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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -36 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 737 1,575 3,742
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.16% 11.92% 11.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.48% 27.84% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 604 1,342 3,442
10th Percentile £40,349 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,438 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +11.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,500 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.21% +9.17% -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 4,761 5,657 13,399
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.87% 42.80% 41.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,466 4,509 11,505
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £114,033 £97,500
UK median annual salary £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.13% +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 18 April 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 38 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.63%) CMS
3 5 (0.68%) NServiceBus
3 5 (0.68%) WordPress
4 4 (0.54%) Anypoint
4 4 (0.54%) nginx
5 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.41%) Confluence
6 2 (0.27%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.27%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.27%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Mendix
7 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (2.04%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.68%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) InVision
4 1 (0.14%) Notion
4 1 (0.14%) Sketch
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.76%) Shopify
2 10 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) Magento
3 2 (0.27%) Maximo
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.27%) Primavera
4 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 317 (43.01%) AWS
2 243 (32.97%) Azure
3 108 (14.65%) Serverless
4 88 (11.94%) GCP
5 65 (8.82%) Power Platform
6 62 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (7.87%) GitHub
9 55 (7.46%) SaaS
10 46 (6.24%) Amazon S3
10 46 (6.24%) Power Automate
11 42 (5.70%) PowerApps
12 37 (5.02%) Azure Logic Apps
13 36 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
14 32 (4.34%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (4.34%) Amazon SQS
15 31 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (3.26%) Figma
17 22 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.70%) Broadband
2 8 (1.09%) Firewall
3 6 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (0.68%) Intranet
5 2 (0.27%) HTTP
5 2 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.27%) Internet
5 2 (0.27%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.27%) SSH
6 1 (0.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (8.55%) MongoDB
3 57 (7.73%) NoSQL
4 56 (7.60%) SQL Server
5 51 (6.92%) Relational Database
6 43 (5.83%) MySQL
7 35 (4.75%) Power BI
8 29 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (2.99%) RDBMS
10 20 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.22%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.09%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.68%) Metadata
15 5 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.54%) Big Data
17 3 (0.41%) MariaDB
17 3 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 107 (14.52%) Git
2 54 (7.33%) Cypress.io
3 22 (2.99%) JIRA
4 20 (2.71%) CircleCI
5 19 (2.58%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.17%) GitLab
7 15 (2.04%) Axure RP
8 14 (1.90%) Balsamiq
8 14 (1.90%) Jenkins
9 11 (1.49%) webpack
10 10 (1.36%) Selenium
11 9 (1.22%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.22%) Vite
12 7 (0.95%) Postman
13 5 (0.68%) Babel
13 5 (0.68%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
15 2 (0.27%) LoadRunner
15 2 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 210 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 113 (15.33%) Finance
3 85 (11.53%) Law
4 83 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (11.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 65 (8.82%) Public Sector
7 40 (5.43%) Front Office
8 22 (2.99%) Legal
9 18 (2.44%) Retail
10 17 (2.31%) Games
10 17 (2.31%) Marketing
11 15 (2.04%) Banking
11 15 (2.04%) Health Technology
12 10 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.68%) Advertising
14 5 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.54%) Local Government
16 3 (0.41%) Electronics
16 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 427 (57.94%) Developer
2 147 (19.95%) Senior
3 126 (17.10%) Software Engineer
4 117 (15.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 113 (15.33%) Lead
6 95 (12.89%) Senior Developer
7 62 (8.41%) Lead Developer
8 51 (6.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 44 (5.97%) Lead Software Developer
10 42 (5.70%) .NET Developer
11 41 (5.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 41 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
12 37 (5.02%) React Developer
13 36 (4.88%) Software Developer
14 32 (4.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 30 (4.07%) Power Platform Developer
16 29 (3.93%) Python Developer
17 26 (3.53%) JavaScript Developer
18 25 (3.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 24 (3.26%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (43.55%) React
2 220 (29.85%) HTML
3 199 (27.00%) CSS
4 182 (24.69%) Node.js
5 168 (22.80%) .NET
6 73 (9.91%) REST
7 69 (9.36%) Vue
8 61 (8.28%) .NET Core
8 61 (8.28%) AngularJS
9 57 (7.73%) JSON
10 54 (7.33%) RESTful
11 46 (6.24%) Kafka
12 43 (5.83%) Redux
13 42 (5.70%) ASP.NET
13 42 (5.70%) GraphQL
14 36 (4.88%) HTML5
15 35 (4.75%) Web Services
16 33 (4.48%) Playwright
17 31 (4.21%) Laravel
18 30 (4.07%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.04%) Product Ownership
2 66 (8.96%) Cloud Native
3 40 (5.43%) Fixed Income
4 30 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (3.66%) Low-Code
6 23 (3.12%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.58%) Mobile App
9 16 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.90%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.90%) e-Learning
12 13 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.63%) Sports Betting
14 10 (1.36%) NHS
15 8 (1.09%) Culture of Ownership
15 8 (1.09%) Data Centre
15 8 (1.09%) Derivative
15 8 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
15 8 (1.09%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 54 (7.33%) Linux
2 33 (4.48%) Unix
3 12 (1.63%) Android
4 11 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.27%) Windows
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Debian
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (45.18%) Agile
2 294 (39.89%) Full-Stack Development
3 216 (29.31%) CI/CD
4 197 (26.73%) Software Engineering
5 195 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
6 187 (25.37%) DevOps
7 163 (22.12%) Mentoring
8 136 (18.45%) Microservices
9 114 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 109 (14.79%) User Experience
11 95 (12.89%) Containerisation
12 93 (12.62%) Test Automation
13 75 (10.18%) Front End Development
14 73 (9.91%) AI
15 72 (9.77%) Scrum
16 68 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
17 67 (9.09%) Roadmaps
18 61 (8.28%) Computer Science
19 60 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
20 56 (7.60%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 254 (34.46%) TypeScript
2 243 (32.97%) Python
3 185 (25.10%) C#
4 180 (24.42%) Java
5 148 (20.08%) SQL
6 63 (8.55%) Go
7 52 (7.06%) PHP
8 28 (3.80%) Bash
9 23 (3.12%) Ruby
10 20 (2.71%) Apex Code
10 20 (2.71%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.68%) C++
12 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.41%) C
13 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.41%) Scala
14 2 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.27%) SOQL
14 2 (0.27%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 102 (13.84%) Degree
2 75 (10.18%) Security Cleared
3 69 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 48 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (5.16%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 16 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 15 (2.04%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (9.36%) QA
2 68 (9.23%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.85%) WCAG
4 15 (2.04%) SLA
5 10 (1.36%) GDPR
6 7 (0.95%) GRC
7 6 (0.81%) HL7
8 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.41%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 139 (18.86%) Docker
2 5 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 92 (12.48%) Kubernetes
2 77 (10.45%) Terraform
3 31 (4.21%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.66%) Ansible
4 27 (3.66%) Argo
5 24 (3.26%) Grafana
6 19 (2.58%) Kustomize
7 12 (1.63%) Podman
8 4 (0.54%) Plesk
9 3 (0.41%) cPanel
10 2 (0.27%) Kibana
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.14%) Puppet
11 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.60%) Google
3 31 (4.21%) Adobe
4 23 (3.12%) Salesforce
5 22 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.85%) MuleSoft
7 10 (1.36%) Oracle
8 9 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.09%) IBM
10 6 (0.81%) Apple
10 6 (0.81%) Cisco
10 6 (0.81%) F5
10 6 (0.81%) IFS
10 6 (0.81%) Juniper
10 6 (0.81%) Palo Alto
10 6 (0.81%) SAP
11 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.54%) Jitterbit
11 4 (0.54%) SnapLogic
11 4 (0.54%) Workday