JavaScript Job Trends in Leeds

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 24 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 131 74 139
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.84% 7.29% 10.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.11% 22.56% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 101 46 118
10th Percentile - £31,250 £37,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -10.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 384 328 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.85% 32.32% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 297 201 427
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,350
25th Percentile £41,163 £43,750 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.82% -4.35% -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Leeds

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Leeds over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Leeds

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 10 (7.63%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.05%) CMS
3 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.53%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.53%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.76%) Magento
2 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 99 (75.57%) AWS
2 68 (51.91%) Azure
3 54 (41.22%) Serverless
4 40 (30.53%) GitHub
5 17 (12.98%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (12.21%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (10.69%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (4.58%) GCP
9 5 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.05%) SaaS
11 2 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.53%) Datadog
11 2 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.53%) Figma
11 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.53%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.32%) Internet
2 2 (1.53%) AMQP
2 2 (1.53%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.69%) Relational Database
2 12 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.11%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.29%) MySQL
6 3 (2.29%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.53%) Big Data
7 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.53%) Power BI
7 2 (1.53%) Tableau
8 1 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 42 (32.06%) Git
2 12 (9.16%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.34%) JIRA
4 4 (3.05%) Selenium
4 4 (3.05%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.29%) JMeter
5 3 (2.29%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.76%) Appium
6 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.76%) JUnit
6 1 (0.76%) Postman
6 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (39.69%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.32%) Multimedia
3 12 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.05%) Legal
6 2 (1.53%) Law
6 2 (1.53%) Marketing
6 2 (1.53%) Retail
7 1 (0.76%) Back Office
7 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 64 (48.85%) Developer
2 26 (19.85%) Architect
2 26 (19.85%) Senior
3 24 (18.32%) Trainee
4 18 (13.74%) Software Developer
5 14 (10.69%) Applications Architect
5 14 (10.69%) Java Developer
5 14 (10.69%) Software Engineer
6 13 (9.92%) Senior Developer
7 12 (9.16%) Trainee Developer
7 12 (9.16%) Trainee Software Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Python Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Software Architect
9 7 (5.34%) Lead
10 6 (4.58%) .NET Software Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (3.82%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.35%) React
2 42 (32.06%) CSS
2 42 (32.06%) HTML
3 28 (21.37%) Node.js
4 25 (19.08%) REST
5 16 (12.21%) Spring
5 16 (12.21%) Spring Boot
6 15 (11.45%) .NET
7 14 (10.69%) Vue
8 12 (9.16%) Kafka
9 11 (8.40%) Django
9 11 (8.40%) FastAPI
9 11 (8.40%) Flask
10 10 (7.63%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (7.63%) Web Services
11 9 (6.87%) AngularJS
12 7 (5.34%) GraphQL
12 7 (5.34%) Mustache
13 4 (3.05%) .NET Core
14 3 (2.29%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.85%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.40%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.53%) Hackathon
5 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (64.89%) Mentoring
2 47 (35.88%) Agile
2 47 (35.88%) Microservices
3 39 (29.77%) CI/CD
4 32 (24.43%) Computer Science
5 31 (23.66%) Software Engineering
6 29 (22.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (21.37%) Architectural Patterns
8 27 (20.61%) Migration
9 26 (19.85%) Enterprise Architecture
9 26 (19.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (19.08%) Data Modelling
11 24 (18.32%) Application Security
11 24 (18.32%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (18.32%) EAI
11 24 (18.32%) TOGAF
12 23 (17.56%) DevOps
13 22 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (12.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 74 (56.49%) Python
2 53 (40.46%) TypeScript
3 47 (35.88%) Java
4 43 (32.82%) C#
5 21 (16.03%) SQL
6 14 (10.69%) R
7 5 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.29%) PHP
9 2 (1.53%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.53%) Scala
10 1 (0.76%) Go
10 1 (0.76%) Perl
10 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (36.64%) AWS Certification
1 48 (36.64%) Azure Certification
1 48 (36.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 35 (26.72%) Degree
3 25 (19.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (18.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 24 (18.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (18.32%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (3.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.29%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.53%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.53%) WCAG
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 29 (22.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (25.19%) Terraform
2 18 (13.74%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.05%) Ansible
4 3 (2.29%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.53%) Control-M
5 2 (1.53%) Grafana
5 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (38.93%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.82%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.29%) IBM
3 3 (2.29%) Oracle
3 3 (2.29%) Pega
3 3 (2.29%) WSO2
4 2 (1.53%) Google
4 2 (1.53%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.76%) Adobe
5 1 (0.76%) Salesforce