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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 8 31 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 4.12% 9.42% 9.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.69% 24.41% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 27
10th Percentile £44,750 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.19% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 - £72,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 51 127 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 26.29% 38.60% 49.83%
Number of salaries quoted 41 85 127
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £33,400
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 -
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +10.00%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Leicester

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
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 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Software 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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
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 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) API Testing
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) CRM
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (25.00%) Wealth Management
5 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
5 1 (12.50%) KYC
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
5 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Groovy
2 2 (25.00%) PHP
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Dart
3 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Rust
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Solace