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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,149 1,674 2,707
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.04% 10.10% 10.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.88% 31.04% 28.45%
Number of salaries quoted 927 1,012 2,306
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,942
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 £102,500
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 6,085 5,393 9,515
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.67% 32.55% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,562 3,713 7,370
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,247
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 £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
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 15 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 63 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.57%) CMS
3 15 (1.31%) WordPress
4 11 (0.96%) Confluence
5 8 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.35%) Apache
7 4 (0.35%) IIS
7 4 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.35%) 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 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.087%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.087%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.70%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.26%) Blender
5 3 (0.26%) Maya
6 2 (0.17%) Elementor
7 1 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.087%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.087%) Trello
7 1 (0.087%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.70%) Shopify
3 7 (0.61%) Infor M3
3 7 (0.61%) Lawson
4 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.17%) Magento
6 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 469 (40.82%) Azure
2 404 (35.16%) AWS
3 159 (13.84%) SaaS
4 134 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
5 116 (10.10%) Power Platform
6 101 (8.79%) GCP
7 92 (8.01%) Power Automate
7 92 (8.01%) Serverless
8 84 (7.31%) PowerApps
9 82 (7.14%) Azure AI
10 80 (6.96%) GitHub
11 62 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
12 59 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
13 43 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
14 41 (3.57%) Amazon S3
15 40 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
16 36 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
18 30 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.26%) Broadband
2 18 (1.57%) Internet
3 7 (0.61%) Firewall
3 7 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.44%) Intranet
5 4 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (0.35%) SSH
6 3 (0.26%) HTTP
6 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.17%) SSL
8 1 (0.087%) DNS
8 1 (0.087%) Network Security
8 1 (0.087%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (20.54%) MongoDB
2 188 (16.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 109 (9.49%) SQL Server
4 103 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
5 87 (7.57%) MySQL
6 82 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
7 57 (4.96%) Power BI
8 56 (4.87%) Relational Database
9 44 (3.83%) NoSQL
10 25 (2.18%) Redis
11 16 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (1.13%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.70%) MariaDB
16 8 (0.70%) Metadata
17 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
18 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 147 (12.79%) Git
2 50 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 47 (4.09%) JIRA
4 31 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.57%) JUnit
6 15 (1.31%) GitLab
7 14 (1.22%) Maven
7 14 (1.22%) Mockito
8 13 (1.13%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.87%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.87%) Postman
9 10 (0.87%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.70%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.70%) Balsamiq
12 7 (0.61%) webpack
13 6 (0.52%) Selenium
14 5 (0.44%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.44%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 281 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 168 (14.62%) Finance
3 106 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 82 (7.14%) Law
5 78 (6.79%) Legal
6 74 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (6.09%) Marketing
8 69 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (3.22%) Retail
10 24 (2.09%) Front Office
11 23 (2.00%) Banking
11 23 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.65%) Health Technology
13 18 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.48%) Games
15 13 (1.13%) Legal Technology
16 10 (0.87%) Local Government
17 6 (0.52%) Tech for Good
18 5 (0.44%) Advertising
18 5 (0.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 677 (58.92%) Developer
2 254 (22.11%) Senior
3 207 (18.02%) .NET Developer
4 197 (17.15%) Full-Stack Developer
5 179 (15.58%) Software Engineer
6 159 (13.84%) Lead
7 122 (10.62%) Senior Developer
8 98 (8.53%) Lead Developer
9 82 (7.14%) Software Developer
10 67 (5.83%) Lead Software Developer
11 60 (5.22%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 58 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (4.26%) Senior Manager
13 49 (4.26%) Testing Manager
14 47 (4.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 46 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
16 44 (3.83%) Lead Software Engineer
17 28 (2.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 26 (2.26%) Web Developer
19 24 (2.09%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 537 (46.74%) React
2 364 (31.68%) .NET
3 321 (27.94%) Node.js
4 228 (19.84%) HTML
5 221 (19.23%) .NET Core
6 217 (18.89%) ASP.NET
7 208 (18.10%) CSS
8 189 (16.45%) ASP.NET Core
9 164 (14.27%) Blazor
10 157 (13.66%) RESTful
11 91 (7.92%) ASP.NET Web API
12 89 (7.75%) REST
13 88 (7.66%) Vue
14 82 (7.14%) .NET Framework
14 82 (7.14%) ML.NET
15 76 (6.61%) AngularJS
16 67 (5.83%) JSON
17 48 (4.18%) Entity Framework
18 47 (4.09%) Jest
19 45 (3.92%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.01%) Cloud Native
2 68 (5.92%) Self-Motivation
3 64 (5.57%) Virtual Team
4 49 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
5 48 (4.18%) Product Ownership
6 34 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (2.96%) Mobile App
7 31 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 29 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
9 25 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (1.83%) Fixed Income
10 21 (1.83%) Social Media
11 17 (1.48%) BBC
11 17 (1.48%) iPhone
12 16 (1.39%) AI Agents
12 16 (1.39%) NHS
13 15 (1.31%) Cyberattack
13 15 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.22%) Sports Betting
15 13 (1.13%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.13%) Linux
2 26 (2.26%) Android
3 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.70%) Unix
5 6 (0.52%) Windows
6 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (49.35%) Full-Stack Development
2 559 (48.65%) Agile
3 348 (30.29%) Software Engineering
4 318 (27.68%) CI/CD
5 311 (27.07%) DevOps
6 267 (23.24%) AI
7 265 (23.06%) Microservices
8 247 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
9 246 (21.41%) Mentoring
10 244 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 171 (14.88%) Test Automation
12 166 (14.45%) Scrum
13 140 (12.18%) Machine Learning
14 127 (11.05%) Technical Leadership
15 122 (10.62%) User Experience
16 99 (8.62%) SDLC
17 98 (8.53%) Containerisation
18 92 (8.01%) Business Intelligence
19 86 (7.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 85 (7.40%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 453 (39.43%) C#
2 422 (36.73%) TypeScript
3 368 (32.03%) SQL
4 278 (24.19%) Python
5 188 (16.36%) Java
6 78 (6.79%) PowerShell
7 64 (5.57%) PHP
8 40 (3.48%) Ruby
9 39 (3.39%) Go
10 36 (3.13%) C++
11 21 (1.83%) Bash
12 17 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.78%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.70%) R
16 6 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.52%) Rust
16 6 (0.52%) Scala
17 4 (0.35%) Perl
17 4 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 118 (10.27%) Degree
2 99 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 88 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 55 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.44%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.44%) 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 (0.087%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 1 (0.087%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (10.18%) QA
2 92 (8.01%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.83%) WCAG
4 16 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.13%) SLA
7 11 (0.96%) GDPR
8 9 (0.78%) GRC
9 7 (0.61%) HL7
10 5 (0.44%) NIST
11 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.26%) NCSC
13 1 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 135 (11.75%) Docker
2 5 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.087%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 86 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.05%) Terraform
3 12 (1.04%) Podman
4 10 (0.87%) Ansible
4 10 (0.87%) Grafana
5 7 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.087%) Kibana
Vendors
1 331 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.70%) Google
3 34 (2.96%) Adobe
4 24 (2.09%) Oracle
5 19 (1.65%) Apple
5 19 (1.65%) Sony
6 18 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.48%) Facebook
7 17 (1.48%) Yahoo!
8 16 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.22%) HubSpot
10 11 (0.96%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.78%) Databricks
12 7 (0.61%) Infor
13 6 (0.52%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.52%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.44%) New Relic
14 5 (0.44%) Sage
15 4 (0.35%) F5
15 4 (0.35%) Sitecore