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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	62	19	17
Rank change year-on-year	-43	-2	+1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript	6	9	25
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester	0.59%	4.39%	8.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category	5.04%	20.45%	20.00%
Number of salaries quoted	3	6	8
10^th Percentile	-	£46,875	£47,750
25^th Percentile	£37,500	£58,438	£49,438
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£40,000	£62,500	£70,000
Median % change year-on-year	-36.00%	-10.71%	+27.27%
75^th Percentile	£56,125	£70,313	-
90^th Percentile	£64,300	£75,625	£82,000
Leicestershire median annual salary	£40,000	£61,250	£51,250
% change year-on-year	-34.69%	+19.51%	-6.82%

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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	119	44	125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester	11.71%	21.46%	40.85%
Number of salaries quoted	81	34	78
10^th Percentile	£36,250	£41,250	£40,000
25^th Percentile	£44,166	£46,938	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£56,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	-10.71%	-6.67%	+9.09%
75^th Percentile	£69,250	£68,750	£61,250
90^th Percentile	£71,250	£77,250	£70,000
Leicestershire median annual salary	£50,000	£55,000	£50,000
% change year-on-year	-9.09%	+10.00%	-4.76%

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 Salary Trend in Leicester

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 October 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Leicester

JavaScript Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, job vacancies citing JavaScript also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Leicester region with a requirement for JavaScript.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CSS	83.3%	5
2	AI	50.0%	3
2	Azure	50.0%	3
2	Content Marketing	50.0%	3
2	Digital Marketing	50.0%	3
2	Integration Patterns	50.0%	3
2	iPaaS	50.0%	3
2	JWT	50.0%	3
2	Middleware	50.0%	3
2	OAuth	50.0%	3
2	Python	50.0%	3
2	React	50.0%	3
2	REST	50.0%	3
2	SEO	50.0%	3
2	Stakeholder Engagement	50.0%	3
2	Technical Architecture	50.0%	3
2	Use Case	50.0%	3
2	Webhook	50.0%	3
19	.NET	33.3%	2
19	AWS	33.3%	2
19	C#	33.3%	2
19	Full-Stack Development	33.3%	2
19	HTML	33.3%	2
19	SaaS	33.3%	2
19	SQL Server	33.3%	2
26	Agile	16.7%	1
26	Continuous Improvement	16.7%	1
26	E-Commerce	16.7%	1
26	Front End Development	16.7%	1
26	Line Management	16.7%	1

JavaScript Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	50.0%	3
2	C#	33.3%	2
3	TypeScript	16.7%	1