JavaScript Job Trends in the North of England

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 36 22
Rank change year-on-year -25 -14 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 515 671 1,121
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.43% 7.05% 7.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.49% 24.69% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 452 303 882
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £44,688 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,985 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.71% +10.33% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,555 2,718 4,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 28.55% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,682 1,461 3,320
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,868 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the North of England

JavaScript
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the North of England

JavaScript
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -27 274 £55,000 -4.35% 83
Yorkshire +5 173 £57,500 -3.85% 51
North East -12 68 £52,000 +4.00% 22
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 28 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 25 (4.85%) WordPress
3 13 (2.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 12 (2.33%) CMS
5 8 (1.55%) IIS
6 6 (1.17%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.97%) JBoss
8 4 (0.78%) Apache
8 4 (0.78%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.58%) Confluence
10 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.39%) CICS
10 2 (0.39%) nginx
10 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.19%) Elementor
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (2.33%) Shopify
2 4 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.58%) Magento
4 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 201 (39.03%) Azure
2 199 (38.64%) AWS
3 67 (13.01%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (11.65%) Serverless
5 53 (10.29%) GitHub
6 45 (8.74%) Power Automate
7 44 (8.54%) Power Platform
8 36 (6.99%) PowerApps
9 34 (6.60%) SaaS
10 29 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (5.24%) GCP
13 23 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
13 23 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (3.69%) Azure AI
14 19 (3.69%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (2.72%) Amazon S3
16 13 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 12 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.47%) Internet
2 4 (0.78%) Firewall
2 4 (0.78%) HTTP
3 3 (0.58%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.39%) AMQP
4 2 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (11.26%) MongoDB
2 54 (10.49%) MySQL
3 36 (6.99%) SQL Server
4 32 (6.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (6.21%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.44%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.52%) MariaDB
7 13 (2.52%) Power BI
8 12 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (1.94%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.75%) Redis
11 7 (1.36%) GIS
11 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.97%) Big Data
13 4 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.78%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.78%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 108 (20.97%) Git
2 29 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.24%) GitLab
4 21 (4.08%) JIRA
5 17 (3.30%) Maven
6 11 (2.14%) Cypress.io
7 9 (1.75%) JUnit
7 9 (1.75%) Spock
8 8 (1.55%) Storybook
9 7 (1.36%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.17%) PHPUnit
10 6 (1.17%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.97%) Postman
12 4 (0.78%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.78%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.78%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.78%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.78%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.78%) Selenium
13 3 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (16.31%) Social Skills
2 60 (11.65%) Public Sector
3 45 (8.74%) Finance
4 35 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.83%) Marketing
6 19 (3.69%) Multimedia
7 17 (3.30%) Retail
8 13 (2.52%) Law
9 11 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.94%) Publishing
11 9 (1.75%) Legal
11 9 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.97%) Advertising
12 5 (0.97%) Agriculture
12 5 (0.97%) Automotive
12 5 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.97%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.78%) Back Office
13 4 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 272 (52.82%) Developer
2 119 (23.11%) Senior
3 96 (18.64%) Software Engineer
4 72 (13.98%) Full-Stack Developer
5 70 (13.59%) Senior Developer
6 58 (11.26%) Lead
7 43 (8.35%) .NET Developer
7 43 (8.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 37 (7.18%) Software Developer
9 26 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
10 25 (4.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 25 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
11 21 (4.08%) Java Developer
12 19 (3.69%) Trainee
13 18 (3.50%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 15 (2.91%) Administrator
14 15 (2.91%) Senior Software Developer
14 15 (2.91%) Test Engineer
14 15 (2.91%) Trainee Administrator
14 15 (2.91%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (30.68%) React
2 145 (28.16%) HTML
3 133 (25.83%) CSS
4 131 (25.44%) Node.js
5 129 (25.05%) .NET
6 73 (14.17%) AngularJS
7 52 (10.10%) Vue
8 51 (9.90%) RESTful
9 50 (9.71%) .NET Core
10 48 (9.32%) ASP.NET
11 47 (9.13%) REST
12 36 (6.99%) ASP.NET Core
13 29 (5.63%) Blazor
13 29 (5.63%) HTML5
14 28 (5.44%) Spring
15 26 (5.05%) CSS3
16 24 (4.66%) .NET Framework
17 22 (4.27%) Spring Boot
18 21 (4.08%) Entity Framework
19 19 (3.69%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.44%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 13 (2.52%) Private Cloud
8 12 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.94%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (1.75%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.55%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.55%) Social Media
12 7 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.36%) Legacy Code
12 7 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.17%) BBC
13 6 (1.17%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.97%) e-Learning
14 5 (0.97%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.78%) Android
1 4 (0.78%) Windows
2 3 (0.58%) Linux
3 2 (0.39%) CentOS
3 2 (0.39%) Debian
3 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (43.69%) Full-Stack Development
2 222 (43.11%) Agile
3 165 (32.04%) CI/CD
4 152 (29.51%) Software Engineering
5 129 (25.05%) DevOps
6 126 (24.47%) Mentoring
7 106 (20.58%) AI
7 106 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (18.45%) Microservices
9 80 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 77 (14.95%) Test Automation
11 64 (12.43%) TDD
12 62 (12.04%) Scrum
13 58 (11.26%) Front End Development
14 54 (10.49%) Technical Leadership
15 53 (10.29%) Web Development
16 47 (9.13%) Kanban
17 45 (8.74%) Coaching
18 42 (8.16%) Containerisation
19 41 (7.96%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 157 (30.49%) TypeScript
2 154 (29.90%) C#
3 132 (25.63%) SQL
4 123 (23.88%) Java
5 118 (22.91%) Python
6 48 (9.32%) PHP
7 21 (4.08%) R
8 9 (1.75%) C++
9 8 (1.55%) Groovy
10 7 (1.36%) Go
11 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.58%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.58%) Bash
12 3 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.58%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.39%) C
13 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (6.60%) Security Cleared
2 26 (5.05%) Degree
2 26 (5.05%) SC Cleared
3 25 (4.85%) AWS Certification
4 20 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (3.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 19 (3.69%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.78%) MBA
9 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.16%) Accessibility
2 39 (7.57%) QA
3 12 (2.33%) WCAG
4 6 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.97%) GDPR
6 4 (0.78%) SLA
7 3 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.39%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 66 (12.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (7.96%) Terraform
2 36 (6.99%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.17%) Ansible
4 3 (0.58%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.39%) Nagios
5 2 (0.39%) Puppet
5 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 104 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.50%) Adobe
2 18 (3.50%) Google
3 14 (2.72%) Splunk
4 12 (2.33%) HubSpot
5 9 (1.75%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.36%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.17%) Apple
7 6 (1.17%) Facebook
7 6 (1.17%) Sony
7 6 (1.17%) Yahoo!
8 5 (0.97%) Pega
8 5 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.78%) Oracle
9 4 (0.78%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.58%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.39%) New Relic
11 2 (0.39%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.39%) WSO2