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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -36 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 734 1,563 3,766
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.24% 12.01% 11.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.59% 27.36% 28.22%
Number of salaries quoted 602 1,346 3,438
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +10.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,500 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -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 4,707 5,712 13,343
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.16% 43.90% 42.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,430 4,532 11,503
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £64,559 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.68% +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 11 April 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 36 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.77%) CMS
3 5 (0.68%) Anypoint
3 5 (0.68%) NServiceBus
4 4 (0.54%) nginx
4 4 (0.54%) WordPress
5 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.41%) Confluence
5 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.41%) WebLogic Portal
6 2 (0.27%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) Mendix
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.27%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (2.04%) Adobe XD
2 6 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.68%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.14%) InVision
5 1 (0.14%) Notion
5 1 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.77%) Shopify
2 11 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.41%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) Maximo
4 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.14%) Magento
5 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 315 (42.92%) AWS
2 248 (33.79%) Azure
3 110 (14.99%) Serverless
4 84 (11.44%) GCP
5 65 (8.86%) Power Platform
6 61 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (7.90%) GitHub
8 58 (7.90%) SaaS
9 49 (6.68%) Power Automate
10 45 (6.13%) Amazon S3
11 43 (5.86%) PowerApps
12 37 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
13 36 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
13 36 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
14 31 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
16 23 (3.13%) Figma
17 22 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.18%) Broadband
2 8 (1.09%) Firewall
3 6 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (0.54%) Intranet
5 3 (0.41%) HTTP
6 2 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.27%) Internet
6 2 (0.27%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.27%) SSH
7 1 (0.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (7.63%) MongoDB
3 54 (7.36%) SQL Server
4 53 (7.22%) NoSQL
4 53 (7.22%) Relational Database
5 46 (6.27%) MySQL
6 36 (4.90%) Power BI
7 27 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (3.00%) RDBMS
9 18 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.23%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.82%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.54%) Big Data
15 4 (0.54%) Redis
16 3 (0.41%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.41%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 105 (14.31%) Git
2 51 (6.95%) Cypress.io
3 22 (3.00%) JIRA
4 19 (2.59%) Jaeger
5 16 (2.18%) CircleCI
5 16 (2.18%) GitLab
6 15 (2.04%) Axure RP
7 14 (1.91%) Balsamiq
8 12 (1.63%) Jenkins
8 12 (1.63%) webpack
9 10 (1.36%) Selenium
9 10 (1.36%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.23%) Vite
11 7 (0.95%) Postman
12 6 (0.82%) Babel
13 5 (0.68%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
15 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 208 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 112 (15.26%) Finance
3 86 (11.72%) Law
4 85 (11.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (9.54%) Public Sector
7 40 (5.45%) Front Office
8 23 (3.13%) Legal
9 19 (2.59%) Marketing
9 19 (2.59%) Retail
10 18 (2.45%) Games
11 14 (1.91%) Banking
11 14 (1.91%) Health Technology
12 9 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.09%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.68%) Advertising
14 5 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.54%) Electronics
15 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 429 (58.45%) Developer
2 151 (20.57%) Senior
3 123 (16.76%) Software Engineer
4 114 (15.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 108 (14.71%) Lead
6 98 (13.35%) Senior Developer
7 61 (8.31%) Lead Developer
8 52 (7.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 43 (5.86%) .NET Developer
9 43 (5.86%) Lead Software Developer
10 41 (5.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 40 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
12 38 (5.18%) React Developer
13 35 (4.77%) Software Developer
14 33 (4.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 31 (4.22%) Power Platform Developer
16 30 (4.09%) Python Developer
17 26 (3.54%) JavaScript Developer
18 25 (3.41%) Java Developer
19 24 (3.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (42.78%) React
2 219 (29.84%) HTML
3 198 (26.98%) CSS
4 172 (23.43%) Node.js
5 168 (22.89%) .NET
6 77 (10.49%) REST
7 71 (9.67%) Vue
8 61 (8.31%) AngularJS
9 60 (8.17%) .NET Core
10 53 (7.22%) JSON
10 53 (7.22%) RESTful
11 44 (5.99%) Kafka
12 43 (5.86%) Redux
13 42 (5.72%) ASP.NET
13 42 (5.72%) GraphQL
14 36 (4.90%) Web Services
15 35 (4.77%) HTML5
16 32 (4.36%) SOAP
17 31 (4.22%) Laravel
18 30 (4.09%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.08%) Product Ownership
2 69 (9.40%) Cloud Native
3 40 (5.45%) Fixed Income
4 33 (4.50%) Low-Code
5 26 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 22 (3.00%) Mobile App
8 16 (2.18%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.77%) e-Learning
11 12 (1.63%) Sports Betting
12 10 (1.36%) NHS
13 9 (1.23%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.09%) Culture of Ownership
14 8 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (1.09%) Equities
14 8 (1.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (7.63%) Linux
2 36 (4.90%) Unix
3 13 (1.77%) Android
4 12 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.41%) Windows
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Debian
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (46.19%) Agile
2 287 (39.10%) Full-Stack Development
3 214 (29.16%) CI/CD
4 199 (27.11%) Software Engineering
5 195 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
6 189 (25.75%) DevOps
7 159 (21.66%) Mentoring
8 132 (17.98%) Microservices
9 109 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 107 (14.58%) User Experience
11 94 (12.81%) Test Automation
12 88 (11.99%) Containerisation
13 77 (10.49%) Front End Development
14 75 (10.22%) AI
15 67 (9.13%) Roadmaps
16 66 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 65 (8.86%) Computer Science
17 65 (8.86%) Scrum
18 57 (7.77%) Performance Optimisation
19 55 (7.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 246 (33.51%) TypeScript
2 245 (33.38%) Python
3 189 (25.75%) C#
4 179 (24.39%) Java
5 151 (20.57%) SQL
6 64 (8.72%) Go
7 48 (6.54%) PHP
8 29 (3.95%) Bash
9 22 (3.00%) Ruby
10 20 (2.72%) Apex Code
11 17 (2.32%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.54%) C++
15 3 (0.41%) C
15 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.27%) R
16 2 (0.27%) SOQL
16 2 (0.27%) SOSL
16 2 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 107 (14.58%) Degree
2 84 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 78 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 53 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (5.31%) AWS Certification
6 33 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (2.45%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.32%) TOGAF Certification
9 16 (2.18%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.54%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.27%) IBM Certification
16 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
16 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (9.54%) Accessibility
1 70 (9.54%) QA
2 21 (2.86%) WCAG
3 14 (1.91%) SLA
4 11 (1.50%) GDPR
5 7 (0.95%) GRC
6 6 (0.82%) HL7
7 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.41%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 138 (18.80%) Docker
2 5 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (12.67%) Kubernetes
2 76 (10.35%) Terraform
3 31 (4.22%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.68%) Argo
5 26 (3.54%) Ansible
6 25 (3.41%) Grafana
7 19 (2.59%) Kustomize
8 8 (1.09%) Podman
9 4 (0.54%) Plesk
10 3 (0.41%) cPanel
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.27%) Kibana
11 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.14%) Puppet
12 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 140 (19.07%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.08%) Google
3 29 (3.95%) Adobe
4 23 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.00%) MuleSoft
6 21 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.63%) Oracle
8 9 (1.23%) IBM
8 9 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.09%) IFS
9 8 (1.09%) SAP
10 6 (0.82%) Apple
10 6 (0.82%) Cisco
10 6 (0.82%) F5
10 6 (0.82%) Juniper
10 6 (0.82%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.68%) Epicor
11 5 (0.68%) Infor
11 5 (0.68%) Informatica
11 5 (0.68%) Talend