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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 22 16
Rank change year-on-year -31 -6 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,146 1,510 2,531
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.61% 9.05% 11.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.53% 30.48% 29.07%
Number of salaries quoted 927 858 1,799
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -6.90% +16.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £59,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.46% - -

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 6,183 4,954 8,706
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.88% 29.71% 40.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,543 3,275 5,602
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,950 £38,750
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 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 10 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 59 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.57%) CMS
3 17 (1.48%) WordPress
4 15 (1.31%) 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%) ExpressionEngine
10 1 (0.087%) Moodle
Applications
1 16 (1.40%) 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
6 2 (0.17%) Revit
7 1 (0.087%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.087%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.70%) Shopify
3 7 (0.61%) Infor M3
3 7 (0.61%) Lawson
4 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.17%) Magento
6 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.087%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 426 (37.17%) Azure
2 380 (33.16%) AWS
3 177 (15.45%) SaaS
4 126 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
5 125 (10.91%) Power Platform
6 101 (8.81%) Serverless
7 95 (8.29%) Power Automate
8 86 (7.50%) PowerApps
9 79 (6.89%) GitHub
10 78 (6.81%) Azure AI
11 74 (6.46%) GCP
12 70 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
13 68 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
14 51 (4.45%) Amazon EC2
15 43 (3.75%) Microsoft Copilot
16 40 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
17 39 (3.40%) Amazon S3
18 38 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
19 34 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
20 31 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.48%) Internet
2 10 (0.87%) 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 (19.28%) MongoDB
2 173 (15.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 105 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
4 104 (9.08%) SQL Server
5 83 (7.24%) Elasticsearch
6 74 (6.46%) MySQL
7 62 (5.41%) Relational Database
8 52 (4.54%) Power BI
9 31 (2.71%) NoSQL
10 27 (2.36%) Redis
11 20 (1.75%) Spark SQL
12 16 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (1.05%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.05%) Metadata
14 11 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.61%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.52%) Spatial Data
17 5 (0.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 137 (11.95%) Git
2 44 (3.84%) JIRA
3 42 (3.66%) Cypress.io
4 34 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.57%) JUnit
6 16 (1.40%) GitLab
7 14 (1.22%) Maven
7 14 (1.22%) Mockito
8 13 (1.13%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.05%) Selenium
10 10 (0.87%) Postman
10 10 (0.87%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.61%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.52%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.52%) Balsamiq
13 6 (0.52%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.44%) Appium
14 5 (0.44%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 261 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 154 (13.44%) Finance
3 119 (10.38%) Public Sector
4 85 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (6.54%) Marketing
6 67 (5.85%) Legal
7 62 (5.41%) Law
8 59 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.97%) Retail
10 32 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.66%) Banking
13 12 (1.05%) Games
13 12 (1.05%) Health Technology
14 11 (0.96%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.52%) Local Government
16 5 (0.44%) Social Housing
17 4 (0.35%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.35%) Front Office
17 4 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 649 (56.63%) Developer
2 222 (19.37%) Senior
3 201 (17.54%) .NET Developer
4 186 (16.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 150 (13.09%) Lead
6 139 (12.13%) Software Engineer
7 98 (8.55%) Software Developer
8 94 (8.20%) Senior Developer
9 87 (7.59%) Lead Developer
10 69 (6.02%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 63 (5.50%) Lead Software Developer
12 50 (4.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (4.28%) Senior Manager
13 49 (4.28%) Testing Manager
14 46 (4.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 35 (3.05%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (2.79%) Microsoft 365 Developer
17 27 (2.36%) Web Developer
18 26 (2.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
19 25 (2.18%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (41.88%) React
2 356 (31.06%) .NET
3 304 (26.53%) Node.js
4 218 (19.02%) HTML
5 211 (18.41%) ASP.NET
6 208 (18.15%) .NET Core
7 197 (17.19%) CSS
8 182 (15.88%) ASP.NET Core
9 165 (14.40%) Blazor
10 159 (13.87%) RESTful
11 90 (7.85%) ASP.NET Web API
12 84 (7.33%) REST
13 83 (7.24%) .NET Framework
14 78 (6.81%) ML.NET
15 76 (6.63%) Vue
16 70 (6.11%) AngularJS
17 50 (4.36%) Entity Framework
18 45 (3.93%) Jest
18 45 (3.93%) JSON
19 43 (3.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 68 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 62 (5.41%) Virtual Team
3 56 (4.89%) Greenfield Project
4 54 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (3.58%) Mobile App
6 34 (2.97%) Product Ownership
7 33 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 29 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.75%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.66%) Social Media
13 17 (1.48%) iPhone
14 16 (1.40%) BBC
15 15 (1.31%) NHS
16 14 (1.22%) Blog
17 12 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
18 11 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
18 11 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 51 (4.45%) Linux
2 32 (2.79%) Android
3 16 (1.40%) Windows
4 15 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.35%) Unix
6 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (46.51%) Agile
2 531 (46.34%) Full-Stack Development
3 330 (28.80%) CI/CD
4 321 (28.01%) Software Engineering
5 302 (26.35%) DevOps
6 298 (26.00%) AI
7 261 (22.77%) Mentoring
8 248 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 243 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
10 236 (20.59%) Microservices
11 171 (14.92%) Test Automation
12 141 (12.30%) Scrum
13 120 (10.47%) Machine Learning
14 115 (10.03%) Technical Leadership
15 109 (9.51%) SDLC
16 107 (9.34%) Business Intelligence
16 107 (9.34%) User Experience
17 95 (8.29%) Coaching
18 92 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 85 (7.42%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 462 (40.31%) C#
2 413 (36.04%) TypeScript
3 369 (32.20%) SQL
4 255 (22.25%) Python
5 191 (16.67%) Java
6 70 (6.11%) PowerShell
7 62 (5.41%) PHP
8 55 (4.80%) C++
9 37 (3.23%) Ruby
10 28 (2.44%) Go
11 20 (1.75%) Bash
12 17 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.96%) 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
1 114 (9.95%) Degree
2 109 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 89 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 56 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
6 8 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 7 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.52%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.17%) OCP
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (10.12%) QA
2 106 (9.25%) Accessibility
3 40 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 37 (3.23%) WCAG
5 20 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.96%) GDPR
7 9 (0.79%) GRC
8 5 (0.44%) NIST
9 4 (0.35%) HL7
9 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.35%) SLA
10 3 (0.26%) NCSC
11 1 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.087%) WAI
11 1 (0.087%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 135 (11.78%) Docker
2 4 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 99 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.05%) Grafana
3 11 (0.96%) Ansible
4 9 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.35%) Podman
5 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.17%) Kibana
6 2 (0.17%) Plesk
7 1 (0.087%) Argo
7 1 (0.087%) Consul
7 1 (0.087%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 326 (28.45%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.28%) Google
3 24 (2.09%) Oracle
4 23 (2.01%) Adobe
5 19 (1.66%) ServiceNow
6 18 (1.57%) Sony
7 16 (1.40%) Apple
7 16 (1.40%) Facebook
7 16 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.40%) Yahoo!
8 15 (1.31%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.13%) HubSpot
10 10 (0.87%) Databricks
11 7 (0.61%) Infor
11 7 (0.61%) Sage
12 4 (0.35%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.35%) Marketo
12 4 (0.35%) New Relic
12 4 (0.35%) Optimizely
12 4 (0.35%) Sitecore