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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 56 26
Rank change year-on-year -31 -30 +1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 139 142 360
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.56% 4.35% 6.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.97% 20.17% 26.22%
Number of salaries quoted 100 95 161
10th Percentile £45,000 £29,150 £32,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £54,784
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.30% -0.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £78,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

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 995 704 1,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.15% 21.58% 24.29%
Number of salaries quoted 697 553 746
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

JavaScript job vacancy trend 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 9 October 2026.

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 9 October 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
Birmingham -16 60 £64,653 +29.31% 29
Coventry +7 27 £70,000 +40.00% 5
Staffordshire -9 15 £55,000 +6.80% 4
Warwickshire -27 14 £55,000 - 3
Worcestershire -18 10 £57,500 +31.43% 2
Shropshire -17 4 £62,500 +38.89% 4
Herefordshire -15 3 £55,000 -13.73%
Wolverhampton -6 1 £37,500 +10.29% 3
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.44%) IIS
4 1 (0.72%) CMS
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.72%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (7.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (5.04%) Infor M3
2 7 (5.04%) Lawson
3 4 (2.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 79 (56.83%) Azure
2 40 (28.78%) AWS
3 22 (15.83%) Power Platform
4 16 (11.51%) Power Automate
5 14 (10.07%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (9.35%) SaaS
6 13 (9.35%) Serverless
7 11 (7.91%) Azure Functions
8 6 (4.32%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (2.88%) iPaaS
10 3 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.16%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.44%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.44%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.44%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.44%) GitHub
11 2 (1.44%) Google Play
11 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.88%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.16%) Firewall
2 3 (2.16%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.23%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.07%) SQL Server
3 12 (8.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (7.19%) Power BI
5 9 (6.47%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.76%) MySQL
6 8 (5.76%) QlikView
6 8 (5.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (4.32%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.16%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.44%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (12.23%) Git
2 15 (10.79%) JUnit
3 14 (10.07%) Maven
3 14 (10.07%) Mockito
4 3 (2.16%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.44%) GitLab
6 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
General
1 31 (22.30%) Finance
2 20 (14.39%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.67%) Public Sector
4 17 (12.23%) Manufacturing
5 13 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.32%) Retail
8 4 (2.88%) Advertising
8 4 (2.88%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.88%) Automotive
9 3 (2.16%) Marketing
10 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Legal
10 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (58.99%) Developer
2 26 (18.71%) Senior
3 23 (16.55%) Lead
4 22 (15.83%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.95%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (11.51%) Lead Developer
7 15 (10.79%) Software Developer
8 14 (10.07%) .NET Developer
8 14 (10.07%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 12 (8.63%) Consultant
10 10 (7.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (7.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (7.19%) Java Developer
10 10 (7.19%) React Developer
10 10 (7.19%) Senior React Developer
11 9 (6.47%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.47%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 8 (5.76%) Data Engineer
12 8 (5.76%) Software Engineer
13 7 (5.04%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (28.78%) React
2 37 (26.62%) .NET
3 31 (22.30%) REST
4 22 (15.83%) CSS
5 20 (14.39%) .NET Core
5 20 (14.39%) Node.js
6 19 (13.67%) ASP.NET
6 19 (13.67%) HTML
7 18 (12.95%) ASP.NET Core
8 16 (11.51%) RESTful
9 15 (10.79%) ASP.NET Web API
9 15 (10.79%) XML
10 14 (10.07%) Spring
11 13 (9.35%) Blazor
11 13 (9.35%) JSON
12 11 (7.91%) Playwright
13 9 (6.47%) .NET Framework
14 8 (5.76%) XSLT
15 7 (5.04%) Terraform
16 6 (4.32%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (7.91%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.76%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.76%) Taxonomies
4 7 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.04%) Mashup
4 7 (5.04%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.60%) CMDB
5 5 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.60%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.88%) Robotics
7 3 (2.16%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.16%) IoT
7 3 (2.16%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.16%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.44%) iPhone
8 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.19%) Linux
2 2 (1.44%) Android
2 2 (1.44%) Windows
2 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (48.20%) Agile
2 51 (36.69%) CI/CD
3 49 (35.25%) Mentoring
4 42 (30.22%) AI
4 42 (30.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (25.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (25.18%) Microservices
6 32 (23.02%) Scrum
7 30 (21.58%) Technical Leadership
8 28 (20.14%) DevOps
9 27 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (17.99%) Technical Architecture
11 24 (17.27%) ERP
12 23 (16.55%) TDD
13 22 (15.83%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (15.11%) LLM
15 19 (13.67%) SDLC
15 19 (13.67%) Sprint Planning
16 17 (12.23%) Front End Development
16 17 (12.23%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (49.64%) SQL
2 49 (35.25%) C#
3 40 (28.78%) Java
4 33 (23.74%) TypeScript
5 25 (17.99%) Python
6 14 (10.07%) PL/SQL
7 11 (7.91%) Bash
8 8 (5.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.88%) C
9 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.16%) C++
10 3 (2.16%) PHP
11 2 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.44%) VBA
12 1 (0.72%) Ruby
12 1 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.76%) Degree
3 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.99%) Accessibility
2 13 (9.35%) WCAG
3 12 (8.63%) QA
4 8 (5.76%) GDPR
5 6 (4.32%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.88%) IEC 61131
6 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (2.16%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (12.23%) Docker
2 3 (2.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (25.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.07%) Oracle
3 7 (5.04%) Infor
4 6 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.60%) SAP
6 4 (2.88%) Allen-Bradley
6 4 (2.88%) Sage
6 4 (2.88%) Siemens
7 3 (2.16%) Google
8 2 (1.44%) Adobe
8 2 (1.44%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.44%) Pega
9 1 (0.72%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.72%) Informatica
9 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.72%) Salesforce