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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 32 20
Rank change year-on-year -30 -12 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 481 680 1,498
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.43% 8.34% 7.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.80% 25.79% 28.62%
Number of salaries quoted 417 308 1,274
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,000 £97,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.23% +10.17% -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 3,249 2,637 5,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.41% 32.32% 27.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,436 1,386 4,332
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £73,852 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -35 242 £57,500 -4.17% 131
Yorkshire -5 192 £60,000 -4.00% 67
North East -16 47 £52,000 +4.00% 20
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 (4.37%) WordPress
2 11 (2.29%) CMS
3 10 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (1.25%) Apache
5 6 (1.25%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.25%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (1.04%) IIS
6 5 (1.04%) JBoss
7 4 (0.83%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.62%) nginx
9 2 (0.42%) CICS
9 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.21%) Confluence
10 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.87%) Shopify
3 4 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.62%) Magento
5 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 211 (43.87%) AWS
2 191 (39.71%) Azure
3 75 (15.59%) GitHub
4 69 (14.35%) Serverless
5 41 (8.52%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (6.44%) Amazon ECS
7 27 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (5.61%) SaaS
8 25 (5.20%) GCP
9 24 (4.99%) Power Automate
9 24 (4.99%) Power Platform
10 19 (3.95%) PowerApps
11 16 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (2.70%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 8 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 48 (9.98%) Internet
2 4 (0.83%) Firewall
2 4 (0.83%) HTTP
3 3 (0.62%) AMQP
3 3 (0.62%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.98%) MySQL
2 32 (6.65%) Relational Database
3 27 (5.61%) MongoDB
4 24 (4.99%) NoSQL
4 24 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (4.78%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (2.49%) MariaDB
7 12 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.87%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.66%) Power BI
11 7 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.25%) Big Data
12 6 (1.25%) GIS
12 6 (1.25%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.83%) QGIS
14 3 (0.62%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 127 (26.40%) Git
2 31 (6.44%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.37%) JIRA
4 17 (3.53%) GitLab
5 11 (2.29%) Maven
6 8 (1.66%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.46%) PHPUnit
8 6 (1.25%) Postman
9 5 (1.04%) JUnit
9 5 (1.04%) Selenium
10 4 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.83%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.83%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.83%) Spock
11 3 (0.62%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.62%) Storybook
12 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.42%) ERwin
12 2 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 77 (16.01%) Social Skills
2 48 (9.98%) Multimedia
3 46 (9.56%) Public Sector
4 42 (8.73%) Finance
5 28 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.99%) Marketing
7 16 (3.33%) Retail
8 11 (2.29%) Law
9 8 (1.66%) Games
9 8 (1.66%) Legal
10 6 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.04%) Advertising
11 5 (1.04%) Agriculture
11 5 (1.04%) Automotive
11 5 (1.04%) Banking
11 5 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.83%) Back Office
12 4 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.62%) French Language
13 3 (0.62%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 250 (51.98%) Developer
2 111 (23.08%) Senior
3 89 (18.50%) Software Engineer
4 75 (15.59%) Senior Developer
5 73 (15.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 59 (12.27%) Lead
7 52 (10.81%) Software Developer
8 48 (9.98%) Trainee
9 36 (7.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 25 (5.20%) .NET Developer
10 25 (5.20%) Java Developer
11 24 (4.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 24 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (4.78%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (4.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (3.95%) Lead Developer
14 19 (3.95%) Trainee Developer
15 17 (3.53%) Trainee Software Developer
16 16 (3.33%) JavaScript Developer
17 15 (3.12%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (30.15%) React
2 144 (29.94%) HTML
3 142 (29.52%) CSS
4 105 (21.83%) Node.js
5 100 (20.79%) .NET
6 62 (12.89%) AngularJS
7 54 (11.23%) REST
8 49 (10.19%) Vue
9 39 (8.11%) RESTful
10 33 (6.86%) .NET Core
11 28 (5.82%) Spring
12 27 (5.61%) Spring Boot
13 22 (4.57%) HTML5
14 21 (4.37%) ASP.NET
14 21 (4.37%) CSS3
15 19 (3.95%) Laravel
16 14 (2.91%) JSON
16 14 (2.91%) Kafka
16 14 (2.91%) Web Services
17 13 (2.70%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.66%) Legacy Code
7 8 (1.66%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (1.46%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.25%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.83%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.83%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.62%) Life Science
12 3 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.25%) Linux
2 4 (0.83%) Android
2 4 (0.83%) Windows
3 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.62%) CentOS
3 3 (0.62%) Debian
3 3 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (37.01%) Full-Stack Development
2 173 (35.97%) Agile
3 147 (30.56%) Mentoring
4 133 (27.65%) Software Engineering
5 125 (25.99%) CI/CD
6 90 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (16.63%) Microservices
8 77 (16.01%) DevOps
9 61 (12.68%) AI
10 60 (12.47%) Scrum
11 56 (11.64%) Front End Development
11 56 (11.64%) TDD
12 54 (11.23%) Test Automation
13 52 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
14 51 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 45 (9.36%) Kanban
16 42 (8.73%) Web Development
17 38 (7.90%) Technical Leadership
18 37 (7.69%) Coaching
18 37 (7.69%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 147 (30.56%) Python
2 127 (26.40%) TypeScript
3 121 (25.16%) Java
4 116 (24.12%) C#
5 105 (21.83%) SQL
6 46 (9.56%) PHP
7 35 (7.28%) R
8 9 (1.87%) C++
9 7 (1.46%) Groovy
10 4 (0.83%) C
10 4 (0.83%) Go
10 4 (0.83%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.62%) Bash
11 3 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.62%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.62%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 59 (12.27%) AWS Certification
2 55 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 54 (11.23%) Azure Certification
4 48 (9.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 27 (5.61%) Degree
6 19 (3.95%) Security Cleared
7 10 (2.08%) SC Cleared
8 9 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 25 (5.20%) QA
3 5 (1.04%) GDPR
4 4 (0.83%) SLA
4 4 (0.83%) WCAG
5 3 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) HL7
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (11.64%) Docker
2 4 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (9.36%) Terraform
2 30 (6.24%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.66%) Ansible
4 3 (0.62%) HP Fortify
4 3 (0.62%) Puppet
5 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.42%) Nagios
5 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.49%) HubSpot
3 10 (2.08%) Adobe
3 10 (2.08%) Google
4 9 (1.87%) Splunk
5 7 (1.46%) Oracle
6 5 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.04%) Pega
6 5 (1.04%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.83%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.62%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.62%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.62%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.42%) Adyen
9 2 (0.42%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (0.42%) New Relic
9 2 (0.42%) Sony
9 2 (0.42%) Sparx
9 2 (0.42%) Yahoo!