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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 27 17
Rank change year-on-year -17 -10 -10
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 446 615 733
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.17% 6.66% 9.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.16% 23.26% 25.67%
Number of salaries quoted 359 317 649
10th Percentile - £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,625 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 1,773 2,644 2,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.58% 28.61% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,384 1,428 2,357
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,623
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 +6 225 £47,500 -9.52% 101
North West -31 171 £52,000 -5.45% 118
North East -14 52 £47,500 - 35
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 21 (4.71%) CMS
2 14 (3.14%) WordPress
3 11 (2.47%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.35%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.12%) Apache
5 5 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.12%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.90%) nginx
7 3 (0.67%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.45%) Confluence
8 2 (0.45%) Drupal
8 2 (0.45%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.45%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.22%) InVision
3 1 (0.22%) Sketch
3 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.12%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.45%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 272 (60.99%) AWS
2 233 (52.24%) Azure
3 150 (33.63%) GitHub
4 68 (15.25%) Serverless
5 24 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (4.04%) GCP
8 17 (3.81%) Amazon S3
9 13 (2.91%) SaaS
10 11 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.79%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
15 5 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (1.12%) Entra ID
15 5 (1.12%) Figma
15 5 (1.12%) Power Platform
16 4 (0.90%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 129 (28.92%) Internet
2 5 (1.12%) AMQP
2 5 (1.12%) HTTP
3 4 (0.90%) SSH
4 2 (0.45%) Intranet
4 2 (0.45%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.38%) Relational Database
2 23 (5.16%) MySQL
3 21 (4.71%) NoSQL
4 19 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (4.04%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.02%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.02%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.35%) Big Data
8 6 (1.35%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.35%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.35%) Redis
9 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.90%) Metadata
10 3 (0.67%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.67%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.45%) Power BI
11 2 (0.45%) Tableau
12 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.22%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 204 (45.74%) Git
2 36 (8.07%) JIRA
3 26 (5.83%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.79%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.35%) JUnit
5 6 (1.35%) Selenium
6 5 (1.12%) JMeter
6 5 (1.12%) Postman
6 5 (1.12%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.90%) GitLab
7 4 (0.90%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.90%) webpack
8 3 (0.67%) Appium
8 3 (0.67%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.45%) Grunt
9 2 (0.45%) gulp
9 2 (0.45%) Maven
9 2 (0.45%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 128 (28.70%) Multimedia
2 121 (27.13%) Social Skills
3 20 (4.48%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.26%) Finance
5 18 (4.04%) Marketing
6 14 (3.14%) Retail
7 13 (2.91%) Games
8 10 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (2.02%) Law
10 7 (1.57%) Electronics
10 7 (1.57%) Legal
11 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.67%) Banking
13 3 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.22%) Automotive
15 1 (0.22%) Back Office
15 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 249 (55.83%) Developer
2 128 (28.70%) Trainee
3 81 (18.16%) Software Developer
4 64 (14.35%) Senior
5 61 (13.68%) Trainee Developer
5 61 (13.68%) Trainee Software Developer
6 49 (10.99%) Full-Stack Developer
7 35 (7.85%) Senior Developer
7 35 (7.85%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.73%) Lead
9 27 (6.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 26 (5.83%) Architect
11 23 (5.16%) JIRA Developer
12 21 (4.71%) Java Developer
13 19 (4.26%) .NET Developer
14 14 (3.14%) Applications Architect
15 13 (2.91%) PHP Developer
16 12 (2.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
17 11 (2.47%) Trainee Administrator
17 11 (2.47%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (54.04%) CSS
2 238 (53.36%) HTML
3 127 (28.48%) React
4 77 (17.26%) .NET
5 64 (14.35%) Node.js
6 57 (12.78%) REST
7 52 (11.66%) AngularJS
8 33 (7.40%) Vue
9 31 (6.95%) Spring
9 31 (6.95%) Spring Boot
10 22 (4.93%) ASP.NET
10 22 (4.93%) RESTful
11 20 (4.48%) HTML5
11 20 (4.48%) Web Services
12 18 (4.04%) CSS3
13 17 (3.81%) .NET Core
14 16 (3.59%) Kafka
15 14 (3.14%) .NET Framework
15 14 (3.14%) GraphQL
16 13 (2.91%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.62%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.36%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.12%) Client/Server
9 4 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.67%) Social Media
11 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.45%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.45%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.45%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.45%) NHS
11 2 (0.45%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.45%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.14%) Linux
2 9 (2.02%) Android
2 9 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.67%) CentOS
3 3 (0.67%) Debian
3 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.67%) Windows
3 3 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (51.12%) Mentoring
2 129 (28.92%) Agile
3 122 (27.35%) Cybersecurity
4 105 (23.54%) CI/CD
5 85 (19.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 85 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 70 (15.70%) Microservices
7 70 (15.70%) Software Engineering
8 61 (13.68%) DevOps
9 54 (12.11%) Computer Science
10 46 (10.31%) Front End Development
11 45 (10.09%) User Experience
12 37 (8.30%) Scrum
13 36 (8.07%) TDD
14 35 (7.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (7.62%) Web Development
16 30 (6.73%) Architectural Patterns
16 30 (6.73%) Migration
16 30 (6.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 209 (46.86%) Python
2 114 (25.56%) TypeScript
3 99 (22.20%) C#
4 83 (18.61%) Java
5 69 (15.47%) R
6 54 (12.11%) SQL
7 26 (5.83%) PHP
7 26 (5.83%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.12%) C
9 4 (0.90%) XAML
10 3 (0.67%) Scala
11 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Go
12 1 (0.22%) Perl
12 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 153 (34.30%) AWS Certification
2 152 (34.08%) Azure Certification
2 152 (34.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 128 (28.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 58 (13.00%) Degree
5 28 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (5.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (5.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 23 (5.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 19 (4.26%) Security Cleared
9 13 (2.91%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.57%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.48%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.59%) QA
3 3 (0.67%) HL7
3 3 (0.67%) WCAG
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (13.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 45 (10.09%) Terraform
2 34 (7.62%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.91%) Ansible
4 6 (1.35%) Grafana
5 3 (0.67%) cPanel
5 3 (0.67%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.67%) Plesk
5 3 (0.67%) Puppet
6 2 (0.45%) Control-M
6 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.22%) Argo
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 173 (38.79%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.83%) Atlassian
3 15 (3.36%) Oracle
4 13 (2.91%) Google
5 7 (1.57%) Adobe
5 7 (1.57%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.90%) Pega
6 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
6 4 (0.90%) WSO2
7 3 (0.67%) IBM
7 3 (0.67%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.45%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.45%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.45%) New Relic
8 2 (0.45%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.45%) Splunk
9 1 (0.22%) iManage
9 1 (0.22%) Sage
9 1 (0.22%) Samsung