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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,094 1,867 3,155
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.04% 11.34% 11.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.72% 32.36% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 906 1,184 2,782
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,785
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,350 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.34% +7.89% -1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £94,083 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.14% +10.33% -4.53%

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 5,843 5,770 11,013
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.92% 35.04% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,400 4,017 8,868
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,500 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 24 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 61 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.65%) CMS
3 11 (1.01%) WordPress
4 10 (0.91%) Confluence
5 8 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.37%) Apache
6 4 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.27%) DNN
7 3 (0.27%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.27%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.27%) Kentico
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.27%) Sitefinity
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.18%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.091%) ExpressionEngine
9 1 (0.091%) Moodle
Applications
1 14 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.55%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.27%) Blender
4 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.27%) Maya
5 2 (0.18%) Elementor
6 1 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.73%) Shopify
3 4 (0.37%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.37%) Lawson
4 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.091%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.091%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 451 (41.22%) Azure
2 392 (35.83%) AWS
3 146 (13.35%) SaaS
4 140 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
5 103 (9.41%) Power Platform
6 101 (9.23%) GCP
7 89 (8.14%) Serverless
8 81 (7.40%) Azure AI
9 78 (7.13%) PowerApps
10 77 (7.04%) Power Automate
11 72 (6.58%) GitHub
12 58 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
13 56 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
14 42 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
15 41 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
16 40 (3.66%) Amazon S3
17 33 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
18 32 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
19 31 (2.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 30 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.38%) Broadband
2 18 (1.65%) Internet
3 7 (0.64%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (0.55%) Firewall
5 5 (0.46%) Intranet
6 4 (0.37%) SSH
7 1 (0.091%) HTTP
7 1 (0.091%) Network Security
7 1 (0.091%) SSL
7 1 (0.091%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (21.21%) MongoDB
2 187 (17.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 91 (8.32%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (8.23%) SQL Server
5 81 (7.40%) Elasticsearch
6 78 (7.13%) MySQL
7 56 (5.12%) Power BI
8 50 (4.57%) Relational Database
9 45 (4.11%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.83%) Redis
11 16 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (1.01%) DynamoDB
13 10 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.82%) MariaDB
15 8 (0.73%) Metadata
16 7 (0.64%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
17 5 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 129 (11.79%) Git
2 46 (4.20%) Cypress.io
3 43 (3.93%) JIRA
4 25 (2.29%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.28%) GitLab
6 13 (1.19%) CircleCI
6 13 (1.19%) JUnit
7 11 (1.01%) Maven
8 10 (0.91%) Claude Code
8 10 (0.91%) Mockito
9 8 (0.73%) Postman
9 8 (0.73%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.73%) webpack
10 7 (0.64%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.55%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.55%) Balsamiq
12 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.46%) Selenium
12 5 (0.46%) Vite
13 4 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 268 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 175 (16.00%) Finance
3 94 (8.59%) Public Sector
4 77 (7.04%) Legal
5 71 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (6.49%) Law
6 62 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (5.30%) Marketing
8 44 (4.02%) Front Office
9 40 (3.66%) Retail
10 23 (2.10%) Banking
11 22 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.65%) Health Technology
13 16 (1.46%) Games
14 14 (1.28%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.19%) Legal Technology
16 10 (0.91%) Local Government
17 6 (0.55%) Advertising
17 6 (0.55%) Back Office
17 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 663 (60.60%) Developer
2 241 (22.03%) Senior
3 209 (19.10%) .NET Developer
4 189 (17.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 180 (16.45%) Software Engineer
6 157 (14.35%) Lead
7 110 (10.05%) Senior Developer
8 99 (9.05%) Lead Developer
9 71 (6.49%) Lead Software Developer
10 67 (6.12%) Software Developer
11 61 (5.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 58 (5.30%) Lead Software Engineer
13 53 (4.84%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 49 (4.48%) Senior Manager
14 49 (4.48%) Testing Manager
15 47 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
16 46 (4.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 42 (3.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 30 (2.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 28 (2.56%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 525 (47.99%) React
2 350 (31.99%) .NET
3 318 (29.07%) Node.js
4 218 (19.93%) HTML
5 213 (19.47%) ASP.NET
6 210 (19.20%) .NET Core
7 198 (18.10%) CSS
8 189 (17.28%) ASP.NET Core
9 162 (14.81%) Blazor
10 152 (13.89%) RESTful
11 89 (8.14%) ASP.NET Web API
11 89 (8.14%) Vue
12 82 (7.50%) REST
13 81 (7.40%) ML.NET
14 73 (6.67%) .NET Framework
15 71 (6.49%) AngularJS
15 71 (6.49%) JSON
16 46 (4.20%) Kafka
16 46 (4.20%) Redux
17 45 (4.11%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 61 (5.58%) Virtual Team
3 59 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (4.75%) Greenfield Project
5 42 (3.84%) Product Ownership
6 41 (3.75%) Fixed Income
7 34 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 30 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
10 27 (2.47%) Mobile App
11 22 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (1.92%) Social Media
13 17 (1.55%) BBC
13 17 (1.55%) iPhone
14 15 (1.37%) Cyberattack
14 15 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (1.28%) Sports Betting
16 13 (1.19%) NHS
17 12 (1.10%) AI Agents
17 12 (1.10%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.94%) Linux
2 20 (1.83%) Android
3 10 (0.91%) Unix
4 5 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.37%) Windows
6 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (50.64%) Full-Stack Development
2 541 (49.45%) Agile
3 325 (29.71%) Software Engineering
4 306 (27.97%) DevOps
5 286 (26.14%) CI/CD
6 254 (23.22%) Microservices
7 241 (22.03%) AI
8 238 (21.76%) Mentoring
9 231 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
10 214 (19.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 161 (14.72%) Test Automation
12 148 (13.53%) Scrum
13 135 (12.34%) Machine Learning
14 120 (10.97%) User Experience
15 117 (10.69%) Technical Leadership
16 91 (8.32%) Containerisation
17 89 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
18 83 (7.59%) Front End Development
19 82 (7.50%) Multithreading
19 82 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 426 (38.94%) C#
2 401 (36.65%) TypeScript
3 356 (32.54%) SQL
4 276 (25.23%) Python
5 184 (16.82%) Java
6 79 (7.22%) PowerShell
7 63 (5.76%) PHP
8 50 (4.57%) Go
9 34 (3.11%) Ruby
10 30 (2.74%) C++
11 15 (1.37%) Bash
12 14 (1.28%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.91%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.73%) R
16 7 (0.64%) Scala
17 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.37%) Perl
17 4 (0.37%) Rust
18 3 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 105 (9.60%) Degree
2 76 (6.95%) Security Cleared
3 70 (6.40%) SC Cleared
4 52 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.73%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.37%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.27%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.27%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.091%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.091%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.091%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.091%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (9.69%) QA
2 86 (7.86%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.46%) WCAG
4 14 (1.28%) SLA
5 13 (1.19%) GDPR
6 10 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.64%) GRC
7 7 (0.64%) HL7
8 4 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.091%) NCSC
10 1 (0.091%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 119 (10.88%) Docker
2 5 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.29%) Terraform
3 12 (1.10%) Podman
4 9 (0.82%) Grafana
5 7 (0.64%) Ansible
6 6 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.27%) Plesk
8 2 (0.18%) Kibana
8 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.091%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 316 (28.88%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.22%) Google
3 30 (2.74%) Adobe
4 21 (1.92%) Oracle
5 19 (1.74%) Apple
5 19 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 18 (1.65%) Sony
7 17 (1.55%) Facebook
7 17 (1.55%) Yahoo!
8 16 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.10%) HubSpot
10 9 (0.82%) Databricks
10 9 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.73%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.55%) Cisco
12 6 (0.55%) F5
12 6 (0.55%) Juniper
12 6 (0.55%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.55%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.46%) New Relic