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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -20 -8 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 457 586 1,087
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.83% 6.98% 9.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.37% 24.24% 26.69%
Number of salaries quoted 365 311 992
10th Percentile - £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,250 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.44% +10.42% -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 1,875 2,417 4,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.72% 28.78% 33.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,445 1,318 3,475
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,600 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 4 February 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 4 February 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 +7 229 £47,372 -9.77% 96
North West -34 176 £52,500 -4.55% 127
North East -21 52 £47,500 +2.70% 25
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 19 (4.16%) CMS
2 13 (2.84%) WordPress
3 11 (2.41%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.53%) Apache
5 6 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.31%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.09%) nginx
7 3 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.66%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.44%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.44%) Confluence
8 2 (0.44%) JBoss
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.09%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.44%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 283 (61.93%) AWS
2 241 (52.74%) Azure
3 151 (33.04%) GitHub
4 71 (15.54%) Serverless
5 25 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (4.81%) GCP
8 17 (3.72%) Amazon S3
9 13 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.84%) SaaS
10 10 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.75%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.09%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.09%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.88%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 131 (28.67%) Internet
2 5 (1.09%) HTTP
3 4 (0.88%) AMQP
3 4 (0.88%) SSH
4 2 (0.44%) Intranet
4 2 (0.44%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.47%) Relational Database
2 22 (4.81%) MySQL
3 18 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.50%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.06%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.97%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.97%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.53%) Big Data
8 7 (1.53%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.53%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.09%) Redis
10 4 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.88%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.44%) FileMaker
11 2 (0.44%) Metadata
11 2 (0.44%) Power BI
11 2 (0.44%) Tableau
12 1 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 202 (44.20%) Git
2 34 (7.44%) JIRA
3 26 (5.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.31%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.31%) JUnit
4 6 (1.31%) Selenium
5 5 (1.09%) JMeter
5 5 (1.09%) Postman
6 4 (0.88%) GitLab
6 4 (0.88%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.88%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.66%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.44%) Appium
8 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.44%) Maven
8 2 (0.44%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.44%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.44%) Subversion
9 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
General
1 130 (28.45%) Multimedia
2 126 (27.57%) Social Skills
3 22 (4.81%) Finance
4 19 (4.16%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.94%) Marketing
6 14 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.63%) Retail
8 10 (2.19%) Games
9 7 (1.53%) Electronics
10 6 (1.31%) Legal
11 4 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.88%) Law
11 4 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.66%) Banking
12 3 (0.66%) French Language
12 3 (0.66%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.66%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.66%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 254 (55.58%) Developer
2 130 (28.45%) Trainee
3 78 (17.07%) Software Developer
4 66 (14.44%) Senior
5 63 (13.79%) Trainee Developer
5 63 (13.79%) Trainee Software Developer
6 57 (12.47%) Full-Stack Developer
7 44 (9.63%) Software Engineer
8 42 (9.19%) Senior Developer
9 31 (6.78%) Lead
10 27 (5.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 26 (5.69%) Architect
12 23 (5.03%) JIRA Developer
13 19 (4.16%) .NET Developer
14 18 (3.94%) Java Developer
15 16 (3.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
16 14 (3.06%) Applications Architect
16 14 (3.06%) PHP Developer
17 13 (2.84%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
17 13 (2.84%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (52.30%) CSS
2 235 (51.42%) HTML
3 131 (28.67%) React
4 81 (17.72%) .NET
5 69 (15.10%) Node.js
6 61 (13.35%) REST
7 55 (12.04%) AngularJS
8 38 (8.32%) Vue
9 27 (5.91%) Spring
9 27 (5.91%) Spring Boot
10 20 (4.38%) RESTful
11 19 (4.16%) .NET Core
11 19 (4.16%) ASP.NET
11 19 (4.16%) Web Services
12 18 (3.94%) HTML5
13 16 (3.50%) CSS3
13 16 (3.50%) Kafka
14 15 (3.28%) GraphQL
14 15 (3.28%) Laravel
15 12 (2.63%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (4.60%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.28%) Data Structures
3 15 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 9 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.09%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.09%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.66%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.66%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.66%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.66%) Social Media
9 2 (0.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.06%) Linux
2 11 (2.41%) Android
2 11 (2.41%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.88%) CentOS
3 4 (0.88%) Debian
3 4 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.88%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.44%) Windows
4 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (50.77%) Mentoring
2 129 (28.23%) Cybersecurity
3 127 (27.79%) Agile
4 99 (21.66%) CI/CD
5 92 (20.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 86 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (17.72%) Software Engineering
8 72 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 72 (15.75%) Microservices
9 56 (12.25%) DevOps
10 54 (11.82%) Computer Science
11 42 (9.19%) Front End Development
12 40 (8.75%) User Experience
13 39 (8.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 39 (8.53%) Scrum
14 35 (7.66%) TDD
15 33 (7.22%) Web Development
16 31 (6.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 30 (6.56%) AI
17 30 (6.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 221 (48.36%) Python
2 118 (25.82%) TypeScript
3 95 (20.79%) C#
4 83 (18.16%) Java
5 69 (15.10%) R
6 56 (12.25%) SQL
7 29 (6.35%) PHP
8 27 (5.91%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.31%) C
10 4 (0.88%) XAML
11 2 (0.44%) Go
11 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Perl
12 1 (0.22%) Scala
12 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 155 (33.92%) AWS Certification
2 154 (33.70%) Azure Certification
2 154 (33.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 130 (28.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 59 (12.91%) Degree
5 27 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (5.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (5.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 23 (5.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 19 (4.16%) Security Cleared
9 10 (2.19%) SC Cleared
10 9 (1.97%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.53%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.72%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.97%) QA
3 3 (0.66%) HL7
4 2 (0.44%) WCAG
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (11.82%) Docker
2 5 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 50 (10.94%) Terraform
2 32 (7.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.06%) Ansible
4 4 (0.88%) Grafana
4 4 (0.88%) Puppet
5 3 (0.66%) cPanel
5 3 (0.66%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.66%) Plesk
5 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.44%) Control-M
6 2 (0.44%) Nagios
6 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.22%) Argo
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 173 (37.86%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.35%) Atlassian
3 16 (3.50%) Oracle
4 12 (2.63%) Google
5 6 (1.31%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.31%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.31%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.09%) Adobe
7 4 (0.88%) Pega
7 4 (0.88%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.88%) WSO2
8 3 (0.66%) IBM
8 3 (0.66%) New Relic
8 3 (0.66%) Splunk
9 2 (0.44%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.44%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.44%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.22%) iManage
10 1 (0.22%) Intapp
10 1 (0.22%) Samsung