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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -34 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 775 1,979 3,744
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.20% 13.61% 11.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.69% 32.97% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 646 1,295 3,470
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,135 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,250 £108,875
UK median annual salary £57,687 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +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 4,938 6,002 13,377
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.75% 41.26% 41.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,649 4,392 11,421
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 £78,750
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 12 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 44 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.68%) CMS
3 6 (0.77%) Confluence
4 4 (0.52%) nginx
4 4 (0.52%) WordPress
5 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.39%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.26%) Apache
6 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.26%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (1.55%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.65%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.13%) InVision
5 1 (0.13%) Notion
5 1 (0.13%) Sketch
5 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.29%) Shopify
2 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) Maximo
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 329 (42.45%) AWS
2 282 (36.39%) Azure
3 98 (12.65%) Serverless
4 89 (11.48%) GCP
5 79 (10.19%) Power Platform
6 78 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (8.13%) SaaS
8 59 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (7.35%) GitHub
10 53 (6.84%) PowerApps
11 51 (6.58%) Power Automate
12 45 (5.81%) Amazon S3
12 45 (5.81%) Azure Logic Apps
13 39 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
14 35 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
14 35 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (3.48%) Azure AI
18 21 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.90%) Broadband
2 7 (0.90%) Firewall
3 6 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (0.65%) Internet
4 5 (0.65%) Intranet
5 3 (0.39%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.26%) HTTP
7 1 (0.13%) AMQP
7 1 (0.13%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (12.26%) MongoDB
2 73 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (8.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 61 (7.87%) SQL Server
5 54 (6.97%) NoSQL
6 50 (6.45%) Relational Database
7 45 (5.81%) Power BI
8 43 (5.55%) MySQL
9 25 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.58%) RDBMS
11 12 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.16%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.90%) Redis
15 6 (0.77%) MariaDB
16 5 (0.65%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
16 5 (0.65%) Metadata
17 4 (0.52%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 105 (13.55%) Git
2 53 (6.84%) Cypress.io
3 23 (2.97%) JIRA
4 20 (2.58%) CircleCI
5 18 (2.32%) Jaeger
6 17 (2.19%) Jenkins
7 16 (2.06%) GitLab
8 12 (1.55%) Axure RP
9 11 (1.42%) Balsamiq
10 10 (1.29%) Selenium
11 9 (1.16%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.16%) webpack
12 8 (1.03%) Vite
13 7 (0.90%) Maven
13 7 (0.90%) Postman
14 6 (0.77%) JUnit
15 5 (0.65%) Mockito
16 4 (0.52%) Babel
16 4 (0.52%) Cucumber
17 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
General
1 190 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 127 (16.39%) Finance
3 81 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (8.77%) Law
6 65 (8.39%) Public Sector
7 40 (5.16%) Front Office
8 25 (3.23%) Retail
9 21 (2.71%) Legal
9 21 (2.71%) Marketing
10 19 (2.45%) Banking
11 16 (2.06%) Games
12 15 (1.94%) Health Technology
13 11 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.90%) Local Government
15 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.65%) Back Office
17 4 (0.52%) Advertising
17 4 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 468 (60.39%) Developer
2 158 (20.39%) Senior
3 140 (18.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 130 (16.77%) Lead
4 130 (16.77%) Software Engineer
5 97 (12.52%) Senior Developer
6 78 (10.06%) Lead Developer
7 76 (9.81%) .NET Developer
8 56 (7.23%) Lead Software Developer
9 51 (6.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 49 (6.32%) Software Developer
11 42 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
12 41 (5.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 39 (5.03%) React Developer
14 34 (4.39%) Power Platform Developer
15 33 (4.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 29 (3.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 28 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
18 27 (3.48%) Java Developer
19 26 (3.35%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (46.97%) React
2 212 (27.35%) Node.js
3 210 (27.10%) .NET
4 206 (26.58%) HTML
5 185 (23.87%) CSS
6 98 (12.65%) .NET Core
7 80 (10.32%) ASP.NET
8 77 (9.94%) RESTful
9 73 (9.42%) REST
10 65 (8.39%) ASP.NET Core
10 65 (8.39%) Vue
11 59 (7.61%) AngularJS
11 59 (7.61%) JSON
12 51 (6.58%) Blazor
13 47 (6.06%) Kafka
14 43 (5.55%) Redux
15 41 (5.29%) GraphQL
15 41 (5.29%) HTML5
16 35 (4.52%) Spring
17 34 (4.39%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.16%) Fixed Income
4 36 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (2.84%) Low-Code
5 22 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.58%) Mobile App
7 19 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.81%) e-Learning
11 13 (1.68%) Sports Betting
12 11 (1.42%) Cyberattack
13 10 (1.29%) NHS
14 8 (1.03%) Blog
14 8 (1.03%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.03%) Derivative
14 8 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (1.03%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.71%) Linux
2 25 (3.23%) Unix
3 16 (2.06%) Android
4 9 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Debian
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (46.19%) Full-Stack Development
2 350 (45.16%) Agile
3 227 (29.29%) CI/CD
4 205 (26.45%) DevOps
5 197 (25.42%) Software Engineering
6 190 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
7 165 (21.29%) Microservices
8 163 (21.03%) Mentoring
9 119 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 112 (14.45%) User Experience
11 111 (14.32%) AI
12 95 (12.26%) Containerisation
13 90 (11.61%) Test Automation
14 87 (11.23%) Scrum
15 78 (10.06%) Technical Leadership
16 72 (9.29%) Front End Development
17 70 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
17 70 (9.03%) Machine Learning
18 66 (8.52%) Roadmaps
19 65 (8.39%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 275 (35.48%) TypeScript
2 235 (30.32%) Python
3 224 (28.90%) C#
4 189 (24.39%) SQL
5 185 (23.87%) Java
6 66 (8.52%) Go
7 51 (6.58%) PHP
8 29 (3.74%) Bash
9 27 (3.48%) Ruby
10 26 (3.35%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.19%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.16%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.90%) C++
14 4 (0.52%) Rust
14 4 (0.52%) Scala
15 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.39%) R
15 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (13.42%) Degree
2 79 (10.19%) Security Cleared
3 74 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 51 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.06%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.39%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.13%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (8.65%) QA
2 63 (8.13%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.19%) WCAG
4 15 (1.94%) SLA
5 8 (1.03%) GDPR
6 7 (0.90%) GRC
7 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.65%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.65%) HL7
9 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 137 (17.68%) Docker
2 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 94 (12.13%) Kubernetes
2 69 (8.90%) Terraform
3 27 (3.48%) Ansible
4 26 (3.35%) Argo
4 26 (3.35%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.45%) Grafana
6 18 (2.32%) Kustomize
7 12 (1.55%) Podman
8 5 (0.65%) Plesk
9 2 (0.26%) cPanel
9 2 (0.26%) Kibana
10 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 177 (22.84%) Microsoft
2 60 (7.74%) Google
3 34 (4.39%) Adobe
4 20 (2.58%) Salesforce
4 20 (2.58%) ServiceNow
5 14 (1.81%) MuleSoft
6 13 (1.68%) Oracle
7 10 (1.29%) Apple
8 9 (1.16%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.77%) Cisco
9 6 (0.77%) F5
9 6 (0.77%) Facebook
9 6 (0.77%) HubSpot
9 6 (0.77%) Juniper
9 6 (0.77%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.77%) Sony
9 6 (0.77%) Yahoo!
10 4 (0.52%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.26%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.26%) IBM