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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 41 22
Rank change year-on-year -19 -19 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 525 607 954
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.27% 6.49% 6.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.56% 23.93% 25.36%
Number of salaries quoted 458 245 621
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £85,450 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% -3.85%

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 3,607 2,537 3,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.63% 27.13% 26.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,759 1,283 2,507
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -18 294 £53,000 -11.67% 147
Yorkshire -15 145 £55,000 -8.18% 74
North East -9 86 £51,000 +2.00% 37
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 35 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 28 (5.33%) WordPress
3 13 (2.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.48%) CMS
4 8 (1.52%) IIS
5 6 (1.14%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.57%) Apache
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.38%) JBoss
7 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.19%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 11 (2.10%) Shopify
2 10 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.33%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.38%) Magento
5 2 (0.38%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 197 (37.52%) Azure
2 193 (36.76%) AWS
3 67 (12.76%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (11.24%) Serverless
5 56 (10.67%) Power Platform
6 55 (10.48%) Power Automate
7 47 (8.95%) GitHub
8 43 (8.19%) PowerApps
9 35 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (6.48%) SaaS
11 30 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (4.38%) Microsoft Copilot
14 22 (4.19%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (3.81%) Azure AI
16 20 (3.81%) GCP
17 15 (2.86%) Amazon S3
18 13 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 12 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.38%) Internet
2 5 (0.95%) HTTP
3 3 (0.57%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.57%) MQTT
4 2 (0.38%) AMQP
4 2 (0.38%) Firewall
4 2 (0.38%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.86%) MongoDB
2 48 (9.14%) MySQL
3 39 (7.43%) SQL Server
4 33 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 31 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 24 (4.57%) NoSQL
8 19 (3.62%) Power BI
9 15 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.48%) MariaDB
11 11 (2.10%) Redis
11 11 (2.10%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.52%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.95%) GIS
15 4 (0.76%) Neo4j
16 3 (0.57%) Big Data
16 3 (0.57%) DocumentDB
16 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 112 (21.33%) Git
2 32 (6.10%) GitLab
3 19 (3.62%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.62%) Maven
4 15 (2.86%) JIRA
4 15 (2.86%) JUnit
5 13 (2.48%) Spock
6 12 (2.29%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.52%) Storybook
8 6 (1.14%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.95%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.95%) Postman
10 4 (0.76%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.76%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.76%) Selenium
11 2 (0.38%) ERwin
11 2 (0.38%) Mocha
11 2 (0.38%) Mockito
General
1 97 (18.48%) Social Skills
2 74 (14.10%) Public Sector
3 46 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.57%) Finance
5 36 (6.86%) Marketing
6 19 (3.62%) Multimedia
7 14 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.67%) Retail
8 13 (2.48%) Law
9 11 (2.10%) Publishing
10 10 (1.90%) Legal
10 10 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.95%) Agriculture
11 5 (0.95%) Automotive
11 5 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.76%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.57%) Advertising
13 3 (0.57%) Banking
13 3 (0.57%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 275 (52.38%) Developer
2 98 (18.67%) Senior
3 84 (16.00%) Software Engineer
4 59 (11.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 56 (10.67%) Senior Developer
6 51 (9.71%) Lead
7 45 (8.57%) .NET Developer
8 38 (7.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 38 (7.24%) Software Developer
9 32 (6.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 23 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (4.19%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 20 (3.81%) Lead Software Engineer
13 19 (3.62%) Trainee
14 17 (3.24%) Lead Developer
15 15 (2.86%) Administrator
15 15 (2.86%) Analyst
15 15 (2.86%) Test Engineer
15 15 (2.86%) Trainee Administrator
15 15 (2.86%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (31.43%) HTML
2 151 (28.76%) CSS
3 145 (27.62%) React
4 130 (24.76%) .NET
5 121 (23.05%) Node.js
6 68 (12.95%) AngularJS
7 55 (10.48%) .NET Core
8 52 (9.90%) ASP.NET
9 50 (9.52%) REST
10 49 (9.33%) RESTful
11 46 (8.76%) Vue
12 37 (7.05%) ASP.NET Core
13 36 (6.86%) Terraform
14 33 (6.29%) Spring
15 32 (6.10%) Blazor
16 24 (4.57%) .NET Framework
16 24 (4.57%) CSS3
17 23 (4.38%) HTML5
18 22 (4.19%) HTML5 Canvas
19 21 (4.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.24%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (3.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 17 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.86%) Private Cloud
7 13 (2.48%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.10%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (1.71%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.71%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.33%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.33%) Social Media
12 6 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.14%) BBC
13 5 (0.95%) e-Learning
13 5 (0.95%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.95%) Linux
2 4 (0.76%) Android
2 4 (0.76%) VMS
3 3 (0.57%) Windows
4 2 (0.38%) CentOS
4 2 (0.38%) Debian
4 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (45.52%) Agile
2 212 (40.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 186 (35.43%) CI/CD
4 149 (28.38%) Software Engineering
5 144 (27.43%) Mentoring
6 135 (25.71%) DevOps
7 112 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
8 110 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (20.76%) AI
10 90 (17.14%) Microservices
11 88 (16.76%) Test Automation
12 65 (12.38%) TDD
13 63 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
14 60 (11.43%) Coaching
14 60 (11.43%) Front End Development
15 55 (10.48%) Scrum
16 53 (10.10%) Web Development
17 41 (7.81%) Clean Code
18 40 (7.62%) Kanban
19 39 (7.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 169 (32.19%) C#
2 162 (30.86%) TypeScript
3 153 (29.14%) SQL
4 124 (23.62%) Java
5 110 (20.95%) Python
6 43 (8.19%) PHP
7 23 (4.38%) C++
8 21 (4.00%) R
9 9 (1.71%) Go
9 9 (1.71%) Groovy
9 9 (1.71%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.95%) C
11 4 (0.76%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.57%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.38%) Dart
13 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.19%) Bash
14 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (9.90%) Security Cleared
2 42 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 31 (5.90%) Degree
4 24 (4.57%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 19 (3.62%) Azure Certification
5 19 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.76%) MBA
9 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.29%) Accessibility
2 51 (9.71%) QA
3 21 (4.00%) WCAG
4 11 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.57%) SLA
7 2 (0.38%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 72 (13.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.33%) Ansible
3 2 (0.38%) Puppet
3 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.19%) Argo
4 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 111 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.62%) Google
3 18 (3.43%) Adobe
4 17 (3.24%) Splunk
5 13 (2.48%) AppDynamics
6 12 (2.29%) HubSpot
7 10 (1.90%) Sage
8 7 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.33%) SAP
9 6 (1.14%) Apple
9 6 (1.14%) Facebook
9 6 (1.14%) Sony
9 6 (1.14%) Yahoo!
10 5 (0.95%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.76%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.57%) Confluent
12 3 (0.57%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.57%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
13 2 (0.38%) Sparx