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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 28 18
Rank change year-on-year -26 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 504 490 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.56% 7.12% 8.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.86% 24.08% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 406 360 1,106
10th Percentile - £36,200 £33,750
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 £68,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.88% +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 2,205 2,035 4,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.59% 29.56% 31.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,665 1,442 3,901
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,153 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 12 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 12 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 +6 256 £50,000 -11.11% 77
North West -35 194 £52,500 -8.70% 108
North East -7 54 £47,500 - 33
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 (5.56%) WordPress
2 14 (2.78%) CMS
3 12 (2.38%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.39%) Apache
5 6 (1.19%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.99%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.79%) JBoss
8 3 (0.60%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.60%) nginx
9 2 (0.40%) CICS
9 2 (0.40%) Confluence
9 2 (0.40%) IIS
9 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Magento
2 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.40%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 302 (59.92%) AWS
2 264 (52.38%) Azure
3 166 (32.94%) GitHub
4 80 (15.87%) Serverless
5 29 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (5.75%) GCP
6 24 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (4.56%) SaaS
8 18 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (1.98%) Power Platform
12 9 (1.79%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.19%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 140 (27.78%) Internet
2 4 (0.79%) AMQP
2 4 (0.79%) 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 31 (6.15%) Relational Database
2 25 (4.96%) MySQL
3 22 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 14 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.58%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.98%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.39%) Big Data
8 7 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.19%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.99%) Power BI
10 5 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.79%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.79%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.79%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.79%) Redis
11 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 217 (43.06%) Git
2 40 (7.94%) JIRA
3 34 (6.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.39%) Cypress.io
4 7 (1.39%) GitLab
4 7 (1.39%) PHPUnit
4 7 (1.39%) Selenium
5 5 (0.99%) JMeter
5 5 (0.99%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.79%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.79%) JUnit
7 3 (0.60%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.60%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.60%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.60%) Postman
7 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) Appium
8 2 (0.40%) Maven
8 2 (0.40%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 139 (27.58%) Multimedia
2 121 (24.01%) Social Skills
3 29 (5.75%) Public Sector
4 26 (5.16%) Finance
5 17 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.78%) Marketing
6 14 (2.78%) Retail
7 12 (2.38%) Games
8 7 (1.39%) Electronics
9 6 (1.19%) Legal
10 5 (0.99%) Law
11 4 (0.79%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.60%) Advertising
12 3 (0.60%) Banking
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
Job Titles
1 282 (55.95%) Developer
2 139 (27.58%) Trainee
3 92 (18.25%) Senior
4 78 (15.48%) Software Developer
5 75 (14.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 62 (12.30%) Trainee Developer
7 61 (12.10%) Senior Developer
8 60 (11.90%) Trainee Software Developer
9 54 (10.71%) Software Engineer
10 37 (7.34%) Lead
11 27 (5.36%) Java Developer
12 26 (5.16%) Administrator
12 26 (5.16%) Trainee Administrator
12 26 (5.16%) Web Administrator
13 25 (4.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 23 (4.56%) JIRA Developer
15 22 (4.37%) Architect
16 21 (4.17%) .NET Developer
16 21 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 18 (3.57%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (48.81%) CSS
2 241 (47.82%) HTML
3 144 (28.57%) React
4 91 (18.06%) Node.js
5 89 (17.66%) .NET
6 60 (11.90%) AngularJS
6 60 (11.90%) REST
7 44 (8.73%) Vue
8 31 (6.15%) Spring Boot
9 29 (5.75%) Spring
10 27 (5.36%) RESTful
11 23 (4.56%) .NET Core
12 22 (4.37%) HTML5
12 22 (4.37%) Web Services
13 19 (3.77%) ASP.NET
14 18 (3.57%) Next.js
15 17 (3.37%) Laravel
16 16 (3.17%) CSS3
16 16 (3.17%) Kafka
17 15 (2.98%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.95%) Enterprise Software
2 25 (4.96%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (2.58%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.58%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.19%) Legacy Code
9 5 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.99%) Low-Code
9 5 (0.99%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.79%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.79%) NHS
10 4 (0.79%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.79%) Social Media
11 3 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.18%) Android
1 11 (2.18%) Apple iOS
2 10 (1.98%) Linux
3 4 (0.79%) CentOS
3 4 (0.79%) Debian
3 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.40%) Windows
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (45.24%) Mentoring
2 153 (30.36%) Agile
3 128 (25.40%) Full-Stack Development
4 126 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 112 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 93 (18.45%) Software Engineering
7 86 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (15.28%) Microservices
9 73 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (12.70%) DevOps
11 51 (10.12%) Computer Science
11 51 (10.12%) Scrum
12 45 (8.93%) Web Development
13 44 (8.73%) Front End Development
14 42 (8.33%) TDD
14 42 (8.33%) User Experience
15 38 (7.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 38 (7.54%) Kanban
16 37 (7.34%) AI
17 34 (6.75%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 229 (45.44%) Python
2 126 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 94 (18.65%) Java
4 92 (18.25%) C#
5 79 (15.67%) R
6 57 (11.31%) SQL
7 26 (5.16%) PowerShell
8 25 (4.96%) PHP
9 6 (1.19%) C
10 5 (0.99%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.79%) 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%) Perl
14 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 162 (32.14%) AWS Certification
2 161 (31.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 160 (31.75%) Azure Certification
4 139 (27.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 53 (10.52%) Degree
6 23 (4.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 23 (4.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 22 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 19 (3.77%) Security Cleared
10 10 (1.98%) SC Cleared
11 9 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.39%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.37%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.98%) QA
3 6 (1.19%) GDPR
4 4 (0.79%) 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 60 (11.90%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (10.71%) Terraform
2 34 (6.75%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.78%) Ansible
4 5 (0.99%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.79%) Puppet
6 3 (0.60%) cPanel
6 3 (0.60%) Grafana
6 3 (0.60%) Plesk
7 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.40%) Control-M
7 2 (0.40%) Nagios
7 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 178 (35.32%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.75%) Atlassian
3 18 (3.57%) Oracle
4 11 (2.18%) Google
5 8 (1.59%) Pega
6 6 (1.19%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.99%) WSO2
8 4 (0.79%) Adobe
8 4 (0.79%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.60%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.60%) IBM
9 3 (0.60%) New Relic
9 3 (0.60%) Splunk
10 2 (0.40%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.40%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.40%) Screaming Frog
11 1 (0.20%) Adyen
11 1 (0.20%) Intapp
11 1 (0.20%) Samsung