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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,160 1,689 2,706
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.05% 10.19% 10.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.06% 31.56% 28.59%
Number of salaries quoted 941 1,025 2,263
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 6,086 5,351 9,464
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.51% 32.29% 38.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,583 3,679 7,216
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,450 £39,000
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 21 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 61 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.55%) CMS
3 14 (1.21%) WordPress
4 11 (0.95%) Confluence
5 8 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) IIS
7 4 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.34%) 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 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.086%) Moodle
10 1 (0.086%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.78%) Adobe XD
2 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.26%) Blender
4 3 (0.26%) Maya
5 2 (0.17%) Elementor
6 1 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.086%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.086%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.03%) 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%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.086%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 466 (40.17%) Azure
2 402 (34.66%) AWS
3 160 (13.79%) SaaS
4 134 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
5 117 (10.09%) Power Platform
6 101 (8.71%) GCP
7 92 (7.93%) Power Automate
8 91 (7.84%) Serverless
9 85 (7.33%) PowerApps
10 82 (7.07%) Azure AI
11 77 (6.64%) GitHub
12 60 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
13 57 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (3.71%) Azure Logic Apps
15 42 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
16 40 (3.45%) Amazon S3
17 39 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
18 36 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
20 29 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.24%) Broadband
2 18 (1.55%) Internet
3 7 (0.60%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.52%) Firewall
5 5 (0.43%) Intranet
6 4 (0.34%) 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 (0.086%) DNS
9 1 (0.086%) Network Security
9 1 (0.086%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.086%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (20.34%) MongoDB
2 188 (16.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 107 (9.22%) SQL Server
4 103 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
5 86 (7.41%) MySQL
6 82 (7.07%) Elasticsearch
7 56 (4.83%) Power BI
7 56 (4.83%) Relational Database
8 43 (3.71%) NoSQL
9 25 (2.16%) Redis
10 15 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.12%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.69%) MariaDB
14 8 (0.69%) Metadata
15 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 144 (12.41%) Git
2 49 (4.22%) Cypress.io
3 44 (3.79%) JIRA
4 30 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.55%) JUnit
6 15 (1.29%) GitLab
7 14 (1.21%) Maven
7 14 (1.21%) Mockito
8 12 (1.03%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.86%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.86%) Postman
10 9 (0.78%) Axure RP
10 9 (0.78%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.52%) Selenium
12 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.43%) Subversion
12 5 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 288 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 172 (14.83%) Finance
3 107 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 80 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.72%) Law
6 77 (6.64%) Legal
7 72 (6.21%) Marketing
8 68 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (3.10%) Retail
10 24 (2.07%) Front Office
11 23 (1.98%) Banking
11 23 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.64%) Health Technology
14 18 (1.55%) Games
15 12 (1.03%) Legal Technology
16 10 (0.86%) Local Government
17 5 (0.43%) Advertising
17 5 (0.43%) Social Housing
17 5 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 682 (58.79%) Developer
2 247 (21.29%) Senior
3 206 (17.76%) .NET Developer
4 199 (17.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 178 (15.34%) Software Engineer
6 163 (14.05%) Lead
7 118 (10.17%) Senior Developer
8 99 (8.53%) Lead Developer
9 87 (7.50%) Software Developer
10 69 (5.95%) Lead Software Developer
11 62 (5.34%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 60 (5.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (4.22%) Senior Manager
13 49 (4.22%) Testing Manager
14 48 (4.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 44 (3.79%) Lead Software Engineer
15 44 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
16 28 (2.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 25 (2.16%) Web Developer
18 24 (2.07%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (45.86%) React
2 360 (31.03%) .NET
3 326 (28.10%) Node.js
4 232 (20.00%) HTML
5 220 (18.97%) .NET Core
6 216 (18.62%) ASP.NET
7 212 (18.28%) CSS
8 189 (16.29%) ASP.NET Core
9 165 (14.22%) Blazor
10 157 (13.53%) RESTful
11 91 (7.84%) ASP.NET Web API
12 86 (7.41%) Vue
13 85 (7.33%) REST
14 82 (7.07%) ML.NET
15 81 (6.98%) .NET Framework
16 74 (6.38%) AngularJS
17 66 (5.69%) JSON
18 47 (4.05%) Entity Framework
19 45 (3.88%) Jest
20 44 (3.79%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.67%) Cloud Native
2 66 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
3 63 (5.43%) Virtual Team
4 50 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
5 48 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 35 (3.02%) Mobile App
7 33 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.76%) Onboarding
9 30 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.81%) Fixed Income
11 21 (1.81%) Social Media
12 17 (1.47%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.47%) BBC
12 17 (1.47%) iPhone
13 15 (1.29%) Cyberattack
13 15 (1.29%) NHS
14 14 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.21%) Sports Betting
15 13 (1.12%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 57 (4.91%) Linux
2 26 (2.24%) Android
3 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.60%) Unix
5 6 (0.52%) Windows
6 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (49.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 563 (48.53%) Agile
3 346 (29.83%) Software Engineering
4 317 (27.33%) CI/CD
5 308 (26.55%) DevOps
6 270 (23.28%) AI
7 262 (22.59%) Microservices
8 252 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
9 249 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 249 (21.47%) Mentoring
10 171 (14.74%) Test Automation
11 167 (14.40%) Scrum
12 140 (12.07%) Machine Learning
13 128 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
14 126 (10.86%) User Experience
15 101 (8.71%) SDLC
16 94 (8.10%) Containerisation
17 92 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
18 88 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 85 (7.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 452 (38.97%) C#
2 431 (37.16%) TypeScript
3 370 (31.90%) SQL
4 276 (23.79%) Python
5 195 (16.81%) Java
6 78 (6.72%) PowerShell
7 62 (5.34%) PHP
8 40 (3.45%) Go
8 40 (3.45%) Ruby
9 37 (3.19%) C++
10 20 (1.72%) Bash
11 17 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.69%) R
15 6 (0.52%) Rust
15 6 (0.52%) Scala
16 5 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.34%) Perl
17 4 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 116 (10.00%) Degree
2 104 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 88 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 53 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.43%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.17%) OCP
13 2 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.086%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 1 (0.086%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (10.00%) QA
2 95 (8.19%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.07%) WCAG
4 16 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 15 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.21%) SLA
7 11 (0.95%) GDPR
8 10 (0.86%) GRC
9 7 (0.60%) HL7
10 5 (0.43%) NIST
11 4 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.26%) NCSC
13 1 (0.086%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 134 (11.55%) Docker
2 4 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 87 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.03%) Podman
3 10 (0.86%) Ansible
3 10 (0.86%) Grafana
4 7 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 1 (0.086%) Consul
7 1 (0.086%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 331 (28.53%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.72%) Google
3 36 (3.10%) Adobe
4 24 (2.07%) Oracle
5 20 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 19 (1.64%) Sony
7 17 (1.47%) Apple
7 17 (1.47%) Facebook
7 17 (1.47%) Yahoo!
8 15 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.21%) HubSpot
10 11 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.78%) Databricks
12 7 (0.60%) Infor
13 5 (0.43%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.43%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.43%) Sage
14 4 (0.34%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.34%) Marketo
14 4 (0.34%) New Relic