JavaScript Job Trends in the East Midlands

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 27 14
Rank change year-on-year -42 -13 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 79 138 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.97% 6.55% 9.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.63% 23.27% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 78 86 222
10th Percentile £33,375 £38,500 £35,688
25th Percentile £41,750 £44,375 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,438 £65,938
90th Percentile £75,750 £75,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,261 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.45% +10.44% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 448 593 904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.83% 28.13% 34.13%
Number of salaries quoted 360 360 786
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,625 £71,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

JavaScript
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the East Midlands

JavaScript
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
Northamptonshire +8 39 £55,000 +15.79% 20
Nottinghamshire -19 18 £65,000 - 20
Derbyshire -16 9 £45,000 -5.26% 17
Lincolnshire -12 8 £40,000 - 11
Leicestershire -23 5 £60,000 +14.83% 16
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (5.06%) CMS
2 3 (3.80%) Apache
2 3 (3.80%) IIS
2 3 (3.80%) WordPress
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 43 (54.43%) AWS
2 26 (32.91%) Azure
3 19 (24.05%) Amazon S3
3 19 (24.05%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (24.05%) Serverless
4 7 (8.86%) GitHub
5 4 (5.06%) SaaS
6 3 (3.80%) ChatGPT
7 2 (2.53%) Figma
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.27%) GCP
8 1 (1.27%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.27%) Pulumi
8 1 (1.27%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) Intranet
2 2 (2.53%) HTTP
2 2 (2.53%) Internet
3 1 (1.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.66%) MySQL
1 10 (12.66%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.39%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.80%) MariaDB
3 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.53%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (12.66%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) GitLab
2 2 (2.53%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) Postman
2 2 (2.53%) Selenium
3 1 (1.27%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.27%) JUnit
3 1 (1.27%) Mockito
General
1 17 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (13.92%) Law
3 5 (6.33%) Marketing
4 4 (5.06%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Finance
6 2 (2.53%) Games
6 2 (2.53%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 61 (77.22%) Developer
2 26 (32.91%) Full-Stack Developer
3 24 (30.38%) Senior
4 20 (25.32%) Senior Developer
5 14 (17.72%) Python Developer
5 14 (17.72%) React Developer
6 12 (15.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (15.19%) Software Developer
7 11 (13.92%) C# Developer
7 11 (13.92%) Lead
8 10 (12.66%) AWS Developer
8 10 (12.66%) Node.js Developer
8 10 (12.66%) PHP Developer
9 8 (10.13%) .NET Developer
10 7 (8.86%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (8.86%) Lead Developer
11 6 (7.59%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 6 (7.59%) PHP Symfony Developer
11 6 (7.59%) Senior React Developer
11 6 (7.59%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (65.82%) HTML
2 41 (51.90%) CSS
3 37 (46.84%) React
4 25 (31.65%) Node.js
5 21 (26.58%) .NET
6 14 (17.72%) .NET Core
7 13 (16.46%) ASP.NET
7 13 (16.46%) ASP.NET MVC
8 12 (15.19%) AngularJS
8 12 (15.19%) Laravel
9 9 (11.39%) REST
10 6 (7.59%) CakePHP
10 6 (7.59%) CodeIgniter
10 6 (7.59%) Symfony
11 5 (6.33%) Django
12 4 (5.06%) jQuery
12 4 (5.06%) RESTful
13 3 (3.80%) CSS3
13 3 (3.80%) Entity Framework
13 3 (3.80%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.80%) Legacy Code
2 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.27%) Graphic Design
3 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Linux
2 3 (3.80%) Windows
2 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.53%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 27 (34.18%) MVC
3 22 (27.85%) CI/CD
3 22 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (24.05%) Agile
5 18 (22.78%) Software Engineering
6 16 (20.25%) API Development
7 14 (17.72%) Web Development
8 12 (15.19%) DevOps
8 12 (15.19%) OO
9 11 (13.92%) Computer Science
10 9 (11.39%) Mentoring
11 7 (8.86%) OO PHP
12 6 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (7.59%) CRM
13 5 (6.33%) AI
13 5 (6.33%) Change Management
13 5 (6.33%) Clean Code
14 4 (5.06%) Roadmaps
14 4 (5.06%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.57%) SQL
2 30 (37.97%) Python
3 21 (26.58%) C#
4 13 (16.46%) PHP
4 13 (16.46%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.80%) Java
6 2 (2.53%) Bash
6 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.53%) R
6 2 (2.53%) Ruby
7 1 (1.27%) ABAP
7 1 (1.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (15.19%) Degree
2 11 (13.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.80%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.06%) Terraform
3 3 (3.80%) Ansible
4 2 (2.53%) Argo
5 1 (1.27%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.06%) SAP
3 3 (3.80%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.80%) Zoho
4 2 (2.53%) Google
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle
5 1 (1.27%) Adobe
5 1 (1.27%) HubSpot