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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,049 1,917 3,694
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.95% 11.68% 11.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.23% 32.35% 28.28%
Number of salaries quoted 884 1,228 3,279
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,563 £52,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,425 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% +10.71% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.15% +10.34% -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 5,753 5,926 13,061
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.14% 36.12% 40.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,335 4,133 10,719
10th Percentile £39,383 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £106,250
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 9 July 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 53 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.62%) CMS
3 8 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
3 8 (0.76%) WordPress
4 7 (0.67%) Confluence
5 4 (0.38%) Apache
5 4 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.29%) DNN
6 3 (0.29%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.29%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.29%) Kentico
6 3 (0.29%) Sitefinity
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.19%) IIS
7 2 (0.19%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.095%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.48%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.29%) Blender
4 3 (0.29%) Maya
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Elementor
5 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.86%) Shopify
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.095%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.095%) Magento
5 1 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 453 (43.18%) Azure
2 398 (37.94%) AWS
3 149 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
4 115 (10.96%) SaaS
5 101 (9.63%) GCP
6 99 (9.44%) Power Platform
7 92 (8.77%) Serverless
8 83 (7.91%) Azure AI
9 71 (6.77%) PowerApps
10 70 (6.67%) Power Automate
11 64 (6.10%) GitHub
12 57 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (4.58%) Azure Logic Apps
13 48 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
14 42 (4.00%) Amazon S3
15 40 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
17 31 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 31 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.62%) Broadband
2 18 (1.72%) Internet
3 7 (0.67%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (0.57%) Firewall
5 5 (0.48%) Intranet
6 3 (0.29%) SSH
7 1 (0.095%) AMQP
7 1 (0.095%) HTTP
7 1 (0.095%) Network Security
7 1 (0.095%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (21.93%) MongoDB
2 188 (17.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 85 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (8.10%) SQL Server
4 81 (7.72%) Elasticsearch
5 72 (6.86%) MySQL
6 58 (5.53%) Relational Database
7 55 (5.24%) NoSQL
8 51 (4.86%) Power BI
9 18 (1.72%) Redis
10 16 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (1.14%) RDBMS
13 10 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.86%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (0.76%) MariaDB
16 7 (0.67%) Metadata
17 6 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
18 5 (0.48%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 119 (11.34%) Git
2 46 (4.39%) Cypress.io
3 36 (3.43%) JIRA
4 20 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.43%) CircleCI
6 12 (1.14%) GitLab
6 12 (1.14%) Jaeger
6 12 (1.14%) JUnit
7 11 (1.05%) Maven
8 10 (0.95%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.86%) Mockito
9 9 (0.86%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.76%) Postman
10 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.67%) webpack
12 5 (0.48%) Axure RP
12 5 (0.48%) Balsamiq
12 5 (0.48%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.48%) Selenium
12 5 (0.48%) Vite
General
1 239 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 165 (15.73%) Finance
3 90 (8.58%) Public Sector
4 74 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (7.05%) Law
5 73 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (5.34%) Marketing
7 52 (4.96%) Legal
8 44 (4.19%) Front Office
9 43 (4.10%) Retail
10 24 (2.29%) Banking
11 20 (1.91%) Health Technology
11 20 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.43%) Games
13 13 (1.24%) Legal Technology
14 10 (0.95%) Local Government
15 8 (0.76%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.57%) Advertising
16 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 647 (61.68%) Developer
2 211 (20.11%) Senior
3 208 (19.83%) .NET Developer
4 183 (17.45%) Software Engineer
5 176 (16.78%) Full-Stack Developer
6 166 (15.82%) Lead
7 108 (10.30%) Senior Developer
8 96 (9.15%) Lead Developer
9 67 (6.39%) Lead Software Developer
10 63 (6.01%) Software Developer
11 61 (5.82%) Lead Software Engineer
12 59 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 50 (4.77%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 47 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
15 42 (4.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 42 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 30 (2.86%) Power Platform Developer
17 29 (2.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 26 (2.48%) React Developer
19 25 (2.38%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 515 (49.09%) React
2 350 (33.37%) .NET
3 306 (29.17%) Node.js
4 213 (20.31%) .NET Core
4 213 (20.31%) ASP.NET
4 213 (20.31%) HTML
5 193 (18.40%) ASP.NET Core
6 191 (18.21%) CSS
7 165 (15.73%) Blazor
8 152 (14.49%) RESTful
9 90 (8.58%) Vue
10 89 (8.48%) ASP.NET Web API
11 83 (7.91%) ML.NET
12 80 (7.63%) REST
13 70 (6.67%) AngularJS
14 67 (6.39%) .NET Framework
14 67 (6.39%) JSON
15 46 (4.39%) Redux
16 44 (4.19%) Kafka
17 43 (4.10%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 85 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 54 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
3 51 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 49 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
5 41 (3.91%) Fixed Income
6 35 (3.34%) Virtual Team
7 32 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (2.67%) Onboarding
10 26 (2.48%) Mobile App
11 21 (2.00%) Social Media
12 18 (1.72%) BBC
13 17 (1.62%) iPhone
14 16 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (1.43%) Cyberattack
16 14 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
16 14 (1.33%) Low-Code
16 14 (1.33%) Sports Betting
17 13 (1.24%) NHS
17 13 (1.24%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 63 (6.01%) Linux
2 21 (2.00%) Unix
3 20 (1.91%) Android
4 5 (0.48%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.29%) Windows
6 1 (0.095%) CentOS
6 1 (0.095%) Debian
6 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (52.05%) Full-Stack Development
2 537 (51.19%) Agile
3 301 (28.69%) DevOps
4 296 (28.22%) Software Engineering
5 273 (26.02%) CI/CD
6 254 (24.21%) Microservices
7 227 (21.64%) AI
8 224 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
9 217 (20.69%) Mentoring
10 181 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 142 (13.54%) Scrum
12 137 (13.06%) Machine Learning
13 135 (12.87%) Test Automation
14 115 (10.96%) User Experience
15 114 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
16 99 (9.44%) Containerisation
17 83 (7.91%) Multithreading
18 79 (7.53%) Front End Development
19 77 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
19 77 (7.34%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 396 (37.75%) C#
2 359 (34.22%) TypeScript
3 352 (33.56%) SQL
4 260 (24.79%) Python
5 203 (19.35%) Java
6 62 (5.91%) Go
7 60 (5.72%) PHP
8 54 (5.15%) PowerShell
9 31 (2.96%) Ruby
10 25 (2.38%) Bash
10 25 (2.38%) C++
11 15 (1.43%) Apex Code
12 13 (1.24%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.67%) R
15 6 (0.57%) Scala
16 4 (0.38%) Perl
16 4 (0.38%) Rust
17 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 106 (10.10%) Degree
2 70 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 64 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 52 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
6 15 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.14%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.48%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.48%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.095%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.095%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.095%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (7.63%) QA
2 73 (6.96%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.43%) SLA
4 12 (1.14%) GDPR
5 11 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.05%) WCAG
6 10 (0.95%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.67%) GRC
7 7 (0.67%) HL7
8 5 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.095%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 129 (12.30%) Docker
2 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 85 (8.10%) Kubernetes
2 53 (5.05%) Terraform
3 19 (1.81%) Ansible
4 17 (1.62%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.33%) Argo
6 12 (1.14%) Kustomize
6 12 (1.14%) Podman
7 10 (0.95%) Grafana
8 3 (0.29%) Plesk
9 2 (0.19%) Kibana
10 1 (0.095%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.095%) Puppet
10 1 (0.095%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 309 (29.46%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.44%) Google
3 26 (2.48%) Adobe
4 20 (1.91%) Apple
5 19 (1.81%) Oracle
6 18 (1.72%) Facebook
6 18 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 18 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 18 (1.72%) Sony
6 18 (1.72%) Yahoo!
7 12 (1.14%) HubSpot
8 11 (1.05%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.67%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.57%) Cisco
11 6 (0.57%) Databricks
11 6 (0.57%) F5
11 6 (0.57%) Juniper
11 6 (0.57%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.38%) New Relic