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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 43 25
Rank change year-on-year -23 -18 -10
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 513 592 890
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.13% 6.21% 6.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.21% 23.60% 24.11%
Number of salaries quoted 437 237 504
10th Percentile £38,984 £29,300 £34,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £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 3,611 2,508 3,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.02% 26.33% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,780 1,251 2,174
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -24 291 £55,000 -8.33% 175
Yorkshire -21 132 £55,000 -6.22% 81
North East -13 90 £52,000 +4.00% 48
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 41 (7.99%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (2.53%) CMS
2 13 (2.53%) WordPress
3 8 (1.56%) IIS
4 7 (1.36%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.78%) Apache
6 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.58%) Confluence
6 3 (0.58%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.58%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.19%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) Kentico
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.19%) Elementor
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (1.95%) Shopify
2 9 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.75%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.39%) Magento
4 2 (0.39%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 176 (34.31%) AWS
2 171 (33.33%) Azure
3 62 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (11.89%) Power Platform
4 61 (11.89%) Serverless
5 60 (11.70%) Power Automate
6 47 (9.16%) PowerApps
7 45 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (6.24%) SaaS
10 31 (6.04%) GitHub
11 28 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (5.46%) Microsoft Copilot
12 26 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (4.68%) Amazon S3
14 21 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (4.09%) GCP
15 19 (3.70%) Azure AI
16 16 (3.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (3.12%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.97%) HTTP
2 4 (0.78%) Internet
3 3 (0.58%) AMQP
3 3 (0.58%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.58%) MQTT
4 2 (0.39%) Firewall
4 2 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.72%) MongoDB
2 47 (9.16%) MySQL
3 42 (8.19%) SQL Server
4 31 (6.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (4.68%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.90%) NoSQL
6 20 (3.90%) Power BI
7 15 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (2.73%) MariaDB
9 12 (2.34%) Spark SQL
10 11 (2.14%) Redis
11 7 (1.36%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (1.17%) DocumentDB
13 5 (0.97%) GIS
14 4 (0.78%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.58%) Big Data
15 3 (0.58%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 94 (18.32%) Git
2 39 (7.60%) GitLab
3 22 (4.29%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.51%) Maven
6 16 (3.12%) JUnit
7 13 (2.53%) JIRA
7 13 (2.53%) Spock
8 8 (1.56%) Postman
8 8 (1.56%) Storybook
9 7 (1.36%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.17%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.17%) Selenium
11 5 (0.97%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.97%) JMeter
12 4 (0.78%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.78%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.58%) Mockito
14 2 (0.39%) Mocha
14 2 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 102 (19.88%) Social Skills
2 77 (15.01%) Public Sector
3 50 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.19%) Finance
5 37 (7.21%) Marketing
6 19 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.92%) Manufacturing
7 15 (2.92%) Retail
8 12 (2.34%) Legal
8 12 (2.34%) Publishing
9 11 (2.14%) Law
10 5 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.78%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.58%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.58%) Automotive
12 3 (0.58%) Back Office
12 3 (0.58%) Banking
12 3 (0.58%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 276 (53.80%) Developer
2 105 (20.47%) Senior
3 71 (13.84%) Software Engineer
4 62 (12.09%) Senior Developer
5 51 (9.94%) .NET Developer
6 48 (9.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (9.36%) Software Developer
7 45 (8.77%) Lead
8 36 (7.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 33 (6.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 27 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 20 (3.90%) Senior Software Developer
12 19 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (3.51%) Analyst
14 17 (3.31%) Test Engineer
15 16 (3.12%) Lead Developer
15 16 (3.12%) Lead Software Engineer
16 13 (2.53%) Data Engineer
17 12 (2.34%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 12 (2.34%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (30.41%) HTML
2 142 (27.68%) React
3 141 (27.49%) CSS
4 136 (26.51%) .NET
5 118 (23.00%) Node.js
6 68 (13.26%) AngularJS
7 58 (11.31%) .NET Core
7 58 (11.31%) REST
8 52 (10.14%) RESTful
9 48 (9.36%) ASP.NET
10 38 (7.41%) Vue
11 35 (6.82%) ASP.NET Core
12 33 (6.43%) Terraform
13 32 (6.24%) Spring
14 30 (5.85%) Blazor
15 25 (4.87%) .NET Framework
16 22 (4.29%) CSS3
16 22 (4.29%) HTML5 Canvas
17 21 (4.09%) Entity Framework
17 21 (4.09%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (3.90%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.73%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.14%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.36%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.17%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.17%) Social Media
12 5 (0.97%) BBC
12 5 (0.97%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.36%) Linux
2 5 (0.97%) Android
2 5 (0.97%) Windows
3 4 (0.78%) VMS
4 3 (0.58%) CentOS
4 3 (0.58%) Debian
4 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (45.81%) Agile
2 197 (38.40%) Full-Stack Development
3 194 (37.82%) CI/CD
4 142 (27.68%) Mentoring
5 139 (27.10%) Software Engineering
6 135 (26.32%) DevOps
7 118 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 116 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (22.03%) AI
10 104 (20.27%) Test Automation
11 90 (17.54%) Microservices
12 67 (13.06%) Coaching
13 66 (12.87%) TDD
13 66 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
14 59 (11.50%) Front End Development
15 54 (10.53%) Scrum
16 48 (9.36%) Software Testing
17 45 (8.77%) SDLC
18 44 (8.58%) Collaborative Working
19 43 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 174 (33.92%) C#
2 166 (32.36%) TypeScript
3 151 (29.43%) SQL
4 114 (22.22%) Java
5 92 (17.93%) Python
6 42 (8.19%) PHP
7 23 (4.48%) C++
8 12 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.75%) Go
10 8 (1.56%) Groovy
11 6 (1.17%) R
11 6 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.97%) C
13 4 (0.78%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.58%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.39%) Dart
16 1 (0.19%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 51 (9.94%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.63%) Degree
4 10 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.75%) 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 Certified Professional
8 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (12.67%) QA
2 61 (11.89%) Accessibility
3 29 (5.65%) WCAG
4 13 (2.53%) 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 70 (13.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.36%) Ansible
3 3 (0.58%) Puppet
4 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.19%) Argo
5 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 94 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.70%) Google
3 18 (3.51%) Adobe
4 17 (3.31%) Splunk
5 13 (2.53%) AppDynamics
6 11 (2.14%) HubSpot
6 11 (2.14%) Sage
7 9 (1.75%) SAP
8 8 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.17%) Confluent
9 6 (1.17%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.97%) Apple
10 5 (0.97%) Facebook
10 5 (0.97%) Sony
10 5 (0.97%) Yahoo!
11 4 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.78%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.58%) IBM
12 3 (0.58%) SaltStack