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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -26 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,152 1,749 2,714
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.08% 10.57% 10.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.94% 31.47% 28.39%
Number of salaries quoted 935 1,067 2,344
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,084
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 £98,474 £98,855
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 6,082 5,557 9,559
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.83% 33.59% 38.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,563 3,828 7,478
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,250
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 £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 9 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 63 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.56%) CMS
3 14 (1.22%) WordPress
4 12 (1.04%) Confluence
5 8 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.61%) 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 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.087%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.087%) 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 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.087%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.087%) Trello
7 1 (0.087%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.69%) Shopify
3 6 (0.52%) Infor M3
3 6 (0.52%) Lawson
4 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.17%) Magento
7 1 (0.087%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.087%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 471 (40.89%) Azure
2 411 (35.68%) AWS
3 158 (13.72%) SaaS
4 137 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
5 116 (10.07%) Power Platform
6 104 (9.03%) GCP
7 90 (7.81%) Serverless
8 88 (7.64%) Power Automate
9 82 (7.12%) Azure AI
9 82 (7.12%) PowerApps
10 77 (6.68%) GitHub
11 61 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
12 58 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
14 42 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
15 40 (3.47%) Amazon S3
16 38 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
17 35 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
18 33 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
19 30 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.26%) Broadband
2 18 (1.56%) Internet
3 8 (0.69%) Firewall
4 7 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (0.43%) Intranet
6 4 (0.35%) SSH
7 3 (0.26%) HTTP
7 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.087%) Network Security
8 1 (0.087%) SSL
8 1 (0.087%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (20.40%) MongoDB
2 188 (16.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 105 (9.11%) SQL Server
4 100 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
5 84 (7.29%) MySQL
6 82 (7.12%) Elasticsearch
7 58 (5.03%) Power BI
8 54 (4.69%) Relational Database
9 44 (3.82%) NoSQL
10 24 (2.08%) Redis
11 16 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.04%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.69%) MariaDB
16 8 (0.69%) Metadata
17 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
18 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 148 (12.85%) Git
2 49 (4.25%) Cypress.io
3 48 (4.17%) JIRA
4 29 (2.52%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.56%) JUnit
6 16 (1.39%) GitLab
7 15 (1.30%) Maven
8 14 (1.22%) Mockito
9 13 (1.13%) CircleCI
10 11 (0.95%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.87%) Claude Code
12 9 (0.78%) Postman
12 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.78%) webpack
13 8 (0.69%) Axure RP
13 8 (0.69%) Balsamiq
14 6 (0.52%) Selenium
14 6 (0.52%) Vite
15 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.35%) Appium
General
1 283 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 178 (15.45%) Finance
3 103 (8.94%) Public Sector
4 84 (7.29%) Law
5 78 (6.77%) Legal
6 76 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 67 (5.82%) Marketing
9 39 (3.39%) Retail
10 34 (2.95%) Front Office
11 24 (2.08%) Banking
12 23 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.65%) Health Technology
14 18 (1.56%) Games
15 17 (1.48%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.13%) Legal Technology
17 10 (0.87%) Local Government
18 5 (0.43%) Advertising
18 5 (0.43%) Back Office
18 5 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 686 (59.55%) Developer
2 256 (22.22%) Senior
3 209 (18.14%) .NET Developer
4 196 (17.01%) Full-Stack Developer
5 184 (15.97%) Software Engineer
6 162 (14.06%) Lead
7 122 (10.59%) Senior Developer
8 103 (8.94%) Lead Developer
9 76 (6.60%) Software Developer
10 70 (6.08%) Lead Software Developer
11 63 (5.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 58 (5.03%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 52 (4.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 51 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
15 49 (4.25%) Senior Manager
15 49 (4.25%) Testing Manager
16 46 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
17 31 (2.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 28 (2.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 27 (2.34%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 549 (47.66%) React
2 367 (31.86%) .NET
3 321 (27.86%) Node.js
4 232 (20.14%) HTML
5 220 (19.10%) .NET Core
6 216 (18.75%) ASP.NET
7 212 (18.40%) CSS
8 189 (16.41%) ASP.NET Core
9 163 (14.15%) Blazor
10 158 (13.72%) RESTful
11 91 (7.90%) ASP.NET Web API
11 91 (7.90%) Vue
12 89 (7.73%) REST
13 82 (7.12%) ML.NET
14 81 (7.03%) .NET Framework
15 80 (6.94%) AngularJS
16 68 (5.90%) JSON
17 48 (4.17%) HTML5
18 46 (3.99%) Entity Framework
18 46 (3.99%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.07%) Cloud Native
2 67 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
3 64 (5.56%) Virtual Team
4 52 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
5 48 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 37 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (2.78%) Mobile App
8 31 (2.69%) Fixed Income
8 31 (2.69%) Onboarding
9 29 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.82%) Social Media
12 17 (1.48%) BBC
12 17 (1.48%) iPhone
13 15 (1.30%) AI Agents
13 15 (1.30%) Cyberattack
13 15 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.30%) NHS
14 14 (1.22%) Blog
14 14 (1.22%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.12%) Linux
2 25 (2.17%) Android
3 9 (0.78%) Unix
4 8 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.52%) Windows
6 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (49.65%) Full-Stack Development
2 568 (49.31%) Agile
3 349 (30.30%) Software Engineering
4 312 (27.08%) CI/CD
5 310 (26.91%) DevOps
6 264 (22.92%) AI
7 263 (22.83%) Microservices
8 249 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
9 246 (21.35%) Mentoring
10 241 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 170 (14.76%) Test Automation
12 163 (14.15%) Scrum
13 140 (12.15%) Machine Learning
14 129 (11.20%) User Experience
15 125 (10.85%) Technical Leadership
16 97 (8.42%) Containerisation
16 97 (8.42%) SDLC
17 94 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
18 89 (7.73%) Front End Development
19 86 (7.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 451 (39.15%) C#
2 426 (36.98%) TypeScript
3 368 (31.94%) SQL
4 286 (24.83%) Python
5 197 (17.10%) Java
6 78 (6.77%) PowerShell
7 65 (5.64%) PHP
8 46 (3.99%) Go
9 39 (3.39%) Ruby
10 36 (3.13%) C++
11 20 (1.74%) Bash
12 17 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.87%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.69%) R
16 6 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.52%) Rust
16 6 (0.52%) Scala
17 4 (0.35%) Perl
17 4 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 118 (10.24%) Degree
2 94 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 84 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 55 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.35%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.17%) OCP
13 2 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.087%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 1 (0.087%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (10.07%) QA
2 95 (8.25%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.82%) WCAG
4 19 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.13%) GDPR
5 13 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.13%) SLA
6 8 (0.69%) GRC
7 7 (0.61%) HL7
8 5 (0.43%) NIST
9 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.17%) NCSC
12 1 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 130 (11.28%) Docker
2 5 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.087%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 82 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.13%) Terraform
3 13 (1.13%) Grafana
4 12 (1.04%) Podman
5 9 (0.78%) Ansible
6 8 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.26%) Plesk
8 2 (0.17%) Kibana
8 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 331 (28.73%) Microsoft
2 75 (6.51%) Google
3 34 (2.95%) Adobe
4 24 (2.08%) Oracle
5 19 (1.65%) Apple
5 19 (1.65%) Sony
6 18 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.48%) Facebook
7 17 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.48%) Yahoo!
8 14 (1.22%) HubSpot
9 11 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.78%) Databricks
11 7 (0.61%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.61%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.52%) Infor
13 5 (0.43%) Cisco
13 5 (0.43%) F5
13 5 (0.43%) Juniper
13 5 (0.43%) New Relic