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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 4 4 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 2.78% 6.45% 8.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.22% 15.38% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile £52,775 £30,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,813 £35,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £41,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -36.54% -
75th Percentile £81,875 £43,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,250 £43,450 £84,056
Cheshire median annual salary £65,000 £37,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +73.33% -42.31% +26.21%

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 18 26 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 12.50% 41.94% 43.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 52
10th Percentile £44,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -10.53% +35.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,800 £60,000 £72,433
Cheshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +7.53%

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 27 January 2026.

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 (75.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Jest
2 3 (75.00%) Redux
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) Playwright
4 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (25.00%) Next.js
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Online Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) People Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) Java
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google