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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 46 25
Rank change year-on-year -22 -21 -10
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 514 587 868
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.13% 6.13% 6.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.38% 23.62% 23.89%
Number of salaries quoted 431 228 476
10th Percentile £39,000 £28,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £75,000
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 3,575 2,485 3,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.83% 25.95% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,761 1,227 2,099
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £70,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -26 291 £57,500 -2.13% 194
Yorkshire -16 130 £55,000 -6.22% 90
North East -8 93 £52,000 +4.00% 45
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 42 (8.17%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.72%) CMS
2 14 (2.72%) WordPress
3 13 (2.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.56%) IIS
5 7 (1.36%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.78%) Apache
7 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.58%) Confluence
7 3 (0.58%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.58%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) Kentico
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Elementor
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.75%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.75%) Shopify
3 3 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.39%) Magento
4 2 (0.39%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 173 (33.66%) AWS
2 171 (33.27%) Azure
3 63 (12.26%) Power Platform
4 62 (12.06%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (11.87%) Power Automate
5 61 (11.87%) Serverless
6 48 (9.34%) PowerApps
7 46 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (6.03%) GitHub
9 31 (6.03%) SaaS
10 29 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (5.64%) Microsoft Copilot
11 25 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (4.86%) Amazon S3
12 22 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (4.28%) GCP
13 19 (3.70%) Azure AI
14 16 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.97%) HTTP
2 4 (0.78%) Internet
3 3 (0.58%) AMQP
3 3 (0.58%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.58%) MQTT
4 2 (0.39%) Firewall
4 2 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.51%) MongoDB
2 46 (8.95%) MySQL
3 42 (8.17%) SQL Server
4 31 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 30 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (4.28%) Relational Database
7 21 (4.09%) NoSQL
8 20 (3.89%) Power BI
9 15 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (2.72%) MariaDB
11 12 (2.33%) Spark SQL
12 11 (2.14%) Redis
13 7 (1.36%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.17%) DocumentDB
14 6 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.97%) GIS
16 4 (0.78%) Neo4j
17 3 (0.58%) Big Data
17 3 (0.58%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 94 (18.29%) Git
2 39 (7.59%) GitLab
3 21 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.50%) Maven
6 16 (3.11%) JUnit
7 13 (2.53%) JIRA
7 13 (2.53%) Spock
8 8 (1.56%) Postman
8 8 (1.56%) Storybook
9 7 (1.36%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.17%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.17%) Selenium
11 5 (0.97%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.97%) JMeter
12 4 (0.78%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.78%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.58%) Mockito
14 2 (0.39%) ERwin
14 2 (0.39%) Mocha
General
1 103 (20.04%) Social Skills
2 78 (15.18%) Public Sector
3 50 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (8.95%) Finance
5 39 (7.59%) Marketing
6 21 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.92%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.72%) Retail
9 12 (2.33%) Legal
9 12 (2.33%) Publishing
10 10 (1.95%) Law
11 5 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.58%) Agriculture
13 3 (0.58%) Automotive
13 3 (0.58%) Banking
13 3 (0.58%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 274 (53.31%) Developer
2 107 (20.82%) Senior
3 69 (13.42%) Software Engineer
4 62 (12.06%) Senior Developer
5 52 (10.12%) .NET Developer
6 49 (9.53%) Software Developer
7 45 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
8 44 (8.56%) Lead
9 36 (7.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 33 (6.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 28 (5.45%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 21 (4.09%) Senior Software Developer
13 19 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (3.50%) Analyst
15 17 (3.31%) Test Engineer
16 16 (3.11%) Lead Developer
17 15 (2.92%) Lead Software Engineer
18 13 (2.53%) Data Engineer
18 13 (2.53%) Java Developer
19 12 (2.33%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (30.54%) HTML
2 145 (28.21%) CSS
3 141 (27.43%) React
4 137 (26.65%) .NET
5 117 (22.76%) Node.js
6 68 (13.23%) AngularJS
7 59 (11.48%) .NET Core
7 59 (11.48%) REST
8 52 (10.12%) RESTful
9 48 (9.34%) ASP.NET
10 39 (7.59%) Vue
11 35 (6.81%) ASP.NET Core
12 33 (6.42%) Terraform
13 31 (6.03%) Spring
14 30 (5.84%) Blazor
15 25 (4.86%) .NET Framework
16 22 (4.28%) CSS3
16 22 (4.28%) HTML5 Canvas
17 21 (4.09%) Entity Framework
17 21 (4.09%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (4.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 23 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (3.89%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.72%) Private Cloud
8 13 (2.53%) Marketing Technology
8 13 (2.53%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.36%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.17%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.17%) Social Media
12 5 (0.97%) BBC
12 5 (0.97%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.36%) Linux
2 5 (0.97%) Android
2 5 (0.97%) Windows
3 4 (0.78%) VMS
4 3 (0.58%) CentOS
4 3 (0.58%) Debian
4 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (46.30%) Agile
2 198 (38.52%) CI/CD
3 192 (37.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 142 (27.63%) Mentoring
5 139 (27.04%) Software Engineering
6 136 (26.46%) DevOps
7 120 (23.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 117 (22.76%) AI
9 116 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
10 104 (20.23%) Test Automation
11 88 (17.12%) Microservices
12 68 (13.23%) Technical Leadership
13 67 (13.04%) Coaching
14 65 (12.65%) TDD
15 58 (11.28%) Front End Development
16 53 (10.31%) Scrum
17 47 (9.14%) Collaborative Working
17 47 (9.14%) SDLC
17 47 (9.14%) Software Testing
18 46 (8.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 174 (33.85%) C#
2 168 (32.68%) TypeScript
3 147 (28.60%) SQL
4 114 (22.18%) Java
5 97 (18.87%) Python
6 41 (7.98%) PHP
7 22 (4.28%) C++
8 12 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.75%) Go
10 8 (1.56%) Groovy
11 6 (1.17%) C
11 6 (1.17%) R
11 6 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.78%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.58%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.39%) Dart
15 1 (0.19%) Perl
15 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 64 (12.45%) Security Cleared
2 52 (10.12%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.39%) Degree
4 12 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.78%) MBA
7 3 (0.58%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (12.84%) QA
2 64 (12.45%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.84%) WCAG
4 13 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.58%) SLA
7 2 (0.39%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 71 (13.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.17%) Ansible
3 3 (0.58%) Puppet
4 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.19%) Argo
5 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 97 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.89%) Google
3 19 (3.70%) Adobe
4 17 (3.31%) Splunk
5 13 (2.53%) AppDynamics
6 11 (2.14%) HubSpot
6 11 (2.14%) Sage
7 9 (1.75%) SAP
8 8 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.17%) Confluent
9 6 (1.17%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.97%) Apple
10 5 (0.97%) Facebook
10 5 (0.97%) Sony
10 5 (0.97%) Yahoo!
11 4 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.78%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.58%) IBM
12 3 (0.58%) SaltStack