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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +21
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 8 22 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 3.56% 7.48% 13.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.39% 18.03% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 36
10th Percentile £44,750 £47,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,438 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 - £67,500
90th Percentile £69,000 £82,000 £70,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £60,000 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.81% -8.18% +4.76%

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 46 122 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 20.44% 41.50% 52.30%
Number of salaries quoted 37 78 138
10th Percentile £41,150 £40,000 £36,425
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 2 November 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Appium
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Katalon Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (25.00%) TestNG
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) IT Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) JPA
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Laravel
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Redux
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) CRM
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Data Security
2 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Wealth Management
3 2 (25.00%) API Testing
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) OO PHP
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) PHP
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) Dart
4 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
4 1 (12.50%) R
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby
4 1 (12.50%) Rust
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Solace