JavaScript Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 52 77 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 5.74% 11.81% 8.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.66% 28.41% 30.32%
Number of salaries quoted 49 25 64
10th Percentile - £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £61,700 £71,666 £73,250
North East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 188 271 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.75% 41.56% 27.66%
Number of salaries quoted 150 130 201
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,350 £97,500 £80,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -4.55%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Tyne and Wear

JavaScript
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 29 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -8 46 £30,500 -40.49% 26
Sunderland +4 6 £47,500 -20.83% 3
JavaScript
North East

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (1.92%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 33 (63.46%) Azure
2 31 (59.62%) AWS
3 23 (44.23%) GitHub
4 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.77%) SaaS
6 1 (1.92%) GCP
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (42.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Redis
2 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (46.15%) Git
2 4 (7.69%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.85%) Appium
3 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.85%) JIRA
3 2 (3.85%) JMeter
3 2 (3.85%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.92%) GitLab
4 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.92%) Maven
4 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (42.31%) Multimedia
2 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Games
4 5 (9.62%) Finance
5 4 (7.69%) Electronics
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (76.92%) Developer
2 22 (42.31%) Trainee
3 17 (32.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 13 (25.00%) Trainee Developer
4 13 (25.00%) Trainee Software Developer
5 8 (15.38%) C# Developer
5 8 (15.38%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 7 (13.46%) Senior
7 6 (11.54%) .NET Developer
7 6 (11.54%) AWS Developer
7 6 (11.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 6 (11.54%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Mobile Developer
10 2 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) JavaScript Developer
10 2 (3.85%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (73.08%) CSS
1 38 (73.08%) HTML
2 18 (34.62%) .NET
3 14 (26.92%) React
4 8 (15.38%) Node.js
5 7 (13.46%) Vue
6 6 (11.54%) .NET Core
6 6 (11.54%) AngularJS
7 5 (9.62%) REST
8 4 (7.69%) Apache Cordova
8 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET
8 4 (7.69%) Jest
9 3 (5.77%) CSS3
9 3 (5.77%) HTML5
9 3 (5.77%) React Native
9 3 (5.77%) RESTful
10 2 (3.85%) Bootstrap
10 2 (3.85%) Express.js
10 2 (3.85%) hapi
10 2 (3.85%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Mobile App
2 5 (9.62%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Derivative
4 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Android
1 7 (13.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) Mentoring
2 22 (42.31%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (32.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (21.15%) Roadmaps
5 10 (19.23%) DevOps
6 9 (17.31%) Agile
6 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
7 8 (15.38%) User Experience
7 8 (15.38%) UX Design
8 6 (11.54%) Front End Development
8 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
9 5 (9.62%) TDD
10 4 (7.69%) Analytics
10 4 (7.69%) BDD
10 4 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (7.69%) Mobile Application Development
10 4 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (7.69%) Product Roadmap
10 4 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 23 (44.23%) Python
2 15 (28.85%) C#
3 12 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 9 (17.31%) R
5 5 (9.62%) SQL
6 4 (7.69%) XAML
7 1 (1.92%) Java
7 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (42.31%) AWS Certification
1 22 (42.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 22 (42.31%) Azure Certification
1 22 (42.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.92%) Google
2 1 (1.92%) Intapp