JavaScript Job Trends in Northern Ireland

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 31 19
Rank change year-on-year -17 -12 -13
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 11 17 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 2.17% 4.29% 9.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.45% 14.78% 23.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 28
10th Percentile £58,100 £44,800 £32,850
25th Percentile £75,938 - £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% +22.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - £66,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +7.44% -4.72%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 49 115 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.66% 29.04% 39.70%
Number of salaries quoted 28 46 104
10th Percentile £43,625 £46,713 £37,725
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,915 £80,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +45.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £87,188 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,250 £84,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Northern Ireland

JavaScript
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
County Antrim -5 8 £92,500 +68.18% 27
County Londonderry - 2 £31,500 -
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (18.18%) ArcGIS
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure Functions
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 5 (45.45%) Serverless
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) GIS
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Local Government
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Node.js Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Node.js
2 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 4 (36.36%) Next.js
2 4 (36.36%) React
2 4 (36.36%) Vue
3 3 (27.27%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) CSS
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
5 1 (9.09%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) AI
1 8 (72.73%) LLM
2 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
4 4 (36.36%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
4 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) User Experience
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) Agile
6 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 1 (9.09%) Data Management
6 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Project Management
6 1 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) C#
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 5 (45.45%) TypeScript
4 4 (36.36%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
6 1 (9.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) ESRI
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft