JavaScript Job Trends in Cheshire

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring JavaScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 24 25
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -15
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 104 65 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.13% 5.74% 7.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.01% 21.38% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18 46 33
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £32,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £45,096 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -30.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £52,250 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,225 £62,500 £83,510
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 281 304 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 38.18% 26.86% 36.28%
Number of salaries quoted 98 200 147
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £62,406 £59,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £83,872
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Cheshire

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Cheshire

JavaScript
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 September 2025. 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
Crewe - 12 £52,500 -
Warrington +1 11 £70,000 +55.22% 13
Chester +6 5 £73,750 +73.53% 7
Knutsford +5 5 £57,500 -
Runcorn +6 3 - -
Wilmslow +1 3 - - 1
Macclesfield -1 3 - - 4
Northwich -7 3 - -
Widnes - 3 - -
Ellesmere Port - 3 - -
Congleton - 2 - -
Middlewich - 2 - -
Sandbach - 2 - -
Winsford +4 1 - -
Neston - 1 - - 1
JavaScript
North West

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 22 (21.15%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 90 (86.54%) AWS
2 79 (75.96%) Azure
3 41 (39.42%) GCP
4 2 (1.92%) SaaS
5 1 (0.96%) Azure App Service
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (54.81%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.65%) MySQL
3 8 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.92%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.96%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.96%) Redis
5 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.96%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 60 (57.69%) GitLab
2 56 (53.85%) Bitbucket
2 56 (53.85%) Cucumber
2 56 (53.85%) JIRA
2 56 (53.85%) Maven
2 56 (53.85%) Selenium
2 56 (53.85%) SonarQube
2 56 (53.85%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (4.81%) Git
4 3 (2.88%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.92%) Babel
5 2 (1.92%) webpack
6 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.96%) JUnit
6 1 (0.96%) Mockito
General
1 75 (72.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 58 (55.77%) Finance
3 56 (53.85%) Banking
4 36 (34.62%) Retail
5 34 (32.69%) Corporate Banking
5 34 (32.69%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.92%) Games
6 2 (1.92%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Cantonese Language
7 1 (0.96%) Legal
7 1 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 77 (74.04%) Software Engineer
2 24 (23.08%) Senior
3 21 (20.19%) Senior Software Engineer
4 19 (18.27%) Developer
5 9 (8.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (7.69%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 8 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (3.85%) AWS Developer
7 4 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (3.85%) Node.js Developer
8 3 (2.88%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (2.88%) Java Developer
8 3 (2.88%) React Developer
9 2 (1.92%) Lead
9 2 (1.92%) QA Engineer
9 2 (1.92%) Senior Developer
10 1 (0.96%) Blazor Developer
10 1 (0.96%) Senior C# Developer
10 1 (0.96%) Senior React Developer
10 1 (0.96%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (63.46%) HTML
1 66 (63.46%) React
2 65 (62.50%) CSS
3 59 (56.73%) Redux
4 58 (55.77%) Spring Boot
5 57 (54.81%) Spring
6 56 (53.85%) JPA
7 55 (52.88%) Kafka
8 38 (36.54%) RESTful
9 37 (35.58%) CSS3
9 37 (35.58%) HTML5
10 36 (34.62%) Jest
10 36 (34.62%) REST
11 34 (32.69%) Sass
12 29 (27.88%) Node.js
13 24 (23.08%) .NET
14 22 (21.15%) Hibernate
15 8 (7.69%) Middleware
15 8 (7.69%) Svelte
16 4 (3.85%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 55 (52.88%) Enterprise Software
1 55 (52.88%) Product Ownership
2 20 (19.23%) Cyberattack
2 20 (19.23%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (19.23%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.96%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.96%) Blog
4 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.96%) Online Banking
4 1 (0.96%) PKI
4 1 (0.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.19%) Linux
2 2 (1.92%) Android
3 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (83.65%) Agile
2 78 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 77 (74.04%) Microservices
4 70 (67.31%) Full-Stack Development
5 66 (63.46%) Front End Development
6 65 (62.50%) User Experience
7 62 (59.62%) CI/CD
8 57 (54.81%) DevOps
9 56 (53.85%) Containerisation
9 56 (53.85%) SDLC
9 56 (53.85%) Test Automation
10 55 (52.88%) Mentoring
10 55 (52.88%) Performance Optimisation
11 35 (33.65%) Responsive Web Design
11 35 (33.65%) Strategic Thinking
12 34 (32.69%) Migration
13 26 (25.00%) Clean Code
13 26 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (21.15%) Machine Learning
14 22 (21.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 82 (78.85%) Java
2 60 (57.69%) SQL
3 46 (44.23%) TypeScript
4 23 (22.12%) Python
5 22 (21.15%) C++
6 21 (20.19%) Rust
7 20 (19.23%) Go
8 6 (5.77%) C#
9 2 (1.92%) PHP
9 2 (1.92%) R
10 1 (0.96%) C
10 1 (0.96%) Dart
10 1 (0.96%) Julia
10 1 (0.96%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.96%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.96%) Ruby
10 1 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (19.23%) AWS Certification
1 20 (19.23%) AWS Certified Developer
1 20 (19.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 20 (19.23%) DV Cleared
1 20 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.85%) Degree
3 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (54.81%) QA
2 36 (34.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 62 (59.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.96%) Grafana
2 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (52.88%) Solace
2 1 (0.96%) ForgeRock
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.96%) Oracle
2 1 (0.96%) Veracode