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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -28 -8 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 486 492 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.55% 6.79% 8.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.62% 23.34% 26.88%
Number of salaries quoted 388 321 1,027
10th Percentile - £36,250 £34,500
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 £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.41% +10.38% -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 2,149 2,108 4,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.72% 29.08% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,625 1,343 3,650
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £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 £87,500 £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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +3 248 £50,000 -4.76% 112
North West -36 186 £55,000 -4.35% 130
North East -12 52 £47,500 +2.70% 38
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 17 (3.50%) CMS
2 13 (2.67%) WordPress
3 11 (2.26%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.44%) Apache
5 6 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.23%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.82%) JBoss
7 4 (0.82%) nginx
8 3 (0.62%) GeoServer
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 Solr
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.41%) Magento
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.41%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 285 (58.64%) AWS
2 239 (49.18%) Azure
3 146 (30.04%) GitHub
4 80 (16.46%) Serverless
5 28 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (5.76%) GCP
6 23 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (3.91%) SaaS
8 18 (3.70%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.65%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.44%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (0.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 121 (24.90%) Internet
2 5 (1.03%) HTTP
3 4 (0.82%) AMQP
3 4 (0.82%) SSH
4 2 (0.41%) Firewall
4 2 (0.41%) Intranet
4 2 (0.41%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.41%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.76%) Relational Database
2 26 (5.35%) MySQL
3 21 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 14 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.26%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.06%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.44%) Big Data
8 7 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.23%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.23%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.03%) Redis
11 4 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.82%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.82%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.82%) Power BI
11 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.62%) GIS
12 3 (0.62%) QGIS
12 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 197 (40.53%) Git
2 39 (8.02%) JIRA
3 30 (6.17%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.65%) Selenium
5 7 (1.44%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.44%) GitLab
6 6 (1.23%) JUnit
7 5 (1.03%) JMeter
7 5 (1.03%) PHPUnit
7 5 (1.03%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.82%) Postman
8 4 (0.82%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.62%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.62%) Maven
10 2 (0.41%) Appium
10 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.41%) Subversion
11 1 (0.21%) Protractor
General
1 126 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 120 (24.69%) Multimedia
3 28 (5.76%) Public Sector
4 25 (5.14%) Finance
5 17 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.50%) Marketing
6 14 (2.88%) Retail
7 13 (2.67%) Games
8 7 (1.44%) Electronics
9 6 (1.23%) Legal
10 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.82%) Law
10 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.62%) Advertising
11 3 (0.62%) Banking
11 3 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.62%) French Language
11 3 (0.62%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.62%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (0.62%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 274 (56.38%) Developer
2 120 (24.69%) Trainee
3 89 (18.31%) Senior
4 77 (15.84%) Software Developer
5 71 (14.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 59 (12.14%) Senior Developer
7 58 (11.93%) Trainee Developer
7 58 (11.93%) Trainee Software Developer
8 53 (10.91%) Software Engineer
9 38 (7.82%) Lead
10 26 (5.35%) Architect
10 26 (5.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 23 (4.73%) Java Developer
11 23 (4.73%) JIRA Developer
12 21 (4.32%) .NET Developer
12 21 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 18 (3.70%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 18 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
13 18 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (47.33%) CSS
2 225 (46.30%) HTML
3 139 (28.60%) React
4 91 (18.72%) .NET
5 87 (17.90%) Node.js
6 60 (12.35%) REST
7 58 (11.93%) AngularJS
8 42 (8.64%) Vue
9 30 (6.17%) Spring Boot
10 28 (5.76%) Spring
11 23 (4.73%) RESTful
12 22 (4.53%) .NET Core
13 21 (4.32%) Web Services
14 20 (4.12%) HTML5
15 19 (3.91%) ASP.NET
16 17 (3.50%) Laravel
16 17 (3.50%) Next.js
17 16 (3.29%) Kafka
18 14 (2.88%) CSS3
18 14 (2.88%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
2 25 (5.14%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (2.88%) Data Structures
4 14 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.67%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.03%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.03%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.03%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.82%) NHS
9 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.82%) Social Media
10 3 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.62%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.26%) Android
1 11 (2.26%) Apple iOS
1 11 (2.26%) Linux
2 4 (0.82%) CentOS
2 4 (0.82%) Debian
2 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.41%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (46.71%) Mentoring
2 143 (29.42%) Agile
3 122 (25.10%) Cybersecurity
4 121 (24.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 108 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 92 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (18.52%) Software Engineering
8 80 (16.46%) Microservices
9 72 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (12.55%) DevOps
11 55 (11.32%) Computer Science
12 47 (9.67%) Scrum
13 45 (9.26%) User Experience
14 43 (8.85%) Front End Development
15 41 (8.44%) TDD
16 38 (7.82%) Infrastructure as Code
17 36 (7.41%) Architectural Patterns
18 35 (7.20%) Kanban
19 34 (7.00%) AI
20 33 (6.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 215 (44.24%) Python
2 127 (26.13%) TypeScript
3 97 (19.96%) C#
4 95 (19.55%) Java
5 64 (13.17%) R
6 59 (12.14%) SQL
7 28 (5.76%) PHP
8 27 (5.56%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.23%) C
10 4 (0.82%) XAML
11 3 (0.62%) Go
12 2 (0.41%) Bash
12 2 (0.41%) Groovy
12 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.21%) Perl
13 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 145 (29.84%) AWS Certification
2 143 (29.42%) Azure Certification
2 143 (29.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 120 (24.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 57 (11.73%) Degree
5 26 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (5.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (4.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 23 (4.73%) TOGAF Certification
8 19 (3.91%) Security Cleared
9 10 (2.06%) SC Cleared
10 9 (1.85%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.44%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.50%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.06%) QA
3 6 (1.23%) GDPR
4 4 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.62%) HL7
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.41%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (12.14%) Docker
2 5 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (10.91%) Terraform
2 35 (7.20%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.67%) Ansible
4 5 (1.03%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.82%) Puppet
6 3 (0.62%) cPanel
6 3 (0.62%) Grafana
6 3 (0.62%) Plesk
7 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.41%) Control-M
7 2 (0.41%) Nagios
7 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 159 (32.72%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.97%) Atlassian
3 16 (3.29%) Oracle
4 13 (2.67%) Google
5 6 (1.23%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.03%) Adobe
6 5 (1.03%) HubSpot
7 4 (0.82%) Pega
7 4 (0.82%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.82%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.82%) 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%) Intapp
10 1 (0.21%) Samsung