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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 36 21
Rank change year-on-year -26 -15 +2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 504 670 1,356
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.42% 7.12% 7.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.55% 24.89% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 438 302 1,106
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £44,063 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,938
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,214 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.36% -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 3,464 2,692 5,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.62% 28.60% 27.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 1,437 4,040
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £68,113
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 15 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 15 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 -29 270 £55,000 -5.17% 137
Yorkshire 0 173 £57,500 -1.96% 99
North East -21 61 £52,000 +4.00% 33
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 24 (4.76%) WordPress
2 23 (4.56%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (1.98%) CMS
4 6 (1.19%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.99%) IIS
6 4 (0.79%) Apache
6 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.79%) JBoss
7 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.40%) CICS
8 2 (0.40%) Confluence
8 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.98%) Shopify
3 4 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.60%) Magento
5 2 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 197 (39.09%) AWS
2 194 (38.49%) Azure
3 62 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (12.10%) Serverless
5 51 (10.12%) GitHub
6 38 (7.54%) Power Automate
7 37 (7.34%) Power Platform
8 34 (6.75%) SaaS
9 31 (6.15%) PowerApps
10 28 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
10 28 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (5.16%) GCP
12 19 (3.77%) Azure AI
12 19 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
15 14 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (2.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 12 (2.38%) Amazon S3
17 12 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.56%) Internet
2 4 (0.79%) Firewall
3 3 (0.60%) AMQP
3 3 (0.60%) HTTP
3 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.20%) Broadband
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.71%) MongoDB
1 54 (10.71%) MySQL
2 33 (6.55%) SQL Server
3 32 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 32 (6.35%) Relational Database
4 29 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (5.36%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.58%) MariaDB
8 12 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.18%) Power BI
10 10 (1.98%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.39%) Redis
11 7 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.19%) Big Data
12 6 (1.19%) GIS
13 5 (0.99%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.79%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 99 (19.64%) Git
2 29 (5.75%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.96%) GitLab
4 20 (3.97%) JIRA
5 14 (2.78%) Maven
6 10 (1.98%) Cypress.io
7 9 (1.79%) JUnit
7 9 (1.79%) Spock
8 7 (1.39%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.19%) PHPUnit
10 5 (0.99%) Postman
10 5 (0.99%) Storybook
11 4 (0.79%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.79%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.79%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.79%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.79%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.79%) Selenium
11 4 (0.79%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 79 (15.67%) Social Skills
2 54 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 48 (9.52%) Finance
4 34 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.36%) Marketing
6 19 (3.77%) Multimedia
7 17 (3.37%) Retail
8 13 (2.58%) Law
9 9 (1.79%) Legal
10 7 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.19%) Publishing
12 5 (0.99%) Advertising
12 5 (0.99%) Agriculture
12 5 (0.99%) Automotive
12 5 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.99%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.79%) Back Office
13 4 (0.79%) Banking
13 4 (0.79%) Games
Job Titles
1 257 (50.99%) Developer
2 116 (23.02%) Senior
3 100 (19.84%) Software Engineer
4 71 (14.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 67 (13.29%) Senior Developer
6 61 (12.10%) Lead
7 45 (8.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 44 (8.73%) .NET Developer
9 35 (6.94%) Software Developer
10 27 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (4.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 21 (4.17%) Java Developer
14 19 (3.77%) Trainee
15 17 (3.37%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (2.98%) Administrator
16 15 (2.98%) Lead Developer
16 15 (2.98%) Test Engineer
16 15 (2.98%) Trainee Administrator
16 15 (2.98%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (31.94%) React
2 132 (26.19%) HTML
3 127 (25.20%) .NET
4 126 (25.00%) Node.js
5 120 (23.81%) CSS
6 73 (14.48%) AngularJS
7 56 (11.11%) Vue
8 51 (10.12%) .NET Core
9 50 (9.92%) RESTful
10 46 (9.13%) REST
11 45 (8.93%) ASP.NET
12 34 (6.75%) ASP.NET Core
13 29 (5.75%) Blazor
13 29 (5.75%) Spring
14 24 (4.76%) HTML5
15 23 (4.56%) .NET Framework
15 23 (4.56%) Spring Boot
16 21 (4.17%) CSS3
17 20 (3.97%) Laravel
18 19 (3.77%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.16%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (2.38%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.18%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.59%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.59%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
10 7 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.39%) Social Media
11 6 (1.19%) BBC
11 6 (1.19%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.99%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.99%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.99%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.39%) Android
2 4 (0.79%) Linux
2 4 (0.79%) Windows
3 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.60%) CentOS
3 3 (0.60%) Debian
3 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.60%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (43.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 211 (41.87%) Agile
3 152 (30.16%) Software Engineering
4 150 (29.76%) CI/CD
5 123 (24.40%) Mentoring
6 119 (23.61%) DevOps
7 105 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (19.84%) AI
9 94 (18.65%) Microservices
10 73 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (14.48%) Test Automation
11 63 (12.50%) TDD
12 61 (12.10%) Scrum
13 56 (11.11%) Front End Development
14 52 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
15 49 (9.72%) Kanban
16 48 (9.52%) Web Development
17 44 (8.73%) Coaching
18 42 (8.33%) Containerisation
19 35 (6.94%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 152 (30.16%) TypeScript
2 146 (28.97%) C#
3 130 (25.79%) SQL
4 122 (24.21%) Java
5 117 (23.21%) Python
6 50 (9.92%) PHP
7 21 (4.17%) R
8 9 (1.79%) C++
9 8 (1.59%) Groovy
10 6 (1.19%) Go
11 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.60%) Bash
12 3 (0.60%) C
12 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.60%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (6.55%) Security Cleared
2 25 (4.96%) Degree
3 24 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 22 (4.37%) SC Cleared
5 20 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (3.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 19 (3.77%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.79%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.60%) MBA
10 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.34%) Accessibility
2 33 (6.55%) QA
3 7 (1.39%) WCAG
4 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.99%) GDPR
6 4 (0.79%) SLA
7 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.40%) PMO
9 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 63 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (8.53%) Terraform
2 34 (6.75%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.39%) Ansible
4 3 (0.60%) HP Fortify
4 3 (0.60%) Puppet
5 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.20%) Nagios
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.57%) Google
3 14 (2.78%) Adobe
4 13 (2.58%) Splunk
5 12 (2.38%) HubSpot
6 9 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.39%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.19%) Apple
8 6 (1.19%) Facebook
8 6 (1.19%) Sony
8 6 (1.19%) Yahoo!
9 5 (0.99%) Pega
9 5 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.79%) Oracle
10 4 (0.79%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.60%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.60%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.60%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.40%) Adyen
12 2 (0.40%) WooCommerce