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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 35 22
Rank change year-on-year -26 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 509 665 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.41% 7.04% 7.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.48% 24.63% 26.33%
Number of salaries quoted 448 299 940
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,875 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,985 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £94,022 £75,000
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 3,514 2,700 4,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.67% 28.57% 27.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,657 1,444 3,498
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £76,201 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -26 267 £55,000 -7.17% 78
Yorkshire +1 175 £57,500 -1.96% 42
North East -8 67 £52,000 +4.00% 24
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 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 25 (4.91%) WordPress
3 13 (2.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 12 (2.36%) CMS
5 7 (1.38%) IIS
6 6 (1.18%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.98%) JBoss
8 4 (0.79%) Apache
8 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.59%) Confluence
10 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.39%) CICS
10 2 (0.39%) nginx
10 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.20%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (2.36%) Shopify
2 4 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.59%) Magento
4 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 197 (38.70%) Azure
2 196 (38.51%) AWS
3 65 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (11.79%) Serverless
5 52 (10.22%) GitHub
6 43 (8.45%) Power Automate
7 42 (8.25%) Power Platform
8 35 (6.88%) PowerApps
9 34 (6.68%) SaaS
10 29 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (5.11%) GCP
13 22 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (3.73%) Azure AI
15 17 (3.34%) Microsoft Copilot
16 13 (2.55%) Amazon S3
16 13 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 12 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.52%) Internet
2 4 (0.79%) Firewall
3 3 (0.59%) HTTP
3 3 (0.59%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.39%) AMQP
4 2 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.20%) Broadband
5 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (11.39%) MongoDB
2 54 (10.61%) MySQL
3 35 (6.88%) SQL Server
4 32 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (6.29%) Relational Database
5 31 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (5.50%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (2.55%) MariaDB
8 13 (2.55%) Power BI
9 12 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.96%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.77%) Redis
13 7 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.18%) GIS
15 5 (0.98%) Big Data
16 4 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.79%) Neo4j
16 4 (0.79%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 104 (20.43%) Git
2 29 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.30%) GitLab
4 21 (4.13%) JIRA
5 17 (3.34%) Maven
6 11 (2.16%) Cypress.io
7 9 (1.77%) JUnit
7 9 (1.77%) Spock
8 8 (1.57%) Storybook
9 7 (1.38%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.18%) PHPUnit
10 6 (1.18%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.98%) Postman
12 4 (0.79%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.79%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.79%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.79%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.79%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.79%) Selenium
13 3 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 83 (16.31%) Social Skills
2 60 (11.79%) Public Sector
3 45 (8.84%) Finance
4 33 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.30%) Marketing
6 19 (3.73%) Multimedia
7 17 (3.34%) Retail
8 13 (2.55%) Law
9 10 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.96%) Publishing
10 9 (1.77%) Legal
10 9 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.98%) Advertising
11 5 (0.98%) Agriculture
11 5 (0.98%) Automotive
11 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.98%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.79%) Banking
12 4 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 268 (52.65%) Developer
2 120 (23.58%) Senior
3 96 (18.86%) Software Engineer
4 71 (13.95%) Full-Stack Developer
4 71 (13.95%) Senior Developer
5 58 (11.39%) Lead
6 43 (8.45%) .NET Developer
6 43 (8.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 36 (7.07%) Software Developer
8 26 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (4.91%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 25 (4.91%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (4.13%) Java Developer
11 19 (3.73%) Trainee
12 17 (3.34%) Microsoft 365 Developer
13 16 (3.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (2.95%) Administrator
14 15 (2.95%) Test Engineer
14 15 (2.95%) Trainee Administrator
14 15 (2.95%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (30.65%) React
2 142 (27.90%) HTML
3 130 (25.54%) CSS
3 130 (25.54%) Node.js
4 126 (24.75%) .NET
5 73 (14.34%) AngularJS
6 52 (10.22%) Vue
7 51 (10.02%) RESTful
8 49 (9.63%) .NET Core
9 47 (9.23%) ASP.NET
9 47 (9.23%) REST
10 36 (7.07%) ASP.NET Core
11 29 (5.70%) Blazor
12 28 (5.50%) Spring
13 27 (5.30%) HTML5
14 24 (4.72%) .NET Framework
14 24 (4.72%) CSS3
15 22 (4.32%) Spring Boot
16 21 (4.13%) Entity Framework
17 19 (3.73%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.66%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.89%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.50%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 13 (2.55%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.16%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.57%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.57%) Social Media
11 7 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.38%) Legacy Code
12 6 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.18%) BBC
12 6 (1.18%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.98%) e-Learning
13 5 (0.98%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.79%) Android
1 4 (0.79%) Windows
2 3 (0.59%) Linux
3 2 (0.39%) CentOS
3 2 (0.39%) Debian
3 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (43.42%) Full-Stack Development
2 218 (42.83%) Agile
3 160 (31.43%) CI/CD
4 151 (29.67%) Software Engineering
5 126 (24.75%) DevOps
6 123 (24.17%) Mentoring
7 104 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (20.24%) AI
9 94 (18.47%) Microservices
10 79 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (15.13%) Test Automation
12 64 (12.57%) TDD
13 62 (12.18%) Scrum
14 58 (11.39%) Front End Development
15 53 (10.41%) Technical Leadership
16 51 (10.02%) Web Development
17 47 (9.23%) Kanban
18 45 (8.84%) Coaching
19 42 (8.25%) Containerisation
20 40 (7.86%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 154 (30.26%) TypeScript
2 151 (29.67%) C#
3 130 (25.54%) SQL
4 123 (24.17%) Java
5 116 (22.79%) Python
6 48 (9.43%) PHP
7 21 (4.13%) R
8 9 (1.77%) C++
9 8 (1.57%) Groovy
10 6 (1.18%) Go
11 4 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.59%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.59%) Bash
12 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.59%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.39%) C
13 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (6.68%) Security Cleared
2 26 (5.11%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.72%) AWS Certification
4 23 (4.52%) Degree
5 20 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (3.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 19 (3.73%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.98%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.79%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.79%) MBA
10 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.25%) Accessibility
2 37 (7.27%) QA
3 12 (2.36%) WCAG
4 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.98%) GDPR
6 4 (0.79%) SLA
7 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.39%) PMO
9 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 65 (12.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (8.06%) Terraform
2 35 (6.88%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.18%) Ansible
4 3 (0.59%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.39%) Nagios
5 2 (0.39%) Puppet
5 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 101 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.54%) Adobe
3 17 (3.34%) Google
4 14 (2.75%) Splunk
5 12 (2.36%) HubSpot
6 9 (1.77%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.18%) Apple
8 6 (1.18%) Facebook
8 6 (1.18%) Sony
8 6 (1.18%) Yahoo!
9 5 (0.98%) Pega
9 5 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.79%) Oracle
10 4 (0.79%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.59%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.39%) Adyen
12 2 (0.39%) New Relic
12 2 (0.39%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.39%) WooCommerce