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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 28 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 -11 -9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 449 609 790
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 4.22% 6.68% 9.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.31% 23.74% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 362 311 702
10th Percentile - £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 1,774 2,565 3,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.69% 28.12% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,388 1,382 2,501
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,125 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +6 227 £47,500 -9.52% 110
North West -29 170 £52,000 -5.45% 127
North East -8 54 £47,500 - 41
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 20 (4.45%) CMS
2 14 (3.12%) WordPress
3 11 (2.45%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.34%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.11%) Apache
5 5 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.11%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.89%) nginx
7 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.45%) Confluence
8 2 (0.45%) Drupal
8 2 (0.45%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.45%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.22%) InVision
3 1 (0.22%) Sketch
3 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.11%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.45%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 271 (60.36%) AWS
2 232 (51.67%) Azure
3 150 (33.41%) GitHub
4 68 (15.14%) Serverless
5 24 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (4.01%) GCP
8 17 (3.79%) Amazon S3
9 13 (2.90%) SaaS
10 11 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.78%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.34%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.34%) Power Platform
15 5 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (1.11%) Entra ID
15 5 (1.11%) Figma
16 4 (0.89%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 129 (28.73%) Internet
2 5 (1.11%) AMQP
2 5 (1.11%) HTTP
3 4 (0.89%) SSH
4 2 (0.45%) Intranet
4 2 (0.45%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.35%) Relational Database
2 22 (4.90%) MySQL
3 20 (4.45%) NoSQL
4 18 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (4.01%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 9 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.34%) Big Data
6 6 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.34%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.34%) RDBMS
6 6 (1.34%) Redis
7 4 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.89%) Metadata
8 3 (0.67%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (0.67%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.45%) Power BI
9 2 (0.45%) Tableau
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 203 (45.21%) Git
2 36 (8.02%) JIRA
3 26 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.78%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.34%) JUnit
5 6 (1.34%) Selenium
6 5 (1.11%) JMeter
6 5 (1.11%) Postman
6 5 (1.11%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.89%) GitLab
7 4 (0.89%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.67%) Appium
8 3 (0.67%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.67%) webpack
9 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.45%) Grunt
9 2 (0.45%) gulp
9 2 (0.45%) Maven
9 2 (0.45%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 128 (28.51%) Multimedia
2 122 (27.17%) Social Skills
3 20 (4.45%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.23%) Finance
5 18 (4.01%) Marketing
6 13 (2.90%) Retail
7 12 (2.67%) Games
8 10 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (2.00%) Law
10 8 (1.78%) Legal
11 7 (1.56%) Electronics
12 5 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.67%) Banking
14 3 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.22%) Automotive
16 1 (0.22%) Back Office
16 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 254 (56.57%) Developer
2 128 (28.51%) Trainee
3 81 (18.04%) Software Developer
4 66 (14.70%) Senior
5 61 (13.59%) Trainee Developer
5 61 (13.59%) Trainee Software Developer
6 51 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 38 (8.46%) Senior Developer
8 36 (8.02%) Software Engineer
9 29 (6.46%) Lead
10 28 (6.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 26 (5.79%) Architect
12 23 (5.12%) JIRA Developer
13 21 (4.68%) .NET Developer
13 21 (4.68%) Java Developer
14 14 (3.12%) Applications Architect
15 13 (2.90%) PHP Developer
15 13 (2.90%) Senior Front-End Developer
16 12 (2.67%) JavaScript Developer
17 11 (2.45%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (53.67%) CSS
2 238 (53.01%) HTML
3 128 (28.51%) React
4 79 (17.59%) .NET
5 63 (14.03%) Node.js
6 56 (12.47%) REST
7 53 (11.80%) AngularJS
8 34 (7.57%) Vue
9 31 (6.90%) Spring
9 31 (6.90%) Spring Boot
10 24 (5.35%) RESTful
11 23 (5.12%) ASP.NET
12 20 (4.45%) HTML5
13 19 (4.23%) .NET Core
13 19 (4.23%) Web Services
14 18 (4.01%) CSS3
15 16 (3.56%) Kafka
16 14 (3.12%) .NET Framework
16 14 (3.12%) GraphQL
17 12 (2.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.57%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.79%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.34%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.90%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.11%) Client/Server
9 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.67%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.67%) Social Media
11 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.45%) Hackathon
11 2 (0.45%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.45%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.45%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.90%) Linux
2 9 (2.00%) Android
2 9 (2.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.67%) CentOS
3 3 (0.67%) Debian
3 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.45%) Windows
4 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (50.78%) Mentoring
2 131 (29.18%) Agile
3 121 (26.95%) Cybersecurity
4 104 (23.16%) CI/CD
5 87 (19.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 87 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (16.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (15.81%) Software Engineering
8 69 (15.37%) Microservices
9 62 (13.81%) DevOps
10 53 (11.80%) Computer Science
11 46 (10.24%) Front End Development
12 44 (9.80%) User Experience
13 37 (8.24%) Scrum
14 36 (8.02%) TDD
15 35 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
16 34 (7.57%) Web Development
17 30 (6.68%) Migration
17 30 (6.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 29 (6.46%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 210 (46.77%) Python
2 113 (25.17%) TypeScript
3 100 (22.27%) C#
4 83 (18.49%) Java
5 69 (15.37%) R
6 55 (12.25%) SQL
7 27 (6.01%) PowerShell
8 26 (5.79%) PHP
9 5 (1.11%) C
10 4 (0.89%) XAML
11 3 (0.67%) Scala
12 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.22%) Go
13 1 (0.22%) Perl
13 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 153 (34.08%) AWS Certification
2 152 (33.85%) Azure Certification
2 152 (33.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 128 (28.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 57 (12.69%) Degree
5 27 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (5.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (5.35%) TOGAF Certification
7 23 (5.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 18 (4.01%) Security Cleared
9 12 (2.67%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.56%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.89%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.45%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.34%) QA
3 3 (0.67%) HL7
3 3 (0.67%) WCAG
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (12.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 45 (10.02%) Terraform
2 34 (7.57%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.90%) Ansible
4 5 (1.11%) Grafana
5 3 (0.67%) cPanel
5 3 (0.67%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.67%) Plesk
5 3 (0.67%) Puppet
6 2 (0.45%) Control-M
6 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.22%) Argo
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 174 (38.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.79%) Atlassian
3 16 (3.56%) Oracle
4 12 (2.67%) Google
5 7 (1.56%) Adobe
5 7 (1.56%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.89%) Pega
6 4 (0.89%) Red Hat
6 4 (0.89%) WSO2
7 3 (0.67%) IBM
7 3 (0.67%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.45%) Ahrefs
8 2 (0.45%) Hotjar
8 2 (0.45%) New Relic
8 2 (0.45%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (0.45%) Splunk
9 1 (0.22%) iManage
9 1 (0.22%) Intapp
9 1 (0.22%) Samsung