JavaScript Job Trends in the North West

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 33 24
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 -9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 301 460 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.40% 8.93% 6.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.84% 25.19% 24.23%
Number of salaries quoted 252 134 311
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,875 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,121 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,065 £83,450 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% -

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,787 1,826 2,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.28% 35.44% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 709 1,329
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,550 £79,680
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -3.85%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the North West

JavaScript
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the North West over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the North West

JavaScript
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Manchester -33 172 £57,500 -8.00% 58
Lancashire +7 71 £47,744 +19.36% 24
Cheshire -48 24 £50,000 -13.04% 10
Merseyside -24 17 £85,000 +61.90% 11
Cumbria - 15 £45,000 - 1
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 30 (9.97%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (2.99%) WordPress
4 5 (1.66%) IIS
5 4 (1.33%) Apache
6 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.33%) Confluence
8 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.33%) JBoss
8 1 (0.33%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.99%) Shopify
3 4 (1.33%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.66%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 103 (34.22%) Azure
2 92 (30.56%) AWS
3 39 (12.96%) Power Platform
4 37 (12.29%) Power Automate
5 30 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (9.97%) Serverless
6 29 (9.63%) PowerApps
7 25 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (7.97%) GitHub
9 20 (6.64%) Microsoft Copilot
10 17 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (5.32%) SaaS
12 15 (4.98%) GCP
13 12 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (2.99%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.32%) Internet
2 3 (1.00%) AMQP
2 3 (1.00%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.66%) HTTP
3 2 (0.66%) SSL
4 1 (0.33%) DNS
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.31%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.98%) MongoDB
3 16 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (5.32%) MySQL
4 14 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.99%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.66%) Power BI
9 5 (1.66%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.33%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.33%) Redis
10 4 (1.33%) Spark SQL
10 4 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.00%) Big Data
11 3 (1.00%) Chroma
11 3 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.00%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 62 (20.60%) Git
2 23 (7.64%) GitLab
3 17 (5.65%) Maven
4 15 (4.98%) JUnit
5 13 (4.32%) Jenkins
5 13 (4.32%) Spock
6 9 (2.99%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.66%) Storybook
8 6 (1.99%) JIRA
9 5 (1.66%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.33%) Claude Code
10 4 (1.33%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.33%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.33%) Selenium
11 2 (0.66%) Mocha
11 2 (0.66%) Mockito
11 2 (0.66%) Vite
12 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 47 (15.61%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.63%) Finance
3 29 (9.63%) Marketing
4 23 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.65%) Retail
7 10 (3.32%) Multimedia
8 8 (2.66%) Legal
8 8 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.66%) Publishing
9 7 (2.33%) Law
10 5 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.33%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.00%) Advertising
12 3 (1.00%) Banking
12 3 (1.00%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.33%) Games
13 1 (0.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 166 (55.15%) Developer
2 45 (14.95%) Senior
3 37 (12.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 35 (11.63%) Software Engineer
5 31 (10.30%) Lead
6 29 (9.63%) Senior Developer
7 25 (8.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 23 (7.64%) .NET Developer
9 20 (6.64%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 19 (6.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 17 (5.65%) Software Developer
12 12 (3.99%) Lead Developer
13 11 (3.65%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.65%) JavaScript Engineer
14 10 (3.32%) Trainee
15 8 (2.66%) Administrator
15 8 (2.66%) Lead Software Engineer
15 8 (2.66%) Trainee Administrator
15 8 (2.66%) Web Administrator
16 7 (2.33%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (28.24%) HTML
2 80 (26.58%) React
3 71 (23.59%) CSS
4 65 (21.59%) .NET
5 54 (17.94%) Node.js
6 47 (15.61%) AngularJS
7 33 (10.96%) REST
8 29 (9.63%) Spring
9 26 (8.64%) .NET Core
10 24 (7.97%) Vue
11 23 (7.64%) ASP.NET
12 19 (6.31%) RESTful
13 18 (5.98%) Terraform
14 15 (4.98%) CSS3
15 14 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
15 14 (4.65%) ASP.NET Web API
15 14 (4.65%) Blazor
15 14 (4.65%) Spring Boot
16 13 (4.32%) HTML5 Canvas
17 12 (3.99%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.63%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.65%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (4.65%) Private Cloud
5 11 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (3.65%) Marketing Technology
6 8 (2.66%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.66%) Social Network
8 4 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.00%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.66%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.66%) Online Gambling
10 2 (0.66%) Social Media
10 2 (0.66%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.66%) Linux
2 4 (1.33%) VMS
3 3 (1.00%) CentOS
3 3 (1.00%) Debian
3 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.00%) Windows
4 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (44.19%) Full-Stack Development
2 112 (37.21%) Agile
3 107 (35.55%) CI/CD
4 80 (26.58%) DevOps
5 79 (26.25%) Software Engineering
6 73 (24.25%) AI
7 68 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (21.59%) Mentoring
8 65 (21.59%) Microservices
9 59 (19.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (15.28%) Test Automation
11 39 (12.96%) TDD
12 35 (11.63%) API Integration
13 34 (11.30%) Web Development
14 32 (10.63%) Front End Development
15 28 (9.30%) CRM
15 28 (9.30%) Scrum
16 25 (8.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 25 (8.31%) Technical Leadership
17 23 (7.64%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 96 (31.89%) TypeScript
2 88 (29.24%) C#
3 84 (27.91%) Java
4 81 (26.91%) SQL
5 74 (24.58%) Python
6 14 (4.65%) R
7 13 (4.32%) C++
8 9 (2.99%) PHP
9 8 (2.66%) Groovy
10 5 (1.66%) Go
10 5 (1.66%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.00%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.00%) C
12 2 (0.66%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.33%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.33%) Rust
13 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (8.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.31%) Degree
3 16 (5.32%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.32%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 10 (3.32%) Azure Certification
4 10 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.66%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.33%) MBA
8 3 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.31%) QA
2 24 (7.97%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.65%) WCAG
4 6 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.33%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.00%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.00%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (14.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (9.63%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.66%) Ansible
3 3 (1.00%) Puppet
4 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.33%) Argo
5 1 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 67 (22.26%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.65%) Adobe
2 17 (5.65%) Splunk
3 13 (4.32%) AppDynamics
4 12 (3.99%) HubSpot
5 10 (3.32%) Google
6 7 (2.33%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.33%) Sage
8 4 (1.33%) SAP
9 3 (1.00%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.00%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.66%) IBM
10 2 (0.66%) Mistral
10 2 (0.66%) New Relic
10 2 (0.66%) Oracle
10 2 (0.66%) Pega
10 2 (0.66%) WSO2
11 1 (0.33%) Atlassian