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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -21 -8 -10
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 423 642 640
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.06% 6.43% 9.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.45% 22.42% 24.19%
Number of salaries quoted 345 342 556
10th Percentile - £32,500 £36,625
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,625 £84,028
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,730 2,863 2,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.59% 28.69% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 1,573 2,138
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £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 15 December 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 15 December 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 -3 212 £47,436 -13.75% 227
North West -35 162 £52,500 -2.33% 297
North East -20 51 £48,750 -2.50% 55
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 20 (4.73%) CMS
2 14 (3.31%) WordPress
3 9 (2.13%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.42%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.18%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.71%) Apache
7 3 (0.71%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.71%) nginx
7 3 (0.71%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.47%) Confluence
8 2 (0.47%) Drupal
8 2 (0.47%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.71%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.24%) InVision
3 1 (0.24%) Sketch
3 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 246 (58.16%) AWS
2 206 (48.70%) Azure
3 132 (31.21%) GitHub
4 60 (14.18%) Serverless
5 22 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (3.78%) GCP
7 15 (3.55%) Amazon S3
8 14 (3.31%) SaaS
9 11 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.89%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.18%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.18%) Figma
13 5 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 108 (25.53%) Internet
2 4 (0.95%) AMQP
2 4 (0.95%) HTTP
2 4 (0.95%) SSH
3 3 (0.71%) WPA
4 2 (0.47%) Intranet
4 2 (0.47%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.86%) MySQL
2 23 (5.44%) Relational Database
3 22 (5.20%) NoSQL
3 22 (5.20%) SQL Server
4 21 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.60%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.36%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.65%) Redis
8 5 (1.18%) Big Data
8 5 (1.18%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.18%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.95%) Metadata
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.47%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (0.47%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.47%) Power BI
10 2 (0.47%) Tableau
11 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 180 (42.55%) Git
2 37 (8.75%) JIRA
3 24 (5.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.42%) Selenium
6 5 (1.18%) JMeter
6 5 (1.18%) JUnit
6 5 (1.18%) Postman
6 5 (1.18%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.18%) webpack
7 4 (0.95%) GitLab
7 4 (0.95%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.71%) Appium
8 3 (0.71%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.47%) Babel
9 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.47%) Grunt
9 2 (0.47%) gulp
9 2 (0.47%) Maven
9 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 118 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 107 (25.30%) Multimedia
3 19 (4.49%) Public Sector
4 18 (4.26%) Finance
5 17 (4.02%) Marketing
6 14 (3.31%) Law
7 13 (3.07%) Retail
8 11 (2.60%) Games
9 8 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.65%) Electronics
10 7 (1.65%) Legal
11 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Banking
12 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.47%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.24%) Automotive
14 1 (0.24%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 241 (56.97%) Developer
2 107 (25.30%) Trainee
3 73 (17.26%) Software Developer
4 60 (14.18%) Senior
5 50 (11.82%) Trainee Developer
5 50 (11.82%) Trainee Software Developer
6 43 (10.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (7.80%) Software Engineer
8 32 (7.57%) Lead
9 27 (6.38%) Senior Developer
10 25 (5.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 23 (5.44%) JIRA Developer
12 20 (4.73%) Architect
12 20 (4.73%) Java Developer
13 19 (4.49%) .NET Developer
14 14 (3.31%) PHP Developer
15 13 (3.07%) Lead Developer
16 11 (2.60%) Administrator
16 11 (2.60%) Trainee Administrator
16 11 (2.60%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (52.01%) CSS
2 218 (51.54%) HTML
3 121 (28.61%) React
4 80 (18.91%) .NET
5 64 (15.13%) Node.js
6 51 (12.06%) REST
7 50 (11.82%) AngularJS
8 33 (7.80%) Vue
9 28 (6.62%) Spring
9 28 (6.62%) Spring Boot
10 23 (5.44%) RESTful
11 22 (5.20%) ASP.NET
12 20 (4.73%) HTML5
13 18 (4.26%) .NET Core
13 18 (4.26%) CSS3
14 17 (4.02%) Laravel
14 17 (4.02%) Web Services
15 15 (3.55%) .NET Framework
15 15 (3.55%) Next.js
16 14 (3.31%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.55%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.18%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.71%) Social Media
10 2 (0.47%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.47%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.47%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.47%) NHS
10 2 (0.47%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.78%) Linux
2 10 (2.36%) Android
2 10 (2.36%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.42%) Windows
4 3 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.47%) CentOS
5 2 (0.47%) Debian
5 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (47.75%) Mentoring
2 132 (31.21%) Agile
3 100 (23.64%) CI/CD
3 100 (23.64%) Cybersecurity
4 86 (20.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 85 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (16.08%) Software Engineering
8 65 (15.37%) Microservices
9 64 (15.13%) DevOps
10 48 (11.35%) Computer Science
11 46 (10.87%) User Experience
12 44 (10.40%) Front End Development
13 34 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (8.04%) Scrum
13 34 (8.04%) Web Development
14 32 (7.57%) TDD
15 28 (6.62%) Code Quality
16 26 (6.15%) Clean Code
17 25 (5.91%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 177 (41.84%) Python
2 114 (26.95%) TypeScript
3 95 (22.46%) C#
4 74 (17.49%) Java
5 59 (13.95%) R
6 58 (13.71%) SQL
7 34 (8.04%) PHP
8 25 (5.91%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.95%) C
9 4 (0.95%) VB.NET
9 4 (0.95%) XAML
10 3 (0.71%) Scala
11 2 (0.47%) Go
11 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.24%) Perl
12 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (29.79%) AWS Certification
2 125 (29.55%) Azure Certification
2 125 (29.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 107 (25.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 53 (12.53%) Degree
5 23 (5.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 22 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (4.73%) Security Cleared
8 18 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 15 (3.55%) SC Cleared
10 5 (1.18%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.20%) QA
2 21 (4.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.71%) WCAG
4 2 (0.47%) HL7
5 1 (0.24%) GDPR
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (13.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) HDFS
2 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (9.93%) Terraform
2 31 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.84%) Ansible
4 6 (1.42%) Grafana
5 3 (0.71%) cPanel
5 3 (0.71%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.71%) Plesk
6 2 (0.47%) Control-M
6 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.47%) Puppet
7 1 (0.24%) Argo
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 146 (34.52%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.91%) Atlassian
3 13 (3.07%) Oracle
4 12 (2.84%) Google
5 7 (1.65%) Adobe
5 7 (1.65%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.65%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.95%) Pega
6 4 (0.95%) WSO2
7 3 (0.71%) IBM
8 2 (0.47%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.47%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.47%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.47%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.47%) Screaming Frog
9 1 (0.24%) iManage
9 1 (0.24%) New Relic
9 1 (0.24%) Sage
9 1 (0.24%) Samsung
9 1 (0.24%) Splunk