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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 31 20
Rank change year-on-year -36 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 487 668 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.49% 8.65% 8.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.64% 26.08% 28.95%
Number of salaries quoted 416 303 1,247
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £97,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 3,114 2,561 4,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.93% 33.17% 28.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,289 1,322 4,216
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,999 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £67,804
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,698 £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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -41 231 £55,000 -4.35% 131
Yorkshire -6 207 £55,000 -12.00% 87
North East -13 49 £51,000 -7.27% 56
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 (5.95%) WordPress
2 12 (2.46%) CMS
3 9 (1.85%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.23%) Apache
5 6 (1.23%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (1.03%) IIS
6 5 (1.03%) JBoss
7 4 (0.82%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.62%) nginx
9 2 (0.41%) CICS
9 2 (0.41%) Confluence
9 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.64%) Shopify
3 4 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.62%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 232 (47.64%) AWS
2 212 (43.53%) Azure
3 97 (19.92%) GitHub
4 68 (13.96%) Serverless
5 37 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
7 25 (5.13%) GCP
8 23 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (4.72%) SaaS
9 19 (3.90%) Power Automate
9 19 (3.90%) Power Platform
10 15 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (3.08%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (2.87%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (1.44%) Datadog
14 7 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (14.99%) Internet
2 4 (0.82%) Firewall
3 3 (0.62%) AMQP
3 3 (0.62%) HTTP
3 3 (0.62%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.41%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.65%) MySQL
2 33 (6.78%) Relational Database
3 27 (5.54%) NoSQL
4 26 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (4.93%) MongoDB
5 24 (4.93%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (2.46%) MariaDB
7 12 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.85%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.44%) Power BI
10 7 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.23%) Big Data
11 6 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.23%) GIS
11 6 (1.23%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.82%) QGIS
13 3 (0.62%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 157 (32.24%) Git
2 33 (6.78%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.72%) JIRA
4 15 (3.08%) GitLab
5 9 (1.85%) Maven
6 7 (1.44%) JUnit
6 7 (1.44%) PHPUnit
6 7 (1.44%) Selenium
7 6 (1.23%) Postman
8 5 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.82%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.82%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.82%) Spock
10 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.62%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.41%) Subversion
11 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 79 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 73 (14.99%) Multimedia
3 46 (9.45%) Public Sector
4 38 (7.80%) Finance
5 24 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.31%) Marketing
7 15 (3.08%) Retail
8 12 (2.46%) Law
9 8 (1.64%) Games
10 6 (1.23%) Legal
11 5 (1.03%) Advertising
11 5 (1.03%) Agriculture
11 5 (1.03%) Automotive
11 5 (1.03%) Banking
11 5 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.82%) Back Office
12 4 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.62%) French Language
13 3 (0.62%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.62%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 252 (51.75%) Developer
2 112 (23.00%) Senior
3 85 (17.45%) Software Engineer
4 80 (16.43%) Full-Stack Developer
5 75 (15.40%) Senior Developer
6 73 (14.99%) Trainee
7 60 (12.32%) Software Developer
8 54 (11.09%) Lead
9 32 (6.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 29 (5.95%) Java Developer
10 29 (5.95%) Trainee Developer
11 27 (5.54%) Trainee Software Developer
12 26 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
13 23 (4.72%) Administrator
13 23 (4.72%) Lead Software Engineer
13 23 (4.72%) Trainee Administrator
13 23 (4.72%) Web Administrator
14 22 (4.52%) .NET Developer
14 22 (4.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 21 (4.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (34.70%) HTML
2 168 (34.50%) CSS
3 131 (26.90%) React
4 102 (20.94%) Node.js
5 98 (20.12%) .NET
6 61 (12.53%) AngularJS
7 51 (10.47%) REST
8 46 (9.45%) Vue
9 39 (8.01%) RESTful
10 33 (6.78%) .NET Core
10 33 (6.78%) Spring
11 32 (6.57%) Spring Boot
12 25 (5.13%) ASP.NET
13 23 (4.72%) HTML5
14 20 (4.11%) CSS3
14 20 (4.11%) Laravel
15 18 (3.70%) Kafka
16 16 (3.29%) Web Services
17 14 (2.87%) JSON
18 12 (2.46%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.64%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.44%) Legacy Code
10 7 (1.44%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.23%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.03%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.82%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
13 4 (0.82%) Social Media
14 3 (0.62%) Life Science
14 3 (0.62%) PKI
14 3 (0.62%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.23%) Linux
2 4 (0.82%) Windows
3 3 (0.62%) Android
3 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.62%) CentOS
3 3 (0.62%) Debian
3 3 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (35.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 169 (34.70%) Agile
3 164 (33.68%) Mentoring
4 129 (26.49%) Software Engineering
5 121 (24.85%) CI/CD
6 85 (17.45%) Microservices
7 83 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (14.99%) DevOps
9 69 (14.17%) Cybersecurity
10 60 (12.32%) Scrum
11 57 (11.70%) TDD
12 52 (10.68%) AI
13 51 (10.47%) Front End Development
14 50 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 50 (10.27%) Web Development
15 47 (9.65%) Test Automation
16 44 (9.03%) Kanban
17 37 (7.60%) Containerisation
17 37 (7.60%) User Experience
18 35 (7.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 173 (35.52%) Python
2 124 (25.46%) Java
3 111 (22.79%) TypeScript
4 110 (22.59%) C#
5 94 (19.30%) SQL
6 48 (9.86%) R
7 45 (9.24%) PHP
8 9 (1.85%) C++
9 7 (1.44%) Groovy
10 5 (1.03%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.82%) C
11 4 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.62%) Bash
12 3 (0.62%) Go
12 3 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.41%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 88 (18.07%) AWS Certification
2 84 (17.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 83 (17.04%) Azure Certification
4 73 (14.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 31 (6.37%) Degree
6 18 (3.70%) Security Cleared
7 13 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.05%) SC Cleared
9 10 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.64%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.29%) QA
3 6 (1.23%) GDPR
4 4 (0.82%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.82%) SLA
5 3 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.41%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) HL7
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 57 (11.70%) Docker
2 4 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (8.42%) Terraform
2 30 (6.16%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.64%) Ansible
4 4 (0.82%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.62%) Puppet
6 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.41%) Nagios
6 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (23.82%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.46%) Oracle
3 10 (2.05%) Google
3 10 (2.05%) HubSpot
4 9 (1.85%) Adobe
4 9 (1.85%) Splunk
5 7 (1.44%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.03%) Pega
6 5 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 4 (0.82%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.62%) New Relic
8 3 (0.62%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.62%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.41%) Adyen
9 2 (0.41%) Apple
9 2 (0.41%) Facebook
9 2 (0.41%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.41%) Sony
9 2 (0.41%) WSO2
9 2 (0.41%) Yahoo!