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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -22 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 1,128 1,812 2,934
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.09% 10.99% 11.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.87% 32.00% 28.54%
Number of salaries quoted 927 1,130 2,583
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -6.59%

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 5,979 5,663 10,282
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.99% 34.36% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,516 3,924 8,203
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,325
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 31 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 62 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.60%) CMS
3 11 (0.98%) Confluence
3 11 (0.98%) WordPress
4 8 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.35%) Apache
6 4 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.27%) DNN
7 3 (0.27%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.27%) IIS
7 3 (0.27%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.27%) Kentico
7 3 (0.27%) Sitefinity
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.089%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.089%) Drupal
9 1 (0.089%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.71%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.27%) Blender
4 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.27%) Maya
5 2 (0.18%) Elementor
6 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.089%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.089%) Trello
6 1 (0.089%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.71%) Shopify
3 5 (0.44%) Infor M3
3 5 (0.44%) Lawson
4 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.089%) CiviCRM
7 1 (0.089%) Magento
7 1 (0.089%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 464 (41.13%) Azure
2 403 (35.73%) AWS
3 152 (13.48%) SaaS
4 140 (12.41%) Azure DevOps
5 112 (9.93%) Power Platform
6 104 (9.22%) GCP
7 85 (7.54%) Serverless
8 83 (7.36%) Power Automate
9 82 (7.27%) Azure AI
10 80 (7.09%) PowerApps
11 75 (6.65%) GitHub
12 61 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
13 56 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
14 42 (3.72%) Azure Logic Apps
15 38 (3.37%) Amazon S3
16 34 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
17 33 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
18 31 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
19 30 (2.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.30%) Broadband
2 18 (1.60%) Internet
3 8 (0.71%) Firewall
4 7 (0.62%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.44%) Intranet
7 4 (0.35%) SSH
8 2 (0.18%) HTTP
8 2 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.089%) Network Security
9 1 (0.089%) SSL
9 1 (0.089%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (20.66%) MongoDB
2 188 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 95 (8.42%) SQL Server
4 92 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
5 82 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
6 79 (7.00%) MySQL
7 58 (5.14%) Power BI
8 49 (4.34%) Relational Database
9 44 (3.90%) NoSQL
10 21 (1.86%) Redis
11 16 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.98%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.71%) MariaDB
16 8 (0.71%) Metadata
17 7 (0.62%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
18 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 136 (12.06%) Git
2 46 (4.08%) Cypress.io
3 45 (3.99%) JIRA
4 29 (2.57%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.33%) GitLab
5 15 (1.33%) JUnit
6 13 (1.15%) CircleCI
6 13 (1.15%) Maven
7 12 (1.06%) Mockito
8 10 (0.89%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.80%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.80%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.80%) webpack
10 8 (0.71%) Axure RP
10 8 (0.71%) Balsamiq
10 8 (0.71%) Postman
11 6 (0.53%) Vite
12 5 (0.44%) Selenium
13 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 275 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 180 (15.96%) Finance
3 96 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 78 (6.91%) Law
5 77 (6.83%) Legal
6 74 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
7 65 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 63 (5.59%) Marketing
9 44 (3.90%) Front Office
10 39 (3.46%) Retail
11 23 (2.04%) Banking
12 22 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.60%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.51%) Games
15 16 (1.42%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.15%) Legal Technology
17 10 (0.89%) Local Government
18 6 (0.53%) Advertising
18 6 (0.53%) Back Office
18 6 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 675 (59.84%) Developer
2 244 (21.63%) Senior
3 210 (18.62%) .NET Developer
4 194 (17.20%) Full-Stack Developer
5 188 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 163 (14.45%) Lead
7 113 (10.02%) Senior Developer
8 104 (9.22%) Lead Developer
9 73 (6.47%) Lead Software Developer
10 70 (6.21%) Software Developer
11 63 (5.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 58 (5.14%) Lead Software Engineer
13 55 (4.88%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 49 (4.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 49 (4.34%) Senior Manager
14 49 (4.34%) Testing Manager
15 47 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
16 42 (3.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 30 (2.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 28 (2.48%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (47.96%) React
2 357 (31.65%) .NET
3 323 (28.63%) Node.js
4 222 (19.68%) HTML
5 215 (19.06%) ASP.NET
6 214 (18.97%) .NET Core
7 204 (18.09%) CSS
8 190 (16.84%) ASP.NET Core
9 164 (14.54%) Blazor
10 156 (13.83%) RESTful
11 90 (7.98%) ASP.NET Web API
11 90 (7.98%) Vue
12 85 (7.54%) REST
13 82 (7.27%) ML.NET
14 75 (6.65%) .NET Framework
15 72 (6.38%) AngularJS
16 69 (6.12%) JSON
17 46 (4.08%) Kafka
17 46 (4.08%) Redux
18 45 (3.99%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.07%) Cloud Native
2 64 (5.67%) Virtual Team
3 63 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
4 53 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
5 46 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 41 (3.63%) Fixed Income
7 37 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.75%) Onboarding
9 29 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
9 29 (2.57%) Mobile App
10 24 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.86%) Social Media
12 17 (1.51%) BBC
12 17 (1.51%) iPhone
13 15 (1.33%) Cyberattack
13 15 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.24%) NHS
14 14 (1.24%) Sports Betting
15 12 (1.06%) Blog
15 12 (1.06%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.05%) Linux
2 22 (1.95%) Android
3 10 (0.89%) Unix
4 5 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
4 5 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (50.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 555 (49.20%) Agile
3 340 (30.14%) Software Engineering
4 310 (27.48%) DevOps
5 296 (26.24%) CI/CD
6 255 (22.61%) Microservices
7 250 (22.16%) AI
8 244 (21.63%) Mentoring
9 240 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
10 224 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 162 (14.36%) Test Automation
12 151 (13.39%) Scrum
13 138 (12.23%) Machine Learning
14 125 (11.08%) User Experience
15 119 (10.55%) Technical Leadership
16 93 (8.24%) Containerisation
17 92 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
18 89 (7.89%) SDLC
19 84 (7.45%) Front End Development
19 84 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 440 (39.01%) C#
2 415 (36.79%) TypeScript
3 364 (32.27%) SQL
4 286 (25.35%) Python
5 189 (16.76%) Java
6 78 (6.91%) PowerShell
7 63 (5.59%) PHP
8 52 (4.61%) Go
9 35 (3.10%) Ruby
10 32 (2.84%) C++
11 17 (1.51%) Bash
12 15 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.80%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.71%) R
16 6 (0.53%) Scala
17 5 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.35%) Perl
18 4 (0.35%) Rust
18 4 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 110 (9.75%) Degree
2 82 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 75 (6.65%) SC Cleared
4 53 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.53%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.27%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.27%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.089%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.089%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.089%) OCP
12 1 (0.089%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (9.66%) QA
2 90 (7.98%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.68%) WCAG
4 14 (1.24%) SLA
5 12 (1.06%) GDPR
6 11 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.62%) GRC
7 7 (0.62%) HL7
8 4 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.27%) NIST
9 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.089%) NCSC
10 1 (0.089%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 122 (10.82%) Docker
2 5 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 38 (3.37%) Terraform
3 12 (1.06%) Podman
4 11 (0.98%) Grafana
5 8 (0.71%) Ansible
6 7 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.27%) Plesk
8 2 (0.18%) Kibana
8 2 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.089%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 328 (29.08%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.38%) Google
3 33 (2.93%) Adobe
4 22 (1.95%) Oracle
5 19 (1.68%) Apple
5 19 (1.68%) Sony
6 18 (1.60%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.51%) Facebook
7 17 (1.51%) Yahoo!
8 15 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.15%) HubSpot
10 9 (0.80%) Databricks
10 9 (0.80%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.62%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.62%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.53%) Cisco
12 6 (0.53%) F5
12 6 (0.53%) Juniper
12 6 (0.53%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.44%) New Relic