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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -34 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 739 1,985 2,604
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.89% 12.05% 12.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.15% 28.02% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 627 1,329 2,364
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -10.77% +5.69% -5.38%

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 4,071 7,084 9,800
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.96% 43.01% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,095 4,446 8,332
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,584 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 9 January 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 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (4.19%) Apache
3 24 (3.25%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.30%) CMS
5 9 (1.22%) Confluence
6 8 (1.08%) Apache Solr
7 7 (0.95%) WordPress
8 5 (0.68%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.68%) nginx
9 4 (0.54%) IIS
9 4 (0.54%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.41%) Drupal
10 3 (0.41%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.41%) WebLogic Portal
11 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.27%) Mendix
Applications
1 13 (1.76%) Adobe XD
2 8 (1.08%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (0.68%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.41%) Simulink
7 1 (0.14%) InVision
7 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.14%) Notion
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (2.30%) Shopify
2 14 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.08%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.68%) PlanetPress Connect
5 4 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.41%) Maximo
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.41%) Primavera
7 2 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 307 (41.54%) AWS
2 286 (38.70%) Azure
3 101 (13.67%) Serverless
4 94 (12.72%) GCP
5 85 (11.50%) SaaS
6 58 (7.85%) dbt
7 53 (7.17%) GitHub
8 48 (6.50%) Power Platform
9 45 (6.09%) Power Automate
10 42 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
11 41 (5.55%) Dynamics 365
12 36 (4.87%) PowerApps
13 35 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
15 31 (4.19%) Amazon S3
16 29 (3.92%) Snowflake
17 24 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
17 24 (3.25%) Figma
18 22 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
19 20 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.17%) Broadband
2 5 (0.68%) HTTP
3 4 (0.54%) SSH
4 2 (0.27%) AMQP
4 2 (0.27%) Firewall
4 2 (0.27%) Internet
4 2 (0.27%) Intranet
4 2 (0.27%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.14%) DNS
5 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (8.80%) SQL Server
3 64 (8.66%) MongoDB
4 61 (8.25%) MySQL
5 56 (7.58%) Amazon Athena
6 55 (7.44%) Apache Arrow
6 55 (7.44%) Apache Iceberg
6 55 (7.44%) Dremio
7 48 (6.50%) Relational Database
8 44 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 38 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (4.60%) NoSQL
11 29 (3.92%) Apache Ignite
11 29 (3.92%) Data Lake
11 29 (3.92%) Power BI
12 13 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (1.49%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.22%) DynamoDB
15 9 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 110 (14.88%) Git
2 37 (5.01%) Cypress.io
3 30 (4.06%) JIRA
4 17 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.30%) Selenium
4 17 (2.30%) webpack
5 14 (1.89%) Axure RP
6 13 (1.76%) GitLab
7 12 (1.62%) Balsamiq
7 12 (1.62%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.22%) JMeter
8 9 (1.22%) TeamCity
9 8 (1.08%) Babel
9 8 (1.08%) Postman
9 8 (1.08%) Vite
10 7 (0.95%) Jaeger
11 6 (0.81%) LoadRunner
11 6 (0.81%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.68%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
General
1 201 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 162 (21.92%) Finance
3 83 (11.23%) Law
4 64 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (7.44%) Front Office
7 32 (4.33%) Banking
8 31 (4.19%) Marketing
9 29 (3.92%) Investment Banking
10 18 (2.44%) Retail
11 15 (2.03%) Legal
12 14 (1.89%) Games
13 11 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.95%) Advertising
15 6 (0.81%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.54%) Electronics
16 4 (0.54%) Multimedia
16 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 450 (60.89%) Developer
2 158 (21.38%) Senior
3 105 (14.21%) Software Engineer
4 95 (12.86%) .NET Developer
5 86 (11.64%) Senior Developer
6 69 (9.34%) Software Developer
7 66 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
8 58 (7.85%) AWS Engineer
9 55 (7.44%) AWS Software Engineer
9 55 (7.44%) Python Engineer
9 55 (7.44%) Python Software Engineer
10 53 (7.17%) Lead
11 48 (6.50%) AWS Developer
12 47 (6.36%) Python Developer
13 37 (5.01%) Senior Software Engineer
14 34 (4.60%) Engineering Manager
14 34 (4.60%) Java Engineer
15 33 (4.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 31 (4.19%) .NET Software Developer
17 30 (4.06%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (34.78%) React
2 234 (31.66%) HTML
3 211 (28.55%) CSS
4 210 (28.42%) .NET
5 144 (19.49%) Node.js
6 115 (15.56%) AngularJS
7 103 (13.94%) Vue
8 86 (11.64%) REST
9 75 (10.15%) .NET Core
10 71 (9.61%) ASP.NET
11 55 (7.44%) NumPy
11 55 (7.44%) Pandas
11 55 (7.44%) RESTful
11 55 (7.44%) SciPy
12 46 (6.22%) HTML5
13 42 (5.68%) .NET Framework
14 41 (5.55%) SOAP
15 40 (5.41%) ASP.NET MVC
16 39 (5.28%) Web Services
17 38 (5.14%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.39%) Product Ownership
2 57 (7.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 55 (7.44%) Equities
3 55 (7.44%) Fixed Income
4 45 (6.09%) Cloud Native
5 35 (4.74%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (3.92%) Derivative
6 29 (3.92%) Hedge funds
6 29 (3.92%) Pricing Data
7 24 (3.25%) Low-Code
7 24 (3.25%) Mobile App
8 15 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.03%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.95%) Data Centre
11 7 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.95%) Private Cloud
11 7 (0.95%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 56 (7.58%) Linux
2 23 (3.11%) Unix
3 21 (2.84%) Windows
4 14 (1.89%) Android
5 13 (1.76%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.62%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (51.29%) Agile
2 208 (28.15%) Software Engineering
3 190 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 186 (25.17%) CI/CD
5 166 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
6 148 (20.03%) DevOps
7 145 (19.62%) Mentoring
8 125 (16.91%) Microservices
9 96 (12.99%) User Experience
10 93 (12.58%) AI
11 91 (12.31%) Asset Management
12 90 (12.18%) Front End Development
13 83 (11.23%) Computer Science
13 83 (11.23%) Roadmaps
14 80 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 74 (10.01%) MVC
16 69 (9.34%) Test Automation
17 68 (9.20%) Scrum
18 64 (8.66%) Containerisation
19 59 (7.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 271 (36.67%) TypeScript
2 243 (32.88%) Python
3 216 (29.23%) C#
4 161 (21.79%) SQL
5 140 (18.94%) Java
6 55 (7.44%) PHP
7 20 (2.71%) Go
8 19 (2.57%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.03%) Ruby
10 14 (1.89%) Bash
11 9 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.95%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.95%) C
13 6 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.81%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.68%) Perl
14 5 (0.68%) R
14 5 (0.68%) VBA
15 4 (0.54%) C++
16 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (15.56%) Degree
2 80 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 74 (10.01%) SC Cleared
4 67 (9.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (5.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (5.14%) AWS Certification
7 25 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (3.38%) Azure Certification
8 24 (3.25%) TOGAF Certification
9 14 (1.89%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.54%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.41%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (9.34%) QA
2 62 (8.39%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.25%) WCAG
4 17 (2.30%) GDPR
5 4 (0.54%) HL7
6 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 107 (14.48%) Docker
2 6 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 71 (9.61%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.39%) Terraform
3 25 (3.38%) Grafana
4 23 (3.11%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.98%) Ansible
6 14 (1.89%) Argo
7 8 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.95%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.41%) cPanel
9 3 (0.41%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.41%) Plesk
10 2 (0.27%) Control-M
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
11 1 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 165 (22.33%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.14%) ServiceNow
3 31 (4.19%) Google
4 23 (3.11%) Adobe
5 22 (2.98%) MuleSoft
6 20 (2.71%) Oracle
7 13 (1.76%) IBM
7 13 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.76%) Workday
8 8 (1.08%) IFS
8 8 (1.08%) SAP
9 7 (0.95%) Infor
10 6 (0.81%) Facebook
10 6 (0.81%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.81%) YouTube
11 5 (0.68%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.68%) Jitterbit
11 5 (0.68%) SnapLogic
11 5 (0.68%) Talend
11 5 (0.68%) TIBCO