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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,475 2,490 2,824
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.02% 12.23% 12.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.19% 29.34% 25.72%
Number of salaries quoted 839 1,761 2,539
10th Percentile £38,425 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £72,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.28% +15.08% +5.00%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £143,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +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 4,885 8,487 10,978
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.88% 41.68% 46.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,221 5,496 9,322
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,235 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £49,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,063 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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 18 October 2025.

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
1 167 (11.32%) Confluence
2 153 (10.37%) Apache Airflow
3 80 (5.42%) Apache
4 32 (2.17%) CMS
5 28 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 25 (1.69%) IIS
7 17 (1.15%) WordPress
8 14 (0.95%) Apache Solr
9 11 (0.75%) Headless CMS
10 10 (0.68%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.54%) Drupal
12 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.34%) nginx
12 5 (0.34%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.14%) EPiServer
14 2 (0.14%) Mendix
15 1 (0.068%) Anypoint
15 1 (0.068%) Appian
15 1 (0.068%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (0.75%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.20%) Simulink
8 2 (0.14%) Elementor
9 1 (0.068%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (1.36%) Shopify
2 17 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.61%) Magento
5 8 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite
6 7 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 5 (0.34%) PlanetPress Connect
8 4 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.27%) Sage 1000
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe Campaign
10 1 (0.068%) JDE OneWorld
10 1 (0.068%) Maximo
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.068%) Primavera
10 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 888 (60.20%) AWS
2 804 (54.51%) Azure
3 492 (33.36%) GCP
4 153 (10.37%) dbt
5 91 (6.17%) SaaS
6 81 (5.49%) Snowflake
7 63 (4.27%) Serverless
8 61 (4.14%) Power Automate
9 59 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (3.86%) Power Platform
11 47 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
13 43 (2.92%) PowerApps
14 42 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
14 42 (2.85%) GitHub
15 38 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
16 31 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
17 28 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
17 28 (1.90%) Figma
18 23 (1.56%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.81%) Broadband
2 9 (0.61%) DMARC
2 9 (0.61%) SSL
3 5 (0.34%) Firewall
4 4 (0.27%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) AMQP
5 2 (0.14%) SSH
6 1 (0.068%) DNS
6 1 (0.068%) Internet
6 1 (0.068%) Network Security
6 1 (0.068%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.068%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (24.68%) SQL Server
2 152 (10.31%) Amazon Athena
2 152 (10.31%) Apache Arrow
2 152 (10.31%) Apache Iceberg
2 152 (10.31%) Dremio
3 133 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
4 109 (7.39%) Elasticsearch
5 98 (6.64%) MySQL
6 78 (5.29%) MongoDB
7 77 (5.22%) Apache Ignite
7 77 (5.22%) Data Lake
8 47 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 37 (2.51%) NoSQL
10 35 (2.37%) Relational Database
11 33 (2.24%) Power BI
12 20 (1.36%) Redis
12 20 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 16 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.54%) NonStop SQL
15 7 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 287 (19.46%) JIRA
2 266 (18.03%) Selenium
3 258 (17.49%) GitLab
4 254 (17.22%) SonarQube
5 250 (16.95%) Bitbucket
6 249 (16.88%) Maven
7 248 (16.81%) Cucumber
7 248 (16.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 169 (11.46%) Git
9 38 (2.58%) Cypress.io
10 28 (1.90%) webpack
11 22 (1.49%) Jenkins
12 17 (1.15%) TeamCity
12 17 (1.15%) Visual Studio
13 14 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
14 13 (0.88%) Babel
15 11 (0.75%) Jasmine
15 11 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
16 10 (0.68%) MSBuild
17 9 (0.61%) Balsamiq
General
1 559 (37.90%) Finance
2 512 (34.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 339 (22.98%) Banking
4 207 (14.03%) Social Skills
5 193 (13.08%) Front Office
6 168 (11.39%) Investment Banking
7 118 (8.00%) Retail
8 90 (6.10%) Corporate Banking
9 87 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
10 84 (5.69%) Law
11 49 (3.32%) Public Sector
12 44 (2.98%) Marketing
13 21 (1.42%) Games
14 15 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.75%) Advertising
16 10 (0.68%) Legal
16 10 (0.68%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.61%) Czech Language
18 8 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 661 (44.81%) Software Engineer
2 649 (44.00%) Developer
3 417 (28.27%) Senior
4 264 (17.90%) Senior Software Engineer
5 158 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
6 152 (10.31%) AWS Software Engineer
7 137 (9.29%) Python Engineer
8 136 (9.22%) Python Software Engineer
9 120 (8.14%) Senior Developer
10 114 (7.73%) Software Developer
11 113 (7.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 112 (7.59%) .NET Developer
13 110 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
14 106 (7.19%) Java Engineer
15 103 (6.98%) Java Software Engineer
16 87 (5.90%) AWS Developer
17 76 (5.15%) Senior Java Engineer
18 75 (5.08%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 74 (5.02%) Lead
20 68 (4.61%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 627 (42.51%) React
2 596 (40.41%) HTML
3 523 (35.46%) CSS
4 473 (32.07%) .NET
5 455 (30.85%) Node.js
6 300 (20.34%) Redux
7 283 (19.19%) Kafka
8 273 (18.51%) Spring
8 273 (18.51%) Spring Boot
9 247 (16.75%) JPA
10 209 (14.17%) REST
11 208 (14.10%) AngularJS
12 196 (13.29%) Pandas
13 181 (12.27%) Vue
14 174 (11.80%) RESTful
15 170 (11.53%) HTML5
16 161 (10.92%) Hibernate
17 154 (10.44%) NumPy
18 152 (10.31%) SciPy
19 148 (10.03%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 289 (19.59%) Product Ownership
2 273 (18.51%) Enterprise Software
3 217 (14.71%) Cyberattack
4 198 (13.42%) Self-Motivation
5 190 (12.88%) Fixed Income
6 183 (12.41%) Linux Command Line
7 168 (11.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 167 (11.32%) Equities
9 85 (5.76%) Hedge funds
10 78 (5.29%) Derivative
11 77 (5.22%) Pricing Data
12 44 (2.98%) Cloud Native
13 22 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 12 (0.81%) Data Centre
15 12 (0.81%) Data Structures
15 12 (0.81%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (0.75%) Motion Graphics
16 11 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 290 (19.66%) Linux
2 50 (3.39%) Android
3 43 (2.92%) Windows
4 23 (1.56%) Unix
5 22 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.068%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,032 (69.97%) Agile
2 825 (55.93%) Software Engineering
3 563 (38.17%) Microservices
4 484 (32.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 471 (31.93%) CI/CD
6 406 (27.53%) DevOps
7 404 (27.39%) User Experience
8 385 (26.10%) Mentoring
9 356 (24.14%) Front End Development
10 337 (22.85%) Containerisation
11 332 (22.51%) Test Automation
12 322 (21.83%) SDLC
13 284 (19.25%) Scrum
14 283 (19.19%) Performance Optimisation
15 247 (16.75%) Machine Learning
16 237 (16.07%) Clean Code
17 232 (15.73%) TDD
18 216 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 190 (12.88%) Asset Management
19 190 (12.88%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 727 (49.29%) Java
2 586 (39.73%) Python
3 578 (39.19%) TypeScript
4 516 (34.98%) SQL
5 313 (21.22%) C#
6 279 (18.92%) C++
7 269 (18.24%) Rust
8 257 (17.42%) Go
9 125 (8.47%) PHP
10 57 (3.86%) C
10 57 (3.86%) R
11 54 (3.66%) Ruby
12 52 (3.53%) MATLAB
13 49 (3.32%) Dart
14 35 (2.37%) PowerShell
15 19 (1.29%) VB.NET
16 18 (1.22%) VBA
17 15 (1.02%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.54%) Bash
19 6 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 290 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 221 (14.98%) DV Cleared
3 195 (13.22%) AWS Certification
4 186 (12.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 178 (12.07%) AWS Certified Developer
6 161 (10.92%) Degree
7 111 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 70 (4.75%) SC Cleared
9 30 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.34%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 1 (0.068%) HND
16 1 (0.068%) IBM Certification
16 1 (0.068%) PhD
16 1 (0.068%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (21.49%) QA
2 152 (10.31%) Accessibility
3 30 (2.03%) GDPR
4 16 (1.08%) WCAG
5 13 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.068%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.068%) HL7
7 1 (0.068%) SLA
System Software
1 387 (26.24%) Docker
2 13 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.068%) HDFS
3 1 (0.068%) KVM
3 1 (0.068%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 335 (22.71%) Kubernetes
2 78 (5.29%) Terraform
3 56 (3.80%) Ansible
4 18 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.88%) Grafana
6 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.20%) Argo
7 3 (0.20%) Kibana
8 2 (0.14%) Control-M
8 2 (0.14%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.14%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.068%) Istio
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.068%) Puppet
Vendors
1 247 (16.75%) Solace
2 220 (14.92%) Microsoft
3 39 (2.64%) ServiceNow
4 25 (1.69%) Adobe
4 25 (1.69%) Oracle
5 23 (1.56%) Google
6 17 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.08%) MuleSoft
8 13 (0.88%) DevExpress
9 10 (0.68%) HubSpot
9 10 (0.68%) Rollbar
10 9 (0.61%) Workday
11 8 (0.54%) Apple
11 8 (0.54%) Infor
12 7 (0.47%) Facebook
12 7 (0.47%) YouTube
13 6 (0.41%) Guidewire
14 5 (0.34%) IBM
14 5 (0.34%) Sage
14 5 (0.34%) SAP