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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,145 1,821 2,720
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.13% 10.97% 10.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.07% 32.01% 28.15%
Number of salaries quoted 933 1,137 2,376
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
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 6,005 5,688 9,662
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.92% 34.25% 38.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,514 3,943 7,625
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
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 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 3 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 62 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.66%) CMS
3 13 (1.14%) WordPress
4 11 (0.96%) Confluence
5 8 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.35%) Apache
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%) IIS
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 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.087%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.087%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.70%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.26%) Blender
5 3 (0.26%) Maya
6 2 (0.17%) Elementor
7 1 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.087%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.087%) Trello
7 1 (0.087%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.70%) Shopify
3 5 (0.44%) Infor M3
3 5 (0.44%) Lawson
4 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.087%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.087%) Magento
7 1 (0.087%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 468 (40.87%) Azure
2 413 (36.07%) AWS
3 156 (13.62%) SaaS
4 139 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
5 113 (9.87%) Power Platform
6 106 (9.26%) GCP
7 87 (7.60%) Serverless
8 84 (7.34%) Power Automate
9 82 (7.16%) Azure AI
10 80 (6.99%) PowerApps
11 76 (6.64%) GitHub
12 61 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
13 57 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
15 42 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
16 39 (3.41%) Amazon S3
17 35 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
18 34 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
19 32 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
20 30 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.27%) Broadband
2 18 (1.57%) Internet
3 8 (0.70%) Firewall
4 7 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.44%) Intranet
7 4 (0.35%) SSH
8 2 (0.17%) HTTP
8 2 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.087%) Network Security
9 1 (0.087%) SSL
9 1 (0.087%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (20.52%) MongoDB
2 188 (16.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 98 (8.56%) SQL Server
4 97 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
5 82 (7.16%) Elasticsearch
5 82 (7.16%) MySQL
6 58 (5.07%) Power BI
7 51 (4.45%) Relational Database
8 45 (3.93%) NoSQL
9 22 (1.92%) Redis
10 16 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (1.05%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.70%) MariaDB
15 8 (0.70%) Metadata
16 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
17 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 142 (12.40%) Git
2 48 (4.19%) Cypress.io
3 46 (4.02%) JIRA
4 30 (2.62%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.48%) GitLab
5 17 (1.48%) JUnit
6 14 (1.22%) Maven
7 13 (1.14%) CircleCI
7 13 (1.14%) Mockito
8 10 (0.87%) Claude Code
8 10 (0.87%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.79%) Postman
9 9 (0.79%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.79%) webpack
10 8 (0.70%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.70%) Balsamiq
11 6 (0.52%) Selenium
11 6 (0.52%) Vite
12 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 280 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 185 (16.16%) Finance
3 101 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 82 (7.16%) Law
5 78 (6.81%) Legal
6 74 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 64 (5.59%) Marketing
9 44 (3.84%) Front Office
10 39 (3.41%) Retail
11 24 (2.10%) Banking
12 22 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.57%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.48%) Games
15 16 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.14%) Legal Technology
17 10 (0.87%) Local Government
18 6 (0.52%) Advertising
18 6 (0.52%) Back Office
18 6 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 687 (60.00%) Developer
2 250 (21.83%) Senior
3 209 (18.25%) .NET Developer
4 196 (17.12%) Full-Stack Developer
5 189 (16.51%) Software Engineer
6 168 (14.67%) Lead
7 117 (10.22%) Senior Developer
8 108 (9.43%) Lead Developer
9 76 (6.64%) Lead Software Developer
10 74 (6.46%) Software Developer
11 65 (5.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 58 (5.07%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 58 (5.07%) Lead Software Engineer
13 51 (4.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 49 (4.28%) Senior Manager
14 49 (4.28%) Testing Manager
15 46 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
16 41 (3.58%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 30 (2.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 30 (2.62%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 551 (48.12%) React
2 361 (31.53%) .NET
3 331 (28.91%) Node.js
4 224 (19.56%) HTML
5 216 (18.86%) .NET Core
6 214 (18.69%) ASP.NET
7 206 (17.99%) CSS
8 189 (16.51%) ASP.NET Core
9 164 (14.32%) Blazor
10 160 (13.97%) RESTful
11 91 (7.95%) REST
12 90 (7.86%) ASP.NET Web API
12 90 (7.86%) Vue
13 82 (7.16%) ML.NET
14 78 (6.81%) .NET Framework
15 75 (6.55%) AngularJS
16 69 (6.03%) JSON
17 47 (4.10%) GraphQL
17 47 (4.10%) Kafka
18 46 (4.02%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.03%) Cloud Native
2 66 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
3 64 (5.59%) Virtual Team
4 52 (4.54%) Greenfield Project
5 46 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 41 (3.58%) Fixed Income
7 38 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.71%) Onboarding
9 30 (2.62%) Mobile App
10 29 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (1.83%) Social Media
13 17 (1.48%) BBC
13 17 (1.48%) iPhone
14 15 (1.31%) Cyberattack
14 15 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (1.22%) NHS
15 14 (1.22%) Sports Betting
16 13 (1.14%) AI Agents
16 13 (1.14%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.15%) Linux
2 24 (2.10%) Android
3 10 (0.87%) Unix
4 7 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.52%) Windows
6 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (49.96%) Full-Stack Development
2 568 (49.61%) Agile
3 348 (30.39%) Software Engineering
4 313 (27.34%) DevOps
5 307 (26.81%) CI/CD
6 258 (22.53%) Microservices
7 256 (22.36%) AI
8 248 (21.66%) Mentoring
9 245 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
10 231 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 166 (14.50%) Test Automation
12 158 (13.80%) Scrum
13 138 (12.05%) Machine Learning
14 127 (11.09%) User Experience
15 120 (10.48%) Technical Leadership
16 97 (8.47%) Containerisation
17 92 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
17 92 (8.03%) SDLC
18 88 (7.69%) Front End Development
19 84 (7.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 443 (38.69%) C#
2 426 (37.21%) TypeScript
3 364 (31.79%) SQL
4 292 (25.50%) Python
5 198 (17.29%) Java
6 78 (6.81%) PowerShell
7 65 (5.68%) PHP
8 53 (4.63%) Go
9 36 (3.14%) Ruby
10 34 (2.97%) C++
11 19 (1.66%) Bash
12 16 (1.40%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 11 (0.96%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.70%) R
16 6 (0.52%) Scala
17 5 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.44%) Rust
18 4 (0.35%) Perl
18 4 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 113 (9.87%) Degree
2 90 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 82 (7.16%) SC Cleared
4 53 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.17%) OCP
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.087%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.087%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (9.87%) QA
2 93 (8.12%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.75%) WCAG
4 19 (1.66%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.14%) GDPR
5 13 (1.14%) SLA
6 11 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.61%) GRC
7 7 (0.61%) HL7
8 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.35%) NIST
9 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.17%) NCSC
11 1 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 126 (11.00%) Docker
2 5 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 39 (3.41%) Terraform
3 12 (1.05%) Grafana
3 12 (1.05%) Podman
4 8 (0.70%) Ansible
4 8 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.26%) Plesk
6 2 (0.17%) Kibana
6 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 328 (28.65%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.38%) Google
3 33 (2.88%) Adobe
4 23 (2.01%) Oracle
5 19 (1.66%) Apple
5 19 (1.66%) Sony
6 18 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.48%) Facebook
7 17 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.48%) Yahoo!
8 13 (1.14%) HubSpot
9 9 (0.79%) Databricks
9 9 (0.79%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.70%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.70%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.52%) Cisco
11 6 (0.52%) F5
11 6 (0.52%) Juniper
11 6 (0.52%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.44%) New Relic