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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -23 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,159 1,695 2,699
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.06% 10.23% 10.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.03% 31.68% 28.59%
Number of salaries quoted 939 1,034 2,272
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
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 £101,875 £108,750
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 6,091 5,350 9,440
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.57% 32.30% 38.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,586 3,695 7,247
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,000
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 £85,000
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 20 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 61 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.55%) CMS
3 13 (1.12%) WordPress
4 11 (0.95%) Confluence
5 8 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.60%) 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 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.086%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.086%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.69%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.26%) Blender
5 3 (0.26%) Maya
6 2 (0.17%) Elementor
7 1 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.086%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.086%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.60%) Infor M3
2 7 (0.60%) Lawson
2 7 (0.60%) Shopify
3 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.086%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 468 (40.38%) Azure
2 403 (34.77%) AWS
3 160 (13.81%) SaaS
4 134 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
5 117 (10.09%) Power Platform
6 102 (8.80%) GCP
7 92 (7.94%) Power Automate
8 91 (7.85%) Serverless
9 85 (7.33%) PowerApps
10 82 (7.08%) Azure AI
11 78 (6.73%) GitHub
12 60 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
13 57 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (3.71%) Azure Logic Apps
15 42 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
16 40 (3.45%) Amazon S3
17 39 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
18 36 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
20 30 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.24%) Broadband
2 18 (1.55%) Internet
3 7 (0.60%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.52%) Firewall
5 5 (0.43%) Intranet
6 4 (0.35%) SSH
7 3 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.26%) HTTP
7 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.17%) SSL
9 1 (0.086%) DNS
9 1 (0.086%) Network Security
9 1 (0.086%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.086%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (20.36%) MongoDB
2 188 (16.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 108 (9.32%) SQL Server
4 103 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
5 86 (7.42%) MySQL
6 82 (7.08%) Elasticsearch
7 56 (4.83%) Power BI
7 56 (4.83%) Relational Database
8 43 (3.71%) NoSQL
9 25 (2.16%) Redis
10 15 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.12%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.69%) MariaDB
14 8 (0.69%) Metadata
15 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 145 (12.51%) Git
2 49 (4.23%) Cypress.io
3 44 (3.80%) JIRA
4 30 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.55%) JUnit
6 15 (1.29%) GitLab
7 14 (1.21%) Maven
7 14 (1.21%) Mockito
8 12 (1.04%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.86%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.86%) Postman
10 9 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.69%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.69%) Balsamiq
12 6 (0.52%) Selenium
13 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.43%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.43%) Subversion
13 5 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 289 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 172 (14.84%) Finance
3 106 (9.15%) Public Sector
4 79 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (6.64%) Law
5 77 (6.64%) Legal
6 72 (6.21%) Marketing
7 67 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (3.11%) Retail
9 24 (2.07%) Front Office
10 23 (1.98%) Banking
10 23 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.64%) Health Technology
13 18 (1.55%) Games
14 12 (1.04%) Legal Technology
15 10 (0.86%) Local Government
16 5 (0.43%) Advertising
16 5 (0.43%) Back Office
16 5 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 681 (58.76%) Developer
2 247 (21.31%) Senior
3 207 (17.86%) .NET Developer
4 198 (17.08%) Full-Stack Developer
5 179 (15.44%) Software Engineer
6 162 (13.98%) Lead
7 118 (10.18%) Senior Developer
8 98 (8.46%) Lead Developer
9 86 (7.42%) Software Developer
10 68 (5.87%) Lead Software Developer
11 61 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 61 (5.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 49 (4.23%) Senior Manager
12 49 (4.23%) Testing Manager
13 48 (4.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 44 (3.80%) Lead Software Engineer
14 44 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
15 29 (2.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 25 (2.16%) Web Developer
17 24 (2.07%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (45.99%) React
2 361 (31.15%) .NET
3 325 (28.04%) Node.js
4 231 (19.93%) HTML
5 220 (18.98%) .NET Core
6 217 (18.72%) ASP.NET
7 211 (18.21%) CSS
8 189 (16.31%) ASP.NET Core
9 165 (14.24%) Blazor
10 157 (13.55%) RESTful
11 91 (7.85%) ASP.NET Web API
12 87 (7.51%) REST
13 85 (7.33%) Vue
14 82 (7.08%) ML.NET
15 81 (6.99%) .NET Framework
16 75 (6.47%) AngularJS
17 66 (5.69%) JSON
18 47 (4.06%) Entity Framework
19 45 (3.88%) Jest
20 44 (3.80%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 90 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 67 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
3 63 (5.44%) Virtual Team
4 50 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
5 49 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 34 (2.93%) Mobile App
7 33 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.76%) Onboarding
9 30 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.81%) Fixed Income
11 21 (1.81%) Social Media
12 17 (1.47%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.47%) BBC
12 17 (1.47%) iPhone
13 15 (1.29%) Cyberattack
13 15 (1.29%) NHS
14 14 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.21%) Sports Betting
15 13 (1.12%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.00%) Linux
2 26 (2.24%) Android
3 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.60%) Unix
5 6 (0.52%) Windows
6 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (49.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 562 (48.49%) Agile
3 347 (29.94%) Software Engineering
4 317 (27.35%) CI/CD
5 308 (26.57%) DevOps
6 270 (23.30%) AI
7 263 (22.69%) Microservices
8 252 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
9 250 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 248 (21.40%) Mentoring
11 172 (14.84%) Test Automation
12 168 (14.50%) Scrum
13 140 (12.08%) Machine Learning
14 128 (11.04%) Technical Leadership
15 125 (10.79%) User Experience
16 101 (8.71%) SDLC
17 95 (8.20%) Containerisation
18 92 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
19 88 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 85 (7.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 453 (39.09%) C#
2 432 (37.27%) TypeScript
3 370 (31.92%) SQL
4 277 (23.90%) Python
5 195 (16.82%) Java
6 78 (6.73%) PowerShell
7 61 (5.26%) PHP
8 40 (3.45%) Go
8 40 (3.45%) Ruby
9 37 (3.19%) C++
10 20 (1.73%) Bash
11 17 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.69%) R
15 6 (0.52%) Rust
15 6 (0.52%) Scala
16 5 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.35%) Perl
17 4 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 115 (9.92%) Degree
2 103 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 87 (7.51%) SC Cleared
4 53 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.43%) 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 (0.086%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 1 (0.086%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (10.09%) QA
2 93 (8.02%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.98%) WCAG
4 16 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 15 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.21%) SLA
7 11 (0.95%) GDPR
8 10 (0.86%) GRC
9 7 (0.60%) HL7
10 5 (0.43%) NIST
11 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.26%) NCSC
13 1 (0.086%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 136 (11.73%) Docker
2 5 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 87 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.04%) Podman
3 10 (0.86%) Ansible
3 10 (0.86%) Grafana
4 7 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 1 (0.086%) Consul
7 1 (0.086%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 330 (28.47%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.64%) Google
3 35 (3.02%) Adobe
4 24 (2.07%) Oracle
5 20 (1.73%) ServiceNow
6 19 (1.64%) Sony
7 17 (1.47%) Apple
7 17 (1.47%) Facebook
7 17 (1.47%) Yahoo!
8 15 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.21%) HubSpot
10 11 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.78%) Databricks
12 7 (0.60%) Infor
13 5 (0.43%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.43%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.43%) Sage
14 4 (0.35%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.35%) Marketo
14 4 (0.35%) New Relic