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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -20 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 474 570 1,116
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.79% 7.18% 8.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.81% 24.21% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 380 320 1,008
10th Percentile - £36,200 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,424
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.95% -7.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,650 £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 1,991 2,354 4,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.91% 29.66% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 1,322 3,533
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 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,153 £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 14 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 14 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 -1 239 £48,750 -7.14% 97
North West -33 181 £52,500 -7.89% 106
North East -19 54 £47,500 +2.70% 27
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 (3.80%) CMS
2 13 (2.74%) WordPress
3 11 (2.32%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.48%) Apache
5 6 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.27%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.05%) nginx
7 4 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.42%) Confluence
8 2 (0.42%) IIS
8 2 (0.42%) JBoss
8 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.42%) Shopify
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 290 (61.18%) AWS
2 244 (51.48%) Azure
3 151 (31.86%) GitHub
4 73 (15.40%) Serverless
5 25 (5.27%) GCP
6 24 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
6 24 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (3.59%) Amazon S3
8 15 (3.16%) SaaS
9 13 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (1.90%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (1.27%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.27%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 131 (27.64%) Internet
2 5 (1.05%) HTTP
3 4 (0.84%) AMQP
3 4 (0.84%) SSH
4 2 (0.42%) Intranet
4 2 (0.42%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.27%) Relational Database
2 23 (4.85%) MySQL
3 19 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.74%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.90%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.90%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.48%) Big Data
8 7 (1.48%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.27%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.05%) Redis
11 4 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.84%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.84%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.84%) Power BI
12 2 (0.42%) FileMaker
12 2 (0.42%) Metadata
12 2 (0.42%) Tableau
13 1 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 204 (43.04%) Git
2 36 (7.59%) JIRA
3 25 (5.27%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.27%) JUnit
4 6 (1.27%) Selenium
5 5 (1.05%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.05%) JMeter
5 5 (1.05%) Postman
6 4 (0.84%) GitLab
6 4 (0.84%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.84%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.63%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.42%) Appium
8 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.42%) Maven
8 2 (0.42%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.42%) Subversion
9 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
General
1 130 (27.43%) Multimedia
2 129 (27.22%) Social Skills
3 21 (4.43%) Finance
4 20 (4.22%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.80%) Marketing
6 15 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.74%) Games
8 12 (2.53%) Retail
9 7 (1.48%) Electronics
10 6 (1.27%) Legal
11 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.63%) Banking
12 3 (0.63%) French Language
12 3 (0.63%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.63%) Law
12 3 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.63%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.63%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.42%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 264 (55.70%) Developer
2 130 (27.43%) Trainee
3 81 (17.09%) Software Developer
4 74 (15.61%) Senior
5 63 (13.29%) Trainee Developer
5 63 (13.29%) Trainee Software Developer
6 62 (13.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 46 (9.70%) Senior Developer
8 44 (9.28%) Software Engineer
9 34 (7.17%) Lead
10 28 (5.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 26 (5.49%) Architect
12 23 (4.85%) JIRA Developer
13 22 (4.64%) .NET Developer
14 20 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (4.01%) Java Developer
16 17 (3.59%) Senior Front-End Developer
17 14 (2.95%) Applications Architect
17 14 (2.95%) JavaScript Developer
17 14 (2.95%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (51.48%) CSS
2 239 (50.42%) HTML
3 138 (29.11%) React
4 87 (18.35%) .NET
5 73 (15.40%) Node.js
6 62 (13.08%) REST
7 57 (12.03%) AngularJS
8 38 (8.02%) Vue
9 28 (5.91%) Spring
9 28 (5.91%) Spring Boot
10 22 (4.64%) .NET Core
10 22 (4.64%) RESTful
11 20 (4.22%) Web Services
12 19 (4.01%) ASP.NET
12 19 (4.01%) HTML5
13 16 (3.38%) Kafka
14 15 (3.16%) GraphQL
14 15 (3.16%) Laravel
15 14 (2.95%) CSS3
15 14 (2.95%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (4.85%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.74%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.05%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.84%) Social Media
11 3 (0.63%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.63%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.42%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.74%) Linux
2 11 (2.32%) Android
2 11 (2.32%) 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 2 (0.42%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (49.37%) Mentoring
2 131 (27.64%) Agile
3 130 (27.43%) Cybersecurity
4 105 (22.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 102 (21.52%) CI/CD
6 90 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (17.72%) Software Engineering
8 75 (15.82%) Microservices
9 71 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (12.24%) DevOps
11 54 (11.39%) Computer Science
12 44 (9.28%) User Experience
13 42 (8.86%) Front End Development
14 41 (8.65%) Scrum
15 40 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
16 37 (7.81%) TDD
17 33 (6.96%) AI
17 33 (6.96%) Web Development
18 31 (6.54%) Data Modelling
18 31 (6.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 223 (47.05%) Python
2 122 (25.74%) TypeScript
3 97 (20.46%) C#
4 88 (18.57%) Java
5 69 (14.56%) R
6 58 (12.24%) SQL
7 29 (6.12%) PHP
8 27 (5.70%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.27%) C
10 4 (0.84%) XAML
11 3 (0.63%) Go
12 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.21%) Perl
13 1 (0.21%) Scala
13 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 154 (32.49%) AWS Certification
1 154 (32.49%) Azure Certification
1 154 (32.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 130 (27.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 58 (12.24%) Degree
4 27 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (5.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (5.06%) TOGAF Certification
6 23 (4.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 19 (4.01%) Security Cleared
8 10 (2.11%) SC Cleared
9 9 (1.90%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.48%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.59%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.11%) QA
3 5 (1.05%) GDPR
4 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.63%) HL7
6 2 (0.42%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 56 (11.81%) Docker
2 5 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 50 (10.55%) Terraform
2 34 (7.17%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.95%) Ansible
4 4 (0.84%) Puppet
5 3 (0.63%) cPanel
5 3 (0.63%) Grafana
5 3 (0.63%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.63%) Plesk
6 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.42%) Control-M
6 2 (0.42%) Nagios
6 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 176 (37.13%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.12%) Atlassian
3 16 (3.38%) Oracle
4 12 (2.53%) Google
5 6 (1.27%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.27%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.05%) Adobe
7 4 (0.84%) Pega
7 4 (0.84%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.84%) WSO2
8 3 (0.63%) IBM
8 3 (0.63%) New Relic
8 3 (0.63%) Splunk
9 2 (0.42%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.42%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.42%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.21%) iManage
10 1 (0.21%) Intapp
10 1 (0.21%) Samsung