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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 22 16
Rank change year-on-year -29 -6 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,142 1,517 2,555
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.60% 9.03% 11.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.58% 30.47% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 926 864 1,818
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.56% -3.79% +16.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 6,146 4,978 8,771
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.78% 29.64% 40.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,532 3,298 5,678
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,738 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £116,250
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 8 October 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 56 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.58%) CMS
3 17 (1.49%) WordPress
4 14 (1.23%) Confluence
5 8 (0.70%) IIS
5 8 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.35%) Apache
7 4 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.35%) 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%) nginx
8 3 (0.26%) Sitefinity
9 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.53%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.26%) Blender
5 3 (0.26%) Maya
6 2 (0.18%) Elementor
7 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.088%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.088%) Revit
7 1 (0.088%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (1.23%) 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 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.18%) Magento
5 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 424 (37.13%) Azure
2 382 (33.45%) AWS
3 175 (15.32%) SaaS
4 125 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
5 120 (10.51%) Power Platform
6 100 (8.76%) Serverless
7 91 (7.97%) Power Automate
8 82 (7.18%) PowerApps
9 78 (6.83%) Azure AI
10 76 (6.65%) GitHub
11 74 (6.48%) GCP
12 71 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
14 51 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
15 39 (3.42%) Amazon S3
15 39 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
15 39 (3.42%) Microsoft Copilot
16 32 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
16 32 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.49%) Internet
2 13 (1.14%) Broadband
3 6 (0.53%) Hyperconnected
4 4 (0.35%) HTTP
4 4 (0.35%) SSH
5 3 (0.26%) Firewall
5 3 (0.26%) Intranet
5 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.26%) SSL
6 2 (0.18%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.18%) VPN
7 1 (0.088%) DNS
7 1 (0.088%) Network Security
7 1 (0.088%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.088%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (19.35%) MongoDB
2 173 (15.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 103 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
3 103 (9.02%) SQL Server
4 83 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
5 73 (6.39%) MySQL
6 62 (5.43%) Relational Database
7 50 (4.38%) Power BI
8 33 (2.89%) NoSQL
9 26 (2.28%) Redis
10 20 (1.75%) Spark SQL
11 17 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.14%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.96%) Metadata
13 11 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.61%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.44%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 136 (11.91%) Git
2 44 (3.85%) JIRA
3 43 (3.77%) Cypress.io
4 34 (2.98%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.58%) JUnit
6 16 (1.40%) GitLab
7 14 (1.23%) Maven
7 14 (1.23%) Mockito
8 13 (1.14%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.05%) Selenium
10 10 (0.88%) Postman
10 10 (0.88%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.79%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.61%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.53%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.53%) Balsamiq
13 6 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.53%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.44%) Appium
14 5 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 261 (22.85%) Social Skills
2 151 (13.22%) Finance
3 120 (10.51%) Public Sector
4 86 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (6.39%) Marketing
6 67 (5.87%) Legal
7 62 (5.43%) Law
8 57 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.98%) Retail
10 29 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.66%) Banking
13 15 (1.31%) Health Technology
14 12 (1.05%) Games
15 11 (0.96%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.53%) Local Government
17 5 (0.44%) Social Housing
18 4 (0.35%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.35%) Front Office
18 4 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 644 (56.39%) Developer
2 221 (19.35%) Senior
3 201 (17.60%) .NET Developer
4 184 (16.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 152 (13.31%) Lead
6 141 (12.35%) Software Engineer
7 98 (8.58%) Software Developer
8 94 (8.23%) Senior Developer
9 87 (7.62%) Lead Developer
10 68 (5.95%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 63 (5.52%) Lead Software Developer
12 51 (4.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (4.29%) Senior Manager
13 49 (4.29%) Testing Manager
14 46 (4.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 35 (3.06%) Senior Software Engineer
16 29 (2.54%) Microsoft 365 Developer
17 27 (2.36%) Lead Software Engineer
17 27 (2.36%) Web Developer
18 26 (2.28%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (42.03%) React
2 354 (31.00%) .NET
3 304 (26.62%) Node.js
4 218 (19.09%) HTML
5 209 (18.30%) ASP.NET
6 208 (18.21%) .NET Core
7 197 (17.25%) CSS
8 181 (15.85%) ASP.NET Core
9 165 (14.45%) Blazor
10 156 (13.66%) RESTful
11 90 (7.88%) ASP.NET Web API
12 84 (7.36%) REST
13 83 (7.27%) .NET Framework
14 78 (6.83%) ML.NET
15 75 (6.57%) Vue
16 69 (6.04%) AngularJS
17 50 (4.38%) Entity Framework
18 49 (4.29%) JSON
19 44 (3.85%) Jest
20 43 (3.77%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 69 (6.04%) Cloud Native
2 62 (5.43%) Virtual Team
3 54 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 39 (3.42%) Mobile App
6 35 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 33 (2.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (2.10%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.75%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.75%) Social Media
12 19 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.49%) iPhone
14 16 (1.40%) BBC
14 16 (1.40%) NHS
15 14 (1.23%) Blog
16 12 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
17 11 (0.96%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 51 (4.47%) Linux
2 32 (2.80%) Android
3 16 (1.40%) Windows
4 15 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.35%) Unix
6 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (46.85%) Agile
2 533 (46.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 329 (28.81%) CI/CD
4 319 (27.93%) Software Engineering
5 300 (26.27%) DevOps
6 292 (25.57%) AI
7 260 (22.77%) Mentoring
8 248 (21.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 246 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
10 237 (20.75%) Microservices
11 169 (14.80%) Test Automation
12 145 (12.70%) Scrum
13 120 (10.51%) Machine Learning
14 113 (9.89%) Technical Leadership
15 110 (9.63%) User Experience
16 107 (9.37%) SDLC
17 105 (9.19%) Business Intelligence
18 94 (8.23%) Coaching
19 91 (7.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 85 (7.44%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 455 (39.84%) C#
2 411 (35.99%) TypeScript
3 368 (32.22%) SQL
4 254 (22.24%) Python
5 194 (16.99%) Java
6 69 (6.04%) PowerShell
7 60 (5.25%) PHP
8 55 (4.82%) C++
9 37 (3.24%) Ruby
10 28 (2.45%) Go
11 20 (1.75%) Bash
12 17 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.88%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.70%) R
16 7 (0.61%) Rust
16 7 (0.61%) Scala
17 6 (0.53%) SOQL
18 4 (0.35%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 112 (9.81%) Degree
2 110 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 90 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 55 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
6 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
7 7 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.18%) OCP
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (10.25%) QA
2 106 (9.28%) Accessibility
3 40 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 37 (3.24%) WCAG
5 20 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.96%) GDPR
7 9 (0.79%) GRC
8 6 (0.53%) SLA
9 5 (0.44%) HL7
9 5 (0.44%) NIST
10 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.26%) NCSC
12 1 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.088%) WAI
12 1 (0.088%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 136 (11.91%) Docker
2 4 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 99 (8.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.05%) Grafana
3 11 (0.96%) Ansible
4 9 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.53%) Podman
6 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.18%) Kibana
7 2 (0.18%) Plesk
8 1 (0.088%) Argo
8 1 (0.088%) Consul
8 1 (0.088%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 320 (28.02%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.30%) Google
3 24 (2.10%) Adobe
3 24 (2.10%) Oracle
4 19 (1.66%) ServiceNow
5 18 (1.58%) Sony
6 16 (1.40%) Apple
6 16 (1.40%) Facebook
6 16 (1.40%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.40%) Yahoo!
7 14 (1.23%) HubSpot
7 14 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 10 (0.88%) Databricks
9 7 (0.61%) Infor
9 7 (0.61%) Sage
10 4 (0.35%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.35%) Marketo
10 4 (0.35%) New Relic
10 4 (0.35%) Optimizely
10 4 (0.35%) Sitecore