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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 41 24
Rank change year-on-year -19 -17 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 535 605 935
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.28% 6.43% 6.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.78% 23.88% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 461 242 573
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,625 £33,600
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £84,200 £74,777
England median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +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 3,620 2,534 3,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.43% 26.94% 26.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,778 1,270 2,378
10th Percentile £36,535 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,871 £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 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 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 11 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 -17 300 £53,500 -10.83% 90
Yorkshire -14 148 £55,000 -8.03% 56
North East -1 87 £50,000 - 28
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 35 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 28 (5.23%) WordPress
3 13 (2.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.43%) CMS
4 8 (1.50%) IIS
5 6 (1.12%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.75%) Apache
7 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.56%) Confluence
8 2 (0.37%) JBoss
8 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.37%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.19%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 11 (2.06%) Shopify
2 10 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.68%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.37%) Magento
5 2 (0.37%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 197 (36.82%) AWS
1 197 (36.82%) Azure
2 66 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
3 65 (12.15%) Serverless
4 56 (10.47%) Power Platform
5 55 (10.28%) Power Automate
6 49 (9.16%) GitHub
7 43 (8.04%) PowerApps
8 41 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (6.54%) SaaS
10 30 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (4.30%) Microsoft Copilot
13 22 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (3.93%) GCP
15 20 (3.74%) Azure AI
16 19 (3.55%) Amazon S3
17 14 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
18 13 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.11%) Internet
2 5 (0.93%) HTTP
3 3 (0.56%) AMQP
3 3 (0.56%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.56%) MQTT
4 2 (0.37%) Firewall
4 2 (0.37%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.65%) MongoDB
2 47 (8.79%) MySQL
3 40 (7.48%) SQL Server
4 33 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 31 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (4.67%) Relational Database
7 23 (4.30%) NoSQL
8 19 (3.55%) Power BI
9 15 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.43%) MariaDB
11 12 (2.24%) Spark SQL
12 11 (2.06%) Redis
13 8 (1.50%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.93%) GIS
16 4 (0.75%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.75%) Neo4j
17 3 (0.56%) Chroma
17 3 (0.56%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 112 (20.93%) Git
2 36 (6.73%) GitLab
3 22 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.55%) Maven
5 16 (2.99%) Cypress.io
5 16 (2.99%) JIRA
6 15 (2.80%) JUnit
7 13 (2.43%) Spock
8 8 (1.50%) Storybook
9 7 (1.31%) Postman
10 6 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.12%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.93%) Selenium
12 4 (0.75%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.75%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.75%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.56%) JMeter
13 3 (0.56%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.37%) ERwin
14 2 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 99 (18.50%) Social Skills
2 75 (14.02%) Public Sector
3 47 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.41%) Finance
5 36 (6.73%) Marketing
6 18 (3.36%) Multimedia
7 15 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.62%) Retail
9 13 (2.43%) Law
10 11 (2.06%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.06%) Publishing
11 10 (1.87%) Legal
12 5 (0.93%) Agriculture
12 5 (0.93%) Automotive
12 5 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.75%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.56%) Advertising
14 3 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 277 (51.78%) Developer
2 101 (18.88%) Senior
3 84 (15.70%) Software Engineer
4 59 (11.03%) Full-Stack Developer
5 58 (10.84%) Senior Developer
6 51 (9.53%) Lead
7 47 (8.79%) .NET Developer
8 42 (7.85%) Software Developer
9 38 (7.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 32 (5.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 22 (4.11%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 22 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (3.74%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (3.36%) Trainee
14 17 (3.18%) Lead Developer
14 17 (3.18%) Senior Software Developer
14 17 (3.18%) Test Engineer
15 15 (2.80%) Administrator
15 15 (2.80%) Analyst
15 15 (2.80%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (31.03%) HTML
2 152 (28.41%) CSS
3 148 (27.66%) React
4 134 (25.05%) .NET
5 123 (22.99%) Node.js
6 72 (13.46%) AngularJS
7 57 (10.65%) .NET Core
8 53 (9.91%) REST
9 52 (9.72%) ASP.NET
9 52 (9.72%) RESTful
10 47 (8.79%) Vue
11 38 (7.10%) Terraform
12 37 (6.92%) ASP.NET Core
13 34 (6.36%) Spring
14 32 (5.98%) Blazor
15 24 (4.49%) .NET Framework
15 24 (4.49%) CSS3
16 23 (4.30%) HTML5
17 22 (4.11%) HTML5 Canvas
18 21 (3.93%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 17 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.62%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.06%) Marketing Technology
8 9 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
8 9 (1.68%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.68%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.31%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.31%) Social Media
11 6 (1.12%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.12%) BBC
12 5 (0.93%) e-Learning
12 5 (0.93%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.12%) Linux
2 4 (0.75%) Android
2 4 (0.75%) VMS
3 3 (0.56%) CentOS
3 3 (0.56%) Debian
3 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.56%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (45.42%) Agile
2 213 (39.81%) Full-Stack Development
3 191 (35.70%) CI/CD
4 150 (28.04%) Software Engineering
5 147 (27.48%) Mentoring
6 135 (25.23%) DevOps
7 116 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
8 112 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 110 (20.56%) AI
10 94 (17.57%) Test Automation
11 90 (16.82%) Microservices
12 68 (12.71%) TDD
13 63 (11.78%) Coaching
13 63 (11.78%) Technical Leadership
14 60 (11.21%) Front End Development
15 58 (10.84%) Scrum
16 52 (9.72%) Web Development
17 43 (8.04%) Clean Code
17 43 (8.04%) Kanban
18 40 (7.48%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 174 (32.52%) C#
2 166 (31.03%) TypeScript
3 160 (29.91%) SQL
4 126 (23.55%) Java
5 110 (20.56%) Python
6 42 (7.85%) PHP
7 24 (4.49%) C++
8 21 (3.93%) R
9 11 (2.06%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.68%) Go
10 9 (1.68%) Groovy
11 5 (0.93%) C
12 4 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.75%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.56%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.37%) Dart
14 2 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.19%) Bash
15 1 (0.19%) Rust
15 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 45 (8.41%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.98%) Degree
4 23 (4.30%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 18 (3.36%) Azure Certification
5 18 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.50%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.75%) MBA
8 3 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (10.65%) Accessibility
2 55 (10.28%) QA
3 23 (4.30%) WCAG
4 12 (2.24%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.56%) SLA
7 2 (0.37%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 72 (13.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.50%) Ansible
3 3 (0.56%) Puppet
4 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.19%) Argo
5 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 110 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.74%) Google
3 18 (3.36%) Adobe
4 17 (3.18%) Splunk
5 13 (2.43%) AppDynamics
6 12 (2.24%) HubSpot
6 12 (2.24%) Sage
7 9 (1.68%) SAP
8 7 (1.31%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.12%) Apple
9 6 (1.12%) Facebook
9 6 (1.12%) Sony
9 6 (1.12%) Yahoo!
10 5 (0.93%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.75%) Confluent
11 4 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.75%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.75%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.56%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.37%) New Relic