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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -35 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 738 1,614 3,705
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.13% 12.10% 11.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.45% 28.30% 27.84%
Number of salaries quoted 605 1,340 3,421
10th Percentile £41,198 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -2.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.88% +10.00% -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 4,776 5,704 13,309
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.74% 42.75% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,491 4,529 11,428
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,425
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 £114,400 £97,792
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 21 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 40 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.49%) CMS
3 5 (0.68%) NServiceBus
3 5 (0.68%) WordPress
4 4 (0.54%) nginx
5 3 (0.41%) Anypoint
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%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) Mendix
7 1 (0.14%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.14%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 15 (2.03%) 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 12 (1.63%) Shopify
2 10 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) Magento
3 2 (0.27%) Maximo
3 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Primavera
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 319 (43.22%) AWS
2 245 (33.20%) Azure
3 110 (14.91%) Serverless
4 89 (12.06%) GCP
5 68 (9.21%) Power Platform
6 62 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
6 62 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (7.86%) GitHub
8 55 (7.45%) SaaS
9 47 (6.37%) Amazon S3
9 47 (6.37%) Power Automate
10 44 (5.96%) PowerApps
11 39 (5.28%) Azure Logic Apps
12 36 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
13 33 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
15 23 (3.12%) Figma
16 22 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.69%) Broadband
2 8 (1.08%) 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 67 (9.08%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (8.81%) MongoDB
3 57 (7.72%) NoSQL
3 57 (7.72%) SQL Server
4 48 (6.50%) Relational Database
5 41 (5.56%) MySQL
6 37 (5.01%) Power BI
7 31 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (2.85%) RDBMS
9 20 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.22%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.08%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.81%) Metadata
15 5 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
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 (14.50%) Git
2 55 (7.45%) Cypress.io
3 21 (2.85%) JIRA
4 20 (2.71%) CircleCI
5 19 (2.57%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.17%) GitLab
7 15 (2.03%) 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%) JMeter
15 2 (0.27%) LoadRunner
General
1 210 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 111 (15.04%) Finance
3 83 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (11.11%) Law
5 63 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 40 (5.42%) Front Office
7 21 (2.85%) Legal
8 18 (2.44%) Retail
9 17 (2.30%) Games
10 15 (2.03%) Banking
10 15 (2.03%) Health Technology
10 15 (2.03%) Marketing
11 10 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.68%) Advertising
13 5 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.54%) Local Government
15 3 (0.41%) Back Office
15 3 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 424 (57.45%) Developer
2 150 (20.33%) Senior
3 129 (17.48%) Software Engineer
4 118 (15.99%) Full-Stack Developer
5 115 (15.58%) Lead
6 95 (12.87%) Senior Developer
7 62 (8.40%) Lead Developer
8 51 (6.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 44 (5.96%) Lead Software Developer
10 43 (5.83%) Lead Software Engineer
11 42 (5.69%) .NET Developer
12 41 (5.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 37 (5.01%) React Developer
14 36 (4.88%) Software Developer
15 32 (4.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 30 (4.07%) Power Platform Developer
17 29 (3.93%) Python Developer
18 26 (3.52%) JavaScript Developer
19 25 (3.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 24 (3.25%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (43.77%) React
2 221 (29.95%) HTML
3 200 (27.10%) CSS
4 185 (25.07%) Node.js
5 171 (23.17%) .NET
6 70 (9.49%) REST
7 69 (9.35%) Vue
8 63 (8.54%) .NET Core
9 62 (8.40%) AngularJS
10 57 (7.72%) JSON
11 53 (7.18%) RESTful
12 46 (6.23%) Kafka
13 43 (5.83%) Redux
14 42 (5.69%) ASP.NET
14 42 (5.69%) GraphQL
15 36 (4.88%) HTML5
16 35 (4.74%) Web Services
17 33 (4.47%) Playwright
18 31 (4.20%) HTML5 Canvas
18 31 (4.20%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.16%) Product Ownership
2 67 (9.08%) Cloud Native
3 40 (5.42%) Fixed Income
4 30 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (3.52%) Low-Code
6 23 (3.12%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.57%) Mobile App
9 17 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (2.03%) e-Learning
10 15 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.90%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.63%) Sports Betting
13 10 (1.36%) NHS
14 8 (1.08%) Culture of Ownership
14 8 (1.08%) Cyberattack
14 8 (1.08%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.08%) Derivative
14 8 (1.08%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 52 (7.05%) Linux
2 31 (4.20%) Unix
3 12 (1.63%) Android
4 11 (1.49%) 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
5 1 (0.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (44.99%) Agile
2 296 (40.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 215 (29.13%) CI/CD
4 199 (26.96%) Software Engineering
5 193 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
6 187 (25.34%) DevOps
7 165 (22.36%) Mentoring
8 137 (18.56%) Microservices
9 114 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 113 (15.31%) User Experience
11 95 (12.87%) Containerisation
12 94 (12.74%) Test Automation
13 75 (10.16%) Front End Development
14 74 (10.03%) AI
15 73 (9.89%) Scrum
16 69 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
17 67 (9.08%) Roadmaps
18 63 (8.54%) Technical Leadership
19 60 (8.13%) Computer Science
20 56 (7.59%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 256 (34.69%) TypeScript
2 245 (33.20%) Python
3 187 (25.34%) C#
4 182 (24.66%) Java
5 147 (19.92%) SQL
6 64 (8.67%) Go
7 52 (7.05%) PHP
8 28 (3.79%) Bash
9 24 (3.25%) Ruby
10 21 (2.85%) PowerShell
11 19 (2.57%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.68%) C++
12 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.54%) Scala
14 3 (0.41%) C
14 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 100 (13.55%) Degree
2 73 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 67 (9.08%) SC Cleared
4 48 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (5.15%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 16 (2.17%) DBS Check
8 16 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 12 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.27%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.27%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (9.62%) QA
2 68 (9.21%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.85%) WCAG
4 15 (2.03%) SLA
5 9 (1.22%) GDPR
6 7 (0.95%) GRC
7 5 (0.68%) 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 (18.83%) Docker
2 5 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 92 (12.47%) Kubernetes
2 78 (10.57%) Terraform
3 31 (4.20%) Prometheus
4 28 (3.79%) Ansible
5 27 (3.66%) Argo
6 24 (3.25%) Grafana
7 19 (2.57%) Kustomize
8 12 (1.63%) Podman
9 4 (0.54%) Plesk
10 3 (0.41%) cPanel
11 2 (0.27%) Kibana
11 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.14%) Puppet
12 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.59%) Google
3 33 (4.47%) Adobe
4 22 (2.98%) Salesforce
4 22 (2.98%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.57%) MuleSoft
6 9 (1.22%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.08%) Oracle
8 7 (0.95%) IBM
9 6 (0.81%) Apple
9 6 (0.81%) Cisco
9 6 (0.81%) F5
9 6 (0.81%) Juniper
9 6 (0.81%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.54%) IFS
10 4 (0.54%) SAP
11 3 (0.41%) Dell
11 3 (0.41%) Epicor
11 3 (0.41%) Informatica
11 3 (0.41%) Software AG