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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -28 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,172 1,586 2,628
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.81% 9.72% 11.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.92% 30.98% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 957 938 1,945
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £112,813 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 6,193 5,120 9,065
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.44% 31.39% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,633 3,451 6,180
10th Percentile £38,814 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,930 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 18 September 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 59 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.54%) CMS
3 16 (1.37%) WordPress
4 11 (0.94%) Confluence
5 8 (0.68%) IIS
5 8 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
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%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.085%) ExpressionEngine
10 1 (0.085%) Moodle
Applications
1 16 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.51%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.26%) Blender
5 3 (0.26%) Maya
6 2 (0.17%) Elementor
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.085%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.085%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.085%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.60%) Infor M3
2 7 (0.60%) Lawson
2 7 (0.60%) Shopify
3 4 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 436 (37.20%) Azure
2 383 (32.68%) AWS
3 174 (14.85%) SaaS
4 126 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
5 119 (10.15%) Power Platform
6 104 (8.87%) Serverless
7 92 (7.85%) Power Automate
8 84 (7.17%) PowerApps
9 79 (6.74%) Azure AI
10 78 (6.66%) GCP
11 72 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
11 72 (6.14%) GitHub
12 61 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
13 52 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
15 41 (3.50%) Amazon S3
16 39 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
17 38 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
18 35 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.45%) Internet
2 13 (1.11%) Broadband
3 6 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.43%) Intranet
5 4 (0.34%) HTTP
5 4 (0.34%) SSH
6 3 (0.26%) Firewall
6 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.26%) SSL
7 1 (0.085%) DNS
7 1 (0.085%) Network Security
7 1 (0.085%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.085%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.085%) VPN
7 1 (0.085%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (19.03%) MongoDB
2 180 (15.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 101 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
4 99 (8.45%) SQL Server
5 81 (6.91%) Elasticsearch
5 81 (6.91%) MySQL
6 59 (5.03%) Relational Database
7 56 (4.78%) Power BI
8 33 (2.82%) NoSQL
9 26 (2.22%) Redis
10 20 (1.71%) Spark SQL
11 16 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.11%) DynamoDB
14 12 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (0.77%) Metadata
16 8 (0.68%) MariaDB
17 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
18 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 139 (11.86%) Git
2 45 (3.84%) Cypress.io
3 42 (3.58%) JIRA
4 32 (2.73%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.54%) JUnit
6 14 (1.19%) Maven
6 14 (1.19%) Mockito
7 13 (1.11%) GitLab
8 11 (0.94%) Claude Code
8 11 (0.94%) Postman
9 10 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.77%) Selenium
10 9 (0.77%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.51%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.51%) Balsamiq
11 6 (0.51%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.51%) Subversion
12 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 277 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 158 (13.48%) Finance
3 119 (10.15%) Public Sector
4 88 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (6.31%) Marketing
6 71 (6.06%) Legal
7 68 (5.80%) Law
8 59 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.90%) Retail
10 31 (2.65%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.96%) Banking
11 23 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.54%) Health Technology
13 12 (1.02%) Games
14 8 (0.68%) Local Government
15 7 (0.60%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.43%) Legal Technology
16 5 (0.43%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.34%) Advertising
17 4 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 665 (56.74%) Developer
2 232 (19.80%) Senior
3 204 (17.41%) .NET Developer
4 197 (16.81%) Full-Stack Developer
5 160 (13.65%) Lead
6 152 (12.97%) Software Engineer
7 105 (8.96%) Senior Developer
8 100 (8.53%) Software Developer
9 93 (7.94%) Lead Developer
10 72 (6.14%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 67 (5.72%) Lead Software Developer
12 52 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 50 (4.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 49 (4.18%) Senior Manager
14 49 (4.18%) Testing Manager
15 39 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
16 30 (2.56%) Lead Software Engineer
17 27 (2.30%) Microsoft 365 Developer
17 27 (2.30%) Web Developer
18 26 (2.22%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 489 (41.72%) React
2 361 (30.80%) .NET
3 311 (26.54%) Node.js
4 240 (20.48%) HTML
5 217 (18.52%) CSS
6 215 (18.34%) .NET Core
7 209 (17.83%) ASP.NET
8 183 (15.61%) ASP.NET Core
9 165 (14.08%) Blazor
10 160 (13.65%) RESTful
11 90 (7.68%) ASP.NET Web API
12 84 (7.17%) REST
13 83 (7.08%) .NET Framework
14 79 (6.74%) ML.NET
15 78 (6.66%) Vue
16 69 (5.89%) AngularJS
17 63 (5.38%) JSON
18 49 (4.18%) Entity Framework
19 43 (3.67%) Jest
20 41 (3.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.38%) Virtual Team
3 59 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
4 54 (4.61%) Greenfield Project
5 43 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.24%) Mobile App
7 29 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 27 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 21 (1.79%) Social Media
11 19 (1.62%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.45%) BBC
12 17 (1.45%) iPhone
12 17 (1.45%) NHS
13 15 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.19%) Blog
14 14 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (1.02%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.61%) Linux
2 29 (2.47%) Android
3 14 (1.19%) Windows
4 12 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.34%) Unix
6 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (47.53%) Full-Stack Development
2 542 (46.25%) Agile
3 329 (28.07%) CI/CD
4 319 (27.22%) Software Engineering
5 301 (25.68%) DevOps
6 282 (24.06%) AI
7 265 (22.61%) Mentoring
8 251 (21.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 249 (21.25%) Microservices
9 249 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
10 173 (14.76%) Test Automation
11 156 (13.31%) Scrum
12 130 (11.09%) Machine Learning
13 125 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
14 122 (10.41%) User Experience
15 112 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
16 107 (9.13%) SDLC
17 97 (8.28%) Coaching
18 89 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 85 (7.25%) OO
Programming Languages
1 465 (39.68%) C#
2 424 (36.18%) TypeScript
3 385 (32.85%) SQL
4 255 (21.76%) Python
5 200 (17.06%) Java
6 74 (6.31%) PowerShell
7 62 (5.29%) PHP
8 58 (4.95%) C++
9 40 (3.41%) Ruby
10 26 (2.22%) Go
11 19 (1.62%) Bash
12 17 (1.45%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.68%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.68%) R
15 7 (0.60%) Rust
15 7 (0.60%) Scala
16 4 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.34%) Perl
16 4 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 108 (9.22%) Security Cleared
2 107 (9.13%) Degree
3 89 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 51 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.77%) DBS Check
5 9 (0.77%) Master's Degree
6 7 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 7 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.17%) OCP
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.085%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.085%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (9.98%) QA
2 105 (8.96%) Accessibility
3 39 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 36 (3.07%) WCAG
5 19 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.94%) GDPR
6 11 (0.94%) GRC
7 9 (0.77%) SLA
8 7 (0.60%) HL7
9 5 (0.43%) NIST
10 4 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.26%) NCSC
12 1 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 129 (11.01%) Docker
2 4 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (8.02%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.02%) Grafana
3 11 (0.94%) Ansible
4 9 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.51%) Podman
6 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.26%) Plesk
8 1 (0.085%) Argo
8 1 (0.085%) Consul
8 1 (0.085%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.085%) Kibana
Vendors
1 326 (27.82%) Microsoft
2 70 (5.97%) Google
3 31 (2.65%) Adobe
4 24 (2.05%) Oracle
5 19 (1.62%) Sony
6 17 (1.45%) Apple
6 17 (1.45%) Facebook
6 17 (1.45%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.45%) Yahoo!
7 14 (1.19%) HubSpot
7 14 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 10 (0.85%) Databricks
10 7 (0.60%) Infor
10 7 (0.60%) Sage
11 4 (0.34%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.34%) Marketo
11 4 (0.34%) New Relic
11 4 (0.34%) Optimizely
11 4 (0.34%) Sitecore