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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -21 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 483 547 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.75% 7.00% 8.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.52% 23.81% 27.19%
Number of salaries quoted 388 317 1,006
10th Percentile - £36,250 £34,198
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.44% +10.42% -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 2,054 2,297 4,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.95% 29.39% 32.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 1,321 3,527
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 20 February 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 20 February 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
Yorkshire +6 247 £50,000 -4.76% 133
North West -34 181 £52,500 -8.70% 155
North East -18 55 £47,500 +2.70% 46
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 18 (3.73%) CMS
2 13 (2.69%) WordPress
3 11 (2.28%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.45%) Apache
5 6 (1.24%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.24%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.04%) nginx
7 4 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.62%) JBoss
9 2 (0.41%) Confluence
9 2 (0.41%) IIS
9 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.04%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.62%) Shopify
3 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.41%) Magento
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 296 (61.28%) AWS
2 245 (50.72%) Azure
3 153 (31.68%) GitHub
4 77 (15.94%) Serverless
5 27 (5.59%) GCP
6 26 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (3.73%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.31%) SaaS
10 15 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.07%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.45%) Power Platform
15 6 (1.24%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.24%) Entra ID
15 6 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 131 (27.12%) Internet
2 5 (1.04%) HTTP
3 4 (0.83%) AMQP
3 4 (0.83%) SSH
4 2 (0.41%) Intranet
4 2 (0.41%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.41%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.38%) Relational Database
2 23 (4.76%) MySQL
3 20 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.73%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.07%) DynamoDB
6 10 (2.07%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.66%) Big Data
8 7 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.45%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.24%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.04%) Redis
11 4 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.83%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.83%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.83%) Power BI
12 2 (0.41%) FileMaker
12 2 (0.41%) Metadata
12 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 204 (42.24%) Git
2 38 (7.87%) JIRA
3 27 (5.59%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.45%) Selenium
5 6 (1.24%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.24%) GitLab
5 6 (1.24%) JUnit
6 5 (1.04%) JMeter
6 5 (1.04%) Postman
6 5 (1.04%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.83%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.62%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.62%) Maven
8 3 (0.62%) PHPUnit
9 2 (0.41%) Appium
9 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.41%) Subversion
10 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
General
1 130 (26.92%) Multimedia
2 128 (26.50%) Social Skills
3 23 (4.76%) Finance
3 23 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 18 (3.73%) Marketing
5 16 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.69%) Games
6 13 (2.69%) Retail
7 7 (1.45%) Electronics
8 6 (1.24%) Legal
9 4 (0.83%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.83%) Law
9 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.62%) Banking
10 3 (0.62%) French Language
10 3 (0.62%) Italian Language
10 3 (0.62%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (0.62%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 267 (55.28%) Developer
2 130 (26.92%) Trainee
3 81 (16.77%) Software Developer
4 79 (16.36%) Senior
5 63 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 63 (13.04%) Trainee Developer
5 63 (13.04%) Trainee Software Developer
6 49 (10.14%) Senior Developer
7 47 (9.73%) Software Engineer
8 35 (7.25%) Lead
9 28 (5.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 26 (5.38%) Architect
11 23 (4.76%) JIRA Developer
12 21 (4.35%) .NET Developer
13 20 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 20 (4.14%) Java Developer
14 17 (3.52%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 14 (2.90%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
15 14 (2.90%) JavaScript Developer
15 14 (2.90%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (50.52%) CSS
2 239 (49.48%) HTML
3 142 (29.40%) React
4 86 (17.81%) .NET
5 78 (16.15%) Node.js
6 64 (13.25%) REST
7 56 (11.59%) AngularJS
8 37 (7.66%) Vue
9 29 (6.00%) Spring Boot
10 28 (5.80%) Spring
11 22 (4.55%) .NET Core
11 22 (4.55%) RESTful
12 21 (4.35%) Web Services
13 20 (4.14%) HTML5
14 19 (3.93%) ASP.NET
15 17 (3.52%) Next.js
16 16 (3.31%) Kafka
16 16 (3.31%) Laravel
17 15 (3.11%) GraphQL
18 14 (2.90%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.83%) Enterprise Software
2 25 (5.18%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.69%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.04%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.83%) Social Media
12 3 (0.62%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.62%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.62%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.48%) Linux
2 11 (2.28%) Android
2 11 (2.28%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.83%) CentOS
3 4 (0.83%) Debian
3 4 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.83%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.41%) Windows
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (48.65%) Mentoring
2 137 (28.36%) Agile
3 131 (27.12%) Cybersecurity
4 108 (22.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 106 (21.95%) CI/CD
6 94 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (17.39%) Software Engineering
8 78 (16.15%) Microservices
9 72 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (12.42%) DevOps
11 55 (11.39%) Computer Science
12 45 (9.32%) User Experience
13 44 (9.11%) Front End Development
14 43 (8.90%) Scrum
15 41 (8.49%) Infrastructure as Code
16 37 (7.66%) TDD
17 33 (6.83%) Web Development
18 32 (6.63%) AI
18 32 (6.63%) Architectural Patterns
18 32 (6.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 224 (46.38%) Python
2 125 (25.88%) TypeScript
3 97 (20.08%) C#
4 89 (18.43%) Java
5 69 (14.29%) R
6 59 (12.22%) SQL
7 30 (6.21%) PHP
8 27 (5.59%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.24%) C
10 4 (0.83%) XAML
11 3 (0.62%) Go
12 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.21%) Bash
13 1 (0.21%) Groovy
13 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.21%) Perl
13 1 (0.21%) Scala
13 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 155 (32.09%) AWS Certification
2 154 (31.88%) Azure Certification
2 154 (31.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 130 (26.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 57 (11.80%) Degree
5 27 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.97%) TOGAF Certification
8 23 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 19 (3.93%) Security Cleared
10 10 (2.07%) SC Cleared
11 9 (1.86%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.45%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.52%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.07%) QA
3 5 (1.04%) GDPR
4 4 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.62%) HL7
6 2 (0.41%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (12.22%) Docker
2 5 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (10.77%) Terraform
2 35 (7.25%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.69%) Ansible
4 4 (0.83%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.83%) Puppet
5 3 (0.62%) cPanel
5 3 (0.62%) Grafana
5 3 (0.62%) Plesk
6 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.41%) Control-M
6 2 (0.41%) Nagios
6 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 175 (36.23%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.00%) Atlassian
3 16 (3.31%) Oracle
4 12 (2.48%) Google
5 6 (1.24%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.24%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.24%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.04%) Adobe
7 4 (0.83%) Pega
7 4 (0.83%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.83%) WSO2
8 3 (0.62%) IBM
8 3 (0.62%) New Relic
8 3 (0.62%) Splunk
9 2 (0.41%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.41%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.41%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.21%) Adyen
10 1 (0.21%) iManage
10 1 (0.21%) Samsung