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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 28 15
Rank change year-on-year -24 -13 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 402 755 690
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.26% 6.23% 9.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.51% 22.66% 24.49%
Number of salaries quoted 334 393 602
10th Percentile - £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £84,000
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 1,710 3,332 2,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 18.11% 27.48% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,380 1,827 2,272
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,479
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 28 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 28 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 -5 187 £49,000 -10.91% 83
North West -35 170 £55,000 +4.76% 142
North East -17 47 £47,500 -13.64% 40
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 22 (5.47%) CMS
2 10 (2.49%) WordPress
3 7 (1.74%) Headless CMS
4 5 (1.24%) Umbraco
5 4 (1.00%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.50%) Apache
6 2 (0.50%) Confluence
6 2 (0.50%) Drupal
6 2 (0.50%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.50%) IIS
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
6 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.75%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.50%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.25%) InVision
4 1 (0.25%) Sketch
4 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.24%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.50%) Shopify
4 1 (0.25%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 216 (53.73%) AWS
2 186 (46.27%) Azure
3 108 (26.87%) GitHub
4 52 (12.94%) Serverless
5 17 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (3.98%) GCP
7 15 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (3.23%) SaaS
9 10 (2.49%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (2.24%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.49%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.24%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.24%) Figma
12 5 (1.24%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 83 (20.65%) Internet
2 8 (1.99%) WPA
3 4 (1.00%) AMQP
3 4 (1.00%) SSH
4 3 (0.75%) HTTP
5 2 (0.50%) Intranet
5 2 (0.50%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.97%) MySQL
2 27 (6.72%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.47%) NoSQL
4 21 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.98%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.74%) Redis
8 10 (2.49%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.24%) Big Data
10 5 (1.24%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.00%) Metadata
11 4 (1.00%) Power BI
12 3 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.75%) Hazelcast
12 3 (0.75%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.75%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.50%) Cloudera CDH
13 2 (0.50%) GIS
13 2 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 147 (36.57%) Git
2 33 (8.21%) JIRA
3 19 (4.73%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.74%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.99%) Selenium
6 7 (1.74%) webpack
7 6 (1.49%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.24%) GitLab
8 5 (1.24%) JMeter
8 5 (1.24%) Postman
9 4 (1.00%) JUnit
9 4 (1.00%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.75%) Appium
10 3 (0.75%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.75%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.75%) Maven
11 2 (0.50%) Babel
11 2 (0.50%) Grunt
11 2 (0.50%) gulp
11 2 (0.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 116 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 81 (20.15%) Multimedia
3 21 (5.22%) Finance
4 17 (4.23%) Marketing
5 16 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.73%) Law
7 13 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.74%) Retail
9 9 (2.24%) Games
10 8 (1.99%) Legal
11 7 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (1.74%) Electronics
12 4 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.50%) Banking
14 2 (0.50%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.25%) Automotive
15 1 (0.25%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 237 (58.96%) Developer
2 81 (20.15%) Trainee
3 66 (16.42%) Software Developer
4 59 (14.68%) Senior
5 41 (10.20%) Trainee Developer
5 41 (10.20%) Trainee Software Developer
6 35 (8.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 32 (7.96%) Lead
7 32 (7.96%) Software Engineer
8 31 (7.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 26 (6.47%) Senior Developer
10 20 (4.98%) JIRA Developer
11 19 (4.73%) .NET Developer
12 18 (4.48%) Architect
13 15 (3.73%) Java Developer
14 14 (3.48%) Lead Developer
15 11 (2.74%) C# Developer
15 11 (2.74%) PHP Developer
16 10 (2.49%) Applications Architect
16 10 (2.49%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (50.25%) HTML
2 201 (50.00%) CSS
3 122 (30.35%) React
4 87 (21.64%) .NET
5 65 (16.17%) Node.js
6 52 (12.94%) AngularJS
7 44 (10.95%) REST
8 33 (8.21%) Vue
9 26 (6.47%) HTML5
10 25 (6.22%) ASP.NET
10 25 (6.22%) CSS3
10 25 (6.22%) RESTful
11 22 (5.47%) Spring Boot
12 21 (5.22%) Spring
13 20 (4.98%) .NET Core
14 18 (4.48%) Next.js
15 17 (4.23%) .NET Framework
15 17 (4.23%) React Native
16 16 (3.98%) Web Services
17 14 (3.48%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.72%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (4.73%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.24%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.75%) NHS
8 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.75%) Social Media
9 2 (0.50%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.50%) Hackathon
9 2 (0.50%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.23%) Linux
2 12 (2.99%) Android
2 12 (2.99%) Windows
3 11 (2.74%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.50%) CentOS
5 2 (0.50%) Debian
5 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (43.78%) Mentoring
2 130 (32.34%) Agile
3 91 (22.64%) CI/CD
4 83 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (20.40%) Cybersecurity
6 80 (19.90%) Full-Stack Development
7 74 (18.41%) Software Engineering
8 66 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (16.42%) DevOps
9 59 (14.68%) Microservices
10 51 (12.69%) Front End Development
11 49 (12.19%) User Experience
12 45 (11.19%) Computer Science
13 33 (8.21%) Clean Code
13 33 (8.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (7.71%) AI
14 31 (7.71%) Web Development
15 29 (7.21%) Code Quality
15 29 (7.21%) Scrum
15 29 (7.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 152 (37.81%) Python
2 115 (28.61%) TypeScript
3 101 (25.12%) C#
4 73 (18.16%) SQL
5 70 (17.41%) Java
6 43 (10.70%) R
7 34 (8.46%) PHP
8 22 (5.47%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.99%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.00%) C
10 4 (1.00%) XAML
11 3 (0.75%) Scala
12 2 (0.50%) Go
12 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.25%) C++
13 1 (0.25%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.25%) Perl
13 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (24.38%) AWS Certification
2 97 (24.13%) Azure Certification
2 97 (24.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 81 (20.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 52 (12.94%) Degree
5 22 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (5.47%) Security Cleared
6 20 (4.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 17 (4.23%) SC Cleared
8 16 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (3.98%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.00%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.97%) QA
2 21 (5.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.00%) GDPR
4 3 (0.75%) WCAG
5 2 (0.50%) HL7
6 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (13.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) HDFS
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (9.95%) Terraform
2 28 (6.97%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.74%) Ansible
4 6 (1.49%) Grafana
5 3 (0.75%) cPanel
5 3 (0.75%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.75%) Plesk
6 2 (0.50%) Control-M
6 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.50%) Puppet
7 1 (0.25%) Argo
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (30.85%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.47%) Atlassian
3 14 (3.48%) Google
4 9 (2.24%) Oracle
5 8 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.74%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.49%) Adobe
8 4 (1.00%) Pega
8 4 (1.00%) WSO2
9 3 (0.75%) IBM
10 2 (0.50%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.50%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.50%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.50%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.50%) Screaming Frog
11 1 (0.25%) iManage
11 1 (0.25%) New Relic
11 1 (0.25%) Samsung
11 1 (0.25%) Splunk
11 1 (0.25%) Veracode