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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 27 18
Rank change year-on-year -17 -9 -9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 445 625 678
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.23% 6.59% 9.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.39% 23.05% 24.79%
Number of salaries quoted 360 325 591
10th Percentile - £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,753 2,712 2,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.65% 28.58% 36.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,366 1,476 2,230
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,800 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £84,625 £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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +10 223 £47,372 -9.77% 354
North West -33 169 £52,500 -4.55% 469
North East -10 55 £47,500 -2.56% 78
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 (4.72%) CMS
2 14 (3.15%) WordPress
3 10 (2.25%) 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%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.45%) Adobe XD
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
1 270 (60.67%) AWS
2 229 (51.46%) Azure
3 149 (33.48%) GitHub
4 65 (14.61%) Serverless
5 23 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (4.04%) GCP
8 16 (3.60%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.15%) SaaS
10 11 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.80%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.12%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.12%) Figma
14 5 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 126 (28.31%) 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
5 1 (0.22%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.29%) MySQL
2 25 (5.62%) Relational Database
3 22 (4.94%) NoSQL
4 21 (4.72%) SQL Server
5 19 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.25%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.02%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.35%) Big Data
9 6 (1.35%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.35%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.35%) Redis
10 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.90%) Metadata
11 3 (0.67%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.67%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.45%) Power BI
12 2 (0.45%) Tableau
13 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.22%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 201 (45.17%) Git
2 37 (8.31%) JIRA
3 25 (5.62%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.80%) 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%) Bitbucket
General
1 125 (28.09%) Multimedia
2 121 (27.19%) Social Skills
3 20 (4.49%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.27%) Finance
5 18 (4.04%) Marketing
6 14 (3.15%) Retail
7 12 (2.70%) Games
7 12 (2.70%) Law
8 10 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (1.57%) Electronics
9 7 (1.57%) Legal
10 6 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.67%) Banking
12 3 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.22%) Automotive
14 1 (0.22%) Back Office
14 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 250 (56.18%) Developer
2 125 (28.09%) Trainee
3 82 (18.43%) Software Developer
4 62 (13.93%) Senior
5 60 (13.48%) Trainee Developer
5 60 (13.48%) Trainee Software Developer
6 45 (10.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 35 (7.87%) Software Engineer
8 33 (7.42%) Senior Developer
9 31 (6.97%) Lead
10 26 (5.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 24 (5.39%) Architect
12 23 (5.17%) JIRA Developer
13 20 (4.49%) Java Developer
14 19 (4.27%) .NET Developer
15 13 (2.92%) Applications Architect
15 13 (2.92%) PHP Developer
16 11 (2.47%) Python Developer
16 11 (2.47%) Trainee Administrator
16 11 (2.47%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (54.16%) CSS
2 238 (53.48%) HTML
3 122 (27.42%) React
4 77 (17.30%) .NET
5 63 (14.16%) Node.js
6 56 (12.58%) REST
7 52 (11.69%) AngularJS
8 34 (7.64%) Vue
9 30 (6.74%) Spring
9 30 (6.74%) Spring Boot
10 23 (5.17%) RESTful
11 22 (4.94%) ASP.NET
12 20 (4.49%) HTML5
13 19 (4.27%) Web Services
14 18 (4.04%) CSS3
15 16 (3.60%) .NET Core
16 15 (3.37%) .NET Framework
16 15 (3.37%) Kafka
16 15 (3.37%) Laravel
17 14 (3.15%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.19%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.37%) Data Structures
6 14 (3.15%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.12%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.67%) Social Media
12 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.45%) Graphic Design
12 2 (0.45%) Hackathon
12 2 (0.45%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.45%) NHS
12 2 (0.45%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.45%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.60%) Linux
2 10 (2.25%) Android
2 10 (2.25%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.90%) Windows
4 3 (0.67%) CentOS
4 3 (0.67%) Debian
4 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (50.56%) Mentoring
2 132 (29.66%) Agile
3 119 (26.74%) Cybersecurity
4 101 (22.70%) CI/CD
5 85 (19.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 85 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (16.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 70 (15.73%) Microservices
8 69 (15.51%) Software Engineering
9 62 (13.93%) DevOps
10 52 (11.69%) Computer Science
11 46 (10.34%) Front End Development
12 45 (10.11%) User Experience
13 37 (8.31%) Scrum
14 35 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (7.87%) TDD
15 34 (7.64%) Web Development
16 28 (6.29%) Architectural Patterns
16 28 (6.29%) Migration
16 28 (6.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 203 (45.62%) Python
2 115 (25.84%) TypeScript
3 97 (21.80%) C#
4 80 (17.98%) Java
5 67 (15.06%) R
6 57 (12.81%) SQL
7 31 (6.97%) PHP
8 26 (5.84%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.12%) C
10 4 (0.90%) XAML
11 3 (0.67%) Scala
12 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.45%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.22%) Go
13 1 (0.22%) Perl
13 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (33.26%) AWS Certification
2 147 (33.03%) Azure Certification
2 147 (33.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 125 (28.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 56 (12.58%) Degree
5 26 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (5.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 22 (4.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (4.94%) TOGAF Certification
8 20 (4.49%) Security Cleared
9 14 (3.15%) 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 (4.49%) Accessibility
2 18 (4.04%) 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 (13.26%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (9.66%) Terraform
2 33 (7.42%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.92%) 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
1 168 (37.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.84%) Atlassian
3 13 (2.92%) Google
3 13 (2.92%) Oracle
4 7 (1.57%) Adobe
4 7 (1.57%) HubSpot
4 7 (1.57%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.90%) Pega
5 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.90%) WSO2
6 3 (0.67%) IBM
6 3 (0.67%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.45%) Ahrefs
7 2 (0.45%) Hotjar
7 2 (0.45%) New Relic
7 2 (0.45%) Screaming Frog
7 2 (0.45%) Splunk
8 1 (0.22%) iManage
8 1 (0.22%) Sage
8 1 (0.22%) Samsung