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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,141 1,820 2,721
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.12% 10.97% 10.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.99% 32.02% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 933 1,136 2,377
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,743 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
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 6,010 5,684 9,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.99% 34.27% 38.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,524 3,940 7,656
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 2 August 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 62 (5.43%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.67%) CMS
3 13 (1.14%) WordPress
4 11 (0.96%) Confluence
5 8 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.35%) Apache
7 4 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.26%) DNN
8 3 (0.26%) EPiServer
8 3 (0.26%) IIS
8 3 (0.26%) Immediacy CMS
8 3 (0.26%) Kentico
8 3 (0.26%) Sitefinity
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.088%) Drupal
10 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.70%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.26%) Blender
4 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.26%) Maya
5 2 (0.18%) Elementor
6 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.088%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.088%) Trello
6 1 (0.088%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.70%) Shopify
3 5 (0.44%) Infor M3
3 5 (0.44%) Lawson
4 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.088%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.088%) Magento
7 1 (0.088%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 468 (41.02%) Azure
2 411 (36.02%) AWS
3 154 (13.50%) SaaS
4 140 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
5 113 (9.90%) Power Platform
6 106 (9.29%) GCP
7 87 (7.62%) Serverless
8 84 (7.36%) Power Automate
9 82 (7.19%) Azure AI
10 80 (7.01%) PowerApps
11 76 (6.66%) GitHub
12 61 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
13 57 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
14 43 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 39 (3.42%) Amazon S3
16 35 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (2.98%) Amazon SQS
18 32 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
19 30 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.28%) Broadband
2 18 (1.58%) Internet
3 8 (0.70%) Firewall
4 7 (0.61%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.44%) Intranet
7 4 (0.35%) SSH
8 2 (0.18%) HTTP
8 2 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.088%) Network Security
9 1 (0.088%) SSL
9 1 (0.088%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (20.51%) MongoDB
2 188 (16.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 98 (8.59%) SQL Server
4 96 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
5 82 (7.19%) Elasticsearch
5 82 (7.19%) MySQL
6 58 (5.08%) Power BI
7 51 (4.47%) Relational Database
8 44 (3.86%) NoSQL
9 22 (1.93%) Redis
10 16 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (1.05%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.70%) MariaDB
15 8 (0.70%) Metadata
16 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
17 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 139 (12.18%) Git
2 47 (4.12%) Cypress.io
3 45 (3.94%) JIRA
4 29 (2.54%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.40%) JUnit
6 15 (1.31%) GitLab
7 14 (1.23%) Maven
8 13 (1.14%) CircleCI
8 13 (1.14%) Mockito
9 10 (0.88%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.79%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.79%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.79%) webpack
11 8 (0.70%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.70%) Balsamiq
11 8 (0.70%) Postman
12 6 (0.53%) Vite
13 5 (0.44%) Selenium
14 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 279 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 185 (16.21%) Finance
3 100 (8.76%) Public Sector
4 81 (7.10%) Law
5 78 (6.84%) Legal
6 77 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 63 (5.52%) Marketing
9 44 (3.86%) Front Office
10 39 (3.42%) Retail
11 24 (2.10%) Banking
12 22 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.58%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.49%) Games
15 16 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.14%) Legal Technology
17 10 (0.88%) Local Government
18 6 (0.53%) Advertising
18 6 (0.53%) Back Office
18 6 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 684 (59.95%) Developer
2 251 (22.00%) Senior
3 210 (18.40%) .NET Developer
4 196 (17.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 190 (16.65%) Software Engineer
6 165 (14.46%) Lead
7 119 (10.43%) Senior Developer
8 106 (9.29%) Lead Developer
9 74 (6.49%) Lead Software Developer
10 71 (6.22%) Software Developer
11 64 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 58 (5.08%) Lead Software Engineer
13 56 (4.91%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 51 (4.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 49 (4.29%) Senior Manager
15 49 (4.29%) Testing Manager
16 47 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
17 42 (3.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 31 (2.72%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 30 (2.63%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 548 (48.03%) React
2 360 (31.55%) .NET
3 328 (28.75%) Node.js
4 225 (19.72%) HTML
5 215 (18.84%) .NET Core
5 215 (18.84%) ASP.NET
6 207 (18.14%) CSS
7 190 (16.65%) ASP.NET Core
8 164 (14.37%) Blazor
9 158 (13.85%) RESTful
10 91 (7.98%) Vue
11 90 (7.89%) ASP.NET Web API
12 89 (7.80%) REST
13 82 (7.19%) ML.NET
14 77 (6.75%) .NET Framework
15 74 (6.49%) AngularJS
16 69 (6.05%) JSON
17 46 (4.03%) GraphQL
17 46 (4.03%) HTML5
17 46 (4.03%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 64 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
2 64 (5.61%) Virtual Team
3 53 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
4 46 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 41 (3.59%) Fixed Income
6 37 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 30 (2.63%) Mobile App
9 29 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
10 24 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.84%) Social Media
12 17 (1.49%) BBC
12 17 (1.49%) iPhone
13 15 (1.31%) Cyberattack
13 15 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.23%) NHS
15 13 (1.14%) AI Agents
15 13 (1.14%) Blog
15 13 (1.14%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.17%) Linux
2 23 (2.02%) Android
3 10 (0.88%) Unix
4 6 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (49.87%) Full-Stack Development
2 563 (49.34%) Agile
3 346 (30.32%) Software Engineering
4 313 (27.43%) DevOps
5 302 (26.47%) CI/CD
6 257 (22.52%) Microservices
7 254 (22.26%) AI
8 248 (21.74%) Mentoring
8 248 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
9 229 (20.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 163 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 157 (13.76%) Scrum
12 138 (12.09%) Machine Learning
13 127 (11.13%) User Experience
14 119 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
15 95 (8.33%) Containerisation
16 92 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
16 92 (8.06%) SDLC
17 86 (7.54%) Front End Development
18 85 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 442 (38.74%) C#
2 422 (36.99%) TypeScript
3 366 (32.08%) SQL
4 290 (25.42%) Python
5 192 (16.83%) Java
6 78 (6.84%) PowerShell
7 65 (5.70%) PHP
8 52 (4.56%) Go
9 36 (3.16%) Ruby
10 32 (2.80%) C++
11 19 (1.67%) Bash
12 16 (1.40%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.88%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.70%) R
16 6 (0.53%) Scala
17 5 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.35%) Perl
18 4 (0.35%) Rust
18 4 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 113 (9.90%) Degree
2 88 (7.71%) Security Cleared
3 81 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 53 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.088%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.088%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.088%) OCP
12 1 (0.088%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (9.82%) QA
2 93 (8.15%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.75%) WCAG
4 19 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.23%) SLA
6 13 (1.14%) GDPR
7 11 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.61%) GRC
8 7 (0.61%) HL7
9 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.26%) NIST
10 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.18%) NCSC
12 1 (0.088%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 124 (10.87%) Docker
2 5 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 39 (3.42%) Terraform
3 12 (1.05%) Podman
4 11 (0.96%) Grafana
5 8 (0.70%) Ansible
6 7 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.26%) Plesk
8 2 (0.18%) Kibana
8 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.088%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 329 (28.83%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.31%) Google
3 33 (2.89%) Adobe
4 23 (2.02%) Oracle
5 19 (1.67%) Apple
5 19 (1.67%) Sony
6 18 (1.58%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.49%) Facebook
7 17 (1.49%) Yahoo!
8 16 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.14%) HubSpot
10 9 (0.79%) Databricks
10 9 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.70%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.61%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.53%) Cisco
13 6 (0.53%) F5
13 6 (0.53%) Juniper
13 6 (0.53%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.44%) New Relic