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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 27 21
Rank change year-on-year -42 -6 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 468 708 1,411
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.53% 9.47% 8.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.97% 28.97% 28.90%
Number of salaries quoted 394 378 1,219
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,625 £96,250 £77,750
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 2,930 2,444 4,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.81% 32.67% 29.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,098 1,498 4,168
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,815 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,954 £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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -44 221 £52,500 -9.48% 107
Yorkshire -23 200 £54,250 -7.50% 80
North East -27 47 £50,000 +2.56% 32
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 (5.98%) WordPress
2 15 (3.21%) CMS
3 9 (1.92%) OpenStack
3 9 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.28%) Apache
5 5 (1.07%) JBoss
6 4 (0.85%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.85%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.64%) IIS
7 3 (0.64%) nginx
8 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.43%) CICS
8 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Confluence
9 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.71%) Shopify
3 4 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.64%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 228 (48.72%) AWS
2 212 (45.30%) Azure
3 108 (23.08%) GitHub
4 64 (13.68%) Serverless
5 27 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
5 27 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (5.56%) GCP
7 23 (4.91%) SaaS
8 19 (4.06%) Power Automate
8 19 (4.06%) Power Platform
9 18 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.21%) PowerApps
11 14 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (2.56%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.28%) Apigee
15 6 (1.28%) Datadog
15 6 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 86 (18.38%) Internet
2 4 (0.85%) HTTP
3 3 (0.64%) AMQP
3 3 (0.64%) Firewall
4 2 (0.43%) Intranet
4 2 (0.43%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
5 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.21%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.21%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.62%) MySQL
2 30 (6.41%) Relational Database
3 23 (4.91%) NoSQL
4 20 (4.27%) SQL Server
5 18 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.92%) Power BI
8 8 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.50%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.28%) Big Data
10 6 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.28%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.07%) GIS
11 5 (1.07%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.85%) QGIS
13 3 (0.64%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 167 (35.68%) Git
2 32 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 25 (5.34%) JIRA
4 11 (2.35%) GitLab
5 7 (1.50%) Maven
5 7 (1.50%) PHPUnit
5 7 (1.50%) Selenium
6 6 (1.28%) JUnit
6 6 (1.28%) Postman
7 5 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.85%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.85%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.85%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.64%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.43%) JMeter
10 2 (0.43%) Spock
10 2 (0.43%) Subversion
10 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (18.38%) Multimedia
2 82 (17.52%) Social Skills
3 34 (7.26%) Finance
4 27 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.42%) Marketing
6 16 (3.42%) Retail
7 11 (2.35%) Law
8 8 (1.71%) Games
9 6 (1.28%) Legal
10 5 (1.07%) Advertising
10 5 (1.07%) Agriculture
10 5 (1.07%) Automotive
10 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.85%) Back Office
11 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.64%) French Language
12 3 (0.64%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.64%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 250 (53.42%) Developer
2 95 (20.30%) Senior
3 86 (18.38%) Trainee
4 80 (17.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 69 (14.74%) Software Engineer
6 66 (14.10%) Senior Developer
7 56 (11.97%) Software Developer
8 46 (9.83%) Lead
9 36 (7.69%) Trainee Developer
10 34 (7.26%) Trainee Software Developer
11 29 (6.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 27 (5.77%) Java Developer
13 23 (4.91%) Administrator
13 23 (4.91%) Trainee Administrator
13 23 (4.91%) Web Administrator
14 22 (4.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 21 (4.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (4.06%) .NET Developer
17 17 (3.63%) Lead Software Engineer
17 17 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (39.53%) HTML
2 184 (39.32%) CSS
3 134 (28.63%) React
4 89 (19.02%) .NET
5 88 (18.80%) Node.js
6 60 (12.82%) AngularJS
7 50 (10.68%) REST
8 47 (10.04%) Vue
9 33 (7.05%) Spring Boot
10 32 (6.84%) Spring
11 30 (6.41%) RESTful
12 28 (5.98%) .NET Core
13 23 (4.91%) ASP.NET
14 21 (4.49%) HTML5
15 20 (4.27%) Laravel
16 18 (3.85%) CSS3
16 18 (3.85%) Kafka
16 18 (3.85%) Web Services
17 12 (2.56%) Flask
17 12 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (4.27%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.50%) Legacy Code
7 7 (1.50%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.07%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.07%) NHS
8 5 (1.07%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.85%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.64%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.64%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.64%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.64%) Social Media
10 3 (0.64%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.28%) Linux
2 4 (0.85%) Android
2 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.85%) Windows
3 3 (0.64%) CentOS
3 3 (0.64%) Debian
3 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (35.47%) Mentoring
2 155 (33.12%) Full-Stack Development
3 151 (32.26%) Agile
4 104 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 100 (21.37%) CI/CD
6 81 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (17.09%) Cybersecurity
8 72 (15.38%) Microservices
9 58 (12.39%) DevOps
10 56 (11.97%) Scrum
11 51 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (10.47%) Front End Development
13 48 (10.26%) Web Development
14 46 (9.83%) AI
15 44 (9.40%) TDD
16 40 (8.55%) Kanban
17 38 (8.12%) Containerisation
17 38 (8.12%) User Experience
18 34 (7.26%) Test Automation
19 31 (6.62%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 181 (38.68%) Python
2 113 (24.15%) TypeScript
3 103 (22.01%) Java
4 101 (21.58%) C#
5 77 (16.45%) SQL
6 53 (11.32%) R
7 37 (7.91%) PHP
8 6 (1.28%) C
8 6 (1.28%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.07%) Groovy
10 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.64%) Bash
11 3 (0.64%) C++
11 3 (0.64%) Go
11 3 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.43%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (21.79%) AWS Certification
2 99 (21.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 98 (20.94%) Azure Certification
4 86 (18.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 32 (6.84%) Degree
6 19 (4.06%) Security Cleared
7 15 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.92%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.92%) SC Cleared
11 5 (1.07%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.27%) Accessibility
2 13 (2.78%) QA
3 6 (1.28%) GDPR
4 4 (0.85%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.85%) SLA
5 3 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.64%) WCAG
6 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) HL7
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 54 (11.54%) Docker
2 5 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (8.12%) Terraform
2 31 (6.62%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.71%) Ansible
4 4 (0.85%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.64%) Puppet
6 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.43%) cPanel
6 2 (0.43%) Nagios
6 2 (0.43%) Plesk
6 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 128 (27.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.56%) Oracle
3 9 (1.92%) Atlassian
3 9 (1.92%) Google
4 7 (1.50%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.28%) Adobe
6 5 (1.07%) Pega
6 5 (1.07%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.07%) Splunk
7 3 (0.64%) New Relic
7 3 (0.64%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.43%) Adyen
8 2 (0.43%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.43%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.43%) WSO2
9 1 (0.21%) Facebook
9 1 (0.21%) Intapp
9 1 (0.21%) Netlify
9 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.21%) Optimizely