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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 28 21
Rank change year-on-year -32 -7 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 509 456 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.10% 7.14% 8.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.71% 24.81% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 418 387 1,175
10th Percentile - £36,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £78,125 £69,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.88% +10.34% -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 2,583 1,838 4,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.75% 28.80% 30.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,885 1,508 4,113
10th Percentile £30,950 £31,599 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £74,066 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,934 £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 9 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 9 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 -12 244 £50,000 -13.04% 63
North West -40 212 £50,000 -13.04% 111
North East -9 53 £47,500 -2.56% 26
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 (5.70%) WordPress
2 17 (3.34%) CMS
3 13 (2.55%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.38%) Apache
4 7 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.18%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.98%) JBoss
7 4 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.79%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.59%) nginx
9 2 (0.39%) CICS
9 2 (0.39%) Confluence
9 2 (0.39%) IIS
10 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.18%) Shopify
2 3 (0.59%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 278 (54.62%) AWS
2 253 (49.71%) Azure
3 147 (28.88%) GitHub
4 82 (16.11%) Serverless
5 31 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
6 28 (5.50%) SaaS
7 27 (5.30%) GCP
8 22 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (2.95%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.75%) Power Automate
12 14 (2.75%) Power Platform
13 12 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.96%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
16 6 (1.18%) Apigee
16 6 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
17 5 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 121 (23.77%) Internet
2 5 (0.98%) HTTP
3 4 (0.79%) AMQP
4 3 (0.59%) SSH
5 2 (0.39%) Firewall
5 2 (0.39%) Intranet
5 2 (0.39%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.39%) SSL
6 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.48%) Relational Database
2 28 (5.50%) MySQL
3 24 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.93%) NoSQL
5 17 (3.34%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.95%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.77%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.38%) Big Data
8 7 (1.38%) Power BI
8 7 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.18%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.79%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.79%) GIS
11 4 (0.79%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.79%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.79%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 204 (40.08%) Git
2 35 (6.88%) Jenkins
3 30 (5.89%) JIRA
4 7 (1.38%) Cypress.io
4 7 (1.38%) GitLab
4 7 (1.38%) PHPUnit
4 7 (1.38%) Selenium
5 6 (1.18%) Postman
6 5 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.79%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.79%) JUnit
7 4 (0.79%) Maven
7 4 (0.79%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.59%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.59%) JMeter
9 2 (0.39%) Appium
9 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.39%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 121 (23.77%) Multimedia
2 107 (21.02%) Social Skills
3 34 (6.68%) Public Sector
4 25 (4.91%) Finance
5 20 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.75%) Retail
7 13 (2.55%) Marketing
8 9 (1.77%) Games
9 8 (1.57%) Law
10 6 (1.18%) Legal
11 5 (0.98%) Advertising
12 4 (0.79%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.79%) Automotive
12 4 (0.79%) Electronics
13 3 (0.59%) Agriculture
13 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.59%) French Language
13 3 (0.59%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.59%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (0.59%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 275 (54.03%) Developer
2 121 (23.77%) Trainee
3 95 (18.66%) Senior
4 82 (16.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 70 (13.75%) Software Engineer
6 67 (13.16%) Software Developer
7 63 (12.38%) Senior Developer
8 52 (10.22%) Trainee Developer
9 50 (9.82%) Trainee Software Developer
10 43 (8.45%) Lead
11 30 (5.89%) Java Developer
12 28 (5.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 26 (5.11%) Administrator
13 26 (5.11%) Trainee Administrator
13 26 (5.11%) Web Administrator
14 22 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (3.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (3.73%) .NET Developer
17 18 (3.54%) Architect
18 17 (3.34%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (45.19%) HTML
2 228 (44.79%) CSS
3 145 (28.49%) React
4 94 (18.47%) Node.js
5 90 (17.68%) .NET
6 61 (11.98%) AngularJS
7 59 (11.59%) REST
8 49 (9.63%) Vue
9 35 (6.88%) Spring Boot
10 32 (6.29%) Spring
11 29 (5.70%) RESTful
12 24 (4.72%) .NET Core
13 23 (4.52%) Web Services
14 20 (3.93%) ASP.NET
14 20 (3.93%) Laravel
15 19 (3.73%) HTML5
16 18 (3.54%) Flask
17 17 (3.34%) Next.js
18 15 (2.95%) Kafka
19 13 (2.55%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.50%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (2.95%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.38%) Legacy Code
9 7 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.18%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.18%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.98%) NHS
11 5 (0.98%) Social Media
12 4 (0.79%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.59%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.77%) Android
1 9 (1.77%) Apple iOS
1 9 (1.77%) Linux
2 4 (0.79%) CentOS
2 4 (0.79%) Debian
2 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (42.24%) Mentoring
2 169 (33.20%) Agile
3 139 (27.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 112 (22.00%) CI/CD
5 108 (21.22%) Cybersecurity
6 105 (20.63%) Software Engineering
7 87 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (14.73%) Microservices
9 60 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (11.79%) DevOps
10 57 (11.20%) Scrum
11 54 (10.61%) Front End Development
12 46 (9.04%) Web Development
13 45 (8.84%) TDD
14 43 (8.45%) Kanban
15 39 (7.66%) AI
16 38 (7.47%) User Experience
17 37 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
18 36 (7.07%) Design Patterns
19 33 (6.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 217 (42.63%) Python
2 120 (23.58%) TypeScript
3 105 (20.63%) Java
4 96 (18.86%) C#
5 77 (15.13%) SQL
6 71 (13.95%) R
7 28 (5.50%) PHP
8 10 (1.96%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.18%) C
10 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.59%) Bash
11 3 (0.59%) C++
11 3 (0.59%) Go
11 3 (0.59%) Groovy
11 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.39%) XAML
13 1 (0.20%) Perl
13 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 141 (27.70%) AWS Certification
2 139 (27.31%) Microsoft Certification
3 138 (27.11%) Azure Certification
4 121 (23.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 36 (7.07%) Degree
6 20 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (3.93%) Security Cleared
7 18 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (3.34%) TOGAF Certification
9 11 (2.16%) SC Cleared
10 9 (1.77%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (1.18%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.11%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.36%) QA
3 6 (1.18%) GDPR
4 4 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.59%) WCAG
6 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.39%) HL7
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (11.79%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (10.61%) Terraform
2 34 (6.68%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.75%) Ansible
4 4 (0.79%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.79%) Puppet
5 3 (0.59%) cPanel
5 3 (0.59%) Plesk
6 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.39%) Nagios
6 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.20%) Grafana
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 159 (31.24%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.75%) Oracle
3 12 (2.36%) Atlassian
4 11 (2.16%) Google
5 9 (1.77%) Pega
6 6 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.18%) WSO2
7 5 (0.98%) Adobe
8 4 (0.79%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.79%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.59%) New Relic
9 3 (0.59%) Splunk
10 2 (0.39%) Adyen
10 2 (0.39%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.39%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.39%) Screaming Frog
11 1 (0.20%) Facebook
11 1 (0.20%) Intapp
11 1 (0.20%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.20%) Samsung