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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,056 1,912 3,616
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.94% 11.56% 11.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.30% 32.27% 28.41%
Number of salaries quoted 897 1,224 3,204
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £51,250 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,345 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +8.76% -2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.15% +10.34% -4.00%

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 5,772 5,925 12,728
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.00% 35.83% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,375 4,135 10,405
10th Percentile £39,080 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 July 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 55 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.80%) CMS
3 10 (0.95%) WordPress
4 8 (0.76%) Confluence
4 8 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.47%) Apache
6 4 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.38%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.28%) DNN
7 3 (0.28%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.28%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.28%) Kentico
7 3 (0.28%) Sitefinity
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.19%) IIS
8 2 (0.19%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.095%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.47%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.28%) Blender
4 3 (0.28%) Maya
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Elementor
5 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.85%) Shopify
3 3 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.095%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.095%) Magento
5 1 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 452 (42.80%) Azure
2 395 (37.41%) AWS
3 146 (13.83%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (10.98%) SaaS
5 101 (9.56%) GCP
6 100 (9.47%) Power Platform
7 92 (8.71%) Serverless
8 81 (7.67%) Azure AI
9 74 (7.01%) PowerApps
10 73 (6.91%) Power Automate
11 66 (6.25%) GitHub
12 56 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
14 47 (4.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 42 (3.98%) Amazon S3
16 40 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
17 32 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
18 31 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 31 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
19 30 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.03%) Broadband
2 18 (1.70%) Internet
3 7 (0.66%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (0.57%) Firewall
5 5 (0.47%) Intranet
6 3 (0.28%) SSH
7 1 (0.095%) AMQP
7 1 (0.095%) HTTP
7 1 (0.095%) Network Security
7 1 (0.095%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (21.78%) MongoDB
2 186 (17.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 88 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 86 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
5 81 (7.67%) Elasticsearch
6 75 (7.10%) MySQL
7 53 (5.02%) Relational Database
8 51 (4.83%) Power BI
9 50 (4.73%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.80%) Redis
11 16 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.85%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
15 8 (0.76%) MariaDB
16 7 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.66%) Metadata
17 6 (0.57%) Data Lake
17 6 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 120 (11.36%) Git
2 46 (4.36%) Cypress.io
3 38 (3.60%) JIRA
4 20 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.42%) CircleCI
6 13 (1.23%) GitLab
7 12 (1.14%) JUnit
8 11 (1.04%) Maven
9 10 (0.95%) Claude Code
10 9 (0.85%) Mockito
10 9 (0.85%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.76%) Postman
11 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.76%) webpack
12 6 (0.57%) Jaeger
12 6 (0.57%) Vite
13 5 (0.47%) Axure RP
13 5 (0.47%) Balsamiq
13 5 (0.47%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 240 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 164 (15.53%) Finance
3 92 (8.71%) Public Sector
4 74 (7.01%) Law
5 72 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (5.30%) Marketing
8 52 (4.92%) Legal
9 44 (4.17%) Front Office
10 43 (4.07%) Retail
11 24 (2.27%) Banking
12 20 (1.89%) Health Technology
12 20 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.42%) Games
14 13 (1.23%) Legal Technology
15 10 (0.95%) Local Government
16 8 (0.76%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.57%) Advertising
17 6 (0.57%) Back Office
17 6 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 657 (62.22%) Developer
2 216 (20.45%) Senior
3 210 (19.89%) .NET Developer
4 184 (17.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 183 (17.33%) Software Engineer
6 162 (15.34%) Lead
7 112 (10.61%) Senior Developer
8 97 (9.19%) Lead Developer
9 68 (6.44%) Lead Software Developer
10 64 (6.06%) Software Developer
11 61 (5.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 60 (5.68%) Lead Software Engineer
13 51 (4.83%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 47 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
15 43 (4.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 42 (3.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 29 (2.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 28 (2.65%) Power Platform Developer
19 26 (2.46%) Web Developer
20 25 (2.37%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 519 (49.15%) React
2 352 (33.33%) .NET
3 311 (29.45%) Node.js
4 218 (20.64%) HTML
5 213 (20.17%) ASP.NET
6 211 (19.98%) .NET Core
7 195 (18.47%) CSS
8 191 (18.09%) ASP.NET Core
9 163 (15.44%) Blazor
10 149 (14.11%) RESTful
11 91 (8.62%) Vue
12 89 (8.43%) ASP.NET Web API
13 81 (7.67%) ML.NET
13 81 (7.67%) REST
14 70 (6.63%) .NET Framework
14 70 (6.63%) AngularJS
15 69 (6.53%) JSON
16 46 (4.36%) Redux
17 43 (4.07%) GraphQL
17 43 (4.07%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
3 51 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
4 50 (4.73%) Product Ownership
5 41 (3.88%) Fixed Income
6 35 (3.31%) Virtual Team
7 33 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (2.65%) Onboarding
10 26 (2.46%) Mobile App
11 20 (1.89%) Social Media
12 18 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 17 (1.61%) BBC
13 17 (1.61%) iPhone
14 15 (1.42%) Cyberattack
15 14 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (1.33%) Sports Betting
16 13 (1.23%) NHS
17 12 (1.14%) Blog
17 12 (1.14%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.49%) Linux
2 20 (1.89%) Android
3 15 (1.42%) Unix
4 5 (0.47%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.38%) Windows
6 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.095%) CentOS
7 1 (0.095%) Debian
7 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (52.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 536 (50.76%) Agile
3 299 (28.31%) Software Engineering
4 293 (27.75%) DevOps
5 275 (26.04%) CI/CD
6 256 (24.24%) Microservices
7 227 (21.50%) AI
8 224 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
9 213 (20.17%) Mentoring
10 185 (17.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 143 (13.54%) Scrum
12 139 (13.16%) Test Automation
13 135 (12.78%) Machine Learning
14 116 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
15 115 (10.89%) User Experience
16 93 (8.81%) Containerisation
17 81 (7.67%) Multithreading
18 80 (7.58%) Front End Development
19 77 (7.29%) Business Intelligence
20 75 (7.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 399 (37.78%) C#
2 366 (34.66%) TypeScript
3 352 (33.33%) SQL
4 254 (24.05%) Python
5 196 (18.56%) Java
6 63 (5.97%) PHP
7 56 (5.30%) Go
8 54 (5.11%) PowerShell
9 31 (2.94%) Ruby
10 26 (2.46%) C++
11 19 (1.80%) Bash
12 15 (1.42%) Apex Code
13 13 (1.23%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.14%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.66%) R
16 6 (0.57%) Scala
17 4 (0.38%) Perl
17 4 (0.38%) Rust
18 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (9.94%) Degree
2 71 (6.72%) Security Cleared
3 65 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 52 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.04%) DBS Check
8 9 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.47%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.28%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.095%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.095%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.095%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (7.58%) QA
2 75 (7.10%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.42%) SLA
4 12 (1.14%) GDPR
4 12 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.14%) WCAG
5 11 (1.04%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.66%) GRC
6 7 (0.66%) HL7
7 6 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.095%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 121 (11.46%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 80 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 47 (4.45%) Terraform
3 13 (1.23%) Ansible
4 12 (1.14%) Podman
5 11 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.95%) Grafana
7 8 (0.76%) Argo
8 6 (0.57%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.28%) Plesk
10 2 (0.19%) Kibana
11 1 (0.095%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.095%) Puppet
11 1 (0.095%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 310 (29.36%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.91%) Google
3 26 (2.46%) Adobe
4 19 (1.80%) Apple
4 19 (1.80%) Oracle
5 18 (1.70%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.70%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.61%) Facebook
6 17 (1.61%) Sony
6 17 (1.61%) Yahoo!
7 12 (1.14%) HubSpot
8 11 (1.04%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.66%) Databricks
10 7 (0.66%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.57%) Cisco
11 6 (0.57%) F5
11 6 (0.57%) Juniper
11 6 (0.57%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.38%) New Relic