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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 42 26
Rank change year-on-year -29 -16 -11
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 515 594 806
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.15% 6.26% 6.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.77% 24.54% 23.17%
Number of salaries quoted 423 232 432
10th Percentile £38,987 £28,250 £34,100
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £78,750 £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 3,487 2,421 3,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.57% 25.53% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,714 1,214 1,938
10th Percentile £38,757 £31,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,813 £40,871 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £80,000
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 12 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 12 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 -28 285 £57,500 - 118
Yorkshire -33 131 £55,000 +1.38% 54
North East -14 99 £52,000 +4.00% 34
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 49 (9.51%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (2.52%) WordPress
3 11 (2.14%) CMS
4 8 (1.55%) IIS
5 7 (1.36%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.58%) Apache
6 3 (0.58%) Confluence
6 3 (0.58%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) Kentico
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.19%) Elementor
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.75%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.55%) Shopify
3 3 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.39%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 173 (33.59%) AWS
2 167 (32.43%) Azure
3 69 (13.40%) Power Platform
4 65 (12.62%) Power Automate
5 62 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (11.46%) Serverless
7 53 (10.29%) PowerApps
8 44 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
9 43 (8.35%) Microsoft 365
10 34 (6.60%) Microsoft Copilot
11 29 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (5.63%) GitHub
12 28 (5.44%) SaaS
13 25 (4.85%) Amazon S3
14 24 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (4.27%) GCP
16 19 (3.69%) Azure AI
17 16 (3.11%) Copilot Studio
18 15 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.78%) HTTP
1 4 (0.78%) Internet
2 3 (0.58%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.58%) MQTT
3 2 (0.39%) AMQP
3 2 (0.39%) Firewall
3 2 (0.39%) SSL
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (10.49%) MongoDB
2 46 (8.93%) MySQL
3 42 (8.16%) SQL Server
4 31 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (4.66%) Power BI
7 23 (4.47%) Relational Database
8 21 (4.08%) NoSQL
9 16 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (2.72%) MariaDB
11 12 (2.33%) Spark SQL
12 11 (2.14%) Redis
13 6 (1.17%) DocumentDB
13 6 (1.17%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.97%) GIS
15 4 (0.78%) Neo4j
16 3 (0.58%) Metadata
16 3 (0.58%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 92 (17.86%) Git
2 39 (7.57%) GitLab
3 21 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.69%) Cypress.io
5 17 (3.30%) Maven
6 16 (3.11%) JUnit
7 13 (2.52%) Spock
8 11 (2.14%) JIRA
9 8 (1.55%) Storybook
10 7 (1.36%) Postman
10 7 (1.36%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.17%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.17%) Selenium
12 5 (0.97%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.97%) JMeter
13 4 (0.78%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.78%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.58%) Mockito
15 2 (0.39%) Mocha
15 2 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 104 (20.19%) Social Skills
2 82 (15.92%) Public Sector
3 51 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (9.71%) Finance
5 42 (8.16%) Marketing
6 25 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.52%) Retail
9 12 (2.33%) Publishing
10 11 (2.14%) Legal
11 8 (1.55%) Law
12 5 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.97%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.58%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.58%) Banking
14 3 (0.58%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.39%) Automotive
15 2 (0.39%) Back Office
15 2 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 271 (52.62%) Developer
2 109 (21.17%) Senior
3 64 (12.43%) Software Engineer
4 62 (12.04%) Senior Developer
5 53 (10.29%) .NET Developer
6 47 (9.13%) Software Developer
7 41 (7.96%) Lead
8 38 (7.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 37 (7.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (6.60%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 33 (6.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 21 (4.08%) Senior Software Developer
13 18 (3.50%) Analyst
14 17 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (3.30%) Test Engineer
15 15 (2.91%) Consultant
15 15 (2.91%) Lead Developer
16 14 (2.72%) Lead Software Engineer
17 13 (2.52%) Data Engineer
17 13 (2.52%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (31.84%) HTML
2 155 (30.10%) CSS
3 138 (26.80%) React
4 135 (26.21%) .NET
5 120 (23.30%) Node.js
6 65 (12.62%) AngularJS
7 63 (12.23%) REST
8 58 (11.26%) .NET Core
9 51 (9.90%) RESTful
10 47 (9.13%) ASP.NET
11 36 (6.99%) ASP.NET Core
12 34 (6.60%) Vue
13 33 (6.41%) Terraform
14 32 (6.21%) Blazor
15 30 (5.83%) Spring
16 23 (4.47%) .NET Framework
17 22 (4.27%) HTML5 Canvas
18 21 (4.08%) CSS3
18 21 (4.08%) HTML5
19 19 (3.69%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 26 (5.05%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.30%) Marketing Technology
8 16 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.11%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.72%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.17%) Social Media
13 5 (0.97%) BBC
13 5 (0.97%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.17%) Linux
2 5 (0.97%) Android
2 5 (0.97%) Windows
3 4 (0.78%) VMS
4 2 (0.39%) CentOS
4 2 (0.39%) Debian
4 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (47.18%) Agile
2 203 (39.42%) CI/CD
3 183 (35.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 141 (27.38%) Mentoring
5 140 (27.18%) DevOps
6 138 (26.80%) Software Engineering
7 128 (24.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 123 (23.88%) AI
9 119 (23.11%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (20.97%) Test Automation
11 88 (17.09%) Microservices
12 70 (13.59%) Technical Leadership
13 67 (13.01%) Coaching
14 65 (12.62%) TDD
15 56 (10.87%) Front End Development
16 51 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 50 (9.71%) Collaborative Working
17 50 (9.71%) Scrum
17 50 (9.71%) SDLC
18 48 (9.32%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 174 (33.79%) C#
2 166 (32.23%) TypeScript
3 140 (27.18%) SQL
4 115 (22.33%) Java
5 101 (19.61%) Python
6 40 (7.77%) PHP
7 21 (4.08%) C++
8 12 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.75%) Go
10 8 (1.55%) Groovy
11 6 (1.17%) C
11 6 (1.17%) R
12 5 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.58%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.58%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.39%) Dart
14 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.19%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (13.20%) Security Cleared
2 57 (11.07%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.96%) Degree
4 15 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.78%) MBA
7 3 (0.58%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (13.40%) QA
2 67 (13.01%) Accessibility
3 29 (5.63%) WCAG
4 13 (2.52%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.58%) SLA
7 2 (0.39%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 71 (13.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (9.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.97%) Ansible
3 2 (0.39%) Puppet
3 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.19%) Argo
4 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 103 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.88%) Google
3 18 (3.50%) Adobe
4 17 (3.30%) Splunk
5 13 (2.52%) AppDynamics
6 11 (2.14%) Sage
7 10 (1.94%) HubSpot
8 9 (1.75%) SAP
9 8 (1.55%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.17%) Confluent
10 6 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.97%) Apple
11 5 (0.97%) Facebook
11 5 (0.97%) Sony
11 5 (0.97%) Yahoo!
12 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.78%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.58%) IBM
13 3 (0.58%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.39%) Oracle