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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -28 -8 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 502 455 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.45% 6.84% 8.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.30% 23.60% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 402 362 1,095
10th Percentile - £36,250 £33,500
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 £67,687 £77,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.15% +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 2,251 1,928 4,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.48% 29.00% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,683 1,455 3,907
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 20 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 20 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 +5 253 £50,000 -6.98% 65
North West -39 195 £51,250 -10.87% 111
North East -5 54 £48,750 - 29
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 28 (5.58%) WordPress
2 14 (2.79%) CMS
3 12 (2.39%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.39%) Apache
5 6 (1.20%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.80%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.80%) JBoss
8 3 (0.60%) nginx
8 3 (0.60%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.40%) CICS
9 2 (0.40%) Confluence
9 2 (0.40%) IIS
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Magento
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.40%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 289 (57.57%) AWS
2 259 (51.59%) Azure
3 154 (30.68%) GitHub
4 77 (15.34%) Serverless
5 29 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
6 26 (5.18%) GCP
7 24 (4.78%) SaaS
8 23 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (3.39%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (1.99%) Power Platform
12 9 (1.79%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.20%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 132 (26.29%) Internet
2 4 (0.80%) AMQP
2 4 (0.80%) HTTP
3 3 (0.60%) SSH
4 2 (0.40%) Firewall
4 2 (0.40%) Intranet
4 2 (0.40%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.37%) Relational Database
2 25 (4.98%) MySQL
3 22 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.78%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.19%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.59%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.79%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.39%) Big Data
8 7 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.20%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.00%) Power BI
10 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.80%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.80%) GIS
11 4 (0.80%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.80%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.80%) QGIS
11 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 211 (42.03%) Git
2 42 (8.37%) JIRA
3 34 (6.77%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.59%) Selenium
5 7 (1.39%) GitLab
5 7 (1.39%) PHPUnit
6 6 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.00%) JMeter
7 5 (1.00%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.80%) JUnit
9 3 (0.60%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.60%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.60%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.60%) Postman
10 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.40%) Maven
10 2 (0.40%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.40%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 131 (26.10%) Multimedia
2 118 (23.51%) Social Skills
3 31 (6.18%) Public Sector
4 26 (5.18%) Finance
5 18 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.79%) Retail
7 13 (2.59%) Marketing
8 11 (2.19%) Games
9 7 (1.39%) Electronics
10 6 (1.20%) Law
10 6 (1.20%) Legal
11 4 (0.80%) Advertising
11 4 (0.80%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.60%) French Language
12 3 (0.60%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.60%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.60%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 278 (55.38%) Developer
2 131 (26.10%) Trainee
3 91 (18.13%) Senior
4 74 (14.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 74 (14.74%) Software Developer
5 60 (11.95%) Senior Developer
6 59 (11.75%) Software Engineer
7 57 (11.35%) Trainee Developer
8 55 (10.96%) Trainee Software Developer
9 39 (7.77%) Lead
10 28 (5.58%) Java Developer
11 26 (5.18%) Administrator
11 26 (5.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 26 (5.18%) Trainee Administrator
11 26 (5.18%) Web Administrator
12 23 (4.58%) JIRA Developer
13 22 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 21 (4.18%) .NET Developer
15 20 (3.98%) Architect
16 17 (3.39%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (47.21%) CSS
2 233 (46.41%) HTML
3 141 (28.09%) React
4 92 (18.33%) Node.js
5 91 (18.13%) .NET
6 60 (11.95%) REST
7 56 (11.16%) AngularJS
8 42 (8.37%) Vue
9 32 (6.37%) Spring Boot
10 30 (5.98%) Spring
11 28 (5.58%) RESTful
12 24 (4.78%) .NET Core
13 22 (4.38%) Web Services
14 21 (4.18%) ASP.NET
15 18 (3.59%) HTML5
16 17 (3.39%) Laravel
16 17 (3.39%) Next.js
17 16 (3.19%) Kafka
18 15 (2.99%) Flask
19 14 (2.79%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
2 24 (4.78%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (2.39%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.20%) Legacy Code
8 6 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.80%) NHS
10 4 (0.80%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.80%) Social Media
11 3 (0.60%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.19%) Android
1 11 (2.19%) Apple iOS
2 10 (1.99%) Linux
3 4 (0.80%) CentOS
3 4 (0.80%) Debian
3 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.80%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.40%) Windows
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (43.82%) Mentoring
2 158 (31.47%) Agile
3 130 (25.90%) Full-Stack Development
4 118 (23.51%) Cybersecurity
5 111 (22.11%) CI/CD
6 99 (19.72%) Software Engineering
7 89 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (15.14%) Microservices
9 74 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (12.15%) DevOps
11 54 (10.76%) Scrum
12 49 (9.76%) Computer Science
13 46 (9.16%) Web Development
14 44 (8.76%) Front End Development
15 43 (8.57%) User Experience
16 42 (8.37%) TDD
17 40 (7.97%) Kanban
18 38 (7.57%) AI
19 37 (7.37%) Infrastructure as Code
20 33 (6.57%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 222 (44.22%) Python
2 120 (23.90%) TypeScript
3 98 (19.52%) Java
4 94 (18.73%) C#
5 76 (15.14%) R
6 61 (12.15%) SQL
7 26 (5.18%) PowerShell
8 25 (4.98%) PHP
9 6 (1.20%) C
10 5 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.80%) XAML
12 3 (0.60%) Go
13 2 (0.40%) Bash
13 2 (0.40%) Groovy
13 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.20%) C++
14 1 (0.20%) Perl
14 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 152 (30.28%) AWS Certification
2 151 (30.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 150 (29.88%) Azure Certification
4 131 (26.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 51 (10.16%) Degree
6 23 (4.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 21 (4.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (3.78%) TOGAF Certification
10 15 (2.99%) Security Cleared
11 9 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.39%) DBS Check
13 6 (1.20%) SC Cleared
14 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.18%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.99%) QA
3 6 (1.20%) GDPR
4 4 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.40%) HL7
6 2 (0.40%) WCAG
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (11.35%) Docker
2 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (10.56%) Terraform
2 33 (6.57%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.79%) Ansible
4 5 (1.00%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.80%) Puppet
6 3 (0.60%) cPanel
6 3 (0.60%) Plesk
7 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.40%) Control-M
7 2 (0.40%) Grafana
7 2 (0.40%) Nagios
7 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 169 (33.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.78%) Atlassian
3 18 (3.59%) Oracle
4 8 (1.59%) Google
4 8 (1.59%) Pega
5 6 (1.20%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.00%) WSO2
7 4 (0.80%) Adobe
7 4 (0.80%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.60%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.60%) IBM
8 3 (0.60%) New Relic
8 3 (0.60%) Splunk
9 2 (0.40%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.40%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.40%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.20%) Adyen
10 1 (0.20%) Intapp
10 1 (0.20%) Samsung