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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -28 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 499 681 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.41% 7.45% 7.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.41% 25.33% 27.38%
Number of salaries quoted 434 310 1,188
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% +10.37% -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 3,464 2,689 5,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.76% 29.40% 27.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,616 1,432 4,239
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,775 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,063 £72,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -26 267 £56,250 -5.06% 100
Yorkshire +1 176 £57,500 -6.12% 59
North East -15 56 £52,000 +4.00% 23
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 23 (4.61%) WordPress
2 21 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (1.80%) CMS
4 6 (1.20%) IIS
4 6 (1.20%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.80%) Apache
5 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.80%) JBoss
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.40%) CICS
7 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.20%) Confluence
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.00%) Shopify
3 4 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.60%) Magento
5 2 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 198 (39.68%) Azure
2 190 (38.08%) AWS
3 63 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (12.02%) Serverless
5 53 (10.62%) GitHub
6 36 (7.21%) Power Automate
6 36 (7.21%) Power Platform
7 30 (6.01%) SaaS
8 29 (5.81%) PowerApps
9 27 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (5.21%) GCP
11 20 (4.01%) Azure AI
12 19 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (2.81%) Microsoft Copilot
16 13 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 12 (2.40%) Amazon S3
17 12 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.01%) Internet
2 4 (0.80%) Firewall
3 3 (0.60%) AMQP
3 3 (0.60%) HTTP
3 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.20%) Broadband
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.62%) MongoDB
2 52 (10.42%) MySQL
3 33 (6.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (6.21%) Relational Database
5 29 (5.81%) SQL Server
6 27 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (5.21%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.61%) MariaDB
10 12 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (2.20%) Power BI
12 10 (2.00%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.20%) Big Data
14 6 (1.20%) GIS
15 5 (1.00%) Neo4j
15 5 (1.00%) Redis
16 4 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.80%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 100 (20.04%) Git
2 30 (6.01%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.61%) GitLab
4 19 (3.81%) JIRA
5 13 (2.61%) Maven
6 11 (2.20%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.60%) JUnit
7 8 (1.60%) Spock
8 7 (1.40%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.20%) PHPUnit
9 6 (1.20%) Postman
10 5 (1.00%) Selenium
11 4 (0.80%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.80%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.80%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.80%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.80%) Storybook
11 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 77 (15.43%) Social Skills
2 50 (10.02%) Public Sector
3 48 (9.62%) Finance
4 33 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.21%) Marketing
6 21 (4.21%) Multimedia
7 17 (3.41%) Retail
8 12 (2.40%) Law
9 9 (1.80%) Legal
10 7 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.00%) Advertising
11 5 (1.00%) Agriculture
11 5 (1.00%) Automotive
11 5 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.00%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.80%) Back Office
12 4 (0.80%) Banking
12 4 (0.80%) Games
12 4 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 257 (51.50%) Developer
2 113 (22.65%) Senior
3 99 (19.84%) Software Engineer
4 71 (14.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 67 (13.43%) Senior Developer
6 61 (12.22%) Lead
7 45 (9.02%) .NET Developer
8 42 (8.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 38 (7.62%) Software Developer
10 27 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (5.01%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (4.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 21 (4.21%) Java Developer
13 21 (4.21%) Trainee
14 18 (3.61%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.41%) Lead Developer
16 15 (3.01%) Administrator
16 15 (3.01%) Senior Software Developer
16 15 (3.01%) Test Engineer
16 15 (3.01%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (32.67%) React
2 128 (25.65%) .NET
2 128 (25.65%) HTML
3 122 (24.45%) Node.js
4 117 (23.45%) CSS
5 73 (14.63%) AngularJS
6 57 (11.42%) Vue
7 53 (10.62%) .NET Core
8 52 (10.42%) RESTful
9 49 (9.82%) REST
10 45 (9.02%) ASP.NET
11 35 (7.01%) ASP.NET Core
12 29 (5.81%) Blazor
13 28 (5.61%) Spring
14 23 (4.61%) HTML5
14 23 (4.61%) Spring Boot
15 21 (4.21%) .NET Framework
16 20 (4.01%) CSS3
16 20 (4.01%) ML.NET
17 19 (3.81%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.02%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.21%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.20%) Private Cloud
8 9 (1.80%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.60%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
10 7 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.40%) Social Media
11 6 (1.20%) BBC
11 6 (1.20%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.20%) Social Network
12 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.00%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.80%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.40%) Android
2 4 (0.80%) Linux
2 4 (0.80%) Windows
3 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.60%) CentOS
3 3 (0.60%) Debian
3 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.60%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (42.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 209 (41.88%) Agile
3 150 (30.06%) Software Engineering
4 141 (28.26%) CI/CD
5 118 (23.65%) Mentoring
6 117 (23.45%) DevOps
7 103 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (19.24%) AI
9 92 (18.44%) Microservices
10 68 (13.63%) Test Automation
11 66 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (12.22%) Scrum
12 61 (12.22%) TDD
13 56 (11.22%) Front End Development
14 49 (9.82%) Kanban
15 46 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
16 45 (9.02%) Web Development
17 42 (8.42%) Coaching
18 41 (8.22%) Containerisation
19 35 (7.01%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 145 (29.06%) C#
2 144 (28.86%) TypeScript
3 131 (26.25%) SQL
4 121 (24.25%) Java
5 119 (23.85%) Python
6 48 (9.62%) PHP
7 21 (4.21%) R
8 9 (1.80%) C++
9 8 (1.60%) Groovy
10 6 (1.20%) Go
11 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.60%) Bash
12 3 (0.60%) C
12 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.60%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (5.81%) Security Cleared
2 26 (5.21%) AWS Certification
3 25 (5.01%) Degree
4 22 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (4.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 21 (4.21%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.61%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.60%) MBA
10 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.61%) Accessibility
2 32 (6.41%) QA
3 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.00%) GDPR
4 5 (1.00%) WCAG
5 4 (0.80%) SLA
6 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.60%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.40%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (12.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (9.22%) Terraform
2 33 (6.61%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.40%) Ansible
4 3 (0.60%) HP Fortify
4 3 (0.60%) Puppet
5 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.20%) Nagios
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.41%) Google
3 13 (2.61%) Adobe
4 12 (2.40%) HubSpot
4 12 (2.40%) Splunk
5 8 (1.60%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.40%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.20%) Apple
7 6 (1.20%) Facebook
7 6 (1.20%) Sony
7 6 (1.20%) Yahoo!
8 5 (1.00%) Oracle
8 5 (1.00%) Pega
8 5 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.80%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.60%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.60%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.40%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.40%) WSO2