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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 41 24
Rank change year-on-year -21 -17 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 511 597 930
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.18% 6.36% 6.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.32% 23.73% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 437 236 567
10th Percentile £38,772 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,751 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -

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 3,569 2,516 3,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.20% 26.80% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,733 1,253 2,344
10th Percentile £37,600 £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 £68,113
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,733 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.61% +0.37% -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 14 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 14 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 -20 289 £54,250 -9.58% 141
Yorkshire -11 139 £55,000 -6.22% 69
North East -10 83 £52,000 +4.00% 37
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 35 (6.85%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (2.54%) WordPress
3 12 (2.35%) CMS
4 8 (1.57%) IIS
5 6 (1.17%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.78%) Apache
7 3 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.59%) Confluence
8 2 (0.39%) JBoss
8 2 (0.39%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.20%) Elementor
4 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.15%) Shopify
2 10 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.76%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.39%) Magento
5 2 (0.39%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 175 (34.25%) AWS
2 172 (33.66%) Azure
3 65 (12.72%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (12.33%) Serverless
5 56 (10.96%) Power Platform
6 55 (10.76%) Power Automate
7 42 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (8.22%) PowerApps
8 34 (6.65%) SaaS
9 32 (6.26%) GitHub
10 31 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (5.09%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (4.50%) Microsoft Copilot
14 22 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (4.11%) GCP
16 20 (3.91%) Amazon S3
17 19 (3.72%) Azure AI
18 13 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 13 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.98%) HTTP
2 4 (0.78%) Internet
3 3 (0.59%) AMQP
3 3 (0.59%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.59%) MQTT
4 2 (0.39%) Firewall
4 2 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.20%) DNS
5 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.76%) MongoDB
2 47 (9.20%) MySQL
3 38 (7.44%) SQL Server
4 32 (6.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 30 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (4.70%) Relational Database
7 22 (4.31%) NoSQL
8 19 (3.72%) Power BI
9 15 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.54%) MariaDB
11 12 (2.35%) Spark SQL
12 11 (2.15%) Redis
13 8 (1.57%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.98%) GIS
16 4 (0.78%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.78%) Neo4j
17 3 (0.59%) Chroma
17 3 (0.59%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 91 (17.81%) Git
2 37 (7.24%) GitLab
3 21 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.72%) Maven
5 16 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 16 (3.13%) JIRA
6 15 (2.94%) JUnit
7 13 (2.54%) Spock
8 8 (1.57%) Storybook
9 7 (1.37%) Postman
10 6 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.17%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.78%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.78%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.78%) JMeter
11 4 (0.78%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.78%) Selenium
12 2 (0.39%) Mockito
12 2 (0.39%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.39%) Vite
General
1 99 (19.37%) Social Skills
2 75 (14.68%) Public Sector
3 47 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.61%) Finance
5 36 (7.05%) Marketing
6 15 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.74%) Retail
8 12 (2.35%) Law
9 11 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.15%) Publishing
10 10 (1.96%) Legal
11 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.78%) Agriculture
12 4 (0.78%) Automotive
12 4 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.59%) Advertising
13 3 (0.59%) Back Office
13 3 (0.59%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 269 (52.64%) Developer
2 102 (19.96%) Senior
3 82 (16.05%) Software Engineer
4 58 (11.35%) Senior Developer
5 56 (10.96%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (9.78%) Lead
7 47 (9.20%) .NET Developer
8 39 (7.63%) Software Developer
9 37 (7.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 32 (6.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 22 (4.31%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 21 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (3.72%) Lead Software Engineer
14 18 (3.52%) Test Engineer
15 17 (3.33%) Lead Developer
15 17 (3.33%) Senior Software Developer
16 15 (2.94%) Analyst
17 13 (2.54%) Data Engineer
17 13 (2.54%) Java Developer
17 13 (2.54%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (28.96%) HTML
2 141 (27.59%) React
3 134 (26.22%) CSS
4 132 (25.83%) .NET
5 118 (23.09%) Node.js
6 69 (13.50%) AngularJS
7 56 (10.96%) .NET Core
8 51 (9.98%) REST
9 50 (9.78%) ASP.NET
9 50 (9.78%) RESTful
10 43 (8.41%) Vue
11 36 (7.05%) ASP.NET Core
11 36 (7.05%) Terraform
12 32 (6.26%) Spring
13 31 (6.07%) Blazor
14 23 (4.50%) .NET Framework
14 23 (4.50%) CSS3
15 22 (4.31%) HTML5
15 22 (4.31%) HTML5 Canvas
16 21 (4.11%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.74%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.15%) Marketing Technology
9 9 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.57%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.37%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.37%) Social Media
12 6 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.17%) BBC
13 5 (0.98%) e-Learning
13 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.17%) Linux
2 4 (0.78%) Android
2 4 (0.78%) VMS
3 3 (0.59%) CentOS
3 3 (0.59%) Debian
3 3 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.59%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (46.18%) Agile
2 208 (40.70%) Full-Stack Development
3 187 (36.59%) CI/CD
4 146 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 142 (27.79%) Mentoring
6 132 (25.83%) DevOps
7 116 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
8 110 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (21.33%) AI
10 95 (18.59%) Test Automation
11 89 (17.42%) Microservices
12 67 (13.11%) TDD
13 65 (12.72%) Coaching
14 63 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
15 59 (11.55%) Front End Development
16 58 (11.35%) Scrum
17 43 (8.41%) Kanban
18 40 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
18 40 (7.83%) Software Testing
18 40 (7.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 169 (33.07%) C#
2 162 (31.70%) TypeScript
3 157 (30.72%) SQL
4 123 (24.07%) Java
5 90 (17.61%) Python
6 42 (8.22%) PHP
7 24 (4.70%) C++
8 11 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.76%) Go
9 9 (1.76%) Groovy
10 6 (1.17%) R
11 5 (0.98%) C
12 4 (0.78%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.78%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.59%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.39%) Dart
15 1 (0.20%) Bash
15 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 55 (10.76%) Security Cleared
2 45 (8.81%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.46%) Degree
4 8 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.57%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.98%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.78%) MBA
7 3 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.35%) Accessibility
2 56 (10.96%) QA
3 25 (4.89%) WCAG
4 13 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.59%) SLA
7 2 (0.39%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 69 (13.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (8.41%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.37%) Ansible
3 3 (0.59%) Puppet
4 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.20%) Argo
5 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.20%) Nagios
Vendors
1 90 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.91%) Google
3 18 (3.52%) Adobe
4 17 (3.33%) Splunk
5 13 (2.54%) AppDynamics
6 12 (2.35%) HubSpot
6 12 (2.35%) Sage
7 9 (1.76%) SAP
8 7 (1.37%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.17%) Apple
9 6 (1.17%) Facebook
9 6 (1.17%) Sony
9 6 (1.17%) Yahoo!
10 5 (0.98%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.78%) Confluent
11 4 (0.78%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.78%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.59%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.39%) Mistral