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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,160 1,583 2,561
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.84% 9.78% 11.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.96% 31.35% 28.63%
Number of salaries quoted 949 933 1,936
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £71,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% +1.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £110,000 £113,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 6,118 5,050 8,946
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.52% 31.20% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,588 3,402 6,207
10th Percentile £38,772 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,882 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 15 September 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 57 (4.91%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.55%) CMS
3 16 (1.38%) WordPress
4 11 (0.95%) Confluence
5 8 (0.69%) IIS
5 8 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
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%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.086%) Moodle
10 1 (0.086%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.52%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.26%) Blender
5 3 (0.26%) Maya
6 2 (0.17%) Elementor
7 1 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.086%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.086%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.086%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.60%) Infor M3
2 7 (0.60%) Lawson
2 7 (0.60%) Shopify
3 4 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.086%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 438 (37.76%) Azure
2 384 (33.10%) AWS
3 170 (14.66%) SaaS
4 125 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
5 116 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 103 (8.88%) Serverless
7 90 (7.76%) Power Automate
8 83 (7.16%) GCP
9 82 (7.07%) PowerApps
10 79 (6.81%) Azure AI
11 71 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
11 71 (6.12%) GitHub
12 59 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
13 50 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
15 40 (3.45%) Amazon S3
16 39 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
17 37 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
18 35 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
19 30 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.47%) Internet
2 14 (1.21%) Broadband
3 6 (0.52%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.43%) Intranet
5 4 (0.34%) HTTP
5 4 (0.34%) SSH
6 3 (0.26%) Firewall
6 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.26%) SSL
7 1 (0.086%) DNS
7 1 (0.086%) Network Security
7 1 (0.086%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.086%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (19.31%) MongoDB
2 181 (15.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 98 (8.45%) SQL Server
4 97 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
5 81 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
6 79 (6.81%) MySQL
7 58 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 55 (4.74%) Power BI
9 34 (2.93%) NoSQL
10 25 (2.16%) Redis
11 20 (1.72%) Spark SQL
12 16 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.12%) DynamoDB
14 12 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (0.78%) Metadata
16 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
16 7 (0.60%) MariaDB
17 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 137 (11.81%) Git
2 46 (3.97%) Cypress.io
3 41 (3.53%) JIRA
4 30 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.55%) JUnit
6 14 (1.21%) Maven
6 14 (1.21%) Mockito
7 11 (0.95%) GitLab
8 10 (0.86%) Claude Code
8 10 (0.86%) Postman
8 10 (0.86%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.78%) Selenium
9 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.60%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.52%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.52%) Balsamiq
12 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 272 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 159 (13.71%) Finance
3 119 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 83 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (6.21%) Legal
6 70 (6.03%) Marketing
7 68 (5.86%) Law
8 59 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.93%) Retail
10 29 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 24 (2.07%) Banking
12 22 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.55%) Health Technology
14 12 (1.03%) Games
15 9 (0.78%) Local Government
16 7 (0.60%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.52%) Legal Technology
18 5 (0.43%) Social Housing
19 4 (0.34%) Advertising
19 4 (0.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 660 (56.90%) Developer
2 233 (20.09%) Senior
3 204 (17.59%) .NET Developer
4 198 (17.07%) Full-Stack Developer
5 157 (13.53%) Lead
6 156 (13.45%) Software Engineer
7 104 (8.97%) Senior Developer
8 97 (8.36%) Software Developer
9 92 (7.93%) Lead Developer
10 71 (6.12%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 66 (5.69%) Lead Software Developer
12 53 (4.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (4.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 49 (4.22%) Senior Manager
13 49 (4.22%) Testing Manager
14 41 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
15 30 (2.59%) Lead Software Engineer
16 29 (2.50%) Web Developer
17 26 (2.24%) Consultant
18 25 (2.16%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (41.98%) React
2 354 (30.52%) .NET
3 315 (27.16%) Node.js
4 231 (19.91%) HTML
5 214 (18.45%) .NET Core
6 209 (18.02%) ASP.NET
6 209 (18.02%) CSS
7 183 (15.78%) ASP.NET Core
8 165 (14.22%) Blazor
9 157 (13.53%) RESTful
10 90 (7.76%) ASP.NET Web API
11 82 (7.07%) .NET Framework
12 80 (6.90%) REST
13 79 (6.81%) ML.NET
14 77 (6.64%) Vue
15 69 (5.95%) AngularJS
16 63 (5.43%) JSON
17 49 (4.22%) Entity Framework
18 43 (3.71%) Jest
19 42 (3.62%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.43%) Virtual Team
3 61 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
5 45 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 37 (3.19%) Mobile App
7 30 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 26 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (1.81%) Social Media
11 19 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.47%) BBC
12 17 (1.47%) iPhone
13 16 (1.38%) NHS
14 14 (1.21%) Blog
14 14 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (1.03%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.57%) Linux
2 28 (2.41%) Android
3 12 (1.03%) Windows
4 11 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.34%) Unix
6 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (48.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 547 (47.16%) Agile
3 326 (28.10%) CI/CD
4 319 (27.50%) Software Engineering
5 298 (25.69%) DevOps
6 276 (23.79%) AI
7 262 (22.59%) Mentoring
8 251 (21.64%) Microservices
9 249 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 239 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
11 172 (14.83%) Test Automation
12 158 (13.62%) Scrum
13 133 (11.47%) Machine Learning
14 126 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
15 124 (10.69%) User Experience
16 110 (9.48%) Business Intelligence
17 103 (8.88%) SDLC
18 95 (8.19%) Coaching
19 86 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 86 (7.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 455 (39.22%) C#
2 426 (36.72%) TypeScript
3 385 (33.19%) SQL
4 251 (21.64%) Python
5 203 (17.50%) Java
6 75 (6.47%) PowerShell
7 61 (5.26%) PHP
8 58 (5.00%) C++
9 40 (3.45%) Ruby
10 25 (2.16%) Go
11 18 (1.55%) Bash
12 17 (1.47%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.69%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.69%) R
15 7 (0.60%) Rust
15 7 (0.60%) Scala
16 4 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.34%) SOQL
16 4 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 107 (9.22%) Security Cleared
2 105 (9.05%) Degree
3 88 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 49 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.78%) DBS Check
5 9 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 7 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 7 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.17%) OCP
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.086%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (10.09%) QA
2 105 (9.05%) Accessibility
3 39 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 34 (2.93%) WCAG
5 18 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.03%) GRC
7 10 (0.86%) GDPR
8 9 (0.78%) SLA
9 7 (0.60%) HL7
10 5 (0.43%) NIST
11 4 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.26%) NCSC
13 1 (0.086%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 127 (10.95%) Docker
2 4 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (8.02%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.95%) Ansible
2 11 (0.95%) Grafana
3 8 (0.69%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.60%) Podman
5 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 1 (0.086%) Consul
7 1 (0.086%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 322 (27.76%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.03%) Google
3 30 (2.59%) Adobe
4 24 (2.07%) Oracle
5 19 (1.64%) Sony
6 17 (1.47%) Apple
6 17 (1.47%) Facebook
6 17 (1.47%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.47%) Yahoo!
7 14 (1.21%) HubSpot
7 14 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 11 (0.95%) OpenAI
9 10 (0.86%) Databricks
10 7 (0.60%) Infor
10 7 (0.60%) Sage
11 4 (0.34%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.34%) Marketo
11 4 (0.34%) New Relic
11 4 (0.34%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.26%) MuleSoft