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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 27 17
Rank change year-on-year -29 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 391 735 742
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.98% 5.91% 9.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.61% 21.95% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 307 375 641
10th Percentile - £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%

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 1,729 3,348 2,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.60% 26.93% 39.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,381 1,795 2,369
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -7 181 £49,000 -10.91% 115
North West -34 166 £55,000 +4.76% 261
North East -21 46 £47,500 -20.83% 43
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 (4.60%) CMS
2 7 (1.79%) WordPress
3 6 (1.53%) Headless CMS
4 4 (1.02%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.02%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.77%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.51%) Apache
6 2 (0.51%) Confluence
6 2 (0.51%) Drupal
6 2 (0.51%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.51%) IIS
6 2 (0.51%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.77%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.51%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.26%) InVision
4 1 (0.26%) Sketch
4 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.51%) Magento
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.51%) Shopify
4 1 (0.26%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 205 (52.43%) AWS
2 168 (42.97%) Azure
3 99 (25.32%) GitHub
4 50 (12.79%) Serverless
5 16 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (3.84%) GCP
7 14 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (3.07%) SaaS
9 11 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.56%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.05%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.28%) Entra ID
15 5 (1.28%) Figma
15 5 (1.28%) npm
15 5 (1.28%) Power Platform
16 4 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (18.93%) Internet
2 8 (2.05%) WPA
3 4 (1.02%) AMQP
4 3 (0.77%) HTTP
4 3 (0.77%) SSH
5 1 (0.26%) Broadband
5 1 (0.26%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.16%) MySQL
2 27 (6.91%) SQL Server
3 24 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.60%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.81%) Redis
8 10 (2.56%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.28%) Big Data
10 5 (1.28%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.02%) Metadata
12 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.77%) GIS
12 3 (0.77%) Hazelcast
12 3 (0.77%) Power BI
12 3 (0.77%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.51%) Cloudera CDH
13 2 (0.51%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 131 (33.50%) Git
2 32 (8.18%) JIRA
3 17 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.07%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.79%) webpack
6 6 (1.53%) Selenium
7 5 (1.28%) GitLab
7 5 (1.28%) Postman
7 5 (1.28%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.02%) JUnit
8 4 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.77%) JMeter
9 3 (0.77%) Maven
10 2 (0.51%) Appium
10 2 (0.51%) Babel
10 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.51%) Grunt
10 2 (0.51%) gulp
10 2 (0.51%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 110 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 72 (18.41%) Multimedia
3 21 (5.37%) Finance
4 16 (4.09%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.84%) Law
5 15 (3.84%) Manufacturing
5 15 (3.84%) Marketing
6 10 (2.56%) Games
7 8 (2.05%) Electronics
7 8 (2.05%) Retail
8 7 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.53%) Legal
10 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.51%) Banking
11 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.51%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.26%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 225 (57.54%) Developer
2 72 (18.41%) Trainee
3 63 (16.11%) Software Developer
4 52 (13.30%) Senior
5 37 (9.46%) Trainee Developer
5 37 (9.46%) Trainee Software Developer
6 32 (8.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (8.18%) Lead
7 30 (7.67%) Software Engineer
8 29 (7.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 22 (5.63%) Senior Developer
10 20 (5.12%) JIRA Developer
11 18 (4.60%) .NET Developer
12 16 (4.09%) Lead Developer
13 15 (3.84%) Architect
14 14 (3.58%) Java Developer
15 11 (2.81%) C# Developer
15 11 (2.81%) JavaScript Developer
16 10 (2.56%) Mobile Developer
16 10 (2.56%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (49.87%) HTML
2 180 (46.04%) CSS
3 116 (29.67%) React
4 77 (19.69%) .NET
5 66 (16.88%) Node.js
6 46 (11.76%) AngularJS
7 43 (11.00%) REST
8 34 (8.70%) Vue
9 26 (6.65%) RESTful
10 25 (6.39%) CSS3
10 25 (6.39%) HTML5
11 22 (5.63%) Spring Boot
12 21 (5.37%) Spring
13 18 (4.60%) ASP.NET
13 18 (4.60%) React Native
14 17 (4.35%) Next.js
15 16 (4.09%) .NET Core
16 15 (3.84%) Web Services
17 14 (3.58%) .NET Framework
17 14 (3.58%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.12%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.32%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.28%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.77%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.51%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.51%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.51%) Hackathon
9 2 (0.51%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.51%) Social Media
9 2 (0.51%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.09%) Linux
2 12 (3.07%) Android
2 12 (3.07%) Windows
3 11 (2.81%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.51%) CentOS
5 2 (0.51%) Debian
5 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (39.64%) Mentoring
2 128 (32.74%) Agile
3 86 (21.99%) CI/CD
4 81 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 74 (18.93%) Cybersecurity
7 71 (18.16%) Software Engineering
8 61 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (15.09%) DevOps
10 55 (14.07%) Computer Science
10 55 (14.07%) Microservices
11 49 (12.53%) Front End Development
12 44 (11.25%) User Experience
13 39 (9.97%) AI
14 33 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (8.18%) Clean Code
16 29 (7.42%) Web Development
17 28 (7.16%) Code Quality
17 28 (7.16%) Scrum
17 28 (7.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 153 (39.13%) Python
2 123 (31.46%) TypeScript
3 103 (26.34%) C#
4 83 (21.23%) SQL
5 81 (20.72%) Java
6 50 (12.79%) R
7 47 (12.02%) PHP
8 22 (5.63%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.84%) C
10 14 (3.58%) C++
10 14 (3.58%) Ruby
11 13 (3.32%) Dart
11 13 (3.32%) MATLAB
11 13 (3.32%) Rust
12 8 (2.05%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.02%) XAML
14 3 (0.77%) Scala
15 2 (0.51%) Go
15 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (21.99%) AWS Certification
2 85 (21.74%) Azure Certification
2 85 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 72 (18.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 61 (15.60%) Degree
5 32 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (6.39%) Security Cleared
7 20 (5.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 19 (4.86%) SC Cleared
9 13 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (3.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.53%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.14%) QA
2 16 (4.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.77%) GDPR
4 2 (0.51%) HL7
5 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (13.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) HDFS
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (10.23%) Terraform
2 25 (6.39%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.56%) Ansible
4 6 (1.53%) Grafana
5 2 (0.51%) Control-M
5 2 (0.51%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.51%) Puppet
6 1 (0.26%) Argo
6 1 (0.26%) cPanel
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.26%) Plesk
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (28.39%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.63%) Atlassian
3 13 (3.32%) Google
4 10 (2.56%) Oracle
5 8 (2.05%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.79%) HubSpot
7 4 (1.02%) Adobe
7 4 (1.02%) Pega
7 4 (1.02%) WSO2
8 3 (0.77%) IBM
8 3 (0.77%) SAP
9 2 (0.51%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.51%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.51%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.51%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.26%) iManage
10 1 (0.26%) Samsung
10 1 (0.26%) Splunk
10 1 (0.26%) Veracode