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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 26 20
Rank change year-on-year -27 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 488 522 1,217
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.54% 7.24% 8.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.72% 24.31% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 390 360 1,088
10th Percentile - £36,200 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £80,000
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 2,148 2,147 4,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.58% 29.79% 31.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,628 1,441 3,864
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,188 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,600 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,777 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 8 March 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 March 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 +5 250 £50,000 -4.76% 103
North West -39 187 £55,000 -4.35% 119
North East -11 51 £47,500 - 38
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 16 (3.28%) CMS
2 13 (2.66%) WordPress
3 11 (2.25%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.43%) Apache
5 6 (1.23%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.02%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.82%) JBoss
8 3 (0.61%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.61%) nginx
9 2 (0.41%) CICS
9 2 (0.41%) Confluence
9 2 (0.41%) IIS
9 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.41%) Magento
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.41%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 285 (58.40%) AWS
2 242 (49.59%) Azure
3 147 (30.12%) GitHub
4 79 (16.19%) Serverless
5 30 (6.15%) GCP
6 28 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (4.30%) SaaS
9 18 (3.69%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.84%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.84%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 121 (24.80%) Internet
2 4 (0.82%) AMQP
2 4 (0.82%) HTTP
2 4 (0.82%) SSH
3 2 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.41%) Intranet
3 2 (0.41%) OpenVPN
3 2 (0.41%) SSL
4 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.35%) Relational Database
2 27 (5.53%) MySQL
3 21 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.48%) NoSQL
5 14 (2.87%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.05%) DynamoDB
6 10 (2.05%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.43%) Big Data
7 7 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.43%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.02%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.02%) Redis
8 5 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.82%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (0.82%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.82%) Power BI
9 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.61%) GIS
Development Applications
1 200 (40.98%) Git
2 39 (7.99%) JIRA
3 33 (6.76%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.64%) Selenium
5 7 (1.43%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.43%) GitLab
5 7 (1.43%) PHPUnit
6 5 (1.02%) JMeter
6 5 (1.02%) JUnit
6 5 (1.02%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.82%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.61%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.61%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.61%) Maven
8 3 (0.61%) Postman
9 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 125 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 120 (24.59%) Multimedia
3 28 (5.74%) Public Sector
4 26 (5.33%) Finance
5 17 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.28%) Marketing
7 14 (2.87%) Retail
8 13 (2.66%) Games
9 7 (1.43%) Electronics
10 6 (1.23%) Legal
11 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.82%) Law
11 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.61%) Advertising
12 3 (0.61%) Banking
12 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.61%) French Language
12 3 (0.61%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.61%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.61%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 279 (57.17%) Developer
2 120 (24.59%) Trainee
3 92 (18.85%) Senior
4 76 (15.57%) Software Developer
5 73 (14.96%) Full-Stack Developer
6 62 (12.70%) Senior Developer
7 58 (11.89%) Trainee Developer
7 58 (11.89%) Trainee Software Developer
8 54 (11.07%) Software Engineer
9 38 (7.79%) Lead
10 26 (5.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 26 (5.33%) Java Developer
11 24 (4.92%) Architect
12 23 (4.71%) JIRA Developer
13 21 (4.30%) .NET Developer
14 20 (4.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (3.69%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
15 18 (3.69%) JavaScript Developer
15 18 (3.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 17 (3.48%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (47.13%) CSS
2 225 (46.11%) HTML
3 140 (28.69%) React
4 91 (18.65%) .NET
5 87 (17.83%) Node.js
6 60 (12.30%) AngularJS
6 60 (12.30%) REST
7 43 (8.81%) Vue
8 29 (5.94%) Spring Boot
9 27 (5.53%) Spring
10 25 (5.12%) RESTful
11 23 (4.71%) HTML5
12 22 (4.51%) .NET Core
13 21 (4.30%) Web Services
14 19 (3.89%) ASP.NET
15 18 (3.69%) Laravel
16 17 (3.48%) CSS3
16 17 (3.48%) Kafka
16 17 (3.48%) Next.js
17 14 (2.87%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
2 25 (5.12%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (2.66%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.66%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.23%) Legacy Code
9 5 (1.02%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.02%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.02%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.02%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.82%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.82%) NHS
10 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.82%) Social Media
11 3 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.25%) Android
1 11 (2.25%) Apple iOS
1 11 (2.25%) Linux
2 4 (0.82%) CentOS
2 4 (0.82%) Debian
2 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.41%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (46.31%) Mentoring
2 149 (30.53%) Agile
3 124 (25.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 122 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 110 (22.54%) CI/CD
6 91 (18.65%) Software Engineering
7 90 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (16.19%) Microservices
9 72 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (12.91%) DevOps
11 53 (10.86%) Computer Science
12 49 (10.04%) Scrum
13 44 (9.02%) Front End Development
13 44 (9.02%) User Experience
14 41 (8.40%) TDD
15 38 (7.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 36 (7.38%) Kanban
17 35 (7.17%) AI
18 34 (6.97%) Architectural Patterns
19 32 (6.56%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 212 (43.44%) Python
2 126 (25.82%) TypeScript
3 96 (19.67%) C#
4 95 (19.47%) Java
5 64 (13.11%) R
6 61 (12.50%) SQL
7 27 (5.53%) PHP
7 27 (5.53%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.23%) C
9 5 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.82%) XAML
11 3 (0.61%) Go
12 2 (0.41%) Bash
12 2 (0.41%) Groovy
12 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.20%) Perl
13 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 144 (29.51%) AWS Certification
2 143 (29.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 142 (29.10%) Azure Certification
4 120 (24.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 55 (11.27%) Degree
6 24 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (4.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 22 (4.51%) TOGAF Certification
9 19 (3.89%) Security Cleared
10 10 (2.05%) SC Cleared
11 9 (1.84%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.43%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.48%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.05%) QA
3 6 (1.23%) GDPR
4 4 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.61%) HL7
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.41%) WCAG
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (11.89%) Docker
2 5 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (10.86%) Terraform
2 34 (6.97%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.66%) Ansible
4 5 (1.02%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.82%) Puppet
6 3 (0.61%) cPanel
6 3 (0.61%) Grafana
6 3 (0.61%) Plesk
7 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.41%) Control-M
7 2 (0.41%) Nagios
7 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 159 (32.58%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.94%) Atlassian
3 18 (3.69%) Oracle
4 12 (2.46%) Google
5 7 (1.43%) Pega
6 6 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.02%) Adobe
8 4 (0.82%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.82%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.82%) WSO2
9 3 (0.61%) IBM
9 3 (0.61%) New Relic
9 3 (0.61%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.61%) Splunk
10 2 (0.41%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.41%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.41%) Screaming Frog
11 1 (0.20%) Adyen
11 1 (0.20%) Intapp
11 1 (0.20%) Samsung