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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -28 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,143 1,688 2,697
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.90% 10.27% 11.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.76% 31.85% 28.83%
Number of salaries quoted 928 1,028 2,161
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,482
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £107,813 £110,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £135,000 £143,750
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 6,094 5,300 9,356
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.12% 32.23% 38.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,576 3,653 6,859
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,615
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +1.78% -3.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
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 1 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 59 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.57%) CMS
3 15 (1.31%) WordPress
4 11 (0.96%) Confluence
5 8 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.44%) IIS
8 4 (0.35%) Apache
8 4 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.26%) DNN
9 3 (0.26%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.26%) Immediacy CMS
9 3 (0.26%) Kentico
9 3 (0.26%) Sitefinity
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.087%) Moodle
11 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%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.61%) Infor M3
2 7 (0.61%) Lawson
2 7 (0.61%) Shopify
3 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.087%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 456 (39.90%) Azure
2 384 (33.60%) AWS
3 164 (14.35%) SaaS
4 133 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
5 115 (10.06%) Power Platform
6 93 (8.14%) Serverless
7 91 (7.96%) GCP
8 90 (7.87%) Power Automate
9 83 (7.26%) PowerApps
10 82 (7.17%) Azure AI
11 75 (6.56%) GitHub
12 61 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
13 58 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
14 42 (3.67%) Azure Logic Apps
15 40 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
16 39 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (3.32%) Amazon S3
17 38 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
18 34 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
19 28 (2.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.01%) Broadband
2 18 (1.57%) Internet
3 7 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.52%) Firewall
5 5 (0.44%) Intranet
6 4 (0.35%) SSH
7 3 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.26%) HTTP
7 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.17%) SSL
9 1 (0.087%) DNS
9 1 (0.087%) Network Security
9 1 (0.087%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.087%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (20.56%) MongoDB
2 188 (16.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 102 (8.92%) SQL Server
4 95 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
5 82 (7.17%) Elasticsearch
6 81 (7.09%) MySQL
7 55 (4.81%) Power BI
7 55 (4.81%) Relational Database
8 40 (3.50%) NoSQL
9 25 (2.19%) Redis
10 14 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.14%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.87%) Spark SQL
13 8 (0.70%) MariaDB
13 8 (0.70%) Metadata
14 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
14 7 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 139 (12.16%) Git
2 47 (4.11%) Cypress.io
3 42 (3.67%) JIRA
4 28 (2.45%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.57%) JUnit
6 14 (1.22%) Maven
6 14 (1.22%) Mockito
7 13 (1.14%) GitLab
8 12 (1.05%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.87%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.79%) Postman
10 9 (0.79%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.79%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.70%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.70%) Balsamiq
12 7 (0.61%) Selenium
13 5 (0.44%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.44%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.44%) Subversion
14 4 (0.35%) Appium
General
1 281 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 150 (13.12%) Finance
3 113 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 80 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (6.56%) Legal
6 74 (6.47%) Law
7 71 (6.21%) Marketing
8 64 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.97%) Retail
10 24 (2.10%) Banking
11 22 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (1.57%) Health Technology
13 16 (1.40%) Games
14 10 (0.87%) Legal Technology
14 10 (0.87%) Local Government
15 5 (0.44%) Social Housing
15 5 (0.44%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.35%) Advertising
16 4 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 660 (57.74%) Developer
2 239 (20.91%) Senior
3 205 (17.94%) .NET Developer
4 195 (17.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 158 (13.82%) Software Engineer
6 152 (13.30%) Lead
7 112 (9.80%) Senior Developer
8 91 (7.96%) Software Developer
9 87 (7.61%) Lead Developer
10 64 (5.60%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 59 (5.16%) Lead Software Developer
12 55 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 51 (4.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 49 (4.29%) Senior Manager
14 49 (4.29%) Testing Manager
15 42 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
16 30 (2.62%) Lead Software Engineer
17 26 (2.27%) Web Developer
18 23 (2.01%) Microsoft 365 Developer
18 23 (2.01%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 504 (44.09%) React
2 357 (31.23%) .NET
3 314 (27.47%) Node.js
4 227 (19.86%) HTML
5 219 (19.16%) .NET Core
6 215 (18.81%) ASP.NET
7 207 (18.11%) CSS
8 188 (16.45%) ASP.NET Core
9 166 (14.52%) Blazor
10 154 (13.47%) RESTful
11 91 (7.96%) ASP.NET Web API
12 85 (7.44%) REST
13 82 (7.17%) ML.NET
14 79 (6.91%) .NET Framework
14 79 (6.91%) Vue
15 67 (5.86%) JSON
16 66 (5.77%) AngularJS
17 46 (4.02%) Entity Framework
18 43 (3.76%) HTML5 Canvas
18 43 (3.76%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 86 (7.52%) Cloud Native
2 66 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
3 63 (5.51%) Virtual Team
4 50 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
5 49 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 37 (3.24%) Mobile App
7 32 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.71%) Onboarding
9 29 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.84%) Social Media
12 18 (1.57%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.49%) BBC
13 17 (1.49%) iPhone
14 14 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.22%) NHS
15 13 (1.14%) Blog
15 13 (1.14%) Sports Betting
16 12 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (1.05%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.07%) Linux
2 27 (2.36%) Android
3 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.61%) Unix
4 7 (0.61%) Windows
5 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.087%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (49.34%) Full-Stack Development
2 556 (48.64%) Agile
3 325 (28.43%) CI/CD
4 323 (28.26%) Software Engineering
5 305 (26.68%) DevOps
6 268 (23.45%) AI
7 258 (22.57%) Microservices
8 252 (22.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 250 (21.87%) Mentoring
10 240 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
11 172 (15.05%) Test Automation
12 165 (14.44%) Scrum
13 139 (12.16%) Machine Learning
14 131 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
15 129 (11.29%) User Experience
16 102 (8.92%) SDLC
17 99 (8.66%) Business Intelligence
18 92 (8.05%) Containerisation
19 89 (7.79%) TDD
20 86 (7.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 452 (39.55%) C#
2 420 (36.75%) TypeScript
3 372 (32.55%) SQL
4 258 (22.57%) Python
5 185 (16.19%) Java
6 78 (6.82%) PowerShell
7 63 (5.51%) PHP
8 47 (4.11%) C++
9 39 (3.41%) Ruby
10 25 (2.19%) Go
11 19 (1.66%) Bash
12 17 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.70%) R
15 7 (0.61%) Rust
16 6 (0.52%) Scala
17 4 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.35%) Perl
17 4 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 107 (9.36%) Degree
2 103 (9.01%) Security Cleared
3 86 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 51 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
5 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.44%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.26%) 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
1 117 (10.24%) QA
2 99 (8.66%) Accessibility
3 28 (2.45%) WCAG
4 26 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 16 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.96%) GDPR
6 11 (0.96%) GRC
7 9 (0.79%) SLA
8 7 (0.61%) HL7
9 5 (0.44%) NIST
10 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.26%) NCSC
12 1 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 135 (11.81%) Docker
2 4 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.05%) Podman
3 10 (0.87%) Ansible
3 10 (0.87%) Grafana
4 7 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.26%) Plesk
7 1 (0.087%) Consul
7 1 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 329 (28.78%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.74%) Google
3 35 (3.06%) Adobe
4 24 (2.10%) Oracle
5 19 (1.66%) Sony
6 18 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.49%) Apple
7 17 (1.49%) Facebook
7 17 (1.49%) Yahoo!
8 15 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.22%) HubSpot
10 11 (0.96%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.79%) Databricks
12 7 (0.61%) Infor
13 5 (0.44%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.44%) Sage
14 4 (0.35%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.35%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.35%) New Relic
14 4 (0.35%) Sitecore