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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,158 1,674 2,683
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.06% 10.12% 10.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.03% 31.30% 28.42%
Number of salaries quoted 937 1,014 2,283
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,550
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 £105,000
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 6,086 5,349 9,439
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.58% 32.34% 38.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,579 3,687 7,301
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 £83,750 £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 18 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 (5.27%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.55%) CMS
3 15 (1.30%) 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 (1.30%) 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%) Trello
7 1 (0.086%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.69%) Shopify
3 7 (0.60%) Infor M3
3 7 (0.60%) 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 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 466 (40.24%) Azure
2 403 (34.80%) AWS
3 160 (13.82%) SaaS
4 134 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
5 115 (9.93%) Power Platform
6 102 (8.81%) GCP
7 92 (7.94%) Serverless
8 90 (7.77%) Power Automate
9 83 (7.17%) PowerApps
10 82 (7.08%) Azure AI
11 79 (6.82%) GitHub
12 60 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
13 58 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (3.71%) Azure Logic Apps
15 42 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
16 40 (3.45%) Amazon S3
17 39 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
18 35 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
20 30 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.25%) Broadband
2 18 (1.55%) Internet
3 7 (0.60%) Firewall
3 7 (0.60%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.43%) 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 (0.086%) DNS
8 1 (0.086%) Network Security
8 1 (0.086%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (20.29%) MongoDB
2 188 (16.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 109 (9.41%) SQL Server
4 102 (8.81%) PostgreSQL
5 87 (7.51%) MySQL
6 82 (7.08%) Elasticsearch
7 56 (4.84%) Relational Database
8 55 (4.75%) Power BI
9 43 (3.71%) NoSQL
10 25 (2.16%) Redis
11 16 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (1.12%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.69%) MariaDB
16 8 (0.69%) Metadata
17 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
18 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 148 (12.78%) Git
2 49 (4.23%) Cypress.io
3 47 (4.06%) JIRA
4 31 (2.68%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.55%) JUnit
6 15 (1.30%) GitLab
7 14 (1.21%) Maven
7 14 (1.21%) Mockito
8 13 (1.12%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.86%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.86%) Postman
9 10 (0.86%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.69%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.69%) Balsamiq
12 7 (0.60%) webpack
13 6 (0.52%) Selenium
14 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 285 (24.61%) Social Skills
2 171 (14.77%) Finance
3 106 (9.15%) Public Sector
4 77 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.65%) Law
4 77 (6.65%) Legal
5 71 (6.13%) Marketing
6 67 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (3.20%) Retail
8 24 (2.07%) Front Office
8 24 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (1.99%) Banking
10 20 (1.73%) Health Technology
11 18 (1.55%) Games
11 18 (1.55%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.04%) Legal Technology
13 10 (0.86%) Local Government
14 6 (0.52%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.43%) Advertising
15 5 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 681 (58.81%) Developer
2 252 (21.76%) Senior
3 207 (17.88%) .NET Developer
4 199 (17.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 178 (15.37%) Software Engineer
6 163 (14.08%) Lead
7 122 (10.54%) Senior Developer
8 100 (8.64%) Lead Developer
9 86 (7.43%) Software Developer
10 69 (5.96%) Lead Software Developer
11 62 (5.35%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 61 (5.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (4.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 49 (4.23%) Senior Manager
13 49 (4.23%) Testing Manager
14 44 (3.80%) Lead Software Engineer
14 44 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
15 28 (2.42%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 26 (2.25%) Web Developer
17 24 (2.07%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 536 (46.29%) React
2 362 (31.26%) .NET
3 324 (27.98%) Node.js
4 232 (20.03%) HTML
5 220 (19.00%) .NET Core
6 216 (18.65%) ASP.NET
7 212 (18.31%) CSS
8 189 (16.32%) ASP.NET Core
9 164 (14.16%) Blazor
10 157 (13.56%) RESTful
11 91 (7.86%) ASP.NET Web API
12 87 (7.51%) REST
12 87 (7.51%) Vue
13 82 (7.08%) ML.NET
14 81 (6.99%) .NET Framework
15 76 (6.56%) AngularJS
16 68 (5.87%) JSON
17 47 (4.06%) Entity Framework
18 46 (3.97%) Jest
19 45 (3.89%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 68 (5.87%) Self-Motivation
3 64 (5.53%) Virtual Team
4 50 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
5 49 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 34 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (2.94%) Mobile App
7 32 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 29 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
9 25 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (1.81%) Fixed Income
10 21 (1.81%) Social Media
11 17 (1.47%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.47%) BBC
11 17 (1.47%) iPhone
12 16 (1.38%) NHS
13 15 (1.30%) Cyberattack
13 15 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.21%) Sports Betting
15 13 (1.12%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.09%) Linux
2 26 (2.25%) Android
3 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.69%) Unix
5 6 (0.52%) Windows
6 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (49.31%) Full-Stack Development
2 563 (48.62%) Agile
3 345 (29.79%) Software Engineering
4 318 (27.46%) CI/CD
5 310 (26.77%) DevOps
6 269 (23.23%) AI
7 263 (22.71%) Microservices
8 252 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
9 250 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 248 (21.42%) Mentoring
11 173 (14.94%) Test Automation
12 167 (14.42%) Scrum
13 140 (12.09%) Machine Learning
14 128 (11.05%) Technical Leadership
15 127 (10.97%) User Experience
16 100 (8.64%) SDLC
17 97 (8.38%) Containerisation
18 91 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
19 87 (7.51%) Front End Development
20 86 (7.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 454 (39.21%) C#
2 431 (37.22%) TypeScript
3 368 (31.78%) SQL
4 279 (24.09%) Python
5 192 (16.58%) Java
6 78 (6.74%) PowerShell
7 64 (5.53%) PHP
8 39 (3.37%) Go
8 39 (3.37%) Ruby
9 37 (3.20%) C++
10 21 (1.81%) 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 (9.93%) Degree
2 98 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 86 (7.43%) SC Cleared
4 53 (4.58%) 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
1 118 (10.19%) QA
2 94 (8.12%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.99%) WCAG
4 16 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.21%) SLA
6 11 (0.95%) GDPR
7 9 (0.78%) GRC
8 7 (0.60%) HL7
9 5 (0.43%) NIST
10 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.26%) NCSC
12 1 (0.086%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 136 (11.74%) Docker
2 5 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.086%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 87 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.02%) Terraform
3 12 (1.04%) Podman
4 10 (0.86%) Ansible
4 10 (0.86%) Grafana
5 7 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.086%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.086%) Kibana
Vendors
1 328 (28.32%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.65%) Google
3 34 (2.94%) Adobe
4 24 (2.07%) Oracle
5 19 (1.64%) Apple
5 19 (1.64%) Sony
6 18 (1.55%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.47%) Facebook
7 17 (1.47%) Yahoo!
8 15 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.21%) HubSpot
10 11 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.78%) Databricks
12 7 (0.60%) Infor
13 6 (0.52%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.43%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.43%) New Relic
14 5 (0.43%) Sage
15 4 (0.35%) Marketo
15 4 (0.35%) Palo Alto