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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 32 20
Rank change year-on-year -38 -12 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 497 685 1,469
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.47% 8.62% 8.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.40% 26.12% 28.74%
Number of salaries quoted 425 312 1,263
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,985 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £97,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.23% +10.17% -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 3,228 2,623 5,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.07% 33.00% 28.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,407 1,373 4,280
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,999 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,080 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -39 243 £57,500 -4.17% 129
Yorkshire -6 205 £55,000 -10.20% 68
North East -19 49 £51,000 +2.00% 21
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 26 (5.23%) WordPress
2 11 (2.21%) CMS
3 9 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (1.41%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.21%) Apache
6 6 (1.21%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (1.01%) IIS
7 5 (1.01%) JBoss
8 4 (0.80%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.60%) nginx
10 2 (0.40%) CICS
10 2 (0.40%) Confluence
10 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.81%) Shopify
3 4 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.60%) Magento
5 2 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (45.07%) AWS
2 208 (41.85%) Azure
3 89 (17.91%) GitHub
4 70 (14.08%) Serverless
5 43 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (5.23%) SaaS
8 25 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (5.03%) GCP
9 23 (4.63%) Power Automate
9 23 (4.63%) Power Platform
10 17 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (3.42%) PowerApps
11 15 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (2.62%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.01%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 62 (12.47%) Internet
2 4 (0.80%) Firewall
2 4 (0.80%) HTTP
3 3 (0.60%) AMQP
3 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.66%) MySQL
2 33 (6.64%) Relational Database
3 26 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.03%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (5.03%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (2.41%) MariaDB
6 12 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.81%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.61%) Power BI
10 7 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.21%) Big Data
11 6 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.21%) GIS
11 6 (1.21%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.80%) QGIS
13 3 (0.60%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 146 (29.38%) Git
2 32 (6.44%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.83%) JIRA
4 16 (3.22%) GitLab
5 11 (2.21%) Maven
6 7 (1.41%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.41%) PHPUnit
7 6 (1.21%) Postman
8 5 (1.01%) JUnit
8 5 (1.01%) Selenium
9 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.80%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.80%) Spock
10 3 (0.60%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.60%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.60%) Storybook
11 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.40%) ERwin
11 2 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 84 (16.90%) Social Skills
2 62 (12.47%) Multimedia
3 45 (9.05%) Public Sector
4 43 (8.65%) Finance
5 27 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.83%) Marketing
7 16 (3.22%) Retail
8 12 (2.41%) Law
9 8 (1.61%) Games
9 8 (1.61%) Legal
10 5 (1.01%) Advertising
10 5 (1.01%) Agriculture
10 5 (1.01%) Automotive
10 5 (1.01%) Banking
10 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.80%) Back Office
12 3 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 258 (51.91%) Developer
2 112 (22.54%) Senior
3 87 (17.51%) Software Engineer
4 77 (15.49%) Full-Stack Developer
5 76 (15.29%) Senior Developer
6 62 (12.47%) Trainee
7 58 (11.67%) Lead
8 56 (11.27%) Software Developer
9 34 (6.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 26 (5.23%) .NET Developer
10 26 (5.23%) Java Developer
11 24 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (4.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 23 (4.63%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (4.63%) Trainee Developer
13 22 (4.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (4.23%) Trainee Software Developer
15 20 (4.02%) Administrator
15 20 (4.02%) Trainee Administrator
15 20 (4.02%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (32.19%) HTML
2 159 (31.99%) CSS
3 140 (28.17%) React
4 104 (20.93%) Node.js
5 101 (20.32%) .NET
6 60 (12.07%) AngularJS
7 52 (10.46%) REST
8 48 (9.66%) Vue
9 40 (8.05%) RESTful
10 35 (7.04%) .NET Core
11 29 (5.84%) Spring
12 28 (5.63%) Spring Boot
13 23 (4.63%) ASP.NET
14 22 (4.43%) HTML5
15 21 (4.23%) CSS3
16 20 (4.02%) Laravel
17 15 (3.02%) Web Services
18 14 (2.82%) JSON
18 14 (2.82%) Kafka
19 13 (2.62%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.21%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.81%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.41%) Legacy Code
10 7 (1.41%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.01%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
13 4 (0.80%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.80%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.80%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.60%) NHS
14 3 (0.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.21%) Linux
2 4 (0.80%) Android
2 4 (0.80%) Windows
3 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.60%) CentOS
3 3 (0.60%) Debian
3 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (36.42%) Full-Stack Development
2 174 (35.01%) Agile
3 158 (31.79%) Mentoring
4 131 (26.36%) Software Engineering
5 125 (25.15%) CI/CD
6 91 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (16.70%) Microservices
8 78 (15.69%) DevOps
9 61 (12.27%) Cybersecurity
9 61 (12.27%) Scrum
10 58 (11.67%) AI
10 58 (11.67%) TDD
11 53 (10.66%) Front End Development
11 53 (10.66%) Test Automation
12 52 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (9.66%) Web Development
14 46 (9.26%) Kanban
15 37 (7.44%) Technical Leadership
16 36 (7.24%) Coaching
16 36 (7.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 161 (32.39%) Python
2 124 (24.95%) TypeScript
3 123 (24.75%) Java
4 116 (23.34%) C#
5 102 (20.52%) SQL
6 47 (9.46%) PHP
7 45 (9.05%) R
8 9 (1.81%) C++
9 7 (1.41%) Groovy
10 5 (1.01%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.80%) C
11 4 (0.80%) Go
11 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.60%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.60%) Bash
12 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.60%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (15.09%) AWS Certification
2 71 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 70 (14.08%) Azure Certification
4 62 (12.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 31 (6.24%) Degree
6 18 (3.62%) Security Cleared
7 11 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.01%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.83%) Accessibility
2 23 (4.63%) QA
3 5 (1.01%) GDPR
4 4 (0.80%) SLA
4 4 (0.80%) WCAG
5 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.40%) PMO
7 1 (0.20%) HL7
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (11.27%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (8.65%) Terraform
2 29 (5.84%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.61%) Ansible
4 3 (0.60%) HP Fortify
4 3 (0.60%) Puppet
5 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.40%) Nagios
5 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.41%) HubSpot
3 11 (2.21%) Oracle
4 10 (2.01%) Adobe
4 10 (2.01%) Google
5 9 (1.81%) Splunk
6 7 (1.41%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.01%) Pega
7 5 (1.01%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.80%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.60%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.40%) Adyen
10 2 (0.40%) Apple
10 2 (0.40%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.40%) New Relic
10 2 (0.40%) Sony
10 2 (0.40%) Sparx