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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 44 26
Rank change year-on-year -25 -18 -11
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 511 593 822
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.13% 6.19% 6.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.61% 23.89% 23.40%
Number of salaries quoted 423 228 438
10th Percentile £38,987 £28,250 £33,550
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £78,825 £75,000
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 3,498 2,482 3,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.57% 25.90% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,706 1,217 1,966
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £79,413
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -27 287 £55,000 -4.35% 138
Yorkshire -28 129 £55,000 - 63
North East -13 95 £52,000 +4.00% 37
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 46 (9.00%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (2.54%) WordPress
3 11 (2.15%) CMS
4 8 (1.57%) IIS
5 7 (1.37%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.78%) Apache
7 3 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.59%) Confluence
7 3 (0.59%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) Kentico
9 1 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.76%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.57%) Shopify
3 3 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.39%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 173 (33.86%) AWS
2 166 (32.49%) Azure
3 66 (12.92%) Power Platform
4 62 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
4 62 (12.13%) Power Automate
5 60 (11.74%) Serverless
6 50 (9.78%) PowerApps
7 45 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (6.26%) Microsoft Copilot
10 30 (5.87%) GitHub
11 29 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (5.48%) SaaS
13 25 (4.89%) Amazon S3
14 24 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (4.31%) GCP
16 21 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (3.72%) Azure AI
18 16 (3.13%) Copilot Studio
19 15 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.78%) HTTP
1 4 (0.78%) Internet
2 3 (0.59%) AMQP
2 3 (0.59%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.59%) MQTT
3 2 (0.39%) Firewall
3 2 (0.39%) SSL
4 1 (0.20%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.57%) MongoDB
2 46 (9.00%) MySQL
3 42 (8.22%) SQL Server
4 31 (6.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (4.31%) Power BI
6 22 (4.31%) Relational Database
7 21 (4.11%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.74%) MariaDB
10 12 (2.35%) Spark SQL
11 11 (2.15%) Redis
12 6 (1.17%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.17%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.98%) GIS
13 5 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.78%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.59%) Big Data
15 3 (0.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 93 (18.20%) Git
2 39 (7.63%) GitLab
3 21 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.72%) Cypress.io
5 17 (3.33%) Maven
6 16 (3.13%) JUnit
7 13 (2.54%) Spock
8 12 (2.35%) JIRA
9 8 (1.57%) Storybook
10 7 (1.37%) Postman
11 6 (1.17%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.17%) Selenium
11 6 (1.17%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.98%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.98%) JMeter
13 4 (0.78%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.78%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.59%) Mockito
15 2 (0.39%) Mocha
15 2 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 101 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 80 (15.66%) Public Sector
3 50 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (9.78%) Finance
4 42 (8.22%) Marketing
5 25 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 14 (2.74%) Retail
8 12 (2.35%) Publishing
9 11 (2.15%) Legal
10 8 (1.57%) Law
11 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.98%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.59%) Banking
13 3 (0.59%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.39%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.39%) Automotive
14 2 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 269 (52.64%) Developer
2 107 (20.94%) Senior
3 66 (12.92%) Software Engineer
4 61 (11.94%) Senior Developer
5 53 (10.37%) .NET Developer
6 47 (9.20%) Software Developer
7 41 (8.02%) Full-Stack Developer
7 41 (8.02%) Lead
8 36 (7.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 32 (6.26%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 31 (6.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 21 (4.11%) Senior Software Developer
12 18 (3.52%) Analyst
13 17 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (3.33%) Test Engineer
14 15 (2.94%) Consultant
14 15 (2.94%) Lead Developer
15 14 (2.74%) Lead Software Engineer
16 13 (2.54%) Data Engineer
16 13 (2.54%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (31.12%) HTML
2 151 (29.55%) CSS
3 137 (26.81%) .NET
3 137 (26.81%) React
4 118 (23.09%) Node.js
5 65 (12.72%) AngularJS
6 62 (12.13%) REST
7 60 (11.74%) .NET Core
8 51 (9.98%) RESTful
9 47 (9.20%) ASP.NET
10 36 (7.05%) Vue
11 35 (6.85%) ASP.NET Core
12 33 (6.46%) Terraform
13 31 (6.07%) Blazor
13 31 (6.07%) Spring
14 24 (4.70%) .NET Framework
15 21 (4.11%) CSS3
15 21 (4.11%) Entity Framework
15 21 (4.11%) HTML5 Canvas
16 20 (3.91%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.24%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.26%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 25 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (3.91%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
8 16 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.13%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.74%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.57%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.37%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.17%) Social Media
13 5 (0.98%) BBC
13 5 (0.98%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.37%) Linux
2 5 (0.98%) Android
2 5 (0.98%) Windows
3 4 (0.78%) VMS
4 3 (0.59%) CentOS
4 3 (0.59%) Debian
4 3 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.59%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (46.58%) Agile
2 200 (39.14%) CI/CD
3 186 (36.40%) Full-Stack Development
4 140 (27.40%) Mentoring
5 139 (27.20%) Software Engineering
6 138 (27.01%) DevOps
7 123 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 122 (23.87%) AI
9 117 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (20.74%) Test Automation
11 87 (17.03%) Microservices
12 68 (13.31%) Technical Leadership
13 67 (13.11%) Coaching
14 65 (12.72%) TDD
15 54 (10.57%) Front End Development
16 51 (9.98%) Scrum
17 50 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 49 (9.59%) Collaborative Working
18 49 (9.59%) SDLC
19 48 (9.39%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 171 (33.46%) C#
2 165 (32.29%) TypeScript
3 141 (27.59%) SQL
4 115 (22.50%) Java
5 101 (19.77%) Python
6 41 (8.02%) PHP
7 21 (4.11%) C++
8 12 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.76%) Go
10 8 (1.57%) Groovy
11 6 (1.17%) C
11 6 (1.17%) R
12 5 (0.98%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.78%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.59%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.39%) Dart
15 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.20%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 66 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.76%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.02%) Degree
4 15 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.78%) MBA
7 3 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (13.31%) QA
2 65 (12.72%) Accessibility
3 29 (5.68%) WCAG
4 13 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.59%) SLA
7 2 (0.39%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 71 (13.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.17%) Ansible
3 3 (0.59%) Puppet
4 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.20%) Argo
5 1 (0.20%) Nagios
Vendors
1 101 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.91%) Google
3 18 (3.52%) Adobe
4 17 (3.33%) Splunk
5 13 (2.54%) AppDynamics
6 11 (2.15%) Sage
7 10 (1.96%) HubSpot
8 9 (1.76%) SAP
9 8 (1.57%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.17%) Confluent
10 6 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.98%) Apple
11 5 (0.98%) Facebook
11 5 (0.98%) Sony
11 5 (0.98%) Yahoo!
12 4 (0.78%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.78%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.59%) IBM
13 3 (0.59%) SaltStack