TypeScript on your resume: show what types changed

The direct answer

Yes, list TypeScript if you can say what types actually did for the codebase you worked in. TypeScript appears on 2.74% of the 72,068 resumes RezScore analyzed from November 15, 2025 through July 15, 2026, ranking #43 among 89 reviewed technology skills. That share reflects mentions in this sample. It is not a measure of how well anyone writes it.

The weak version of this line just repeats JavaScript under another label. The strong version names a consequence: a migration you ran, contracts you defined, or a class of bug that stopped happening. That is the difference a reviewer is scanning for.

How to present TypeScript on your resume

Give the skills section context

In your skills section, put TypeScript beside the runtime or framework where you use it, such as TypeScript (React, Node.js). If your resume already lists JavaScript, TypeScript needs to add information rather than repeat it. Mention advanced ground like generics or type-level utilities only if you would enjoy the follow-up question.

Prove it in your experience

Then let one experience bullet show what type safety bought. Fill in this pattern with your own work:

Migrated [codebase or module] to TypeScript, [effect on defects, refactoring, or contracts].

That shape reports an effect rather than a preference, which is what makes the claim checkable. With no clean defect number, describe the change concretely, such as typed API responses so consumers stopped guessing at fields. Never attach a bug-reduction percentage you cannot source.

Use verbs that show the work

Migrated, typed, defined, and refactored point to real decisions. Comfortable with TypeScript points to nothing. Defined shared types across a front-end and its API so contract changes failed at build time says you understood why the tool exists.

Be honest about thin experience

If your TypeScript amounts to a project scaffolded with a TypeScript template that you mostly wrote as JavaScript, be honest about it. Working in a typed codebase is a fair claim. Do not claim type-system depth unless you can explain the generics or utilities you used.

Leave TypeScript off if your entire experience is that a file ended in .ts and you reached for any whenever the compiler complained. Silencing the type checker is not using the type system. If JavaScript is the true claim, make JavaScript the claim and make it well.

Skills that appear with TypeScript

TypeScript rarely appears alone. In this sample, the skills most often found on the same resumes were:

• JavaScript appears on 88.5% of the resumes in this sample that mention TypeScript (1747 resumes).
• Git appears on 82.9% of the resumes in this sample that mention TypeScript (1636 resumes).
• React appears on 75.8% of the resumes in this sample that mention TypeScript (1496 resumes).

If you use these with TypeScript, keep them together so the reader sees one working stack. TypeScript next to the framework you shipped with reads as an engineer's toolkit. TypeScript sitting apart from JavaScript reads as two keywords chasing the same filter.

Questions people ask about TypeScript on a resume

Should I list both JavaScript and TypeScript on my resume?

Yes, when both are true. They are related but distinct claims. Make sure the TypeScript line adds something, such as a migration or typed contracts, rather than repeating the JavaScript entry.

How many resumes list TypeScript?

TypeScript appears on 2.74% of the 72,068 resumes RezScore analyzed from November 15, 2025 through July 15, 2026. That is 1,974 resumes and a #43 rank among the 89 reviewed technology skills in this analysis. The figure counts mentions, not proficiency.

Does TypeScript in a personal project count?

Yes, if you label it as a personal project and used TypeScript on purpose. A side project where you defined real types and caught real mistakes is honest evidence. Say what the types did for the project rather than just naming the language.

Where should TypeScript go on my resume?

Use two places. Your skills section gets TypeScript with its context, such as TypeScript (React, Node.js), for scanners and keyword filters. One experience bullet gets the proof: what you migrated or typed and what that changed for the team.