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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -28 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,161 1,603 2,585
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.86% 9.88% 11.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.91% 31.43% 28.61%
Number of salaries quoted 948 954 1,970
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £71,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.86% +2.50% +12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £137,500 £147,500
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 6,141 5,100 9,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.68% 31.42% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,593 3,456 6,322
10th Percentile £38,772 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £117,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 12 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 60 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.46%) CMS
3 16 (1.38%) WordPress
4 11 (0.95%) Confluence
5 8 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.60%) IIS
6 7 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.34%) 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
10 1 (0.086%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.086%) Moodle
10 1 (0.086%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.60%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.26%) Blender
5 3 (0.26%) Maya
6 2 (0.17%) Elementor
7 1 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.086%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.086%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.60%) Infor M3
2 7 (0.60%) Lawson
2 7 (0.60%) Shopify
3 4 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.086%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 444 (38.24%) Azure
2 388 (33.42%) AWS
3 167 (14.38%) SaaS
4 128 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
5 118 (10.16%) Power Platform
6 103 (8.87%) Serverless
7 92 (7.92%) Power Automate
8 88 (7.58%) GCP
9 85 (7.32%) PowerApps
10 79 (6.80%) Azure AI
11 71 (6.12%) GitHub
12 70 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
13 60 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
14 49 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
16 41 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
17 39 (3.36%) Amazon S3
18 38 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
19 35 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
20 30 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.55%) Broadband
2 17 (1.46%) Internet
3 6 (0.52%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.43%) Intranet
5 4 (0.34%) Firewall
5 4 (0.34%) SSH
6 3 (0.26%) HTTP
6 3 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.17%) SSL
8 1 (0.086%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.086%) DNS
8 1 (0.086%) Network Security
8 1 (0.086%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.086%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (19.64%) MongoDB
2 182 (15.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 100 (8.61%) SQL Server
4 98 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
5 81 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
6 80 (6.89%) MySQL
7 56 (4.82%) Power BI
7 56 (4.82%) Relational Database
8 38 (3.27%) NoSQL
9 25 (2.15%) Redis
10 20 (1.72%) Spark SQL
11 15 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.12%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.69%) MariaDB
14 8 (0.69%) Metadata
15 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
16 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 138 (11.89%) Git
2 49 (4.22%) Cypress.io
3 40 (3.45%) JIRA
4 29 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.55%) JUnit
6 14 (1.21%) Maven
6 14 (1.21%) Mockito
7 11 (0.95%) CircleCI
7 11 (0.95%) GitLab
8 10 (0.86%) Claude Code
8 10 (0.86%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.78%) Postman
9 9 (0.78%) Selenium
9 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.60%) Axure RP
10 7 (0.60%) Balsamiq
11 5 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.43%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 275 (23.69%) Social Skills
2 159 (13.70%) Finance
3 121 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 84 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (6.29%) Legal
6 71 (6.12%) Law
7 70 (6.03%) Marketing
8 62 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.93%) Retail
10 29 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 24 (2.07%) Banking
12 21 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.55%) Health Technology
14 12 (1.03%) Games
15 9 (0.78%) Local Government
16 7 (0.60%) Legal Technology
17 5 (0.43%) Social Housing
17 5 (0.43%) Tech for Good
18 4 (0.34%) Advertising
18 4 (0.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 661 (56.93%) Developer
2 234 (20.16%) Senior
3 203 (17.48%) .NET Developer
4 198 (17.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 158 (13.61%) Software Engineer
6 154 (13.26%) Lead
7 106 (9.13%) Senior Developer
8 95 (8.18%) Software Developer
9 89 (7.67%) Lead Developer
10 68 (5.86%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 63 (5.43%) Lead Software Developer
12 54 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (4.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 49 (4.22%) Senior Manager
13 49 (4.22%) Testing Manager
14 41 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
15 30 (2.58%) Lead Software Engineer
16 28 (2.41%) Web Developer
17 26 (2.24%) Consultant
18 25 (2.15%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (42.55%) React
2 357 (30.75%) .NET
3 319 (27.48%) Node.js
4 231 (19.90%) HTML
5 215 (18.52%) .NET Core
6 210 (18.09%) ASP.NET
6 210 (18.09%) CSS
7 184 (15.85%) ASP.NET Core
8 164 (14.13%) Blazor
9 155 (13.35%) RESTful
10 90 (7.75%) ASP.NET Web API
11 82 (7.06%) REST
12 81 (6.98%) .NET Framework
13 79 (6.80%) ML.NET
13 79 (6.80%) Vue
14 67 (5.77%) AngularJS
15 65 (5.60%) JSON
16 48 (4.13%) Entity Framework
17 43 (3.70%) Jest
18 42 (3.62%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 85 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.43%) Virtual Team
3 62 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
5 45 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 31 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 26 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (1.81%) Social Media
11 19 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.46%) BBC
12 17 (1.46%) iPhone
13 14 (1.21%) Blog
13 14 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.21%) NHS
14 13 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (1.03%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.65%) Linux
2 27 (2.33%) Android
3 11 (0.95%) Windows
4 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.43%) Unix
6 3 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (48.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 552 (47.55%) Agile
3 333 (28.68%) CI/CD
4 322 (27.73%) Software Engineering
5 303 (26.10%) DevOps
6 276 (23.77%) AI
7 261 (22.48%) Mentoring
8 253 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 253 (21.79%) Microservices
9 238 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
10 170 (14.64%) Test Automation
11 162 (13.95%) Scrum
12 135 (11.63%) Machine Learning
13 127 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
14 126 (10.85%) User Experience
15 111 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
16 104 (8.96%) SDLC
17 92 (7.92%) Coaching
18 87 (7.49%) TDD
19 86 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 459 (39.53%) C#
2 425 (36.61%) TypeScript
3 383 (32.99%) SQL
4 253 (21.79%) Python
5 202 (17.40%) Java
6 77 (6.63%) PowerShell
7 62 (5.34%) PHP
8 58 (5.00%) C++
9 40 (3.45%) Ruby
10 25 (2.15%) Go
11 18 (1.55%) Bash
12 17 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.78%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.69%) R
16 7 (0.60%) Rust
16 7 (0.60%) Scala
17 4 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.34%) SOQL
17 4 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 108 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 105 (9.04%) Degree
3 89 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 8 (0.69%) DBS Check
6 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.43%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.17%) OCP
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.086%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (10.08%) QA
2 103 (8.87%) Accessibility
3 37 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.76%) WCAG
5 19 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.12%) GRC
7 11 (0.95%) GDPR
8 8 (0.69%) SLA
9 7 (0.60%) HL7
10 5 (0.43%) NIST
11 4 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.26%) NCSC
13 1 (0.086%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 131 (11.28%) Docker
2 4 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (8.01%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.95%) Ansible
2 11 (0.95%) Grafana
2 11 (0.95%) Podman
3 8 (0.69%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.26%) Plesk
6 1 (0.086%) Consul
6 1 (0.086%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 327 (28.17%) Microsoft
2 75 (6.46%) Google
3 32 (2.76%) Adobe
4 24 (2.07%) Oracle
5 19 (1.64%) Sony
6 17 (1.46%) Apple
6 17 (1.46%) Facebook
6 17 (1.46%) Yahoo!
7 16 (1.38%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.21%) HubSpot
9 11 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.86%) Databricks
11 7 (0.60%) Infor
11 7 (0.60%) Sage
12 4 (0.34%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.34%) Marketo
12 4 (0.34%) New Relic
12 4 (0.34%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.26%) MuleSoft