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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -39 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 730 1,906 3,697
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.98% 13.49% 11.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.15% 32.40% 27.79%
Number of salaries quoted 605 1,318 3,420
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +11.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £59,773 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.74% +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 4,819 5,882 13,301
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.30% 41.64% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,535 4,448 11,389
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
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 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 6 May 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 45 (6.16%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.64%) CMS
3 5 (0.68%) Confluence
4 4 (0.55%) nginx
4 4 (0.55%) WordPress
5 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.41%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.27%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.27%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (1.78%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.68%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.14%) InVision
5 1 (0.14%) Notion
5 1 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.96%) Shopify
3 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) Maximo
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 314 (43.01%) AWS
2 248 (33.97%) Azure
3 102 (13.97%) Serverless
4 88 (12.05%) GCP
5 78 (10.68%) Power Platform
6 63 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (8.36%) SaaS
8 59 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (7.40%) GitHub
10 52 (7.12%) PowerApps
11 51 (6.99%) Power Automate
12 45 (6.16%) Amazon S3
12 45 (6.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 40 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
14 36 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
14 36 (4.93%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
17 21 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.34%) Broadband
2 7 (0.96%) Firewall
3 6 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (0.68%) Intranet
5 3 (0.41%) Internet
6 2 (0.27%) HTTP
6 2 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.27%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.27%) SSH
7 1 (0.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (10.27%) MongoDB
2 70 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (8.08%) SQL Server
4 54 (7.40%) NoSQL
5 47 (6.44%) Relational Database
6 45 (6.16%) Power BI
7 42 (5.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 41 (5.62%) MySQL
9 21 (2.88%) RDBMS
10 19 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.23%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.68%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.68%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.68%) Metadata
15 5 (0.68%) Redis
16 4 (0.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 98 (13.42%) Git
2 54 (7.40%) Cypress.io
3 22 (3.01%) JIRA
4 20 (2.74%) CircleCI
5 19 (2.60%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.19%) GitLab
6 16 (2.19%) Jenkins
7 13 (1.78%) Axure RP
8 12 (1.64%) Balsamiq
9 10 (1.37%) Selenium
10 9 (1.23%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.23%) webpack
11 8 (1.10%) Vite
12 7 (0.96%) Postman
13 4 (0.55%) Babel
13 4 (0.55%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.41%) Appium
14 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
15 2 (0.27%) LoadRunner
General
1 193 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 115 (15.75%) Finance
3 81 (11.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 76 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (9.73%) Law
6 60 (8.22%) Public Sector
7 40 (5.48%) Front Office
8 19 (2.60%) Legal
8 19 (2.60%) Retail
9 18 (2.47%) Banking
10 16 (2.19%) Games
11 15 (2.05%) Health Technology
12 14 (1.92%) Marketing
13 10 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.68%) Advertising
16 4 (0.55%) Back Office
16 4 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.55%) Local Government
17 3 (0.41%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 428 (58.63%) Developer
2 152 (20.82%) Senior
3 133 (18.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 127 (17.40%) Software Engineer
5 121 (16.58%) Lead
6 94 (12.88%) Senior Developer
7 70 (9.59%) Lead Developer
8 52 (7.12%) Lead Software Developer
9 50 (6.85%) .NET Developer
9 50 (6.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 45 (6.16%) Software Developer
11 43 (5.89%) Lead Software Engineer
12 41 (5.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 38 (5.21%) React Developer
14 33 (4.52%) Power Platform Developer
15 28 (3.84%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 27 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 26 (3.56%) JavaScript Developer
18 24 (3.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 23 (3.15%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (44.25%) React
2 203 (27.81%) HTML
3 200 (27.40%) Node.js
4 182 (24.93%) .NET
5 181 (24.79%) CSS
6 73 (10.00%) .NET Core
7 68 (9.32%) REST
8 62 (8.49%) Vue
9 59 (8.08%) AngularJS
9 59 (8.08%) JSON
10 58 (7.95%) RESTful
11 52 (7.12%) ASP.NET
12 47 (6.44%) Kafka
13 43 (5.89%) Redux
14 41 (5.62%) GraphQL
15 39 (5.34%) HTML5
16 35 (4.79%) HTML5 Canvas
17 34 (4.66%) Jest
18 32 (4.38%) ASP.NET Core
19 31 (4.25%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.32%) Product Ownership
2 67 (9.18%) Cloud Native
3 40 (5.48%) Fixed Income
4 32 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (3.01%) Low-Code
6 21 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (2.05%) e-Learning
10 15 (2.05%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.78%) Sports Betting
12 10 (1.37%) Cyberattack
12 10 (1.37%) NHS
13 9 (1.23%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.10%) Culture of Ownership
14 8 (1.10%) Derivative
14 8 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (1.10%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.58%) Linux
2 26 (3.56%) Unix
3 11 (1.51%) Android
4 9 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) CentOS
5 1 (0.14%) Debian
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (43.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 314 (43.01%) Agile
3 210 (28.77%) CI/CD
4 194 (26.58%) Software Engineering
5 185 (25.34%) DevOps
6 181 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (21.10%) Mentoring
8 145 (19.86%) Microservices
9 111 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 109 (14.93%) User Experience
11 91 (12.47%) Containerisation
11 91 (12.47%) Test Automation
12 86 (11.78%) AI
13 73 (10.00%) Scrum
14 71 (9.73%) Technical Leadership
15 70 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
16 67 (9.18%) Front End Development
16 67 (9.18%) Roadmaps
17 61 (8.36%) Computer Science
18 56 (7.67%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 269 (36.85%) TypeScript
2 236 (32.33%) Python
3 196 (26.85%) C#
4 177 (24.25%) Java
5 153 (20.96%) SQL
6 66 (9.04%) Go
7 48 (6.58%) PHP
8 27 (3.70%) Bash
8 27 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.70%) Ruby
9 18 (2.47%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.82%) C++
11 4 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.55%) Scala
12 3 (0.41%) C
12 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.41%) Rust
12 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 100 (13.70%) Degree
2 71 (9.73%) Security Cleared
3 66 (9.04%) SC Cleared
4 49 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (4.79%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.19%) DBS Check
8 15 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.92%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
10 12 (1.64%) 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%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.14%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (9.45%) QA
2 61 (8.36%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.33%) WCAG
4 15 (2.05%) SLA
5 7 (0.96%) GDPR
5 7 (0.96%) GRC
6 6 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.68%) HL7
8 4 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 131 (17.95%) Docker
2 5 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 89 (12.19%) Kubernetes
2 72 (9.86%) Terraform
3 28 (3.84%) Ansible
3 28 (3.84%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.70%) Argo
5 20 (2.74%) Grafana
6 19 (2.60%) Kustomize
7 12 (1.64%) Podman
8 4 (0.55%) Plesk
9 2 (0.27%) cPanel
9 2 (0.27%) Kibana
10 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.14%) Puppet
10 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 154 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.40%) Google
3 35 (4.79%) Adobe
4 21 (2.88%) Salesforce
4 21 (2.88%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.05%) MuleSoft
6 9 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 7 (0.96%) Apple
8 6 (0.82%) Cisco
8 6 (0.82%) F5
8 6 (0.82%) Juniper
8 6 (0.82%) Oracle
8 6 (0.82%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.68%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.55%) Facebook
10 4 (0.55%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.41%) IBM
11 3 (0.41%) Sony
11 3 (0.41%) Yahoo!
12 2 (0.27%) BT