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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 43 20
Rank change year-on-year -22 -23 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 478 460 1,395
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.64% 6.48% 8.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.09% 20.80% 28.67%
Number of salaries quoted 393 381 1,204
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £78,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% +10.34% -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 2,797 2,212 4,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.42% 31.15% 29.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,974 1,497 4,144
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,524 £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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -15 216 £51,250 -10.87% 103
Yorkshire -19 215 £50,000 -13.04% 55
North East -26 47 £47,500 -2.56% 24
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 26 (5.44%) WordPress
2 15 (3.14%) CMS
3 9 (1.88%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.46%) Apache
6 5 (1.05%) JBoss
7 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.84%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.84%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.84%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.63%) nginx
9 2 (0.42%) CICS
9 2 (0.42%) IIS
10 1 (0.21%) Confluence
10 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.88%) Shopify
2 8 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.84%) Magento
4 3 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 240 (50.21%) AWS
2 227 (47.49%) Azure
3 123 (25.73%) GitHub
4 66 (13.81%) Serverless
5 26 (5.44%) GCP
6 24 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (4.81%) SaaS
8 22 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (3.77%) Power Automate
9 18 (3.77%) Power Platform
10 17 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (2.93%) PowerApps
12 13 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (2.30%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.26%) Apigee
15 6 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 103 (21.55%) Internet
2 4 (0.84%) AMQP
2 4 (0.84%) HTTP
3 2 (0.42%) Firewall
3 2 (0.42%) Intranet
3 2 (0.42%) OpenVPN
3 2 (0.42%) SSH
3 2 (0.42%) SSL
4 1 (0.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.44%) MySQL
2 24 (5.02%) Relational Database
3 22 (4.60%) NoSQL
4 20 (4.18%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.14%) MongoDB
5 15 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.88%) Power BI
6 9 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (1.46%) Big Data
7 7 (1.46%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.05%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.84%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.84%) GIS
10 4 (0.84%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.84%) Neo4j
10 4 (0.84%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 179 (37.45%) Git
2 28 (5.86%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.86%) JIRA
3 7 (1.46%) GitLab
3 7 (1.46%) PHPUnit
3 7 (1.46%) Selenium
4 6 (1.26%) Maven
4 6 (1.26%) Postman
5 5 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.84%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.84%) JUnit
6 4 (0.84%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.63%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.42%) JMeter
8 2 (0.42%) Subversion
8 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
General
1 103 (21.55%) Multimedia
2 92 (19.25%) Social Skills
3 28 (5.86%) Finance
4 27 (5.65%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.35%) Retail
7 11 (2.30%) Law
8 10 (2.09%) Marketing
9 8 (1.67%) Games
10 5 (1.05%) Advertising
10 5 (1.05%) Legal
11 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.84%) Agriculture
11 4 (0.84%) Automotive
11 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.63%) Electronics
12 3 (0.63%) French Language
12 3 (0.63%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.63%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 257 (53.77%) Developer
2 103 (21.55%) Trainee
3 89 (18.62%) Senior
4 81 (16.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 71 (14.85%) Software Engineer
6 59 (12.34%) Senior Developer
7 58 (12.13%) Software Developer
8 45 (9.41%) Lead
8 45 (9.41%) Trainee Developer
9 43 (9.00%) Trainee Software Developer
10 26 (5.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 24 (5.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 23 (4.81%) Administrator
12 23 (4.81%) Java Developer
12 23 (4.81%) Trainee Administrator
12 23 (4.81%) Web Administrator
13 20 (4.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (3.97%) .NET Developer
15 17 (3.56%) Lead Software Engineer
16 16 (3.35%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (42.05%) HTML
2 200 (41.84%) CSS
3 139 (29.08%) React
4 88 (18.41%) .NET
5 85 (17.78%) Node.js
6 57 (11.92%) AngularJS
7 50 (10.46%) REST
8 47 (9.83%) Vue
9 32 (6.69%) Spring Boot
10 29 (6.07%) Spring
11 28 (5.86%) .NET Core
11 28 (5.86%) RESTful
12 20 (4.18%) Laravel
13 18 (3.77%) ASP.NET
13 18 (3.77%) HTML5
13 18 (3.77%) Web Services
14 17 (3.56%) Kafka
15 14 (2.93%) CSS3
15 14 (2.93%) Next.js
16 13 (2.72%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.86%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.88%) Data Structures
5 9 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.46%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.26%) Legacy Code
7 6 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.05%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.05%) NHS
9 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.84%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.84%) Social Media
10 3 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.67%) Linux
2 6 (1.26%) Android
2 6 (1.26%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.84%) CentOS
3 4 (0.84%) Debian
3 4 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.84%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (39.33%) Mentoring
2 148 (30.96%) Agile
3 145 (30.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 105 (21.97%) Software Engineering
5 96 (20.08%) CI/CD
6 95 (19.87%) Cybersecurity
7 86 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (13.60%) Microservices
9 58 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (11.30%) Scrum
11 52 (10.88%) DevOps
12 47 (9.83%) Front End Development
13 43 (9.00%) Web Development
14 38 (7.95%) Kanban
14 38 (7.95%) TDD
15 37 (7.74%) Containerisation
15 37 (7.74%) User Experience
16 36 (7.53%) AI
17 31 (6.49%) E-Commerce
18 29 (6.07%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 195 (40.79%) Python
2 115 (24.06%) TypeScript
3 97 (20.29%) Java
4 96 (20.08%) C#
5 70 (14.64%) SQL
6 59 (12.34%) R
7 32 (6.69%) PHP
8 9 (1.88%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.67%) C
10 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.63%) Bash
11 3 (0.63%) C++
11 3 (0.63%) Go
11 3 (0.63%) Groovy
11 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.21%) VB
13 1 (0.21%) XAML
Qualifications
1 120 (25.10%) AWS Certification
2 118 (24.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 117 (24.48%) Azure Certification
4 103 (21.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 35 (7.32%) Degree
6 21 (4.39%) Security Cleared
7 17 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.93%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (2.30%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.88%) SC Cleared
12 7 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (1.05%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.18%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.09%) QA
3 6 (1.26%) GDPR
4 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.63%) SLA
5 3 (0.63%) WCAG
6 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 49 (10.25%) Docker
2 5 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (8.16%) Terraform
2 31 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.67%) Ansible
4 4 (0.84%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.84%) Puppet
5 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.42%) cPanel
5 2 (0.42%) Nagios
5 2 (0.42%) Plesk
5 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (30.13%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.93%) Oracle
3 12 (2.51%) Atlassian
4 11 (2.30%) Google
5 6 (1.26%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.05%) Adobe
6 5 (1.05%) Pega
7 4 (0.84%) HubSpot
7 4 (0.84%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.63%) New Relic
9 2 (0.42%) Adyen
9 2 (0.42%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.42%) Splunk
9 2 (0.42%) WSO2
10 1 (0.21%) Ahrefs
10 1 (0.21%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.21%) Intapp
10 1 (0.21%) Netlify
10 1 (0.21%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.21%) Screaming Frog