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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -54 -8 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 166 390 393
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 3.16% 5.69% 10.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.13% 20.76% 24.90%
Number of salaries quoted 137 225 325
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £38,850
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £82,529
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%

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 1,097 1,879 1,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.85% 27.39% 40.69%
Number of salaries quoted 740 1,039 1,248
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,264
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,188 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £83,400
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 -32 103 £58,750 +11.90% 176
Merseyside -7 27 £30,500 -44.55% 20
Cheshire -20 26 £58,750 +34.29% 29
Lancashire -22 10 £46,186 -16.03% 89
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 10 (6.02%) CMS
2 5 (3.01%) WordPress
3 4 (2.41%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.20%) Apache
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.20%) IIS
4 2 (1.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) Strapi
5 1 (0.60%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.60%) InVision
2 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.60%) Sketch
2 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.01%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.60%) Magento
3 1 (0.60%) Odoo
3 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (50.60%) AWS
2 71 (42.77%) Azure
3 38 (22.89%) GitHub
4 17 (10.24%) Serverless
5 11 (6.63%) GCP
6 8 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (3.01%) SaaS
9 4 (2.41%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.41%) Slack
9 4 (2.41%) Zapier
10 3 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.81%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.81%) Cloudflare
10 3 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.27%) Internet
2 3 (1.81%) HTTP
2 3 (1.81%) SSH
3 2 (1.20%) AMQP
4 1 (0.60%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.65%) MySQL
2 17 (10.24%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (6.02%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.02%) NoSQL
4 10 (6.02%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.22%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (4.22%) Redis
6 4 (2.41%) GIS
7 3 (1.81%) Big Data
7 3 (1.81%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.81%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.20%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.20%) Metadata
8 2 (1.20%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.20%) Power BI
8 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.60%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 65 (39.16%) Git
2 10 (6.02%) Cypress.io
3 9 (5.42%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.01%) JIRA
4 5 (3.01%) webpack
5 4 (2.41%) GitLab
5 4 (2.41%) JUnit
5 4 (2.41%) Postman
6 2 (1.20%) Babel
6 2 (1.20%) Maven
6 2 (1.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.60%) ESLint
7 1 (0.60%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.60%) Mockito
7 1 (0.60%) Protractor
7 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.27%) Multimedia
3 18 (10.84%) Finance
4 13 (7.83%) Marketing
5 7 (4.22%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.61%) Games
7 5 (3.01%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.41%) Electronics
8 4 (2.41%) Legal
8 4 (2.41%) Retail
9 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.20%) Banking
10 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.20%) Law
11 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (60.24%) Developer
2 27 (16.27%) Trainee
3 26 (15.66%) Senior
4 25 (15.06%) Software Developer
5 20 (12.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 16 (9.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (9.64%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.43%) Lead
7 14 (8.43%) Software Engineer
7 14 (8.43%) Trainee Developer
7 14 (8.43%) Trainee Software Developer
8 13 (7.83%) .NET Developer
9 9 (5.42%) JavaScript Developer
10 8 (4.82%) PHP Developer
11 7 (4.22%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Principal Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Technical Leader
13 5 (3.01%) Engineering Manager
14 4 (2.41%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (59.64%) HTML
2 92 (55.42%) CSS
3 58 (34.94%) React
4 33 (19.88%) .NET
5 28 (16.87%) Node.js
6 27 (16.27%) AngularJS
7 21 (12.65%) REST
8 20 (12.05%) RESTful
9 16 (9.64%) CSS3
9 16 (9.64%) HTML5
10 13 (7.83%) Spring Boot
11 12 (7.23%) Spring
11 12 (7.23%) Vue
12 11 (6.63%) ASP.NET
12 11 (6.63%) JSON
12 11 (6.63%) Next.js
13 10 (6.02%) .NET Core
14 9 (5.42%) Jest
15 8 (4.82%) .NET Framework
15 8 (4.82%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.01%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.41%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.81%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.20%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.20%) Online Games
6 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.20%) Social Media
6 2 (1.20%) Wiki
7 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.04%) Linux
2 5 (3.01%) Windows
3 4 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.20%) Android
4 2 (1.20%) CentOS
4 2 (1.20%) Debian
4 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (39.16%) Agile
2 46 (27.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 44 (26.51%) Mentoring
4 42 (25.30%) CI/CD
5 32 (19.28%) DevOps
5 32 (19.28%) User Experience
6 31 (18.67%) Front End Development
6 31 (18.67%) Software Engineering
7 29 (17.47%) Cybersecurity
8 27 (16.27%) Microservices
9 25 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (14.46%) AI
11 21 (12.65%) Containerisation
12 17 (10.24%) Clean Code
12 17 (10.24%) Scrum
13 15 (9.04%) Web Development
14 13 (7.83%) TDD
15 12 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (7.23%) Test Automation
16 11 (6.63%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 58 (34.94%) Python
2 51 (30.72%) TypeScript
3 34 (20.48%) C#
4 30 (18.07%) Java
5 26 (15.66%) SQL
6 23 (13.86%) PHP
7 18 (10.84%) R
8 6 (3.61%) C
9 5 (3.01%) C++
9 5 (3.01%) Ruby
10 4 (2.41%) Dart
10 4 (2.41%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.41%) Rust
11 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.60%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.60%) Scala
12 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.60%) Swift
12 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (16.27%) AWS Certification
1 27 (16.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 27 (16.27%) Azure Certification
1 27 (16.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.02%) Degree
4 8 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.61%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.63%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.22%) QA
3 3 (1.81%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) HL7
5 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (18.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (7.83%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.22%) Ansible
3 5 (3.01%) Terraform
4 4 (2.41%) Grafana
5 2 (1.20%) Puppet
6 1 (0.60%) cPanel
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.60%) Plesk
6 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (25.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.02%) Google
3 6 (3.61%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.01%) HubSpot
4 5 (3.01%) Oracle
5 3 (1.81%) Adobe
5 3 (1.81%) SAP
6 2 (1.20%) Ahrefs
6 2 (1.20%) Hotjar
6 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.20%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.20%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.60%) IBM
7 1 (0.60%) iManage
7 1 (0.60%) Pega
7 1 (0.60%) Samsung
7 1 (0.60%) Veracode
7 1 (0.60%) WSO2