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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 27 17
Rank change year-on-year -36 -10 -9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 52 10 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 4.05% 3.30% 8.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.23% 22.22% 28.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 39
10th Percentile - £39,300 £28,700
25th Percentile £29,000 £53,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £80,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% +77.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £33,000 £85,000 £52,500
90th Percentile - £86,500 £55,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%

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 191 45 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.88% 14.85% 30.87%
Number of salaries quoted 40 20 111
10th Percentile £39,500 £40,107 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £76,743 £66,125 £70,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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
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 7 August 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 -26 26 £31,000 -63.53% 17
County Down - 15 - -
County Armagh - 9 - -
County Tyrone - 2 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 50 (96.15%) SaaS
2 1 (1.92%) AWS
2 1 (1.92%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
General
1 50 (96.15%) Legal
1 50 (96.15%) Social Skills
2 23 (44.23%) Law
3 1 (1.92%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 50 (96.15%) Senior
1 50 (96.15%) Senior Manager
1 50 (96.15%) Testing Manager
2 1 (1.92%) Developer
2 1 (1.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (1.92%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (1.92%) Software Engineer
2 1 (1.92%) Trainee
2 1 (1.92%) Trainee Developer
2 1 (1.92%) Trainee Web Developer
2 1 (1.92%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) CSS
1 1 (1.92%) HTML
1 1 (1.92%) React
1 1 (1.92%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (1.92%) Vue
1 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (96.15%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (98.08%) Continuous Improvement
1 51 (98.08%) Mentoring
1 51 (98.08%) Software Engineering
1 51 (98.08%) Test Automation
2 50 (96.15%) Budget Management
2 50 (96.15%) Change Advisory Board
2 50 (96.15%) Data Management
2 50 (96.15%) DevOps
2 50 (96.15%) Enterprise Architecture
2 50 (96.15%) Manual Testing
2 50 (96.15%) Performance Management
2 50 (96.15%) Programme Management
2 50 (96.15%) Project Delivery
2 50 (96.15%) Software Testing
2 50 (96.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 50 (96.15%) Strategic Planning
2 50 (96.15%) Test Strategy
2 50 (96.15%) Virtual Team Management
3 23 (44.23%) Business Strategy
3 23 (44.23%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 51 (98.08%) C#
1 51 (98.08%) Python
2 50 (96.15%) PowerShell
2 50 (96.15%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.92%) PHP
3 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (96.15%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft