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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -31 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 790 1,966 3,765
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.24% 13.27% 11.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.89% 32.23% 28.17%
Number of salaries quoted 662 1,240 3,489
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,318 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% +10.53% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £59,773 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.04% +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 4,972 6,099 13,364
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.71% 41.17% 41.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,671 4,262 11,380
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,325 £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 £115,000 £100,000
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 16 May 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 42 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.65%) CMS
3 7 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (0.76%) Confluence
5 4 (0.51%) WordPress
6 3 (0.38%) nginx
7 2 (0.25%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.13%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (1.39%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.51%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.13%) InVision
5 1 (0.13%) Sketch
5 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.27%) Shopify
2 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Maximo
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 330 (41.77%) AWS
2 289 (36.58%) Azure
3 97 (12.28%) Serverless
4 86 (10.89%) GCP
5 84 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
6 77 (9.75%) Power Platform
7 60 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (7.59%) SaaS
8 57 (7.22%) GitHub
9 52 (6.58%) PowerApps
10 50 (6.33%) Power Automate
11 46 (5.82%) Amazon S3
11 46 (5.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 38 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
13 37 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
14 33 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (3.42%) Azure AI
17 22 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.81%) Broadband
2 7 (0.89%) Firewall
3 6 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (0.63%) Internet
4 5 (0.63%) Intranet
5 3 (0.38%) HTTP
5 3 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.13%) AMQP
6 1 (0.13%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (13.16%) MongoDB
2 79 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (9.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 60 (7.59%) NoSQL
5 59 (7.47%) SQL Server
6 51 (6.46%) MySQL
7 49 (6.20%) Relational Database
8 43 (5.44%) Power BI
9 25 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.53%) RDBMS
11 18 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.89%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.89%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.89%) Redis
15 6 (0.76%) MariaDB
16 5 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.63%) Metadata
17 4 (0.51%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 113 (14.30%) Git
2 55 (6.96%) Cypress.io
3 23 (2.91%) JIRA
4 18 (2.28%) CircleCI
4 18 (2.28%) Jaeger
5 16 (2.03%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.90%) GitLab
7 11 (1.39%) Axure RP
8 10 (1.27%) Balsamiq
8 10 (1.27%) Selenium
9 9 (1.14%) TeamCity
9 9 (1.14%) webpack
10 8 (1.01%) Postman
11 7 (0.89%) Maven
11 7 (0.89%) Vite
12 6 (0.76%) JUnit
13 5 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.63%) Mockito
14 4 (0.51%) Babel
15 3 (0.38%) Appium
General
1 188 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 128 (16.20%) Finance
3 87 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 79 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 76 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (7.97%) Law
7 40 (5.06%) Front Office
8 25 (3.16%) Retail
9 24 (3.04%) Marketing
10 23 (2.91%) Legal
11 20 (2.53%) Banking
12 16 (2.03%) Games
13 15 (1.90%) Health Technology
14 11 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.01%) Local Government
16 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.63%) Back Office
18 4 (0.51%) Advertising
18 4 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 466 (58.99%) Developer
2 164 (20.76%) Senior
3 145 (18.35%) Software Engineer
4 138 (17.47%) Full-Stack Developer
4 138 (17.47%) Lead
5 98 (12.41%) Senior Developer
6 78 (9.87%) Lead Developer
7 76 (9.62%) .NET Developer
8 56 (7.09%) Lead Software Developer
9 50 (6.33%) Lead Software Engineer
10 49 (6.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 49 (6.20%) Software Developer
11 41 (5.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 39 (4.94%) React Developer
13 35 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
14 33 (4.18%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 33 (4.18%) Power Platform Developer
15 30 (3.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 27 (3.42%) JavaScript Developer
17 26 (3.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (45.95%) React
2 219 (27.72%) Node.js
3 214 (27.09%) .NET
4 204 (25.82%) HTML
5 183 (23.16%) CSS
6 98 (12.41%) .NET Core
7 86 (10.89%) RESTful
8 80 (10.13%) ASP.NET
9 73 (9.24%) REST
10 65 (8.23%) ASP.NET Core
11 64 (8.10%) Vue
12 58 (7.34%) AngularJS
12 58 (7.34%) JSON
13 51 (6.46%) Blazor
14 47 (5.95%) Kafka
15 43 (5.44%) Redux
16 42 (5.32%) HTML5
17 41 (5.19%) GraphQL
18 37 (4.68%) Jest
19 35 (4.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.73%) Cloud Native
2 62 (7.85%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.06%) Fixed Income
4 38 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.66%) Low-Code
8 19 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (2.41%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.77%) e-Learning
11 13 (1.65%) Sports Betting
12 11 (1.39%) Cyberattack
13 10 (1.27%) NHS
14 9 (1.14%) Blog
15 8 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
15 8 (1.01%) Derivative
15 8 (1.01%) Equities
15 8 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.58%) Linux
2 25 (3.16%) Unix
3 14 (1.77%) Android
4 7 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Debian
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (45.82%) Agile
2 361 (45.70%) Full-Stack Development
3 239 (30.25%) CI/CD
4 220 (27.85%) Software Engineering
5 208 (26.33%) DevOps
6 191 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
7 183 (23.16%) Mentoring
8 167 (21.14%) Microservices
9 118 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 112 (14.18%) AI
11 110 (13.92%) User Experience
12 98 (12.41%) Test Automation
13 92 (11.65%) Containerisation
14 88 (11.14%) Scrum
15 86 (10.89%) Technical Leadership
16 72 (9.11%) Machine Learning
17 71 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
18 70 (8.86%) Front End Development
19 69 (8.73%) Roadmaps
20 61 (7.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 272 (34.43%) TypeScript
2 230 (29.11%) Python
3 226 (28.61%) C#
4 203 (25.70%) Java
5 202 (25.57%) SQL
6 64 (8.10%) Go
7 49 (6.20%) PHP
8 28 (3.54%) Bash
9 26 (3.29%) PowerShell
9 26 (3.29%) Ruby
10 18 (2.28%) Apex Code
11 14 (1.77%) C++
12 9 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.51%) R
13 4 (0.51%) Rust
13 4 (0.51%) Scala
13 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.38%) Perl
15 2 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 100 (12.66%) Degree
2 73 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 68 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 47 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.03%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.38%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.25%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.13%) IBM Certification
15 1 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (8.48%) Accessibility
2 64 (8.10%) QA
3 17 (2.15%) WCAG
4 15 (1.90%) SLA
5 9 (1.14%) GDPR
6 7 (0.89%) GRC
7 6 (0.76%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.63%) HL7
9 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 125 (15.82%) Docker
2 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 87 (11.01%) Kubernetes
2 67 (8.48%) Terraform
3 27 (3.42%) Ansible
4 25 (3.16%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.78%) Argo
6 18 (2.28%) Grafana
6 18 (2.28%) Kustomize
7 12 (1.52%) Podman
8 5 (0.63%) Plesk
9 2 (0.25%) cPanel
9 2 (0.25%) Kibana
10 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 173 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.47%) Google
3 33 (4.18%) Adobe
4 21 (2.66%) Salesforce
5 18 (2.28%) ServiceNow
6 14 (1.77%) MuleSoft
6 14 (1.77%) Oracle
7 9 (1.14%) Apple
8 7 (0.89%) HubSpot
8 7 (0.89%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.76%) Cisco
9 6 (0.76%) F5
9 6 (0.76%) Facebook
9 6 (0.76%) Juniper
9 6 (0.76%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.76%) Sony
9 6 (0.76%) Yahoo!
10 4 (0.51%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.25%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.25%) SendGrid