Explore the UK JavaScript Talent Market with Our H1 2025 Report
This report highlights hiring trends, in-demand frameworks, and emerging opportunities across JavaScript and its wider ecosystem, including React, Angular, Node.js, and TypeScript.
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JavaScript H1 2025 Talent Report
Holly Timings-Thompson
22nd Jul 2025
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Key Highlights
- Market Trends: The JavaScript market continues to grow post-2023, with TypeScript leading language growth at +22%, driven by adoption in start-ups and modern stacks. React, Angular, and Node.js remain essential in hiring plans, especially across fintech and product-led scale-ups.
- Emerging Skills: Engineers skilled in React, TypeScript, and Node.js are in high demand, especially those experienced with modern tooling and scalable front-to-backend architectures. Start-ups using full-stack TypeScript are creating fresh demand for flexible engineers.
- Hiring Challenges: While employee mobility remains lower post-layoffs, consultancies like BJSS and IBM are losing talent to more agile product teams. Start-ups and scale-ups—like Kraken, Omnea, and Runna, are emerging as top destinations for React and TypeScript engineers.
- Consultant Insights: Median tenure is rising as engineers prioritise stability. Banks remain active hirers, but the startup scene continues to drive innovation and job creation, especially with recent acquisitions and funding momentum.
- Future Outlook: With continued interest in AI and full-stack JavaScript, new tools like Next.js and growing languages like Go and Python may shift backend preferences, but JavaScript’s role at the heart of web development remains strong heading into H2 2025.