JavaScript Job Trends in the East of England

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 37 18
Rank change year-on-year -38 -19 +9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 122 260 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.94% 8.84% 7.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.40% 33.38% 27.43%
Number of salaries quoted 112 198 450
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,525 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £61,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,212 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +26.12% -8.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £66,274 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £69,125 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% +10.33% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 792 779 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.60% 26.49% 28.34%
Number of salaries quoted 520 625 1,455
10th Percentile £33,175 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,274 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the East of England

JavaScript
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the East of England

JavaScript
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the East of England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Hertfordshire -20 38 £60,000 +14.29% 19
Cambridgeshire -34 33 £68,250 +31.25% 23
Essex -18 30 £90,000 +38.46% 13
Bedfordshire +4 13 £41,739 -12.13% 9
Suffolk -35 5 £77,500 +17.03% 7
Norfolk -19 3 £27,500 -47.62% 7
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 25 (20.49%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.92%) WordPress
3 4 (3.28%) CMS
4 2 (1.64%) Drupal
5 1 (0.82%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.82%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 54 (44.26%) Azure
2 35 (28.69%) AWS
3 25 (20.49%) Azure Logic Apps
3 25 (20.49%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (20.49%) Power Automate
4 20 (16.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (16.39%) Power Platform
4 20 (16.39%) PowerApps
5 19 (15.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 19 (15.57%) OneDrive
6 16 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (9.84%) GitHub
8 9 (7.38%) Azure AI
9 7 (5.74%) SaaS
10 3 (2.46%) Google Play
11 2 (1.64%) Apigee
11 2 (1.64%) GCP
11 2 (1.64%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (25.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (16.39%) Power BI
3 12 (9.84%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.38%) MongoDB
4 9 (7.38%) MySQL
5 7 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.74%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.46%) Redis
8 2 (1.64%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.82%) FileMaker
9 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (15.57%) Git
2 2 (1.64%) JIRA
3 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.82%) Poetry
General
1 57 (46.72%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.38%) Law
2 9 (7.38%) Multimedia
3 8 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Finance
5 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.28%) Marketing
6 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.82%) Legal
7 1 (0.82%) Retail
7 1 (0.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 71 (58.20%) Developer
2 21 (17.21%) Senior
2 21 (17.21%) Software Engineer
3 19 (15.57%) .NET Developer
4 18 (14.75%) Senior Developer
5 17 (13.93%) Lead
6 15 (12.30%) Lead Software Engineer
7 14 (11.48%) JavaScript Developer
8 12 (9.84%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (7.38%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 9 (7.38%) Trainee
10 8 (6.56%) Administrator
10 8 (6.56%) C# .NET Developer
10 8 (6.56%) C# Developer
10 8 (6.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 8 (6.56%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 8 (6.56%) Software Developer
10 8 (6.56%) Web Administrator
11 7 (5.74%) JavaScript Engineer
11 7 (5.74%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (49.18%) HTML
2 59 (48.36%) CSS
3 45 (36.89%) .NET
4 43 (35.25%) React
5 42 (34.43%) .NET Core
6 25 (20.49%) JSON
7 19 (15.57%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (15.57%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (15.57%) SPFx
8 15 (12.30%) Node.js
8 15 (12.30%) REST
9 14 (11.48%) Web Services
10 12 (9.84%) ASP.NET
11 11 (9.02%) RESTful
12 10 (8.20%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (8.20%) Blazor
13 9 (7.38%) jQuery
13 9 (7.38%) ML.NET
14 8 (6.56%) Vue
15 6 (4.92%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) e-Learning
1 13 (10.66%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.84%) Sports Betting
3 7 (5.74%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.46%) iPhone
5 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.46%) Social Media
6 2 (1.64%) BBC
6 2 (1.64%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.64%) Social Network
7 1 (0.82%) Animation
7 1 (0.82%) IoT
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.46%) Android
2 2 (1.64%) Linux
3 1 (0.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (37.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 42 (34.43%) Agile
3 36 (29.51%) User Experience
4 34 (27.87%) Web Development
5 33 (27.05%) Machine Learning
5 33 (27.05%) Software Engineering
6 25 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (20.49%) Technical Leadership
7 24 (19.67%) DevOps
8 23 (18.85%) AI
9 20 (16.39%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (16.39%) Project Management
10 19 (15.57%) Document Management
10 19 (15.57%) Web Design
11 18 (14.75%) OO
12 17 (13.93%) UX Design
13 16 (13.11%) CI/CD
13 16 (13.11%) Scrum
14 14 (11.48%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.34%) C#
2 45 (36.89%) SQL
3 42 (34.43%) TypeScript
4 38 (31.15%) Python
5 19 (15.57%) PowerShell
6 17 (13.93%) Java
7 8 (6.56%) PHP
8 7 (5.74%) R
9 1 (0.82%) C++
9 1 (0.82%) Haskell
9 1 (0.82%) OCaml
9 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.82%) Rust
9 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (10.66%) DBS Check
2 11 (9.02%) Degree
3 9 (7.38%) AWS Certification
3 9 (7.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 9 (7.38%) Azure Certification
3 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (6.56%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.75%) QA
2 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.64%) GDPR
2 2 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (38.52%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.39%) Adobe
3 9 (7.38%) Google
4 8 (6.56%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.74%) Oracle
5 7 (5.74%) Pega
6 5 (4.10%) MuleSoft
6 5 (4.10%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.10%) SAP
7 2 (1.64%) Apple
7 2 (1.64%) Facebook
7 2 (1.64%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.64%) Sony
7 2 (1.64%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.82%) Databricks
8 1 (0.82%) DoubleClick