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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -38 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 717 1,760 3,688
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.31% 12.62% 12.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.39% 27.47% 28.18%
Number of salaries quoted 594 1,386 3,376
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,271 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +10.45% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,500 £88,750 £75,937
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 4,375 6,408 13,089
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.31% 45.93% 43.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,187 4,558 11,387
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 11 March 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 27 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.37%) CMS
3 10 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.98%) Apache
5 6 (0.84%) WordPress
6 5 (0.70%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.70%) Apache Solr
6 5 (0.70%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.56%) nginx
8 3 (0.42%) Confluence
8 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.42%) WebLogic Portal
9 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Mendix
9 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (1.95%) Adobe XD
2 8 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.56%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.28%) Simulink
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.14%) InVision
5 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Notion
5 1 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (2.23%) Shopify
2 13 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.42%) Maximo
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.42%) Primavera
4 3 (0.42%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.28%) PlanetPress Connect
5 2 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
6 1 (0.14%) Magento
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 311 (43.38%) AWS
2 256 (35.70%) Azure
3 112 (15.62%) Serverless
4 76 (10.60%) GCP
5 65 (9.07%) SaaS
6 60 (8.37%) GitHub
7 59 (8.23%) Power Platform
8 56 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (6.14%) Power Automate
11 41 (5.72%) Amazon S3
11 41 (5.72%) Dynamics 365
12 38 (5.30%) PowerApps
13 32 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
13 32 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
14 28 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (3.35%) Figma
16 24 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.18%) Broadband
2 6 (0.84%) Firewall
3 4 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (0.56%) SSH
4 3 (0.42%) HTTP
5 2 (0.28%) Internet
5 2 (0.28%) Intranet
5 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.14%) AMQP
6 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (9.07%) Relational Database
3 54 (7.53%) SQL Server
4 46 (6.42%) MySQL
5 45 (6.28%) MongoDB
5 45 (6.28%) NoSQL
6 32 (4.46%) Power BI
7 23 (3.21%) RDBMS
8 21 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.26%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.12%) Redis
14 7 (0.98%) Apache Arrow
14 7 (0.98%) Apache Iceberg
14 7 (0.98%) Dremio
15 5 (0.70%) Apache Ignite
15 5 (0.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 113 (15.76%) Git
2 40 (5.58%) Cypress.io
3 26 (3.63%) JIRA
4 19 (2.65%) Jaeger
5 17 (2.37%) Jenkins
6 16 (2.23%) GitLab
7 15 (2.09%) Axure RP
8 14 (1.95%) webpack
9 13 (1.81%) Balsamiq
9 13 (1.81%) TeamCity
10 12 (1.67%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.67%) Selenium
11 10 (1.39%) Vite
12 7 (0.98%) Babel
13 6 (0.84%) JMeter
13 6 (0.84%) Postman
14 5 (0.70%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.56%) LoadRunner
16 3 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
16 3 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
General
1 192 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 126 (17.57%) Finance
3 90 (12.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (11.99%) Law
5 79 (11.02%) Public Sector
6 78 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
7 47 (6.56%) Front Office
8 22 (3.07%) Games
9 21 (2.93%) Marketing
9 21 (2.93%) Retail
10 18 (2.51%) Legal
11 13 (1.81%) Banking
12 9 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.12%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.70%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.70%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.56%) Advertising
16 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 430 (59.97%) Developer
2 152 (21.20%) Senior
3 111 (15.48%) Software Engineer
4 99 (13.81%) Full-Stack Developer
5 98 (13.67%) Lead
6 97 (13.53%) Senior Developer
7 53 (7.39%) .NET Developer
7 53 (7.39%) Lead Developer
8 45 (6.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 43 (6.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 43 (6.00%) React Developer
10 37 (5.16%) Lead Software Engineer
11 36 (5.02%) Lead Software Developer
11 36 (5.02%) Software Developer
12 34 (4.74%) Power Platform Developer
13 32 (4.46%) Python Developer
14 31 (4.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 28 (3.91%) Java Developer
16 26 (3.63%) AWS Developer
17 24 (3.35%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (40.86%) React
2 210 (29.29%) HTML
3 196 (27.34%) CSS
4 173 (24.13%) .NET
5 160 (22.32%) Node.js
6 83 (11.58%) REST
7 79 (11.02%) AngularJS
8 71 (9.90%) Vue
9 58 (8.09%) .NET Core
10 48 (6.69%) RESTful
11 47 (6.56%) ASP.NET
11 47 (6.56%) Kafka
12 45 (6.28%) GraphQL
13 44 (6.14%) Redux
14 38 (5.30%) SOAP
15 33 (4.60%) HTML5
16 32 (4.46%) JSON
16 32 (4.46%) Web Services
17 29 (4.04%) Spring
18 28 (3.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.07%) Product Ownership
2 55 (7.67%) Cloud Native
3 47 (6.56%) Fixed Income
4 36 (5.02%) Low-Code
5 29 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.93%) Mobile App
7 18 (2.51%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 15 (2.09%) Equities
11 13 (1.81%) Derivative
12 11 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.39%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.26%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.26%) Sports Betting
15 8 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
15 8 (1.12%) e-Learning
15 8 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 57 (7.95%) Linux
2 36 (5.02%) Unix
3 13 (1.81%) Android
4 12 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.26%) Windows
6 6 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Debian
7 1 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (47.28%) Agile
2 240 (33.47%) Full-Stack Development
3 209 (29.15%) CI/CD
4 199 (27.75%) Software Engineering
5 195 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
6 180 (25.10%) DevOps
7 162 (22.59%) Mentoring
8 120 (16.74%) Microservices
9 99 (13.81%) User Experience
10 85 (11.85%) Test Automation
11 83 (11.58%) Computer Science
11 83 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 79 (11.02%) Containerisation
12 79 (11.02%) Front End Development
13 77 (10.74%) AI
14 63 (8.79%) Roadmaps
15 59 (8.23%) Performance Optimisation
16 57 (7.95%) Code Quality
16 57 (7.95%) Data Modelling
16 57 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 256 (35.70%) Python
2 241 (33.61%) TypeScript
3 195 (27.20%) C#
4 179 (24.97%) Java
5 139 (19.39%) SQL
6 64 (8.93%) Go
7 48 (6.69%) PHP
8 30 (4.18%) Bash
9 21 (2.93%) Ruby
10 20 (2.79%) Apex Code
11 13 (1.81%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.26%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.84%) C
15 3 (0.42%) C++
15 3 (0.42%) R
16 2 (0.28%) Assembly Language
16 2 (0.28%) RPG
16 2 (0.28%) VB
16 2 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 124 (17.29%) Degree
2 101 (14.09%) Security Cleared
3 93 (12.97%) SC Cleared
4 64 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (6.00%) AWS Certification
6 40 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (3.07%) Azure Certification
8 21 (2.93%) TOGAF Certification
9 12 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.26%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.70%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.42%) IBM Certification
12 3 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.07%) QA
2 60 (8.37%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.93%) WCAG
4 13 (1.81%) GDPR
5 9 (1.26%) SLA
6 4 (0.56%) HL7
6 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.42%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.28%) GRC
8 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 134 (18.69%) Docker
2 6 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 80 (11.16%) Terraform
3 33 (4.60%) Ansible
4 32 (4.46%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.77%) Argo
5 27 (3.77%) Grafana
6 19 (2.65%) Kustomize
7 4 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.42%) cPanel
8 3 (0.42%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.42%) Plesk
9 2 (0.28%) Control-M
9 2 (0.28%) Kibana
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 134 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.86%) Google
3 28 (3.91%) ServiceNow
4 26 (3.63%) MuleSoft
5 23 (3.21%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.65%) Adobe
7 15 (2.09%) Oracle
8 13 (1.81%) IBM
9 8 (1.12%) IFS
9 8 (1.12%) SAP
9 8 (1.12%) Workday
10 7 (0.98%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.70%) Apple
11 5 (0.70%) Dell
11 5 (0.70%) Epicor
11 5 (0.70%) Infor
11 5 (0.70%) Informatica
11 5 (0.70%) SnapLogic
11 5 (0.70%) Software AG
11 5 (0.70%) TIBCO