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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -29 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 772 2,059 2,327
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.11% 12.09% 11.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.69% 28.28% 24.69%
Number of salaries quoted 653 1,400 2,090
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,984
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £122,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.47%

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 4,131 7,280 9,423
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.32% 42.74% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,124 4,624 7,974
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +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 1 January 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 66 (8.55%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (4.53%) Apache
3 24 (3.11%) SharePoint
4 21 (2.72%) CMS
5 11 (1.42%) Apache Solr
6 9 (1.17%) Confluence
7 8 (1.04%) Headless CMS
7 8 (1.04%) WordPress
8 5 (0.65%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.65%) IIS
8 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.52%) nginx
9 4 (0.52%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.39%) Drupal
10 3 (0.39%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.39%) WebLogic Portal
11 2 (0.26%) Mendix
Applications
1 12 (1.55%) Adobe XD
2 8 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 8 (1.04%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.39%) Simulink
5 1 (0.13%) InVision
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) Notion
5 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (2.85%) Shopify
2 14 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.04%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.65%) PlanetPress Connect
5 4 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.39%) Maximo
6 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.39%) Primavera
7 2 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 325 (42.10%) AWS
2 293 (37.95%) Azure
3 103 (13.34%) Serverless
4 99 (12.82%) GCP
5 87 (11.27%) SaaS
6 65 (8.42%) dbt
7 52 (6.74%) GitHub
8 49 (6.35%) Power Platform
9 45 (5.83%) Power Automate
10 44 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
11 41 (5.31%) Dynamics 365
12 36 (4.66%) PowerApps
13 34 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
14 33 (4.27%) Amazon S3
14 33 (4.27%) Snowflake
15 32 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
16 29 (3.76%) Figma
17 25 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
18 24 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
19 22 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.07%) Broadband
2 5 (0.65%) HTTP
3 4 (0.52%) SSH
4 2 (0.26%) AMQP
4 2 (0.26%) Firewall
4 2 (0.26%) Intranet
4 2 (0.26%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.13%) DNS
5 1 (0.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (9.33%) SQL Server
3 65 (8.42%) MySQL
4 63 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
5 62 (8.03%) Apache Arrow
5 62 (8.03%) Apache Iceberg
5 62 (8.03%) Dremio
6 60 (7.77%) MongoDB
7 49 (6.35%) Relational Database
8 41 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 41 (5.31%) NoSQL
9 40 (5.18%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (4.27%) Apache Ignite
10 33 (4.27%) Data Lake
11 30 (3.89%) Power BI
12 13 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (1.42%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.17%) DynamoDB
14 9 (1.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 117 (15.16%) Git
2 41 (5.31%) Cypress.io
3 30 (3.89%) JIRA
4 17 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.20%) Selenium
4 17 (2.20%) webpack
5 13 (1.68%) Axure RP
5 13 (1.68%) GitLab
6 12 (1.55%) CircleCI
7 11 (1.42%) Balsamiq
8 9 (1.17%) JMeter
8 9 (1.17%) TeamCity
9 8 (1.04%) Babel
9 8 (1.04%) Postman
10 7 (0.91%) Jaeger
10 7 (0.91%) Vite
11 6 (0.78%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.78%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.65%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 215 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 178 (23.06%) Finance
3 86 (11.14%) Law
4 70 (9.07%) Front Office
5 65 (8.42%) Public Sector
6 57 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (4.66%) Banking
9 33 (4.27%) Investment Banking
10 32 (4.15%) Marketing
11 18 (2.33%) Retail
12 15 (1.94%) Legal
13 14 (1.81%) Games
14 11 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.91%) Advertising
16 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.52%) Electronics
17 4 (0.52%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.52%) Multimedia
17 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 472 (61.14%) Developer
2 171 (22.15%) Senior
3 125 (16.19%) Software Engineer
4 95 (12.31%) .NET Developer
5 93 (12.05%) Senior Developer
6 75 (9.72%) Full-Stack Developer
7 69 (8.94%) Software Developer
8 65 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
9 62 (8.03%) AWS Software Engineer
9 62 (8.03%) Python Engineer
9 62 (8.03%) Python Software Engineer
10 59 (7.64%) Lead
11 49 (6.35%) AWS Developer
12 48 (6.22%) Python Developer
13 43 (5.57%) Senior Software Engineer
14 40 (5.18%) Java Engineer
15 37 (4.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 36 (4.66%) Java Software Engineer
17 33 (4.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 32 (4.15%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (34.84%) React
2 244 (31.61%) HTML
3 223 (28.89%) CSS
4 216 (27.98%) .NET
5 157 (20.34%) Node.js
6 124 (16.06%) AngularJS
7 109 (14.12%) Vue
8 87 (11.27%) REST
9 75 (9.72%) .NET Core
10 71 (9.20%) ASP.NET
11 63 (8.16%) RESTful
12 62 (8.03%) NumPy
12 62 (8.03%) Pandas
12 62 (8.03%) SciPy
13 48 (6.22%) HTML5
14 47 (6.09%) .NET Framework
15 43 (5.57%) Entity Framework
16 42 (5.44%) ASP.NET MVC
17 41 (5.31%) SOAP
17 41 (5.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.07%) Fixed Income
2 64 (8.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 62 (8.03%) Equities
4 60 (7.77%) Product Ownership
5 45 (5.83%) Cloud Native
6 35 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (4.27%) Derivative
7 33 (4.27%) Hedge funds
7 33 (4.27%) Pricing Data
8 24 (3.11%) Low-Code
8 24 (3.11%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.04%) Motion Graphics
13 7 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.91%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (7.51%) Linux
2 24 (3.11%) Windows
3 23 (2.98%) Unix
4 15 (1.94%) Android
4 15 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (51.81%) Agile
2 227 (29.40%) Software Engineering
3 204 (26.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 191 (24.74%) CI/CD
5 174 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (19.43%) DevOps
7 145 (18.78%) Mentoring
8 125 (16.19%) Microservices
9 100 (12.95%) User Experience
10 98 (12.69%) Asset Management
11 95 (12.31%) AI
12 90 (11.66%) Front End Development
13 84 (10.88%) Computer Science
14 81 (10.49%) Roadmaps
15 80 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 79 (10.23%) MVC
17 74 (9.59%) Test Automation
18 70 (9.07%) Investment Management
18 70 (9.07%) Scrum
19 68 (8.81%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 296 (38.34%) TypeScript
2 258 (33.42%) Python
3 220 (28.50%) C#
4 167 (21.63%) SQL
5 155 (20.08%) Java
6 56 (7.25%) PHP
7 28 (3.63%) Go
8 19 (2.46%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.68%) Bash
9 13 (1.68%) Ruby
10 9 (1.17%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.04%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.91%) C
12 7 (0.91%) VB.NET
13 6 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.65%) Perl
14 5 (0.65%) R
14 5 (0.65%) VBA
15 4 (0.52%) C++
15 4 (0.52%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 119 (15.41%) Degree
2 81 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 75 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 68 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (5.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (4.92%) AWS Certification
7 25 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (3.24%) Azure Certification
8 24 (3.11%) TOGAF Certification
9 14 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.30%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.52%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.39%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.39%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (8.94%) QA
2 67 (8.68%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.98%) WCAG
4 17 (2.20%) GDPR
5 4 (0.52%) HL7
6 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 111 (14.38%) Docker
2 6 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 71 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 60 (7.77%) Terraform
3 25 (3.24%) Grafana
4 23 (2.98%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.85%) Ansible
6 14 (1.81%) Argo
7 8 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.91%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.39%) cPanel
9 3 (0.39%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.39%) Plesk
10 2 (0.26%) Control-M
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 168 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 38 (4.92%) ServiceNow
3 29 (3.76%) Google
4 24 (3.11%) Adobe
5 23 (2.98%) MuleSoft
6 20 (2.59%) Oracle
7 14 (1.81%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.68%) IBM
8 13 (1.68%) Workday
9 8 (1.04%) Apple
9 8 (1.04%) IFS
9 8 (1.04%) SAP
10 7 (0.91%) Infor
11 6 (0.78%) DevExpress
11 6 (0.78%) Facebook
11 6 (0.78%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.78%) YouTube
12 5 (0.65%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.65%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.65%) Talend