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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 45 30 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 2.96% 7.52% 7.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.85% 20.98% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 41 26 90
10th Percentile - £41,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £78,264 £73,250
North East median annual salary £50,000 £48,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% -

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 325 143 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.38% 35.84% 25.04%
Number of salaries quoted 264 124 310
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,599 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,218 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £83,759
North East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -22 36 £50,000 -9.09% 16
Sunderland - 7 £55,000 - 3
Gateshead -14 2 £20,000 -61.90% 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 4 (8.89%) CMS
1 4 (8.89%) WordPress
2 2 (4.44%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.22%) IIS
3 1 (2.22%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.22%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (60.00%) Azure
2 22 (48.89%) AWS
3 15 (33.33%) GitHub
4 9 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.44%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.44%) Serverless
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.22%) SaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.89%) Internet
2 1 (2.22%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.22%) GIS
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) JIRA
3 3 (6.67%) Postman
3 3 (6.67%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.22%) Appium
4 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.22%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) JMeter
4 1 (2.22%) Maven
4 1 (2.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (28.89%) Multimedia
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Games
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
6 1 (2.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) Developer
2 13 (28.89%) Trainee
3 10 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 9 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (15.56%) Senior
6 6 (13.33%) Senior Developer
6 6 (13.33%) Trainee Developer
6 6 (13.33%) Trainee Software Developer
7 4 (8.89%) .NET Developer
7 4 (8.89%) AWS Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 4 (8.89%) React Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Test Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Administrator
9 2 (4.44%) CMS Developer
9 2 (4.44%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (57.78%) CSS
1 26 (57.78%) HTML
2 16 (35.56%) .NET
3 11 (24.44%) .NET Core
3 11 (24.44%) React
4 8 (17.78%) Node.js
5 7 (15.56%) ASP.NET
5 7 (15.56%) RESTful
6 4 (8.89%) Playwright
7 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.67%) Jest
7 3 (6.67%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (6.67%) Spring
7 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.44%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (4.44%) Bootstrap
8 2 (4.44%) Flask
8 2 (4.44%) HTML5
8 2 (4.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.44%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) Derivative
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.22%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Android
1 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) Mentoring
2 14 (31.11%) Agile
2 14 (31.11%) CI/CD
3 13 (28.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (26.67%) DevOps
5 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
7 7 (15.56%) User Experience
8 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
8 6 (13.33%) Scrum
8 6 (13.33%) UX Design
9 5 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 4 (8.89%) BDD
10 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (8.89%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (8.89%) Sprint Retrospective
10 4 (8.89%) Test Management
10 4 (8.89%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) Python
2 14 (31.11%) C#
3 10 (22.22%) Java
4 7 (15.56%) R
5 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.44%) PHP
6 2 (4.44%) SQL
7 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) AWS Certification
2 13 (28.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 13 (28.89%) Azure Certification
2 13 (28.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 5 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.22%) Intapp
2 1 (2.22%) Optimizely
2 1 (2.22%) Sitecore