JavaScript Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 25 20
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 +19
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 45 54 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.33% 7.52% 6.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.22% 23.48% 20.41%
Number of salaries quoted 37 44 58
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £39,375
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £46,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.54% -28.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,750 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -3.93%

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire

JavaScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 401 230 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 20.80% 32.03% 33.05%
Number of salaries quoted 343 185 266
10th Percentile £41,225 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £84,375
90th Percentile £89,500 £72,000 £86,250
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Cambridgeshire

JavaScript
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. 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
Peterborough 0 24 £65,000 +62.50% 3
Cambridge -28 21 £73,250 +46.50% 35
JavaScript
East of England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) CMS
2 2 (4.44%) Drupal
2 2 (4.44%) WordPress
3 1 (2.22%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) AWS
2 11 (24.44%) Azure
3 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.33%) GitHub
3 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.89%) SaaS
5 2 (4.44%) ChatGPT
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) Google Gemini
5 2 (4.44%) Google Sheets
5 2 (4.44%) Google Workspace
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.22%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) SNMP
2 3 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) MySQL
2 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.44%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.22%) Claude Code
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Poetry
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Aviation
2 6 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.67%) Multimedia
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Developer
1 15 (33.33%) Lead
2 14 (31.11%) Software Engineer
3 12 (26.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Engineering Manager
4 6 (13.33%) Senior
4 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering Manager
4 6 (13.33%) Software Manager
4 6 (13.33%) Software Test Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Junior
5 5 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.89%) JavaScript Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Junior Software Test Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Lead Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (51.11%) HTML
2 17 (37.78%) CSS
3 16 (35.56%) React
4 9 (20.00%) Node.js
5 7 (15.56%) Web Services
6 6 (13.33%) .NET
6 6 (13.33%) ASP.NET
6 6 (13.33%) REST
7 5 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (4.44%) Django
8 2 (4.44%) PyTorch
8 2 (4.44%) Vue
9 1 (2.22%) Anaconda
9 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
9 1 (2.22%) Laravel
9 1 (2.22%) NumPy
9 1 (2.22%) RESTful
9 1 (2.22%) Spring MVC
9 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
9 1 (2.22%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) e-Learning
1 7 (15.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.44%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Windows
3 5 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.22%) Android
4 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) Agile
2 23 (51.11%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (51.11%) Software Engineering
3 18 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (35.56%) Web Development
5 12 (26.67%) Scrum
6 11 (24.44%) AI
7 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 10 (22.22%) Mentoring
8 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (17.78%) User Experience
9 7 (15.56%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (15.56%) Kanban
9 7 (15.56%) OO
9 7 (15.56%) Product Vision
9 7 (15.56%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (15.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (15.56%) Scrum-ban
9 7 (15.56%) Test Strategy
9 7 (15.56%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 23 (51.11%) Python
2 19 (42.22%) TypeScript
3 9 (20.00%) C++
3 9 (20.00%) SQL
4 8 (17.78%) Java
5 6 (13.33%) C
5 6 (13.33%) C#
6 5 (11.11%) Ruby
7 3 (6.67%) PHP
8 2 (4.44%) R
9 1 (2.22%) Haskell
9 1 (2.22%) OCaml
9 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Degree
2 7 (15.56%) DBS Check
3 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.22%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Google
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle