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

 6 months to
28 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 22 16
Rank change year-on-year -29 -6 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,152 1,543 2,602
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.66% 9.32% 11.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.62% 30.72% 29.11%
Number of salaries quoted 937 891 1,856
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £110,000 £113,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 6,186 5,022 8,940
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.00% 30.32% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,594 3,343 5,885
10th Percentile £39,818 £36,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £117,500
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 28 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 58 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.56%) CMS
3 16 (1.39%) WordPress
4 11 (0.95%) Confluence
5 8 (0.69%) IIS
5 8 (0.69%) 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%) Sitefinity
9 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.087%) ExpressionEngine
10 1 (0.087%) Moodle
Applications
1 16 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.52%) 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%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.087%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.087%) Revit
7 1 (0.087%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.04%) 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%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 430 (37.33%) Azure
2 385 (33.42%) AWS
3 174 (15.10%) SaaS
4 124 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
5 118 (10.24%) Power Platform
6 101 (8.77%) Serverless
7 91 (7.90%) Power Automate
8 83 (7.20%) PowerApps
9 78 (6.77%) Azure AI
10 76 (6.60%) GCP
11 71 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
12 70 (6.08%) GitHub
13 61 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
14 51 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
16 40 (3.47%) Amazon S3
17 37 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
18 35 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
18 35 (3.04%) Microsoft Copilot
19 34 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.48%) Internet
2 13 (1.13%) Broadband
3 6 (0.52%) Hyperconnected
4 4 (0.35%) HTTP
4 4 (0.35%) Intranet
4 4 (0.35%) SSH
5 3 (0.26%) Firewall
5 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.26%) SSL
6 1 (0.087%) DNS
6 1 (0.087%) Network Security
6 1 (0.087%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.087%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.087%) VPN
6 1 (0.087%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (19.18%) MongoDB
2 176 (15.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 101 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
4 100 (8.68%) SQL Server
5 81 (7.03%) Elasticsearch
6 75 (6.51%) MySQL
7 61 (5.30%) Relational Database
8 53 (4.60%) Power BI
9 32 (2.78%) NoSQL
10 26 (2.26%) Redis
11 20 (1.74%) Spark SQL
12 16 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (1.13%) DynamoDB
15 12 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 9 (0.78%) Metadata
17 8 (0.69%) MariaDB
18 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
19 6 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
19 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 137 (11.89%) Git
2 44 (3.82%) Cypress.io
3 41 (3.56%) JIRA
4 32 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.56%) JUnit
6 14 (1.22%) GitLab
6 14 (1.22%) Maven
6 14 (1.22%) Mockito
7 11 (0.95%) Claude Code
7 11 (0.95%) Postman
8 10 (0.87%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.78%) Selenium
9 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.52%) Axure RP
10 6 (0.52%) Balsamiq
10 6 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.52%) Subversion
11 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 272 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 155 (13.45%) Finance
3 118 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 88 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (6.42%) Marketing
6 69 (5.99%) Legal
7 64 (5.56%) Law
8 58 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (3.04%) Retail
10 31 (2.69%) Manufacturing
11 23 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (1.91%) Banking
13 18 (1.56%) Health Technology
14 12 (1.04%) Games
15 11 (0.95%) Tech for Good
16 7 (0.61%) Local Government
17 5 (0.43%) Social Housing
18 4 (0.35%) Back Office
18 4 (0.35%) Front Office
18 4 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 648 (56.25%) Developer
2 228 (19.79%) Senior
3 201 (17.45%) .NET Developer
4 187 (16.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 159 (13.80%) Lead
6 148 (12.85%) Software Engineer
7 100 (8.68%) Senior Developer
7 100 (8.68%) Software Developer
8 92 (7.99%) Lead Developer
9 71 (6.16%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 66 (5.73%) Lead Software Developer
11 53 (4.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 49 (4.25%) Senior Manager
12 49 (4.25%) Testing Manager
13 45 (3.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 38 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
15 30 (2.60%) Lead Software Engineer
16 28 (2.43%) Microsoft 365 Developer
16 28 (2.43%) Web Developer
17 25 (2.17%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (42.01%) React
2 354 (30.73%) .NET
3 308 (26.74%) Node.js
4 227 (19.70%) HTML
5 211 (18.32%) .NET Core
6 208 (18.06%) ASP.NET
7 205 (17.80%) CSS
8 182 (15.80%) ASP.NET Core
9 164 (14.24%) Blazor
10 157 (13.63%) RESTful
11 90 (7.81%) ASP.NET Web API
12 86 (7.47%) REST
13 82 (7.12%) .NET Framework
14 78 (6.77%) ML.NET
15 74 (6.42%) Vue
16 72 (6.25%) AngularJS
17 58 (5.03%) JSON
18 50 (4.34%) Entity Framework
19 42 (3.65%) Jest
20 41 (3.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 73 (6.34%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.47%) Virtual Team
3 56 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
5 41 (3.56%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.30%) Mobile App
7 30 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 29 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (2.17%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.74%) Social Media
12 19 (1.65%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.48%) iPhone
13 17 (1.48%) NHS
14 16 (1.39%) BBC
14 16 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.22%) Blog
16 13 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
17 12 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
18 11 (0.95%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.51%) Linux
2 31 (2.69%) Android
3 15 (1.30%) Windows
4 14 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.35%) Unix
6 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (47.31%) Full-Stack Development
2 533 (46.27%) Agile
3 326 (28.30%) CI/CD
4 323 (28.04%) Software Engineering
5 298 (25.87%) DevOps
6 284 (24.65%) AI
7 260 (22.57%) Mentoring
8 251 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 247 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
10 245 (21.27%) Microservices
11 167 (14.50%) Test Automation
12 152 (13.19%) Scrum
13 124 (10.76%) Machine Learning
14 120 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
15 116 (10.07%) User Experience
16 109 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
16 109 (9.46%) SDLC
17 95 (8.25%) Coaching
18 91 (7.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 84 (7.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 455 (39.50%) C#
2 421 (36.55%) TypeScript
3 376 (32.64%) SQL
4 250 (21.70%) Python
5 198 (17.19%) Java
6 72 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 59 (5.12%) PHP
8 57 (4.95%) C++
9 39 (3.39%) Ruby
10 27 (2.34%) Go
11 19 (1.65%) Bash
12 17 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.69%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.69%) R
15 7 (0.61%) Rust
15 7 (0.61%) Scala
16 5 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.35%) SOQL
17 4 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 108 (9.38%) Degree
1 108 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 88 (7.64%) SC Cleared
3 53 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (0.78%) DBS Check
4 9 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 7 (0.61%) AWS Certification
5 7 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.43%) ISTQB
7 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.17%) OCP
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (10.24%) QA
2 101 (8.77%) Accessibility
3 39 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 36 (3.13%) WCAG
5 20 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.95%) GDPR
7 10 (0.87%) GRC
8 8 (0.69%) SLA
9 6 (0.52%) HL7
10 5 (0.43%) NIST
11 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.26%) NCSC
13 1 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 130 (11.28%) Docker
2 4 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 96 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.04%) Grafana
3 11 (0.95%) Ansible
4 9 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.52%) Podman
6 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.26%) Plesk
8 1 (0.087%) Argo
8 1 (0.087%) Consul
8 1 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.087%) Kibana
Vendors
1 319 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.99%) Google
3 28 (2.43%) Adobe
4 24 (2.08%) Oracle
5 18 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 18 (1.56%) Sony
6 16 (1.39%) Apple
6 16 (1.39%) Facebook
6 16 (1.39%) Yahoo!
7 14 (1.22%) HubSpot
7 14 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.13%) OpenAI
9 10 (0.87%) Databricks
10 7 (0.61%) Infor
10 7 (0.61%) Sage
11 4 (0.35%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.35%) Marketo
11 4 (0.35%) New Relic
11 4 (0.35%) Optimizely
11 4 (0.35%) Sitecore
727 hybrid/remote JavaScript jobs