JavaScript Job Trends in Watford

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring JavaScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 2 32
Rank change year-on-year -29 +30 -18
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 3 33 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 2.13% 16.10% 3.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.62% 61.11% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 19 6
10th Percentile £45,750 £54,750 £54,375
25th Percentile £46,875 £62,500 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% -3.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £54,375 £91,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £97,000 -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +14.58% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 65 54 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 46.10% 26.34% 18.36%
Number of salaries quoted 64 32 36
10th Percentile - £41,138 £49,063
25th Percentile £32,500 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £60,000 £81,250 £72,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £99,625 £85,000
Hertfordshire median annual salary £51,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -21.54% +13.04% +4.55%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Watford

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Alfresco
1 1 (33.33%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyberattack
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Android Development
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Document Management
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Rust
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform