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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 50 29
Rank change year-on-year -39 -21 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 141 139 361
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.58% 4.27% 5.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.36% 19.15% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 104 95 181
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,069 £78,750 £75,000
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 1,055 726 1,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.79% 22.30% 23.17%
Number of salaries quoted 748 572 858
10th Percentile £38,525 £32,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,688 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -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 18 September 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 18 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
Birmingham -9 59 £58,750 +2.17% 35
Coventry 0 25 £66,250 +32.50% 6
Staffordshire -8 16 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Warwickshire -21 14 £55,000 - 4
Worcestershire -17 10 £57,500 +21.05% 2
Wolverhampton -8 5 £70,000 +105.88% 3
Herefordshire -18 3 £55,000 -38.89% 2
Shropshire -19 3 £62,500 +38.89% 14
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 (5.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.13%) IIS
4 1 (0.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.71%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (9.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (4.96%) Infor M3
2 7 (4.96%) Lawson
3 4 (2.84%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 77 (54.61%) Azure
2 36 (25.53%) AWS
3 23 (16.31%) Power Platform
4 18 (12.77%) Power Automate
5 16 (11.35%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (9.93%) Serverless
7 13 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (9.22%) SaaS
8 12 (8.51%) Azure Functions
9 7 (4.96%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.84%) BrowserStack
10 4 (2.84%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.13%) GitHub
12 2 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.42%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.42%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (1.42%) Google Play
12 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.13%) Firewall
2 3 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.06%) MongoDB
2 14 (9.93%) SQL Server
3 12 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (7.09%) Power BI
5 9 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (6.38%) MySQL
6 8 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.67%) QlikView
6 8 (5.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (4.26%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.13%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.42%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (11.35%) Git
2 15 (10.64%) JUnit
3 14 (9.93%) Maven
3 14 (9.93%) Mockito
4 5 (3.55%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.84%) Gatling
5 4 (2.84%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.84%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.42%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.42%) GitLab
General
1 32 (22.70%) Finance
2 21 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 18 (12.77%) Manufacturing
5 14 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.26%) Retail
8 5 (3.55%) Advertising
8 5 (3.55%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.55%) Automotive
9 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (58.16%) Developer
2 27 (19.15%) Lead
3 25 (17.73%) Senior
4 22 (15.60%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (11.35%) Lead Developer
6 16 (11.35%) Software Developer
7 15 (10.64%) .NET Developer
7 15 (10.64%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 10 (7.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (7.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (7.09%) Java Developer
8 10 (7.09%) React Developer
8 10 (7.09%) Senior React Developer
8 10 (7.09%) Software Engineer
9 9 (6.38%) Consultant
9 9 (6.38%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (6.38%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 8 (5.67%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (28.37%) .NET
2 39 (27.66%) React
3 27 (19.15%) REST
4 20 (14.18%) .NET Core
4 20 (14.18%) CSS
4 20 (14.18%) HTML
4 20 (14.18%) Node.js
5 19 (13.48%) ASP.NET
6 18 (12.77%) ASP.NET Core
7 16 (11.35%) RESTful
8 15 (10.64%) ASP.NET Web API
8 15 (10.64%) Playwright
9 14 (9.93%) Spring
9 14 (9.93%) XML
10 13 (9.22%) Blazor
10 13 (9.22%) JSON
11 9 (6.38%) .NET Framework
12 8 (5.67%) XSLT
13 6 (4.26%) Entity Framework
13 6 (4.26%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.22%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (7.09%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.38%) Virtual Team
4 8 (5.67%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.67%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.67%) Taxonomies
5 7 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.96%) Mashup
6 5 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.55%) Robotics
7 4 (2.84%) CMDB
7 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.13%) IoT
8 3 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.13%) Social Media
9 2 (1.42%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.42%) iPhone
9 2 (1.42%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.09%) Linux
2 3 (2.13%) Windows
2 3 (2.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (51.06%) Agile
2 56 (39.72%) CI/CD
3 48 (34.04%) Mentoring
4 41 (29.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 38 (26.95%) AI
6 36 (25.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (24.11%) Microservices
8 32 (22.70%) Scrum
9 29 (20.57%) DevOps
9 29 (20.57%) Technical Leadership
10 26 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.02%) ERP
11 24 (17.02%) TDD
12 23 (16.31%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (16.31%) SDLC
13 22 (15.60%) Technical Architecture
14 21 (14.89%) LLM
15 19 (13.48%) Sprint Planning
16 17 (12.06%) Time Management
17 16 (11.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (50.35%) SQL
2 56 (39.72%) C#
3 41 (29.08%) Java
4 33 (23.40%) TypeScript
5 23 (16.31%) Python
6 14 (9.93%) PL/SQL
7 11 (7.80%) Bash
8 8 (5.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.55%) C
10 4 (2.84%) PHP
10 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.13%) C++
11 3 (2.13%) VBA
12 2 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.71%) Ruby
13 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.67%) Degree
5 5 (3.55%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (20.57%) Accessibility
2 13 (9.22%) WCAG
3 11 (7.80%) QA
4 8 (5.67%) GDPR
5 7 (4.96%) Data Quality
6 5 (3.55%) IEC 61131
7 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (11.35%) Docker
2 3 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.93%) Oracle
3 7 (4.96%) Infor
4 5 (3.55%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (3.55%) SAP
4 5 (3.55%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.55%) Siemens
5 4 (2.84%) Sage
6 3 (2.13%) Adobe
6 3 (2.13%) Google
7 2 (1.42%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.42%) Pega
8 1 (0.71%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.71%) Informatica
8 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.71%) Salesforce