The first part of the table below looks at the demand for JavaScript skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JavaScript over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

JavaScript
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank121419
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Up+5
Matching permanent IT job ads16495131198370
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK13.68 %10.70 %8.767 %
As % of the Programming Languages category25.50 %20.38 %17.21 %
Number of salaries quoted14991118877382
Average salary£37,500£36,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73 %+4.28 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£52,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.94 %+4.61 %
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
646836438048632
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK53.64 %52.50 %50.94 %
Number of salaries quoted569875583141348
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,700£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

JavaScript
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing JavaScript within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

JavaScript Demand Trend

JavaScript
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing JavaScript within the UK.

JavaScript Salary Trend

JavaScript
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing JavaScript over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

JavaScript Salary Histogram

JavaScript
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+315834£37,500+1.35 %
LondonUp+97460£43,000+1.17 %
South EastNo change03183£37,500+7.14 %
City of LondonUp+121420£45,000+5.88 %
East of EnglandUp+51319£37,500+7.14 %
North WestUp+31162£32,500+8.33 %
SurreyUp+4828£40,000+6.66 %
South WestUp+3786£30,500-6.15 %
YorkshireNo change0760£32,500+8.33 %
BerkshireDown-4711£40,000+14.28 %
West MidlandsDown-1636£35,000+2.94 %
ManchesterUp+5562£32,500+8.33 %
West YorkshireUp+3504£32,500+8.33 %
HampshireNo change0484£35,000-
East MidlandsDown-1453£31,500+1.61 %
CambridgeshireNo change0441£37,500+15.38 %
HertfordshireUp+11369£37,500-6.25 %
LeedsUp+4357£32,500+5.69 %
CambridgeNo change0327£35,000+7.69 %
ScotlandUp+2320£34,500-1.42 %
CheshireDown-1302£32,500-
ReadingNo change0294£40,000+14.28 %
East SussexUp+5279£32,500-7.14 %
BuckinghamshireDown-4271£35,000-
BristolUp+7255£30,000-2.43 %
BrightonUp+6246£32,500-7.14 %
EssexUp+2239£35,000-
OxfordshireDown-3223£35,000-
West SussexUp+2214£34,000-2.85 %
BirminghamUp+2208£35,000+16.66 %

JavaScript
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing JavaScript also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited JavaScript.

121810 (70.31 %)CSS
221021 (67.77 %)HTML
313049 (42.07 %).NET
411556 (37.25 %)jQuery
511235 (36.22 %)C#
610120 (32.62 %)ASP.NET
79974 (32.15 %)SQL
89502 (30.63 %)XML
99382 (30.25 %)SQL Server
108792 (28.34 %)Ajax
118144 (26.25 %)PHP
127745 (24.97 %)Java
136311 (20.34 %)MVC
146057 (19.53 %)MySQL
155663 (18.26 %)OO
165223 (16.84 %)Web Services
175159 (16.63 %)Web Development
185000 (16.12 %)XHTML
194962 (16.00 %)HTML5
204718 (15.21 %)Degree
214499 (14.50 %)Agile Software Development
224454 (14.36 %)Linux
233882 (12.51 %)E-Commerce
243813 (12.29 %)Microsoft
253657 (11.79 %)Finance
263352 (10.81 %)TDD
273184 (10.26 %)Windows
283155 (10.17 %)Subversion
293012 (9.710 %)XSLT
302963 (9.552 %)Oracle

JavaScript
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing JavaScript also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited JavaScript. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
121810 (70.31 %)CSS
221021 (67.77 %)HTML
313049 (42.07 %).NET
411556 (37.25 %)jQuery
510120 (32.62 %)ASP.NET
69502 (30.63 %)XML
78792 (28.34 %)Ajax
85223 (16.84 %)Web Services
95000 (16.12 %)XHTML
104962 (16.00 %)HTML5
113012 (9.710 %)XSLT
122544 (8.201 %)Spring
132527 (8.146 %)CSS3
142406 (7.756 %)WCF
152309 (7.444 %)J2EE
162281 (7.353 %)ASP.NET MVC
172221 (7.160 %)JSP
182069 (6.670 %)Flash
192059 (6.638 %).NET Framework
201866 (6.015 %)Hibernate
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12800 (9.026 %)CMS
22665 (8.591 %)Apache
31709 (5.509 %)SharePoint
41602 (5.164 %)IIS
51201 (3.872 %)Tomcat
61146 (3.694 %)Drupal
7804 (2.592 %)WordPress
8535 (1.725 %)Umbraco
9515 (1.660 %)SharePoint 2010
9515 (1.660 %)WebLogic
10492 (1.586 %)Magento
11417 (1.344 %)Joomla!
12363 (1.170 %)SharePoint Server
13248 (0.799 %)ColdFusion
14228 (0.735 %)WebSphere Application Server
15209 (0.674 %)BizTalk Server
16206 (0.664 %)Sitecore CMS
17174 (0.561 %)Apache Solr
18165 (0.532 %)GlassFish
19148 (0.477 %)Amazon EC2
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12019 (6.509 %)Photoshop
21612 (5.197 %)MS Excel
3629 (2.028 %)Adobe Illustrator
4556 (1.792 %)MS Visio
5511 (1.647 %)MS Office
6375 (1.209 %)Fireworks
7115 (0.371 %)InfoPath
8108 (0.348 %)MS PowerPoint
996 (0.309 %)MS Project
1077 (0.248 %)InDesign
1153 (0.171 %)Google Apps
1244 (0.142 %)OmniGraffle
1331 (0.100 %)Acrobat
1426 (0.084 %)Spreadsheet
1525 (0.081 %)MATLAB
1622 (0.071 %)Adobe Premiere
1720 (0.064 %)Adobe After Effects
1817 (0.055 %)GIMP
1913 (0.042 %)XMetaL
2012 (0.039 %)RoboHelp
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1260 (0.838 %)Google Analytics
2254 (0.819 %)Dynamics CRM
396 (0.309 %)SiteCatalyst
490 (0.290 %)WebTrends
542 (0.135 %)Oracle BPM
624 (0.077 %)Optimost
720 (0.064 %)Oracle Applications
720 (0.064 %)Tridion
812 (0.039 %)Dynamics NAV
812 (0.039 %)Summit
99 (0.029 %)BusinessWorks
99 (0.029 %)SAP R/3
99 (0.029 %)Remedy ITSM
108 (0.026 %)Movex
108 (0.026 %)Oracle CRM
117 (0.023 %)Oracle ERP
117 (0.023 %)Aligne
126 (0.019 %)SAP HR
126 (0.019 %)Visualfiles
126 (0.019 %)Dynamics AX
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11975 (6.367 %)Internet
2930 (2.998 %)HTTP
3669 (2.157 %)Intranet
4321 (1.035 %)TCP/IP
5297 (0.957 %)DNS
6190 (0.613 %)Firewall
7174 (0.561 %)Extranet
8172 (0.554 %)FTP
9169 (0.545 %)SSL
10109 (0.351 %)SMTP
11103 (0.332 %)LDAP
1279 (0.255 %)Broadband
1371 (0.229 %)SSH
1463 (0.203 %)LAN
1558 (0.187 %)VoIP
1558 (0.187 %)HTTPS
1653 (0.171 %)WAN
1749 (0.158 %)Wireless
1843 (0.139 %)DHCP
1939 (0.126 %)SMS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
19382 (30.25 %)SQL Server
26057 (19.53 %)MySQL
32620 (8.446 %)SQL Server 2008
42241 (7.224 %)SQL Server 2005
5853 (2.750 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6630 (2.031 %)SQL Server Integration Services
7537 (1.731 %)RDBMS
8488 (1.573 %)PostgreSQL
9353 (1.138 %)SQL Server 2000
10268 (0.864 %)NoSQL
11248 (0.799 %)Data Warehouse
11248 (0.799 %)Crystal Reports
12224 (0.722 %)Oracle 8/8i
13216 (0.696 %)MongoDB
14213 (0.687 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
15210 (0.677 %)DB2
16196 (0.632 %)Oracle 11g
17168 (0.542 %)Oracle 10g
18160 (0.516 %)Data Mining
18160 (0.516 %)Hadoop
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13155 (10.17 %)Subversion
22691 (8.675 %)Visual Studio
31261 (4.065 %)Git (software)
41064 (3.430 %)Team Foundation Server
5985 (3.175 %)JUnit
6855 (2.756 %)Eclipse
7759 (2.447 %)Ant
8744 (2.398 %)Maven
9725 (2.337 %)Selenium
10656 (2.115 %)NUnit
11499 (1.609 %)Dreamweaver
12365 (1.177 %)JIRA
13361 (1.164 %)VSS/SourceSafe
14288 (0.928 %)Rhino Mocks
15259 (0.835 %)Cucumber
16246 (0.793 %)Mercurial
17225 (0.725 %)TeamCity
18209 (0.674 %)PHPUnit
19203 (0.654 %)Hudson
20177 (0.571 %)MSBuild
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13657 (11.79 %)Finance
22136 (6.886 %)Marketing
31198 (3.862 %)Retail
41018 (3.282 %)Games
5817 (2.634 %)Advertising
6634 (2.044 %)Publishing
7552 (1.779 %)Banking
8477 (1.538 %)Telecoms
9272 (0.877 %)Back Office
10242 (0.780 %)Law
11218 (0.703 %)Multimedia
12204 (0.658 %)Music
13169 (0.545 %)Legal
14157 (0.506 %)Automotive
15149 (0.480 %)Investment Banking
16133 (0.429 %)Manufacturing
1788 (0.284 %)Electronics
1887 (0.280 %)Pharmaceutical
1978 (0.251 %)Front Office
2074 (0.239 %)Financial Institution
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
125116 (80.97 %)Developer
26698 (21.59 %)Web Developer
35872 (18.93 %).NET Developer
43631 (11.71 %)Senior Developer
53618 (11.66 %)PHP Developer
63231 (10.42 %)C# Developer
72955 (9.526 %)Java Developer
82622 (8.453 %)C# .NET Developer
92576 (8.304 %)ASP.NET Developer
102251 (7.257 %)Front-End Developer
111807 (5.825 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
121785 (5.754 %)Software Developer
131170 (3.772 %)Analyst
141120 (3.611 %)Junior
151027 (3.311 %)Junior Developer
161017 (3.279 %)Designer
17987 (3.182 %).NET Web Developer
18921 (2.969 %)Senior .NET Developer
19910 (2.934 %)Software Engineer
20887 (2.859 %)JavaScript Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12296 (7.402 %)Computer Science
21431 (4.613 %)Open Source
31100 (3.546 %)Social Media
41023 (3.298 %)W3C
5865 (2.789 %)iPhone
6856 (2.760 %)Digital Media
7575 (1.854 %)N-Tier
8532 (1.715 %)SaaS
9502 (1.618 %)Mathematics
10468 (1.509 %)Web 2.0
11448 (1.444 %)Blackberry
12433 (1.396 %)Social Network
13415 (1.338 %)iPad
14340 (1.096 %)Online Games
15275 (0.887 %)Management Information System
16247 (0.796 %)Graphic Design
17236 (0.761 %)RIA
18230 (0.741 %)Visualisation
19219 (0.706 %)Client/Server
20206 (0.664 %)New Media
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14454 (14.36 %)Linux
23184 (10.26 %)Windows
32010 (6.480 %)UNIX
41468 (4.732 %)Android
51004 (3.237 %)Apple iOS
6359 (1.157 %)Windows Server 2003
7292 (0.941 %)Windows Server 2008
8239 (0.770 %)Solaris
9226 (0.729 %)Windows Mobile
10140 (0.451 %)Debian
11131 (0.422 %)Mac OS X
12105 (0.338 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13101 (0.326 %)Ubuntu
1497 (0.313 %)Windows XP
1583 (0.268 %)Windows Phone 7
1671 (0.229 %)CentOS
1764 (0.206 %)Windows 7
1841 (0.132 %)Mac OS
1934 (0.110 %)BlackBerry OS
2032 (0.103 %)Windows 2000
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16311 (20.34 %)MVC
25663 (18.26 %)OO
35159 (16.63 %)Web Development
44499 (14.50 %)Agile Software Development
53882 (12.51 %)E-Commerce
63352 (10.81 %)TDD
72925 (9.429 %)Scrum
82182 (7.034 %)OOP
91763 (5.683 %)Content Management
101629 (5.251 %)Unit Testing
111587 (5.116 %)SEO
121078 (3.475 %)Continuous Integration
131076 (3.469 %)Project Management
141055 (3.401 %)Web Design
151001 (3.227 %)UML
16891 (2.872 %)CRM
17869 (2.801 %)Web Application Development
18848 (2.734 %)Software Engineering
19831 (2.679 %)BDD
20767 (2.473 %)SOA
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
111235 (36.22 %)C#
29974 (32.15 %)SQL
38144 (26.25 %)PHP
47745 (24.97 %)Java
52796 (9.014 %)VB.NET
62116 (6.821 %)T-SQL
71801 (5.806 %)PHP5
81670 (5.384 %)Python
91513 (4.877 %)C++
101445 (4.658 %)Ruby
111361 (4.387 %)Perl
121179 (3.801 %)VB
131050 (3.385 %)ActionScript
14962 (3.101 %)C
15779 (2.511 %)PL/SQL
16532 (1.715 %)XPath
17500 (1.612 %)VBScript
18451 (1.454 %)Shell Script
19444 (1.431 %)Objective-C
20366 (1.180 %)ActionScript 3.0
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14718 (15.21 %)Degree
2635 (2.047 %)Microsoft Certification
3310 (0.999 %)MCP
4287 (0.925 %)Security Cleared
5286 (0.922 %)MCTS
6255 (0.822 %)MCSD
7238 (0.767 %)MCAD
8157 (0.506 %)SC Cleared
9109 (0.351 %)ISEB
1076 (0.245 %)PhD
1076 (0.245 %)MCPD
1173 (0.235 %)ITIL Certification
1268 (0.219 %)HND
1351 (0.164 %)Sun Certification
1439 (0.126 %)MCSE
1537 (0.119 %)Postgraduate
1633 (0.106 %)ISTQB
1730 (0.097 %)MCITP
1730 (0.097 %)DV Cleared
1820 (0.064 %)PMI Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11180 (3.804 %)QA
2189 (0.609 %)SLA
3171 (0.551 %)WAI
4168 (0.542 %)WCAG
5114 (0.368 %)ISO 9001
634 (0.110 %)PCI DSS
731 (0.100 %)PAS 78
88 (0.026 %)Data Quality
97 (0.023 %)ISO/IEC 27001
105 (0.016 %)ISO 9000
114 (0.013 %)HL7
123 (0.010 %)COBIT
123 (0.010 %)Dublin Core
123 (0.010 %)ISO 8583
132 (0.006 %)21 CFR Part 11
141 (0.003 %)TickIT
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1258 (0.832 %)Active Directory
2100 (0.322 %)VMware Infrastructure
335 (0.113 %)Varnish
417 (0.055 %)Xen
516 (0.052 %)Hyper-V
614 (0.045 %)Sendmail
614 (0.045 %)vSphere
614 (0.045 %)NFS
713 (0.042 %)Postfix
812 (0.039 %)XenApp
812 (0.039 %)UAG
911 (0.035 %)VMware ESX
1010 (0.032 %)XenDesktop
119 (0.029 %)ISA Server
127 (0.023 %)Terminal Server
135 (0.016 %)Oracle RAC
144 (0.013 %)VMware Workstation
144 (0.013 %)Squid
153 (0.010 %)Veritas Cluster Server
153 (0.010 %)OpenSSO
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
171 (0.229 %)Puppet
238 (0.123 %)HP Quality Center
329 (0.093 %)SCCM
329 (0.093 %)Nagios
427 (0.087 %)Plesk
510 (0.032 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
69 (0.029 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
69 (0.029 %)CA SiteMinder
69 (0.029 %)MOM
69 (0.029 %)ServiceCenter
77 (0.023 %)Norton AntiVirus
77 (0.023 %)Backup Exec
77 (0.023 %)WSUS
85 (0.016 %)Oracle Identity Management
85 (0.016 %)OpenView Configuration Management
85 (0.016 %)BMC PATROL
94 (0.013 %)NetBackup
94 (0.013 %)WMI
103 (0.010 %)Oracle Identity Manager
103 (0.010 %)Unicenter
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13813 (12.29 %)Microsoft
22963 (9.552 %)Oracle
31597 (5.148 %)Zend
4997 (3.214 %)Adobe
5870 (2.805 %)Google
6846 (2.727 %)JBoss
7825 (2.660 %)Facebook
8302 (0.974 %)IBM
9297 (0.957 %)Twitter
10295 (0.951 %)Sitecore
11278 (0.896 %)ATG
12265 (0.854 %)Salesforce.com
13225 (0.725 %)Symbian
14195 (0.629 %)SAP
15179 (0.577 %)Apple
16159 (0.513 %)Omniture
17156 (0.503 %)EPiServer
18151 (0.487 %)Red Hat
19137 (0.442 %)Telerik
20136 (0.438 %)VMware