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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 40 20
Rank change year-on-year -21 -20 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 498 461 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.80% 6.58% 8.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.87% 20.70% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 412 382 1,200
10th Percentile - £35,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,773 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.73% +10.35% -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 2,787 2,227 4,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.65% 31.80% 29.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,972 1,503 4,151
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,797 £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 24 April 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 24 April 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
Yorkshire -12 226 £50,000 -11.89% 47
North West -22 222 £50,000 -13.04% 85
North East -18 50 £47,500 -2.56% 20
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 29 (5.82%) WordPress
2 15 (3.01%) CMS
3 9 (1.81%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.41%) Apache
6 5 (1.00%) JBoss
7 4 (0.80%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.80%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.80%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.60%) nginx
9 2 (0.40%) CICS
9 2 (0.40%) IIS
10 1 (0.20%) Confluence
10 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.61%) Shopify
2 7 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.80%) Magento
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 257 (51.61%) AWS
2 242 (48.59%) Azure
3 137 (27.51%) GitHub
4 68 (13.65%) Serverless
5 26 (5.22%) GCP
6 24 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (4.62%) SaaS
8 22 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.41%) Power Automate
10 17 (3.41%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (2.61%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.61%) PowerApps
13 12 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.81%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.20%) Apigee
15 6 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 117 (23.49%) Internet
2 4 (0.80%) AMQP
2 4 (0.80%) HTTP
3 2 (0.40%) Firewall
3 2 (0.40%) Intranet
3 2 (0.40%) OpenVPN
3 2 (0.40%) SSH
3 2 (0.40%) SSL
4 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.22%) MySQL
2 24 (4.82%) Relational Database
3 22 (4.42%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.82%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.01%) MongoDB
5 15 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.81%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.81%) Power BI
7 8 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (1.41%) Big Data
9 6 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.00%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.80%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.80%) GIS
11 4 (0.80%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.80%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.80%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 198 (39.76%) Git
2 28 (5.62%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.62%) JIRA
3 7 (1.41%) GitLab
3 7 (1.41%) PHPUnit
3 7 (1.41%) Selenium
4 6 (1.20%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.20%) Postman
5 5 (1.00%) Maven
6 4 (0.80%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.80%) JUnit
6 4 (0.80%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.60%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.40%) JMeter
8 2 (0.40%) Subversion
8 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Appium
General
1 117 (23.49%) Multimedia
2 99 (19.88%) Social Skills
3 27 (5.42%) Finance
3 27 (5.42%) Public Sector
4 19 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.01%) Retail
6 11 (2.21%) Marketing
7 10 (2.01%) Law
8 8 (1.61%) Games
9 6 (1.20%) Legal
10 5 (1.00%) Advertising
11 4 (0.80%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.80%) Agriculture
11 4 (0.80%) Automotive
12 3 (0.60%) Electronics
12 3 (0.60%) French Language
12 3 (0.60%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.60%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.60%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 264 (53.01%) Developer
2 117 (23.49%) Trainee
3 91 (18.27%) Senior
4 81 (16.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 72 (14.46%) Software Engineer
6 63 (12.65%) Software Developer
7 59 (11.85%) Senior Developer
8 50 (10.04%) Trainee Developer
9 48 (9.64%) Trainee Software Developer
10 45 (9.04%) Lead
11 27 (5.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 26 (5.22%) Administrator
12 26 (5.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 26 (5.22%) Trainee Administrator
12 26 (5.22%) Web Administrator
13 23 (4.62%) Java Developer
14 20 (4.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 19 (3.82%) .NET Developer
16 17 (3.41%) Lead Software Engineer
17 16 (3.21%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (44.18%) HTML
2 219 (43.98%) CSS
3 138 (27.71%) React
4 89 (17.87%) .NET
5 86 (17.27%) Node.js
6 57 (11.45%) AngularJS
7 51 (10.24%) REST
8 47 (9.44%) Vue
9 31 (6.22%) Spring Boot
10 28 (5.62%) .NET Core
10 28 (5.62%) RESTful
10 28 (5.62%) Spring
11 21 (4.22%) Web Services
12 20 (4.02%) Laravel
13 18 (3.61%) ASP.NET
13 18 (3.61%) HTML5
14 17 (3.41%) Kafka
15 14 (2.81%) CSS3
15 14 (2.81%) Next.js
16 13 (2.61%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.62%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.81%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.41%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.20%) Legacy Code
9 6 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.20%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.00%) NHS
10 5 (1.00%) Social Media
11 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.80%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.60%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.61%) Linux
2 7 (1.41%) Android
2 7 (1.41%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.80%) CentOS
3 4 (0.80%) Debian
3 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.80%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (41.57%) Mentoring
2 155 (31.12%) Agile
3 144 (28.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 106 (21.29%) Cybersecurity
4 106 (21.29%) Software Engineering
5 97 (19.48%) CI/CD
6 86 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (13.45%) Microservices
8 57 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (10.84%) Scrum
10 52 (10.44%) DevOps
11 50 (10.04%) Web Development
12 49 (9.84%) Front End Development
13 42 (8.43%) TDD
14 38 (7.63%) Kanban
15 37 (7.43%) User Experience
16 36 (7.23%) AI
16 36 (7.23%) Containerisation
17 31 (6.22%) Design Patterns
18 30 (6.02%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 209 (41.97%) Python
2 115 (23.09%) TypeScript
3 98 (19.68%) Java
4 97 (19.48%) C#
5 71 (14.26%) SQL
6 68 (13.65%) R
7 32 (6.43%) PHP
8 9 (1.81%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.41%) C
10 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.60%) Bash
11 3 (0.60%) C++
11 3 (0.60%) Go
11 3 (0.60%) Groovy
11 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.20%) VB
13 1 (0.20%) XAML
Qualifications
1 135 (27.11%) AWS Certification
2 133 (26.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 132 (26.51%) Azure Certification
4 117 (23.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 36 (7.23%) Degree
6 20 (4.02%) Security Cleared
7 18 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (3.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (2.01%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.81%) SC Cleared
12 7 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (1.00%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.22%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.01%) QA
3 6 (1.20%) GDPR
4 4 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.60%) WCAG
6 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 50 (10.04%) Docker
2 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (8.03%) Terraform
2 31 (6.22%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.61%) Ansible
4 4 (0.80%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.80%) Puppet
5 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.40%) cPanel
5 2 (0.40%) Nagios
5 2 (0.40%) Plesk
5 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 158 (31.73%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.81%) Oracle
3 12 (2.41%) Atlassian
3 12 (2.41%) Google
4 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.00%) Adobe
5 5 (1.00%) Pega
6 4 (0.80%) HubSpot
6 4 (0.80%) SaltStack
7 3 (0.60%) New Relic
8 2 (0.40%) Adyen
8 2 (0.40%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.40%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.40%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.40%) Splunk
8 2 (0.40%) WSO2
9 1 (0.20%) Apple
9 1 (0.20%) Facebook
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore