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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -33 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 772 1,959 3,745
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.19% 13.55% 11.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.67% 32.90% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 647 1,312 3,472
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,250 £108,750
UK median annual salary £59,773 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.44% +10.00% -4.00%

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 4,926 5,954 13,346
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.73% 41.17% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,646 4,451 11,409
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 10 May 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 44 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.68%) CMS
3 5 (0.65%) Confluence
4 4 (0.52%) nginx
4 4 (0.52%) WordPress
5 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.39%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.26%) Apache
6 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.26%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (1.55%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.65%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.13%) InVision
5 1 (0.13%) Notion
5 1 (0.13%) Sketch
5 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.30%) Shopify
2 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Maximo
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 327 (42.36%) AWS
2 276 (35.75%) Azure
3 101 (13.08%) Serverless
4 89 (11.53%) GCP
5 80 (10.36%) Power Platform
6 73 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (8.03%) SaaS
8 60 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (7.38%) GitHub
10 54 (6.99%) PowerApps
11 52 (6.74%) Power Automate
12 46 (5.96%) Amazon S3
12 46 (5.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 39 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
14 36 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
14 36 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
15 34 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
17 22 (2.85%) Azure AI
18 21 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.92%) Broadband
2 7 (0.91%) Firewall
3 6 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (0.65%) Intranet
5 4 (0.52%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) HTTP
6 2 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.13%) AMQP
7 1 (0.13%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (12.31%) MongoDB
2 73 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (8.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 60 (7.77%) SQL Server
5 54 (6.99%) NoSQL
6 50 (6.48%) Relational Database
7 46 (5.96%) Power BI
8 43 (5.57%) MySQL
9 25 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.59%) RDBMS
11 12 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.17%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.78%) MariaDB
14 6 (0.78%) Redis
15 5 (0.65%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.65%) Metadata
16 4 (0.52%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 104 (13.47%) Git
2 54 (6.99%) Cypress.io
3 22 (2.85%) JIRA
4 20 (2.59%) CircleCI
5 18 (2.33%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.20%) Jenkins
7 16 (2.07%) GitLab
8 12 (1.55%) Axure RP
9 11 (1.42%) Balsamiq
10 10 (1.30%) Selenium
11 9 (1.17%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.17%) webpack
12 8 (1.04%) Vite
13 7 (0.91%) Postman
14 5 (0.65%) Maven
15 4 (0.52%) Babel
15 4 (0.52%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.52%) JUnit
16 3 (0.39%) Appium
16 3 (0.39%) Mockito
General
1 195 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 126 (16.32%) Finance
3 81 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 76 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (8.94%) Law
6 65 (8.42%) Public Sector
7 40 (5.18%) Front Office
8 22 (2.85%) Legal
8 22 (2.85%) Retail
9 19 (2.46%) Banking
9 19 (2.46%) Marketing
10 16 (2.07%) Games
11 15 (1.94%) Health Technology
12 11 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.78%) Local Government
13 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.65%) Advertising
14 5 (0.65%) Back Office
15 4 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 467 (60.49%) Developer
2 155 (20.08%) Senior
3 137 (17.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 128 (16.58%) Software Engineer
5 125 (16.19%) Lead
6 97 (12.56%) Senior Developer
7 74 (9.59%) .NET Developer
7 74 (9.59%) Lead Developer
8 55 (7.12%) Lead Software Developer
9 51 (6.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 50 (6.48%) Software Developer
11 42 (5.44%) Lead Software Engineer
12 41 (5.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 39 (5.05%) React Developer
14 34 (4.40%) Power Platform Developer
15 30 (3.89%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 29 (3.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 26 (3.37%) Java Developer
17 26 (3.37%) JavaScript Developer
18 25 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (46.50%) React
2 212 (27.46%) Node.js
3 211 (27.33%) HTML
4 208 (26.94%) .NET
5 188 (24.35%) CSS
6 96 (12.44%) .NET Core
7 77 (9.97%) ASP.NET
8 72 (9.33%) REST
8 72 (9.33%) RESTful
9 68 (8.81%) Vue
10 64 (8.29%) AngularJS
11 59 (7.64%) JSON
12 57 (7.38%) ASP.NET Core
13 47 (6.09%) Kafka
14 44 (5.70%) Blazor
14 44 (5.70%) HTML5
15 43 (5.57%) Redux
16 41 (5.31%) GraphQL
17 34 (4.40%) HTML5 Canvas
17 34 (4.40%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.81%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.18%) Fixed Income
4 35 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.85%) Low-Code
6 21 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.33%) Mobile App
9 17 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.81%) e-Learning
11 13 (1.68%) Sports Betting
12 11 (1.42%) Cyberattack
13 10 (1.30%) NHS
14 9 (1.17%) Data Structures
15 8 (1.04%) Culture of Ownership
15 8 (1.04%) Derivative
15 8 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
15 8 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.48%) Linux
2 25 (3.24%) Unix
3 14 (1.81%) Android
4 9 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Debian
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (45.73%) Full-Stack Development
2 349 (45.21%) Agile
3 221 (28.63%) CI/CD
4 197 (25.52%) DevOps
5 196 (25.39%) Software Engineering
6 188 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
7 165 (21.37%) Microservices
8 160 (20.73%) Mentoring
9 115 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 112 (14.51%) User Experience
11 104 (13.47%) AI
12 93 (12.05%) Containerisation
13 91 (11.79%) Test Automation
14 87 (11.27%) Scrum
15 75 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
16 72 (9.33%) Front End Development
17 70 (9.07%) Infrastructure as Code
18 67 (8.68%) Roadmaps
19 65 (8.42%) Machine Learning
20 64 (8.29%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 274 (35.49%) TypeScript
2 235 (30.44%) Python
3 220 (28.50%) C#
4 184 (23.83%) SQL
5 183 (23.70%) Java
6 66 (8.55%) Go
7 51 (6.61%) PHP
8 28 (3.63%) Bash
9 27 (3.50%) Ruby
10 26 (3.37%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.33%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.78%) C++
14 4 (0.52%) Rust
14 4 (0.52%) Scala
15 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.39%) R
15 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.26%) Perl
16 2 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 103 (13.34%) Degree
2 76 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 71 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 50 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.15%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.94%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.26%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.13%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.81%) QA
2 64 (8.29%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.20%) WCAG
4 15 (1.94%) SLA
5 8 (1.04%) GDPR
6 7 (0.91%) GRC
7 6 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.65%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.65%) HL7
9 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 134 (17.36%) Docker
2 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 91 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 70 (9.07%) Terraform
3 27 (3.50%) Ansible
4 26 (3.37%) Argo
4 26 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.46%) Grafana
6 18 (2.33%) Kustomize
7 12 (1.55%) Podman
8 5 (0.65%) Plesk
9 2 (0.26%) cPanel
9 2 (0.26%) Kibana
10 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 176 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.38%) Google
3 34 (4.40%) Adobe
4 21 (2.72%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.59%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.94%) MuleSoft
7 11 (1.42%) Oracle
8 9 (1.17%) Apple
8 9 (1.17%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.78%) Cisco
9 6 (0.78%) F5
9 6 (0.78%) Facebook
9 6 (0.78%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.78%) Juniper
9 6 (0.78%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.65%) Sony
10 5 (0.65%) Yahoo!
11 4 (0.52%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.39%) IBM
13 2 (0.26%) BT