JavaScript Job Trends in Essex

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 34 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 -19 +10
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 30 23 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 2.52% 5.34% 10.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.18% 19.33% 38.26%
Number of salaries quoted 30 15 87
10th Percentile £29,525 £31,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £49,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +8.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £76,875 £73,250
90th Percentile - £90,000 £75,500
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £66,212 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +26.12% -8.70%

All Programming Languages
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 165 119 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 13.87% 27.61% 26.26%
Number of salaries quoted 115 92 203
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,450 £73,125 £68,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £74,750
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -5.17%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Essex

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Essex over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Essex

JavaScript
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Essex region over the 6 months to 19 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
Southend-on-Sea - 4 £30,750 - 3
Billericay +2 3 £75,000 +7.14%
Basildon -3 1 £30,000 -7.69% 3
Loughton -7 1 £100,000 -4.76%
Chelmsford -16 1 £60,000 -4.00% 3
JavaScript
East of England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 19 (63.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 26 (86.67%) Azure
2 19 (63.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 19 (63.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 19 (63.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 19 (63.33%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (63.33%) OneDrive
2 19 (63.33%) Power Automate
2 19 (63.33%) Power Platform
2 19 (63.33%) PowerApps
3 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) Azure AI
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (70.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (63.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
General
1 20 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Multimedia
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (76.67%) Developer
2 18 (60.00%) Senior
3 16 (53.33%) Senior Developer
4 7 (23.33%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Developer
4 7 (23.33%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Trainee
6 4 (13.33%) Consultant
7 3 (10.00%) Administrator
7 3 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Trainee Administrator
7 3 (10.00%) Web Administrator
8 2 (6.67%) .NET Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Consultant
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Microsoft Consultant
8 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Trainee Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (86.67%) CSS
1 26 (86.67%) HTML
2 22 (73.33%) .NET
3 21 (70.00%) .NET Core
4 20 (66.67%) JSON
5 19 (63.33%) HTML5 Canvas
5 19 (63.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (63.33%) SPFx
6 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET
7 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
7 2 (6.67%) Vue
8 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC 5
8 1 (3.33%) Blazor
8 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
8 1 (3.33%) jQuery
8 1 (3.33%) ML.NET
8 1 (3.33%) React
8 1 (3.33%) REST
8 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 19 (63.33%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (63.33%) Document Management
2 19 (63.33%) Project Management
2 19 (63.33%) Technical Leadership
2 19 (63.33%) User Experience
2 19 (63.33%) Web Design
3 4 (13.33%) Web Development
4 3 (10.00%) AI
4 3 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (6.67%) Front End Development
5 2 (6.67%) MVC
6 1 (3.33%) Agile
6 1 (3.33%) DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Migration
6 1 (3.33%) Multithreading
6 1 (3.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) C#
2 21 (70.00%) SQL
3 19 (63.33%) PowerShell
3 19 (63.33%) TypeScript
4 5 (16.67%) Python
5 3 (10.00%) R
6 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 5 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 5 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 26 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 19 (63.33%) Adobe