JavaScript Job Trends in Leicester

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Leicestershire > Leicester

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 25 15
Rank change year-on-year -34 -10 +6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 7 8 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.74% 4.12% 9.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.15% 16.00% 24.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 11
10th Percentile - £44,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £57,500 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £62,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +20.19% -5.45%
75th Percentile £42,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £53,400 £76,250 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £37,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% +20.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 136 50 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 14.33% 25.77% 38.67%
Number of salaries quoted 80 40 85
10th Percentile £36,199 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,625 £70,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -13.64%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Leicester

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Leicester over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Leicester

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) PHP Developer
2 4 (57.14%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) CSS
1 6 (85.71%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) CSS3
2 4 (57.14%) HTML5
2 4 (57.14%) jQuery
2 4 (57.14%) Laravel
3 3 (42.86%) React
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
5 1 (14.29%) Material-UI
5 1 (14.29%) Next.js
5 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) OO
1 4 (57.14%) OO PHP
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 1 (14.29%) Line Management
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Micro Frontends
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PHP
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft