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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,160 1,694 2,672
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.98% 10.26% 11.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.99% 31.75% 28.74%
Number of salaries quoted 945 1,034 2,164
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,217 £50,000 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £105,000 £110,000
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 6,110 5,335 9,297
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.22% 32.32% 38.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,599 3,679 6,882
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,450 £39,507
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,759
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +1.98% -3.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 29 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 59 (5.09%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.55%) CMS
3 14 (1.21%) WordPress
4 11 (0.95%) Confluence
5 8 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.43%) IIS
8 4 (0.34%) Apache
8 4 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.34%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.26%) DNN
9 3 (0.26%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.26%) Immediacy CMS
9 3 (0.26%) Kentico
9 3 (0.26%) Sitefinity
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.086%) ExpressionEngine
11 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 (0.34%) 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 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.60%) Infor M3
2 7 (0.60%) Lawson
2 7 (0.60%) Shopify
3 4 (0.34%) 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
Cloud Services
1 460 (39.66%) Azure
2 397 (34.22%) AWS
3 165 (14.22%) SaaS
4 134 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
5 115 (9.91%) Power Platform
6 96 (8.28%) GCP
7 93 (8.02%) Serverless
8 90 (7.76%) Power Automate
9 83 (7.16%) PowerApps
10 82 (7.07%) Azure AI
11 77 (6.64%) GitHub
12 61 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
13 58 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (3.71%) Azure Logic Apps
15 42 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
16 39 (3.36%) Amazon S3
17 38 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
18 35 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
19 29 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.98%) Broadband
2 18 (1.55%) Internet
3 7 (0.60%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.52%) Firewall
5 5 (0.43%) Intranet
6 4 (0.34%) 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 (20.34%) MongoDB
2 188 (16.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 104 (8.97%) SQL Server
4 100 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
5 84 (7.24%) MySQL
6 82 (7.07%) Elasticsearch
7 56 (4.83%) Relational Database
8 55 (4.74%) Power BI
9 41 (3.53%) NoSQL
10 25 (2.16%) Redis
11 14 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.12%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.69%) MariaDB
13 8 (0.69%) Metadata
13 8 (0.69%) Spark SQL
13 8 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 142 (12.24%) Git
2 48 (4.14%) Cypress.io
3 43 (3.71%) JIRA
4 29 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.55%) JUnit
6 14 (1.21%) GitLab
6 14 (1.21%) Maven
6 14 (1.21%) Mockito
7 12 (1.03%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.86%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.78%) Postman
9 9 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.69%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.69%) Balsamiq
11 6 (0.52%) Selenium
12 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.43%) Subversion
13 4 (0.34%) Appium
General
1 284 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 162 (13.97%) Finance
3 112 (9.66%) Public Sector
4 83 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (6.55%) Law
5 76 (6.55%) Legal
6 71 (6.12%) Marketing
7 64 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (3.02%) Retail
9 24 (2.07%) Banking
10 22 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (1.64%) Health Technology
12 16 (1.38%) Games
13 14 (1.21%) Front Office
14 11 (0.95%) 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
1 678 (58.45%) Developer
2 243 (20.95%) Senior
3 206 (17.76%) .NET Developer
4 201 (17.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 168 (14.48%) Software Engineer
6 161 (13.88%) Lead
7 117 (10.09%) Senior Developer
8 96 (8.28%) Lead Developer
9 92 (7.93%) Software Developer
10 67 (5.78%) Lead Software Developer
11 66 (5.69%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 58 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 51 (4.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 49 (4.22%) Senior Manager
14 49 (4.22%) Testing Manager
15 42 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
16 37 (3.19%) Lead Software Engineer
17 26 (2.24%) Web Developer
18 25 (2.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 23 (1.98%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 520 (44.83%) React
2 361 (31.12%) .NET
3 328 (28.28%) Node.js
4 230 (19.83%) HTML
5 219 (18.88%) .NET Core
6 216 (18.62%) ASP.NET
7 210 (18.10%) CSS
8 189 (16.29%) ASP.NET Core
9 166 (14.31%) Blazor
10 156 (13.45%) RESTful
11 91 (7.84%) ASP.NET Web API
12 85 (7.33%) REST
13 83 (7.16%) Vue
14 82 (7.07%) ML.NET
15 81 (6.98%) .NET Framework
16 70 (6.03%) AngularJS
17 67 (5.78%) JSON
18 47 (4.05%) Entity Framework
19 44 (3.79%) Jest
20 43 (3.71%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 86 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 66 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
3 63 (5.43%) Virtual Team
4 50 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
5 49 (4.22%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 33 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 30 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.81%) Social Media
12 18 (1.55%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.47%) BBC
13 17 (1.47%) iPhone
14 15 (1.29%) NHS
15 14 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.12%) Blog
16 13 (1.12%) Sports Betting
17 12 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (1.03%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 57 (4.91%) Linux
2 27 (2.33%) Android
3 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.60%) Unix
4 7 (0.60%) Windows
5 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.086%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (49.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 567 (48.88%) Agile
3 336 (28.97%) Software Engineering
4 326 (28.10%) CI/CD
5 307 (26.47%) DevOps
6 270 (23.28%) AI
7 261 (22.50%) Microservices
8 254 (21.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 252 (21.72%) Mentoring
10 244 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
11 172 (14.83%) Test Automation
12 167 (14.40%) Scrum
13 140 (12.07%) Machine Learning
14 132 (11.38%) Technical Leadership
15 128 (11.03%) User Experience
16 103 (8.88%) SDLC
17 97 (8.36%) Business Intelligence
18 93 (8.02%) Containerisation
19 90 (7.76%) TDD
20 88 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 454 (39.14%) C#
2 433 (37.33%) TypeScript
3 373 (32.16%) SQL
4 266 (22.93%) Python
5 193 (16.64%) Java
6 78 (6.72%) PowerShell
7 61 (5.26%) PHP
8 44 (3.79%) C++
9 40 (3.45%) Ruby
10 33 (2.84%) Go
11 19 (1.64%) Bash
12 17 (1.47%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.69%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.69%) R
15 7 (0.60%) Rust
16 6 (0.52%) Scala
17 4 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.34%) Perl
17 4 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 108 (9.31%) Degree
2 103 (8.88%) Security Cleared
3 86 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.43%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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
1 116 (10.00%) QA
2 98 (8.45%) Accessibility
3 28 (2.41%) WCAG
4 24 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 16 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.95%) GDPR
6 11 (0.95%) GRC
6 11 (0.95%) SLA
7 7 (0.60%) HL7
8 5 (0.43%) NIST
9 4 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.26%) NCSC
11 1 (0.086%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 135 (11.64%) Docker
2 4 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.03%) Podman
3 10 (0.86%) Ansible
3 10 (0.86%) Grafana
4 7 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 1 (0.086%) Consul
7 1 (0.086%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 329 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.64%) Google
3 35 (3.02%) Adobe
4 24 (2.07%) Oracle
5 19 (1.64%) Sony
6 18 (1.55%) ServiceNow
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%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.43%) Sage
14 4 (0.34%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.34%) Marketo
14 4 (0.34%) New Relic
14 4 (0.34%) Sitecore