JavaScript Developer
UK

The median JavaScript Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 671 568 471
Rank change year-on-year -103 -97 -261
Permanent jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 221 462 1,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.47% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.51% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 193 416 879
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £73,250 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

JavaScript Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured JavaScript Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JavaScript Developer.

Salary trend for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript Developer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for JavaScript Developer in the UK

JavaScript Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -109 190 £60,000 -14.29% 75
UK excluding London +1 158 £55,000 -5.98% 50
Work from Home -62 107 £60,000 -14.29% 56
London -94 71 £65,000 -12.16% 39
South East +7 55 £55,000 -5.98% 21
Midlands +13 33 £48,750 -16.67% 12
North of England +45 27 £66,000 +20.00% 14
West Midlands +30 26 £65,000 +5.26% 4
North West +5 21 £66,000 +46.67% 10
Scotland -52 21 £60,000 -14.29%
East of England +14 14 £70,750 -11.56% 3
South West -31 8 £45,000 -18.18%
East Midlands -4 7 £47,500 -5.00% 8
Yorkshire +81 6 £65,000 +8.33% 3

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, JavaScript Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring JavaScript Developer in the job title.

1 221 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 102 (46.15%) React
3 98 (44.34%) Full Stack Development
4 95 (42.99%) TypeScript
5 88 (39.82%) CSS
6 79 (35.75%) HTML
6 79 (35.75%) Node.js
7 68 (30.77%) Azure
8 67 (30.32%) Agile
9 65 (29.41%) C#
10 62 (28.05%) .NET
11 57 (25.79%) AWS
12 53 (23.98%) SQL Server
13 47 (21.27%) Social Skills
14 46 (20.81%) AngularJS
15 43 (19.46%) Web Development
15 43 (19.46%) Vue
16 40 (18.10%) DevOps
17 39 (17.65%) SQL
18 37 (16.74%) Front End Development
19 36 (16.29%) MVC
20 35 (15.84%) User Experience
21 30 (13.57%) ASP.NET
21 30 (13.57%) .NET Framework
22 29 (13.12%) Microsoft
22 29 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
23 26 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
23 26 (11.76%) CI/CD
24 25 (11.31%) Python
25 24 (10.86%) Finance

JavaScript Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.07%) CMS
2 8 (3.62%) WordPress
3 6 (2.71%) Headless CMS
4 4 (1.81%) Apache
4 4 (1.81%) Drupal
4 4 (1.81%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.45%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.45%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.45%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 68 (30.77%) Azure
2 57 (25.79%) AWS
3 26 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (9.05%) GitHub
5 15 (6.79%) SaaS
6 8 (3.62%) Serverless
7 5 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.81%) TestFlight
9 3 (1.36%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.90%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (0.90%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.90%) Firebase
10 2 (0.90%) GCP
11 1 (0.45%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.45%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.45%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.88%) HTTP
2 4 (1.81%) MQTT
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (23.98%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.05%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.71%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.26%) MySQL
5 5 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.36%) GIS
7 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.45%) ArangoDB
8 1 (0.45%) DB2
8 1 (0.45%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 22 (9.95%) Git
2 14 (6.33%) webpack
3 12 (5.43%) gulp
4 10 (4.52%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.71%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.26%) Bugzilla
6 5 (2.26%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.26%) JIRA
6 5 (2.26%) Zephyr
7 4 (1.81%) Grunt
7 4 (1.81%) Maven
8 2 (0.90%) Mocha
8 2 (0.90%) Moq
8 2 (0.90%) MSTest
8 2 (0.90%) Postman
8 2 (0.90%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.45%) GitLab
General
1 47 (21.27%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.86%) Finance
3 19 (8.60%) Marketing
4 11 (4.98%) Retail
5 10 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (4.52%) Legal
5 10 (4.52%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.62%) Banking
6 8 (3.62%) Multimedia
6 8 (3.62%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.17%) Games
7 7 (3.17%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.26%) Law
9 4 (1.81%) Electronics
9 4 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.90%) Automotive
11 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (46.15%) React
2 88 (39.82%) CSS
3 79 (35.75%) HTML
3 79 (35.75%) Node.js
4 62 (28.05%) .NET
5 46 (20.81%) AngularJS
6 43 (19.46%) Vue
7 30 (13.57%) .NET Framework
7 30 (13.57%) ASP.NET
8 23 (10.41%) ASP.NET Web API
9 19 (8.60%) Entity Framework
10 17 (7.69%) WebGL
11 15 (6.79%) Web Services
12 14 (6.33%) Laravel
12 14 (6.33%) RESTful
13 13 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (5.88%) HTML5
14 11 (4.98%) GraphQL
14 11 (4.98%) REST
14 11 (4.98%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.14%) Client/Server
2 16 (7.24%) Data Structures
3 13 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.98%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.52%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.52%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.62%) Augmented Reality
6 8 (3.62%) Virtual Reality
7 7 (3.17%) IoT
7 7 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.81%) Arduino
9 4 (1.81%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (1.81%) Online Gambling
9 4 (1.81%) Raspberry Pi
10 3 (1.36%) 3D Graphics
10 3 (1.36%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.45%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.07%) Windows
2 7 (3.17%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.71%) Linux
4 5 (2.26%) Android
5 3 (1.36%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (44.34%) Full Stack Development
2 67 (30.32%) Agile
3 43 (19.46%) Web Development
4 40 (18.10%) DevOps
5 37 (16.74%) Front End Development
6 36 (16.29%) MVC
7 35 (15.84%) User Experience
8 29 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (11.76%) CI/CD
10 23 (10.41%) TDD
10 23 (10.41%) UX Design
11 20 (9.05%) Artificial Intelligence
12 19 (8.60%) Microservices
12 19 (8.60%) Scrum
13 17 (7.69%) Machine Learning
13 17 (7.69%) Software Testing
14 16 (7.24%) E-Commerce
14 16 (7.24%) Kanban
15 15 (6.79%) Computer Science
15 15 (6.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 221 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 95 (42.99%) TypeScript
3 65 (29.41%) C#
4 39 (17.65%) SQL
5 25 (11.31%) Python
6 23 (10.41%) Java
7 20 (9.05%) PHP
8 7 (3.17%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.81%) Objective-C
9 4 (1.81%) Swift
9 4 (1.81%) VBScript
10 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.45%) Go
11 1 (0.45%) Rust
11 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (8.60%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
3 14 (6.33%) Degree
4 12 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.90%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.33%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (6.79%) Docker
2 4 (1.81%) Firmware
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.26%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (1.81%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (13.12%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.43%) Oracle
3 10 (4.52%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.26%) HP
5 4 (1.81%) NVIDIA
5 4 (1.81%) SAP
5 4 (1.81%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.90%) Google
7 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.45%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.45%) YouTube