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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,583 2,561 3,116
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.78% 11.05% 12.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.35% 28.63% 26.21%
Number of salaries quoted 933 1,936 2,839
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,586
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £110,000 £113,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.69% -5.38% +8.33%

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 5,050 8,946 11,889
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.20% 38.59% 47.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,402 6,207 10,283
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

JavaScript
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JavaScript trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

JavaScript
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

JavaScript salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 184 (11.62%) Apache Airflow
2 167 (10.55%) Confluence
3 91 (5.75%) Apache
4 34 (2.15%) CMS
5 28 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 25 (1.58%) IIS
7 20 (1.26%) WordPress
8 12 (0.76%) Apache Solr
9 11 (0.69%) Headless CMS
10 9 (0.57%) Drupal
10 9 (0.57%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.51%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.32%) nginx
13 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.19%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.13%) Mendix
14 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.13%) Solana
15 1 (0.063%) Strapi
Applications
1 16 (1.01%) Adobe XD
2 13 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 13 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.51%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.19%) Simulink
6 3 (0.19%) Sketch
7 2 (0.13%) Elementor
8 1 (0.063%) InVision
8 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.52%) Shopify
2 22 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.01%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.82%) Magento
5 9 (0.57%) Infor CloudSuite
5 9 (0.57%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 5 (0.32%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.25%) JDE OneWorld
7 4 (0.25%) Sage 1000
8 3 (0.19%) PlanetPress Connect
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
10 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 938 (59.25%) AWS
2 826 (52.18%) Azure
3 532 (33.61%) GCP
4 184 (11.62%) dbt
5 92 (5.81%) Snowflake
6 91 (5.75%) SaaS
7 81 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 58 (3.66%) Power Platform
10 53 (3.35%) Power Automate
11 50 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (3.16%) Serverless
12 45 (2.84%) GitHub
13 43 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
14 42 (2.65%) PowerApps
15 34 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
15 34 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
16 30 (1.90%) Figma
17 29 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
18 28 (1.77%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.69%) Broadband
2 10 (0.63%) SSL
3 9 (0.57%) DMARC
4 7 (0.44%) Firewall
5 4 (0.25%) HTTP
6 2 (0.13%) AMQP
7 1 (0.063%) DNS
7 1 (0.063%) Network Security
7 1 (0.063%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.063%) VPN
7 1 (0.063%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (23.75%) SQL Server
2 183 (11.56%) Amazon Athena
2 183 (11.56%) Apache Arrow
2 183 (11.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 183 (11.56%) Dremio
3 167 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
4 124 (7.83%) Elasticsearch
5 95 (6.00%) MySQL
6 88 (5.56%) Apache Ignite
6 88 (5.56%) Data Lake
7 82 (5.18%) MongoDB
8 50 (3.16%) NoSQL
9 47 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 29 (1.83%) Power BI
11 26 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (1.45%) Relational Database
13 20 (1.26%) Redis
14 18 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (0.57%) Crystal Reports
16 8 (0.51%) GIS
Development Applications
1 290 (18.32%) JIRA
2 269 (16.99%) Selenium
3 263 (16.61%) SonarQube
4 260 (16.42%) Maven
5 258 (16.30%) GitLab
5 258 (16.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 250 (15.79%) Bitbucket
7 249 (15.73%) Cucumber
8 187 (11.81%) Git
9 36 (2.27%) Cypress.io
10 31 (1.96%) Jenkins
11 28 (1.77%) webpack
12 21 (1.33%) Visual Studio
13 19 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
14 16 (1.01%) JUnit
14 16 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
15 15 (0.95%) MSBuild
16 14 (0.88%) TeamCity
17 11 (0.69%) Balsamiq
17 11 (0.69%) Jasmine
General
1 617 (38.98%) Finance
2 514 (32.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 374 (23.63%) Banking
4 237 (14.97%) Front Office
5 219 (13.83%) Social Skills
6 179 (11.31%) Investment Banking
7 124 (7.83%) Retail
8 98 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
9 90 (5.69%) Corporate Banking
10 82 (5.18%) Law
11 48 (3.03%) Marketing
12 34 (2.15%) Public Sector
13 27 (1.71%) Games
14 19 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.82%) Advertising
15 13 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.69%) iGaming
17 9 (0.57%) Czech Language
18 8 (0.51%) Legal
18 8 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 722 (45.61%) Software Engineer
2 688 (43.46%) Developer
3 448 (28.30%) Senior
4 292 (18.45%) Senior Software Engineer
5 190 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
6 183 (11.56%) AWS Software Engineer
7 160 (10.11%) Python Engineer
8 159 (10.04%) Python Software Engineer
9 145 (9.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 127 (8.02%) Java Engineer
11 125 (7.90%) Software Developer
12 123 (7.77%) Java Software Engineer
13 117 (7.39%) Senior Developer
14 113 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
15 107 (6.76%) .NET Developer
16 105 (6.63%) AWS Developer
17 92 (5.81%) Lead
18 89 (5.62%) Senior Java Engineer
19 88 (5.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
20 78 (4.93%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 678 (42.83%) React
2 632 (39.92%) HTML
3 541 (34.18%) CSS
4 497 (31.40%) Node.js
5 488 (30.83%) .NET
6 318 (20.09%) Redux
7 284 (17.94%) Kafka
8 281 (17.75%) Spring
9 279 (17.62%) Spring Boot
10 249 (15.73%) JPA
11 240 (15.16%) AngularJS
12 238 (15.03%) Pandas
13 208 (13.14%) Vue
14 206 (13.01%) REST
15 194 (12.26%) RESTful
16 185 (11.69%) NumPy
17 183 (11.56%) SciPy
18 178 (11.24%) HTML5
19 175 (11.05%) Hibernate
20 152 (9.60%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 306 (19.33%) Product Ownership
2 268 (16.93%) Enterprise Software
3 233 (14.72%) Fixed Income
4 227 (14.34%) Cyberattack
5 204 (12.89%) Equities
5 204 (12.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 197 (12.44%) Self-Motivation
7 184 (11.62%) Linux Command Line
8 101 (6.38%) Hedge funds
9 89 (5.62%) Derivative
10 88 (5.56%) Pricing Data
11 38 (2.40%) Cloud Native
12 28 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
13 20 (1.26%) Mobile App
14 14 (0.88%) Algorithms
14 14 (0.88%) Data Structures
15 13 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
16 11 (0.69%) Data Centre
16 11 (0.69%) Onboarding
17 10 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 316 (19.96%) Linux
2 61 (3.85%) Android
3 41 (2.59%) Windows
4 32 (2.02%) Unix
5 19 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.063%) CentOS
10 1 (0.063%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,091 (68.92%) Agile
2 899 (56.79%) Software Engineering
3 589 (37.21%) Microservices
4 492 (31.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 486 (30.70%) CI/CD
6 429 (27.10%) User Experience
7 423 (26.72%) DevOps
8 390 (24.64%) Mentoring
9 361 (22.80%) Front End Development
10 352 (22.24%) Test Automation
11 347 (21.92%) Containerisation
12 320 (20.21%) SDLC
13 284 (17.94%) Performance Optimisation
13 284 (17.94%) Scrum
14 244 (15.41%) TDD
15 241 (15.22%) Machine Learning
16 239 (15.10%) Clean Code
17 233 (14.72%) Investment Management
18 228 (14.40%) Asset Management
19 222 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 779 (49.21%) Java
2 648 (40.93%) Python
3 629 (39.73%) TypeScript
4 549 (34.68%) SQL
5 325 (20.53%) C#
6 291 (18.38%) C++
7 279 (17.62%) Go
7 279 (17.62%) Rust
8 132 (8.34%) PHP
9 60 (3.79%) C
10 55 (3.47%) MATLAB
10 55 (3.47%) R
11 54 (3.41%) Ruby
12 49 (3.10%) Dart
13 41 (2.59%) PowerShell
14 19 (1.20%) T-SQL
14 19 (1.20%) VB.NET
15 16 (1.01%) VBA
16 11 (0.69%) Bash
17 7 (0.44%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 282 (17.81%) Security Cleared
2 230 (14.53%) DV Cleared
3 192 (12.13%) AWS Certification
4 181 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 178 (11.24%) AWS Certified Developer
6 156 (9.85%) Degree
7 101 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (3.22%) SC Cleared
9 23 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.51%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.38%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.25%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.063%) HND
15 1 (0.063%) MCSD
15 1 (0.063%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 327 (20.66%) QA
2 154 (9.73%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.96%) GDPR
4 20 (1.26%) WCAG
5 16 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.19%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.063%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.063%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.063%) HL7
7 1 (0.063%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.063%) SLA
System Software
1 417 (26.34%) Docker
2 11 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.063%) HDFS
3 1 (0.063%) KVM
3 1 (0.063%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 368 (23.25%) Kubernetes
2 98 (6.19%) Terraform
3 61 (3.85%) Ansible
4 18 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.88%) Grafana
6 11 (0.69%) Istio
7 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.19%) Argo
8 3 (0.19%) Kibana
9 2 (0.13%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.063%) HP UCMDB
10 1 (0.063%) Marathon
10 1 (0.063%) Matomo
10 1 (0.063%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.063%) Puppet
Vendors
1 247 (15.60%) Solace
2 224 (14.15%) Microsoft
3 43 (2.72%) ServiceNow
4 34 (2.15%) Adobe
5 30 (1.90%) Google
6 21 (1.33%) Oracle
7 20 (1.26%) Salesforce
8 13 (0.82%) DevExpress
8 13 (0.82%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.63%) Rollbar
10 9 (0.57%) HubSpot
10 9 (0.57%) Infor
11 8 (0.51%) Apple
11 8 (0.51%) Cisco
12 7 (0.44%) Facebook
12 7 (0.44%) YouTube
13 6 (0.38%) Guidewire
14 5 (0.32%) Dell
14 5 (0.32%) Sage
14 5 (0.32%) Workday