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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 666 567 466
Rank change year-on-year -99 -101 -254
Permanent jobs requiring a JavaScript Developer 222 463 1,257
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% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 194 417 884
10th Percentile £39,125 £45,000 £36,900
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 £74,563 £95,000 £80,000
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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £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 20 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 20 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 -111 192 £60,000 -14.29% 76
UK excluding London +22 159 £55,000 -5.98% 49
Work from Home -51 107 £60,000 -14.29% 57
London -95 71 £67,500 -8.78% 40
South East +16 55 £55,000 -5.98% 19
Midlands +16 34 £47,500 -18.80% 13
North of England +30 28 £66,000 +20.00% 14
West Midlands +32 27 £60,000 -2.83% 4
North West 0 22 £66,000 +46.67% 10
Scotland -55 20 £60,000 -14.29%
East of England +16 14 £70,750 -11.56% 2
South West -28 8 £45,000 -18.18%
East Midlands -14 7 £47,500 -5.00% 9
Yorkshire +80 6 £65,000 +8.33% 3

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 222 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 102 (45.95%) React
3 98 (44.14%) Full Stack Development
4 95 (42.79%) TypeScript
5 89 (40.09%) CSS
6 81 (36.49%) HTML
7 79 (35.59%) Node.js
8 70 (31.53%) Azure
9 68 (30.63%) Agile
10 66 (29.73%) C#
11 63 (28.38%) .NET
12 58 (26.13%) AWS
13 54 (24.32%) SQL Server
14 46 (20.72%) AngularJS
14 46 (20.72%) Social Skills
15 43 (19.37%) Web Development
15 43 (19.37%) Vue
16 42 (18.92%) DevOps
17 39 (17.57%) SQL
18 38 (17.12%) Front End Development
19 37 (16.67%) User Experience
20 36 (16.22%) MVC
21 30 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
21 30 (13.51%) ASP.NET
21 30 (13.51%) .NET Framework
22 29 (13.06%) Microsoft
23 27 (12.16%) CI/CD
24 26 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
24 26 (11.71%) Python
25 24 (10.81%) 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 (4.05%) CMS
2 7 (3.15%) WordPress
3 6 (2.70%) Headless CMS
4 4 (1.80%) Apache
4 4 (1.80%) Drupal
4 4 (1.80%) 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 70 (31.53%) Azure
2 58 (26.13%) AWS
3 26 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (8.56%) GitHub
5 16 (7.21%) SaaS
6 8 (3.60%) Serverless
7 6 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.80%) TestFlight
10 3 (1.35%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.90%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (0.90%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.90%) Firebase
11 2 (0.90%) GCP
12 1 (0.45%) Amazon ELB
12 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.45%) Azure App Service
12 1 (0.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.45%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.86%) HTTP
2 4 (1.80%) MQTT
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (24.32%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.46%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.25%) MySQL
5 5 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.35%) 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 23 (10.36%) Git
2 14 (6.31%) webpack
3 12 (5.41%) gulp
4 10 (4.50%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.70%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.25%) Bugzilla
6 5 (2.25%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.25%) JIRA
6 5 (2.25%) Zephyr
7 4 (1.80%) Grunt
7 4 (1.80%) 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 46 (20.72%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.81%) Finance
3 19 (8.56%) Marketing
4 11 (4.95%) Legal
4 11 (4.95%) Retail
5 10 (4.50%) Manufacturing
6 9 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.60%) Banking
7 8 (3.60%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.15%) Games
8 7 (3.15%) Multimedia
8 7 (3.15%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.25%) Law
10 4 (1.80%) Electronics
10 4 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.90%) Automotive
12 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (45.95%) React
2 89 (40.09%) CSS
3 81 (36.49%) HTML
4 79 (35.59%) Node.js
5 63 (28.38%) .NET
6 46 (20.72%) AngularJS
7 43 (19.37%) Vue
8 30 (13.51%) .NET Framework
8 30 (13.51%) ASP.NET
9 23 (10.36%) ASP.NET Web API
10 19 (8.56%) Entity Framework
11 16 (7.21%) WebGL
12 15 (6.76%) Web Services
13 14 (6.31%) Laravel
13 14 (6.31%) RESTful
14 13 (5.86%) ASP.NET MVC
14 13 (5.86%) HTML5
15 12 (5.41%) GraphQL
16 11 (4.95%) .NET Core
16 11 (4.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.11%) Client/Server
2 15 (6.76%) Data Structures
3 14 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.95%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.05%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.15%) Augmented Reality
6 7 (3.15%) IoT
6 7 (3.15%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.15%) Virtual Reality
7 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.80%) Arduino
8 4 (1.80%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (1.80%) Online Gambling
8 4 (1.80%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (1.35%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.35%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.45%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.05%) Windows
2 7 (3.15%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.70%) Linux
4 5 (2.25%) Android
5 3 (1.35%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (44.14%) Full Stack Development
2 68 (30.63%) Agile
3 43 (19.37%) Web Development
4 42 (18.92%) DevOps
5 38 (17.12%) Front End Development
6 37 (16.67%) User Experience
7 36 (16.22%) MVC
8 30 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (12.16%) CI/CD
10 23 (10.36%) TDD
10 23 (10.36%) UX Design
11 21 (9.46%) Artificial Intelligence
12 19 (8.56%) Microservices
12 19 (8.56%) Scrum
13 18 (8.11%) Machine Learning
13 18 (8.11%) Software Testing
14 16 (7.21%) E-Commerce
14 16 (7.21%) Kanban
14 16 (7.21%) Software Engineering
15 15 (6.76%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 222 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 95 (42.79%) TypeScript
3 66 (29.73%) C#
4 39 (17.57%) SQL
5 26 (11.71%) Python
6 23 (10.36%) Java
7 20 (9.01%) PHP
8 7 (3.15%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.80%) Objective-C
9 4 (1.80%) Swift
9 4 (1.80%) VBScript
10 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.45%) Go
11 1 (0.45%) Rust
11 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (8.56%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.66%) CTC Cleared
3 13 (5.86%) Degree
4 11 (4.95%) 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 (6.31%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (6.76%) Docker
2 4 (1.80%) Firmware
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.25%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (1.80%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (13.06%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.41%) Oracle
3 11 (4.95%) OpenAI
4 5 (2.25%) HP
5 4 (1.80%) NVIDIA
5 4 (1.80%) SAP
5 4 (1.80%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.90%) Google
7 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.45%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.45%) YouTube