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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 18 12
Rank change year-on-year -30 -6 +1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 800 1,840 3,791
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.24% 12.68% 11.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.96% 31.93% 28.24%
Number of salaries quoted 671 1,128 3,515
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +10.49% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £59,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +10.17% -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 5,012 5,763 13,423
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.54% 39.71% 41.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,706 3,965 11,388
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 23 May 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 40 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.50%) CMS
3 8 (1.00%) Confluence
3 8 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (0.38%) nginx
4 3 (0.38%) WordPress
5 2 (0.25%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.13%) Apache
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.13%) Drupal
6 1 (0.13%) SAS
6 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (1.25%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.50%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Blender
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) InVision
4 1 (0.13%) Maya
4 1 (0.13%) Sketch
4 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.38%) Shopify
2 10 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) Maximo
4 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 340 (42.50%) AWS
2 294 (36.75%) Azure
3 100 (12.50%) Serverless
4 88 (11.00%) GCP
5 85 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (9.75%) Power Platform
7 62 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (7.50%) SaaS
9 58 (7.25%) GitHub
10 49 (6.13%) PowerApps
11 48 (6.00%) Power Automate
12 47 (5.88%) Amazon S3
13 46 (5.75%) Azure Logic Apps
14 39 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
15 38 (4.75%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
17 34 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
18 27 (3.38%) Azure AI
19 26 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
20 22 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.75%) Broadband
2 6 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (0.75%) Firewall
3 5 (0.63%) Internet
4 3 (0.38%) HTTP
4 3 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
4 3 (0.38%) Intranet
5 1 (0.13%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (13.38%) MongoDB
2 83 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 74 (9.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 63 (7.88%) NoSQL
5 59 (7.38%) SQL Server
6 58 (7.25%) MySQL
7 50 (6.25%) Relational Database
8 43 (5.38%) Power BI
9 25 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.50%) RDBMS
11 10 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.00%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.88%) MariaDB
14 7 (0.88%) Redis
15 5 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (0.63%) Metadata
16 4 (0.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 113 (14.13%) Git
2 54 (6.75%) Cypress.io
3 25 (3.13%) JIRA
4 18 (2.25%) Jaeger
5 17 (2.13%) CircleCI
6 15 (1.88%) GitLab
6 15 (1.88%) Jenkins
7 10 (1.25%) Axure RP
7 10 (1.25%) JUnit
7 10 (1.25%) Maven
8 9 (1.13%) Balsamiq
8 9 (1.13%) TeamCity
9 8 (1.00%) Mockito
9 8 (1.00%) Postman
9 8 (1.00%) Selenium
9 8 (1.00%) webpack
10 7 (0.88%) Vite
11 6 (0.75%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.38%) Appium
12 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 192 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 133 (16.63%) Finance
3 92 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 79 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (9.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (7.25%) Law
7 40 (5.00%) Front Office
8 27 (3.38%) Marketing
9 25 (3.13%) Retail
10 22 (2.75%) Legal
11 20 (2.50%) Banking
12 16 (2.00%) Games
13 15 (1.88%) Health Technology
14 12 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.25%) Local Government
16 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.63%) Back Office
17 5 (0.63%) Tech for Good
18 4 (0.50%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 467 (58.38%) Developer
2 165 (20.63%) Senior
3 153 (19.13%) Software Engineer
4 144 (18.00%) Lead
5 140 (17.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 96 (12.00%) Senior Developer
7 80 (10.00%) Lead Developer
8 77 (9.63%) .NET Developer
9 56 (7.00%) Lead Software Developer
10 53 (6.63%) Lead Software Engineer
11 51 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 49 (6.13%) Software Developer
13 41 (5.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 39 (4.88%) React Developer
14 39 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (4.25%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 33 (4.13%) Power Platform Developer
17 31 (3.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 28 (3.50%) Java Developer
19 27 (3.38%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 365 (45.63%) React
2 223 (27.88%) Node.js
3 211 (26.38%) .NET
4 200 (25.00%) HTML
5 181 (22.63%) CSS
6 97 (12.13%) .NET Core
7 92 (11.50%) RESTful
8 81 (10.13%) ASP.NET
9 78 (9.75%) REST
10 66 (8.25%) ASP.NET Core
10 66 (8.25%) Vue
11 58 (7.25%) AngularJS
12 57 (7.13%) JSON
13 52 (6.50%) Blazor
14 48 (6.00%) Kafka
15 43 (5.38%) Redux
16 41 (5.13%) GraphQL
16 41 (5.13%) HTML5
17 38 (4.75%) Jest
18 37 (4.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 62 (7.75%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (5.00%) Fixed Income
5 26 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.63%) Low-Code
8 18 (2.25%) Mobile App
9 16 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.88%) e-Learning
11 13 (1.63%) Sports Betting
12 11 (1.38%) Blog
12 11 (1.38%) Cyberattack
13 9 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (1.00%) Culture of Ownership
14 8 (1.00%) Equities
14 8 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
14 8 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.75%) Linux
2 24 (3.00%) Unix
3 13 (1.63%) Android
4 6 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (46.50%) Agile
2 364 (45.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 247 (30.88%) CI/CD
4 228 (28.50%) Software Engineering
5 207 (25.88%) DevOps
6 195 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
7 188 (23.50%) Mentoring
8 176 (22.00%) Microservices
9 118 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 116 (14.50%) AI
11 113 (14.13%) User Experience
12 100 (12.50%) Test Automation
13 99 (12.38%) Containerisation
14 94 (11.75%) Scrum
15 92 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
16 73 (9.13%) Front End Development
16 73 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
16 73 (9.13%) Machine Learning
17 72 (9.00%) Roadmaps
18 60 (7.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 275 (34.38%) TypeScript
2 234 (29.25%) Python
3 227 (28.38%) C#
4 212 (26.50%) Java
5 206 (25.75%) SQL
6 63 (7.88%) Go
7 49 (6.13%) PHP
8 29 (3.63%) Bash
9 28 (3.50%) Ruby
10 25 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.13%) Apex Code
11 17 (2.13%) C++
12 13 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.63%) Scala
13 5 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.50%) Perl
14 4 (0.50%) R
14 4 (0.50%) Rust
15 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 98 (12.25%) Degree
2 76 (9.50%) Security Cleared
3 72 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.75%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.50%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.50%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.13%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (8.63%) Accessibility
2 63 (7.88%) QA
3 16 (2.00%) WCAG
4 15 (1.88%) SLA
5 9 (1.13%) GDPR
6 7 (0.88%) GRC
6 7 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.50%) HL7
8 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 129 (16.13%) Docker
2 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 89 (11.13%) Kubernetes
2 65 (8.13%) Terraform
3 26 (3.25%) Ansible
4 24 (3.00%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.75%) Argo
6 18 (2.25%) Kustomize
7 16 (2.00%) Grafana
8 12 (1.50%) Podman
9 3 (0.38%) Plesk
10 2 (0.25%) Kibana
11 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.13%) Puppet
11 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 169 (21.13%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.38%) Google
3 32 (4.00%) Adobe
4 20 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 19 (2.38%) Oracle
6 18 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.63%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.13%) Apple
8 9 (1.13%) HubSpot
9 7 (0.88%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.75%) Cisco
10 6 (0.75%) F5
10 6 (0.75%) Facebook
10 6 (0.75%) Juniper
10 6 (0.75%) Palo Alto
10 6 (0.75%) Sony
10 6 (0.75%) Yahoo!
11 5 (0.63%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.25%) BT
12 2 (0.25%) OneLogin