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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 34 20
Rank change year-on-year -27 -14 +2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 493 677 1,486
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.40% 7.53% 7.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.38% 25.32% 27.84%
Number of salaries quoted 429 306 1,233
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% +10.37% -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 3,428 2,674 5,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.71% 29.76% 27.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,595 1,419 4,308
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,599 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,777 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -26 263 £55,000 -8.33% 100
Yorkshire -1 175 £57,500 -8.00% 59
North East -14 55 £52,000 +4.00% 23
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 23 (4.67%) WordPress
2 21 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (1.83%) CMS
4 6 (1.22%) IIS
4 6 (1.22%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.81%) Apache
5 4 (0.81%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.81%) JBoss
6 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.41%) CICS
7 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.20%) Confluence
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.03%) Shopify
3 4 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.61%) Magento
5 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 197 (39.96%) Azure
2 188 (38.13%) AWS
3 62 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (12.17%) Serverless
5 55 (11.16%) GitHub
6 36 (7.30%) Power Automate
6 36 (7.30%) Power Platform
7 30 (6.09%) SaaS
8 29 (5.88%) PowerApps
9 27 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (5.27%) GCP
11 19 (3.85%) Azure AI
11 19 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (2.84%) Microsoft Copilot
15 12 (2.43%) Amazon S3
15 12 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 12 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.27%) Internet
2 4 (0.81%) Firewall
3 3 (0.61%) AMQP
3 3 (0.61%) HTTP
3 3 (0.61%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.20%) Broadband
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.34%) MongoDB
1 51 (10.34%) MySQL
2 31 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 30 (6.09%) Relational Database
4 29 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 26 (5.27%) NoSQL
5 26 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.64%) MariaDB
8 12 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.23%) Power BI
10 10 (2.03%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.22%) Big Data
12 6 (1.22%) GIS
13 5 (1.01%) Neo4j
13 5 (1.01%) Redis
14 4 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.81%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 101 (20.49%) Git
2 30 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.26%) GitLab
4 19 (3.85%) JIRA
5 12 (2.43%) Maven
6 11 (2.23%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.42%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.22%) JUnit
8 6 (1.22%) PHPUnit
8 6 (1.22%) Postman
8 6 (1.22%) Spock
9 5 (1.01%) Selenium
10 4 (0.81%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.81%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.81%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.81%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.81%) Storybook
10 4 (0.81%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.61%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 77 (15.62%) Social Skills
2 50 (10.14%) Public Sector
3 46 (9.33%) Finance
4 33 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.27%) Marketing
6 23 (4.67%) Multimedia
7 16 (3.25%) Retail
8 12 (2.43%) Law
9 9 (1.83%) Legal
10 7 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.01%) Advertising
11 5 (1.01%) Agriculture
11 5 (1.01%) Automotive
11 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.01%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.81%) Back Office
12 4 (0.81%) Banking
12 4 (0.81%) Games
12 4 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 253 (51.32%) Developer
2 111 (22.52%) Senior
3 99 (20.08%) Software Engineer
4 72 (14.60%) Full-Stack Developer
5 66 (13.39%) Senior Developer
6 61 (12.37%) Lead
7 42 (8.52%) .NET Developer
8 40 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 39 (7.91%) Software Developer
10 27 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (5.07%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (4.67%) Trainee
13 22 (4.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 21 (4.26%) Java Developer
15 18 (3.65%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 17 (3.45%) Lead Developer
17 15 (3.04%) Administrator
17 15 (3.04%) Senior Software Developer
17 15 (3.04%) Test Engineer
17 15 (3.04%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (32.05%) React
2 129 (26.17%) HTML
3 125 (25.35%) .NET
4 120 (24.34%) Node.js
5 118 (23.94%) CSS
6 70 (14.20%) AngularJS
7 55 (11.16%) Vue
8 51 (10.34%) .NET Core
8 51 (10.34%) RESTful
9 49 (9.94%) REST
10 42 (8.52%) ASP.NET
11 32 (6.49%) ASP.NET Core
12 27 (5.48%) Blazor
13 26 (5.27%) Spring
14 23 (4.67%) HTML5
14 23 (4.67%) Spring Boot
15 20 (4.06%) .NET Framework
15 20 (4.06%) CSS3
16 19 (3.85%) ML.NET
17 18 (3.65%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.83%) Low-Code
7 9 (1.83%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.62%) Legacy Code
8 8 (1.62%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.42%) Social Media
10 6 (1.22%) BBC
10 6 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.22%) Social Network
11 5 (1.01%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.01%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.81%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.42%) Android
2 4 (0.81%) Linux
2 4 (0.81%) Windows
3 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.61%) CentOS
3 3 (0.61%) Debian
3 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (41.99%) Full-Stack Development
2 204 (41.38%) Agile
3 147 (29.82%) Software Engineering
4 138 (27.99%) CI/CD
5 120 (24.34%) Mentoring
6 114 (23.12%) DevOps
7 104 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (18.66%) AI
9 88 (17.85%) Microservices
10 66 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (13.39%) Test Automation
11 59 (11.97%) TDD
12 58 (11.76%) Scrum
13 55 (11.16%) Front End Development
14 46 (9.33%) Kanban
14 46 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
15 45 (9.13%) Web Development
16 41 (8.32%) Coaching
17 40 (8.11%) Containerisation
18 35 (7.10%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 142 (28.80%) C#
2 140 (28.40%) TypeScript
3 129 (26.17%) SQL
4 120 (24.34%) Python
5 119 (24.14%) Java
6 47 (9.53%) PHP
7 22 (4.46%) R
8 9 (1.83%) C++
9 7 (1.42%) Groovy
10 6 (1.22%) Go
11 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.61%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.61%) Bash
12 3 (0.61%) C
12 3 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.61%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 28 (5.68%) AWS Certification
3 25 (5.07%) Degree
4 24 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (4.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 23 (4.67%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.65%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.61%) MBA
10 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.69%) Accessibility
2 32 (6.49%) QA
3 6 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.01%) GDPR
4 5 (1.01%) WCAG
5 4 (0.81%) SLA
6 3 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.61%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.41%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (11.76%) Docker
2 3 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (9.33%) Terraform
2 33 (6.69%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.42%) Ansible
4 3 (0.61%) HP Fortify
4 3 (0.61%) Puppet
5 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.20%) Nagios
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.45%) Google
3 13 (2.64%) Adobe
4 12 (2.43%) HubSpot
5 10 (2.03%) Splunk
6 7 (1.42%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.22%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.22%) Apple
7 6 (1.22%) Facebook
7 6 (1.22%) Oracle
7 6 (1.22%) Sony
7 6 (1.22%) Yahoo!
8 5 (1.01%) Pega
8 5 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.81%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.61%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.61%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.61%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.41%) Adyen
11 2 (0.41%) WooCommerce