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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 40 24
Rank change year-on-year -20 -16 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 530 602 932
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.23% 6.42% 6.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.60% 23.91% 24.96%
Number of salaries quoted 450 241 554
10th Percentile £38,772 £28,250 £33,650
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,938 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,751 £73,886
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 3,629 2,518 3,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.29% 26.83% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,772 1,255 2,299
10th Percentile £38,025 £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 £67,806
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £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 17 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 17 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 -23 301 £55,000 -8.33% 150
Yorkshire -13 142 £55,000 -3.08% 62
North East -12 87 £52,000 +4.00% 47
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 39 (7.36%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (2.45%) CMS
2 13 (2.45%) WordPress
3 8 (1.51%) IIS
4 7 (1.32%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.75%) Apache
6 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) JBoss
7 2 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.19%) Kentico
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.19%) Elementor
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.08%) Shopify
2 10 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.70%) 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
1 178 (33.58%) AWS
2 177 (33.40%) Azure
3 66 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (12.26%) Serverless
5 60 (11.32%) Power Platform
6 59 (11.13%) Power Automate
7 46 (8.68%) PowerApps
8 44 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
10 34 (6.42%) GitHub
10 34 (6.42%) SaaS
11 28 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (4.91%) Microsoft Copilot
13 24 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (4.15%) Amazon S3
14 22 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (3.96%) GCP
16 19 (3.58%) Azure AI
17 14 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.94%) HTTP
2 4 (0.75%) Internet
3 3 (0.57%) AMQP
3 3 (0.57%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.57%) MQTT
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 55 (10.38%) MongoDB
2 48 (9.06%) MySQL
3 41 (7.74%) SQL Server
4 32 (6.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 31 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (4.53%) Relational Database
7 22 (4.15%) NoSQL
8 21 (3.96%) Power BI
9 15 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (2.64%) MariaDB
11 12 (2.26%) Spark SQL
12 11 (2.08%) Redis
13 8 (1.51%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (1.13%) GIS
16 4 (0.75%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.75%) Neo4j
17 3 (0.57%) Metadata
17 3 (0.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 92 (17.36%) Git
2 38 (7.17%) GitLab
3 23 (4.34%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.58%) Cypress.io
4 19 (3.58%) Maven
5 17 (3.21%) JIRA
6 15 (2.83%) JUnit
7 13 (2.45%) Spock
8 10 (1.89%) Postman
9 8 (1.51%) Storybook
10 7 (1.32%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.13%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.13%) Selenium
12 5 (0.94%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.94%) JMeter
13 4 (0.75%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.75%) Robot Framework
14 2 (0.38%) ERwin
14 2 (0.38%) Mocha
14 2 (0.38%) Mockito
General
1 103 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 75 (14.15%) Public Sector
3 48 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.30%) Finance
5 37 (6.98%) Marketing
6 16 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.83%) Retail
8 14 (2.64%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.26%) Law
9 12 (2.26%) Legal
9 12 (2.26%) Publishing
10 5 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.75%) Agriculture
11 4 (0.75%) Automotive
11 4 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.75%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.57%) Advertising
12 3 (0.57%) Back Office
12 3 (0.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 280 (52.83%) Developer
2 108 (20.38%) Senior
3 82 (15.47%) Software Engineer
4 64 (12.08%) Senior Developer
5 56 (10.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 51 (9.62%) .NET Developer
7 50 (9.43%) Lead
8 43 (8.11%) Software Developer
9 36 (6.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 32 (6.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 25 (4.72%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 21 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (3.58%) Lead Software Engineer
13 19 (3.58%) Senior Software Developer
13 19 (3.58%) Test Engineer
14 17 (3.21%) Lead Developer
15 16 (3.02%) Analyst
16 13 (2.45%) Data Engineer
16 13 (2.45%) Java Developer
16 13 (2.45%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (29.81%) HTML
2 147 (27.74%) React
3 143 (26.98%) CSS
4 139 (26.23%) .NET
5 118 (22.26%) Node.js
6 70 (13.21%) AngularJS
7 59 (11.13%) .NET Core
8 56 (10.57%) REST
9 52 (9.81%) RESTful
10 50 (9.43%) ASP.NET
11 44 (8.30%) Vue
12 36 (6.79%) ASP.NET Core
12 36 (6.79%) Terraform
13 32 (6.04%) Spring
14 31 (5.85%) Blazor
15 25 (4.72%) .NET Framework
16 23 (4.34%) CSS3
17 22 (4.15%) HTML5
17 22 (4.15%) HTML5 Canvas
18 21 (3.96%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.36%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (4.53%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 16 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.64%) Private Cloud
9 11 (2.08%) Marketing Technology
9 11 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.51%) Low-Code
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 (0.94%) e-Learning
14 5 (0.94%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.13%) Linux
2 5 (0.94%) Android
2 5 (0.94%) Windows
3 4 (0.75%) VMS
4 3 (0.57%) CentOS
4 3 (0.57%) Debian
4 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (45.66%) Agile
2 208 (39.25%) Full-Stack Development
3 193 (36.42%) CI/CD
4 150 (28.30%) Software Engineering
5 149 (28.11%) Mentoring
6 135 (25.47%) DevOps
7 121 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
8 115 (21.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 114 (21.51%) AI
10 105 (19.81%) Test Automation
11 91 (17.17%) Microservices
12 69 (13.02%) Coaching
12 69 (13.02%) TDD
13 65 (12.26%) Technical Leadership
14 62 (11.70%) Front End Development
15 59 (11.13%) Scrum
16 47 (8.87%) Software Testing
17 44 (8.30%) Kanban
18 42 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
19 40 (7.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 178 (33.58%) C#
2 167 (31.51%) TypeScript
3 160 (30.19%) SQL
4 124 (23.40%) Java
5 97 (18.30%) Python
6 42 (7.92%) PHP
7 24 (4.53%) C++
8 11 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.70%) Go
9 9 (1.70%) Groovy
10 6 (1.13%) R
11 5 (0.94%) C
11 5 (0.94%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.75%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.57%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.38%) Dart
15 1 (0.19%) Bash
15 1 (0.19%) Rust
15 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 58 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 47 (8.87%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.42%) Degree
4 9 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.70%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.75%) MBA
7 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.70%) Accessibility
2 60 (11.32%) QA
3 28 (5.28%) WCAG
4 13 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.32%) 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 71 (13.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.32%) Ansible
3 3 (0.57%) Puppet
4 2 (0.38%) 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 94 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.77%) Google
3 18 (3.40%) Adobe
4 17 (3.21%) Splunk
5 13 (2.45%) AppDynamics
6 12 (2.26%) HubSpot
6 12 (2.26%) Sage
7 9 (1.70%) SAP
8 8 (1.51%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.13%) Apple
9 6 (1.13%) Facebook
9 6 (1.13%) Sony
9 6 (1.13%) Yahoo!
10 5 (0.94%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.75%) Confluent
11 4 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.75%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.75%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.57%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.38%) New Relic