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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 36 20
Rank change year-on-year -15 -16 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 76 25 82
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 2.93% 3.91% 7.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.62% 20.00% 21.58%
Number of salaries quoted 68 20 42
10th Percentile £37,125 £41,075 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,563 -
90th Percentile £76,489 £71,875 £69,750
North East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%

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 654 125 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.24% 19.53% 35.58%
Number of salaries quoted 548 97 235
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £67,806
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,250 £84,964
North East median annual salary £60,000 £51,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.36% -7.05% -

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -30 65 £53,750 +7.50% 25
Sunderland - 8 £45,000 - 2
Gateshead -4 3 £20,000 -61.90%
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 7 (9.21%) WordPress
2 6 (7.89%) CMS
3 2 (2.63%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.32%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.32%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.05%) AWS
2 26 (34.21%) Azure
3 10 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (13.16%) Serverless
4 7 (9.21%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.26%) GitHub
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.95%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.95%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.95%) Kong
8 3 (3.95%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.95%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Firewall
1 2 (2.63%) Internet
2 1 (1.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 9 (11.84%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.89%) MySQL
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.26%) GIS
6 3 (3.95%) DocumentDB
6 3 (3.95%) Power BI
6 3 (3.95%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (32.89%) Git
2 6 (7.89%) GitLab
3 5 (6.58%) JIRA
4 3 (3.95%) Postman
4 3 (3.95%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.32%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.32%) Maven
General
1 33 (43.42%) Public Sector
2 24 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Finance
5 4 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.26%) Marketing
5 4 (5.26%) Tech for Good
6 2 (2.63%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.32%) Law
7 1 (1.32%) Legal
7 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (47.37%) Developer
2 17 (22.37%) Senior
3 14 (18.42%) Software Engineer
4 12 (15.79%) Analyst
5 9 (11.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 8 (10.53%) Python Developer
6 8 (10.53%) Software Developer
7 7 (9.21%) Lead
7 7 (9.21%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) C# Developer
10 3 (3.95%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.95%) Lead C# Developer
10 3 (3.95%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (53.95%) CSS
1 41 (53.95%) HTML
2 33 (43.42%) Node.js
3 21 (27.63%) .NET
4 10 (13.16%) RESTful
5 9 (11.84%) React
6 8 (10.53%) .NET Core
6 8 (10.53%) AngularJS
6 8 (10.53%) Flask
7 6 (7.89%) CSS3
7 6 (7.89%) Express.js
7 6 (7.89%) HTML5
8 5 (6.58%) REST
8 5 (6.58%) Spring
8 5 (6.58%) Spring Boot
9 4 (5.26%) Ajax
9 4 (5.26%) ASP.NET
9 4 (5.26%) Jinja
9 4 (5.26%) OpenLayers
9 4 (5.26%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.53%) Renewable Energy
3 7 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.95%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.63%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (71.05%) Agile
2 47 (61.84%) CI/CD
3 33 (43.42%) Mentoring
4 30 (39.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (39.47%) Test Automation
5 24 (31.58%) Software Engineering
6 23 (30.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (28.95%) DevOps
8 19 (25.00%) Coaching
9 18 (23.68%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (22.37%) SFIA
11 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (18.42%) Front End Development
13 13 (17.11%) Scrum
13 13 (17.11%) SDLC
13 13 (17.11%) Software Testing
13 13 (17.11%) User Experience
14 12 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
14 12 (15.79%) Design Patterns
14 12 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.95%) Java
2 21 (27.63%) TypeScript
3 18 (23.68%) C#
4 16 (21.05%) Python
5 14 (18.42%) SQL
6 5 (6.58%) PHP
7 4 (5.26%) C++
8 2 (2.63%) R
9 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 23 (30.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.26%) Degree
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (30.26%) QA
2 17 (22.37%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (9.21%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.95%) Confluent
2 3 (3.95%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.63%) UiPath
4 1 (1.32%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.32%) Sitecore