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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 7 3 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 5.88% 1.58% 9.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.58% 4.35% 25.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 13
10th Percentile £47,600 £38,250 £48,000
25th Percentile £49,625 £39,375 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £42,500 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year +44.12% -43.83% +49.17%
75th Percentile £81,875 £45,625 £82,548
90th Percentile £94,250 £46,750 £83,754
Cheshire median annual salary £60,000 £45,048 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.19% -30.70% +30.00%

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 31 69 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 26.05% 36.32% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16 48 39
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £31,050
25th Percentile £49,625 £40,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £71,875 £65,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £75,500 £74,340 £82,548
Cheshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +22.22%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript 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 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Chester

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Neo4j
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
1 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
1 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
1 3 (42.86%) Maven
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
1 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
1 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (28.57%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) React
1 6 (85.71%) Redux
2 5 (71.43%) CSS
2 5 (71.43%) HTML
2 5 (71.43%) Jest
3 4 (57.14%) CSS3
3 4 (57.14%) HTML5
4 3 (42.86%) JPA
4 3 (42.86%) Kafka
4 3 (42.86%) RESTful
4 3 (42.86%) Spring
4 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
5 2 (28.57%) Playwright
5 2 (28.57%) REST
5 2 (28.57%) Sass
6 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
6 1 (14.29%) NLTK
6 1 (14.29%) Regular Expression
6 1 (14.29%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (28.57%) Online Banking
4 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
4 1 (14.29%) Blog
4 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Front End Development
3 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (57.14%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (28.57%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) User Experience
6 1 (14.29%) Data Science
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Julia
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Solace
2 1 (14.29%) Google