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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 21 16
Rank change year-on-year -32 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,150 1,538 2,587
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.62% 9.14% 11.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.52% 30.63% 29.09%
Number of salaries quoted 935 885 1,849
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,300
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 £80,625 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - -

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 6,208 5,021 8,893
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.95% 29.84% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,598 3,331 5,795
10th Percentile £39,945 £36,250 £39,250
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 £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 3 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 58 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.57%) CMS
3 17 (1.48%) WordPress
4 13 (1.13%) 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 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.087%) OpenStack
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 14 (1.22%) 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
1 429 (37.30%) Azure
2 383 (33.30%) AWS
3 175 (15.22%) SaaS
4 125 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
5 122 (10.61%) Power Platform
6 101 (8.78%) Serverless
7 93 (8.09%) Power Automate
8 84 (7.30%) PowerApps
9 78 (6.78%) Azure AI
10 75 (6.52%) GCP
10 75 (6.52%) GitHub
11 72 (6.26%) AWS Lambda
12 64 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
13 53 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (3.57%) Amazon S3
15 40 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
16 39 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
17 38 (3.30%) Microsoft Copilot
18 34 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
19 33 (2.87%) 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%) SSH
5 3 (0.26%) Firewall
5 3 (0.26%) Intranet
5 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.26%) SSL
6 2 (0.17%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.17%) VPN
7 1 (0.087%) DNS
7 1 (0.087%) Network Security
7 1 (0.087%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.087%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (19.22%) MongoDB
2 175 (15.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 104 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
4 100 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 81 (7.04%) Elasticsearch
6 72 (6.26%) MySQL
7 62 (5.39%) Relational Database
8 52 (4.52%) Power BI
9 33 (2.87%) NoSQL
10 26 (2.26%) Redis
11 20 (1.74%) Spark SQL
12 18 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (1.13%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.96%) Metadata
15 11 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (0.70%) MariaDB
17 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
18 6 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
19 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 136 (11.83%) Git
2 43 (3.74%) Cypress.io
2 43 (3.74%) JIRA
3 34 (2.96%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.57%) JUnit
5 16 (1.39%) GitLab
6 14 (1.22%) Maven
6 14 (1.22%) Mockito
7 13 (1.13%) Claude Code
8 11 (0.96%) Postman
9 10 (0.87%) Selenium
9 10 (0.87%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.52%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.52%) Balsamiq
11 6 (0.52%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.52%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.52%) Subversion
12 5 (0.43%) Appium
12 5 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 269 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 153 (13.30%) Finance
3 120 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 88 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (6.35%) Marketing
6 68 (5.91%) Legal
7 62 (5.39%) Law
8 57 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.96%) Retail
10 30 (2.61%) Manufacturing
11 23 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.74%) Banking
13 17 (1.48%) Health Technology
14 12 (1.04%) Games
15 11 (0.96%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.52%) Local Government
17 5 (0.43%) Social Housing
18 4 (0.35%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.35%) Front Office
18 4 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 648 (56.35%) Developer
2 224 (19.48%) Senior
3 200 (17.39%) .NET Developer
4 186 (16.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 156 (13.57%) Lead
6 143 (12.43%) Software Engineer
7 101 (8.78%) Software Developer
8 97 (8.43%) Senior Developer
9 90 (7.83%) Lead Developer
10 70 (6.09%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 65 (5.65%) Lead Software Developer
12 52 (4.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (4.26%) Senior Manager
13 49 (4.26%) Testing Manager
14 45 (3.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 36 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
16 29 (2.52%) Microsoft 365 Developer
17 28 (2.43%) Lead Software Engineer
18 27 (2.35%) Web Developer
19 26 (2.26%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (41.65%) React
2 352 (30.61%) .NET
3 305 (26.52%) Node.js
4 220 (19.13%) HTML
5 209 (18.17%) .NET Core
5 209 (18.17%) ASP.NET
6 198 (17.22%) CSS
7 182 (15.83%) ASP.NET Core
8 164 (14.26%) Blazor
9 157 (13.65%) RESTful
10 90 (7.83%) ASP.NET Web API
11 85 (7.39%) REST
12 82 (7.13%) .NET Framework
13 78 (6.78%) ML.NET
14 76 (6.61%) Vue
15 71 (6.17%) AngularJS
16 55 (4.78%) JSON
17 50 (4.35%) Entity Framework
18 43 (3.74%) Jest
18 43 (3.74%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 71 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.48%) Virtual Team
3 56 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
5 39 (3.39%) Mobile App
6 38 (3.30%) Product Ownership
7 32 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 28 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (2.09%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.74%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.74%) Social Media
12 19 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.48%) iPhone
13 17 (1.48%) NHS
14 16 (1.39%) BBC
15 14 (1.22%) Blog
16 13 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
17 12 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
18 11 (0.96%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.70%) Linux
2 32 (2.78%) Android
3 16 (1.39%) Windows
4 15 (1.30%) 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
1 540 (46.96%) Full-Stack Development
2 535 (46.52%) Agile
3 330 (28.70%) CI/CD
4 321 (27.91%) Software Engineering
5 302 (26.26%) DevOps
6 288 (25.04%) AI
7 259 (22.52%) Mentoring
8 252 (21.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 251 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
10 240 (20.87%) Microservices
11 165 (14.35%) Test Automation
12 148 (12.87%) Scrum
13 122 (10.61%) Machine Learning
14 118 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
15 113 (9.83%) User Experience
16 109 (9.48%) SDLC
17 108 (9.39%) Business Intelligence
18 94 (8.17%) Coaching
19 92 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 86 (7.48%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 456 (39.65%) C#
2 416 (36.17%) TypeScript
3 372 (32.35%) SQL
4 256 (22.26%) Python
5 196 (17.04%) Java
6 71 (6.17%) PowerShell
7 59 (5.13%) PHP
8 57 (4.96%) C++
9 38 (3.30%) Ruby
10 27 (2.35%) Go
11 20 (1.74%) Bash
12 17 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.87%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.70%) R
16 7 (0.61%) Rust
16 7 (0.61%) Scala
17 6 (0.52%) SOQL
18 4 (0.35%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 111 (9.65%) Degree
2 109 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 89 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 54 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 7 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 7 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 7 (0.61%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.35%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.17%) OCP
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (10.17%) QA
2 103 (8.96%) Accessibility
3 40 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 36 (3.13%) WCAG
5 20 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.96%) GDPR
7 9 (0.78%) GRC
8 7 (0.61%) 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
1 137 (11.91%) Docker
2 4 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 101 (8.78%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.04%) Grafana
3 11 (0.96%) Ansible
4 9 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.52%) Podman
6 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.26%) Plesk
8 2 (0.17%) Kibana
9 1 (0.087%) Argo
9 1 (0.087%) Consul
9 1 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 320 (27.83%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.17%) Google
3 26 (2.26%) Adobe
4 24 (2.09%) Oracle
5 19 (1.65%) ServiceNow
6 18 (1.57%) Sony
7 16 (1.39%) Apple
7 16 (1.39%) Facebook
7 16 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.39%) Yahoo!
8 14 (1.22%) HubSpot
8 14 (1.22%) 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