JavaScript Job Trends in Chester

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chester requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 6 3 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 4.20% 1.95% 11.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.22% 5.66% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £48,050 £38,250 £49,726
25th Percentile £50,750 £39,375 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -43.83% +49.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £45,625 £82,548
90th Percentile £91,500 £46,750 £83,754
Cheshire median annual salary £58,750 £45,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +30.56% -31.14% +30.70%

All Programming Languages
Chester

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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27 53 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 18.88% 34.42% 41.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15 35 34
10th Percentile £44,000 £37,500 £39,014
25th Percentile £50,375 £40,000 £43,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.31% +44.59%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,600 £80,000 £82,548
Cheshire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +27.78%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Chester

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Chester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Chester over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Chester

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Neo4j
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) React
2 4 (66.67%) Jest
2 4 (66.67%) Redux
3 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 3 (50.00%) CSS3
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) Playwright
4 2 (33.33%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
5 1 (16.67%) Keras
5 1 (16.67%) Next.js
5 1 (16.67%) NLTK
5 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
5 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
5 1 (16.67%) Seaborn
5 1 (16.67%) SpaCy
5 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (16.67%) Streamlit
5 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Online Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) Blog
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) Case Management
5 1 (16.67%) Decision Tree
5 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Data Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) OCR
5 1 (16.67%) Pattern Matching
5 1 (16.67%) People Management
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Julia
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Solace