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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 25 16
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 602 782 807
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 6.60% 6.07% 9.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.63% 22.89% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 241 413 709
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 2,179 3,417 3,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.88% 26.51% 38.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,231 1,884 2,543
10th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,163 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +1 428 £58,750 +11.90% 201
Yorkshire -21 140 £55,000 - 103
North East -25 36 £50,000 -16.67% 55
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 45 (7.48%) Confluence
2 15 (2.49%) CMS
3 4 (0.66%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.66%) IIS
3 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.50%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.50%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.50%) WordPress
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.33%) Drupal
5 2 (0.33%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.50%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.33%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.17%) InVision
4 1 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Odoo
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 436 (72.43%) AWS
2 400 (66.45%) Azure
3 227 (37.71%) GCP
4 59 (9.80%) GitHub
5 40 (6.64%) Serverless
6 13 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.83%) SaaS
9 9 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (1.50%) Power Automate
10 7 (1.16%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.00%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.83%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.83%) npm
13 4 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.65%) Internet
2 8 (1.33%) WPA
3 3 (0.50%) HTTP
4 2 (0.33%) AMQP
4 2 (0.33%) SSH
5 1 (0.17%) Broadband
5 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (23.09%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.82%) MySQL
3 24 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (3.49%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 17 (2.82%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.83%) Redis
7 6 (1.00%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.83%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.66%) GIS
9 4 (0.66%) Power BI
10 3 (0.50%) Big Data
10 3 (0.50%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.50%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.33%) Metadata
11 2 (0.33%) Tableau
12 1 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.17%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.17%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 142 (23.59%) JIRA
2 119 (19.77%) Selenium
3 117 (19.44%) GitLab
3 117 (19.44%) SonarQube
4 115 (19.10%) Maven
5 114 (18.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 113 (18.77%) Bitbucket
6 113 (18.77%) Cucumber
7 80 (13.29%) Git
8 17 (2.82%) Jenkins
9 12 (1.99%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.16%) webpack
11 5 (0.83%) Postman
12 4 (0.66%) JUnit
12 4 (0.66%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
14 2 (0.33%) Babel
14 2 (0.33%) Grunt
14 2 (0.33%) gulp
General
1 285 (47.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 132 (21.93%) Finance
3 116 (19.27%) Banking
4 82 (13.62%) Social Skills
5 77 (12.79%) Retail
6 72 (11.96%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (11.96%) Investment Banking
7 32 (5.32%) Multimedia
8 15 (2.49%) Law
8 15 (2.49%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.16%) Marketing
10 12 (1.99%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.83%) Games
12 6 (1.00%) Electronics
13 4 (0.66%) Legal
13 4 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.50%) Analytical Skills
14 3 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 306 (50.83%) Software Engineer
2 226 (37.54%) Senior
3 187 (31.06%) Developer
4 178 (29.57%) Senior Software Engineer
5 43 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 33 (5.48%) Lead
7 32 (5.32%) Trainee
8 30 (4.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (3.99%) Senior Developer
10 22 (3.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 18 (2.99%) .NET Developer
12 17 (2.82%) Trainee Developer
12 17 (2.82%) Trainee Software Developer
13 16 (2.66%) JIRA Developer
14 15 (2.49%) Java Developer
15 14 (2.33%) Lead Developer
16 13 (2.16%) JavaScript Developer
17 10 (1.66%) Analyst
17 10 (1.66%) Architect
17 10 (1.66%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (41.36%) HTML
2 238 (39.53%) .NET
3 234 (38.87%) CSS
3 234 (38.87%) Node.js
4 205 (34.05%) React
5 131 (21.76%) Spring Boot
6 130 (21.59%) Spring
7 126 (20.93%) Redux
8 120 (19.93%) Kafka
9 113 (18.77%) JPA
10 111 (18.44%) REST
11 99 (16.45%) HTML5
12 97 (16.11%) CSS3
12 97 (16.11%) RESTful
13 86 (14.29%) Jest
14 81 (13.46%) Sass
15 42 (6.98%) Hibernate
16 41 (6.81%) AngularJS
17 27 (4.49%) Vue
18 18 (2.99%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 173 (28.74%) Linux Command Line
1 173 (28.74%) Self-Motivation
2 172 (28.57%) Cyberattack
3 128 (21.26%) Product Ownership
4 123 (20.43%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (3.32%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.49%) Mobile App
7 14 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.16%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.00%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.83%) CMDB
11 4 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.66%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.50%) LIMS
13 2 (0.33%) Graphic Design
13 2 (0.33%) Online Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Online Games
13 2 (0.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 185 (30.73%) Linux
2 12 (1.99%) Windows
3 9 (1.50%) Android
4 7 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (67.28%) Agile
2 351 (58.31%) Software Engineering
3 336 (55.81%) Mentoring
4 328 (54.49%) Microservices
5 287 (47.67%) User Experience
6 200 (33.22%) Scrum
7 193 (32.06%) Machine Learning
8 187 (31.06%) CI/CD
9 184 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
10 176 (29.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 175 (29.07%) Cloud Security
12 174 (28.90%) DevOps
13 173 (28.74%) Data Engineering
14 152 (25.25%) Front End Development
15 135 (22.43%) SDLC
16 134 (22.26%) Test Automation
17 133 (22.09%) Containerisation
18 126 (20.93%) Performance Optimisation
19 91 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
20 86 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 358 (59.47%) Java
2 274 (45.51%) Python
3 191 (31.73%) SQL
4 186 (30.90%) C++
5 185 (30.73%) Rust
6 179 (29.73%) TypeScript
7 177 (29.40%) Go
8 93 (15.45%) C#
9 44 (7.31%) PHP
10 30 (4.98%) R
11 20 (3.32%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.33%) Ruby
13 13 (2.16%) C
13 13 (2.16%) Dart
13 13 (2.16%) MATLAB
14 8 (1.33%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.50%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.50%) Scala
16 2 (0.33%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.33%) XAML
Qualifications
1 213 (35.38%) AWS Certification
2 193 (32.06%) Security Cleared
3 180 (29.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 175 (29.07%) DV Cleared
5 172 (28.57%) AWS Certified Developer
6 50 (8.31%) Degree
7 40 (6.64%) Azure Certification
7 40 (6.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (5.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 27 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.99%) SC Cleared
11 16 (2.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (22.26%) QA
2 82 (13.62%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.66%) HL7
4 3 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 159 (26.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 136 (22.59%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.65%) Terraform
3 7 (1.16%) Ansible
4 5 (0.83%) Grafana
5 3 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.33%) Control-M
6 2 (0.33%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) Argo
Vendors
1 112 (18.60%) Solace
2 68 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 17 (2.82%) Atlassian
4 9 (1.50%) Google
4 9 (1.50%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.33%) Oracle
6 7 (1.16%) HubSpot
7 5 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.66%) IBM
8 4 (0.66%) Pega
8 4 (0.66%) WSO2
9 3 (0.50%) Adobe
9 3 (0.50%) SAP
10 2 (0.33%) Splunk
11 1 (0.17%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.17%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.17%) iManage
11 1 (0.17%) Sage
11 1 (0.17%) Veracode