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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 37 22
Rank change year-on-year -23 -15 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 529 643 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.31% 6.78% 6.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.74% 24.54% 25.61%
Number of salaries quoted 459 278 671
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,375 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £84,475 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 3,590 2,620 3,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.68% 27.62% 26.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,744 1,360 2,675
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -19 294 £53,500 -8.55% 152
Yorkshire -15 150 £55,000 -4.35% 67
North East -7 85 £50,000 - 37
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 34 (6.43%) SharePoint
2 28 (5.29%) WordPress
3 13 (2.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.46%) CMS
4 8 (1.51%) IIS
5 6 (1.13%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.57%) Apache
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.38%) CICS
7 2 (0.38%) JBoss
7 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.19%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 12 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.08%) Shopify
3 7 (1.32%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.38%) Magento
5 2 (0.38%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 200 (37.81%) Azure
2 197 (37.24%) AWS
3 70 (13.23%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (11.34%) Serverless
5 57 (10.78%) Power Platform
6 56 (10.59%) Power Automate
7 48 (9.07%) GitHub
8 43 (8.13%) PowerApps
9 36 (6.81%) SaaS
10 35 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (4.54%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (4.54%) Dynamics 365
13 23 (4.35%) GCP
13 23 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
14 21 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (3.78%) Azure AI
16 15 (2.84%) Amazon S3
17 13 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 12 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.35%) Internet
2 5 (0.95%) HTTP
3 3 (0.57%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.57%) MQTT
4 2 (0.38%) AMQP
4 2 (0.38%) Firewall
4 2 (0.38%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.96%) MongoDB
2 49 (9.26%) MySQL
3 39 (7.37%) SQL Server
4 33 (6.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 31 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (5.29%) Relational Database
7 25 (4.73%) NoSQL
8 19 (3.59%) Power BI
9 15 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.46%) MariaDB
11 11 (2.08%) Redis
11 11 (2.08%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.51%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.95%) GIS
14 4 (0.76%) Big Data
14 4 (0.76%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.57%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 116 (21.93%) Git
2 32 (6.05%) GitLab
3 22 (4.16%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.59%) Maven
5 16 (3.02%) JIRA
6 15 (2.84%) JUnit
7 13 (2.46%) Spock
8 12 (2.27%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.51%) Storybook
10 7 (1.32%) IntelliJ
11 6 (1.13%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.95%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.95%) Postman
13 4 (0.76%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.76%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
13 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.76%) Selenium
14 2 (0.38%) ERwin
14 2 (0.38%) PHPUnit
General
1 97 (18.34%) Social Skills
2 73 (13.80%) Public Sector
3 47 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (8.88%) Finance
4 36 (6.81%) Marketing
5 19 (3.59%) Multimedia
6 14 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (2.65%) Retail
7 13 (2.46%) Law
8 11 (2.08%) Publishing
9 10 (1.89%) Legal
9 10 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.95%) Agriculture
10 5 (0.95%) Automotive
10 5 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.76%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.57%) Advertising
12 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 277 (52.36%) Developer
2 101 (19.09%) Senior
3 85 (16.07%) Software Engineer
4 60 (11.34%) Full-Stack Developer
5 58 (10.96%) Senior Developer
6 53 (10.02%) Lead
7 43 (8.13%) .NET Developer
8 38 (7.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 38 (7.18%) Software Developer
9 31 (5.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 24 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (3.97%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 20 (3.78%) Lead Software Engineer
13 19 (3.59%) Trainee
14 18 (3.40%) Lead Developer
15 17 (3.21%) Java Developer
16 15 (2.84%) Analyst
16 15 (2.84%) Test Engineer
16 15 (2.84%) Trainee Administrator
16 15 (2.84%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (31.38%) HTML
2 153 (28.92%) CSS
3 146 (27.60%) React
4 129 (24.39%) .NET
5 122 (23.06%) Node.js
6 69 (13.04%) AngularJS
7 53 (10.02%) .NET Core
8 52 (9.83%) ASP.NET
8 52 (9.83%) REST
8 52 (9.83%) RESTful
9 45 (8.51%) Vue
10 37 (6.99%) ASP.NET Core
11 36 (6.81%) Terraform
12 33 (6.24%) Spring
13 32 (6.05%) Blazor
14 27 (5.10%) CSS3
15 26 (4.91%) HTML5
16 24 (4.54%) .NET Framework
16 24 (4.54%) HTML5 Canvas
17 21 (3.97%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (3.02%) Private Cloud
7 13 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.08%) Marketing Technology
9 10 (1.89%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.70%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.32%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.32%) Social Media
13 6 (1.13%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.13%) BBC
14 5 (0.95%) e-Learning
14 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.95%) Linux
2 4 (0.76%) Android
2 4 (0.76%) VMS
3 3 (0.57%) Windows
4 2 (0.38%) CentOS
4 2 (0.38%) Debian
4 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (46.12%) Agile
2 215 (40.64%) Full-Stack Development
3 189 (35.73%) CI/CD
4 150 (28.36%) Software Engineering
5 144 (27.22%) Mentoring
6 138 (26.09%) DevOps
7 113 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
8 111 (20.98%) AI
9 109 (20.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 91 (17.20%) Microservices
11 88 (16.64%) Test Automation
12 65 (12.29%) TDD
13 63 (11.91%) Technical Leadership
14 60 (11.34%) Coaching
14 60 (11.34%) Front End Development
15 58 (10.96%) Scrum
16 53 (10.02%) Web Development
17 41 (7.75%) Clean Code
17 41 (7.75%) Kanban
18 39 (7.37%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 169 (31.95%) C#
2 163 (30.81%) TypeScript
3 156 (29.49%) SQL
4 128 (24.20%) Java
5 111 (20.98%) Python
6 44 (8.32%) PHP
7 23 (4.35%) C++
8 21 (3.97%) R
9 9 (1.70%) Go
9 9 (1.70%) Groovy
9 9 (1.70%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.95%) C
11 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.76%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.57%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.38%) Dart
13 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 41 (7.75%) SC Cleared
3 31 (5.86%) Degree
4 24 (4.54%) AWS Certification
5 20 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (3.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 19 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.13%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.76%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.76%) MBA
10 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.83%) Accessibility
2 51 (9.64%) QA
3 21 (3.97%) WCAG
4 11 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.57%) SLA
7 2 (0.38%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 73 (13.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.32%) Ansible
3 2 (0.38%) Puppet
3 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.19%) Argo
4 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 112 (21.17%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.59%) Google
3 18 (3.40%) Adobe
4 17 (3.21%) Splunk
5 13 (2.46%) AppDynamics
6 12 (2.27%) HubSpot
7 10 (1.89%) Sage
8 7 (1.32%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.32%) SAP
9 6 (1.13%) Apple
9 6 (1.13%) Facebook
9 6 (1.13%) Sony
9 6 (1.13%) Yahoo!
10 5 (0.95%) Pega
10 5 (0.95%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.76%) Oracle
11 4 (0.76%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.57%) Confluent
12 3 (0.57%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.57%) Red Hat