WebAssembly Job Trends in the North West

WebAssembly (Wasm)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring WebAssembly skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 - 235
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing WebAssembly 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.013% - 0.075%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% - 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 - -
75th Percentile £58,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £67,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% -12.90% +82.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

WebAssembly falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 583 825 1,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.83% 18.24% 23.12%
Number of salaries quoted 507 539 1,288
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,600 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,297
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,430 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +7.72% -4.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -8.78%

WebAssembly
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

WebAssembly job vacancy trend in the North West

WebAssembly
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 WebAssembly within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 February 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
Merseyside - 1 £56,000 - 1
WebAssembly
England

WebAssembly
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting