mockito
7 12 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.87%) Claude Code
8 10 (0.87%) Postman
9 9 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.70%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.70%) Balsamiq
11 6 (0.52%) Selenium
12 5 (0.44%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.44%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.44%) Subversion
13 4 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 284 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 160 (13.95%) Finance
3 106 (9.24%) Public Sector
4 78 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.63%) Law
5 76 (6.63%) Legal
6 72 (6.28%) Marketing
7 65 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (3.14%) Retail
9 23 (2.01%) Banking
9 23 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (1.74%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.66%) Health Technology
12 16 (1.39%) Games
13 14 (1.22%) Front Office
14 11 (0.96%) Legal Technology
15 10 (0.87%) Local Government
16 5 (0.44%) Back Office
16 5 (0.44%) Social Housing
16 5 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 673 (58.67%) Developer
2 241 (21.01%) Senior
3 206 (17.96%) .NET Developer
4 201 (17.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 168 (14.65%) Software Engineer
6 161 (14.04%) Lead
7 116 (10.11%) Senior Developer
8 97 (8.46%) Lead Developer
9 92 (8.02%) Software Developer
10 67 (5.84%) Lead Software Developer
11 66 (5.75%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 57 (4.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (4.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 49 (4.27%) Senior Manager
13 49 (4.27%) Testing Manager
14 42 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
15 37 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
16 25 (2.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 25 (2.18%) Web Developer
17 23 (2.01%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (44.99%) React
2 356 (31.04%) .NET
3 321 (27.99%) Node.js
4 227 (19.79%) HTML
5 219 (19.09%) .NET Core
6 216 (18.83%) ASP.NET
7 207 (18.05%) CSS
8 189 (16.48%) ASP.NET Core
9 165 (14.39%) Blazor
10 155 (13.51%) RESTful
11 91 (7.93%) ASP.NET Web API
12 84 (7.32%) Vue
13 83 (7.24%) REST
14 82 (7.15%) ML.NET
15 80 (6.97%) .NET Framework
16 71 (6.19%) AngularJS
17 66 (5.75%) JSON
18 46 (4.01%) Entity Framework
19 44 (3.84%) HTML5 Canvas
19 44 (3.84%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 66 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
3 63 (5.49%) Virtual Team
4 50 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
5 48 (4.18%) Product Ownership
6 35 (3.05%) Mobile App
7 33 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 30 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.83%) Social Media
12 18 (1.57%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.48%) BBC
13 17 (1.48%) iPhone
14 15 (1.31%) NHS
15 14 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (1.22%) Sports Betting
16 13 (1.13%) Blog
17 12 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (1.05%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 57 (4.97%) Linux
2 26 (2.27%) Android
3 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.61%) Unix
5 6 (0.52%) Windows
6 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (49.61%) Full-Stack Development
2 557 (48.56%) Agile
3 335 (29.21%) Software Engineering
4 318 (27.72%) CI/CD
5 305 (26.59%) DevOps
6 267 (23.28%) AI
7 259 (22.58%) Microservices
8 250 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 245 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
10 243 (21.19%) Mentoring
11 170 (14.82%) Test Automation
12 167 (14.56%) Scrum
13 140 (12.21%) Machine Learning
14 129 (11.25%) Technical Leadership
15 126 (10.99%) User Experience
16 101 (8.81%) SDLC
17 94 (8.20%) Containerisation
18 93 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
19 87 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 87 (7.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 450 (39.23%) C#
2 425 (37.05%) TypeScript
3 365 (31.82%) SQL
4 268 (23.37%) Python
5 188 (16.39%) Java
6 78 (6.80%) PowerShell
7 62 (5.41%) PHP
8 39 (3.40%) C++
8 39 (3.40%) Ruby
9 33 (2.88%) Go
10 20 (1.74%) Bash
11 17 (1.48%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.70%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.70%) R
14 7 (0.61%) Rust
15 6 (0.52%) Scala
16 4 (0.35%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.35%) Perl
16 4 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 109 (9.50%) Degree
2 102 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 85 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 51 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.44%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.17%) OCP
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.087%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.087%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (10.03%) QA
2 95 (8.28%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.18%) WCAG
4 17 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 15 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.05%) SLA
7 11 (0.96%) GDPR
8 10 (0.87%) GRC
9 7 (0.61%) HL7
10 5 (0.44%) NIST
11 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.26%) NCSC
13 1 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 135 (11.77%) Docker
2 4 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (7.85%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.05%) Podman
3 10 (0.87%) Ansible
3 10 (0.87%) Grafana
4 7 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 1 (0.087%) Consul
7 1 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 329 (28.68%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.71%) Google
3 35 (3.05%) Adobe
4 24 (2.09%) Oracle
5 19 (1.66%) Sony
6 18 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.48%) Apple
7 17 (1.48%) Facebook
7 17 (1.48%) Yahoo!
8 14 (1.22%) HubSpot
8 14 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 11 (0.96%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.78%) Databricks
11 7 (0.61%) Infor
12 5 (0.44%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.44%) Sage
13 4 (0.35%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.35%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.35%) New Relic
13 4 (0.35%) Sitecore