JavaScript Job Trends in the West Midlands

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring JavaScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 32 27
Rank change year-on-year -26 -5 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 132 344 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.99% 5.66% 7.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.21% 24.87% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 88 181 270
10th Percentile £31,863 £32,000 £37,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,563 £65,001 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,125 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 725 1,383 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.94% 22.75% 33.24%
Number of salaries quoted 568 887 1,067
10th Percentile £32,125 £32,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% +1.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,302 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.96%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 September 2025. 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
Birmingham -45 34 £62,500 +8.70% 34
Staffordshire +5 29 £57,500 +35.29% 21
Warwickshire +13 20 £55,000 +48.65% 9
Solihull +4 8 £41,125 -17.75% 4
Herefordshire +3 4 £90,000 +50.00% 6
Coventry -7 4 £50,000 +5.26% 17
Worcestershire -5 3 £47,500 +26.67% 11
Shropshire -1 2 £45,000 -18.18% 12
West Bromwich - 2 £30,000 -
Walsall +5 1 £33,000 -22.35% 7
Wolverhampton 0 1 £34,000 -17.58% 11
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 14 (10.61%) Confluence
2 10 (7.58%) IIS
3 7 (5.30%) CMS
4 4 (3.03%) Umbraco
5 3 (2.27%) WordPress
6 2 (1.52%) Headless CMS
6 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.76%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.76%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.03%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (3.03%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 55 (41.67%) Azure
2 43 (32.58%) AWS
3 20 (15.15%) GCP
4 18 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (10.61%) SaaS
6 12 (9.09%) Serverless
7 11 (8.33%) Power Platform
8 10 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.30%) Figma
10 6 (4.55%) GitHub
10 6 (4.55%) Power Automate
11 5 (3.79%) PowerApps
12 4 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (3.03%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (3.03%) Google App Engine
12 4 (3.03%) Google Compute Engine
13 3 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.27%) Azure Functions
13 3 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) HTTP
2 2 (1.52%) Internet
2 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (37.12%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 8 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (5.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (4.55%) Power BI
5 5 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.03%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.03%) Cloud Spanner
6 4 (3.03%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (3.03%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.27%) MySQL
8 2 (1.52%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.76%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 27 (20.45%) JIRA
2 26 (19.70%) Cucumber
2 26 (19.70%) Selenium
3 25 (18.94%) Maven
4 24 (18.18%) Bitbucket
4 24 (18.18%) GitLab
4 24 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 24 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (9.09%) Git
6 4 (3.03%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (3.03%) JMeter
7 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.27%) Postman
8 2 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.52%) NSubstitute
8 2 (1.52%) NUnit
8 2 (1.52%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.52%) Storybook
8 2 (1.52%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.52%) webpack
General
1 40 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 39 (29.55%) Finance
3 32 (24.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (18.18%) Banking
5 15 (11.36%) Retail
6 13 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (9.85%) Law
7 11 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
7 11 (8.33%) Investment Banking
8 7 (5.30%) Marketing
8 7 (5.30%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.03%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.27%) Games
11 2 (1.52%) Electronics
11 2 (1.52%) iGaming
11 2 (1.52%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.76%) Back Office
12 1 (0.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 60 (45.45%) Developer
2 28 (21.21%) Software Engineer
3 21 (15.91%) Senior
4 13 (9.85%) Senior Developer
5 10 (7.58%) Software Developer
6 9 (6.82%) Technical Support
7 8 (6.06%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 7 (5.30%) ERP Developer
8 7 (5.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (5.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Applications Support
9 6 (4.55%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Applications Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Architect
10 5 (3.79%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Technical Support Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Graduate
11 4 (3.03%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (46.21%) HTML
2 57 (43.18%) React
3 51 (38.64%) CSS
4 33 (25.00%) .NET
5 30 (22.73%) Spring
5 30 (22.73%) Spring Boot
6 25 (18.94%) JPA
6 25 (18.94%) Redux
7 24 (18.18%) Kafka
8 23 (17.42%) REST
9 17 (12.88%) HTML5
10 16 (12.12%) Hibernate
10 16 (12.12%) RESTful
11 14 (10.61%) Jest
11 14 (10.61%) Node.js
12 13 (9.85%) CSS3
13 12 (9.09%) Sass
14 11 (8.33%) AngularJS
15 10 (7.58%) Web Services
16 7 (5.30%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.94%) Product Ownership
2 24 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.30%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.55%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.79%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.03%) W3C
8 3 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.52%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.76%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.76%) Graphic Design
10 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.76%) IoT
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.76%) Mobile Games
10 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.76%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.12%) Linux
2 2 (1.52%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (1.52%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) Android
3 1 (0.76%) CentOS
3 1 (0.76%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (52.27%) Agile
2 56 (42.42%) DevOps
3 43 (32.58%) Front End Development
4 41 (31.06%) Software Engineering
5 38 (28.79%) CI/CD
6 34 (25.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (25.76%) SDLC
7 33 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 32 (24.24%) Microservices
9 30 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (21.21%) Mentoring
11 27 (20.45%) Containerisation
12 26 (19.70%) CRM
13 25 (18.94%) Performance Optimisation
14 24 (18.18%) Computer Science
15 22 (16.67%) User Experience
16 18 (13.64%) TDD
17 15 (11.36%) Clean Code
17 15 (11.36%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 75 (56.82%) SQL
2 49 (37.12%) Java
3 47 (35.61%) C#
4 37 (28.03%) Python
4 37 (28.03%) TypeScript
5 19 (14.39%) PHP
6 10 (7.58%) C++
6 10 (7.58%) Rust
7 8 (6.06%) R
8 7 (5.30%) C
8 7 (5.30%) Dart
8 7 (5.30%) MATLAB
8 7 (5.30%) Ruby
9 4 (3.03%) Perl
10 2 (1.52%) Bash
10 2 (1.52%) Go
10 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.52%) Scala
10 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (21.97%) Degree
2 24 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.30%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.79%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.03%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.48%) QA
2 17 (12.88%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (23.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.27%) Terraform
3 2 (1.52%) Kibana
4 1 (0.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 24 (18.18%) Solace
3 11 (8.33%) Oracle
4 10 (7.58%) Google
5 6 (4.55%) Guidewire
6 5 (3.79%) HubSpot
6 5 (3.79%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.03%) Infor
8 2 (1.52%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.52%) Splunk
9 1 (0.76%) Adobe
9 1 (0.76%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow