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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 24 16
Rank change year-on-year -18 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 590 924 876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.34% 6.59% 9.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.66% 24.92% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 229 560 765
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,950 £73,764 £79,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%

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 2,494 3,708 3,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.78% 26.44% 36.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,231 2,320 2,703
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,113 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,797
England median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.69%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 -10 449 £60,000 +14.29% 200
Yorkshire -36 117 £59,800 +8.73% 127
North East -32 26 £50,000 -16.67% 57
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (8.31%) Confluence
2 15 (2.54%) CMS
3 7 (1.19%) IIS
4 4 (0.68%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.68%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.51%) Apache
5 3 (0.51%) WordPress
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.34%) Drupal
6 2 (0.34%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 12 (2.03%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.51%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.51%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.34%) Sketch
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.17%) InVision
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.51%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.34%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) Odoo
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 415 (70.34%) AWS
2 376 (63.73%) Azure
3 236 (40.00%) GCP
4 29 (4.92%) GitHub
4 29 (4.92%) Serverless
5 16 (2.71%) SaaS
6 15 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.53%) Power Automate
9 8 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.19%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.85%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (0.85%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.68%) Figma
13 4 (0.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.86%) Internet
2 8 (1.36%) WPA
3 5 (0.85%) HTTP
4 4 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.68%) VPN
5 2 (0.34%) AMQP
6 1 (0.17%) Broadband
6 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.17%) Intranet
6 1 (0.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (25.76%) SQL Server
2 46 (7.80%) MySQL
3 38 (6.44%) NoSQL
4 28 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.90%) MongoDB
6 12 (2.03%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.36%) Redis
8 7 (1.19%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.68%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.68%) GIS
10 4 (0.68%) Power BI
11 3 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.51%) Big Data
11 3 (0.51%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.51%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.34%) Metadata
13 1 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.17%) DocumentDB
13 1 (0.17%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 140 (23.73%) JIRA
2 125 (21.19%) Selenium
3 122 (20.68%) GitLab
4 120 (20.34%) SonarQube
5 119 (20.17%) Maven
6 118 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 117 (19.83%) Cucumber
8 113 (19.15%) Bitbucket
9 68 (11.53%) Git
10 16 (2.71%) Jenkins
11 12 (2.03%) JUnit
12 9 (1.53%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.53%) Postman
13 8 (1.36%) JMeter
14 7 (1.19%) webpack
15 5 (0.85%) Appium
16 4 (0.68%) Fiddler
16 4 (0.68%) LoadRunner
16 4 (0.68%) Robot Framework
17 3 (0.51%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 289 (48.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 143 (24.24%) Finance
3 121 (20.51%) Banking
4 75 (12.71%) Retail
5 72 (12.20%) Corporate Banking
5 72 (12.20%) Investment Banking
6 68 (11.53%) Social Skills
7 21 (3.56%) Law
8 14 (2.37%) Marketing
9 13 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.69%) Multimedia
11 8 (1.36%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.19%) Games
13 6 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
13 6 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.85%) Cantonese Language
14 5 (0.85%) Digital Healthcare
14 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.68%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 322 (54.58%) Software Engineer
2 229 (38.81%) Senior
3 184 (31.19%) Senior Software Engineer
4 155 (26.27%) Developer
5 46 (7.80%) Lead
6 25 (4.24%) Senior Developer
6 25 (4.24%) Software Developer
7 22 (3.73%) .NET Developer
7 22 (3.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 22 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (2.71%) Lead Developer
9 15 (2.54%) PHP Developer
10 14 (2.37%) Lead Software Engineer
11 13 (2.20%) Analyst
11 13 (2.20%) JavaScript Developer
12 11 (1.86%) Java Developer
13 10 (1.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 10 (1.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (1.69%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 10 (1.69%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (40.00%) .NET
1 236 (40.00%) Node.js
2 227 (38.47%) HTML
3 210 (35.59%) CSS
4 205 (34.75%) React
5 132 (22.37%) Spring Boot
6 131 (22.20%) Spring
7 130 (22.03%) Redux
8 124 (21.02%) Kafka
9 113 (19.15%) JPA
10 106 (17.97%) REST
11 102 (17.29%) RESTful
12 96 (16.27%) HTML5
13 92 (15.59%) CSS3
14 85 (14.41%) Sass
15 83 (14.07%) Jest
16 45 (7.63%) Hibernate
17 39 (6.61%) AngularJS
18 22 (3.73%) ASP.NET
19 21 (3.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 177 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 174 (29.49%) Self-Motivation
3 172 (29.15%) Cyberattack
4 138 (23.39%) Product Ownership
5 118 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.05%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (2.37%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.36%) CMDB
10 5 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.85%) LIMS
11 4 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.68%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 3 (0.51%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.51%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.34%) NHS
13 2 (0.34%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 198 (33.56%) Linux
2 19 (3.22%) Windows
3 7 (1.19%) Android
4 5 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.85%) Unix
5 4 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (70.85%) Agile
2 370 (62.71%) Software Engineering
3 328 (55.59%) Microservices
4 307 (52.03%) Mentoring
5 302 (51.19%) User Experience
6 199 (33.73%) Scrum
7 191 (32.37%) Machine Learning
8 190 (32.20%) CI/CD
9 179 (30.34%) DevOps
10 177 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 175 (29.66%) Cloud Security
11 175 (29.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 173 (29.32%) Data Engineering
13 153 (25.93%) Front End Development
14 145 (24.58%) Test Automation
15 137 (23.22%) Containerisation
15 137 (23.22%) SDLC
16 131 (22.20%) Performance Optimisation
17 82 (13.90%) Migration
18 77 (13.05%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 365 (61.86%) Java
2 256 (43.39%) Python
3 206 (34.92%) SQL
4 186 (31.53%) C++
5 185 (31.36%) Rust
6 182 (30.85%) Go
7 180 (30.51%) TypeScript
8 91 (15.42%) C#
9 52 (8.81%) PHP
10 19 (3.22%) R
11 14 (2.37%) Ruby
12 13 (2.20%) C
12 13 (2.20%) Dart
12 13 (2.20%) MATLAB
13 12 (2.03%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.53%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.68%) Bash
16 3 (0.51%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.51%) Scala
17 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 191 (32.37%) Security Cleared
2 188 (31.86%) AWS Certification
3 175 (29.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 174 (29.49%) DV Cleared
5 172 (29.15%) AWS Certified Developer
6 40 (6.78%) Degree
7 27 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 16 (2.71%) SC Cleared
9 14 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.68%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.17%) MCSD
13 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (25.59%) QA
2 84 (14.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.02%) HL7
4 4 (0.68%) GDPR
5 3 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 161 (27.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 141 (23.90%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.56%) Terraform
3 4 (0.68%) Istio
4 3 (0.51%) Grafana
5 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.17%) Ansible
6 1 (0.17%) Argo
Vendors
1 112 (18.98%) Solace
2 45 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.53%) Oracle
4 8 (1.36%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.19%) Google
5 7 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.02%) Adobe
7 5 (0.85%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.68%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.34%) IBM
9 2 (0.34%) SAP
9 2 (0.34%) Splunk
10 1 (0.17%) CyberSource
10 1 (0.17%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.17%) HP
10 1 (0.17%) New Relic
10 1 (0.17%) Sage
10 1 (0.17%) Telerik
10 1 (0.17%) Veracode