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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 29 34
Rank change year-on-year -27 +5 -13
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 130 343 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.46% 6.41% 6.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.60% 25.98% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 116 148 201
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £32,406 £39,689 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%

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 699 1,320 1,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.59% 24.68% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 575 691 932
10th Percentile £31,550 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -0.19%
75th Percentile £68,875 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -25 59 £45,000 -21.74% 26
Warwickshire +32 21 £55,000 +29.41% 10
Solihull +8 13 £95,000 +90.00% 2
Staffordshire -10 4 £51,250 +38.98% 13
Coventry -16 4 £50,000 +5.26% 14
Worcestershire -4 3 £37,500 -21.05% 4
Herefordshire -11 3 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Shropshire -12 3 £37,500 -37.50% 12
West Bromwich - 2 £30,000 - 1
Bilston - 1 £66,500 - 1
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 16 (12.31%) IIS
2 8 (6.15%) CMS
3 6 (4.62%) Apache
4 5 (3.85%) Umbraco
5 4 (3.08%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.31%) WordPress
7 2 (1.54%) NServiceBus
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.77%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.77%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (13.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.54%) Maximo
3 1 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (39.23%) Azure
2 34 (26.15%) AWS
3 28 (21.54%) SaaS
4 23 (17.69%) Dynamics 365
5 22 (16.92%) GitHub
6 16 (12.31%) Power Platform
7 13 (10.00%) Power Automate
8 12 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (8.46%) PowerApps
10 9 (6.92%) Serverless
11 5 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.08%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.08%) Figma
12 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.31%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (2.31%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.08%) Internet
2 3 (2.31%) HTTP
3 2 (1.54%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.46%) MySQL
3 10 (7.69%) Power BI
3 10 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.62%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.54%) MS Access
6 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.54%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.77%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 28 (21.54%) Git
2 6 (4.62%) JUnit
2 6 (4.62%) Mockito
3 5 (3.85%) Maven
4 4 (3.08%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (3.08%) JIRA
5 3 (2.31%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.31%) JMeter
6 2 (1.54%) Moq
6 2 (1.54%) MSTest
6 2 (1.54%) NSubstitute
6 2 (1.54%) NUnit
6 2 (1.54%) Selenium
6 2 (1.54%) Vite
6 2 (1.54%) webpack
7 1 (0.77%) Babel
7 1 (0.77%) GitLab
7 1 (0.77%) Postman
7 1 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 50 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.62%) Finance
3 17 (13.08%) Multimedia
4 12 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.46%) Law
6 8 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.62%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.85%) Marketing
10 3 (2.31%) Legal
10 3 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Automotive
11 1 (0.77%) Electronics
11 1 (0.77%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 66 (50.77%) Developer
2 17 (13.08%) Trainee
3 16 (12.31%) Senior
4 14 (10.77%) Software Developer
5 12 (9.23%) Applications Support
6 11 (8.46%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 11 (8.46%) Lead
7 10 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 10 (7.69%) Support Specialist
7 10 (7.69%) Technical Support
8 9 (6.92%) Junior
8 9 (6.92%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.92%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.92%) Trainee Developer
8 9 (6.92%) Trainee Software Developer
9 8 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (5.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Support Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (38.46%) HTML
2 45 (34.62%) CSS
3 36 (27.69%) .NET
4 34 (26.15%) React
5 13 (10.00%) REST
6 12 (9.23%) AngularJS
7 11 (8.46%) Spring
8 10 (7.69%) LAMP
8 10 (7.69%) Node.js
9 9 (6.92%) .NET Framework
9 9 (6.92%) Vue
10 8 (6.15%) RESTful
11 7 (5.38%) Spring Boot
12 6 (4.62%) XML
13 5 (3.85%) Entity Framework
13 5 (3.85%) Laravel
13 5 (3.85%) Razor View Engine
14 4 (3.08%) jQuery
14 4 (3.08%) SOAP
14 4 (3.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.46%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (6.92%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.62%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.31%) W3C
6 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.54%) IoT
7 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.77%) CMDB
7 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.77%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.77%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.77%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.85%) Agile
2 41 (31.54%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (26.15%) Mentoring
4 32 (24.62%) CRM
4 32 (24.62%) DevOps
5 23 (17.69%) CI/CD
5 23 (17.69%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (16.92%) Front End Development
7 17 (13.08%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (12.31%) Computer Science
8 16 (12.31%) Scrum
9 14 (10.77%) Customer Service
9 14 (10.77%) User Experience
10 13 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (10.00%) Software Engineering
11 12 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (9.23%) SDLC
12 11 (8.46%) Code Quality
12 11 (8.46%) Customer Experience
12 11 (8.46%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 47 (36.15%) Python
2 44 (33.85%) SQL
3 40 (30.77%) C#
4 25 (19.23%) Java
5 22 (16.92%) PHP
6 18 (13.85%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.15%) R
8 5 (3.85%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.08%) Perl
10 3 (2.31%) Bash
10 3 (2.31%) Go
11 2 (1.54%) Delphi
11 2 (1.54%) Groovy
11 2 (1.54%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.54%) Scala
11 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.54%) XAML
12 1 (0.77%) C++
12 1 (0.77%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (16.15%) Azure Certification
1 21 (16.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (14.62%) Degree
3 17 (13.08%) AWS Certification
3 17 (13.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 15 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (8.46%) Security Cleared
6 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
7 6 (4.62%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.54%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.54%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.77%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.62%) QA
3 4 (3.08%) GDPR
4 3 (2.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (8.46%) Docker
2 2 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.08%) Terraform
3 2 (1.54%) Ansible
3 2 (1.54%) Kibana
3 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (40.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.15%) Oracle
3 10 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.92%) Guidewire
5 5 (3.85%) HubSpot
6 3 (2.31%) Google
7 2 (1.54%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.54%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.54%) IBM
7 2 (1.54%) Splunk
7 2 (1.54%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.77%) Ahrefs
8 1 (0.77%) Foundry
8 1 (0.77%) Palantir
8 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow