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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 27 20
Rank change year-on-year -42 -7 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 462 647 1,414
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.52% 8.81% 8.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.16% 27.22% 29.05%
Number of salaries quoted 383 378 1,220
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,750 £96,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% +10.34% -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 2,859 2,377 4,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.57% 32.37% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,029 1,487 4,155
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,687 £56,500 £53,847
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +4.93% -2.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,072 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,934 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -43 216 £55,000 -5.17% 97
Yorkshire -20 201 £54,250 -5.65% 81
North East -22 45 £50,000 +2.56% 32
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 27 (5.84%) WordPress
2 14 (3.03%) CMS
3 9 (1.95%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.52%) Apache
6 5 (1.08%) JBoss
7 4 (0.87%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.87%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.87%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.65%) IIS
8 3 (0.65%) nginx
9 2 (0.43%) CICS
9 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.22%) Confluence
10 1 (0.22%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.73%) Shopify
3 4 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.65%) Magento
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (48.48%) AWS
2 210 (45.45%) Azure
3 105 (22.73%) GitHub
4 64 (13.85%) Serverless
5 27 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
5 27 (5.84%) GCP
6 25 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (4.98%) SaaS
8 19 (4.11%) Power Automate
8 19 (4.11%) Power Platform
9 18 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (3.25%) PowerApps
11 14 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (2.38%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.30%) Apigee
14 6 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 86 (18.61%) Internet
2 4 (0.87%) AMQP
2 4 (0.87%) HTTP
3 3 (0.65%) Firewall
4 2 (0.43%) Intranet
4 2 (0.43%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.43%) SSH
4 2 (0.43%) SSL
5 1 (0.22%) Broadband
5 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.49%) MySQL
2 28 (6.06%) Relational Database
3 20 (4.33%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.33%) SQL Server
4 18 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (3.46%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.95%) Power BI
8 7 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.52%) Big Data
8 7 (1.52%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.30%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.08%) GIS
11 4 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.87%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.87%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 164 (35.50%) Git
2 30 (6.49%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.84%) JIRA
4 9 (1.95%) GitLab
5 7 (1.52%) Maven
5 7 (1.52%) PHPUnit
5 7 (1.52%) Selenium
6 6 (1.30%) JUnit
6 6 (1.30%) Postman
7 5 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.87%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.87%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.65%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.43%) JMeter
10 2 (0.43%) Spock
10 2 (0.43%) Subversion
10 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (18.61%) Multimedia
2 83 (17.97%) Social Skills
3 34 (7.36%) Finance
4 26 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.46%) Retail
7 13 (2.81%) Marketing
8 11 (2.38%) Law
9 8 (1.73%) Games
10 6 (1.30%) Legal
11 5 (1.08%) Advertising
11 5 (1.08%) Agriculture
11 5 (1.08%) Automotive
11 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.87%) Back Office
13 3 (0.65%) Banking
13 3 (0.65%) French Language
13 3 (0.65%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.65%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 247 (53.46%) Developer
2 95 (20.56%) Senior
3 86 (18.61%) Trainee
4 80 (17.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 70 (15.15%) Software Engineer
6 65 (14.07%) Senior Developer
7 54 (11.69%) Software Developer
8 45 (9.74%) Lead
9 36 (7.79%) Trainee Developer
10 34 (7.36%) Trainee Software Developer
11 27 (5.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 26 (5.63%) Java Developer
13 23 (4.98%) Administrator
13 23 (4.98%) Trainee Administrator
13 23 (4.98%) Web Administrator
14 21 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 21 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 18 (3.90%) .NET Developer
16 17 (3.68%) Lead Software Engineer
16 17 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (38.96%) CSS
1 180 (38.96%) HTML
2 131 (28.35%) React
3 88 (19.05%) Node.js
4 86 (18.61%) .NET
5 57 (12.34%) AngularJS
6 51 (11.04%) REST
7 46 (9.96%) Vue
8 33 (7.14%) Spring Boot
9 32 (6.93%) Spring
10 29 (6.28%) RESTful
11 27 (5.84%) .NET Core
12 20 (4.33%) ASP.NET
12 20 (4.33%) HTML5
12 20 (4.33%) Laravel
13 18 (3.90%) Kafka
13 18 (3.90%) Web Services
14 17 (3.68%) CSS3
15 12 (2.60%) Flask
15 12 (2.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.84%) Cloud Native
1 27 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.73%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.52%) Legacy Code
7 7 (1.52%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.08%) NHS
9 5 (1.08%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.87%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.65%) Life Science
11 3 (0.65%) PKI
11 3 (0.65%) Social Media
11 3 (0.65%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.73%) Linux
2 4 (0.87%) Android
2 4 (0.87%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.87%) CentOS
2 4 (0.87%) Debian
2 4 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (0.87%) Ubuntu
2 4 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (35.50%) Mentoring
2 150 (32.47%) Full-Stack Development
3 147 (31.82%) Agile
4 105 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 95 (20.56%) CI/CD
6 83 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (17.32%) Cybersecurity
8 68 (14.72%) Microservices
9 56 (12.12%) DevOps
9 56 (12.12%) Scrum
10 53 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (9.74%) Front End Development
11 45 (9.74%) Web Development
12 43 (9.31%) AI
13 41 (8.87%) TDD
14 40 (8.66%) Kanban
15 38 (8.23%) Containerisation
16 36 (7.79%) User Experience
17 31 (6.71%) E-Commerce
17 31 (6.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 179 (38.74%) Python
2 112 (24.24%) TypeScript
3 99 (21.43%) Java
4 97 (21.00%) C#
5 73 (15.80%) SQL
6 53 (11.47%) R
7 34 (7.36%) PHP
8 8 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.52%) C
10 5 (1.08%) Groovy
11 4 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.65%) Bash
12 3 (0.65%) C++
12 3 (0.65%) Go
12 3 (0.65%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.43%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (22.08%) AWS Certification
2 99 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 98 (21.21%) Azure Certification
4 86 (18.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 33 (7.14%) Degree
6 20 (4.33%) Security Cleared
7 15 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (2.16%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.16%) SC Cleared
11 6 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (1.08%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.11%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.60%) QA
3 6 (1.30%) GDPR
4 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.87%) SLA
5 3 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.65%) WCAG
6 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.22%) HL7
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 51 (11.04%) Docker
2 5 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (8.01%) Terraform
2 31 (6.71%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.95%) Ansible
4 4 (0.87%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.87%) Puppet
5 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.43%) cPanel
5 2 (0.43%) Nagios
5 2 (0.43%) Plesk
5 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 127 (27.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.81%) Oracle
3 11 (2.38%) Atlassian
4 10 (2.16%) Google
5 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.08%) Adobe
7 5 (1.08%) Pega
7 5 (1.08%) Splunk
8 4 (0.87%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.65%) New Relic
10 2 (0.43%) Adyen
10 2 (0.43%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.43%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.43%) WSO2
11 1 (0.22%) Apple
11 1 (0.22%) Facebook
11 1 (0.22%) Sage
11 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.22%) Sitecore