JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 8,228 12,116 27,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.29% 11.99% 17.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.79% 27.71% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,483 7,289 13,002
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%

All Programming Languages
UK

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the UK

JavaScript
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 -2 7,081 £60,000 -7.69% 1,570
UK excluding London -3 5,983 £55,000 - 1,070
Work from Home 0 3,989 £60,000 -4.00% 1,212
London -7 1,969 £82,500 +10.00% 560
North of England -4 1,511 £55,000 - 280
South East -4 1,436 £56,000 -2.61% 192
North West -6 905 £55,000 - 166
South West +3 832 £52,500 -4.55% 178
Midlands -6 829 £50,000 -9.09% 225
Scotland -20 656 £55,000 - 59
East of England +7 482 £52,500 -8.70% 102
Yorkshire -1 463 £55,000 -4.35% 90
West Midlands -12 445 £52,500 -4.55% 133
East Midlands -4 377 £50,000 -4.76% 91
Wales +5 164 £50,000 +11.11% 35
North East +2 143 £55,000 - 28
Northern Ireland -13 75 £45,000 -10.00% 20
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

JavaScript
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
1 348 (4.23%) ArcGIS
2 330 (4.01%) GeoServer
3 308 (3.74%) Apache
4 289 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
5 270 (3.28%) CMS
6 230 (2.80%) WordPress
7 144 (1.75%) SharePoint
8 133 (1.62%) IIS
9 92 (1.12%) Umbraco
10 89 (1.08%) nginx
11 80 (0.97%) Confluence
12 56 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
13 53 (0.64%) FileNet
14 50 (0.61%) Headless CMS
15 49 (0.60%) Drupal
16 48 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
17 45 (0.55%) Kentico
18 42 (0.51%) OpenStack
19 37 (0.45%) Camunda
20 32 (0.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 82 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 42 (0.51%) Adobe XD
5 27 (0.33%) Simulink
6 22 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 21 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 21 (0.26%) Sketch
8 11 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 9 (0.11%) Trello
11 8 (0.097%) InfoPath
12 6 (0.073%) InVision
13 4 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
13 4 (0.049%) Maya
13 4 (0.049%) SPSS
14 2 (0.024%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.012%) UXPin
15 1 (0.012%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 124 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (0.79%) Shopify
3 50 (0.61%) Magento
4 29 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
5 26 (0.32%) SDL Web 8
6 24 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 16 (0.19%) Fidessa
8 13 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
9 11 (0.13%) Sage 200
10 10 (0.12%) Maximo
11 8 (0.097%) Siebel CRM
12 7 (0.085%) Elite 3E
12 7 (0.085%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
14 4 (0.049%) BusinessWorks
14 4 (0.049%) CiviCRM
14 4 (0.049%) Oracle Cash Management
15 3 (0.036%) Sage 300 ERP
15 3 (0.036%) SAP Business One
15 3 (0.036%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 3,328 (40.45%) Azure
2 2,544 (30.92%) AWS
3 698 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
4 534 (6.49%) GCP
5 508 (6.17%) Serverless
6 453 (5.51%) SaaS
7 359 (4.36%) Power Platform
8 302 (3.67%) GitHub
9 276 (3.35%) IBM Cloud
10 263 (3.20%) dbt
11 257 (3.12%) Snowflake
12 199 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
13 195 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
14 178 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
15 175 (2.13%) PowerApps
16 174 (2.11%) Azure Functions
17 170 (2.07%) Power Automate
18 143 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
19 135 (1.64%) Azure API Management
20 107 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 187 (2.27%) Internet
2 74 (0.90%) HTTP
3 68 (0.83%) DNS
4 53 (0.64%) TCP/IP
5 36 (0.44%) AMQP
5 36 (0.44%) MQTT
6 33 (0.40%) DHCP
7 32 (0.39%) Firewall
8 28 (0.34%) SSL
9 25 (0.30%) Wireless
10 21 (0.26%) VPN
11 19 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (0.22%) Network Security
12 18 (0.22%) VoIP
13 17 (0.21%) SSH
14 16 (0.19%) FIX Connectivity
14 16 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
14 16 (0.19%) RS-485
15 14 (0.17%) FTP
16 13 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,662 (20.20%) SQL Server
2 916 (11.13%) PostgreSQL
3 703 (8.54%) NoSQL
4 696 (8.46%) MongoDB
5 683 (8.30%) MySQL
6 494 (6.00%) Relational Database
7 390 (4.74%) GIS
8 367 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
9 330 (4.01%) QGIS
10 260 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
10 260 (3.16%) Apache Arrow
10 260 (3.16%) Dremio
11 250 (3.04%) DB2
12 232 (2.82%) Data Lake
13 221 (2.69%) Apache Ignite
14 214 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
15 177 (2.15%) Power BI
16 117 (1.42%) Oracle Database
17 108 (1.31%) Big Data
18 90 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1,262 (15.34%) Git
2 336 (4.08%) JIRA
3 280 (3.40%) Cypress.io
4 272 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 244 (2.97%) Selenium
6 237 (2.88%) Visual Studio
7 191 (2.32%) JUnit
8 131 (1.59%) GitLab
9 124 (1.51%) Jasmine
10 108 (1.31%) Karma Test Runner
11 91 (1.11%) TeamCity
12 89 (1.08%) Cucumber
13 84 (1.02%) WebDriver
14 79 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
15 77 (0.94%) webpack
16 73 (0.89%) Bitbucket
17 71 (0.86%) Protractor
18 70 (0.85%) Maven
18 70 (0.85%) NUnit
19 69 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,537 (18.68%) Finance
2 1,408 (17.11%) Social Skills
3 665 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 599 (7.28%) Marketing
5 538 (6.54%) Banking
6 532 (6.47%) Public Sector
7 480 (5.83%) Law
8 410 (4.98%) Front Office
9 368 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
10 349 (4.24%) Investment Banking
11 279 (3.39%) Retail
12 198 (2.41%) Games
13 139 (1.69%) Legal
14 126 (1.53%) Manufacturing
15 109 (1.32%) Advertising
16 97 (1.18%) Tech for Good
17 95 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 80 (0.97%) Electronics
19 74 (0.90%) Aerospace
20 67 (0.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5,062 (61.52%) Developer
2 1,804 (21.93%) Senior
3 1,618 (19.66%) Software Engineer
4 1,528 (18.57%) .NET Developer
5 1,027 (12.48%) Senior Developer
6 937 (11.39%) Full Stack Developer
7 788 (9.58%) Lead
8 684 (8.31%) C# Developer
9 660 (8.02%) Software Developer
10 555 (6.75%) Senior Software Engineer
11 512 (6.22%) C# .NET Developer
12 417 (5.07%) PHP Developer
13 392 (4.76%) Full Stack Engineer
14 348 (4.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 297 (3.61%) Lead Developer
16 268 (3.26%) Web Developer
17 259 (3.15%) Java Developer
18 249 (3.03%) Lead Software Engineer
19 235 (2.86%) Architect
20 230 (2.80%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,463 (42.09%) HTML
2 3,450 (41.93%) .NET
3 3,443 (41.84%) CSS
4 3,380 (41.08%) React
5 2,377 (28.89%) AngularJS
6 1,706 (20.73%) ASP.NET
7 1,616 (19.64%) .NET Core
8 1,520 (18.47%) Node.js
9 1,290 (15.68%) Vue
10 994 (12.08%) .NET Framework
11 981 (11.92%) jQuery
12 961 (11.68%) ASP.NET MVC
13 943 (11.46%) HTML5
14 875 (10.63%) ASP.NET Web API
15 846 (10.28%) Entity Framework
16 844 (10.26%) REST
17 820 (9.97%) RESTful
18 775 (9.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 757 (9.20%) Web Services
20 549 (6.67%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 438 (5.32%) Algorithms
2 421 (5.12%) Data Structures
3 418 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
4 364 (4.42%) Hedge funds
5 357 (4.34%) Fixed Income
6 351 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 315 (3.83%) Derivative
7 315 (3.83%) Equities
8 313 (3.80%) Cloud Native
9 288 (3.50%) Blockchain
10 276 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 256 (3.11%) Product Ownership
12 251 (3.05%) Mobile App
13 164 (1.99%) e-Learning
14 137 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
15 124 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
16 118 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
17 98 (1.19%) IoT
18 85 (1.03%) Onboarding
19 84 (1.02%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 770 (9.36%) Linux
2 520 (6.32%) Windows
3 416 (5.06%) Android
4 333 (4.05%) Apple iOS
5 122 (1.48%) Ubuntu
6 67 (0.81%) CentOS
7 61 (0.74%) Unix
8 48 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 32 (0.39%) Windows Server
10 29 (0.35%) Debian
11 15 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
12 12 (0.15%) Solaris
13 8 (0.097%) VMS
14 6 (0.073%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.049%) AIX
16 3 (0.036%) FreeBSD
16 3 (0.036%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.036%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.036%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.036%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,901 (47.41%) Agile
2 2,820 (34.27%) Full Stack Development
3 2,333 (28.35%) Software Engineering
4 1,803 (21.91%) DevOps
5 1,676 (20.37%) MVC
6 1,403 (17.05%) Web Development
7 1,259 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
8 1,227 (14.91%) Microservices
9 1,000 (12.15%) TDD
10 963 (11.70%) CI/CD
11 947 (11.51%) User Experience
12 869 (10.56%) Artificial Intelligence
13 864 (10.50%) Scrum
14 820 (9.97%) Computer Science
15 750 (9.12%) Front End Development
16 747 (9.08%) OO
17 736 (8.95%) Mentoring
18 674 (8.19%) SDLC
19 643 (7.81%) BDD
20 595 (7.23%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3,555 (43.21%) C#
2 2,250 (27.35%) SQL
3 2,198 (26.71%) TypeScript
4 2,059 (25.02%) Python
5 1,722 (20.93%) Java
6 954 (11.59%) PHP
7 281 (3.42%) T-SQL
8 227 (2.76%) Go
9 188 (2.28%) C++
10 181 (2.20%) Ruby
11 161 (1.96%) PowerShell
12 129 (1.57%) C
13 111 (1.35%) Bash
13 111 (1.35%) VB.NET
14 97 (1.18%) Kotlin
15 86 (1.05%) Perl
16 79 (0.96%) VB
17 54 (0.66%) PL/SQL
18 46 (0.56%) Shell Script
19 42 (0.51%) Lua
Qualifications
1 1,162 (14.12%) Degree
2 808 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 619 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 468 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 110 (1.34%) DV Cleared
6 78 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 70 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 55 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 37 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 22 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 21 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
13 17 (0.21%) PhD
14 13 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.13%) ISTQB
17 10 (0.12%) CCNA
17 10 (0.12%) CCNP
17 10 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (6.10%) QA
2 253 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 93 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 67 (0.81%) WCAG
5 47 (0.57%) GDPR
6 39 (0.47%) SLA
7 29 (0.35%) PMO
8 24 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.22%) WAI
10 13 (0.16%) GRC
11 11 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 10 (0.12%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.061%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.061%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.049%) HL7
15 2 (0.024%) EMIR
15 2 (0.024%) IEC 62304
15 2 (0.024%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.024%) MiFID
System Software
1 816 (9.92%) Docker
2 36 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 23 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.18%) Firmware
6 8 (0.097%) KVM
7 5 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.061%) vSphere
8 4 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.049%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.049%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.049%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.012%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.012%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.012%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.012%) OpenSIPS
9 1 (0.012%) Postfix
9 1 (0.012%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 690 (8.39%) Kubernetes
2 300 (3.65%) Terraform
3 146 (1.77%) Ansible
4 62 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 46 (0.56%) Grafana
6 45 (0.55%) Puppet
7 33 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 30 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 13 (0.16%) Kibana
9 13 (0.16%) SCOM
9 13 (0.16%) WMI
10 11 (0.13%) MIIS
11 10 (0.12%) Rancher
12 6 (0.073%) Argo
12 6 (0.073%) CloudHub
12 6 (0.073%) cPanel
12 6 (0.073%) HP UCMDB
12 6 (0.073%) Istio
12 6 (0.073%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1,525 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 342 (4.16%) ESRI
3 338 (4.11%) Red Hat
4 329 (4.00%) Oracle
5 288 (3.50%) IBM
6 283 (3.44%) Google
7 139 (1.69%) Adobe
8 110 (1.34%) Facebook
9 106 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 71 (0.86%) Salesforce
11 68 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 68 (0.83%) Sitecore
12 62 (0.75%) SAP
13 50 (0.61%) Apple
14 49 (0.60%) HP
15 42 (0.51%) WSO2
16 41 (0.50%) Optimizely
17 36 (0.44%) Sony
17 36 (0.44%) WooCommerce
17 36 (0.44%) Xamarin