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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -38 -8 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 469 651 1,408
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.52% 8.86% 8.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.40% 27.34% 28.97%
Number of salaries quoted 387 382 1,215
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,000 £96,125 £78,750
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 2,860 2,381 4,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.38% 32.39% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,025 1,492 4,148
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +6.60% -3.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,934 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -40 217 £52,500 -9.48% 98
Yorkshire -17 206 £52,500 -8.70% 83
North East -18 46 £48,750 - 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 27 (5.76%) WordPress
2 14 (2.99%) CMS
3 9 (1.92%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.71%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.49%) Apache
6 5 (1.07%) JBoss
7 4 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.85%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.85%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.64%) nginx
9 2 (0.43%) CICS
9 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.43%) IIS
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.21%) Confluence
10 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.71%) Shopify
3 4 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.64%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 233 (49.68%) AWS
2 218 (46.48%) Azure
3 113 (24.09%) GitHub
4 65 (13.86%) Serverless
5 27 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
5 27 (5.76%) GCP
6 24 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (4.90%) SaaS
8 19 (4.05%) Power Automate
8 19 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 18 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (3.20%) PowerApps
11 14 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (2.35%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.28%) Apigee
14 6 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 94 (20.04%) Internet
2 4 (0.85%) AMQP
2 4 (0.85%) HTTP
3 3 (0.64%) Firewall
4 2 (0.43%) Intranet
4 2 (0.43%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.43%) SSH
4 2 (0.43%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.18%) MySQL
2 27 (5.76%) Relational Database
3 20 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 19 (4.05%) SQL Server
5 18 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (3.41%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (1.92%) Power BI
9 7 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.49%) Big Data
9 7 (1.49%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.28%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.07%) GIS
12 4 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.85%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.85%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.85%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.85%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 172 (36.67%) Git
2 30 (6.40%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.97%) JIRA
4 7 (1.49%) GitLab
4 7 (1.49%) PHPUnit
4 7 (1.49%) Selenium
5 6 (1.28%) Maven
5 6 (1.28%) Postman
6 5 (1.07%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.07%) JUnit
7 4 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.85%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.85%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.85%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.64%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.43%) JMeter
9 2 (0.43%) Subversion
9 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
General
1 94 (20.04%) Multimedia
2 86 (18.34%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.82%) Finance
4 26 (5.54%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.41%) Retail
7 12 (2.56%) Marketing
8 11 (2.35%) Law
9 8 (1.71%) Games
10 5 (1.07%) Advertising
10 5 (1.07%) Agriculture
10 5 (1.07%) Automotive
10 5 (1.07%) Legal
10 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.85%) Back Office
12 3 (0.64%) French Language
12 3 (0.64%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.64%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.64%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 251 (53.52%) Developer
2 94 (20.04%) Senior
2 94 (20.04%) Trainee
3 80 (17.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 70 (14.93%) Software Engineer
5 64 (13.65%) Senior Developer
6 57 (12.15%) Software Developer
7 45 (9.59%) Lead
8 40 (8.53%) Trainee Developer
9 38 (8.10%) Trainee Software Developer
10 26 (5.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 25 (5.33%) Java Developer
12 23 (4.90%) Administrator
12 23 (4.90%) Trainee Administrator
12 23 (4.90%) Web Administrator
13 22 (4.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 21 (4.48%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 18 (3.84%) .NET Developer
16 17 (3.62%) Lead Software Engineer
16 17 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (40.09%) CSS
1 188 (40.09%) HTML
2 132 (28.14%) React
3 89 (18.98%) Node.js
4 85 (18.12%) .NET
5 57 (12.15%) AngularJS
6 50 (10.66%) REST
7 46 (9.81%) Vue
8 33 (7.04%) Spring Boot
9 31 (6.61%) Spring
10 29 (6.18%) RESTful
11 26 (5.54%) .NET Core
12 20 (4.26%) Laravel
13 19 (4.05%) ASP.NET
13 19 (4.05%) HTML5
14 18 (3.84%) Kafka
14 18 (3.84%) Web Services
15 16 (3.41%) CSS3
16 12 (2.56%) Flask
16 12 (2.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.76%) Cloud Native
1 27 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (2.77%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.49%) Legacy Code
7 7 (1.49%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.07%) NHS
10 4 (0.85%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.85%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.64%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.64%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.64%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.64%) Social Media
11 3 (0.64%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.71%) Linux
2 4 (0.85%) Android
2 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.85%) CentOS
2 4 (0.85%) Debian
2 4 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (0.85%) Ubuntu
2 4 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (36.89%) Mentoring
2 148 (31.56%) Full-Stack Development
3 147 (31.34%) Agile
4 104 (22.17%) Software Engineering
5 94 (20.04%) CI/CD
6 87 (18.55%) Cybersecurity
7 84 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (14.50%) Microservices
9 55 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (11.73%) Scrum
10 54 (11.51%) DevOps
11 46 (9.81%) Front End Development
12 45 (9.59%) Web Development
13 41 (8.74%) AI
14 40 (8.53%) TDD
15 39 (8.32%) Kanban
16 38 (8.10%) Containerisation
17 37 (7.89%) User Experience
18 31 (6.61%) E-Commerce
19 30 (6.40%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 187 (39.87%) Python
2 113 (24.09%) TypeScript
3 99 (21.11%) Java
4 96 (20.47%) C#
5 72 (15.35%) SQL
6 56 (11.94%) R
7 34 (7.25%) PHP
8 9 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.49%) C
10 4 (0.85%) Groovy
10 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.64%) Bash
11 3 (0.64%) C++
11 3 (0.64%) Go
11 3 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.43%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 111 (23.67%) AWS Certification
2 108 (23.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 107 (22.81%) Azure Certification
4 94 (20.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 35 (7.46%) Degree
6 20 (4.26%) Security Cleared
7 16 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.77%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (2.13%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.13%) SC Cleared
11 7 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (1.07%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.35%) QA
3 6 (1.28%) GDPR
4 4 (0.85%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.85%) SLA
5 3 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.64%) WCAG
6 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.21%) HL7
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (10.45%) Docker
2 5 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (7.89%) Terraform
2 31 (6.61%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.92%) Ansible
4 4 (0.85%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.85%) Puppet
5 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.43%) cPanel
5 2 (0.43%) Nagios
5 2 (0.43%) Plesk
5 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 136 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.77%) Oracle
3 12 (2.56%) Atlassian
4 10 (2.13%) Google
5 6 (1.28%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.28%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.07%) Adobe
6 5 (1.07%) Pega
7 4 (0.85%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.64%) New Relic
8 3 (0.64%) Splunk
9 2 (0.43%) Adyen
9 2 (0.43%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.43%) WSO2
10 1 (0.21%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.21%) Facebook
10 1 (0.21%) Intapp
10 1 (0.21%) Netlify
10 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.21%) Optimizely